Post #472049 by Mongoloid on Mon, Jul 27, 2009 8:18 AM

On 2009-07-26 22:36, bigbrotiki wrote:

On 2009-07-26 22:18, Beach Bum Scott wrote:
Well I guess this thread is kind of a moot point now that we have seen Snoop using Tiki and Mugs as advertising for his upcoming tour.
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=33041&forum=1&7

As dad used to say "you can want in in hand and ....."

I can't take offence to,
"Don't confuse Tiki with Lounge. Two different things. Tiki is fat middle age guys in Hawaiian shirts, Loungers wouldn't be caught dead in that scene."
Seeing as I am a "fat middle age guy" at least I knew/listened to the Rat Pack and the like long before all the posers/wannabe's saw that "Swingers" movie.

Haha, it's good to see that there are still some hardcore loungers around. I still see punks on Hollywood Boulevard too.
Like I said:
I think Snoop barely even knows what a Tiki mug is. When you see Tiki popping up in unusual places, it is most often the graphic designer who snuck it in there. The artists are the people who brought Tiki "back into the mainstream", because they were inspired by it creatively -and that's a good thing.
And Lounge AND Tiki are both a form of ancestor worship: Realizing that our parents'/grandparents' scene wasn't so uncool after all. And our folks came in all sizes, in both scenes.

Just to kind of clear it up. Snoop was on tour with a group called Slightly Stoopid who performs reggae surf influenced music (Actually they were discovered by Bradley from Sublime)and they are from San Diego so im pretty sure that the poster was aimed more at the Slightly Stoopid demographic. They have an album called The Longest Barrel Ride, so surfing is part of their lifestyle, which would lead me to think the tiki is their influence. But it would be cool to see Snoop come out on stage with a Squid tiki mug instead of his blinged out pimp juice goblet.