Post #500091 by Dr. Zarkov on Sun, Dec 20, 2009 9:07 AM

On 2009-12-19 15:42, lucas vigor wrote:
So, your statement about "raising the hackles of purists" was based on what exactly?

I am probably the only member of Tiki central that is not into the hippy music scene. Everyone else here seems fine with it, and fine with fitting it in with "tiki", or fine with making some sort of connection between Hippy and Tiki. (of course, as I said, in my opinion the two styles are polar opposites. As different as say, Trisha Yearwood and Bela Bartok) So, who are these purists you are referring to?

I guess it was you. I had no idea it is a measure of the full-throated democracy of TC that one voice like yours could inspire an entire six-page thread on Mickey Hart's music. I also was assuming that you possibly speak for a quiet segment of poly-pop purists out there in TC-land. I think those who countered your view of Hart were separating his later work from his Grateful Dead output (I find some of his "Planet Drum" music fits quite nicely with Latin flavored pop and jazz). Personally, I love mixing genres in combinations that some people find surprising on my radio show, like blues, R&B, jazz, Hawaiian, Latin and Poly-pop. I am now working furiously in my mind for some way to link Trisha Yearwood and Bela Bartok, who like a lot of middle European composers of his era, drew a great deal from folk music.

[ Edited by: Dr. Zarkov 2009-12-20 11:02 ]