SNL - Tiki Bar skit - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Tue, Aug 6, 2002 10:57 AM In the 80s there already was a small avantgarde/underground appreciation of Tiki. Artists Jeffrey Valence, Boyd Rice, an S.F. band called the Tikis, Throbbing Gristle in England, Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo visiting Martin Denny in Honululu, etc. I actually bought my first Martin Denny LP in an American Forces thrift store in Berlin in the 70s! It was "PRIMITIVA", but it was only because I fell in love with Sandy Warner. That cover belongs in the Guggenheim! I had no idea then that years later I would actually dig the music and all that surrounded it. (I was a David Bowie and Roxy Music fan, had Iggy Pop visit my pad, and hung out at transvestite bars, that was EXOTICA then!) And in New York (for SNL), Orchids of Hawaii Co. was alive and well in the Bronx. They did not only have mugs but other supplies too. [ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2002-08-06 11:02 ]

In the 80s there already was a small avantgarde/underground appreciation of Tiki. Artists Jeffrey Valence, Boyd Rice, an S.F. band called the Tikis, Throbbing Gristle in England, Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo visiting Martin Denny in Honululu, etc.

I actually bought my first Martin Denny LP in an American Forces thrift store in Berlin in the 70s! It was "PRIMITIVA", but it was only because I fell in love with Sandy Warner. That cover belongs in the Guggenheim! I had no idea then that years later I would actually dig the music and all that surrounded it. (I was a David Bowie and Roxy Music fan, had Iggy Pop visit my pad, and hung out at transvestite bars, that was EXOTICA then!)

And in New York (for SNL), Orchids of Hawaii Co. was alive and well in the Bronx. They did not only have mugs but other supplies too.

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2002-08-06 11:02 ]

Post #5196 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Aug 6, 2002 10:57 AM