Tiny Bubbles - with a real tiki - on Lawrence Welk - Tiki Music

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Fri, Apr 9, 2010 2:20 PM On 2010-04-09 11:51, MadDogMike wrote: From what I have seen, a vast majority of us are in our 40s and 50s. So WE started and furthered the "Generation Gap" - WE were responsible for the near-death of Tiki! Not quite. We just continued what our older brothers, the dope-smoking long hairs had set in motion. But we already had an easier attitude with our parents and grandparents culture, and though we were into Punk, that Anti-attitude was directed more towards our brother's Hippy and Rock Star generation than that of our forefathers. Lawrence Welk was already somewhat amusing to us. Sid Vicious singing My Way was a tip of the hat towards the later Lounge revival. In the BOT and Tiki Mod I mention a few of the factors that spelled the end of the WW I and II generation's cultural influence on (late) 60s and 70s daily life and after: The John F. Kennedy assassination The Vietnam War The Beatles and other long hairs after them Women's Liberation All these and more happenings created disillusionment about old ways and inspired new modes of thinking and acting. This was a good, necessary way of maturing as human beings. It was just too bad that in the wake of it Tiki culture was not recognized for its unique qualities and left in the dust. What other historic events -social, political, or cultural- can you think of that relegated Tiki to the old fart heap?

On 2010-04-09 11:51, MadDogMike wrote:
From what I have seen, a vast majority of us are in our 40s and 50s. So WE started and furthered the "Generation Gap" - WE were responsible for the near-death of Tiki!

Not quite. We just continued what our older brothers, the dope-smoking long hairs had set in motion. But we already had an easier attitude with our parents and grandparents culture, and though we were into Punk, that Anti-attitude was directed more towards our brother's Hippy and Rock Star generation than that of our forefathers. Lawrence Welk was already somewhat amusing to us. Sid Vicious singing My Way was a tip of the hat towards the later Lounge revival.

In the BOT and Tiki Mod I mention a few of the factors that spelled the end of the WW I and II generation's cultural influence on (late) 60s and 70s daily life and after:

The John F. Kennedy assassination
The Vietnam War
The Beatles and other long hairs after them
Women's Liberation

All these and more happenings created disillusionment about old ways and inspired new modes of thinking and acting. This was a good, necessary way of maturing as human beings. It was just too bad that in the wake of it Tiki culture was not recognized for its unique qualities and left in the dust.

What other historic events -social, political, or cultural- can you think of that relegated Tiki to the old fart heap?

Post #523090 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Apr 9, 2010 2:20 PM