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

TM tiki mick Tiki Socialite SOCAL Joined: May 12, 2004 Posts: 4094	TM tiki mick Posted posted on Fri, Apr 9, 2010 4:10 PM On 2010-04-09 15:12, bigbrotiki wrote: Lucas, you still sound like as if, while you "tolerate" the long hair wearing TCers of today, you see the long hair generation of the 60s as some kind of "bad guys"? This strikes me as odd. They were just children of their time, and they were more inspired by a need for love and honesty than many generations before and after. Here's another classic that was a death knell to the Mai Tai generation: Watergate Put it this way, Sven...whereas I agree with their 60's liberal values completely, I just have a problem with their sense of style, fashion, and choice in music and art. The love and honesty part I have no problem with. Nor their need to challenge the status quo, the "man" or the "system". If you were to peel off my outer wrapping, you would very much see the soul of a hippy. The ironic thing is, very few of the performers that invented exotica or lounge music, were "children" in any sense! They were adults, living in an adult world that loved their martinis and gin and tonics. If you look at the demographics, the people making this music in 1958 were already adults, well over 30 in most cases. They may have been children at one time, sure, but they were children of the swing and big band era, and that was not so dissimilar from what they were doing at the time. But yes, you are right...I do see them as bad guys and I make no bones about it. They helped kill off a great era in culture! I tend to overlook things like watergate, because they are irrevelent (in my opinion) to the wonderful night club scene of the same era. Sure, we had watergate (which was a disgrace) but we also had the Apollo space program, and those astronauts were into cocktails and easy listening music, for the most part. I choose to remember the "golden" era for what was good about it, not what was bad.

On 2010-04-09 15:12, bigbrotiki wrote:
Lucas, you still sound like as if, while you "tolerate" the long hair wearing TCers of today, you see the long hair generation of the 60s as some kind of "bad guys"? This strikes me as odd. They were just children of their time, and they were more inspired by a need for love and honesty than many generations before and after.

Here's another classic that was a death knell to the Mai Tai generation: Watergate

Put it this way, Sven...whereas I agree with their 60's liberal values completely, I just have a problem with their sense of style, fashion, and choice in music and art. The love and honesty part I have no problem with. Nor their need to challenge the status quo, the "man" or the "system". If you were to peel off my outer wrapping, you would very much see the soul of a hippy.

The ironic thing is, very few of the performers that invented exotica or lounge music, were "children" in any sense! They were adults, living in an adult world that loved their martinis and gin and tonics. If you look at the demographics, the people making this music in 1958 were already adults, well over 30 in most cases. They may have been children at one time, sure, but they were children of the swing and big band era, and that was not so dissimilar from what they were doing at the time.

But yes, you are right...I do see them as bad guys and I make no bones about it. They helped kill off a great era in culture! I tend to overlook things like watergate, because they are irrevelent (in my opinion) to the wonderful night club scene of the same era. Sure, we had watergate (which was a disgrace) but we also had the Apollo space program, and those astronauts were into cocktails and easy listening music, for the most part. I choose to remember the "golden" era for what was good about it, not what was bad.

Post #523112 by tiki mick on Fri, Apr 9, 2010 4:10 PM