Post #543672 by Staredge on Tue, Jul 20, 2010 9:03 PM

Just curious.....if you stop looking at tiki culture through the prism of poly-pop archaeology and start looking at it as the escapism that it was......what's the difference?? No research is needed for parrothead culture, as it still exists and is thriving. Tiki culture died off, except for the hardcore, and is now being dug up and reborn. (bit simplified, but the basic idea is there) I've always thought that the two scenes are very similar in that they reflect escapism of the same type, but are products of their time period.

For the record....if you spent any time on a Buffett board you'd see a lot of hardcore, long time parrotheads (like me) making some of the same points made in this thread. I stopped going to shows for a long time because of the drunken frat boys. The scene has improved some.

On 2010-07-15 18:08, lucas vigor wrote:
I stand by what I said. A lot of us involved in Tiki are more or less also caretakers of tiki, keeping it alive. Even those of us not directly involved in the creation of Tiki, are collectors or otherwise involved in doing research about Tiki. There is a lot in our world to explore and find out about. Not so with the parrothead scene. That's more like one big tail-gate party.

I am merely responding to the poster who said that we look a lot like Parrrot heads, what with all the hawaiian shirts, fat bellies and stupid hats.

I am saying there is a lot more to Tiki then that. Some of us may look like parrot heads, but this scene is vastly different from the buffet scene.

I know that is kind of hard for you buffet people to accept, because you so much want Buffet culture to be interchangeable with tiki culture.

Phinz, you seriously need to read any of Sven Kirsten's books to realize the crucial difference between us, and the generically bland buffet scene.

Buffet is to tiki as Kenny G is to jazz. There just is no comparison.