The Rhesus Monkeys! - Bilge

TM tiki mick Tiki Socialite SOCAL Joined: May 12, 2004 Posts: 4105	TM tiki mick Posted posted on Wed, Sep 22, 2010 1:18 PM Well folks, the Rhesus Monkey’s have now sold out ALL our debut CDs! I can’t believe 2500 units were shipped out as of yesterday! Don’t worry though, because a new record label “Shameless self promotion, Inc.” has just signed us to an exclusive 5 year contract! Yesterday, we started booking time in the studio for what will be our Christmas album. I know, it’s been done to death before but that should not be a problem on this forum! After all, copying the idea, concept and success of others is the name of the game! Sure, this music is bland and mediocre, sounding like it was produced on a Casio keyboard (probably because it WAS!) but in the music business, it’s really all about popularity, not real hard work or talent. So I am sure our Christmas album will also sell out within a few months of its release. At first, even I was not sure if this music would be successful. After all, I shamelessly stole someone else’s idea and concept, repackaged it and dumbed it down. I thought it was really repetitive and actually pedantic, but the sales figures have proven me wrong! The reviews of this maudlin and crappy product came in real quick, with excessive hyperbole inflating its reputation far beyond what it was worth! Terms like “Excellent”, “sheer bliss” , “Outstanding”, “superior”, and even “Mystical bordering on a religious experience” were bandied about, when I myself would have used words more like “Derivative”, “Sophmoric”. “Infantile” or even “Direct rip-off”….but I tend to me more hard on myself. For music that has such as dim and distant relationship to real Tiki music, I am so surprised at the success of this project! I knew that when I started this project I needed to stay away from Hapa Haole music (which as we know, does not fit in with Tiki in the slightest way) and I also knew that I had to stay away from jazz based music. Sure, jazz worked well for Les Baxter, Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman but the current generation of “tiki” fans don’t go in for that kind of stuff. It’s all about rock music “re-imaged” with some tiki stuff on the album cover… Anyway, till next time! Onwards and upwards, enjoying the success that should rightfully belong to others!

Well folks, the Rhesus Monkey’s have now sold out ALL our debut CDs! I can’t believe 2500 units were shipped out as of yesterday! Don’t worry though, because a new record label “Shameless self promotion, Inc.” has just signed us to an exclusive 5 year contract!

Yesterday, we started booking time in the studio for what will be our Christmas album. I know, it’s been done to death before but that should not be a problem on this forum! After all, copying the idea, concept and success of others is the name of the game!

Sure, this music is bland and mediocre, sounding like it was produced on a Casio keyboard (probably because it WAS!) but in the music business, it’s really all about popularity, not real hard work or talent. So I am sure our Christmas album will also sell out within a few months of its release.

At first, even I was not sure if this music would be successful. After all, I shamelessly stole someone else’s idea and concept, repackaged it and dumbed it down. I thought it was really repetitive and actually pedantic, but the sales figures have proven me wrong!

The reviews of this maudlin and crappy product came in real quick, with excessive hyperbole inflating its reputation far beyond what it was worth! Terms like “Excellent”, “sheer bliss” , “Outstanding”, “superior”, and even “Mystical bordering on a religious experience” were bandied about, when I myself would have used words more like “Derivative”, “Sophmoric”. “Infantile” or even “Direct rip-off”….but I tend to me more hard on myself.

For music that has such as dim and distant relationship to real Tiki music, I am so surprised at the success of this project! I knew that when I started this project I needed to stay away from Hapa Haole music (which as we know, does not fit in with Tiki in the slightest way) and I also knew that I had to stay away from jazz based music. Sure, jazz worked well for Les Baxter, Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman but the current generation of “tiki” fans don’t go in for that kind of stuff. It’s all about rock music “re-imaged” with some tiki stuff on the album cover…

Anyway, till next time! Onwards and upwards, enjoying the success that should rightfully belong to others!

Post #555413 by tiki mick on Wed, Sep 22, 2010 1:18 PM