Post #558903 by tiki mick on Sun, Oct 10, 2010 8:45 AM

The reason I deleted a majority of my posts on that thread was because it was pissing people off apparently....so much so that it was (and continues to) effect the attendance at performances of bands that I was/am involved in....

And that's not fair to people I work with....so many people on this forum can't stand my posts, or disagree so much with what I say (or totally don't get the mostly humorous intent) that they stay away from a Smokin' Menehunes gigs like they might get scabies just by being in the same room with us. Only the diehards that appreciate great vintage Hawaiian music seem to ever show up...the rest, seem to flock to and be friends with more PC musicians on this forum.

Since I know for a fact the Smokin' menehunes are a cut above a lot of other stuff, I know it's not us or our music...it's ME....and hence, at the time I deleted posts out of respect to Palika Pat Enos, who relies on music for his income.

But, the question remains: Why on a forum that is supposedly about mid century poly pop, are there so many Beatles fans and hippies? You see, when I first joined this forum I figured whatever I said would be basically preaching at the choir...that a majority of the people I ran into here would have been more into the generation/culture of the movement that preceded hippie rock.....I honestly expected to get more people agreeing.....but I was wrong. I misread, misjudged the real demographic on this forum.

This reminds me of an old Cheer's episode "Knights of the Scimitar", where Cliff convinces Norm to join a lodge, saying "you will find a lot of people you will get along with"...

Well, everything goes well during the first meeting, and Norm is accepted in, even telling Cliff "you were right, these are a bunch of swell guys!"....and then they get to the agenda items...and one of them is that "as a result of the last vote, we have decided to ban beer at all further events"....Norm rips off his Turban, and decides to quit on the spot....

I was wrong about Tiki. This really is not the forum for someone like me. I am into stuff from the mid century. Not just the trappings and occasionally mug or artifact. To me, it was a style of music, appearance, fashion, art that was better then anything we had today. I wish it was still around.

I don't know how it's possible to love both the pre-60's culture, and then at the same time be so fiercly protective of the 60's culture, which killed off the previous scene completely.

It's like saying you like both the United States AND Al Queda!

The two things don't match! They are so f-ing different!

All of which leads me to believe that this is the wrong Forum for me. I don't know what the Tiki you people talk about so much even is anymore.