Post #579584 by tiki mick on Wed, Mar 9, 2011 2:43 PM

On 2011-03-09 12:49, JOHN-O wrote:

On 2011-03-09 07:24, lucas vigor wrote:
The decline of Tiki:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKr-WKT4aiA

That was COOL !! (and educational at the same time) Thanks Lucas.

I'd like to see them play a major Tiki event and piss everyone off.

Basically, they already have. Or at least bands just like them. Only, they didn't piss anyone off except ME. In some cases, bands like this were headlining or playing the prime slots, like at 10:00 in the evening when everyone is good and drunk and may not have noticed how bad the band really was.

I am sure they are very nice people, but this is not polypop. This is party city tiki, with less then 2 degrees of separation of Jimmy Buffet. And unfortunately, THIS is what a large majority of people outside of tiki central (and perhaps some IN Tiki central) believe Tiki to be.

Sorry to be so blunt, but it's what some other people also think...(but are hesitant to say in public, less they be perceived as being "negative".)

It all goes back to my main point that if WE are not sure what tiki is, or what it means, or the coolness and radness of what it used to be and where it came from, then how can we expect outsiders to understand? And can we fully blame them when they mow down a Trader Vics and make it into a sport's bar? The kind of place with margaritas and a few palapas or party city tikis, and Merrell Fankhauser setting up his band in the corner?

http://www.myspace.com/lucasvigor

"yer jus not tuned into the series of tubes yet, let it soak in".

[ Edited by: lucas vigor 2011-03-09 14:53 ]