Post #595951 by tiki mick on Sat, Jul 2, 2011 5:52 PM

Don't thank me, man.

I still think it is a horrible idea to be named "tiki joe" when there already is a tiki joe, who is playing real tiki music, and who already is established. You may be trying to build a tiki empire on your own, and I wish you luck...because you will have few fans around here.

If I were you, I would change my "band" name, and work on the filipino angle (it would be quite a novelty and a good niche to have a non-filipino guy end up being succesful playing filipino songs, sung in tagalog..think about it, you might be one of the only people doing it!....) then you are not competing with someone already established in our commutity (which IS international, by the way) you would have your OWN thing...and people would accept you for that....what's wrong with changing your name? I have heard of Tiki Joe's ocean, and so has every single person on this forum (which is the center of all things tiki on this planet) but until you came here, I had never heard of YOU.

A band I was in made a serious mistake with this. We we doing REAL good, opening for famous 70's bands like Foghat and others, yet the name of our band was exactly that of a top DJ in Australia...who was more famous then us. We had the name (we thought) way before...but a simple google search would have revealed our ignorance, and we would have chosen something else. There is no shame in that. I would rather buy a new license plate then go around calling myself "tiki Joe" and claiming I was playing tiki music (you are not!) all the while there is an established artist with the same name, who won a Hawaiian music award and is headlining at the world's biggest Tiki event this summer (Tiki oasis).

Dig your own grave if you want to, but if it was me...I would call myself "Ska man Joe" or "Puti Joe" Or "haole Joe" something more relevant to the actual music you play, which for the 3rd and final time is NOT TIKI!

Sorry to be so harsh to a fellow musician who obviously has some talent, but you are making a terrible mistake in using an established artist's name and trying to even claim you are playing the same type of music.

[ Edited by: lucas vigor 2011-07-02 17:54 ]