Post #600926 by JOHN-O on Thu, Aug 4, 2011 11:01 AM

On 2011-08-04 09:23, bigtikidude wrote:
...by the way, John O told me on the phone Tikis were not from Hawaii, but from the US mainland,
still trying to wrap my head around that one. WOW!!!

The Tikis "WE" care about are from the mainland. :)

Also "Pipetruck" --> "Pipeline" --> Hawaii --> real Tikis --> mid-century Tiki-style ?? That's at least 4 degrees of separation on that question !!

And about the Peanuts theme, here's surf culture author Dominic Priore's take (or is it Brian Chidester's?)...

"Perhaps the best recordings of surf music by any punk band were those done by JFA (Jodie Foster's Army), which recorded Vince Guaraldi's 'Schroder's Theme' as heard in the Peanuts television cartoon specials back in the '60s..."

"JFA took the Astronauts' approach to thick, steady rhythm guitar tones and threw on a 'Baja'-styled lead guitar part to Guaraldi's most famous melody. Without trying too hard to be 'Surf', these cats from Arizona captured the true spirit of surf music better than most of the people who fail the minute they put on a bad Hawaiian shirt."

Regardless of its origin, it's (IMHO) a "Surf song". :D

[ Edited by: JOHN-O 2011-08-04 16:21 ]