Post #602921 by tiki mick on Wed, Aug 17, 2011 2:14 PM

Unfortunately, we live in a culture where you can slap a tiki or two in your act, and presto! Now you are tiki!

We have come a long way from the glorious days of the original tiki scene, where great musicianship was par for the course....and required. Now anyone can claim to be Tiki. It happens outside this scene, and even inside. Frankly, I am suprised old merrill is not headlining some major tiki event already!
When this was first posted, there were in fact several members of this forum who LOVED this video, because it was so fun and carefree! It's warm and fuzzy, and that makes it good? Well, so is my ass....and nobody but my girlfriend likes IT. (and even she has doubts)

There are so few musicians around who have the chops to play real tiki music, and have it be true to the style and be convincing....it's rare, because most of the musicians who could play this stuff well are into other types of music, like jazz.

In my mind, there are only a handful of real tiki acts around today...Tikiyaki, martini kings, stolen idols....that's where it's at, baby!