Post #604052 by Kapu Kai in Hi-Fi on Thu, Aug 25, 2011 3:20 PM

I'm still blown away by the Musical Line-up at this year's event! Yes this was our first one, but we've been to other Tiki events, and the band line up at TO is just a notch above (probably two notches above) of anything else I've been too. I mean Jack Costanzo? That's just plain incredible. The guy played on a TON of Exotica and Latin Lounge LPs of the 50s, 60s, 70s. To see him live, and to talk to him at the exotica seminar was amazing. PLUS the DEBUT of Tiki Joe's Ocean. That's pretty damn impressive too! And then Marty's show that was fabulous! And that's just the tip of the iceberg (or maybe in this case I should say "it's just the rum float of the cocktail").

Hats off to Otto and Baby Doe for lining up such exciting and interesting acts.

Holy hell, I forgot about Don Tiki. We couldn't stay for that, but HELLO, that's another amazing feather in the cap. Does everyone realize how many times they've been rumored to play state-side and it hasn't happened. I think I correct in saying the event at Kahiki (which we were at) was the last time they were here. In any case, no other Tiki event can match the line-up this year (and some of them have pretty damn good line-ups too - I'm not knocking them, but just saying that TO really out does it)

[ Edited by: Kapu Kai in Hi-Fi 2011-08-25 15:28 ]