Post #605945 by tiki mick on Thu, Sep 8, 2011 12:11 PM

On 2011-09-08 11:36, JOHN-O wrote:

On 2011-09-08 10:47, lucas vigor wrote:

Lucas tend to agree with grog on this. In my mind, surf rock is rock, period. I don't believe it is tiki....

C'mon Lucas, you consider The Hula Girls (who you play with) to be "Tiki Music", right ?? I certainly do.

The Hula Girls' music is definitely more rooted in Rock and it is in Jazz. :)

No, I actually do not. But, considering that there are punk and hard rock bands now being accepted as being "tiki", then I feel the Hula Girls should definitely be considered part of the current scene. Keep in mind, that while they are a rock band, the music is also rooted very deeply in Hapa Haole music, albeit, a suped up version of it. And the lyrics of the band's songs very much pertain to tiki. In fact, some of the songs they have are essentially primers on tiki!

But the honest fact is, if this was 1963 and you were at a tiki restaurant or tiki bar, and any of the surf rock or even rockabilly bands of today had been set up to play that night, it would have caused a huge stir with the generation that grew up with Glen Miller, Perez Prado or ever Perry Como. They would not like any music like that, especially any loud music that caused you to have to yell to be heard by your date that night.

I honestly feel that only a few bands of today would have been accepted by an audience in that type of environment back then. ironically, one of the least popular bands of our current scene, the smokin' menehunes, would have been a top draw back then. The music we play is 100% period correct and what you would have heard if you had been in a tiki themed restaurant back then, and even more so, it is what you would have heard in Waikiki of the 60's.

[ Edited by: lucas vigor 2011-09-08 12:15 ]