Post #610546 by emspace on Tue, Oct 18, 2011 8:52 AM

On 2011-10-17 13:40, Chuck Tatum is Tiki wrote:

Just no need to be a "Jack Wipe" about it, there is nothing Tiki about that.

Funny remark coming from a guy who had to be banned for hounding people who disagreed with him, then snuck back under a new identity like some teenage troll.

But let's not dwell on the past, eh? Because the past isn't Tiki either - is it? :wink:

Speaking of BANNED, I was for most of yesterday, without any warning or notice. Thought that ought to come out here in the forum rather than being between me and a couple of friends. Maybe it was because I wrote the word "shit". Maybe it was because of my insistence that rock 'n' roll in its many variants has nothing to do with Tiki. Probably, if I were to guess, it was the remarks about goatees. :D

Anyway my login was restored some time later. I'll take away this one lesson: don't rock the 21st-century Tiki status quo boat; understand (and I DO, believe me!), that Tiki is like the Learning Channel or Discovery: it needs to roll with the times by absorbing whatever the general public digs in order to maintain its relevance. So TLC gets "Dwarf Chocolatiers", Discovery gets "Are We Ready For an Alien Invasion?" - and Tiki gets punk.

And still, after 12 pages of posts - nobody has addressed Lucas's question about why the Menehunes get passed over for the Creepy Creeps, or why punk can even BE Tiki. That's weak, guys, you disappoint. Meh...at the end of the day it will be what it will be, the Crazed Mugs will splice "Tiki" words into generic pop tunes, God love 'em, and Tiki music will be anything the general public thinks it is.

Malama pono,
em.

[ Edited by: emspace 2011-10-18 09:07 ]