Post #650609 by tiki mick on Mon, Sep 3, 2012 5:55 PM

Those are indeed great bands. I am a fan of both of them, actually.
Reading back what i wrote, I can see how it was a bit misleading. What I meant to say is that there are an awful lot of bands that are not even close to being tiki, but are classified as such. There also have been a lot of "lounge" type bands that are not tiki either, but may have one or two songs as an homage.
And I know it will piss big tiki dude and a lot of other off, but I have never considered surf, punk or garage rock to be tiki in any way at all. I know it is a HUGE part of the tiki revival scene, of course, and there are bands in those genres that have excellent musicians...but tiki they are not. My opinion only, but to me, Tiki music is either pure exotica or hapa haole music. That's the only stuff that sounds good to me in the tiki context.

I myself have two songs I wrote a long time ago that might be of interest to the OP:

http://soundcloud.com/lucas-vigor/lights-on-the-water

http://soundcloud.com/lucas-vigor/the-dark-continent-limpopo

Now, whether or not anyone considers these "tiki", I don't know. I wrote them long before I had ever heard of this forum or the book of tiki (yeah, I am a baxter/denny/lyman fan going back to when I was a little kid) You be the judge.

[ Edited by: lucas vigor 2012-09-03 18:11 ]