Post #675339 by Mai Tai on Tue, Apr 23, 2013 11:52 PM

On 2013-04-22 18:08, lucas vigor wrote:

On 2013-04-22 17:54, Tiki-ESP wrote:

Expect Kim Tsoy and the New Tsoy sauce to headline, as he headlined at TO10 and was playing classic rock standards (Rolling Stones, The Animals, etc) for a majority of his set, because that is what we're all coming to listen to.

[ Edited by: Tiki-ESP 2013-04-22 18:01 ]

Wow! And I thought I was the only one who had a problem with that. Back then, I was still in the Hula Girls and we were playing in a side room for about 20 people. During a break I went out there, and as I remember it, it was saturday night, prime time, the crowd was HUGE and here is this band called Kim Tsoy singing songs from urban cowboy (ya know, the movie with Travolta) I couldn't believe what I was hearing and seeing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOh08LuunOA and the crowd was lapping it up! Look at them! Tiki Esp, you nailed it.

I have heard cheapo bar bands in bonephuck Egypt sound better. Well, hopefully tiki oasis does it right THIS time and has the Hula Girls on the big stage, at a good hour. The Hula Girls deserve it.

On 2013-04-23 08:09, lucas vigor wrote:

Oh, I see that I ruffled some feathers yesterday. I listened to quite a few of his songs, and have watched the videos. Sorry Otto, but I fail to see anything but the dimmest connection to tiki. So of course, for your event that's perfectly ok. Bar rock and lite country is not tiki. I am suprised I need to tell you that....no, take that back...not suprised at all.

PS, I made that comment before I found out Tiki ESP was not kidding, and you really did have Kim Tsoy playing...see, I thought that was a joke. I figured last time you had him that you maybe didn't realize he is definitely in the Jimmy Buffett school of thought, and wouldn't have him back. I have nothing against the man, personally. Just thought it strange that you would have a band playing that type of non-tiki music and then give him the prime slot, while you have excluded some other bands playing real tiki music because in your opinion, they are not right for tiki oasis. You know exactly what I am talking about. You asked if i can mention other old timers who have played in tiki bars? yeah, Pat Enos...from my band, The Smokin menehunes. As I told you in a PM a long time ago, Pat is the real deal. If you do a little research you would figure out who and what he is, who he has played with. Pat is one of the original Hawaiian beach boys. Like the guys that hung out with Elvis in Blue hawaii. And don't even get me started about Pat's dad and who HE hung out with. There are quite a few living legends that have a deep connection to Don Ho that you have excluded from your event because you prefer mosh pits and not-very-good country music.

[ Edited by: Lucas Vigor 2013-04-23 08:42 ]

On 2013-04-23 15:24, lucas vigor wrote:

...but when it comes to music, people who don't play tiki music well, or even at all somehow get a pass? Can anyone explain that to me?

Wow. Way to make someone else's event all about you, Lucas. I haven't seen so many "I"'s since the remake of The Fly! Why don't you spare us from yet another of your self-inflicted shame spirals, and share it with your therapist, instead - maybe they will hook you up with some meds that will help you to travel more than 10 feet from your house to play a gig, like the rest of the hard working and hard suffering musicians out there.

On 2013-04-23 16:10, El Jefe wrote:
Lucas,

Please take this crap some place else. There is no need to be clogging this thread up with all of this. We get it that you are pissed that Otto won't hire you to play his event. You have made many references to it in the past. By the way it makes you look like a bad ambassador for the band that you are in. Always complaining and brow beating people this is not tiki music or this is not good music. To each their own. Go start another thread bashing or complaining about whatever you want. Better yet why don't you go start your own event and make it however you want.

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