Post #789441 by Cammo on Sat, Aug 25, 2018 12:29 PM

"Wasn't the North Shore popular long before 1972?"

Check out the history of it - locals wouldn't let mainlanders surf the North Shore until the very early 70's. The battle for the North Shore changed surfing forever.

"I thought Michael Jackson got his 'moonwalk' moves from James Brown. Unless 'Grease' inspired different dances from MJ."

I think he got the moonwalk from WAY before James Brown, and the rest from Grease; leather jacket, pennyloafers, white socks, on the toes poses, silhouette moves. Check out the Grease dances, they're amazing.

"Gotta add Kon Tiki and Tales of the South Pacific."

Then I'd have to go back to Melville's Typee, which truly started it all.
And I really think people read too much into Mitchener; South Pacific is just a bunch of pub tales he heard down there.

This list is really about the supposed "rediscovery" of Tiki, which looks more and more like a myth to me as the list fills out.