Post #9466 by MakeDaMug on Sun, Sep 29, 2002 4:31 PM

Hi Everybody,

I must say that the party was a rockin' good time and let it be known that there is no way that it could have happened without the help of Bamboo Ben and Danny Gallardo and my colleagues Preston, Jorge & Lisa! We banged out some late nights there together setting the thing up and it wouldn't have been what it was without their help - Ben's giant Trader Vic's bar and Danny's painstakingly hand-built volcano were key to the function and form of this thing!

The artists... Jimmy C., Drew Brophy, Joe Vitale (who came all the way out from Florida), Squid (let it be known that I had no idea that he was bringing that little blue guy with the thing sticking out of his stomach!), Marcus Pizzuti (also thanks to Marcus for the last minute Easter Island set-up), Crazy Al, Danny Gallardo & Ben again and of course Shag who had the tiring job of signing... 14 decanter sets! It was all I could do to make his boxed sets happen due to the usual last minute glitch's - all that pre-booked are covered!

The Bands... King Kukulele & the Friki Tikis (did anybody notice that sitting in on vibes was none other than DJ Bonebreak - the drummer for my all time favorite band "X"...???), The Mag-Neatos and their fast and furious rockabilly surf and the Eliminators (with my biz colleague Preston on rhythm guitar) cranking out ultra surf classics as they are essentially one of THE ultra classic surf bands from So Cal!

Sven - our fearless leaders return was the key event of the night (unless you include some late night scantilly clad antics that I happened upon in various areas of the party and the outside grounds!)... I'm curious to know if there will be any tiki bash babies arriving in about 9 months!?! Sven's return was momentus (Reserved For "Insert a photo of Sven's head here")!! Welcome back Sven!!

Well, I hope you all had a great time - after I finally got to slow down and enjoy myself I looked around and saw what appeared to be a lot of people enjoying themselves. That's what it's all about and why the good people at tiki central spend our time here conversing with one another... let's do this thing again, ok?

Holden

I'd also like to throw in a last thank you to Hanford and Mig for keeping this site up so well and allowing us to air topics like these and other fun/irreverent and occasioinal dirty laundry topics whenever we see fit!

[ Edited by: smogbreather on 2002-09-29 16:38 ]