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Happy 93rd Birthday to Martin Denny

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G GECKO Member South Sea Arts Honolulu Joined: Jun 01, 2002 Posts: 1049	G GECKO Posted posted on Sat, Apr 10, 2004 5:09 PM For us exotica fans, our hero is celebrating his 93rd Birthday today and I just wanted to wish a Happy Birthday to Mr. Martin Denny! I feel honored that I was invited to his private party! I will be going there in a few hours. but befor I get ready to go I just wanted to share with my freinds here his Birthday gift that I droped by his house a few days ago.....yes he loved it by da way! It is a black velvet painting of the young Mr. Denny. To da right of him he has da tiki from page 205 in da B.O.T with the approval of braddah Sven. As you see on da bottom left of the velvet is my copywrite logo stamped right below the artist's name. That is because this is the new "Gecko'z South Seas" Artist Mr. Leo Layug. We finaly agreed to terms and are now working together to create beautiful art on velvet like this one you see today. Well Happy Birthday Mr. Denny!!!! Aloha
G GECKO Member South Sea Arts Honolulu Joined: Jun 01, 2002 Posts: 1049	G GECKO Posted posted on Sat, Apr 10, 2004 5:14 PM Eh, Happy birthday to my Friend Fil Slash and to braddah Sven's son who just had birthdays. Eh big bro I thought Mr. D's birthday was as same as your sons but it's actually today. Aloha to da both of you and to all my freinds beyond da reef!
P Polynesiac Tiki Socialite San Pedro, CA Joined: Jan 29, 2004 Posts: 2099	P Polynesiac Posted posted on Sat, Apr 10, 2004 5:18 PM Gecko- that is an absolutely beautiful gift! (before I saw the CU of your signature, I thought it was a picture!) Great stuff. I'll play his records and raise a Mai-Tai for Mr. Denny this evening in honor of his special day! Have fun tonight, you lucky guy! :) Mahalo for the pix!
G GECKO Member South Sea Arts Honolulu Joined: Jun 01, 2002 Posts: 1049	G GECKO Posted posted on Sat, Apr 10, 2004 5:34 PM good idea Polynesiac. I will raise a glass to him at 4 p.m Honolulu time and if you got a drink in your hand please join me and lets raise it to da high preist of exotica and listen to his beautiful tunes! Okole Maluna at 4pm Honolulu! we are 3 hours behind California.
JT Jungle Trader Member Trader's Jungle Outpost, Turlock, Ca. Joined: Jan 04, 2003 Posts: 3772	JT Jungle Trader Posted posted on Sat, Apr 10, 2004 5:54 PM hey Gecko. Happy Birthday Martin. So we raise a glass at 7 in Cali to be synchronized. Great stuff Gecko and the best to you in your biz. You have a 2 ft. redwood Bosko Moai comin' in June. It's all I could get with the light weight. Cheers :drink: :drink:
T tikimug Member 1217 mi. North of the Mai Kai Joined: Apr 01, 2002 Posts: 752	T tikimug Posted posted on Sat, Apr 10, 2004 7:43 PM Eastcoast checking in, I'm raising my drink (I doubt it'll be a mai tai since I'm at work) at 10:00pm to join you all. Here's to the High Priest of Exotica, I've enjoyed your music so much. Thank you! PS eh, Gecko dat pic is cherry brah!
K Kailuageoff Member Honolulu Lounge,Lewes, DE Joined: Mar 27, 2002 Posts: 1506	K Kailuageoff Posted posted on Sat, Apr 10, 2004 8:03 PM It's about an hour to ten east coast time, so I'll join in the toast... Mr. Denny is indeed a living legend. Also, that is one ono painting Gecko. Quite an ambitious subject and very well done. KG
S Shipwreckjoey Member San Diego, CA Joined: Nov 29, 2002 Posts: 1794	S Shipwreckjoey Posted posted on Sat, Apr 10, 2004 8:36 PM Happy Birthday Martin, we're sippin' a mai-tai & listening to your music as I write. Mahalo for all the great music that (throughout the years) and presently inspire us to love & appreciate the culture we embrace so dearly. Aloha nui loa, Terry & Sally
T tikigreg Tiki Socialite ClubTiki Joined: Mar 24, 2002 Posts: 1301	T tikigreg Posted posted on Sat, Apr 10, 2004 8:39 PM Mahalo Martin!
TC Tiki Chris Member London Joined: Mar 24, 2002 Posts: 1542	TC Tiki Chris Posted posted on Sat, Apr 10, 2004 9:37 PM that's awesome! the first thing i did this morning was listen to denny's golden great on vinyl while drinking my morning kona coffee - i didn't even know it was his birthday!
TC Tiki Chris Member London Joined: Mar 24, 2002 Posts: 1542	TC Tiki Chris Posted posted on Sat, Apr 10, 2004 9:38 PM that's awesome! the first thing i did this morning was listen to denny's golden great on vinyl while drinking my morning kona coffee - i didn't even know it was his birthday! [ Edited by: tiki chris on 2004-04-10 21:38 ]
M MakeDaMug Member behind a cluttered desk Joined: Mar 28, 2002 Posts: 1183	M MakeDaMug Posted posted on Sun, Apr 11, 2004 12:14 AM Hey Gecko, Man, you did a great job on that painting... schweeet! Alohaz!! Holden
UB Unga Bunga Tiki Socialite CaliTikifornia Joined: Jun 06, 2003 Posts: 5878	UB Unga Bunga Posted posted on Sun, Apr 11, 2004 12:23 AM Beautiful Pic! Were fortunate to know and love Martin Denny. We are also lucky to have Gecko on TC. The best to both of you.
TR Tiki Rider Member South Orange County, CA Joined: Oct 05, 2002 Posts: 497	TR Tiki Rider Posted posted on Sun, Apr 11, 2004 12:29 AM Happy Birthday Mr Denny! and thanks a million to you both. Aloha!
G GECKO Member South Sea Arts Honolulu Joined: Jun 01, 2002 Posts: 1049	G GECKO Posted posted on Sun, Apr 11, 2004 2:06 AM Mahalo'z to all who joined the toast! I wish I could have brought you guys along with. Thank's for the kind words to! I'm glad you liked da velvet. You braddahs are da bes! I'm lucky to run into a bunch of awesome collectors. JT, thanks for da Bosko Moai. I'm trying to have a tiki from all of the talented artist here on TC and off. Anyways, I'll see ya wen you get to paradise brah. mahaloz!
H hulabowl Member Joined: Apr 11, 2004 Posts: 1	H hulabowl Posted posted on Sun, Apr 11, 2004 9:39 AM I was forturnate to have Mr. Denny write an introduction to the book Leeteg of Tahiti, Paintings From the Villa Velour. He is a very interesting fellow who lives life to the fullest. Gecko, that's a great velvet you did of Martin. Have you set up shop for custom orders?
TD Tiki Diablo Member socal Joined: Jun 24, 2002 Posts: 1916	TD Tiki Diablo Posted posted on Sun, Apr 11, 2004 12:20 PM That's the way to do it G! Call a brother some time.
G GECKO Member South Sea Arts Honolulu Joined: Jun 01, 2002 Posts: 1049	G GECKO Posted posted on Sun, Apr 11, 2004 1:09 PM On 2004-04-11 09:39, hulabowl wrote: I was forturnate to have Mr. Denny write an introduction to the book Leeteg of Tahiti, Paintings From the Villa Velour. He is a very interesting fellow who lives life to the fullest. Gecko, that's a great velvet you did of Martin. Have you set up shop for custom orders? First of all let me say aloha and welcome to TC Hulabowl. Second, I love your book! Great job! The image of Martin Denny on this velvet is the same image thats at the front of the first few pages of your book. Then we just added to it. I gave a copy of your book to my uncle Leo(the artist) and he loves it. The artist is uncle Leo. He just stamps my Gecko'z South Sea Arts logo on his velvets for copywrite reasons and that he is now working with me and we collaberate on ideas together. Leo is a family friend of over 30 years and that's why he has earned the respect of being called uncle Leo. We have a black velvet of my dad from 71 from uncle Leo. He's been painting on BV for decades. Here's a Leeteg knock off he did of Hina Rapa. We have set up shop and releasing the first limeted edition in about a week or two entitled "Kai". It will be a print from the original in a 18X24 size limited to only 100 pcs. My camera isn't the best but here is the original "Kai" I'll do a post later on the release of "Kai" and this modern day Leeteg uncle Leo and some info on ordering original black velvets and other info on him. anyways nice to see you here. You'll meet some knowledgable people here with all kinds of talents. Aloha [ Edited by: gecko on 2004-07-28 20:00 ]
S SES Member Joined: Sep 14, 2003 Posts: 992	S SES Posted posted on Sun, Apr 11, 2004 4:12 PM Ooh... I'm a little late for the party! I hope he had a great time. Happy Belated Birthday to Martin and Filslash! :)
B Benzart Member Port Saint Lucie, Florida Joined: Jan 09, 2004 Posts: 10397	B Benzart Posted posted on Sun, Apr 11, 2004 4:58 PM ME too also late. Happy belated birthday Mr Denny. Gecko that is beautiful work. You are goin places man, way to go [ Edited by: Benzart on 2004-04-11 19:51 ]
M mrsmiley Tiki Socialite Las Vegas, NV Joined: Apr 03, 2002 Posts: 3197	M mrsmiley Posted posted on Wed, Apr 13, 2005 5:37 PM On 2004-04-10 17:09, GECKO wrote: For us exotica fans, our hero is celebrating his 93rd Birthday today and I just wanted to wish a Happy Birthday to Mr. Martin Denny! I feel honored that I was invited to his private party! I will be going there in a few hours. but befor I get ready to go I just wanted to share with my freinds here his Birthday gift that I droped by his house a few days ago.....yes he loved it by da way! Well Happy Birthday Mr. Denny!!!! Aloha Was his actual birthday on the 10th-or was he just celebrating it that day? Thus article says he was born on April 12 (yesterday). http://starbulletin.com/breaking/breaking.php?id=3289 Happy Birthday in Havn Mr Denny!

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