California Tiki, Polynesian Pop

[IdleRich]

 

[william_kent]

Tipsy - Mr Excitement

 

[william_kent]

pretty sure me and @IdleRich might have once had a discussion about how this album cover was "inspired" by Martin Denny / les baxter exotica?

 

[william_kent]

Yeah, a lot of those industrial people were really into that stuff.
I think Boiled Lice ran a tiki bar, too.

yeah, obviously this tune



Throbbing Gristle - Exotica

xylophone / marimba & bird tweet chirp ambience

 

[IdleRich]

pretty sure me and @IdleRich might have once had a discussion about how this album cover was "inspired" by Martin Denny / les baxter exotica?

We did. I actually dj-d with Dave Ball one time... well when I say with, he played and then I played and we had no interaction together but you know whatever.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Elvis?

 

[william_kent]

We did. I actually dj-d with Dave Ball one time... well when I say with, he played and then I played and we had no interaction together but you know whatever.

same as when I was on the same bill as Juan Atkins - I'd gone home about 12 hours before he touched the decks, but still...

 

[IdleRich]

Definitely counts

 

[Benny Bunter]

That there is this surprising combination of Polynesian exoticism/orientalism with Wild West history (all the Westerns being churned out of Hollywood) and the Space Age, and it's all swirling around

 

[william_kent]

SUN RA / Nu Sounds - Black Sky & Blue Moon ( 1955 )

 

[sus]

Sorry I meant to post more leads but I just chopped my thumb off with a hatchet so I'm dealing with that rn

 

[william_kent]

Sorry I meant to post more leads but I just chopped my thumb off with a hatchet so I'm dealing with that rn

oops!

 

[sus]

Bleeding a lot. Looking for painkillers. In the middle of rural Idaho so no specialist surgeons around. Trying to reattach the end of the finger with super glue

 

[sus]

Equally a norcal phenom. Trader Vics of course but also Tonga Room, which has a swimming pool with a band on the boat that moves back and forth as they play, and then artificial rain as well.

Yeah I really wanna go to Tonga Room

I think the Trader Vics guy was trained by the guys who started Don The Beachcomber but still trying to piece the intellectual network together

 

[luka]

Post a pic of the severed thumb

 

[sus]

I tried but it's too large to upload I'll email you

 

[luka]

I'm actually really squeamish. Don't.

 

[william_kent]

repeating myself like a drunken fool would do

Hori Smoku - Sailor Jerry: The Life and Times of Norman K. Collins ( 2008 )

Who knew that Sailor Jerry was such an asshole? Turns out he was a racist sexist bigoted right-wing libertarian dickhead. Also a legend in the tattoo world. There's a lot of bullshit in this documentary, not all of it originating from Sailor Jerry. Other famous tattoo artists recount tall tales. Ed Hardy tramples all over Sailor Jerry to get an "in" with the Japanese masters that he ripped off. Crazy Eddie Funk gets angry at always being second place to Jerry.

I watched this in mixed company so when Sailor Jerry talks about "dial a cunt" there was indignation in the air.

but... it was an interesting glimpse into a long gone subterranean scene, which has been replaced by what the old timers sarcastically refer to as the mainstream "black tee shirts"

I'll still drink the rum named after him though - it's cheap and does the job

birth of TIKI!

seriously, to understand TIKI / DON THE BEACHCOMBER watch this film

 

[sus]

My brother who is an EMT says I'll still be able to play piano. The tendon is intact. Very good news im very fond of the instrument it's the thing that I love most in the world, playing for myself, making up tunes

 

[Benny Bunter]

A cowboy took a trip to hawaii