Post #398317 by tiki mick on Fri, Aug 1, 2008 6:13 PM

On 2008-07-31 16:30, alohacurrent wrote:
Man I loved seeing you guys live. My tastes are all over really, but Hapa Haole is definitely a style I listen to a lot. If I lived closer I would have been to a lot more of your gigs. Glad I got to see you guys at Busters a while back-Pat is agreat uke player for sure. Best wishes on the new project and thanks for the cd. At least I have that to listen to.

Well, I did appreciate you coming to see us! I listen to the Smoking Menehunes CD all the time myself, especially when I am a little drunk and in a mellow mood...Pat's voice just shines...like golden sun dripping with honey butter. People just don't sing like that anymore. And the songs; INMHO some of the greatest tunes ever written. "South Sea island magic" "Sweet Leilani" and others. Can almost make you cry. Pat has a unique way about him. Perry Como mixed with Mr. Rorke from fantasy island. Something kind of mysterious and creepy under all the corniness!

This morning I went looking for some old Spike era menehunes CDs in my collection. We had some excellent stuff going at the time. The one CD I love was burned off a tape recorder at Biff's "mahaloween" party, which was our last performance with Spike 3 years ago. It's amazing, but we had some very detailed arrangements going at the time. I think at that Party we were the tightest we had ever been. The very last song is cut off midway, and then you hear Spike say " Oh great, the cops are here!"
What is it with tiki music and the police?
Why are they hounding us? I mean, they practically arrested the entire Tikiyaki orchestra! Go chase those infernal rap cars that shake your walls as they drive by! Leave Tiki alone!

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