see Driving Guitar (Sharp 5)
Older Eleki band in Japan, with Sharp 5 guitars, live.
From Otto von Stroheim’s Tiki Events mailing list come these news of two great Surf Music events this weekend and next week:
The Surf Coasters are on tour from Japan and are appearing live with Slacktone this Saturday, September 13, 10 pm.
The Surf Coasters have been amazing audiences all over the States on this tour.
Plus, Slacktone is one of the best bands around.
Both bands are only rarely seen in a venue as intimate as
the Purple Orchid Tiki Lounge. Admission will be limited , so get there early!
$10 cover
21+ only!
Check out these links about the show
Tiki Central link
YouTube link
Surfguitar 101 link
Purple Orchid link
Purple Orchid Tiki Lounge is located at
221 Richmond Street, El Segundo (310) 322-5829.
Just south of LAX!Come on down and help Dave Arnson celebrate his 50th(!) birthday!
Thursday Sept 18th —
Cover is only 10.00 for 4 bands!!
Safari Sam’s
5214 Sunset Blvd ,in east Hollywood
Safari Sam’sthe scintillating and groovy lineup will be-
*8pm -The Barbarellatones
See Dave play lead guitar as ‘Malibu Davida ‘ in this glam-y femme-y Cramps-y gothabilly band!*9pm- The Insect Surfers
Dave’s 20- years -plus-running surfadelic instrumental band ! We’ve invited Guitarist Paul Johnson (‘Mr. Moto’, Belairs, Safaris) to play with us!
*10pm- 3rd Grade Teacher
heavy psychodramatic punky adventures.. and singer Sabrine actually IS a 3rd grade teacher! a-Hunh! Their only show this season!*11pm – Raw Power Rangers
See Dave make a nut of himself as Iggy Pop in our tribute to The Stooges’ 1973 “Raw Power’ album ! See punkrock legend Don Bolles of the Germs wallop the drums!AND—
KXLU’s Reverend Dan (Music for Nimrods) will be DJ!!!
Stormy Byrd will be parked out front with his red nitro dragster ‘Revelation’!
Maybe Ms. Fractal will be fire-dancing on the patio!—
Otto von Stroheim
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Scholastic scientists ignore Thor Heyerdahl’s publications to the point of constant embarassment. For example the sewn plank canoe mentioned in this article is found along the way from the Pacific Northwest to Hawaii, Micronesia, Melanesia and New Zealand. These places surround a natural ocean route, described by Heyerdahl in the 1950s. Many ethnical and cultural evidences can be found of contact with pacific indians and polynesian people. And I would expect excactly that from people populating almost every significant island in the polynesian triangle. Why should they stop there? The Americas are hard to miss once you enter the Japan current. Remember Johnny Depp drifting out in a canoe at the end of Dead Man? If redwood lumber was taken to Hawaii by stream, why not canoes of coastal settlers? Maybe the occasional dead Northwestern indian’s canoe landed in Hawai’i front tip first – they would have regarded him a god! Hawaiki!
Did ancient Polynesians visit California? Maybe so. Scholars revive idea using linguistic ties, Indian headdress Keay Davidson, Chronicle Science Writer Monday, June 20, 2005 Scientists are taking a new look at an old and controversial idea: that ancient Polynesians sailed to Southern California a millennium before Christopher Columbus landed on the East Coast.Key new evidence comes from two directions. The first involves revised carbon-dating of an ancient ceremonial headdress used by Southern California’s Chumash Indians. The second involves research by two California scientists who suggest that a Chumash word for ‘sewn-plank canoe’ is derived from a Polynesian word for the wood used to construct the same boat.
Now this japanese guy is one hot Uke player, I tell you. Interesting to see Pacific Longboarder write about him:
‘08 Monday, 11 February 2008Jake Shimabukuro (she-ma-BOO-koo-row) is recognized as one of the world’s top ukulele (oo-koo-LAY-lay) musicians, and one of the most jaw-dropping performers of any instrument. Renowned for lightning-fast fingers, revolutionary playing techniques, and wildly eclectic repertoire, Jake views the ukulele as an ‘untapped source of music with unlimited potential.’ It is no coincidence that Jake is the first ukulele player ever invited to perform as a solo artist at the Sydney Opera House! Playing jazz, blues, funk, classical, bluegrass, folk, flamenco and rock, Jake plays beyond all musical boundaries.It began when his mother gave him a ukulele lesson at age four. ‘When I played my first chord I was hooked,’ says Jake. Evolving from the heavily amplified riffs that earned Jake the reputation as ‘Jimi Hendrix of the ukulele,’ now Jake masterfully extracts the pure ‘clean’ natural acoustic sound of the uke, delicately making a single note smile or cry on his most recent releases, Gently Weeps and My Life. The highlight of Gently Weeps is Jake’s cover of George Harrison’s ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps.’ The video clip of Jake playing this in Central Park appeared on YouTube, and made Jake the medium’s first global superstar with over 3.5 million hits. When Jake had the honor of meeting Harrison’s widow, Olivia, backstage at his show with the Honolulu Symphony, she described feeling George’s presence with her when Jake played his rendition of Gently Weeps. From a modest beginnings at a Honolulu café, Jake has gone on to play at venues such as the House of Blues and The Knitting Factory (Los Angeles), The Birchmere (Alexandria, VA), Tipitina’s (New Orleans), Joe’s Pub and Knitting Factory (NYC), Ottawa Blues Festival, High Sierra Music Festival, The Bumbershoot Festival, The Fuji Rock Festival (Japan) and many others. Touring with Jimmy Buffett in ’05, ’06 and ’07 gave Jake ‘a priceless experience’ of playing to crowds of over 100,000. Jake’s first national TV slot was in December ’05 on NBC’s The Late Show with Conan O’Brien.
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Thursday, 14 February 2008
Japanese ‘Yakuza’ gangsters have launched a campaign of intimidation to force a media blackout on the furore surrounding the country’s killing of dolphins and whales, it was claimed yesterday. Australian surfer Dave Rastovich attracted world headlines after he and conservationists including actress Isabel Lucas travelled to the Japanese fishing village of Taiji last year to protest at its annual dolphin kill. Rastovich, the global face of surfwear giant Billabong Australia’s environmental campaigns, said the multi-billion dollar Japanese surf industry had been experiencing the ‘heat’ for his anti-whaling activities. He said he had been told of intimidation from Yakuza thugs – the feared Japanese mafia – who had been visiting Japanese surf shops in search of the outspoken activist. ‘These are the goons from the fishing industry who are visiting surf stores intimidating people and threatening to punish them financially,’ Rastovich said.
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