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GROG
Grand Member (first year) 
Joined: Jun 21, 2006
Posts: 6178
From: Tujunga
|  Posted: 2008-05-05 11:56 pm Permalink
GROG played tuba, baritone and valve trombone in highschool. Toured Europe with a concert band when GROG was sixteen. Our first concert was in Carnegie Hall before we flew to Euope to start the month-long tour. GROG still have tuba mouthpiece, but haven't played a note since college, so probably wouldn't be any good in a band. Now GROG only play the radio, and GROG can barely get a good tune out of that.
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tikiyaki
Grand Member (5 years) 
Joined: May 18, 2004
Posts: 2677
From: The Exotic Port of REDONDO BEACH, CA
| Posted: 2008-05-06 07:47 am Permalink
Hey Grog, I played Baritone Horn in school too.
Great Minds.....oh nevermind.
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harro
Grand Member (first year)
Joined: Sep 05, 2005
Posts: 672
From: Australia / Argentina
| Posted: 2008-05-06 08:42 am Permalink
attempt to play guitar. not much tiki style, but i do own a custom made Wosrite, based on a Mosrite Ventures model.
broke up the band I played in for 10 years to traverse on a shoe-string around South America (and carve Argentinian tikis)... also sold my flamed '71 Valiant coupe, collectible Harlem Globetrotters pinball, and a few guitars... God was I crazy???
anyway here's the link to my old band, Wiseacre myspace - mix of upbeat ska, raucous rock n roll etc. GROG may like since theres HORNS!
there might be pics of us tiki style in my front yard with some of my tikis and bar - promo for a tiki gig I put on for our last CD launch. I put a thread on TC about it here
Virani can you teach me Theremin when I come over to your side of the world?? Would love to learn!!
Cheers.
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Cammo
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 18, 2006
Posts: 1807
From: San Diego
| Posted: 2008-05-06 10:23 am Permalink
I don't play a note, but my kid is 15 and is becoming a guitar nut. He started with violin, then piano, then when his fingers were big enough to press frets, he grabbed a guitar and will not let go.
He started on a Fender Sonoran acoustic, then bought this from a friend for 75 clams;
It's a Fender Strat, but we hot-rodded it with DiMarzio pickups, a nicer pickguard and oyster/jewel/chrome knobs. We call it the King Penguin.
And last night he just bought this with his own cash:
Its a spankin' new Gibson SG with the cherrywood 'worn finish'. Its so serious its kind of scary taking it out of the case. Looks like the Devil, sounds like an Angel. Don't have a name for it yet.
Sushiman, when you visiting da good old US of A????
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sushiman
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 28, 2007
Posts: 313
From: Kumamoto , Japan
| Posted: 2008-05-06 3:13 pm Permalink
" Sushiman, when you visiting da good old US of A???? "
Cammo .
Well , actually I was just in the USA at the end of March , on the Big Island of Hawaii . Was back twice in 2007 as well , after a 5 year hiatus . Why ?
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Cammo
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 18, 2006
Posts: 1807
From: San Diego
| Posted: 2008-05-06 4:30 pm Permalink
Sushimanno -
My wife's family is from Kumamoto, you should come to Otto's Oasis sometime and DJ for him around the pool! Please!!!
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sushiman
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 28, 2007
Posts: 313
From: Kumamoto , Japan
| Posted: 2008-05-06 5:24 pm Permalink
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On 2008-05-06 16:30, Cammo wrote:
Sushimanno -
My wife's family is from Kumamoto, you should come to Otto's Oasis sometime and DJ for him around the pool! Please!!!
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Where in Kumamoto is your wife's family from ?
What is Otto's Oasis all about ?
DJ - moi ? ; )
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tikithomas08
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 10, 2007
Posts: 528
From: San Diego CA
| Posted: 2008-05-07 8:03 pm Permalink
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On 2008-05-06 08:42, harro wrote:
attempt to play guitar. not much tiki style, but i do own a custom made Wosrite, based on a Mosrite Ventures model.
broke up the band I played in for 10 years to traverse on a shoe-string around South America (and carve Argentinian tikis)... also sold my flamed '71 Valiant coupe, collectible Harlem Globetrotters pinball, and a few guitars... God was I crazy???
anyway here's the link to my old band, Wiseacre myspace - mix of upbeat ska, raucous rock n roll etc. GROG may like since theres HORNS!
there might be pics of us tiki style in my front yard with some of my tikis and bar - promo for a tiki gig I put on for our last CD launch. I put a thread on TC about it here
Virani can you teach me Theremin when I come over to your side of the world?? Would love to learn!!
Cheers.
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harro you guys are kick ass! if only you guys werent from australia, our bands could have played a tiki themed ska show together
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Cammo
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 18, 2006
Posts: 1807
From: San Diego
| Posted: 2008-05-08 05:54 am Permalink
"What is Otto's Oasis all about ?
DJ - moi ? ; ) "
Oui, DJ - toi!
Do a search on TC for the Oasis threads, it's a huge retro-tiki party held in San Diego. Lots of pictures have been posted of last year's event. He needs DJs. He always needs DJs. (Otto is a big vinyl collector.)
I think they're from a small town called Haginoh. (Haganoh?)
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harro
Grand Member (first year)
Joined: Sep 05, 2005
Posts: 672
From: Australia / Argentina
| Posted: 2008-05-08 06:25 am Permalink
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On 2008-05-07 20:03, tikithomas08 wrote:
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On 2008-05-06 08:42, harro wrote:
attempt to play guitar. not much tiki style, but i do own a custom made Wosrite, based on a Mosrite Ventures model.
broke up the band I played in for 10 years to traverse on a shoe-string around South America (and carve Argentinian tikis)... also sold my flamed '71 Valiant coupe, collectible Harlem Globetrotters pinball, and a few guitars... God was I crazy???
anyway here's the link to my old band, Wiseacre myspace - mix of upbeat ska, raucous rock n roll etc. GROG may like since theres HORNS!
there might be pics of us tiki style in my front yard with some of my tikis and bar - promo for a tiki gig I put on for our last CD launch. I put a thread on TC about it here
Virani can you teach me Theremin when I come over to your side of the world?? Would love to learn!!
Cheers.
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harro you guys are kick ass! if only you guys werent from australia, our bands could have played a tiki themed ska show together
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thanks man. I checked out your band on myspace. cool stuff. you must like the aquabats? I saw em in NYC almost 10 years ago when I was travelling through there. funny bastards they were!!
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sushiman
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 28, 2007
Posts: 313
From: Kumamoto , Japan
| Posted: 2008-05-08 3:36 pm Permalink
Where is your wife fro⬠in Kumamoto ? I'm curious .
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Cammo
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 18, 2006
Posts: 1807
From: San Diego
| Posted: 2008-05-08 7:49 pm Permalink
Sman - I think they're from a small town around there called Haginoh. (Haganoh?)
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sushiman
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 28, 2007
Posts: 313
From: Kumamoto , Japan
| Posted: 2008-05-08 11:53 pm Permalink
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On 2008-05-08 19:49, Cammo wrote:
Sman - I think they're from a small town around there called Haginoh. (Haganoh?)
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Naver heard of either . Please ask your wife .
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tikithomas08
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 10, 2007
Posts: 528
From: San Diego CA
| Posted: 2008-05-10 6:56 pm Permalink
thanks harro, yeah were big fans of the A bats. I know em all, ive done some graphic design work for them, and have been to over 20 aquabats shows, haha
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