Ron, there was a guy on sg101 awhile back in a band on the Big Island.
If I recall correctly they were called Solar Wind, (I'm assuming very hippy inspired) and I recall reading about 1 or 2 on Oahu, and maybe 1 on Maui, but I can't recall names. Maybe try posting in the (tiki music) area of the forums on www.tikicentral.com
Good luck sir.
how was the ole' Chongolio?

Jeff(bigtikidude)

Jeff(bigtikidude)

Thanks guys.......Randy (Chongolio) said he was discussing this with BTD and he got me wondering too but.......i'm afraid we're marooned by our lonesome! Oh well, there's worse places to be marooned i guess!! As far as we can tell.....there's no surf music scene here in the Islands.....Jeff, remember telling me "good luck starting a surf music scene on sleepy Kauai" well, you were right.....! We're having a hard time getting people to come to our shows.......but the ones that do....love the band. I've contacted surf shops....promotors......the Surfrider Foundation etc. but the music of choice right now is reggae/jawaiian and when there's a surf contest or awards show or whatever they use reggae bands which means we need to work harder and we need a "hit" song on the radio!! So i better get back to work writing that "hit" and stop whinning!!!

The TakeOffs
"Kauai's Only All-Instrumental Surf Band"
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-TakeOffs/312866840587

Maybe try to play some parks or shopping malls, maybe even for free.
If you are playing a gig with one of your other band, put on some surf tunes over the PA while you guys are taking a break.

Jeff(bigtikidude)

Jeff(bigtikidude)

ToneBoy....yeah we're not going anywhere and it would be really cool if we inspired another band...you can hear some of our music at:
http://www.myspace.com/thetakeoffs
Jeff....we do every gig we can....paid or not.....it's not about money for us and we played last Saturday in a small cafe on the Eastside (where we met Chongolio) for FREE....we've played at beach parks for FREE....we just want to play and be heard.....like every other band here. Our bass player,John Hunt, has a sound company and does a lot of events here and ALWAYS plays surf music in between acts. I guess we're gonna play at Shaka Tacos in Kapa'a soon and that's a freebie too but, right on the main hiway in an open air venue so were hoping to get some decent exposure(and maybe a few tacos!!) there. Our problem is.....surf music fans that come here on vacation have a great time at our shows but they're gone in a week or two and we're forgotten, although we have gotten photos from tourists including the one i use for my signature here. I don't know.....have any of you guys done a gig where you thought you were just shredding and when you look around there's maybe 4 or 5 people.....jeez that's so frustrating....and i'm not used to that. I played reggae for 30 some years going back to the early 70's and it was NOT a popular kind of music, untill now, but i'm one of those guys who's not interested in doing what everybody else is doing so i wanted to do something that's not popular and try to make it popular. I've said this before here....my music collection is old school reggae and SURF!! Always has been, always will be, so i'm on a mission to make instrumental music popular here...i did it with reggae and i'll do it with surf...just watch!!
Tenderfoot....thanks for that link.....i'm gonna call those guys right now. I googled that name yesterday when Jeff mentioned it but came up empty so thank you and i'll let you know what comes of it.
Aloha you surf dogs,
R-R

The TakeOffs
"Kauai's Only All-Instrumental Surf Band"
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-TakeOffs/312866840587

Ron, I just checked out your myspace page and listened to some of your music. I must say I was impressed with what I heard. The light lyrical riffs your lead guitarist does are way cool and the supporting cast of instruments really compliment the style.

Best of luck to you guys!! You deserve it!!

Ron (ToneBoy)
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Ron,

surf music fans that come here on vacation have a great time at our shows but they're gone in a week or two and we're forgotten.

We have not forgotten!!! I listen to your CD's all the time. Just so you know.

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Aloha Ron and the Take Offs,
We are alive and well and jammin' on the Big Island!
Solar Wind is the name of the band. Big Tiki Dude called
my attention to your post, it's great to hear about you folks!
We play at the Longboard Contest in Kawaihae and at a Magic Show
in the Aloha Theater in Kona. We are working on some songs for a
Surfing DVD. Now heading in the direction of Original Tunes.
Drop me a line!

Aloha to All,

Kim
Solar Wind
Hawaii Island

PS where did you hear about the Telstars? Do you have a copy of that record? I believe that was the old original group (1964) of John Keawe, a
slack key guitarist here on Hawaii.

"To do, is to be" Aristotle ~ "To be, is to do" Socrates ~ "Doobie, doobie- doo" Sinatra

Actually we've got two (Hawaiian) Telstars 45s' up for auction right now! Continental Mash / Stomp Happy and Toples / Spaghetti Strap. On the original Hawaiian "Teen" label. The auction closes June 25. But if you just want to hear them, PM me and we can work something out. Otherwise we are Golden Gate Records in the Music Merchants Links section. Aloha!

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The Teen label was out of Honolulu. Spagehetti Strap and Topless are credited to George Kimoto. Continental Mash and Stomp Happy are credited To George Kimoto and Herb Abe. That's about all the info on the labels besides stuff that wouldn't be very interesting to anyone but a fairly intense collector. (ie. delta numbers and blah blah blah)

I'm wishing I was in Kauai right about now.

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Pave paradise - put up a parking lot?

Uh oh!!!!