Inspired by Florida’s famed Mai-Kai restaurant, Bill Sapp and Lee Henry opened the Kahiki Supper Club in 1961. They set out simply to build a nice Polynesian restaurant and ended up establishing the most magnificent one of them all. For nearly forty years, the Kahiki was the undisputed center of tiki culture.

“Kahiki Supper Club – A Polynesian paradise in Columbus” is a 160 page book written and compiled by David Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker, Jeff Chenault and Doub Motz collects stories and images, telling the history of the legendary tiki temple!

Our copies of this book are signed by exotica music expert and Beachcomber Trio LP producer Jeff Chenault. Limited stock!

If you’ve picked up our Beachcomber Trio LP you need this book! Order here

A very limited amount of these posters will be available at the Bali Hai 60th Anniversary party, October 30, 2014 at Bali Hai, Shelter Island, featuring Creepxotica. Tickets for the event are going FAST! Get your tickets here:

For 60 years, the Bali Hai has help set the culinary bar for San Diego restaurants! To celebrate our 60 years of success, we are throwing a party with live entertainment, including performances by Creepxotica, Desi Realtor, Pride of Polynesian, and live painting by Norm Daniels. Join the festivities and rub elbows with long time customers, our favorite Tiki fanatics, friends and family and community dignitaries while you dine on succulent roasted pig, fried rice, poke, and your beverage of choice!

Tickets to Bali Hai’s 60th Anniversary Celebration are $40 per person, which includes one Limited Release Anniversary Tiki Mug, one drink ticket (including our World Famous Mai Tais), and a ton of fun.

What: Bali Hai’s 60th Anniversary Celebration
Where:Bali Hai Restaurant
2230 Shelter Island Drive
San Diego, CA 92106
When: Thursday, October 30, 2014 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Share your Bali Hai Memories! Send your photos and stories to 60th@balihairestaurant.com to be included in their Anniversary slide show!

We’ve just received word that Creepxotica will be headlining the iconic San Diego / Shelter Island’s Bali Hai 60th Anniversary Party! Stay Tuned for more info!

Lots of Dionysus Records action is happening at Tiki Oasis 14: “Beat Tiki”!

Tiki Oasis 14: “Beat Tiki”
Thursday August 14 – Sunday, August 15-17 – San Diego
www.tikioasis.com

Friday, August 15:  Creepxotica will be backing up a brillant Yma Sumac styled vocalist during “The Legend, the Woman, the Music, artfully performed as a lecture with El Vez“ from Noon-  1PM.  The Martini Kings will be playing main stage at 5 PM

Saturday August 16:  Jason Lee of Jason Lee and the R.I.P. Tides will be doing his Surf Guitar Lesson symposium from 1-3 PM and this year a Gretsch Guitar will be given away to a lucky symposium attendee! DJ Lee Joseph will be spinning records poolside from 2:15 to 4:14 PM. The Unclaimed with Lee on bass plays main stage at 7:15PM

Sunday, August 17:, Jason Lee and the R.I.P. Tides play poolside from 3-3:45PM.

The Dionysus Records booth will be set up in the outoor marketplace on both Saturday and Sunday

For a full schedule of ALL Tiki Oasis activity, go to www.tikioasis.com – hope to see you there!

Join me on LuxuriaMusic.com from 3-5 PM PDT today for a special Tiki Oasis 14: “Beat Tiki”  pre-show featuring beat jazz, beat novelties, bands playing the event, a visit from Baby Doe and other surprises!

Among the goodies in the Tiki Oasis 14: “Beat Tiki” gift bag will be a postcard containing a code which will give you access to a free 16 track Dionysus Records sampler titled Dig That Crazy Dionysus Beat! Most of the cards will be distributed at Tiki Oasis though we will be offering a limited amount to Dionysus mail order and eBay customers, until they are gone. The codes will expire on December 31, 2014.

The compilation contains tracks from current releases, not-so-current releases and some upcoming things as well! This is the first Dionysus sampler since the Top Secret Dionysus Sampler which was put together for Tiki Oasis 12.

The tracks celebrate recent Dionysus releases by Jason Lee and the R.I.P. Tides, Turkey’s Replikas who recorded an entire LP of classic Antolian garage and psych, The Satelliters (x2 2014 releases) and The Dukes of Hamburg, long out of print vinyl repressings by The Surf Teens and Avengers VI, upcoming vinyl LP releases by The Voodoo Organist and The Alika Lyman Group, a bonus track which will not appear on an upcoming 78 RPM release by Skip Heller’s Hot Five with Dionysus Records head honcho Lee Joseph on bass, tracks from last year’s vinyl releases by Creepxotica, Orchestra Superstring, and Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited, a track from a second limited blue vinyl pressing of The Beachcomber Trio‘s “Live at Kahiki” Lp and a track from an upcoming compilation of the first two Yard Trauma albums which was also the A side of  a 7″ which was the very first release on Dionysus!

Here is the track listing:

1) Creepxotica: “Bali Hai Bossa” from Haunted Bossa Nova LP/Digital
2) The Voodoo Organist – “Mojave Midnight Moonlight” from Organ Voodoo LP/Digital (Winter 2014)
3) The Alika Lyman Group “Arthur’s Line” from Leis of Jazz Vol. 2 LP (CD/Digital released by Digitki) (Winter 2014)
4) Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited: “The Bossa Nova Squad” from Plays Lost TV Themes LP/CD/Digital
5) Orchestra Superstring: “Easy” from Kalopia LP/Digital and Easy CD/Digital
6) Jason Lee and the R.I.P. Tides: “Rod Swirling” from Jason Lee and the R.I.P. Tides LP/Digital
7) The Avengers VI: “Downtown” from Real Cool Hits LP/CD/Digital
8) The Surf Teens: “Kalini Wipe Out” from Surf Mania LP/CD/Digital
9) Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited “Girl From Acapulco” from The Fluid Soundbox LP/CD/Digital
10) Replikas “Panayir Gunu” from Biz Burada Yok Iken LP only (CD/Digital released by Ada Music, Turkey)
11) The Satelliters “What’s Up With Timothy Dee?” from What’s Up With Timothy Dee? LP/Digital
12) The Dukes of Hamburg “She’s So Fine” from Liverpool Beat LP only
13) The Satelliters “Don’t Take No Maybe” from More of The Satelliters LP/CD/Digital
14) Skip Heller’s Hot Five “Have Love Will Travel” Bonus track from 78 RPM sessions (Winter 2014)
15) Yard Trauma “Some People” from Must’ve Been Something We Took 30 Years Ago! (Spring 2015)
16) The Beachcomber Trio “Beyond the Reef” from Live at Kahiki 1965 LP only

The postcard artwork is actually a few years old, painted by our pal Rober Pokorny – but fit the Tiki Oasis Beat Generation theme perfectly! www.instagram.com/robertpokorny – and thanks goes to our pal Wendy Sherman at www.artslave.com for the postcard layout. We hope you enjoy the compilation and hope you buy some of these fabulous releases!

On 4/16/2014, Jason Lee of Jason Lee and the R.I.P. Tides will be appearing on Over Under Sideways Down, LuxuriaMusic, 3-5 PM PST to talk about surf music, and his band The R.I.P. Tides who have recently released their debut LP on Dionysus Records. Jason will be bringing in his guitar live in-studio to demonstrate what he has in store for his guitar symposium at the upcoming Tiki Oasis 14: “Beat Tiki“. In between banter and guitar lessons, Jason and Lee will spin some of their favorite ’60s guitar instrumentals.

Join Jason Lee and the R.I.P. Tides official fan page on Facebook page here

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On Friday, 3/28, I will be returning to Tonga Hut Palm Springs, 254 North Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92262, to spin a set of vintage and contemporary Exotica, kicking it up-tempo with some swinging ’60s for the final hour.  I start at 7 PM and lay down the sound until Midnight. If you are in the area and haven’t checked out the new restaurant/bar, please do, they did a tikitastic job on the layout and decor. Two thumbs up to the food, drinks, and service!

3rd Annual Winter Surf Fest
Saturday, January 18, 2014, 12 – 7 PM

at The Starting Gate

5052 Katella

Los Alimitos, CA, 90720

www.startinggateoc.com 

$20.00 cover for the entire day!

Facebook invite page

While the weather in Southern California might be getting colder this time of year, it certainly doesn’t affect the spirit of the thriving instrumental Surf Music scene.  For the 3rd year in a row, the organizers responsible for one of the largest Surf Music events of the year, the SurfGuitar 101 Convention, have assembled some of the world’s best contemporary live Surf Music bands for an incredible seven-hour extravaganza of reverb-drenched guitar goodness at the 3rd Annual Winter Surf Fest.

From the San Diego area comes Jason Lee and the R.I.P. Tides, a hard-edged trio that will be promoting the debut of their first full length LP on Dionysus Records.  From Northern California comes the masters of traditional Jewish tunes gone Surf, Meshugga Beach Party, complete with beards, outfits and shtick. In a special reunion performance comes San Diego’s The Sand Devils, who bring their unmistakable brand of dark and ominous Surf. Local San Gabriel Valley favorites The Volcanics will don their trademark sweaters, take the listeners into a 60s time machine and perform many of the newer tunes from the recent release of their second album The Lonely One on Double Crown Records. Out of the ashes of one of the most influential of the 90’sSurf revival bands, The Ghastly Ones, comes Boss Fink, a Hot Rod-themed romp including former members of The Huntington Cads. And, rounding out the bill comes the day’s annual opener, High Tide, an all-star band featuring some of the best veteran players from the scene including members of The Torquays, The Planktones, The Reventlos and Insect Surfers.

In addition to the exceptional talent on stage, the event will feature a shopping area spilling over with specialized vendors selling Surf Music records, CDs, posters, t-shirts, books, magazines, musical instruments and other related accessories and collectibles.

The venue offers a full kitchen and bar throughout the show, so prepare to settle in, relax and enjoy an entire day of some of the very best pounding drums, throbbing bass, and dripping with reverb twangy guitars anywhere!

Congratulations to our fabulous Creepy Creeps on winning the Best Live Band category at the 2013 San Diego Music Awards! Link to NBC News article here

Robert Plant’s favorite band – The Creepy Creeps – photo taken in 2011