Rembrandt's Girl wrote:Hey Conch/all, anyone ever heard of the Tikiyaki Orchestra? I have a couple of their CDs & they're really fun. Here's one that I have, "Aloha Baby"...it even came with a little cocktail umbrella in the spine of the jewel case. Great tiki party music! https://www.amazon.com/Aloha-Baby-Tikiy ... s=tikiyaki
By the way, has anyone been to the Mai-Kai in Florida http://maikai.com/? If so, what did you think? I've never been so just curious.
A Tikiyaki Orchestra tune, Dan-O's Day Off is today's featured "Tune in a Flemingo Key" on Flemingo Key's FB page.
Rembrandt's Girl wrote:Hey Conch/all, anyone ever heard of the Tikiyaki Orchestra? I have a couple of their CDs & they're really fun. Here's one that I have, "Aloha Baby"...it even came with a little cocktail umbrella in the spine of the jewel case. Great tiki party music! https://www.amazon.com/Aloha-Baby-Tikiy ... s=tikiyaki.
A Tikiyaki Orchestra tune, Dan-O's Day Off is today's featured "Tune in a Flemingo Key" on Flemingo Key's FB page.
Thank you!
Hi Conch,
I'm the first to admit I'm not very facebook-savy, but I've tried to find your "Tune in a Flemingo Key" on your FB page a few times now and I'm lost. Can you provide a link please, if you're comfortable. Great pics though...you definitely know how to have a good time!
Rembrandt's Girl wrote:Hey Conch/all, anyone ever heard of the Tikiyaki Orchestra? I have a couple of their CDs & they're really fun. Here's one that I have, "Aloha Baby"...it even came with a little cocktail umbrella in the spine of the jewel case. Great tiki party music! https://www.amazon.com/Aloha-Baby-Tikiy ... s=tikiyaki.
A Tikiyaki Orchestra tune, Dan-O's Day Off is today's featured "Tune in a Flemingo Key" on Flemingo Key's FB page.
Thank you!
Hi Conch,
I'm the first to admit I'm not very facebook-savy, but I've tried to find your "Tune in a Flemingo Key" on your FB page a few times now and I'm lost. Can you provide a link please, if you're comfortable. Great pics though...you definitely know how to have a good time!
Ah-ha, got it now Conch, thanks! I see I was on your personal fb page Anyway, very cool, Conch! I see you had a Jimmy Buffett song posted (of course!)...I just bought his new Christmas CD and I love it! https://blog.margaritaville.com/2016/09 ... mas-album/ It's $11 & change on amazon.
Glad you found it! I hope you enjoy the Tunes. Remember to like the page so you can keep up with ramblings, songs and other Flemingo Key activities! We're trying to push the season this year with the addition of a heater, we'll see how well it works.
Last Mango in Paris is an all-time fave song of mine, Captain Tony has a story that sounds like fiction (I wonder how much he embellished, or knowing the times, he slyly left out) and was instrumental in Jimmy playing his own songs at his saloon, instead of the usual covers.
I love the idea "there's still so much to be done" and try to keep that mindset.
I haven't picked up Jimmy's Christmas CD yet, how is it? I have ghis first one from a few years ago and it was just OK.
I really like the CD, but I'm a Christmas nut. I saw you have Jake Shimabukuro in your playlist...he has a duet with Jimmy on the CD, Mele Kalikimaka of course! I don't have his other Xmas CD so I can't compare but from what I've read this one is so much better. The last Jimmy CD I bought was Live in Anguilla which has the DVD as well. I just love the old stuff so much more than his newer songs. I was a Parrothead back in the 80's and have been to more of his concerts than brain cells I've killed while at them. See...that sentence was proof!
Have you/any others read any of his books? I've got Tales from Margaritaville, Joe Merchant, and Jolly Mon (for the kids, of course ). I'm thinking about reading A Pirate Looks at Fifty but haven't gotten there yet. His books aren't exactly deep literature but that's the idea!
Rembrandt's Girl wrote:I really like the CD, but I'm a Christmas nut. I saw you have Jake Shimabukuro in your playlist...he has a duet with Jimmy on the CD, Mele Kalikimaka of course! I don't have his other Xmas CD so I can't compare but from what I've read this one is so much better. The last Jimmy CD I bought was Live in Anguilla which has the DVD as well. I just love the old stuff so much more than his newer songs. I was a Parrothead back in the 80's and have been to more of his concerts than brain cells I've killed while at them. See...that sentence was proof!
Relatively new Parrothead, since the early 2000s, but jumped in with both feet. (Had the Yellow album for years prior but was stuck too deep in a metal daze to fully appreciate Bubba) Now I have every record, the box set, all the books plus many other on the Keys and officially fallen in love with the Conch Republic.
Rembrandt's Girl wrote:Have you/any others read any of his books? I've got Tales from Margaritaville, Joe Merchant, and Jolly Mon (for the kids, of course ). I'm thinking about reading A Pirate Looks at Fifty but haven't gotten there yet. His books aren't exactly deep literature but that's the idea!
Read them all, Pirate Looks at Fifty is worth the read. I'd also try Tom Corcoran's books. He's a friend of Jimmy's, served him his first beer in Key West and later his photographer and co-wrote a couple of tunes. His tales also are not high lit, but a fun mental vacation to Key West. The Mango Opera is the place to start.
Rembrandt's Girl wrote:p.s. - just "liked" your fb page, Conch!
Rembrandt's Girl wrote:I really like the CD, but I'm a Christmas nut. I saw you have Jake Shimabukuro in your playlist...he has a duet with Jimmy on the CD, Mele Kalikimaka of course! I don't have his other Xmas CD so I can't compare but from what I've read this one is so much better. The last Jimmy CD I bought was Live in Anguilla which has the DVD as well. I just love the old stuff so much more than his newer songs. I was a Parrothead back in the 80's and have been to more of his concerts than brain cells I've killed while at them. See...that sentence was proof!
Relatively new Parrothead, since the early 2000s, but jumped in with both feet. (Had the Yellow album for years prior but was stuck too deep in a metal daze to fully appreciate Bubba) Now I have every record, the box set, all the books plus many other on the Keys and officially fallen in love with the Conch Republic.
Rembrandt's Girl wrote:Have you/any others read any of his books? I've got Tales from Margaritaville, Joe Merchant, and Jolly Mon (for the kids, of course ). I'm thinking about reading A Pirate Looks at Fifty but haven't gotten there yet. His books aren't exactly deep literature but that's the idea!
Read them all, Pirate Looks at Fifty is worth the read. I'd also try Tom Corcoran's books. He's a friend of Jimmy's, served him his first beer in Key West and later his photographer and co-wrote a couple of tunes. His tales also are not high lit, but a fun mental vacation to Key West. The Mango Opera is the place to start.
Rembrandt's Girl wrote:p.s. - just "liked" your fb page, Conch!
I saw.
Cool, you are a die-hard Parrothead! Thanks for the recommendations on A Pirate Looks at Fifty and Tom Corcoran's book(s)...now that we're headed into the cooler months things like this keep me going until spring. I just may have to invest in a heater like yours!
Re: facebook...don't get too excited about my last name, "Selleck"...no relation.
We had a few nice shindig's this summer . . . we kicked things off with our mostly annual Memorial Day party, then a client event, my massive 50th birthday Pete-a-Palooza and a few smaller things here and there. This weekend is a Sunday Labor Day family gathering and there's an expected business event for my wife's company in September.
We'll also start movie nights with the outdoor screen and projector in the fall before closing up thanksgiving weekend.
Here are some pix from the Pete-a-palooza festivities, mostly CitiField, but some Flemingo Key in there.
ConchRepublican wrote:We had a few nice shindig's this summer . . . we kicked things off with our mostly annual Memorial Day party, then a client event, my massive 50th birthday Pete-a-Palooza and a few smaller things here and there. This weekend is a Sunday Labor Day family gathering and there's an expected business event for my wife's company in September.
We'll also start movie nights with the outdoor screen and projector in the fall before closing up thanksgiving weekend.
Here are some pix from the Pete-a-palooza festivities, mostly CitiField, but some Flemingo Key in there.
Wow, what a great group of friends and family you have!
Pete-a-Palooza ruled......Those Citi Perks seats you were in at CitiField look amazing and to have a home run ball land by you must have been exciting (makes up for having to go see the Mets instead of another National League team in blue that just happens to be in first place in our division)......
Can you provide a link please, if you're comfortable. Great pics though...you definitely know how to have a good time!
Anyway, very cool, Conch! I see you had a Jimmy Buffett song posted (of course!)...I just bought his new Christmas CD and I love it! 
). I'm thinking about reading A Pirate Looks at Fifty but haven't gotten there yet. His books aren't exactly deep literature but that's the idea!
