The Tikis

The Tikis were a browse/Uk beat-style quartet from Santa Cruz, CA, who released a set of above-average singles for Autumn Information in 1965. And got it not really been for the chance decision with the band to improve their name with an experimental documenting in early 1967, they’d be better known today. Tempo guitarist Dick Scoppettone acquired performed folk music along with his senior high school friend Dick Yount as associates of an organization known as the Couriers until early 1964, when the United kingdom Invasion strike America. Selecting themselves beneath the spell from the Beatles, et. al, they became a member of up with drummer Ted Templeman and Ed Adam on lead electric guitar to create the Tikis in the springtime of 1964. The group’s sound was a variety of Merseybeat and even more homegrown music, Beatles music interspersed with browse, and car music by the Seaside Boys among others. They became well-known in the Santa Cruz region and, viewing the achievement of their neighbours the Beau Brummels on Fall Records, started pestering the label with demos. IN-MAY of 1965, the business got interested and agreed upon the group. They debuted using a Beatles-like one called “If I AM Fantasizing,” and implemented it up with “Bye Bye Bye,” neither which charted. There have been four more music left out in the Fall vaults with the group prior to the label was marketed to Warner Bros. in early 1966. The Tikis had been never in a position to get yourself a record over the graphs, or play intensely beyond their own town, however they lucked out when Warner Bros. bought Fall and their documenting contract. This began some events that resulted in the finish of the group under that name, nevertheless. Warner Bros. was a comparatively brand-new label with a minor roster from the rock and roll & roll works, and was wanting to exploit the groupings it inherited from Fall. The group was put into the hands of Lenny Waronker, a staff manufacturer, who discovered a fresh Simon & Garfunkel tune entitled “The 59th Road Bridge Tune (Feelin’ Groovy),” which he made a decision to record using the Tikis. This documenting, more intricate than anything the group got ever attempted (and concerning 18 musicians support Templeman’s and Scoppettone’s performing), was such a departure — and a way to obtain concern, that it could price them their set up viewers in Santa Cruz — how the group insisted on using another name for the single’s musician credit. Because of this, it had been released acknowledged to Harpers Bizarre. The record increased to amount 13, and abruptly the Tikis — whose four-man lineup got extended to five by adding previous Beau Brummels drummer John Peterson, which allowed Templeman to go over to your guitar — were background.