It's the Rock Scene of Hawaii!

The lowdown. As much of it as we can unearth.
Quickly posted as da stuff happens.
Come see and be seen with the seedy and the obscene at Hawaii's Rock Scene!
Newest junk at the top. scroll down to see later posts...

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Comin soon to Hawai'i and at the Pipeline Cafe Hard Rock Palace - Back In Black! the best AC/DC tribute band aroud! Check em out here... A vid I shot when they last visited us March '08.
They hit the stage Oct. 17 2009. Don't miss it!

Well, all I can say about last nite's Rock Solid Friday is tell all yer friends who didn't come what a great show they missed cuz I lost my ass on that one! Nah. Joke. It was a fabulous show. Ya know all those youtube vids of the Strangers? well, like in a place like Pipeline, they seemed to be oh about 800% better than that! They really rocked! Then Big Dawg took the stage. lemme tellya the two guitar combo, man it was a thing of beauty. BD did led zepp. AC/DC. Humble Pie. every song was choice, every song an avalanche of rock pouring off the stage crashing into the ocean. Tom Hinson's shreddin on his archtop Gold Les Paul Gibson was amazing. And his slide guitar, heavenly! Perfect compliment to Ted Among's fab playing! And Woody providing the powerful Bonzo like drum beat and Unco Joe Galisa's amazing basslines fronted by our own wailing banshee Marriott/Plant/Tyleresque Brett Wolfington! Michelle Shockley kept us all enrapt with her fab hostessing... Also BariBari 13 gave us some fun, wild fast rockabilly in their own inimitable style!
Oh. and Kimo's Psychedelic Light Show projected all around da house was a hit with all concerned. Thengyuh. Thengewvurrymush!
Great job guys! You kept the house rockin' and got everyone dancin! Those who made it, had an incredible time. Those who didn't. well there is two weeks from now. See new posters below...







"Loaded Dice"

The Strangers are found here...
here...
and here
and also here...
and here too.
and also here, again.



BariBari 13
Rockin here.
here...
and also here...


Friends Of Adam
here...
here...
and then agin, here too.


OK, Gang! Rock Solid Fridays.
here's the poster:



Here's the previous one (and the even earlier one for April, below that) but since i don't wanna push a punk rock event, and i wanna stress other things more than oversize fonts, and i don't want people sayin; "ok. been there, done that. That's an old event!" ...being the rebel i am, whipped up the completely different looking, overly psychedelic one above, to supplement the dark forboding ones below......






This is a twice monthly tradition that Pipeline Cafe Hawaii is giving us local rockers one and all.... with the help of a few various and sundry dinosaurs of the rock industry, big and small... and we have had a few events already; they are growing in popularity. But still, we wanna see more people support live, local late breaking.. sorry. Wrong channel. Support Live Local Rock Musicians. In fact anything live! If it's dead, we eat it or bury it. If it's live, we throw it up on stage, yell at it till it hops around and soon it sees money being tossed. Good show. I'll buy that for a dollar.

OK. this next one, we get BariBari 13. Japanese Influence Motorcycle Rock/ Rockabilly music! these guys are a gas, gas, gasss! A real hoot and fun ta watch!

On the same bill, we get The Strangers. Local veterans of the live rock circuit. Good stuff. And two guitars! yer ol Cuzin Kimo luvs that combo.

The Stranger's set will include many fab sounding originals and a few covers including Springsteen and The Who...

"Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday"
that's what we're all about, eh?!

trivia: Springsteen's ostensive moniker; "The Boss" is something he actually disdains. don't like it much at all. And it certainly ain't sumpin he or his camp initiated... He previously had a nickname: The Doctor.
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen will be celebrating his birthday soon - September 23
all true.
thank you.

Big Dawg rounds out the night and that can't make us happier. (Well, unless ya gave us a lapdance at the same time) But yea. Brett and da boys will laden us with (is that a word?) Led Zeppelin, and AC/ DC. for only seven bucks , jay zeuz, why da hell not!?

But wait, there's MORE!

You will also be endazzled, enrapt and enchanted (and yea, why not; enormously enertained) by the inclusion of "Kimo's Psychedelic Light Show" which will be beamed up on all those big screens all around the joint! Yes dear friends and enemas, while your mind, heart and soul is snared by the sweet soundz of the psychedelic and classic rock of da 60's and 70's... your ocular orbs will receive a heavy dose of eye candy enuff to give ya diabetes of the retina!

so. be there. or be square root of all evil.


ok. Some have axed us. wot da hell happened to the previous lineup?! Lucky 13, (fabulous up and coming hard rock band with a polished sound...) disappeared from the playbill. Word on da street has it a certain member has creative differences and may wanna go in another direction, to the possible alledged chagrin of most all the other members. (Let's just say one in particular had the inclination to dance to the beat of a different drummer...) Ok. here's hopin' everything heals wikiwiki like. and we get on with the show. Cuz bruddah, if ya caught them live, ya want more.

OK! Soon! ( and that means about a month or less?) We have the Journey Tribute band! Check out some advance info about it via the Military package deal flyer I just whipped up for Brett...



Rumour Mill: Word on da streeet has it that Dread Zeppelin may be headed here. Also Blue Cheer! And maybe NashVille Pussy.

For all you who love good ol rock hits in general listen to KPOI on yer auto radio at 105.9 or when yer home, lissen to it on yer compuker; clik dis:
KPOI In the afternoons up to early evening, the KPOI hostess wit da mostestest, the very personable, the sweetest Ayatolla-ette, of Rock'n'rolla yet, Michelle Shockley.

Ska Beat:

BLACK SQUARE - Local favorite... genre, Rock-Ska-Reggae, of course. Featuring members: Josh86, Little Brian Kim, TR, G-Bone, Babyface I put a couple of their sets on Youtube. Search Black Square Hawaii.

Josh86 has finished his first solo record entitled Pressure.Come to the CD release party Oct. 9th at Anna Bananas!

Written on Sept. 3, 09.... BlackSquare may do aquick California tour first week in November. They havea bunch of shows this month. Their regular 1st Saturdays (Boarddriders, Kailua (Hamakua St) THISSAT) and 3rd Saturdays (Indigo) along with their return to Kemoo Farms (this Sun) the Mililani Shack (Sept 11th) their second show at Hawaiian Brians (Friday Sept 25th) and their second Ala Moana Center Stage show Saturday Sept 26th at 2pm. But most likely the craziest show they have this month is a pau hana set at Rumfire, Waikiki Sheraton. Josh straight out told them they were crazy to book BlackSquare, but they wanted to anyway. The last time they played Waikiki they almost got the manager of the venue fired. Come down Sept 17th for a who da hell knows what may happen kinda show!

Remember that hard rockin band a while ago? MVA was their name. Stood for Motor Vehicle Accident. Many of the members were Star Bulletin staffers. (MVA is code for a particular news assignment) Anyway it featured among others, Dick walker and Jam Aquino, SB photogs. Later they had a Love Child. No, really! Their next band was called LoveChile OK! So, Mister walker is moving to seattle and jam is rockin on with another Power Threesome group: JJ Walker Trio... (No website yet) They play this Sat at Red Lion University from 10pm. Also play every third thursday at Bar 35 in Chinatown. Lovechile is on indefinite hiatus right now with the departure of Richard Walker and Pimpbot's tour.

OK, gangey! taaanx for tuning in... More later!