1. My Favorite Martian
2. Deadman’s
3. Swingin’ Hula Girl/Women In Chains
4. Our Man Flint
5. Human Jungle
6. Highlife
7. Banzai Pipeline
8. Beat Girl
9. Dick Tracy
10. Hot Rods To Honolulu
11. Experiment In Terror
Total time: 1:18:08
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Live at the Lava Lounge 2
The Blue Hawaiians
Pascal
Are the Blue Hawaiians shaping up to be the Grateful Dead of modern surf music? 1995’s “Christmas on Big Island” aside, two live releases make up half the band’s output. And like the Dead, many of their songs run long with stretch-out jams.
“My Favorite Martian” (not the ’60s sitcom theme, but a mistitled cover of Bobby Fuller and the Fanatics’ “Our Favorite Martian”) breaks it down halfway through to leave just bass, drums and special-effects Hawaiian steel, sounding strangely similar to Pink Floyd’s “One of These Days.”
“Deadman’s” kicks off with a bass riff not quite out of the Byrds’ “Eight Miles High.” The steel has a mostly rhythm role, but occasionally slips into the spotlight for a double-lead turn.
Besides employing the Hawaiian steel, which kicks into higher gear beginning with “Swingin’ Hula Girl/Women in Chains,” the Blue Hawaiians like to bare their soul with the Hammond B3 organ. Their augmentation of the standard surf-music lineup with the addition of these two instruments makes for a unique and often intense sound.
The core of the setlist, culled from two nights in Hollywood last February, is formed by five TV and movie themes: Jerry Goldsmith’s “Our Man Flint,” Bernard Ebbinghouse’s “Human Jungle,” the Ventures’ “Dick Tracy,” and Henry Mancini’s “Banzai Pipeline” and “Experiment in Terror.”
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