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Russell Letson
`Olu`olu
USA
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 Posted - 03/28/2006 : 12:20:30 PM
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Another query, this time one that middle-aged, Islands-dwelling Taropatchers will probably have direct memories about. According to the Cazimeros' interview in Da Kine Sound, when Peter Moon dissolved Sunday Manoa in 1974, he played for a while with another band, Mauna Loa. I recall reading somewhere that Cyril also played with this outfit, but I can't find any recordings, nor can I find any references to it on-line or in any of the print sources I've searched. Anybody know about the band, its personnel, its history, and so on? Is Peter Medeiros listening? (I'll ask Cyril or Bla next time I get in touch, but synchronizing with them can take a while.)
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Peter Medeiros
`Olu`olu
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Posted - 03/28/2006 : 4:00:32 PM
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Hi Russell,
Honestly, now in my middle aged years, I do not remember if there was a band called Maunaloa that Peter would have sat in with (there may have been one my mind is blank on this one), but two other bands come to mind with whom he would play. The first is Iron Mango which was a pickup band of whoever was available at the time -- Randy Lorenzo, Blah and maybe Cyril. The second was a group called the Sandwich Island Band that Peter helped manage. I believe Cyril was in that band, along with Al Ka`ai, Kimo Hussey and Iaukea Bright. And then again he was down at Gabby's house every other weekend playing with the gang -- this had been going on for years.
FYI, the very last gig and breakup of the Sunday Manoa occurred on New Year's Eve December 31st 1975, I was there for that one. After almost a six year run with Roland and Robert the times had changed. The most successful reincarnation of the Sunday Manoa had ended badly which is nothing new for any band. At this point in time Peter had difficulty getting a job, so he reinvented himself and started a record distributorship. This lasted about three or four years before he started playing music consistently again in a group performing under his name "The Peter Moon Band."
For some reason he continued to mentor me through the years and he told me consistently not to go into the business because it was just so hard. I know that many others had a difficult time dealing with him, but he helped me learn the business and how it operates in Hawaii and I have always appreciated that. |
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Russell Letson
`Olu`olu
USA
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Posted - 03/28/2006 : 4:45:55 PM
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Thanks for the background, Peter. I have the Sandwich Isle Band LP, which I really like (and don't understand why it's never been reissued). I only know the "Iron Mango" name as the title of one of the PMB albums, so it's nice to have that bit of data about the pickup band.
The Da Kine Sound interview (published in 1978) was done not too long after the events, and that, together with the Cyril-connected memory (gotta go through my notes more thoroughly), makes me think that there must have been a band called Mauna Loa. From the way it's mentioned in the interview, it seems to have already been operational when Peter started playing in it--Roland says, "As soon as we split, what was to be our gig in the outer islands, [Moon] hooked up with Mauna Loa. He's still with them now. [paragraph break] He took them to all the gigs we would have done" (p. 117).
Ah, the joys of oral history. . . .
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rossasaurus
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 04/05/2006 : 9:17:57 PM
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Hi Russell,
Track down Alan here on TP; bobby3dog(s)?.
He and Peter were surfing buddies, and he may know Peters history in the periods you're lacking.
good luck
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Russell Letson
`Olu`olu
USA
504 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2006 : 11:45:36 AM
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| Thanks for the lead--I'll put it on the to-do list (which currently has as #1 "prepare tax documents for accountant"--whoopee!). |
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Reid
Ha`aha`a
Andorra
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Posted - 04/06/2006 : 2:41:05 PM
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Russell,
Oh my, get on the right side of things and don't make any money, like Sarah and me. Then, you certainly won't need an accountant and your return will be simple.
As a matter of fact, why would you trust an accountant? After dealing on a corporate level with Anderson (former), Cooper, KPMG, etc., etc., I know for certain that they only have newbies straight out of boot camp that work individuals (and 99% of corporate accounts). And, indies just hire moonlighting HS teachers to do the scut work.
I *never*, even now, trust anyone but myself to take care of my money.
I sincerely hope you pay nothing.
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Russell Letson
`Olu`olu
USA
504 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2006 : 3:36:16 PM
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My accountant runs a small shop that specializes in small businesses and the self-employed. He does what I can't--decode the tax regs and figure how they apply to us--and then does what I used to do myself: put the numbers I provide into a tax-prep program. I make small money even by freelance-writer standards, but we now have just enough complexity in our fiscal lives (IRAs, an investment account, equipment that is still being amortized, and so on) that the rules are a series of traps. I still remember the moment a decade or so ago when I said to myself, "I can read three living and two dead languages and I still can't translate the IRS instruction pamphlets into English--it's time to hire a pro." He's competent and relatively cheap and has only missed a lick once, so we remain ahead of the game.
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RJS
Ha`aha`a
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Posted - 04/06/2006 : 5:07:00 PM
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Which dead languages?
I majored in Greek and Latin |
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Pua Kai
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 04/06/2006 : 6:51:41 PM
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Aloha Reid -
Funny you should mention all those firms... About 10 years or so ago when all my young friends were getting into the work force (my son is 35 - yikes), you'd ask them what they did for a living, and virtually all of them said they were consultants. I had always thought that to be a consultant, you perhaps had expertise - like you'd had a full career and after retiring, occasionally provided help to the folks by consulting. So that's what happened. They started calling those wet-behind-the-ear kids consultants. And they all worked at those firms you mentioned.
And of course, parental pride kicks in here - my kid is a rocket scientist... except that now he's a systems engineer - slipping into that gray world where no one can really pin down what you do...
Tee hee, it's awfully nice to be old and retired.
And by the way, I hope your hands and fingers are letting you play music these days. I guess your back is determined to be stubborn... Lucky you have such a fine resident musician.
There - sorry Russel... didn't think you'd mind a bit of a hijack there while you're not paying attention to anything but taxes... guess I'd better get started, huh?
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Russell Letson
`Olu`olu
USA
504 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2006 : 8:01:51 PM
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Which dead languages? At the time it was Latin and Old English (my Greek has always been even lesser than Shakespeare's). Right now I'm lucky to make myself understood in broken Minnesotan.
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Bwop
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 04/07/2006 : 3:54:30 PM
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| eh? ya tink so...mo' bettcha. (Canuck, Minnesotan, Pidgin, ??). |
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