![]() These guys really are looser than us' I'm thinking to myself. You know he's up thereĪnd I'm watchin this and goin 'Oh, we really are stiff. ![]() He was like the Bill Wyman of the Caribbean. And he's great and he's just not movin, he's just kinda like chewin gum or somethin, just kinda like you know ![]() and he was just goin you know like when the lead guitar guy - their only guitar guy - was goinĪnd makin it sound way bad, it's boomin. He was this old guy - old guy? sure! he was almost forty years old! Hell! - and he was in a windbreaker and everthin like that. Kinda like this you know.Īnd it wasn't just him. (see it still works! It was good then and it still works)Īnd the guitar had this great fat sound. And they were playin more stuff like this type of material you know. Bermuda Strollers had big guitars like this and everything like that. So, in other words there were people there as old as me! So, and they were the Bermuda Strollers and they all had sunglasses so you couldn't tell when one guy was lazy and just wanted to lay off that day, would call up someone else, you know and they'd be the Bermuda Strollers that day so they all had sunglasses and you couldn't tell who they wereīut anyway so we were doin like a some. Well I'm gonna have to change it to 'fifty' year old. Back then that was older - 'Hey they're forty year old guys!'. ![]() Back then I never knew that I would someday be forty. Well, the trouble was the people who were really knockin them dead were these forty year old guys. You know this is pretty important, that everyday we're out there You know we had a fair amount of equipment for a group back then and everything and we're just going. You know we were kinda serious and everything. And the audience was goin ’Oh that's very nice’ and stuff. But, like, we had, you know, all kinds of fender stuff, and we were goin like, and we were like playin all kinda like all trip hammers and we were goin Nothing snotty about that song is there? No What it means back then I was in this band, we were playin this kind of stuff there back in about 1973, we were in Bermuda and we had this job at a hotel, called the hotel Inverurie. Jonathan when you say how stiff you were what exactly are you talkin about? Put a tiny umbrella in your drink and read on to find out “where you want to go to get away from it all.Bermuda is about 600 miles east of South Carolina that's why I say its so far That’s where you want to go to get away from it all Off the Florida Keys, there’s a place called Kokomo Why wouldn’t Uncle Jesse be the one who comes in on the steel drums that take you to a tropical paradise at the beginning of Kokomo? Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that is John Stamos on drums. However, something more amazing was uncovered in this video. We included this video of “Kokomo” because it shows the Beach Boys at their beachiest-harmonizing in concert, beautiful location shots (it was filmed at the then-brand-new Grand Floridian Disney World Resort in Florida) and clips of Tom Cruise flipping bottles at the tropical bar from Cocktail. But don’t worry! We found all the actual Caribbean getaways featured in the song and rounded them up in a quick list. It seems that Kokomo is more a state of mind than a real place. There is a Kokomo, Indiana and there’s also a Kokomo “island” in Florida, but it is a tiki bar named for the song, so it came after. As far as we can tell, there were no actual islands-off the Florida Keys or elsewhere-in 1988 that were named Kokomo. Now, it’s hard to determine the inspiration for the name of the song. Though it may sound like a song from the Beach Boys’ heyday of the 1960’s, “Kokomo” was actually written for the 1988 Tom Cruise movie, Cocktail.
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