Setting the Bar...

Hello Friends!

Tiki Tuscadero chiming in here with a few tips on home bar decor.

While the central focus of "Vinyl in the Valley" is the record at hand, your living room lounge should be nothing to sneeze at. The most industrious scrapper can make a living room bar out of some stuff from Goodwill and Job Lots...so strap on your "Can Do" Pants, bucko!

Should Ned and I ever have the opportunity to get this record show on cable access, I feel you would better understand what we're trying to achieve with the red light bulbs and stolen Chinese restaurant napkins. But for now, I suppose I can only try to best use the written word...

1. I like colored light bulbs in the lamps at the bar. We favor red ones, actually. What better color to set a sultry tone for tiki records? Or a spacey tone for prog rock records? Or a glowing backdrop for your triumphant fist pumps and leg kicks at 2 am?
2. Frame your cooler album covers for the walls around the bar. Why didn't you think of that, dummy?
3. As mentioned before, lots of Chinese restaurants have kitschy paper napkins that are yours for the taking. Set up little piles of cheerfully designed ones for your delighted guests (or no guests, as is often the case for us!)

See you next week. Until then, happy vinyl!

XO,

Tiki T.