the molotov cocktail hour is still on kxlu, 88.9 fm, tuesday nights at 11pm to midnight. it's broadcast on the web, so listen in if you can!

i bought the .com name a couple years ago, but didn't know what to do with it; luckily, stevie karl is setting everything up, so hopefully it will be up and running sometime this year. should be fun, hopefully informative, too.

anyroad, just want to mention some molotov-related passings, of augie colon, "grandfather of hawaiian percussion" and the man behind the bird calls and jungle sounds of martin denny's "quiet village", and tau moe, the "odysseus of the hawaiian steel guitar scene" (who comes up with these? they're awesome!). i knew a little about augie colon from the martin denny connection, and in his own right, from his solo albums, including "sophisticated savage":



i hadn't heard of tau moe before. a samoan raised in hawaii, tau and the moe family performed native island music and dances around the world in the twenties and thirties, meeting and performing for diverse audiences, including many social and political leaders, from mahatma gandhi to adolph hitler. tau and his wife, rose, were responsible for helping many jewish musicians escape germany before the war. they continued to tour and live around the world for 50 more years, until they decided to move back to hawaii in the 1970s.


publicity photo of the moe family from the thirties

we at the molotov mourn their passing.