The Tyde

Listening to The Tyde at Cafe du Nord actually helped make sense of my father. Yoshi had mentioned to me that my dad's singing voice sounded a little like the lead singer's, but I didn't get a full sense of it until last night at the show.

There was something so extremely Southern California about their songs, their styles....everything. I think they were Huntington Beach kids once... not sure tho. They were definitely surfers.

And my own father? Well, in the 70's he was a surfer. Turned hippie/musician. His musican stylings are very similar to The Tyde's. There is something hippie (in an indie kid way-- if that makes sense) about this band too... it was like I was looking at my own father in 1973, playing to a bunch of pothead surfers in San Diego or Carmel or Monterey. A world that I never knew, but a feeling I grew up with.