Hawaiianology

Hawaii Ferry  (2007-2009): What is a Ferry?- A high-speed passenger and vehicle ferry-service operating between the islands. Ferries are commonly used for short to medium distances, such as crossing rivers, bays, and islands. Ferries can connect small islands or coastal towns, offering a more affordable and scenic way to travel compared to flying. Some ferry services cover longer distances, even overnight travel, and may include amenities like cabins, food, and entertainment.  Challenges: Being in the Center of the Pacific the unique transportation is incredibly important to the island chain (archipelago). There are 137 islands, but only 4 were discussions for the fairy: Oahu, Kauai, Maui, Molokai, Lanai, and the Big Island. There is about 250 miles as the longest distance from Kauai to the Big Island and the only way to get interisland travel is from either Airline or Boat. There is no Ferry Service (Maritime Transportation) between the four highest populated islan...

[last updated. 2024] What is a place that is open air with Hawaii Wet and Wild (water park), Aiea Bowl (bowling alley), and several dozen eateries on board while bringing part of PearlRidge Mall and a Hotel that floats. These are the modern Cruise Ships that are floating cities and not your grandma's Matson Line Cruises (1950s). Hawaii state officials and the people in charge of decision making at the Department of Transportation in 2022 would reopen business to Mega Cruise Ships. Many cruises begin, stop or end in Hawaiʻi, but hoist flags to avoid taxes and take advantage of how the government caters to cruises for their massive consumption of goods that ironically in Hawaii comes 90% from places not Hawaii sourced due to ”The Jones Act”. To find out about Hawaii cruises there has to be the source of all cruises that leads us all the way back to a man known as Francis Davidson Fraser. Francis Davidson Fraser’s ancestors settled in Colonial-Jamaica where they took ownership of seve...

Phase 7 was the top Disco Band of the 1970’s. The Birth of Phase VII 1975, the group “Breaking Point” had decided to disband, so, while one door closed another would open with thoughts already under way for another group. Van de Guzman and Hemingway Jasmin would go on to form Phase VII. The two would go out and start planning for how they wanted the band to sound, plans on setting out to complete the lineup, and see how they could create the ultimate “dream” band.   Band Room Refuge Clark Silva (12) and Jim Ng (14) would ask the music teacher Roy Shoji Yanagida (1938-2022) if they could hang out in the band room and they were both trumpet players at that time. This was at central intermediate school honolulu (Ke'elikōlani Middle School) where the kids were pretty rough and people were picking fights all the time, so the band room was a sort of refuge.  The Deltones “Direct from Waikiki” 1971-1974, Willy Martin, Clark Silva, and Billy Hallam were part of the group “The Del...

Greenwood is a Hawaii band whose music spans the genres of soul, jazz, rock, latin, funk, pop, disco, and City-pop. They are among the most legendary Hawaii bands of the Hawaii-disco era with a name meaning a forest in foliage, wood, or forest when green. It was the band that took disco and went into rock and then could cover whatever you could imagine. They were a band that would bring the shows to Hawaii’s entertainment venues and took the sound that people were listening to and made it live for the local crowds and drew in the tourists as well. The legacy of their unleashing Hawaii citypop before anywhere else in the United States would be something later on seen as unimaginable, but it happened.  Robin Kimura was born March 8th, 19--, local band, bass player, band-leader, and entertainment coordinator from Honolulu Hawaii. He had grown up townside where Honolulu was relatively rural and the high rises were just starting to come and tourism was changing. Old Hawaii was in full b...

White Light is a funk, disco, rock band that was a stage-group that formed on Oahu in Hawaii and the school of Roosevelt really pumped out a lot of rock bands in the day. All the stuff they were doing was all natural for the enjoyment of the music and growing up on the islands there was this feeling that was mutual about the music and that would have them starting a band back in Highschool.  The group was formed in 1971 where they would play and were part of the Roosevelt Stage Band and Concert Band and were a pretty tight band where they would start having people asking who's that and it was the start of getting recognized by the music they played. All the time they would be playing and that music was funky music and rock with some of those being: Tower of Power, Cold Blood, Blood, Sweat, and Tears, Chicago, and Earth, Wind and Fire. The group played together to explore all sorts of genres to search for their sound and start the gears going for being in that sort of music mood and...

Power Point  Etymology: The name these days gets confused with the Microsoft Program for presentations "Power Point", but it was not a computer application back then. Power Point started with seven members: (1) Jason Nagashima (Vocalist/Keyboard), (2) Bryan Aoyagi (Guitar), (3) Jack, (4) Grant Young (Drummer), (5), (6), (7).  Maiden Voyage, Jason Nagashima and Bryan Aoyagi played pop music and were interested in Jazz as well as some Acoustic as they experimented. At Kailua High School they would play music from the Tower of Power, The Trammps, Commodores and other dance music as they were thinking of forming a group to play gigs and that was when there were discussions to make the band Maiden Voyage. So by the time the two went to University of Hawaii the group would be formed and it was a college band with almost a rotating door for members.