POLKA BAND GOBI (formerly the thik polka band)

PAGO PAGO GO TO PAGO

2011-11-06T15:38:00.000-08:00

Guess where we just were.? This is a hint from our luggage tag. Where we were starts with the letters P and ends with the letter O,
And believe this or believe it, but after our concert many fine peoples said they were going to start a Pago Pago Polka Band.

Yosh

POLKA AND THE WORLD POLKAS WITH YOU AND EVEN YOU TOO!

2011-07-22T18:23:00.000-07:00

When you tour the World with your Polka Band and when you travel to all the hots spots you have tastes for the good lives. We do have this tastes and we taste the good life , yes we do and we highly recommend this tasting. This is our hotel in Suva Fiji and you can see we do know the high life. Yes. We sold out the hotel and now the Polka lives on in Fiji.

As the famous song says. The song that we end all our shows with by that Mr Young man.

"Keep on Polkaing in the Free World."

Yosh and Stan

VIEW FROM A POLKA TRAIN

2011-06-30T19:17:00.000-07:00

We all know what it is like on a Polka World Tour. The endless nights sleeping in your tut tut van, the fans going so wilds , the moment on stage when your accordion goes flat and you miss the low notes ( and high notes and sometimes the mid notes too!) and the endless press questions about your life before you were such a famous polka band. In the middle of this world tour I took a phooto from a train window (the tut tut went went so we tooks a train to our next gigs in Bali) of a fine lady standing by a bench and on this bench was written.....looks, see for yourselves what it says. We have such fine fans everywhere, this, it is so true. It was so amazing as our tour manager, Mr Vindaloo booked a whole car for us and we just wowed the peoples in Indonesia with our polka music. After we finished cleaning the car and putting away all the dishes from the restaurant car we had so much time to play our polka music

Yosh

World Tour Will Start Here

2010-10-26T10:48:00.000-07:00

Look at our Tour Man, (Mr Gobi Man for shorts) in some far away place wowing the crowd(s ) with his Gobi Band T Shirts. As reported in our last post, Mr Gobi Tour Man is scouting out locations for our

World Tour. We are thinking of starting our World Tour here in this country at this location. It is Peru and that is in South America. Notice his Polka Band Gobi t shirt.

Mr Tour man has also let us know that in Peru, the peoples are just so excited about the Polka and he has been playing excerpts for them of our polka music (on his accordion). He has assured us that we can pack this location for our tour with many many tens of hundreds or so of fans.

Peru....get ready to go to Polka Town......

Yosh and Stan

Polka Band Gobi Tour Manager...a Wild Child

2010-09-04T08:10:00.000-07:00

Here is our new Tour Manager we call him "The Tour Man." You see him here practicing his polka at the Taj. He is dancing to that famous polka song by Iggy, called The Wild Child. We are getting ready for the Polka Band Gobi World Polka Tour, and we will be travelling all around the world to bring the polka to the many millions of peoples here. . (We had a world tour at one time but we only played in Western NY State in places like Tonawanda and Lackwona but this World Tour is the Real Deal. For Real!.)

We will be coming to a country near to you in the futures and all because of our new Tour Man. He is a Polka fanatic ! He wil be travelling all around the world , our Tour Manager will be setting up our tour dates in every country there is and soon Mr Tour Man will be in Fiji and Bali as these will be the starting dates for our Polka World Tour. I will keep you up to date on our tour with the Tour Man. We may even play in New Jersey which as you all know is a very famous polka place. This is so exciting...can you imagine playing on the beaches of Suva Fiji at sundown with the tide rolling in and the crowds going wild for the polka. Easy to imagine yes! Mr Sting did a song about the beaches of Bali and you have not heard nothing yes until you hear this song to a polka beat. Get ready...we are coming to a country near to you soon

Meet the Senior vice President

2010-04-15T17:13:00.000-07:00

The senior vice president of the Eastern Section
of the New Delhi chapter of the Polka Band Gobi fan club.
Not to be confused with the Western section of the old city of
Delhi fan club chapter.

I will lets you in on a secret, yes I will, this is Mr Vindaloo's
sister and she is the one who did the special design for our
shirts and I just had to let you know.

Her name is Lydia.

Her name means happiness.

Our nephew sent us this news clippings

2010-03-22T19:05:00.000-07:00

Our nephew from Tonawanda sent to us this news clippings and I wanted you to see it too! This is very exciting for all polka fans everywhere...I can't wait to see all my Polka friends and by the times they get heres we will be playing at the Taj..yes we will.

Agnes Birthday Polka Song

2009-12-18T18:47:00.000-08:00

FROM THE DESK OF POLKA BAND GOBI
( sing lively and to the polka beats)

THE HAPPY BIRTHDAY AGNES POLKA

Roll out the perioges, and we’ll have
perioges of fun.
Dance to the Agnes polka and you’ll have
the glooms on the run
With the Agnes birthday polka
you’ll always be standing in the sun
So dance to this polka and your joys
will never be underdone!!! rah rah

hey!

Yosh , Stan, Kumar and Yayma

Very Famous Actress is Gobi Fan...it is true!

2009-10-13T18:55:00.001-07:00

I think most of you know the area of Greater Noida, just south of Noida which is just south of New Delhi. I mention this as this is this is a photo of a very very famous actress who if you saw her face you would recognize her immediate. We had just finished our gig outside of Noida and this actress came up and had us (all of us in the band) sign her t shirt for her. That is right, it is the Gobi Band t shirt. ! We had to take her photo. And she said her favorite polka song was that Iggy Pop Wild Child song that we are so famous for...so we played it special for her and we polka'd the house downtown. And as a favour for her, we did Dark Side of the Moon....she was in raptures.

Gobi shoulder bag is HOT new fashions

2009-10-02T17:55:00.000-07:00

My cousins Bohunk and Hunkie ( real names Yashi and Frankie) sent me this photo taken at a Polka festival in Lakawanah New Jersey ( or someplace close to that) and could not believe that Polka Band Gobi's fame has passed far and wider than ever before...so I wanted to pass this on to all our polka fans all over the world. The last time I saw shoulder bags for sale of Gobi was at Kumar's place in New Delhi...he must be sending them far and wide due to the high demand.
Get yours now
Yosh

For Hips Peoples..Get yours now .. Gobi shirts

2009-10-02T17:42:00.000-07:00

You may notice as your wander the malls of Delhi and New Delhi the latest fashion wears on the younger generation of Polka fans. Just stop on in to Kumar's place in the Sadar Bazar and let him know Yosh sent you and he will give you a very special deal on our new and "hip" Polka Band Gobi tshirts. Show your love of the polka and of Polka Band Gobi

Get yours now or get them tomorrow,( tomorrow would be okay to get them too.)

Yosh and Stan

The Polka Band Gobi Tuk tuk

2009-08-07T13:03:00.000-07:00

We are going to been having our own Polka Bus! That is right, for our World Tour in India we are having our own Tuk Tuk painted. This is the place where we are having our tuk tuk painted and as soon as it is done I will show you a picture of it. There almost will be enough room for us and the accordions...a bit more to work out on this , so get ready. You are either on the polka bus or off the polka bus.

I think we found ourselves

2009-08-07T12:48:00.001-07:00

I am sure there have been many persons of wonderment asking each others these question,"Where have Polka Band Gobi gone ? Where are Yosh and Stan and Yamya? How do I get on the Polka wagon with them? All sorts of questions. All questions will be answered very soon. We found ourselves somewhere. We went to look for us and we found us. Our good friend Kumar told us to look for the real Polka in ourselves and we did do this, yes we did. And when we did this, we saw the Polka in our heart and it led us to us. I found myself...I am pretty sure I did, I think I did this. .
There is so much new news...a planned World Tour in the Delhi area...and so much more...so stay tuned for the latest

Mr Vindaloo's Mother...Kala Vindaloo!!

2009-05-07T14:01:00.000-07:00

Mr Vindaloo as you know is our Roadie Man..he loves the polka and he does march to the polka beat. This fine lady here is Kala Vindaloo and she is our personal chef and you may remember her as the fine lady who first took us in when we arrived in new Delhi. She is also Mr Vindaloo's mum. She is such a fine cook too. Maybe a bit too much curry on our vegetarian cabbage rolls, but other than that she is a fine chef lady. I am going to get some of her recipes and put them in a cook book and it will be a big seller I am sure everywhere.

Kumar, an oscar in his future?

2009-02-19T12:49:00.000-08:00

Lets celebrate with some Diet Fanta Orange as Kumar has hit the time big and if things go right could go up for an oscar I bet...sometime..maybe. Kumar along with being our manager is now very famous for being in a scene of a movie that is now a big big hit. If you look closer in a scene of a big big movie you may see Kumar. Our manager, Kumar was doing some peeka boo scouting at the Taj for our upcomming Taj polka festival ( in the plan stages) and some movie was doing the film and he may be in one of the scenes at the Taj. This is a big movie about millionaires and if you look closer in one scene you probably saw someone with a diet orange fanta...that was Kumar! ...at the Taj!. Now this photo(on this page) Kumar took and he was in Agra going about his peek a boo business and he took this so I will pass it onto you. These children had heard about Polka Band Gobi so Kumar told them it won't be too long till they see this band at the Taj. As a note added, I don't think Kumar will go to Hollywood for the oscar party as he has some shows to manage here for Polka Band Gobi, but due to all the requests of the many fans on where Kumar is/was...this is the latest on Kumar. Yes, he is getting famous, just like Yosh and Stan.

Nagla Dhimar...hot of the press

2009-02-13T18:37:00.001-08:00

Oopah...I think our roadie man Mr Vindaloo forgot to put the dates down for all of our many polka fanatics and so here we go on where we all will play, first off...Nagla Dhirmar on Thursday... Maithan on Friday and Dayal Baghon on Tuesday. I am sure you can see all of you from our tour dates that we are getting much closer to the Taj and our goal, our wish yes it is, of playing inside the Taj . Is this not also a very good article on Polka Band Gobi and our playing in Nagla Dhimar. This was just the other day ( look at the date on page to see this). Our Mr Vindaloo is a busy man handling all the requests for Polka Band Gobi, I am sure his mother is very very proud of him.

दौरे तिथियाँ ( Tour Dates)

2009-02-13T14:56:00.000-08:00

Mr Vindaloo writing for Yosh and Stan. Thank you it is my pleasure to give you our dates upcommings. Mr Yosh said that a big big fan in New Jersey and a big fan in Florida wanted our tour schedule. Here is our tour dates where ...polka band gobi will polka the house downtown !!!

1 पोल्का बैंड gobi घर शहर पोल्का जाएगा

2 Malthan सोमवार Nagla Dhimar

3 बुधवार दयाल बाग शुक्रवार

Looks forward to seeing you.

Mr Vindaloo

Call me "Mister Vindaloo"

2009-01-23T10:22:00.001-08:00

Yosh here, to bring you up to date

This fine man ( really true and for really) loves the Polka and when he heard us play at the
Baldi festival he came aboard the Polka Train and is now our "roadie manager" . I can see that with Mr Vindaloo we are going to Polkatown!!
So one and all, meet Mister Vindaloo one of our biggest fans ( and we do have so many fans it is true),

Here is the newspaper story

2008-10-24T16:21:00.001-07:00

Newspaper story from Gungsuh Times! on PBG

2008-10-18T13:45:00.000-07:00

Yashi here.
There was a newspaper an article about our playing the polka festival at Baldi . Many fine things were said about PBG ( Polka Band Gobi) . I will get copy of newspaper article for you. It was a raving article and I think many people will read this.

Grand Trunk Road ...To Baldi

2008-10-18T07:02:00.000-07:00

Wow, such good news Polka fans of Polka Band Gobi. We just wrapped up our first ever polka festival in Baldi India. You just take the Grand Trunk Road somewhere to the north of Delhi and put your tuk tuk on the Grand Trunk and peddle away. As they say here, all roads on the Grand Trunk lead to Baldi. We were the headliners for the festival and this is going to be a yearly tradition I am sure. The food was great ( take a look at the delights
brewing). Next year we plan to have more polka acts than us. We realized that we need to have a polka club to teach people to do the polka as not too many in the audience knew how to polka, so that is our next plan.
from Yashi

Club Timings

2008-09-19T10:45:00.000-07:00

I am sure everyone has heard of “Tusker's Bangla Sahib Road” in New Delhi a very famous night club that really has a scene. It is big and many many people come to hear the music. Well…we played at a place just like that, only smaller. We played last night at a place called “ The Timings”. We polkaed the house up and our fan base is really building. I need to let you know that the name we have now for our band is the Polka Band Gobi and we can all thank Kumar for this as he is a very wise man. As I was telling Kumar in a letter his advice reminds me of my uncle Wujek. When I was a very young man and when I was helping my uncle Wujek with the cabbage harvest and when I would sit on his knee, Wujek would say to me, he would say,” Yosh, there are people who march to the beat of the Polka and there are those who march to a different beat of the Polka.” He said something else about that , but that was long ago and I was young and I forget what it was. I guess it means you want someone who “hears” the polka and Kumar sure hears the polka. I hear the polka and so does Kumar.
Yashi

New Poster for Polka Band Gobi

2008-09-17T19:42:00.000-07:00

Yamya is so happy to be on our Polka Band Gobi Poster. This will sure to bring many people to see us an hear our wonderful polka music

One of biggest fans of Polka Band Gobi

2008-09-16T18:26:00.001-07:00

Yamya brought her sister and nephew to one of our concerts. We did a concert in the park for everyone . You can see how happy the nephew was to meet big polka stars like Yosh and Stan

Update from Yashi

2008-09-15T15:35:00.001-07:00

I can tell to you and you would not be surprised I am sure from all the requests for information that have come to me asking for information on what the heck is going on with Polka Band Gobi (formerlyThik Polka). My nephew Lucky, has been forwarding messages to me and he let me know that Cheektowaga and Tonawanda are missing Thik Polka, the band. As you know we are in New Delhi ( this is in India) playing polka gigs all over the place. We met with Yamya a very famous sitar player and she joined the band so now when we do our polka music, the blending of the accordions and sitar is just so…magical ( you could imagine this I am sure).
We are so so lucky, as the phrase goes, for when we settled into India this very famous chef asked us to play in her restaurant and we bring the house down with our polka music and we get to live here too! The weather was oh so hot so our lederhosen went away and we now have full cotton lederhosen and this is so much better. And no more with the cabbage rolls! We now only eat vegetarian cabbage rolls and the chef lady makes them special for us and I think it is a hit with the crowd that follows us too. I will have to tell to you how you do vegetarian cabbage rolls. You get this bread stuff and roll cabbage in it, add some curry and there you go. It has some secret herbs and spices, I think so. Next letter I will let you know how our fan club is building up and the music we are playing. I have heard from a Khuresh Kyryl of Tuva ( a country close to India somewhere, north I think) and he is a throat singer. I have heard him throat sing on the internet and I think, yes I do, that this man will play a key part with Polka Band Gobi and our search for the perfect polka. Maybe he will join us when we play the Taj . That would be very nice, we just need to work out the timings for this.
Yashi , over and out

Kumar interested in being manager

2008-09-09T21:08:00.000-07:00

Kumar, I gave the cook your message

Dear Mr. Yoshi and Mr. Santooh,

You hire and pay me? I make fine manager of thik polka. I work for you only fair salary. Kindly clear me of my doubt. We can conduct meeting soonest convinence and work on details. Convey my greetings to vaitress at restraunt. Ok? Ok? Best,Kumar

She wanted me to personally thank you for the greetings Kumar and wanted me to send to you her photograph.

Yashi

I heard from Kumar

2008-09-08T18:42:00.000-07:00

I heard from Kumar today, he is in Mysore and he has a strong, very strong interest in being the manager for the band. We make so many hundreds ( that is right...hundreds!) of rupees a day
so it will not be a problem to work out arrangement with Kumar. We need to still need to meet with Kumar in Mysore. Wanted to update the fans
Yashi

Playing the Polka in Delhi

2008-09-06T13:40:00.000-07:00

It is going so well today. We have a place to stay and play. You know that place where we first played the polka and had our first meal when we arrived in Delhi...well we live here. This is where the band plays and where we stay and where our poster is shown. And this fine man says he wants to be our manager. This is good

Most newest member of Polka Band Gobi

2008-09-05T14:40:00.000-07:00

From Yosh, now called Yashi used to be called Yosh writing from New Delhi . I need to bring my worldwide fans up to the date of now. You know us as Yosh and Stan as,” Thik Polka” the Polka Band of renown and you have always known us as Yosh and Stan.

We were world known as Thik Polka but now since we are in India with our Polka band of renown we are Yashi and Santosh and even better news for everyone, it does get even better. We now have a new member of the band and a new name. No longer Thik Polka we are now Polka Band Gobi and we now have a new member that makes 3(three) which means we are now a trio. So when we do our Polka playing we have a band member that plays with the sitar. Oh the sounds that blend with a sitar and an accordion….so …mellow… or some word like that. Her name is Yamya and this means “light” and she does light up the stage. Her photo is here. She does like the polka.

The best tea in all of the world

2008-09-05T10:50:00.001-07:00

Yosh again. Our second day in Delhi we came across this tea man and we had the best cup of tea ever. We told him about our polka band and as you can see, he was a very very happy man.

Pretty close to best food in all the world

2008-09-04T19:50:00.000-07:00

Yosh reporting in. Our first day in New Delhi went well. We found accordions in this great bazzar place and had our first meal at this restaurant. We played a polka and got a free meal from these wonderful ladies. And we found the greatest drink, just like Kumar said...this orange diet fanta is the best.