POLKA BAND GOBI

Thik Polka…the band ( now known as Polka Band Gobi)

When you hear the words THIK POLKA your immediately think of one of the biggest Polka Bands in the U.S. and standing with a group of your best friends in some concert hall or outdoor stadium or at a friends wedding in a small hall and yelling, “We want TP, we want TP” . You think of Yosh doing his accordion solo for Dark Side of the Moon. You think of cabbage rolls and Lederhosen and of you watching your mum making you a special batch of pierogies...with cheese and potatoes. Every time we think of Thik Polka we think of all those times, each and every one of us.

This site has not been long in the making and is a tribute to the world’s best Polka Band…”Thik Polka” ( or TP for short) a band that I and so many have followed and loved and treasured for many dozens of years. When you look back on the history and fame of Thik Polka, the band, what imediately comes to mind to so many people is a band that ;

1) Made Lederhosen popular to people in all walks of life.
2) That the phrase “ where’s the TP” has a whole new meaning to music lovers everywhere.

Thik Polka’s history is known to many and does not bear repeating other than to state that when everyone thought the story ended…it just began. While on the final dates of their Upper Western New York State World tour, Thik Polka left their accordions in their hotel room and left a note for their nephew, explaining their absence. In this note, it was explained that they were tired of all the fame of all the glory and were off to India to search and to discover the “Perfect Polka”, to find the source of the Polka and then to play the perfect polka at the Taj Mahal. Through these pages I hope to bring to life, the journey of Thik Polka (now known in India as Polka Band Gobi)and their search. Prior to leaving for India, TP developed a strong bond with a Mr. Kumar of Mysore India and Kumar I am sure will be an invaluable resource for Polka Band Gobi
p.s."Gobi" means cabbage in Hindi


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Thursday, June 30, 2011

VIEW FROM A POLKA TRAIN

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
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3 comments:

Timor said...

i can't even remember the times when you were not world famous Yosh. It's like a whole other lifetime. it's just that you are so so so freakishly famous Yosh :-)

July 1, 2011 at 11:41 AM
Yosh said...

Ah Timor...so goods to hear from you again. I have the fondest memories of you coming on stage when we last played in Dili and you joined us on stage when we did the Grateful Dead tribute. You really got into the accordion solo of Stan as I remember and that is all I am gonna say about your dance on stage that night. You wowed the crowds, that is for sure it is.
Yosh

July 2, 2011 at 4:57 PM
Timor said...

Those were the days Yosh. Long live lederhosen.

July 2, 2011 at 8:13 PM

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