[Music] [Music] take me to the islands of paradise and play won't you please arrange it so I don't have to work today going to get away from pollution going to watch pal sway take me to the island so I can say across a b [Music] take me to the islands the trade when sing a song feel the warmth of the sun walk for beaches all day relax under a Shady Tree SI on something cool then take me to the islands cuz I'm [Music] a love [Music] and start CH above us all is ready let's sail to the Moon loosen [Music] theing to the Moon smooth [Music] saing take me to the island that's where I want to be Wai the waves and feel them rolling from the sea coconuts and mang watch roll as the Sun is setting the night just begins oh take me to the islands the TR sing a song feel the warmth of the sun walk the beaches all day long relax under Shady Tree sip on something C then take me to the islands cuz I'm a leure [Music] loing start above us all is ready let's sail to the Moon loosen the sail now take let's visit [Music] the to the Moon smooth sailing take me to the islands of paradise and play won't you please arrange it so I don't have to work today going to get away from pollution going to watch Tre sway take me to the island so I can sail across a [Music]   if 200 years from now a capsule was opened I think I would like for whoever is there to say this is a part of a living culture that lives till today that would be an amazing amazing feat Aloha we're called The Brothers casmo my brother Roland on guitar my name is Robert and uh you know we've been doing this for quite a long time and actually we're very very pleased and honored to have the opportunity now to be here and to perform this evening's songs and dances for [Music] you for [Music] [Music] [Music]   me n for [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Applause] hey power [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay for [Music] [Music] there were 12 of us all together but we weren't all living in the house at the same time uh because we it was such a wide Span in ages when you're raised in a A Home of uh music where everybody sings or dances uh you're not so much aware of what's going on outside so you you know you can be Bamboozled into believing that everybody's doing the same thing you are yeah yeah plus you know you don't realize until after you get out of school that well I did miss all my proms or going to this I never did go to the football games or this because I was always playing on the weekends and Roland was playing music professionally with our parents before I started like by at least eight years so um you know I had a little bit of a a life outside of the house sort of you know but but basically we were ingrained with that music the musicality of Our Lives was um pretty prevalent yeah and we have made many turns in retrospection and uh we've been able to find our gratitude in that and you know when we think about it now or when I think about it now it was a really special time you know and we were privy to some pretty incredible moments and learning um experiences so uh yeah nothing was as much as we thought it was really not so much fun and really kind of junk in the end it uh it was all worthwhile because you know look look at where we are today so some things were really unreal you know like meeting at Genoa at that time you know when we met them it like oh hello hello but now when I think about those times like wow and then how close we got to her you know and when she would see us playing a gig and she we maybe she was like the headliner or we were honoring her and she would just you know hug us and and it was it felt good it felt really special to know her you know when we were growing up in khi uh Hawaii Music was everywhere because our par parents basically played Hawaiian music but they played all kinds of music so you know we had those Hawaiian music albums that uh I can tell you blatantly we didn't like him at all we didn't like anti Jano we didn't like Mahi Beamer and all those people and because we just we were rock and roll kids you know and then eventually we had the chance to meet them but for me and when I think about Roland and I and how lucky we were it was because of who we were because of our parents all these people knew our mom and dad and so we were accepted and we were loved because of that and with that acceptance came um support and and love which made it uh so much easier for us in so many different ways you know to uh in a time when we were accused and rightly so of B bopping the Hawaiian music if you had someone like Auntie Vicki e rodrig or or all the rodrig family standing behind you beam or the be you know um then you could do almost anything you know and no one would they could say all that they wanted but you have this sanctioned area under an umbrella called respect and love and uh so it's it's quite a responsibility today we love these Island and all that they share warmth love happiness and time to care Untold Tales of times long past of kings and queens of this and that trust in us and you'll know no cares throw back your arms and take through the [Music] [Music]   these hidden valleys have a story to tell us secret wishes match people and kingdoms Gaz into the sea to know what life brings you power majesty and strength can you see through the barrier of years and the passing of Ages know the meaning of what was is now ours to give and ours to show share from the heart for the body and soul trust us you no throw back your arms and take through the air fly until you know No Boundaries Laugh A Melody of joy and illusion grab a Sunbeam shining into the canyon coloring the mountains over and over if you ever youever toies of Glory into theor of This Life as We Know It come my friends we'll take the best and we'll share it trust in us and you know no cares throw back your arms and take to [Music] [Applause] the oh [Music] oh we love these islands and all that they share warful of happiness and time to care to un told Tales of times long past of kings and queens of this and that trust in Us in you know no cares throw back your arms and take you ohy oh [Music] L come on [Music]   h [Music]   might [Music] I are my [Music] [Music] [Music]   who [Music] [Applause] [Music]   fore El [Music]   it has been exciting that in this lifetime I will give my love just to you and I place you in a vert and beautiful Valley compare you to a honey flower lying peacefully in the C [Music] [Music]   and you are this flower that chooses to kiss   the Doom of makiki and I shall be your special friend [Music] holy [Music] Lord we hope that will accept this our pledge of love for our song is dedicated to you our honey flower precious and sweet that will never fade us in love and [Music] [Music] be forly [Music] [Music] o [Music] [Music] to [Music] [Music] [Music] why can't [Music]   la [Music]   do [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] why [Music] [Music] why la la la la la [Music] [Music] la hi in a [Music]   o [Music] [Music] I think we knew it was different we knew what we were doing uh the thing is uh we uh we made it exciting we made it uh people wanted to hear it you know but we when when we got past the beginnings and all that we went right back to the Hawaiian and then to get out back you know we changed a little bit but we always went back to the Hawaiian and sang the right Melodies and and uh what we thought was the important things which was the language and the melody and uh so all the rest was just like an additive to uh to get there you know it's kind of you know when it's interesting because uh it was fun to push the envelope and to see how much we could do get away with and we got away with it a lot yeah we cuz once there were there were like two or three people that liked it then uh then it became okay then let's try this now and then let's try this now and let's try this um and so yeah it was experimental and it was exciting it was adventurous and it was kind of there was this bravado about it it was very um um um what's that word when you're being local being so not Mo but tantan tantan yeah when we we're being tantaran now cuz you know we were in our 20s we were we were really young at the time it was just fun it was fun you know I mean when we had rehearsals uh somebody would start a song somehow you know I would start playing a that I like and Peter would join in and then you know all of look at Rob like okay find us a song you know and he working on no no that that don't work and then he'd find one and it would just fit like a glove you know what happens with us with the Sunday Manoa and then with the brothers casamero is that we have been so lucky so very lucky with the kind of respect that we've been given from not just Hawaii but but many places around the world and that has carried us for I mean we've truthfully we finished at the Royal hawaian Hotel in 1994 people still come and see us and I remember those days F like it was just yesterday and because of that they think of us in the same way even as I've now lost all my hair and lost a few and I put on I put on a few pounds yeah and and it may not be the same guitar lick or or or voice range that we had before but when people come to see us that part of that respect is that you know they hear and they see what they remember not now they don't see what's now and if we can as the brothers casemos hit a certain note play a certain chord do a a a song that they love and get somewhere close to what they remember it being we live on was it love was it [Music] destiny that what you home again to me dreaming so long for a love Long Gone without [Music] you waiting for you so impatiently to hear your voice singing and the breeze I've been waiting so long for this love Long Gone without [Music] you selfishly I hold these feelings deep in me not letting anything or anyone come between you and me living every moment of love with you here in your embrace waiting for you so impatiently to hear your voice singing in the breeze I've been waiting so long for a love Long Gone without you so firstly I hold these feelings deep in me not letting any anything or anyone come between you and me living every moment of love with you here in your [Music] Embrace now I feel you close to me I hear your voice answering my P for a love long gone that has waited so long without [Music] you without you now I'm no longer without you [Music] [Music] [Music]   I have one small favor to ask of you can I have a friend to see me through just to walk beside me someone to talk to can I have a friend to see me through I would have asked you sooner it just slipped my mind would it be too much trouble hope it doesn't take too much of your time I have one small favor to ask of you can I have a friend to see me through you can have this favor you ask for you have this friend to see you through just to walk beside you someone to talk to you have this friend to see you through but still you should have asked me sooner even though it slipped your mind it's been a lot of trouble you've wasted too much of my precious time now you have this favor you asked for you have this friend to see you through I am this favor you asked for I am the friend to see you through just to walk beside you someone to talk to I am the friend to see you through [Music]   I am this favor you asked for I am the friend to see you [Music] through this favor you as for you a friend to see me through just to walk beside you someone to talk to I have the friend to see you through but still you should have asked me sooner even though it slipped your mind it's been a lot of trouble you wasted too much of my [Music] you I to see you through just to walk beside you someone to talk to I have the to see you through but still you should have asked me even though it slipped your [Music] a lot TR was too much my time now this faor you ask for I am the friend to see you through just to walk beside you someone to talk to I have friend friend to see you through you have this friend to see you through have the friend to see you through [Music] oh [Music] no no [Music] [Music] we no [Music] are for [Music] know [Music] [Laughter] they no [Music] no Co [Music] he all am I [Music] [Applause] [Music] so many choices in life to be made so many things to do so many Hills to climb to the top as we move along sing our songs as we walk this land hand in hand as we spread the warmth of our love [Music] questions to answer truth to be told realizations as we now grow so many Hills to climb to the top as we move along sing our songs as we walk this land hand in hand as we spread the warmth of our love as we move along sing our songs as we walk   this land in hand as we spread the warmth of our love [Music] [Music] we're at the Shell and we're on the first break the half and this this uh German guy old old old guy comes in from a from the grass side and he he's yelling and I'm seeing him talking to my friend he's going where is the orchestra keeps coming keeps coming comes all the way up to he goes excuse me but where is the orchestra I'm listening I I was listening to the orchestra and my friend turned on and said pointed to me go that's the orchestra and the old man went no no no no I'm looking for the orchestra and my friend said no that is the orchestra so he turned away not mad but ah you know and walked away at the end of the concert uh usually I just sit there and sometimes I walk out but uh sometimes I just sit there and then when uh the lights go down then I start grabbing my stuff up and I I'm Gone by that time yeah he's gone I hear from the grass area you are the orchestra and I wave I don't know where he was I I wave to him and yeah when we were part of the Sunday Manoa um we were recording a song called the Queen's Jubilee and we had finished doing all the uh as we did back then we did all the instrumentation and I now had to put my voice to this music so I'm I'm in the studio this kind of like a vast studio and I'm looking at the um smaller area the engineer room and in it is the engineer and Peter enrolling and Peter says okay we're going to play it back for you so you can I I had sung it he said we're going to play it back for you so you can hear it and I notice as I'm sitting there that on the at the wall down there there was there was a mirror like this the wall was like halfway closer like right over here and I'm looking at the and and I looked at the mirror and I I couldn't believe that the person that I was looking at in that mirror was was responsible for the voice that was coming at me from the speakers here um it was a it was a real shock to me but it was also a lesson in knowing that that this was a gift that it wasn't by accident and that therefore uh there was responsibility again you know that word keeps coming back there was responsibility to it to what it could do to what it would have to do for a long time add to its healing not for myself but for others who can hear [Music] it there's so many wonderful things that have happened in our lifetime Roland and I um and I've got to say that I'm so happy that we have lived this long to see the rewards of that Renaissance period in the latter part in the early 70s because this is what we would sort of like call the puana the um the outcome of it and and the idea now is and part of that you know responsibility now is giving it back to them now to work on it to take it to their kpuna you know you know I always tell kids that I work with uh go make Hawaii proud of you okay go make Hawaii proud give them what you have and if you don't have anything that you think you don't have to give go out there and and work on it and look around and and when you come back if I'm here show me because I'd love to hear it or see it but go out there and go make Hawaii proud of of of her daughters of her sons of of the people you know and I hope when they listen to our music they're proud and proud that we took the time to do that to sing it to play it and to make it last 200 years for them to tell their children go your turn to make how proud [Music] I am the one to lead [Music] you I am the one to see you through I am the one to guide you to the thought that I pursue to the day of warmth and plenty full of love and [Music] harmony to a bright new tomorrow so just follow follow follow follow me for a new day to come and a new for some her way for all we must all stand T together one all for we all will fall I know that in the past I've called you to fight fight with me I call on all of you again now to Rally beside me for a new day to come a new way for some a better way for all we must all Stand Tall together one and all for we all will [Music] fall fall in line and fall we will follow follow follow the we will fight and win your [Music] battles [Music] and and when your B [Music]   for this cause of unity for a new day to come and a new way for some but a better way for all we must all stand talk together one one and all for we all will fall [Music] [Music] [Music]   the for [Music]   have [Music] [Laughter] he for [Music] [Music]   responsibility is interesting thing sometimes you um for the most part you have no choice in it it chooses you rather than you choosing it by maybe some choices you made at the beginning but in the end as much as you think you're in charge or that you're making all the decisions you're not so when it comes to responsibility as of 2012 I've always felt that yes we have a responsibility to the music to our Cuna to our our history to our culture and all that stuff as of 2013 I think we still do but it's coming down in its um not not in its commitment but in it intensity in commitment because I think that part of a responsibility is to find someone to pass it on to and we have done that from the time we began with the Sunday anoah to 2012 so this 2013 means for me is that we need to make sure that what we've transferred on in responsibility now those others who are left behind who are are are younger than us a few years younger or or very young it's their turn to pick it up it's their turn to carry it on and we can help because that's what we're supposed to do um that's a commitment right there you know we've always uh it's always been more about business than show it's always been and the fact that we have to get this out there because these people out there they're paying they're paying they're paying good money this is business you know so we got to make sure that they get their money's worth and that um it's uh as much as the songs may be the old songs and they may be done the old way that it's still an experience for them and an experience for us if that marriage happens at that certain time at that certain place under those certain conditions then uh we live on yeah you know there's something to be said about putting so much time and energy and effort into a craft to a career there's a lot of history here and we're very very honored that you let us share so much of it with you today we hope you enjoyed cuz we did and it's time to say Mahalo to each of you for having us with you this wonderful time and to all the powers that be for making it possible for us to perform here in the islands [Music] [Laughter] [Music] oh oh the road goes far away from home and we get lonely missing you only when we are away sunny day is not quite the same as the ocean blue and in the islands at home in the islands at [Music] home in the middle of the sea with two happy guys under Hawaiian Skies living the life of the Gypsy musician and it's heart on our head and the lady of our heart mil and Miles Miles Away Home in the islands at home in the islands [Music] at in the middle of the sea [Music]   and there is no other place RA in the islands in the middle of the sea there's no other place we'd rather be than home in the island in the middle of the sea keeping real close to a family of friends taking it easy in the tropical [Music] Brees at home in the islands at home in the island at home in the middle in the middle in the middle of   the sea at home in the islands at home in the island and home in the middle of the sea [Music]