Well, you know I'm holding my mystical net right now and I'm kind of thinking you know, this would be like how those guys in the Himalayas hold those beads you know.

And we're looking for a few good creatures out there in the ocean you know and those creatures that can help to cleanse you know the shoreline and cleanse the island, cleanse the Earth and bring the pieces back together again for all of our babies our our keiki's.

You know that certain mystical fish is going to have to be that someone that understands you know, how to stay in the beauty you know and how to aloha aku aloha mai, which means to give and get give back and give more on to give and not always expecting something in return you know.

Alright, working on it.

Here we go.

(instrumental music) Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.

Native.

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.

Native.

(instrumental music) Who are these creatures?

Where do we come from?

Who are these strangers with different voodoo?

Do you feel danger when we are near you?

Ask us.

Are you native?

Are you native?

Can I ask questions?

Will you give answers?

Are we invaders that come to visit or just some neighbors perhaps we tourists, ask us.

Are you native?

Are you native?

Ask us, ask us.

Are you native?

Can you show me, show me, come on.

Are you native?

Everybody, everyone is.

Are you native?

Can you show me, show me, come on.

Are you native?

Everybody take it right now.

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.

Native.

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.

Native.

Red.

Yellow.

Brown.

White.

Black.

Native.

Red.

Yellow.

Brown.

White.

Black.

Native.

They come from outside.

Can they come inside?

Can they make contact and cross your border?

Can they vacate here and drink your water?

Ask us, are you native?

Are you native?

You can ask us.

Are you native?

Can you tell me, tell me, come on.

Are you native?

Everybody, everybody.

Are you native?

Can you show me, show me, come on.

Are you native?

Everybody sing it with me now.

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na native.

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na native.

Red.

Yellow.

Brown.

White.

Black.

Native.

Red.

Yellow.

Brown.

White.

Black.

Native.

Are you native?

Are you native?

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, native.

Are you native?

My mama always told me, are you native?

She said son, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, native.

Are you native.

We are all natives of the planet Earth.

Are you native?

One world, one race.

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, native.

Are you native?

Strut your stuff.

Hui.

(instrumental music) All right.

(guitar strumming) So, you got to figure that okay, you're, you're a kid growing up in the inner city Kalihi Pālama.

And you ain't got no money to take guitar lessons.

So, what you do is you hang out with your, your friend that you met in Mānoa, you know, and you catch the bus down to university area campus and he he's, he's got the money to afford to get guitar lessons.

So, you hook up with him.

He also gets his lunch made for him also so so you know, he's not going to eat all the food because he's on a really nice diet.

So, anything he's not going to eat you from the projects you say a you going to eat that apple.

Okay, I'll take it.

So, you grab that apple and at the same time you grab some of the chords that he's learning from his music teacher in school, you know?

And then you give him back your Aloha, you know, and you show him some Hawaiian music.

What happens when you go home is you get these certain new chords that you learn you don't even know what the chord is but they sound really cool you know, they sound like this like.

(guitar strumming) You never heard these chords before down in   the ghetto.

Yeah?

What you hear there in the Hawaiian projects is (guitar strumming) Yeah, and so you don't wash your dishes one night right so your mom makes you go in the room.

So you go into your room, sit down in the room and just you and your guitar and now you start to take these chordings that you learned from your friend in Mānoa and you start to put it into a vamp so instead of the vamp being (guitar stumming) they sound like this now.

(guitar strumming) Enlightened.

Here we go back to the projects.

One, two.

Ah one, two, three, go.

(instrumental music) Bye bye bye Pua Lane.

I'm really gonna miss your face.

Your eyes too deceiving for me.

I said bye bye Pua Lane.

So, so long Pua Lane.

I see many-a-memory I've had with you.

But your eyes, they make me blue.

Everybody bye bye.

I said bye bye Pua Lane.

So, so long Pua Lane.

Oh dear God, I hope that all my friends leave.

No, no don't you shatter their dreams.

Now don't you shatter them Pua Lane.

Bye bye bye Pua Lane.

I see tears always fall from my eyes.

Oh, to think of the way that we lived.

I said bye bye Pua Lane.

Saxophone.

(instrumental   playing) Bye bye bye, Pua Lane.

Oh dear God, I hope that all my friends leave.

No, no don't you shatter their dreams.

Now don't you shatter them Pua Lane.

Au revoir, Pua Lane.

I said you never never seem to change.

If everyone could see you, I'm sure they'd say, they'd say, bye bye Pua Lane.

Au revoir, Pua Lane.

Seems to never, never seem to change.

If, if everyone could see you, I'm sure they'd say, they'd say, bye bye Pua Lane.

Aloha ʻoe Pua Lane.

I'm really going to miss, going to miss your face.

Your eyes they lie, that's why I gotta say bye bye, bye bye Pua Lane.

Aloha ʻoe to you.

Your eyes too deceiving for me.

I said bye bye Pua Lane.

Goodbye.

(instrumental music) I feel that people need to share their lives with other people in order for everyone to learn how to love each other more you know.

And we don't it's another really simple thing that doesn't cost a lot that that we don't take the time to to do for each other and for ourselves.

And you know it's it's as easy as sleeping and as easy as eating but we don't consider it.

So, what if we take the one groove yeah and we work with it yeah and we see what we can come up with it yeah and we do only good things.

(instrumental music) You can't hide behind your skin.

I can see it in your eyes.

You been playing out of sin if you illegal dressing up.

Give yourself into my world.

I will teach you where you stand.

You'll give way to everything.

You will feel it when you dance.

You don't need afraid to sing and sing it out and sing it strong.

Don't deny it just make it clear.

Be yourself and have no fear.

Ah hah, you set your mind free.

Papa and mama to help you to see.

Arrange the light that guide thy the, to the music.

Sweet music.

I hear music.

Sweet music.

All around the world under every sky people are coming together.

Holding each other's hand now that we understand life is to love one another.

Ah hah, and now you're in love.

Papa and mama said to me child, you have music.

Sweet music.

Sweet lovin' sound.

Sweet, sweet, sweet.

Sweet lovin' sound.

Yeah.

(instrumental music) Understanding who you are.

I will teach you where you stand.

You'll give way to everything.

You will feel it when you dance.

I give you the best of things.

You reach out and you will feel all the emotions like a child.

Feel the rhythm that is yours.

Freedom is the song we sing.

Sing it out and sing it strong.

I believe.

I believe we can be as one.

You and I together now.

Ah hah, you set your mind free.

Papa and mama help you to see.

Arrange the light to guide thy feet to the music.

Sweet music.

What do I hear?

Music, sweet music.

And I want you to know.

All around the world under every sky people are coming together.

Holding each other's hand now that we understand life is to love one another.

Ah hah, you set your mind free.

Papa and mama help you to see the music.

Sweet music.

Sweet lovin' sound.

Sweet lovin' sound.

Like music.

Sweet music.

Sweet lovin' sound.

Sweet lovin' sound.

Like music.

Sweet music.

Yeah.

(instrumental   music) There is a deeper wave than this.

There is a deeper wave than this.

There is a deeper wave than this.

Rising in the world.

There is a deeper wave than this.

Listen to me girl.

(instrumental music) Mystical fish out.

I'm always trying to look for a stress-free situation.

Okay so in Backfire that's the concept behind it and that's the essence of Backfire.

We've got to release ourselves and set ourselves free.

And what I did was I interfaced pidgin English no go come back that's almost like can or no can, if can can.

Yeah, no go come back.

That actually means we need you, come back to us.

And then I interfaced it with, you know, reggae tempos and tried to describe certain issues in each verse.

You know the first one being about the struggling Hawaiian man, one foot in the Western world, one foot in his roots.

And also, second verse speaking about that Hawaiian that has been locked up, you know, because of certain circumstances not guided or reared in the correct way.

So, finding trying to find his way out of the maze.

And then the third verse is revelation and it shares a sign of hope for all of us that we can survive and puka through all of this stuff.

(instrumental music)  No go come back.

Ooo... No go come back.

Ooo... Bad things they backfire don't you know.

But we rise above the fire.

Bad things they backfire don't you know?

But we rise above the fire.

That's how let me tell you about the things that I see.

Seeing one Hawaiian look a lot like me.

Bond from emotion for the rhythm and the soul.

Come from the ocean and the sacred plant kalo.

And I just want to let you know that you gotta educate your soul.

And only love can truly bring us back.

But bad things they backfire, don't you know?

But we rise above the fire.

Bad things they backfire don't you know?

But we rise above the fire.

You and I we nasty, naughty.

Lost in an undercover foolish, senseless.

No time to recover.

Too many brothers locked up, give up, bad direction.

Time to stop.

Stop using back it up positive reflection.

And I just want to let you know that the devil gonna take your soul.

And only love can truly bring you back.

But bad things they backfire don't you know?

But we rise above the fire.

Bad things they backfire don't you know.

But we rise above the fire.

No go come back.

Ooo... No go come back.

Ooo... No go come back.

Ooo... Look out.

Ooo... Well back it up.

(instrumental music) Bad things they backfire don't you know?

But we rise above the fire.

If you are feeling down and you don't know what to do.

Hawaiians say kule maka wai in the house your maka's says so.

Yo let go of negativity only positive unity and the respect of the good vibe.

Come on.

Check it out.

I said the bad things can make you go the wrong way.

Use love.

Love is strong.

Love is the only way.

And I just want to let you know that aloha live inside my soul and only love can truly bring you back.

But bad things they backfire don't you know?

But we rise above the fire.

Bad things they backfire don't you know?

But we rise above the fire.

No go come back.

Ooo... No go come back.

Ooo... No go come back.

Ooo... No go come back.

Ooo... Hey!

(instrumental music) (Singing in Hawaiian) Molokaʻi is a very powerful Island and I'm always honored that Molokaʻi accepts me.

Yeah, the ʻāina itself and the ocean.

And of course, the people.

I always humble myself when I come to Molokaʻi.

And the vibe that I feel and sense from Molokaʻi is truly like what the Hawaiians knew about it.

You know, Molokaʻi, piko.

It's really the center your content, you know, where your Tai Chi center point.

Yeah, you're with nature.

Yeah.

You know, and you're with the beauty.

The beauty of everything.

And so, I'll resonate off of the off of the island, because it allows me to, yeah, and it's because I ask it.

Yeah.

And I don't ask from it.

Yeah, because I can enjoy.

I can enjoy just being present.

You know?

And so, I think that with Molokaʻi my relationship to Molokaʻi has to do with my fellowship with Molokaʻi.

I mean Molokaʻi is like a person or or a relationship or something that are very sensitive to yeah and never disrespectful.

(Singing in Hawaiian) Brother Noland in the   house.

Oh mama, I'm just all locked up.

I got to release myself.

Too much pressure.

And let me tell you now if you can't dance than they ain't no romance.

See I don't want to jump into the frying pan and get all burned.

No.

Somebody tell me to slow it down and take it easy.

I don't want to jump out the fire to the frying pan.

Serious people.

(instrumental music) Slow it down and take it easy.

Easy.

I don't want to jump out the fire into the frying pan.

Check it out now.

I hope you don't mind girl l say slow it down.

There's no need to rush we've got lots of time.

And if you can dance they you got to be my friend.

But don't you know that I just want to be your lover man.

I want to slow it down and take it easy.

Easy.

I don't want to jump out the fire into the frying pan.

No, no, no.

Slow it down and take it easy.

Easy.

I don't want to jump out the fire to the frying pan.

Listen up again now.

I hope you don't mind girl, I say slow it down.

There's no need to rush, we got lots of time.

Time.

And if you can dance then you've got to be my friend.

And don't you know that I just want to be your lover man.

Come on, slow it down and take it easy.

Easy.

I don't want to jump out the fire into the frying pan.

No, no, no.

Slow it down and take it easy.

Easy.

I don't want to jump out the fire into the frying pan.

(instrumental music) Slow it down and take it easy.

Easy.

I don't want to jump out the fire into the frying pan.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I said slow it down and take it easy.

Easy.

I don't want to jump out the fire into the frying pan.

(instrumental music) Well let me talk to you now mama.

Don't get all locked up and serious now.

You got to release yourself.

Too much pressure.

(musical vamp) Oh, I just love the way you talk to me.

(musical vamp) How you guys out there.

You alright?

Irie.

Irie.

Release.

(musical vamp) Not.

(instrumental music) Well, I think that music is the melodic expression of aloha that Hawaiians have.

And that's why it's so profound and so eminent in the way that they express themselves as people natural to the earth and the heavens.

It all kind of comes through the music.

And I know that when I do the music that is me, it is a expression of my aloha.

And it's coming from my Hawaiian heart.

I think it's easier to pass along lessons of aloha to children than it is to adults.

Yeah.

I'd much rather work with the kids because, you know, they so spongy, you know, and they so wide open and, and still free ranging.

Yeah.

Whereas when you work with adults, you know, they think they know everything, you know, so sometimes I start off presentations with adults, and I say, well, everybody up just like a team.

I say, Okay, everybody up, okay.

And I'll say something like, okay, let's all assume we're stupid.

Okay, then we're all like one, one, easy plain.

You know, whereas with kids, you don't even have to go there.

You know.

You just have to share with them something cool.

Yeah.

So, what happens too is when you work with the aloha with the adults, is what I do is I pretend that they're kids.

And I, in my mind, I offer them the same things that I would offer to kids.

And actually, what happens is, it brings out the child in the adults again, and once you release the child from the imprisonment of the adult person, yeah, then it's all smooth, and it's all good.

And then you know, the lesson of aloha is really, really easy.

So, I wanna tell you the moʻolelo the story behind this next song, Sun Daddy.

It's a song I wrote for my girls, when they were growing up, and they were a little kids.

I thought one day that I would teach them the Art of Peace.

So, what I did was I bought one kite for three women, and let them work it out on the art of sharing.

And in that moment of time at the park when they were trying to share this this kite and flying it.

They learned about bringing it all together and sharing it within the community.

And in writing this song, I had my guitar with me at that moment and I had it in slack key and I had to find a chord that would work in the Kodachrome moment as I was watching them battle over the one kite.

(instrumental music) You and I, we deserve a life that's better.

You belong to me.

Eye to eye, every day should be forever.

One day you will realize.

Oh these emotions that I'm feeling deep inside, are things I know you'll understand.

But I'll be there for you, always by your side.

It's just the way I feel.

I love you baby.

I want to be I want to be I want to be you sun daddy.

I want to be the one you own.

I want to be I want to be I wanna be your sun daddy.

I want to be your number one.

Day by day our hearts should be together growing stronger every way.

Eye to eye, I want you to have everything and never want to let you go.

I want to give you all the beauty of the world.

I only want the best for you.

You know that I'll be there.

It's unconditional.

It's just the way I feel.

I love you baby.

I want to be I wanna be I want to be sun daddy.

I want to be the one you own.

I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be your sun daddy.

I want to be your number one.

Look out.

(instrumental music) I wanna be I wanna be I want to be your sun daddy.

l wanna be the one you own.

I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be your sun daddy.

I wanna be your number one.

Ooh, sun daddy.

Ooh,   sun daddy.

Ooh,   sun daddy.

Ooh, sun daddy.

Ooh, sun daddy.

Ooh, sun daddy.

Ooh, sun daddy.

Ooh, sun daddy.

(instrumental music) During the Mystical Fish sessions, we were able to get everybody to a cool place, get them to look at themselves and see how they best could contribute to the project.

But like in a very spontaneous and improvisational way.

Yeah.

And they just had to come in with their instruments all tweaked.

Yeah, and ready to play music.

You know, it's almost like show me what you got.

Yeah, what do you know?

What do you have to say man?

Do you have a voice?

Do you have a voice in your instrument?

Are you passionate about the way you play?

So, I've got my number one son Verge on the base and he's just rock solid.

And all these guys are multi-dimensional musicians to you know.

Like Vergel can play guitar, he can play bass, arrange vocals.

So, all that musical you know jive and all that musical epistemology or whatever you want to call it all that scientific stuff of our music.

We got my my boy son or youngest son, Piʻi and I hanai him really quite a while back when he was in middle school high school.

And just nurtured him and tried to share with him all the things that are important in a development of a person's life.

And now he's been able to convey that musically.

His mom and his dad and me and my wife we so proud of him and his accomplishments.

And then we've got saxy blow Fred Li.

We've been able to share with him the idea of like, hey just blow.

You know.

Just play.

He's in a very very cool place right now so my latest comment to him all the time is okay you are ascending into stardom now.

Take it easy tiger.

Because you when you watch him blow, and again you know we're not looking for the greatest players in the world, but when he blows with One Tribe Aloha and Brother Noland, it's there, it's locked in.

Then we round it off with Steve Bader, longtime crime partner of mine in the crimes of music.

We've done it all.

Everything from producing to being booking agents to asking our wives if we can borrow $20 because we ain't got no money anymore but we've taken many many musical and entertainment industry chances together.

He himself in his own right is a wonderful musician.

You know he could play the keyboards, he can play the drums, he can play the bass, he can play the guitar all equally well.

So proud and I feel very fortunate to work with with this group of individuals and create, create a basketball team that you know rarely loses.

Yeah, One Tribe Aloha man in effect.

Have a good flight.

Shoots.

Y'all number three.

(instrumental music) Okay, I like it.

Hey!

Conscious to the music what is the sizing mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy.

Conscious to the music, what is the sizing mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy.

I and I, free vibration, I and I, free vibration  Take it up in raga-time, take it up on four-four Dub it up in pon-top, ragamuffin rubadub Jungle lock your downbeat, riddim in your two feet Make da body strong, not for the weak one Run-time run-run clock go on and on Dance hall - let um lick it up, let um lick it up, let um lick it up, hey!

Conscious to the music what is the sizing mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy.

Conscious to the music, what is the sizing mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy.

I and I, free vibration, I and I, free vibration Polyphonic, supersonic…animal logic Patriotism…main catechism..

Hold and lock… purest and simple International symbol All space direction, character selection Big step!

Conquer all around you Big step!

Conquer all around you Conscious to the music what is the sizing mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy.

Conscious to the music, what is the sizing mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy.

I and I, free vibration, I and I, free vibration Mmmm... (instrumental music) Conscious to the music what is the sizing mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy.

Conscious to the music, what is the sizing mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy.

I and I, free vibration, I and I, free vibration Vertical, Symmetrical, downright historical Rhythm in motion, crucial commotion Fly butterfly, fly butterfly I said, tougher than tuff no not enough  Tougher than tuff no not enough I got to make um, you got to make, we got to make em, Think… I said, tougher than tuff no not enough Tougher than tuff no not enough I got to make um, you got to make, we got to make em, Think… Hey, conscious to the music what is the sizing mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy.

Conscious to the music, what is the sizing mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy.

I and I, free vibration, I and I, free vibration I and I, free vibration, I and I, free vibration (instrumental music) (ʻukulele strumming) The ʻukulele is a very unique instrument.

Well one of the uniqueness is of course, it's Hawaiian.

Yeah.

Second would be it's small and it's mobile.

So, it's very it's a very easy tool to explain not just music but life with.

It's a wonderful instrument and then when you start to teach them about Hawaiian stuff, and the Hawaiian way of, of approaching, you know, which is you know, mana, aloha, all those things and that that's kind of cool too.

If I have kindergarteners and I'm teaching them ʻukulele, then it's going to be fun, and it's going to be a bunch of cool things.

You know that that I know that they're going to enjoy.

Yeah.

And once I know that they're enjoying it, then, then I try to mischievously sneak in a few wisdoms and philosophies in there that have to do with life.

So sometimes the kids go home and they share stuff with their parents and it kind of makes the parents like whoa yeah, trips them out.

So then I'll get an email from time to time from a parent you know who starts to see the picture that all you not just teaching them about ʻukulele but you teaching them about life.

One, two, three, go.

(guitar strumming) I want to tell you a story.

Happy days that I remember.

We were to start in September so it was over I was 17.

Oh, that's the day I got a car.

I changed my hair.

I grew a beard.

I lived to surf.

I didn't work.

Had no rules, my live was cool.

Wouldn't think about anything.

Everybody was just singing, ooo, do you feel like you're free?

Ooo, do you feel like you're free?

Now it was a time to discover.

Everyone knew one another.

Sisters were hanging with brothers.

That was the way we did everything.

Oh.

We did the beach.

We did the town.

We suped the cars.

We puckered up.

We played the knives.

We missed the date.

We found a way.

We worked it out.

Wouldn't think about anything.

Everybody was just singing, ooo, do you feel like you're free?

Ooo, do you feel like you're free?

Set us free.

(instrumental music) Now sometimes in life I feel   I'm slipping.

I simply recall a more natural time.

I roll myself out of this limbo.

I sit down and know exactly how I should be.

Oh.

When it's rough I'm hanging tough.

I ride my bike.

I throw a ball.

I find my clan.

I pack my bags.

Jump a plane, you know?

I don't think about anything.

And we kids, we just sing.

Everybody's singing, ooo, do you feel like you're free?

Ooo, do you feel like you're free?

Well if you feel it.

Ooo, do you feel like you're free?

Ooo, do you feel like you're free.

Do you feel like you're free?

Ooo, do you feel like you're free.

Ooo, do you feel like you're free?

Do you feel like you're free?

Ooo, do you feel like you're free?

Ooo, do you feel like you're free?

Ho my hand tired.

Why is it so quiet?

So, I would say to all of you out there don't underestimate the idea that there are not incredible enlightened beings out there, willing to share their incredible knowledge and wisdom about life and the earth and the elements and the universe.

We live in a world filled with smoke screens and illusions but under that carpet yeah, it's a beautiful carpet like this.

Yeah, and all the enlightened beings have all these many lessons of aloha to share with you.

Something that will help you along your journey yeah.

Will keep you musical and glaring into the mystical.

(Singing in   Hawaiian)