HPR spoke with Tavana to learn why he wanted to become the bar and live music venue's newest frontman.His connection with Anna O'Brien's and Bill Comerford goes way back — in fact, it's part of how he got started as a musician, he told HPR. “I've known him since I was in my early 20s. He was one of the first people to hire me in Waikīkī to play music,” Tavana said. Tavana said that Comerford was the first to reach out to him about the possibility of taking over the bar. “The more I thought about it, I just kept thinking of how I've spent so much time talking with friends about improving the music scene here and uniting it in a way,” he said. “This is a huge opportunity to actually do something about that … so I'm gonna take the ride.”