Brother Cleve

@sunday_spins @DavidWondrich @portstainedeye Great soundtrack to a blaxploitation film that didn’t exist. Byrd had a great jazz-funk disco hit a few years later with “Love Has Come Around”

Not really a funk or a jazz album - Street Lady has a sound closer to a blaxploitation soundtrack than anything else. Many critics of the era saw this as Byrd selling out to the sound of the day, but I think it’s aged much better than that. I true classic of a 70’s sub genre

@sunday_spins @DavidWondrich @BenFasman Incredible track! I’ve played that in my DJ sets for ages. Always sounds fresh!

One of the best slabs of Latin style funk of all time and it came from….Belgium. Whatever they were putting in their Westmalle back then must’ve been funky cuz this record hits Afro-Cuban rhythms, straight funk, and incredible instrumentation throughout. “Lupita” is the banger.

@DavidWondrich @DrDrakeRemoray @kingcocktl WPLJ? Correct

@DrDrakeRemoray @kingcocktl White port and lemon juice?

After an unbelievably shitty week, Here's Hank Ballard and the Midnighters to get us real gone--plus what Frank Schiffman, booking agent at the Apollo Theater, thought of the band, to remind us to not listen to the assholes. youtube.com/watch?v=4zKPI1…

@DavidWondrich I’m sure they were pretty wild and vulgar on stage. Their last hit before they changed their name from The Royals to The Midnighters was “Work With Me Annie”. And as previously noted here, after all that workin’ “Annie Had A Baby”. Bet there was some workin goin on backstage!

@DavidWondrich If only!! Count me in when you finish building your time machine. I’ll bring the drinks!

@DavidWondrich Soup Bones and Chuck Steak are two of the best musician names ever. I’d own all of their records if they’d had any!

Something a little different today: a thread poking around in the early history of ragtime, via some newspapers from eastern Kansas, one of the music’s cradles. 1/19

@mdoudoroff Maybe not. The issue was not with Diageo, it was with Picon, who refused to divulge its “secret recipe” to the FDA, resulting in it being banned from importation. They lost their “grandfathered” status (which Chartruese etc enjoy) when their original distribution ended circa 2000

@DavidWondrich I’m a Yakuza

So now I’m a pawnbroker.

@AudreySaunders So sad 😞 Such a revelatory place in the mid 90’s. Studying those bartenders while they worked was at least 50% of my education. And the drinks were always impeccable. 💔

🕯You will be missed by many, Angel’s Share 💔 RIP to one of the legendary cornerstones of NYC cocktail culture. A toast to you, along with a 21-Gun Salute..heart is heavy tonight ✨👼🏻🍸👼🏻✨ grubstreet.com/2022/03/angels…

@Annene I could buy that!

Not even once

Just posted a photo @ Boston, Massachusetts instagram.com/p/CQJRGjss777/…

Join @cannonjacks and me as we make #vodkacocktails with a side of #boozeducation Thursday 2/18 at 7pmEST via Boston.com, where you’ll find a link to RSVP to this free event. Bottoms Up!! @ Zoom Call instagram.com/p/CLaOE6hMij6/…

@MacCocktail Rudy Don’t Lose That Number

Caption this, please!

Just posted a photo @ Boston, Massachusetts instagram.com/p/CHLKcJ-g0jY/…

@DimitriParis I have the double vinyl and the CD. Great tracks, sounds fresh as ever!

My first ever mix CD, 24 years ago...

@Latitude29_NOLA @BeachBumBerry This is such sad and terrible news. Such a wonderful gentleman, it was always such a pleasure to be around him. I’m at a loss for words so I’ll just say Rest in Peace

Heartfelt words from @BeachBumBerry

@kingcocktl Loved every minute there the few times I was able to go. Every cocktail had a story!

Ben Schaffer on my "Pop-up" in 1999 called Blackbird in NYC twitter.com/RumReader/stat…

Since I’ve been doing Zoom webinars from my home bar, folks have asked me what the rest of the space looks like. So since I cleaned it up yesterday, I figured I’d snap some pix and post them, since it’s too small to… instagram.com/p/CAqrXWPAZzK/…

I’m very excited to be joining my friends @rumman_mahiki (who is not only a cocktail king but also king of the dance floor!) and @jupiterjonespro this coming Tuesday. I’ll be playing records and explaining the… instagram.com/p/CANmMNmgBRS/…

@a_gossweiler He’s been in Los Angeles since 2000 and continues writing film scores....and being a Bon Vivant!

@BrotherCleve I'm listening to my cherished Combustible Edison albums right now! And I wonder: what has become of the Millionaire? Bought his movie scores on Bandcamp... years ago

TICKETS NOW ON SALE! ARIZONA TIKI OASIS April 23-26. I’ll be presenting “Esquivel! The Man Behind The Exclamation Point” on Friday AM. In the fall of 1994, at an after party for a Combustible Edison show in Los… instagram.com/p/B78lkS_AuF7/…