LA Eastside

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1. flaco
   July 30th, 2009 | 6:32 pm

   Grate post. t’s like drinkin promps musica from all slices of sochiety. So poor anudder one juss lack de udderone… Partay til yapook…………

2. don quixote
   July 30th, 2009 | 6:59 pm

   WPLJ aka White Port, Lemon Juice was the Eastside theme song for a while, way back when, good stuff but bad hangover, me and the homeboys were more hooked on cruising late at night, after scoring a fifth of T-Bird, taking a trago each and then pouring in the juice from one or two of those plastic lemons containers, shaking it up real good, dropping a couple of reds, maybe a couple of bennies to fight off the grogginess, then cruising the city till daybreak
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNA-jRm-nvQ

   Amos Milburn was the king of the drinking songs, One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer, and Bad Bad Whiskey, curious, he actually died of alcoholism.

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEpzqLPwG7Q

   Of course you can’t forget “Tequila” by the Champs. My favorite song when anybody forces me to sing with the Karaoke Machine
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWT3y2CZXVQ

   And the great Peppermint Harris singing “I Got Loaded” from the original volume one of Art Laboe’s “Oldies But Goodies” album.
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjsjsnzF6cA

   And the Eastsides own Los Lobos with Elvis Costello “I Got Loaded”

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnhhCjKoEfY

3. gigante
   July 31st, 2009 | 1:00 am

   Whenever i get going,a song I always got to hear is “WASTED DAYS WASTED NIGHTS”. Or anything by the TEXAS TORNADOES. IMHO

4. chimatli
   July 31st, 2009 | 1:47 am

   My favs are:
   La Banda Borracha
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld0Fd7Y0XnI

   Borracho by Los Brincos
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wHPa3o8e0g

5. don cheto
   July 31st, 2009 | 5:32 am

   Que is a matter con ustedes? Mi compadre Lupillo Rivera es el mejor !!! Mi abuelita es una fanatica de Lupillo !!! Tambiem mi abuelita cooks el mejor menudo !!!!

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quT_hL46ovI

6. slowrider
   July 31st, 2009 | 7:43 am

   Is the guy in the pic a huero named Alan from City Terrace?
   This pic looks very familiar……we did this to him at a party in Echo Park off of Alvarado back in the early early or mid 90′s…at a guy named Pablo’s house. This looks a lot like him……

7. roberto
   July 31st, 2009 | 8:33 am

   i love a ramos gin fizz

8. craiggilmore
   July 31st, 2009 | 9:23 am

   Lush Life? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILDqWHutba0

   How about some Merle Haggard? Misery & Gin?

   Jay McShann’s Hootie’s Ignorant Oil.

   and recently the Felice Brothers Whiskey in My Whiskey.

9. don quixote
   July 31st, 2009 | 11:01 am

   Al Ese, your on a roll lately, The Liggins Bros, Flaco Jimenez, Hank Williams, and CraigGilmore falls out with Jay McShann, Lush Life, yeah! And Merle Haggard the king of the country music songs of Drinking and Bars and love gone wrong.
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVq27glkY_A

   Jose Alfredo Jimenez, the genius Mexicano composer, king of the cantina and broken Mexican hearts, how many times has this one been heard on the jukeboxes of the Eastside

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8sNwMdRVVM

   And who didn’t hear this jukebox hit from Sinatra’s classic album “Only The Lonely”
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53sCut6XxZE

   Who can relate to this Eddie Cleanhead Vinson blues about his “Juicehead Baby”?

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W0j2vFR7Ds

   Another great post from the legendary Al Desmadre.

10. WALT!
    July 31st, 2009 | 2:42 pm

    Oh Al, this was a very fitting post to read this afternoon as I recover from ‘tying one on’ last night. Excellent list, thanks for the soundtrack to my hangover.

11. urbanista
    July 31st, 2009 | 2:47 pm

    Lupillo el mejor…??? chale Don Cheto, but I’ll take your word about your abuelita’s menudo.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMgBCfrxuEo

    here’s a few from Jose Alfredo
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGir17D_uS4

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MWEndzLc1A

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqrF2KgR-Ak

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y74HIO-nFC8

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBXcEHDZUKE

12. roberto
    July 31st, 2009 | 3:24 pm

    heres another good one from rkl drink positive

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNT7C-rMnPc

13. Eric_Howard
    July 31st, 2009 | 4:40 pm

    Great songs! Just for variation, here’s “Country Western Singer,” a poem by Alan Shapiro:

    http://www.umbrellajournal.com/spring2007/prose/Meriam.html

14. chimatli
    July 31st, 2009 | 7:38 pm

    Cheers to Roberto for the RKL link, one of my favorite Nardcore bands!

15. WALT!
    July 31st, 2009 | 9:14 pm

    Chimatli, not to digress, but I coincidentally got that hangover from going to a very nostalgic Ill Repute show last night, causing me to ponder the ´Nardcore´scene.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nardcore

16. Crisis
    August 1st, 2009 | 12:55 am

    Cheers, and here’s some more:

    Six Pack / Black Flag
    Wasted / Circle Jerks
    Wasted / Manic Hispanic
    Baby I’m Drunk / The Reverend Horton Heat
    The Bottle / Rancid
    Streams of Whiskey / The Pogues
    Barroom Hero / Dropkick Murphys
    Where Are All The Old Man Bars? / Youth Brigade

    And though these may only mention drinking…

    El Rey / Vicente Fernandez
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGbiWnoWTto

    A Boy Named Sue / Johnny Cash
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M89c3hWx3RQ

    Rudi Can’t Fail / The Clash
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPVQKQgSWgM

17. antonio
    August 1st, 2009 | 4:46 pm

    what about “I got loaded” covered by Los Lobos and Robert Cray?

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