Nashville - An Open Invite to All

[Beer-lord]

I love me some blues. BB and Lucille can really bring the mood.

[swenocha]

OH I forgot to add...swen......a coworker recently went to Nashville and told me that every dive, bar, club etc has AWESOME unknown musician's......much like Memphis, New Orleans, NY etc and that we should go to a few he named, but I forget right now. All old, named spots on Broadway and/or main st....or something. I'm sure you know them well.

I'm assuming he's talking about the entertainment district I've been discussing down Broadway and 2nd Ave. Tootsie's, Robert's Western Wear, Honky Tonk Central, The Stage, Second Fiddle, Bootlegger's, Rippy's, Legends Corner, Layla's Bluegrass Inn, Tin Roof, National Underground, BB King's, Full Moon Saloon, Paradise Park, Whiskey Bent, Silver Dollar, Swingin' Door, Wildhorse Saloon, Rock Bar, 2nd Avenue Live, Acme Feed and Seed, Bourbon Street Blues and Boogie Bar, Fiddle and Steel, Hard Rock, Nashville Crossroads, Margaritaville, Puckett's, Tequila Cowboy, Big Bang, High Watt, Listening Room, The Wheel, and probably some others I don't remember, all on a three block stretch along Broadway and a three block stretch along 2nd. Throw in a few craft beer places (Beer Sellar, Brewhouse Downtown, Rock Bottom Brewery), several restaurants, a couple museums, a few record, gift and boot shops, some sports bars, and some less reputable dives (Hooters, Coyote Ugly, Dick's Last Resort) and you have the Nashville entertainment district. Some of these are slam packed all of the time (Stage and Honky Tonk Central in particular, and also Wildhorse), but you can mostly walk in and out and enjoy a song or two at a venue, then move on to the next one. It's quite a party down there every night, and some of the venues stay open until the wee hours (and open pretty early... almost 24 hours of music at some places).

My personal favorites? Listening Room, National Underground, Legends Corner...

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[RedBEERd]

Tootsies WAS THE PLACE he mentioned several times, even pulled it up on google maps.
But seeing the listing you have shared, it almost sounds like Bourbon street, the Marigny, the Bywater and French Quarter here in nawlins with all that music....and yes, EVERY STREET corner is filled with people who can flat out just play, dance and have fun.

We're not all drunks tho...in fact, most of the people getting arrested, showing their t)(*#ts etc during mardi gras are tourists.....the locals stay home Keep bringing your money, folks. We NEED IT here.

[swenocha]

Tootsie's has three levels, with three performers playing (one on each level) at any given time. Honky Tonk Central is set up the same way (as are a couple others). Crazy how many performers play down there every day. Each of those places I listed has maybe 5-8 people performing every night (the ones with multiple stages, of course, have many more). Just a crazy amount of performers.

There's also a Tootsie's in the airport, btw... Rated as one of the best airport bars in the world here. Yazoo's bar is also rated as one of the best airport bars in the country in another list.

[RedBEERd]

OH GREAT!. Now I can be drunk before I hit the casa de lupulus.

No need for anyone to pick me up....i'll hang out at the airport. have fun.

[dbrowning]

HAve you guys bEen drinking?

[RedBEERd]

I haven't touched alcohol in my life.

[swenocha]

After striking out on the Uber delivery of Hot Chicken on Friday (they delivered 300 hot chicken halves, but had 10,000 orders, so I was one of the unlucky 9,700 who were denied), I went for Big Shake's Hot Chicken and Fish's Saturday special ($1 tenders) tonight to get a hot chicken fix... Executioner level (xtra hot... their other levels are original, Stop Drop and Roll [medium], and Death Row [insane hot]). I usually get the traditional hot chicken 'sandwich,' which consists of a bone-in chicken quarter (I always get breast/wing) with pickles on a piece of white bread, but that special on tenders was hard to pass up. I've gotten the Death Row once... I was regretting it about four hours later. You have to sign a waiver, and they give you plastic gloves to wear. The first guy to finish them had to have the EMTs called after he finished. Though I was able to finish the three tenders, I wouldn't do it again. Executioner or SD&R are about perfect for me (SD&R if I'm planning to do other things that day, just on the off chance that the executioner causes... umm... problems [it usually doesn't, but on occasion...]).

[RedBEERd]

You will NOT get me to try that no matter how many pints I may down. I'm chicken about hot chicken !!!!!!

[jimjohson]

I get heart burn just lookin' at that

[dbrowning]

After striking out on the Uber delivery of Hot Chicken on Friday (they delivered 300 hot chicken halves, but had 10,000 orders, so I was one of the unlucky 9,700 who were denied), I went for Big Shake's Hot Chicken and Fish's Saturday special ($1 tenders) tonight to get a hot chicken fix... Executioner level (xtra hot... their other levels are original, Stop Drop and Roll [medium], and Death Row [insane hot]). I usually get the traditional hot chicken 'sandwich,' which consists of a bone-in chicken quarter (I always get breast/wing) with pickles on a piece of white bread, but that special on tenders was hard to pass up. I've gotten the Death Row once... I was regretting it about four hours later. You have to sign a waiver, and they give you plastic gloves to wear. The first guy to finish them had to have the EMTs called after he finished. Though I was able to finish the three tenders, I wouldn't do it again. Executioner or SD&R are about perfect for me (SD&R if I'm planning to do other things that day, just on the off chance that the executioner causes... umm... problems [it usually doesn't, but on occasion...]).

Ill try it
I love it hot
Just don't like it if its nothing but hot
Gotta have some flavor
HOT is not a flavor

[RedBEERd]

"HOT is not a flavor"
THIS!
I live in Cajun country (tho not ALL of us sound like they make it out to be on tv) and some people here confuse HOT with SPICY.. Sure spicy can be hot but it's also TASTY. And too much stuff here is just cayenne and other peppers and you can't taste the food because your taste buds are burning with the oil of the hot peppers.

I'd rather a mix of spices that are flavorful.......just like I need the AROMA of a beer to be good to enjoy it.

But I'm an old man.

[swenocha]

Believe me when I tell you that Hot Chicken is as addictive as crack for a lot of people (as evidenced by Uber getting 10,000 orders in Nashville during lunch Friday), even at the mild/med levels. That's the difference from the wanna-be restaurants and the real chicken shacks. It's all in the brining and cooking methods. IMHO, the best hot chicken restaurants have to have wonderful base original fried chicken, but the heat is what takes it over the edge, even with the subtle heat of a mild. Now, after eating it for several years, I'm perfect with a hot/extra hot. Much like the search for a more and more flavorful beer, you start looking for the best spice combinations as well.

Have a great afternoon, gents. I'm off to a tasting at Yazoo. Warming the place up a bit more for you all next week...

[RedBEERd]

I'm going to switch the subject here for a sec and ask this:

I'm starting today to pack...now by that I don't mean pack for the trip but more PRE packing as in planning what to bring and I thought i'd ask you guys if there's anything in particular you think may come in handy, we may need etc, other than my own personal stuff like meds etc?

So, any suggestions, ideas and the like will be appreciated and may be used.

PS. I know that Casa De Lupulus has wife so I'm bringing my wife's ipad in case we want to facetime (i'm not an apple lover so I don't use it often) and the like. It can also be used as the ONE CALL I'll be allowed should I get thrown in the hammer stalking Faith!

[RickBeer]

Ok, is it me or is RedBEERd sounded like a woman? "I'm thinking about packing a week in advance..."

And why on earth do you want to go to Casa De Lupulus if they have wife's? Aren't you trying to get away from the wife? Oh, you meant WiFi...

And it's a slammer, not a hammer, no?

Who is accompanying RedBEERd down there, he seem's crocked already?