Drink: Long Island Iced Tea
Musician: Gogol Bordello
Song: Ultimate
Present: Ian (host), John, Patrick, Aaron, Jase
Drink
There are several versions of the origins of the Long Island Iced Tea. A few tell of it's start during the times of prohibition. Others simply state that it came from Long Island, New York in the 1970's. Still others say it came about in the 50's by proper Long Island House wives mixing a little from each bottle in the liquor cabinet. I tend to believe the story from prohibition. I ran across a website run by a man in Long Island, NY that had an email from someone claiming to know the real story of the origins of long island iced teas. The email states the following:
"Long Island Iced Tea isn't from New York at all. It first surfaced in the 1920's in a community called Long Island in Kingsport Tennessee.
The inventor of it was Old Man Bishop. He passed the recipe on to his son Ransom - who perfected the drink in the 1940's. This is a fact. The Teetotaler info is true - and the Click Bros. took the cocktail mainstream.
There was another drink from Long Island called Tap Water that has a different name these days, due to patrons not wanting to be poured water from the sink when they ordered it."
The inventor of it was Old Man Bishop. He passed the recipe on to his son Ransom - who perfected the drink in the 1940's. This is a fact. The Teetotaler info is true - and the Click Bros. took the cocktail mainstream.
There was another drink from Long Island called Tap Water that has a different name these days, due to patrons not wanting to be poured water from the sink when they ordered it."
The lack of a clear-cut time and place of the discovery of this drink could be due to prohibition and the secrecy it required imbibers to have.
Music
Gogol Bordello started after a few of the soon-to-be band members met at a Russian wedding in Vermont in 1998. There was no official first show, but as GB played parties and galleries, more immigrants joined. Gogol Bordello was banned from CB/GB, Mercury Lounge, Fez, and Bowery Ballroom after their first performances for being too over-the-top. GB received an award from Colbert Foundation and NY Downtown Arts Project for Pioneering Efforts and Artistic Excellence. They used all of the money for strictly immoral purposes.
The history claims they "walk the path of a gypsy punk rock revolutionary, living it up and ain't giving a fuck."
The mission of Gogol Bordello is written on a wrinkled piece of paper and scanned onto their website. It reads:
Gogol Bordello.
Artest's Statement:
Gogol Bordello's task is to provoke audience out of post-modern aesthetic swamp onto a neo-optimistic communal movement towards new sources of authentic energy.
With acts of music, theatre, chaos, and sorcery Gogol Bordello confronts the jaded and irony-deseased. Our treatment of traditional material is freewilloos (? hard to read), but is not irony-driven and thus real. Our theatre is chaotic and spontaneous and becauase of that is alarming and responce provoking.
From where we stand it is clear that world's cultures contain material for endless art-possibilities and new mind-stretching combinations, raw joy and survival energy. We chose to work with Gypsy, Cabaret and Punk traditions. Its what we know and feel. And many more are possible that can make the beloved statement of post-modernism "everything is been done" sound as an intellectual error.
The troubadours of neo-authentics are comin as a trans-global Art syndicate family that has never been witnessed before. PARTY!
-Hütz and GB
I feel the song "Ultimate" by Gogol Bordello is a great example of how they live.
Mix
Long Island Iced Tea and Gogol Bordello have a similar style in the variety of culture they include.
The primary ingredients of Long Islands are Vodka, Rum, Gin, and Tequila. Vodka originated in Eastern Europe. The name stems from the Russian word for water "voda". Rum has it's origins in the Caribbean. Gin has Dutch origins, but became popular in England when the government allowed unlicensed gin production and at the same time imposed a heavy duty (tax) on all imported spirits. Tequila originates from Spain and Mexico.
Gogol Bordello is even more culturally diverse. The lead singer, Eugene Hütz, is from Ukraine. Others in the band are from places in Russia, Israel, Ethiopia, Ecuador. The rest are the first generation in their family to be US citizens and are descended directly from Chinese, Thailand, Swedish, and Caribbean.
The night was a great success. Everyone enjoyed my Long Island, Gogol Bordello, and the Kartoplyanka (Ukrainian potato soup) that I made.
The night was a great success. Everyone enjoyed my Long Island, Gogol Bordello, and the Kartoplyanka (Ukrainian potato soup) that I made.
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