When Charlie Lehmann found out he'd be looking after Dave Grohl for the night at his bar Ramblin' Rascals, he was beside himself. In fact, he said there was a rule that the bar would never close for anyone, unless it was 'The Rolling Stones or Queens of the Stone Age.' And when you get the chance to have drinks with 1/3 of Nirvana, and the lead singer of the Foo Fighters, you definitely don't turn it down.
Charlie Lehmann left behind his Sociology and Politics degree to pursue a career in bar managing and cocktail making where he worked for the likes of the Zeta Bar and the Baxter Inn which, according to Charlie, was winning awards 'out the ass'.
And it was his time working at the Baxter inn that led to much of the bravado behind opening the Ramblin' Rascals and soon after, the Double Deuce Lounge.
So be sure to tune in to this episode of Roots Podcast. It's a wild one.
Music by Charlie Fester.
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