Anyone seen Brad lately?

He's your man.

Thanks Balearic,will keep an eye out for Brad then

Beer picks....and there's plenty to choose from, and all damn good:

Bridgeport Brewery/Pub/Restaurant - 1313 NW Marshall
Rogue Distillery & Public House - 1339 NW Flanders
Laurelwood Public House & Brewery - 2327 NW Kearney (website says it's shut for a remodel at the moment, but is re-opening "in the Spring", so you may want to check....?)
Roots Organic Brewing - 1520 SE 7th
Deschutes Brewery Portland Pub - 210 NW 11th

....and McMenamins Pubs are all over town, but my favourites for atmosphere are:
Market Street Pub - 1526 SW 10th
McMenamins Tavern & Pool - 1716 NW 23rd

Now go and get yourself leathered!

Cheers so we got the pubs sorted now how bout record shops please?

Anymore with record shop thoughts looked online there are plenty but not real sure which got the Disco and Soul? Cheers Conor

Was there recently. Couldn't find any proper disco-house record shop.
Been to quite a few record shops though.
My advice:
- avoid the 2 jackpot records shops, small and expensive
- avoid the 2 everyday music shops, lots of cds and lps but very little disco
- music millenium is very good, very nice shop, very good feeling there. Not much disco though.
- mississipi records is good too. Small but large choice is r&b-soul. No electronic music there.
- Crossroads music on SE Hawthorne is really huge, large choice of soul and a bit of disco. Good prices. Nice shop. And SE Hawthorne st is a really nice street.

Just discovered that, that might help you:
http://www.altportland.com/consume/records.shtml

we did this a year or two ago, might need updating though:

http://www.djhistory.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36600

Thanks guys to everyone who helped out lookin forward now after Miami

if you're there again, i work at a place called Platinum Records. it's the proper-disco house store you never found, hopefully it still will be by the time you make it there again. :confused:

i agree generally with your assessment above. i also sent fluke a PM.

I'm going to be in Portland next Wed.-Tues., so this thread's helping out a good bit. I notice it's over a year old, though. Anything new I should know about? Any good parties going on while I'm in town?

Thanks

I wouldn't call Platinum Records a "disco shop" per say. It has a front room with records (maybe 30 bins?) and a back area with DJ equipment, or at least, it did when I went there in 2011. The music styles vary between Techno, House, and other contemporary styles, plus some older records of soul/disco/R&B variety. It's still a good store and worth checking out for dance music lovers.