An inventory published in 1650 makes note of "Short Brasse Munkeys alias Dogs." The handle used to aim the cannon was called the "Monkey's Tail." The Beastie Boys wrote a song and named it after booze that was in turn named after a large gun. The name comes from ancient forms of the cannon, referred to as Monkeys, Drakes, or Dogs. Rant Casey from Zionsville, InThe Brass Monkey liquor did NOT get its name from a device to maintain a pyramid stack of cannonballs.Rachel from Nashville, TnI thought the big history-changing lawsuit was Rick James vs MC Hammer for his sampling/blatantly stealing "Super Freak.".Are the Beastie Boys ever gonna come back - or are they too old now? My uncle "Horneigh" said that way back in 1986 when he & my Dad were in University of Kansas that the Beastie Boys were BIG at KU & he recalled "Brass Monkey" but he preferred other songs by the Beastie Boys over it. "Brass Monkey" got played a lot too, but I never liked it that much. They hit it big way before I was born, but I caught their songs on alternative FM radio in the 2000's.
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