As a white boy who loves nasty funk, I saw these brothers jam at least a dozen times at the original 9:30 Club. Always a packed house with everyone dancing for hours. Great memories. Real DC history.
you probably dont care but if you're stoned like me atm then you can stream pretty much all of the latest series on InstaFlixxer. I've been watching with my girlfriend for the last few days :)
these guys are an example of what DC Public School education used to have every neighborhood in the city had their own band because of the music programs in the school. every neighborhood had their own GoGo band
True. This is how it used to be. Then certain people decided that the public schools or "urban" schools weren't good enough for their kids. They moved away, withdrew their tax dollars, or stayed and started voting to de-fund the public schools. Next thing you know, the music programs disappear from the public schools. Meanwhile, those other folks' kids got the best of everything at their private, "magnet", or charter schools. Fast-forward 25 or so years later and those kids are the adults claiming they're "saving the music." Who are they? Think Dap-Tone. Think Snarky Puppy. Think Vulpeck. Folks gotta pay attention!
@@Odawg96 Sadly, not completely true. "Music class" has disappeared from almost every schools' class lineup. Nobody gets it. That's why kids can't play instruments any more and "high school rock band" has become an anachronism.
@@caribman10 It might depend on where you are. There are school bands in the Baltimore-Washington area, though not everyone has them. Full-time music teachers/band instructors are hard to find. I’ll meet you in the middle of the road: for today’s generation studying music is a LUXURY.
@@Odawg96 Moving away from crime infested areas and/or deteriorating schools is everyone's right to do. Nobody owes the Urban Black community ANYTHING. You sound bitter that people who didn't want their children victimized or dumbed down decided to move away. You come across as a pathetic loser who refuses to acknowledge truth and take responsibility for yourself. Maybe if you paid more taxes, your area would have better schools? Yeah, we know that's not going to happen. Because you can only take & destroy, instead of contributing and building. You're part of the problem, not the solution.
Best video on the web! I grew up with Go Go and TroubleFunk was the best (okay Chuck Brown and EU were also the best...). Always get homesick for DC when I hear these songs.
I truly feel sorry for all the young people who will never be able to experience Big Tony, T-Bone and the mob live. It was a hell of an experience.Believe me. TF defined syncopation.
@Joseph Somerville III Not really "ahead of their time"... GoGo has just *"Digressed"* over the last two or three decades. Hence the reason GoGo has been on life support, while other genres of music have strived.
This is Missy from SE DC, this video is TIGHT aka SMACK. This video needs to be all over the Internet aka all over the world. WE LOVE U CHUCK BROWN. n da BAND n the world misses U dearly. With LUV from Washington DC
OK, if that's how Trouble was representin' in Japan... props. I was in the Navy by '88...crawling around air-craft trying to work up a marketable skill when some asshat started a war. All I wanted with any of that garbage was to get my hands on the flight simulator technology to express music on a different level. I can't believe it took THIS freakin' long to get there! WTH? Blerds like me played hooky at the Air and Space Museum...LOL
MY man! TheChoke77, you have got a supporter in me. This band definitely belongs on the GoGo Mount Rushmore. with Chuck Brown, Experience Unlimited, and Rare Essence. Great upload!
Being from Virginia, and a little older than most of you. I never heard of an all girls Go-Go Band. Did one ever exsist??? Like I said I'm older than most of you. I remember Chuck Brown, The Junkyard Band, and Trouble Funk..
also Precise was one... there were a handful of them. i know one of the girls at my high school used to play congos in one of them - she used to get me the best PA tapes.
THIS IS WHEN GO ,GO .... WAS THE WAY OUR WASHINGTON DC GROVE IS....THEN ADDING OTHER PEOPLE GROVE 🙄...NAW...KEEP OUR STUFF LIKE IT STARTED AS....OUR GRANDFATHER OF GO, GO ♥️🖤💚✊🏼 WASN'T ALWAYS SINGING GLORYING 😫 THIS THAT'S NOT GOOD FOR ALL MANKIND ♥️......THAT'S WHY JAPANESE LET THEM COME THERE 😉GO,GO ♥️ BACK THEN AND STILL TODAY NEVER HURT NO BODY....KEEP BAD STUFF 😉OUT OF OUR WASHINGTON DC GO,GO GROVE♥️🖤💚✊🏼.....
This stuff stopped a gang war when I took it up to Summermath with me. Mt Holyoke was Ivy League, but I got to hang with the Puerto Rican kids there for Upward Bound. I got permission to play in town and they warned me of a game against their Black rival team. LOL I was done with that mess and took some DC Go-Go on a tape recorder as usual. By the end of the game, my tape was on a red team's GINORMOUS disco boom box and no fight. "Shorty, what up with that?" I was like, IDK, PR likes me?
I love Go-Go music!!!❤️❤️❤️ But "Drop the Bomb" was a bit weird.....especially since America did in fact "Drop an Atomic Bomb" on they ass!!! 😳😱 Thank God the Japanese didn't take this to heart!!! We are Allies now! 🤝🤛🏾🤜🏾👊🏾✊🏾 #❤️TroubleFunkForever
Aww you propogating some first class mindfarkery, my dear. mileswmathis.com/bikini.pdf mileswmathis.com/trinity.pdf Maybe dig a little deeper fo you spread dat. Sayin... Much love. GoGo4LIFE/CRANK. ...
Growing up on Ground Zero, you'd think they would have known better. smdh But we were dropping the bomb on the bad politics killing music at the time. That's when the bobble-head doll started the arms race. That song was out before we graduated in '83.
Lmfao. Funk? Yeah right. Those matches warm up sweat suits sure are special. If you want funk gotta go with the grandmaster o.g's P.Funk.baby. this is just silly and corny. Id rather listen to earth wind and fire, hell I'd take Tower of Power over this. This is funk only to people who've had their souls removed.
Willie Waycup Outside of Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers, you will not find a tighter, more cohesive go-go style funk sound in music history. These guys are standard bearers for the go-go genre, and can certainly hold their own against many of the bigger more commercialized bands.
+Willie Waycup everybody love to hate on gogo but do your homework p funk wouldnt play after trouble funk,,,but u live in your world..we gonna keep crankin here in dc
