My gosh... I grew up despising go-go music, because it was all anybody in the D.C. area seemed to care about musically. Keep in mind I was into Prince and Hendrix when everyone at my school and neighborhood was into Chuck Brown, E.U., Little Benny and the Masters, Trouble Funk, Persuasion, etc.

The high school I went to was full of would-be go-go percussionists. E'rybody (to stay true to the D.C. lingo) considered himself the next big thing in fashioning beats. And, every group that got any kind of airplay -- even some friends of mine who made a bit of a name for themselves, deservedly so -- exceled at superimposing covers on go-go's trademark Afro-Cuban, percussion-heavy beat. I despised it.

Until I moved away from home. And, then, my heart practically would leap at the sound of the go-go beat. I had been too young to appreciate the jazzy chord changes, the funky breaks that inform area gospel groups and other musical outlets, or the BEAT. That beat is insidious and infectious. Yes, it's never-changing, like house's beat, but it's a stylistic home base. And, despite my earlier disdain for it, it's part of me.

And sure enough, it's to be found on YouTube. So, allow me to introduce to some, and present to others, Chuck Brown and his Soul Searchers (with help, if I'm to believe the link from the P-Funk horns) covering "Moody's Mood for Love."

Chuck is to go-go what James is to funk, what Selena was to Tejano music. A real talent with a real music legacy. God bless him.

My gosh.



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[Edited 6/12/06 20:28pm]

Have you heard the Bonus Track Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus from...



...The Best of Chuck Brown comp?


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

Man, I didn't. I didn't get DSL in time...

it don't mean a thing if ain't got the go-go swing....doo wop doo wop doo wop.



while were at it...

http://www.youtube.com/wa...%20essence

http://www.youtube.com/wa...ble%20funk

http://www.youtube.com/wa...%20essence

http://www.youtube.com/wa...ble%20funk

http://www.youtube.com/wa...ck%20brown

http://www.youtube.com/wa...ble%20funk

theAudience said:

i need to cop this.

man...y'all got me started on a go-go craze....check this one out

http://www.youtube.com/wa...ard%20band

we need some Go-Go here in Vegas!!

don't forget about the Groovers

http://www.youtube.com/wa...20groovers