Wednesday at Takoma Station
In the evening, I went to see Familiar Faces at Takoma Station, 6914 4th St NW, Washington, DC 20012

Familiar Faces
As usual, they started off with their Jazz set, but even that cranked, particularly their rendition of Grover Washington, Jr.'s Mr. Magic - the tune that is supposed to have set the beat for GoGo. Another guy in the audience, Brandon, asked me for details on the band. Donnell razzed GoGo Mickey in the audience, talking about a band he used to belong to, the now-defunct Reality Band (I have some of their PA's, they crank). He said they only played at one place, "The Bus Stop", that any place beyond The Black Hole is Silver Spring. He said GoGo Mickey was only allowed off the porch on Saturdays. He also picked on "Big Pimp Don", saying I know your name is really Donald, to which Don pulled out his license.

As usual, the GoGo set cranked, with GoGo Mickey sitting in for a few songs. They closed with Prince's Purple Rain, with a heavy guitar solo at the end by Clarence "Boolah" Roper, but Donnell picked on his use of effect pedals - "Jimi Hendrix, one pedal, etc." I had looked over the pedals during a break - there are a lot of them in Boolah's set-up.