Tuesday at Rehearsal

This is the last rehearsal entry for the forseeable future.

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Familiar Faces
When I arrived, Dwayne, Googie, Godfather and Lorenzo were already in the rehearsal room.
Googie is going to be subbing for Doc on bass on November 9th. Godfather had a different keyboard.
Doc was the next to arrive.
Dwayne's guitar was not his normal guitar. I later asked him about the end of the neck, which is tapered.
They were playing awfully loudly.
Halima sang along to Godfather's playing.
Donnell next arrived.
They went over the Halima-led songs for Googie: Erykah Badu's Didn't Cha Know - Doc sang along
Next they went over Jill Scott's Whatever.
Duane Face arrived, but he didn't bring his keyboard inside.
Halima scolded us for talking. I talked about the MTV GoGo documentary that Duane had asked about on TMOTT.
Next they went over: Faith Evans' Again and Mesmerized, Fantasia's Free Yourself - again Doc sang along, and Mariah Carey's It's Like That - I identified the title for Doc.
DP arrived.
They next worked on Lil Kim's Lighters Up. Doc asked if Lorenzo plays what he was playing "onstage" (at performances). Lorenzo said, "Yeah, I do it all the time."
Next they rehearsed Erykah Badu's Cleva.
I mentioned other songs of hers including Whitney Houston's You Give Good Love, which they haven't performed in a while. Lorenzo put his finger to his lips. Halima said, "You don't like that song?"
Next they rehearsed Jill Scott's Golden - Donnell sang along.
Stomp arrived.
Donnell said, "We might not do that part (when Googie performs this with them)."
Halima said, "That's the best part."

Doc said, "(Lorenzo) You don't know what a bassline is."
Doc told Stomp he was killing. Doc showed the throat slash gesture, then laughed at the look on Stomp's face.
Halima laughed at DP.
They worked on Bernard Ighner's Everything Must Change. Halima sang Rodgers & Hart's My Funny Valentine.
Halima was talking on the phone; Doc said, "She's on the phone, I thought she was adlibbing."
They worked on Floetry's Say Yes.
Donnell said that DP, Godfather and Dwayne are improvising at the same time. He said they need to better communicate. Donnell said, "She's still in Free Yourself until she gets into 'All you need to do is say yes'". Donnell said they need to communicate in any song, not all adlib at the same time. DP said he just adlibs in the chorus.
Godfather played Bobby Valentino's Tell Me.
Lorenzo asked me why I didn't use a note pad.
Donnell said, "We're playing (Kraftwerk's) Trans-Europe Express wrong."
Donnell asked me about the rehearsal entry for the Fur performance on October 9th. I assured him that the rehearsal entry wasn't posted until after the actual performance.
Doc said he can't hear Godfather (during performances of this).
Donnell said, "You're the loudest."
Doc said, "Now he says that."
Donnell said, "You're always the loudest."
They next worked on Toto's Georgy Porgy intro and Bobby Valentino's Slow Down.
Donnell asked Googie, "Do you know Georgy Porgy?"
Googie said, "I ain't played that since (James) Funk."
They did the full Georgy Porgy.
Donnell said, "Do you know Ruff Endz (Someone to Love You)?"
Googie said, "Let me hear it."
Doc said to Lorenzo: "I forgot you played bass."
I asked Lorenzo how he would match up with Verdine White (this goes back to an earlier conversation). Lorenzo said he'd smoke him.
Donnell said, "We don't (or shouldn't) stop it at the end of the song in a GoGo set."
Donnell said, "Raheem DeVaughn (Ask Yourself)."
They worked on it, Donnell sang.
Donnell asked Googie if he knew John Legend's Used to Love U. They went over it.
Smoke arrived.
They worked on Trina Was Great.
Dwayne asked if Googie knew Marvin Gaye (I Want You).
Doc said, "That's his alley."
They next worked on Gwen Stefani's Hollaback Girl.
Donnell said, "I don't care where we go (meaning Prince's Take Me With You"
Donnell sang it. "Play the music" is the line he says to go into an instrumental part of the song. I've had trouble figuring that out up until now.
They next worked on Hold the Note.
Lorenzo said he can't play everything in that with just one keyboard.
Doc said, "Alicia Keys". They worked on Alicia Keys' Unbreakable. Halima came back and sang that. Doc sang along too. Halima was really getting into it. Godfather said she (Alicia Keys) just did a live album. That album is Unplugged, released on October 11th.
Mike arrived.
Donnell asked Googie about (Rare Essence's) Do It on Down.
Mike said, "You got that out of the closet."
Doc said to Lorenzo, "You're too young to remember that RE man."
Donnell asked Doc, "You know Do It on Down?"
Donnell said, "You can lead Do It on Down Mike?"
Doc kidded, "You know I ain't got my bass, that's just something sitting there."
Lorenzo said, "That's it?" (meaning the end of rehearsal).
Doc said, "Not for you."
Donnell said that anyone needing rooms can get a discount.
Stomp said, "I need two." Mike laughed.
I talked with Duane about PA Palace’s general discussion being up again. I said one of the things I read about was Original Backaholic Mike Mike and his video collection. Duane said Mike Mike has every GoGo video. He said that he went to so many Backyard shows, they started letting him in for free. I told Duane about a guy I met at Safari Steakhouse who has been their every Friday for five years; he estimated to me that he’s spent $5,000 going there. We talked about Mambo Sauce. Duane didn’t know that Red was the manager, not a member of the band. I asked Duane if he was a fan of SOULO. He said yes, until the original members started dropping out.