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Summer 2004 and Beyond: Going to the GoGo
Thursday, 17 November 2005
T-Bob's Birthday at The Legend
The Legend Night Club, 3225 Naylor RD, Temple Hills, MD 20748

I arrived a while after 10 PM, which was the start time according to the flyer. When I got to the sidewalk, the promoter Spanky was there and said hello. I hung out with one of the security guys, who told me that male dancers were performing at the time. The security personnel teased women as they came out of the club including a woman who responded, "I'm 25, a grown woman, I have my own place." Spanky asked me how Venus Hall was; he hadn't been there since he saw me there. When the dancers came out, they all had huge cases for their clothes. They let us in a while after 11 PM. I was the first fan in. This was my first time seeing Junkyard since last July. It was also my first time at the Legend. They wanded even my shoes and women couldn't bring purses in. They searched the band too. They had a mandatory coat check. The Legend is a length-wise rectangle, the stage is at the right end. Two bars lined the wall opposite the entrance, with the DJ booth in the middle near the roof. DJ Lucky was the DJ. The left end had two sets of seats for reserved seating. There was a dance floor of wooden tiles surrounded on all sides by carpet. The dress was casual and the crowd ranged in age from about 25 to 35 mostly. There were over a hundred people there.

Junkyard Band
First Set
Junkyard Band went into a group hug/huddle before they started performing.
The sound was the roughest of any GoGo I've ever been to, but it still cranked. The vocals were really hard to distinguish for me. It was also tough to distinguish the transitions between songs, so I am really unsure even of how many songs there were.
Their line up was: four on the frontline, a cowbell player/vocalists, a bassist, two keyboard players (one with a double keyboard), and a percussionist
1) Instrumental intro - it sounded like Bobby Caldwell's What You Won't Do for Love, the crank started immediately, warming up, Vocals, "Come on now", the frontline danced a synchronized dance
2) "So High"
3) "JY Oh hunh, So-oh-oo"
4) "I think that we're getting ready" - the frontline danced
5) "Get your freak a deak on"
6) "Who that be?" - the crowd responded, they held a mic stand out to the crowd
7) "Do it, don't" - the crowd responded, the frontline danced, they held a mic stand out to the crowd, three of the frontline danced, the cowbell player joined the frontline
8) "JY, get from my barber"
9) "It's the ripper" - the crank increased
10) Young Jeezy's Soul Survivor
11) Instrumental intro "JY" - the crowd responded, they held a mic stand to the crowd
12) War's The World Is a Ghetto
13) Instrumental outtro

Second Set
1) A female vocalist sat in just for Alicia Keys' Unbreakable
2) "Get yourself up" - nice crank, "pick yourself up"
3) "1, 2, 3 Do the do"
4) "Freak on the one"
5) Nelly's Flap Your Wings - "Drop down, get your eagle on girl", "Wait a minute" chant, they played a whistle on a keyboard, the percussionist played roto-toms
6) Bob Marley's Jamming - the percussionist went back to playing congas
7) Lil Kim's Lighters Up - they reversed the order Familiar Faces performs it, the part Halima raps came first, a number of fans and band members held up lit lighters
8) Ruff It Off - they held mics to the crowd, the crowd said, "am ___", the frontline bounced
9) "Hu ah, hey come on"
10) "Rock it down, whoop"
11) Rap - a girl onstage held a lit lighter behind the frontline for much of the set
12) "Who can? They funky man can" - a re-working of Sammy Davis Jr.'s The Candy Man
13) 50 Cent's In Da Club (tease) - T-Bob and Tom Tom, there was a second percussionist
14) "Hu ah"
15) Instrumental keyboard solo
16) "JY, listen to the groove that satisfies"
17) "Whiteboy ____"
One of the vocalists stood, then sat on one of the speakers, just below the ceiling
18) "I don't give a sh*t"
There were a lot more people onstage
19) "Tuesday was a workday (or wasn't working), on a Thursday wasn't worth it", "Eya"
20) "We got the honey"
21) "Gimme the ____"
22) "Loose Booty"
23) Roto-tom transition
24) "JY, listen"
25) "Stop with it girl"
26) "What would you do? - the crowd responded
27) "Pick your ___ crew"
28) "What you say?" - the crowd said, "GoGo Mickey" - it wasn't him playing the congas, conga solo
29) Dem Franchise Boyz' I Think They Like Me
30) Instrumental outtro
It ended about 2:20 AM.
One of the vocalists said, "T-Bob partied his ass off"
I didn't see any of the special guests they said were supposed to sit in, but they did mention Darryl "Blue Eye" Arrington.

I didn't recognize anyone there, even other TMOTTers.

Other perspectives.




Posted by funkmasterj at 12:01 AM EST
Updated: Monday, 5 December 2005 2:32 AM EST

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