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Summer 2004 and Beyond: Going to the GoGo
Monday, 27 February 2006
Sunday at the Classics
The Classics 4591 Allentown Rd., Camp Springs, MD 20746

Yvette, Felecia, Ro'chelle (Toosweet), and Sherray (Always Showtime!!) were there. Bobby Smoot was there, fixing the speakers. Shawn was there. She said she wanted to see the real (Classics' Sunday) crowd since last week there was a holiday on Monday. The crowd was understandably smaller than last week. Tony was there.

Familiar Faces
Sound Check
1) Donnell acapella Rare Essence's I'm Getting Ready (tease)
2) Blues instrumental
3) Instrumental - grooving
4) Sly & the Family Stone's If You Want Me to Stay - instrumental

First Set
1) Alternating Mike-led Glenn Lewis' Don't You Forget It - Donnell joked, "Bobby Smoot had some technical difficulties, it was not the band", Bobby Smoot smiled / Percussion Solo - Donnell said to some woman at the bar to the right of the entrance, "You better turn and face or I'm going to talk about you all night.", it cranked
Gary and Sanisse were there.
2) Halima-led Beyonce's Check on It - it cranked / Donnell-led "___ Is in the House" (same music)
John and June were there.
3) Alternating Percussion solo - then keyboard riffs were added / Donnell-led "Brandywine, friends of mine" chant / Donnell-led "It's another hate crime, somebody's got to do the time", Godfather briefly played keyboard riffs from Rare Essence's Body Snatchers / Donnell-led 50 Cent's In Da Club (tease) / Donnell chanted, "Hate crime" repeatedly
4) Alternating Donnell-led "___ on the floor" / NORE's I'm a G - Donnell stood on the right speaker, Donnell said, "Oh my my my", Sean rapped, it cranked / Rare Essence's Hey Tamika (tease)
Slick Rick was there
5) Halima-led Mary Blige's Be Without You / (Jamie Foxx's) Mother's Finest's Love Changes
Yolanda and "original" Nikki were there. I danced with and introduced myself to Byrd. She said she recognized me from the bus trip.
6) Mike-led Eric Benet's I Wanna Be Loved Mike did the "Ten for ten", and said, "We'll take a short beak" since Donnell had his Sax, not his mic on the speaker.

Second Set
Donnell said, "Special dedication to everyone to came out to the Tradewinds last night. Do you hear me Bird?"
1) Sean-led Gerald Levert's Funny - Sean stood on the left speaker, Donnell stood on the right speaker / Percussion solo - it cranked, the crowd shouted, "Wind me up, Smoke!", Donnell said, "Say what? What you say?", Mike said, "Get on down Brandywine, friends of mine", Mike said, "You don't pay your child support" and sang "Shame on you", he added more spoken lines that followed with sung "Shame on you" -->
Peg Leg was there.
2) Mike-led Stevie Wonder's Tell Your Heart I Love You - Mike called out names of crews
3) Donnell-led "Brandywine, friends of mine" chant
4) Halima-led Floetry's Supastar - it really cranked
5) Alternating Donnell-led Trillville's Some Cut / Notorious BIG's Warning / Keith Murray's Call My Name (tease) / "Wait a minute" echoes / Scarface's I Seen a Man Die (tease) - a woman named Nicole called me down to dance with her, I danced with her and Kiana (a singer)
6) Alternating Donnell-led Rare Essence's Work the Walls / Donnell-led Dem Franchize Boyz' Lean With It Rock With It (tease) - Donnell chanted, "We're going to lean with it", He would chant, "Lean with it" and the rest of the front line responded, "Rock with it" repeatedly / Dem Franchise Boyz' I Think They Like Me (tease, same music)
7) Sean-led Trey Songz' Gotta Go - the house lights came on, Donnell said, "Start the busy baby", Donnell said, "I wanted to go to a pocket, but Stomp had an emergency. Stomp gotta go right now."
Donnell started to say something about Vincent and he turned off Donnell's mic.

Another description

Posted by funkmasterj at 4:26 PM EST
Updated: Sunday, 10 June 2007 4:15 PM EDT

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