Mambo Sauce at Mirrors
Mirrors, 33 New York Avenue N.E. Washington, DC 20002

Darrell gave me photos from October 6th and October 20th, click on the links to see them.

I lost my notes between the club and home, so this is off the top of my head.

This was a performance for Mambo Sauce and L!ssen Da Grew^P both to just perform originals.

The security guy at the door said, "Back again?"

Mambo Sauce
Most of the members of Mambo Sauce were sitting on couches on the dsnce floor.

Black Boo introduced Yendy to me. Red was playing guitar. He said he had to let Drew go, his other commitments were interfering with Mambo Sauce. This will be their last show of the year and he will have auditions. He thought it would be really difficult to replace Thi Lai and he got Yendy.
Sashay Shaunte, her friends Melanie and Autumn (she said she works for L!ssen Da Grew^p), Sam (Black Heart), Jay113, PG Slim, Danielle (Wellfhed), Damont (02), Thatshotsexie, Audrey (Da Remixx), Bobbie Westmoreland, and Sherray (Always Showtime!!) were there.

02 said, "Do you know who that is over there?" I said, "Thatshotsexie". He said, "She likes having her picture taken." He pulled out his phone and took her picture. She said, "Let me see, Damont." I said, "She called you by your real name." He said, "I know, I had to think about it a sec..."

02 introduced me to Rasheed, L!ssen Da Grew^P's manager. He said he reads my comments everyday. He's not offended by my opinion of L!ssen, he said basically to each his own, which is how I feel as well.

Their sound check, which was long, was mostly instrumental. Black Boo told the sound man to do the rear mic, as Pep was "trying to be" on vocals.
Yendy did a cover, which Black Boo mocked. Then Yendy sang, "I'm a little teapot". Black Boo sang another song. They also performed Things Will Get Better.

Black Boo, Yendy, Pep, Red


Chris, Khari, Black Boo, Yendy, Pep, Red

They started a few minutes late so that the crowd would build.

Mambo Sauce's Set

Red and Pep
1) Instrumental - Red wore sunglasses
Black Boo and Yendy went onstage.
2) Yendy-led sung intro
3) Black Boo-led Letter to Go-Go - Black Boo said, "You can have your Go-Go awards, next year we're going for the Grammies."
Black Boo said, "We call anyone who tries to do anything different a 'Bama."
4) M.A.M.B.O.
4) Black Boo-led Things Will Get Better
5) Black Boo-led Damn Joe - Black Boo said this was on the radio and asked the audience to request it.
6) Black Boo-led Sweet Baby - Yendy introduced it by saying, "This is my favorite."
7) Yendy-led No
8) Yendy-led Cool Points
9) Yendy-led Fairweather
10) Black Boo-led Long Time Comin' - alternating between cranking and laid back
11) Black Boo-led Go - Black Boo introduced it with his usual speech about liking all things DC except George Bush, when the response was tepid, he said, "Y'all act like you voted for the n*gga."
Their entire performance cranked (aside from the intentionally laid back portions of Long Time Comin'). Pep played both the congas and toms and did backup vocals for one song.
Black Boo mentioned like national acts, they pause between songs. Personally, I would prefer they didn't.

After their performance, I went to see who else was there and leave.

Ro'chelle (toosweet) was working the table selling Mambo Sauce t-shirts.

Rah from the WHAT? Band was there. I said hi to Smoke from Familiar Faces. DJ Deuce Juan introduced himself to me. I talked to Simone (Stallion). She said, "They sound like Rock" (I assume she means because of power guitar chords). She said a combination of GoGo and Rock. I told her about Buzz's (Patrice Bowie's manager) plan to have Little Benny and Sugar Bear in a GoGo Rock band. In fact, Patrice Bowie's label is named GoGo Rock.

Here's 2's review:
BOY OH BOY!!!!!!! WOW!!!!!! I must say the show lived up to the hype and THEN SOME!

Let me start off by saying I knew I was in the right building when I seen Rah, Mistro, Smoke, Khiri, Chris, Blackwell, and Reds all together...I yelled out NORTHEAST to the stage Stomp on his way and Rapper goes "Lets go We Ready!" Anyyyyyyway!!!!

Man this was the place to be clearly last night...The GoGo Stars were out to support in droves...Buggy and Coop (BYB), Buggs (JYB),Tre, PlayernDC, Rashad, Chuckin Drew, Eric, and Moolie of UCB, as mentioned earlier the NEG clan, Pretti Nikki of Suttle Thoughts as well as a few others who slipped pass my mind.

When I get there its like 11ish and the crowd is starting to pick up. I First must say that everything about Mambo Sauce is professional. There instruments were set up and already soundchecked while they mingled in the crowd. So when it was time to start, they went straight up and started. They came out with an intro that was guitar heavy along with random shots thrown in by the drummer and music section. Next Black Boo stepped out to the edge of the stage and shared a poem that he wrote to GOGO. ..Deep joe... it talked about his frustrations with GOGO and the Area itself. Then they dove into their set which consisted of approximately 10 songs. Each song had a different feel to it and different style. All songs were complete with Hooks, verses, Bridges, vamps, and some more. I recognized the only 2 songs I knew which were Damn Joe and Go. My man Lil Pep was accompaning Black and Yendi on the vocals... CLASSIC...but he held his own though... Not bad at all matter of fact. After each song they stopped so the crowd could show appreciation to each song as they heard them. They put on an exhibition. Their hard efforts in practice and the studio really showed. They don't cut the GOGO at ALL! Man they rock sockets, pockets, and timbalies to the FULLEST. They just put it in a format for an entire show. What an EXPERIENCE...