Tradewinds Night Club, 5859 Allentown Way, Camp Springs, MD 20748
Toya, Tasha, Natalie, Tracy, Melanie, Tiffany, Peg Leg, Dog, Troy, Skaci, Nikia, Tasha, Bianca, and Shawn were there.
Familiar Faces
In addition to their regular line up, they have added a trombone player and back up vocalist named Mike.
Sound Check
Donnell-led Rare Essence's I'm Getting Ready (tease)
First set
1) Donnell-led Rare Essence's Hey Tamika - it cranked, Packy played 2nd percussion (just this song) / Percussion solo - the crowd shouted, "Wind me up, Smoke!", Donnell said, "We got to slow this down, y'all already too hyped up" -->
Archie was there.
2) Halima-led Cheri Dennis' I Love You - it cranked, Sean played guitar, Doc was on backup vocals
Jan and Keisha were there.
3) Donnell-led "Hey ay, Ho oh"
Matthew was there.
4) Sean-led Omarion's Entourage - it cranked, Donnell chanted, "Wait a minute!" / Percussion solo - Donnell said, "What you doing over there?", Sean played guitar, the crowd shouted, "Wind me up, Smoke!" and Donnell responded, "Do what? Say what?" -->
5) Alternating Donnell-led Public Enemy's Welcome to the Terrordome - it cranked / Smoke played a wicked conga solo - the crowd shouted, "wind me up, Smoke!"
6) Sean-led Justin Timberlake's Sexy Back - it cranked (I still hate it), Donnell stopped it to calm someone down / Donnell-led Gangsta - Dog danced on the stage floor, Donnell chanted, "Wait a minute!" / Percussion solo -->
7) Donnell-led Nicole the Bartender (tease) - it cranked -->
8) Donnell & DP-led Brown & White - it cranked, the frontline, Doc, Dwayne, and Packy danced in synch, Halima sang, "Who's that boy?" (making fun of Donnell) / Ride Out / Northeast Groovers' The Water
9) The crowd shouted, "Wind me up, Smoke!" but Donnell said, "Not yet!", Halima said, "Either you got it or you don't" / Halima-led Nelly Furtado's Say It Right / Sean-led Phil Collins' In the Air Tonight (tease) - Sean asked Dwayne to do it on the guitar, Dwayne played the solo to Say It Right / Drum solo
Jackie was there.
NeeNee, Kay, Kim, Big Don Pimp, Shameika, Tasha (L), and Trea were there.
I'm not sure who was working the sound 'cause I saw both Junior and Googie.
Second set
Donnell talked about how Taurus is the best sign.
1) The Temptations' Papa Was a Rolling Stone (instrumental tease)
2) "Reggae" - instrumental / Halima sang something / "Reggae" - it cranked, Packy played the cowbell / Sean-led Damien Marley's Beautiful / Percussion solo / "But is it like that, is it really like that?" / Shawnna's Getting Some (tease)
3) Halima-led Beyonce's Ring the Alarm - it cranked / DJ Unk's Walk It Out (tease)
Slick Rick was there.
4) Donnell-led "___ Is Yes!" - it cranked / "You make me want to see, just how freaky you can be" / "Keep it low" / "Oh my my my" - interrupted by a fight, Donnell said, "Y'all don't understand how close we came to losing all of this. If we could have a witness only show..."
Pocahontas was there.
5) Alternating Donnell & Sean-led Tattoo - it cranked / Percussion solo - Donnell chanted, "Eya eya" -->
6) Halima-led Mis-Teeq's Style - it cranked, Donnell chanted, "Wait a minute!" / Percussion solo - Packy played the cowbell, Skaci danced with me
7) Sean-led T-Pain Featuring Yung Joc's Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin') - the house lights came on
8) Donnell & Sean-led Do You Think About Me? - it had a light crank, Donnell said, "Freak the bassline, Doc!", Donnell said, "Dwayne Lee, fly sh*t!", Donnell joked to KayKay, "Your Dad was mad last night. We pulled a bed out and had a girl on it; he took his belt out..." (I thought he was speaking metaphorically until I read the review of Friday's show below), Donnell said, "Taste of a new generation"
I met Natalie's friend Fay.
Ray was there.
Here is the review by Ras Lidj (of Ras Lidj & Deep Band) that I read on TMOTT about Chuck's Album Release Party for We're About the Business.
This show featured Familiar Faces and Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers at the 9:30 Club, 815 V ST NW, Washington DC 20001
Did I GO!!!!!!! Whew Lawd ...Yes!!!!!! that was W U S T all over again
I will say this night will go down as one of the greatest nights in go-go this year so far......(but then again I really don't get out much )
Ofcourse, I had full access through out the building stage, dressing rooms the whole 9....... FF put on a stage show performance and displayed why they are where they are and what it really takes to perform on a show of that magnitude......I haven't seen a gogo that packed since Cherries or the Howard theatre, Coleseum sell out days seriously ..it was wall to wall tight in there..and guess what.....Not One problem at all or as I like to say No Problem Mon!......
FF dressed in all black suits D. Floyd bold enough to sport ruffles down the front of his, likewise kalil with the buttons on the sleeve.... laugh if you may but this was some seriously big boy chit going on here.....black suits with ganster brim top hats...they came out off stage stepping once they hit there spots on stage the music stop to a round of applause. the next song starts and here comes Ms. Halima Peru with her trademark big hair and a 40's style dress straight off the Mowtown wardrobe rack....NICE! she crosses the stage checks her men tilting hats and checking ties then goes to work........don't ask me for the playlist ..better yet just call it CRANK....I was in the zone by this time....at the end of the set a bed is rolled onto the stage and D ask for 1 volunteer from the audience, just then, I'm moving through the audience right pass one of the phattest Battibottoms in the building so I point over her head and he says "her right there Rae, bring her on up" the girl went on stage got under the covers undressed pants and top....as the band seranades her with that hit they do that I love....."Shhhhhhhhhh.......what you think 'bout me.......late in the midnite......" yes a show stopper....he goes on after that to pay maximum homage to Fadda CHUCK for paving the way. the only thing that could have even possible attempted to follow that act could only be Chuck himself........oh yeah Floyd made sure to stack the deck with stage show energy by adding my counterpart and friend......Mike "Hardstep" who blows trombone just as hard as he steps.....and who also led the band in group prayer before going one.
( thanks DP for letting me get up in your count .....RED STRIPE, RED STRIPE)
Next Up....Chuck. (aM I tired of typing or at a lost for words) not only the crank but he brings so much more to the stage. The warm up the intro, the crowd the anticipation, the old heads whom you haven't seen since the migratation of the orginal Washingtonians to the suburbs. JuJu one of the only current living legendary pioneering drummers around, who started out with a pocket that payed homage and brought Foots back to memory instantly, Mighty Mo--Maaayyunn, Sweet Cherie- Ok now I need oxygen, Brian mills and the rest of the supreme horn team.....It was Pops Night he had It and OWNED IT.....Benny was there ofcourse in his suit and tie. Chucks stage dress code was also black suits.....
Big up to big Pres who was in the house, Dirty Rico the Mc-very good job... and To Tall Steve who was in the building as well.
...ps during a between set reasoning in the dressing room with Jock and Smoke we talked gogo and I mentioned to smoke that it was recently stated that NEG was a crucial turning point for gogo.....and he schooled me on the chemistry of exactly how that happened.....So Now its a must that I go see the What Band...based off of what he told me
Again this (IMO) will go down as one of the greatest nights in gogo this year.
Later, I saw this picture (Copyright - Familiar Faces):
