Wednesday at Takoma Station
Takoma Station, 6914 4th St NW, Washington, DC 20012

Familiar Faces
This was an easy drive and I parked in a residential area nearby. Again, I arrived early (9:30 PM) to get a cheaper cover. I had a cheeseburger dinner and watched Game 7 of the Minnesota-Sacramento series. This crowd was more dressed up than Monday's. A number of people, including one woman in particular named Ebony, were really routing for Minnesota. One guy (Lt. Clark) who came in was immediately friendly to me - he wore an orange collared shirt, and bought me a drink (soda, I don't drink alcohol). He was one of the few people who really danced. The sets in this performance were not as separated as Monday's. This performance was supposed to be for Donnell Floyd's birthday (he said it was actually Monday). Jazz, their sound man, came up to me and said I looked familiar. I told him I was at the Market Lounge on Monday, but he said that's not it, "Am I a musician?" I said no - don't I wish I were! One of the songs they performed for him was Seals & Crofts' Summer Breeze, with Tony Sharpe (a former vocalist for 911) sitting in. For me, the highlight of the evening was their performance of Simon & Garfunkel's Mrs. Robinson to the GoGo beat. I waited after, so I could talk to Donnell Floyd (I got his cell number so we could talk further about my project). I caught that the music is not the only enjoyable part of the performance - Donnell's talks (particularly after the music ends) are very humorous. He said that the guy in the orange shirt, whom he identified as a police lieutenant (Lt. Clark) was GoGo Nate. I read this post on the PA Palace discussion board later that GoGo Nate was a humorous rapper who apparently now sells PA tapes for $5 over by Dunbar High School. The performance was over before 1 AM, and I drove home. The bassist looked familiar to me, and so I looked on the web and recognized him as the leader of Physical Wunders, which I assumed obviously had broken up if he was with FF. However, he subsequently told me after reading this on the blog that it was not true, see for more details.