Rehearsal in Hyattsville
Private location

Familiar Faces
Present at the rehearsal were Donnell, Duane Face, Pooh, DP, Mike, Adia, Bojack, BJ, Godfather, and Tara. I thought Tara & Duane were now members of Familiar Faces, but Tara is a guest rapper and Duane, who has been practicing with the band since November, was filling in while Doc was in Florida. Tara was learning the Roll Call dance from DP. Since I had seen her dance with the group on Wednesday, but having been in the audience, I asked her if she was now a member of the group. She said, "I guess so" (I have been further informed that she is a guest rapper/dancer for the group).

The practice area has a lot of comforts, including couches, a fridge and bathrooms. Besides working on rehearsing cover tunes, they worked on deciding strategy for performances including costume and song selection. One of the most important things I picked up was how and what Donnell directs within the musical performances.

I also got a chance to speak with them together about what I would like to do (this is first time I could speak with almost all of them without music playing while trying to talk to them).

After the rehearsal was over, I went outside and talked with Duane Face for a while, about GoGo and the music industry in particular. He talked about how weird it was that people mostly hand out flyers at GoGo performances or in cars parked at them - "Basically that you have to go to a GoGo to find out where other GoGos are happening." He told me his favorite group was Northeast Groovers, that "They had a great dynamic, every show was different, they could play the same setlist two nights (in a row) and it would be different - they would be inspired by some little thing and react to it." Unfortunately, they broke up earlier this year, but Duane said that they really broke up in 1998; the reunion had only two or three original members. I told him I would bring a music industry book I had since I have no plans for returning to the cutthroat music industry.

Duane Face told me he didn't know the stories of most of the members of the group, except Donnell, "King of the GoGo Beat, everyone knows his story." A number of the members of FF were still hanging out in the parking lot when I left.