Saturday at Reggie's
Reggie's Sports Kafe, 4881 Glen Dale Rd, Bowie, MD 20720

Reggie's is fairly close to Safari Steakhouse. I arrived a little after 10 PM. The support staff was setting up - they had to move the two stacks of three speakers as the bottoms of the hanging lamps were below the tops of the stacks. There was a really thick audio cord.

Elevation Band
Elevation Band's members showed up at about 11:15 PM. One of the vocalists, Chi Ali, came over and introduced himself to me. Their female vocalist was in a really bad mood sitting at the table by me (since their lead talker had only recently been murdered, I can understand that). She basically had to be persuaded to come on stage. One of Reggie's bartenders made them move the audio cord so that people would not trip over it before allowing Elevation to start performing. While they warmed up, there was a lot of distortion. While the distortion was gone when they started playing, the one audio guy worked on the audio (and standing in the middle of the band) during their entire set. Their line up featured four vocalists (one female), a guitarist (who played behind the right speaker with his back to the audience), two keyboard players (each with two keyboards), a drummer (who was shirtless) and a percussionist. Most of the members of Familiar Faces arrived during their set; Chi Ali did a shout to D-Floyd as soon as he saw him walk in. Adia walked up and handed her tambourine to Chi Ali. Ali appeared to have his eyes completely shut at times when he spoke. They were pretty crankin'. All of the band members appeared to be in their 20s. I did miss a little of their set when I went over to the buffet, which was almost completely gone anyway.

Familiar Faces
A lot of FF's regulars were there: DeeDee, Michelle, another one of the party goers from Thursday (whose name I don't know). Ron "Moe" Moten, the organizer of the cook out on the 27th, was there as well. Nephew said he was glad I had posted (Michael) Jordan's field goal percentage and that it was over 50% before he played for the Wizards. FF's line up was: Mike, Adia, Donnell, DP, Dwayne, Doc, Godfather, BJ, Pooh, Bojack, and Charlie. Bojack added bongos, congas and roto-toms to the equipment Elevation used and Pooh had some of his own snare drums and all his own cymbals. I recognized Charlie immediately as the second percussionist from the cookout, and went over to talk to him (that's how I know his name). The crowd really gathered for them - and they gave a really crankin' performance (Bojack and Charlie played in both sets) - up to their maximum crankin' level (although Club Levels is still their best performance I've been to this Summer). During the first set, Doc came up and sang lead vocals on one song. In the second set, a male guest danced behind the front line for a time. They performed in darkness until around 2:45 AM when all of the lights came on. They did a false ending, and then performed the rest of their closing tune, Terror Squad's Lean Back.

A friend of Donnell's named Tom-Tom asked for a copy of the tape of tonight's performance. Donnell said that Googie hadn't taped it, that Googie isn't the same Googie anymore, he used to drive the truck, carry the equipment, uncoil the wires, work the sound equipment and tape performances all at the same time. Tom-Tom said that Googie said he had a minidisc recording of the performance, to which Donnell said, "He's lying." Donnell suggested maybe Go-Go Nate or Go-Go Orlando (the pride of Charles County) could tape next time.

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