Meeting with Ed Stewart
Uncle Jed's Roadhouse, 7525 Old Georgetown Rd, Bethesda, MD 20815

I met Ed Stewart of Sticky Candy this morning at 11:30 AM. He is the co-producer with Big G of an in-progress documentary on GoGo called 68 Square Miles. He is from DC, born and raised on GoGo, but is currently a film student at AFI in Los Angeles. We talked for a while about his project. His documentary is on the history of GoGo. He had a local film crew film the performance this past Sunday at Fur with Suttle Thoughts, Familiar Faces, and L!ssen. He said the total performance parts from his documentary may only be fifteen minutes of the total ninety minutes. He has already interviewed Chuck Brown - two or three months ago. He also found out that Chuck was not the first to start GoGo and will interview the pioneer. I told him that I had heard that Chuck was like Miles Davis with Jazz Fusion, he wasn't the first, but his adoption of it gave credence to the genre. Chuck also talked about an outstanding bass player at the Vegas Lounge who never made it big. He will also devote his documentary to DC's taxation without representation. He told me about an email he received from Darrin Jackson at Largo District Records, when I discussed the Joe Clair LA GoGo label rumor. He knows Rich Harrison from high school and Harrison's success spurred Ed to do this documentary. He also interviewed Breeze, whose whole interview was a commercial against the Alcoholic Beverage Commission. Breeze also told him about a woman (I later learned her name is Rachel Story) who has been working on a documentary on GoGo for nine years! Ed is planning to finish his next year. He also talked about the name GoGo music being from Smokey Robinson, but ultimately related to GoGo dancing as in GoGo girls with GoGo boots. He also got an excellent unrehearsed sound bite from China Boogie at the Ayre Rayde reunion. He said that DC was behind the times - they didn't start listening, much less liking rap until 1990, therefore they are a decade behind. We discussed the violence both perceived and real at GoGos. He said that the people who commit violence at GoGos are cheating themselves out of entertainment opportunities. He also said they deserve to go to prison. He said he is a fan of police now; his viewpoint has changed since he was younger. He wants to talk about all the existing types of GoGo including Gospel GoGo. He has not watched the previous documentaries on GoGo as he does not them to influence his existing creative vision. He is very straightforward and professional - we discussed me possibly doing research for him, but I would have to sign a non-compete clause, so I passed. He knows exactly what he's doing. There will be a Citypaper article on his project coming to print shortly. He said I am already working on a documentary since I have filmed my interviews. I wish him and his project the best of the luck.

He was shocked and critical when I told him this blog is edited, that D-Floyd and others don't want me to include their comments critical of other bands and other things of a personal nature. I only censor those kinds of comments from rehearsal & the studio - anything they say in public is obviously fair game. But I don't just censor that- they are things only I know that I don't choose to share with the world. If I didn't censor my blog, there are things they simply wouldn't tell me. He said therefore my blog is not actually a blog. He said finding this out was like finding out Santa Claus isn't real. He said I am really only a commercial for Familiar Faces. There are things I don't tell on my blog that I do tell in person to people. It does give me something to think about. Given his view, the only thing I didn't include that he told me is the name of his potential executive producer/distributor - a big name.