Your Game: Live at the 9:30 Club Washington, D.C. [Live]

Track Listings

1. Wind Me Up Chuck/Hoochie Coochie Man

2. Feel Like Movin' That Body

3. Chameleon

4. Get Your Hands Up/Playing Your Game Baby

5. It's Love - Chuck Brown,

6. 2001 (That'll Work)

7. People Make the World Go Round

8. Wind Us Up Funk & Benny

9. One on One - Chuck Brown, , Little Benny

10. Hey Go Go Mickey

11. No Diggity - Big Tony, Chuck Brown

12. Do You Know What Time It Is - Chuck Brown,

13. Go Go Swing Outro - Big Tony, Chuck Brown, , Jas, Little Benny

14. Hah Man [Sinbad, Main Title]

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Perhaps no musician more defines a city and a sound than Chuck Brown does Washington, D.C. and go-go. At the age of 67, the godfather of go-go has entertained three generations and still plays to thousands of fans at least three times a week in the D.C./Maryland/Virginia triangle. Go-go is the same age as hip-hop, and shares all of its urban bombast, but it's a live-band thing, and a community thing too. When disco DJs threatened to displace cabaret bands in the '70s, Chuck invented the kinetic, syncopated go-go backbeat and put together continuous funkified sets of originals and covers linked by generous crowd shout-outs and sizzling percussive breakdowns. This recent set, featuring appearances by Trouble Funk and Rare Essence luminaries, has it all: Chuck's exquisite baritone, brilliant musicianship, go-gofied hip-hop, blues and jazz, and breakbeats you can fit a trailer into. If you don't know anything about go-go or Chuck, Your Game...Live At The 9:30 Club might the best introduction you're ever likely to hear. It's definitely one of the best records of 2001. Special bonus: the multimedia enhancements include two videos that put you right in the middle of all the go-go action. --Jeff Chang

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Your Game: Live at the 9:30 Club Washington, D.C. [Live]

Average customer rating:

YOUR GAME IS ON
THE REAL GO GO MICKEY
Not my game exactly, but I can't stop playing it
Wind me up Chuck........
Mr. Brown is a baa-aad man!

Your Game: Live at the 9:30 Club Washington, D.C.
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Manufacturer: Raw Venture
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005IC2Y
Release Date: 2001-05-15

Tracks:

Wind Me Up Chuck/Hoochie Coochie Man
Feel Like Movin' That Body
Chameleon
Get Your Hands Up/Playing Your Game Baby
It's Love - Chuck Brown,
2001 (That'll Work)
People Make the World Go Round
Wind Us Up Funk & Benny
One on One - Chuck Brown, , Little Benny
Hey Go Go Mickey
No Diggity - Big Tony, Chuck Brown
Do You Know What Time It Is - Chuck Brown,
Go Go Swing Outro - Big Tony, Chuck Brown, , Jas, Little Benny
Hah Man [Sinbad, Main Title]

Amazon.com

Perhaps no musician more defines a city and a sound than Chuck Brown does Washington, D.C. and go-go. At the age of 67, the godfather of go-go has entertained three generations and still plays to thousands of fans at least three times a week in the D.C./Maryland/Virginia triangle. Go-go is the same age as hip-hop, and shares all of its urban bombast, but it's a live-band thing, and a community thing too. When disco DJs threatened to displace cabaret bands in the '70s, Chuck invented the kinetic, syncopated go-go backbeat and put together continuous funkified sets of originals and covers linked by generous crowd shout-outs and sizzling percussive breakdowns. This recent set, featuring appearances by Trouble Funk and Rare Essence luminaries, has it all: Chuck's exquisite baritone, brilliant musicianship, go-gofied hip-hop, blues and jazz, and breakbeats you can fit a trailer into. If you don't know anything about go-go or Chuck, Your Game...Live At The 9:30 Club might the best introduction you're ever likely to hear. It's definitely one of the best records of 2001. Special bonus: the multimedia enhancements include two videos that put you right in the middle of all the go-go action. --Jeff Chang

Customer Reviews:

YOUR GAME IS ON.......2004-05-06

HIS STYLE IS SO HEY WILD,
THE MUSIC MAKES YOU WANT TO SMILE,

GO-GO IS THE REAL BEAT,
THE SOUND MAKES YOU MOVE YOUR FEET.

SOME OF Y'ALL DON'T KNOW
ABOUT THIS MUSIC CALLED GO-GO.

TOO BAD, NOT TOO LATE,
YOU NEED TO FIND OUT, WHILE IT STILL AWAITS.

STEP UP IN DA CLUB;
ASK THE DJ WHAT'S UP.

HE KNOWS ABOUT THIS SYNCOPATED BEAT.
THIS SOUND IS HEARD ALL THROUGH THE STREETS.

SEE YA LATER PEACE OUT.
JUST REMEMBER, GO-GO IS THE REAL STYLE!!!!!

GOGO LAKA

THE REAL GO GO MICKEY.......2003-11-11

THIS IS THE REAL LIVE GROOVE OF GO GO MUSIC. CHUCK BROWN WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN. THE BASS IN HIS VOICE TELLS THE AUDIENCES THAT THIS IS THE CAREER HE HAS BEEN WAITING FOR. THE INSTRUMENTS USED FOR GO GO MUSIC IS OUTSTANDING. I AM A FORMER RESIDENT OF D.C. I AM NOW LIVING IN SUFFOLK, VA, WHICH TO ME IS BAMMA. ANYWAY, CHUCK BROWN, IS THE ONE TRUE GO GO MICKEY. HE IS THE ORIGINGAL GODFATHER OF GO GO. PEACE OUT.

Not my game exactly, but I can't stop playing it.......2003-03-16

Go-go is D.C.'s indigenous funk, but I'll freely admit that I'm way less familiar with it than I really should be. This realization came upon me with astonishing force upon listening to this record, which is unlike anything else I've ever heard except Chuck's actual live show, which I had to check out after hearing this CD.
The audience for this live show seems to be specially selected people who know every rite of the go-go show and who appreciate the cameos from Jas, Funk, Benny, Andre "Whiteboy" Johnson (some irony there), and other special guest artists from old school go-go luminaries such as Trouble Funk. I hope one day to be well-enough versed in go-go to savor such moments.
Coming to this CD from classical and hip-hop, though, there are priceless moments enough. A horn riff with (electronic piano doubling as) harpsichord under it in the opening "Wind Me Up, Chuck" sounds freaking exactly like the opening ritornello in Bach's second Brandenburg Concerto, but about five million times funkier. Herbie Hancock's "Chameleon" gets a conga-driven workout and some ultrasmooth Chuckster lyrics. "2001 (That'll Work)" again takes a classical work, in this case "Dawn" from Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra, and funkafies it mercilessly into the go-go strut, producing extra-special glee for anyone who likes historical irony and remembers Strauss's vile late-life racism. "No Diggity," the one hit in the wonder that was Blackstreet, and the Kool Moe Dee classic "Do You Know What Time It Is?" both get slamming covers towards the close of the album, showing that Chuck and his band can cover all the R&B bases they choose to.
But mostly this record is about bold, jazzy brass playing, guitar riffs powerful enough to shake mountains, Chuck's magesterial presence, and the go-go beat powering it all. It's really a wonderful thing, and the only reason I don't play this record more than I do is that I'm worried about becoming inured to its glories.
The fact that the first of like five shout-outs to Silver Spring occurs at 4:26 into the record is purely incidental to my enjoyment of it, by the way.

Wind me up Chuck...............2001-12-11

Chuck Brown brings Go-Go home where it belongs.....Go-Go is live, Audience-interaction, Conga-smacking, Backbeat-Drumming......if you are ever in DC.....Check out Chuck Brown.....this cd is hot

Mr. Brown is a baa-aad man!.......2001-12-01

Is it possible for a CD to have one beat throughout its entire length, and still be as good to your head as to your booty? If Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers are layin the groove down the answer is yes. Mr. Brown invented one beat--the go go beat--and he's stuck to it, but what he does on top of that beat is what keeps your attention. His guitar, the bass, keys, and especially the horns are all over the place in the jazziest sense of the word. Brown is a master, classy MC for the party. I have several other live discs by CB and this may be the best. Recommended highly for anyone who likes their music loose and funky.

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