I'm from virginia and grew up listening go go trouble, chuck brown, rare essence I seen at a local club and I have always been a go go head. My family lives all around the DC metro area and my entire family is in baltimore, I went to vsu from 86 to 88 and really got exposed to the essence of go go and the culture, it blew me away. I can honestly say go go is something everyone should experience
Disturbing my whole house at 2:06 am.. I pay da bills... Phunk all u MFs tonight.. Im marinating this chicken rn. Im grilling tomorrow, BUT TONIGHT ITS A BY MYSELF FUNCTION
The great American funk band from Washington, D.C. that helped to popularize the sub genre known as "go-go," Trouble Funk remains a thriving institution on the Washington D.C. area live music scene. Presented here is their classic 1983 album "In Times Of Trouble" featuring the late Robert "Syke Dyke" Reed (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards); James Avery (lead vocals, keyboards); Tony Fisher (lead vocals, bass); Mack Carey (drums, percussion); Chester Davis (guitar); Alonzo Robinson (percussion); Timothy David (percussion); David Rudd (saxophone); Lorenzo Wheatley (saxophone); Mark Gilbert (saxophone); Dean Harris (trumpet); Taylor Reed (trumpet) and Stephen Baxter (trombone). All selections newly remastered in 2014. 1983.
Someone once told me that I would get bored at a TF show because they play one groove for the whole night. They didn't tell me what kind of groove they kick with. Absolutely amazing!
Whoa!!! Damn this reminds me of my childhood when mom & dad used to take me & my sisters with them to Anocastia Park (SE DC for those who don't know) with them to see the bands!! Go Go ALL DAY!!!!
I saw them open for Run-DMC back in the 80s. TF wouldn't stop playing, and the production guys cut power to the stage and turned lights on! I wish they could have played all night!
i remember when i first heard this joint..i was like WOW!!! my brother in law took me to my first live gogo show in 87..been hooked ever since...lol #djtimdogg
My Homie Lived in Glennburnie when I was about 15 16 and took me to the parks in DC to hear the bands Dang man!!!! Run Jo Run Jo!!! so nice to hear these again thanx
Junk Yard, (EU) Experience Unlimited and Trouble Funk created GO GO. Talented African American Washingtonian Brothers created a beat that is loved by many people. Some of these brothers started using 5 and 10 gallon empty paint containers and sticks to create a beat people will never forget.
So hot!! A classmate at CalState Long Beach turned me on to Trouble Funk - I remember listening to this cassette in my car driving home north on the 405 and just funking out! LOVED IT!! ☹Never got to see them live.
- I used to blast this from my boom box in QUEENS, NEW YORK! NYC wasn't trying to hear ANYTHING about Go-Go. But I loved it. My second hometown is Washington DC, and I am a Go-Go head!
SMOKING CLASSIC FLASH BACK /IF YOUR NOT MOVING YOUR BODY SOMETHING IS BROKE /YOU BETTER ASK SOMEBODY TROUBLE FUNK IS IN THE MOTHER FUNKEN HOUSE. NON STOP GROOVE DANCING, OLD SKOOL WILL NEVER DIE /THANK YOU D.C. FOR TROUBLE FUNK & CHUCK BROWN💣💃😎
Black Music at its BEST !!!Again *** Motown ,Atlantic , Stax, Philly Chicago House , D.C. Trouble Funk , Reggae , Blues , Rapp , Electro Rapp , Afro Rock , Brazilian Jazz, Jazz , Soca !! Calypso !!!
Yo who ever uploaded this is my hero. Yo man I had all these joints I been lookin for this one I had on cassette.I just finished watching the Essense, EU, Chuck,and Little Benny joint from 1987. I also had that VHS in 88 but like everything I had from them days is gone...salute to all my old heads on here going down memory lane...
Think back to having a show like this live and recorded from a PA system cassette of those shows. Then someone with a boom box on the Metrobus playing it loud either going or coming from school. You hoped that person didn't get off the bus before you did? Those were the good ole days!
I can relate. Me to because I wanted to hear those sounds some more before the person got off the bus. I remember those days as a youngster. Especially when I use to go up town as youngster on Georgia Ave in NW.
The drums and percussions origins are from Africa.Go Go just added a little funk,ain't nothing wrong with that...its in our blood.The sound of the drum will always remind me of the mother and fatherland.This is why I love Go Go music since I can remember and I ain't from D.C. BUT MY MAMMA IS! .....lol!
@@earlyreed357 Chuck Brown introduced the Go-Go style of percussion due to the influence from his time with the Los Latinos band. Keeping the pocket going in between songs led to an isolation of percussion which led to innovations by the players. In a nutshell, Latin rhythms influenced the sound and since those rhythms have roots in Africa, well there you go. Here's an article about it. www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2012/05/17/152854093/go-go-legend-chuck-brown-dies
Me to we started gogo late 70’s va dc all surrounding counties etc we rocked that shit follies them ery where moved up north In80 came home ery weekend from Ny and providence ri cuz gogo wasn’t there 😂🤣🤦🏾♀️
No doubt that "Saturday Night Live" is a classic and was rolling at plenty of parties back in the 1980s. This thing should be released on CD in the US. I believe there was a version overseas. Anyway you won't find too many (if any) live joints better than this. Big Tony and the boys were in a league of their own.
This groove was pretty much PG-Montgomery Counties Md, DC, Northern Va. Those of us that went to HBCUs back in the 80s were fortunate enough to be hipped to this man and it sounds as good if not better today than it did back 30 years ago!!!! Percussion driven but funky as hell!!!! Big up to RE, Chuck Brown (RIP) and the Soul Searchers, Ayre Rayde and on and on!!!!!
+Bootney Farnsworth Trouble Funk came to Central State of Ohio and performed and Turnt it OUT!!! I was a DJ back then and when I played DROP THE BOMB it was over!!!
Had this on cassette, and had it converted to CD and copied so many times so I could give it to friends.......had to educate them 'bout the Funk!!! Thanx for this post!!
TDK's, Memorex or if you bought the cheap kind you could best believe that tape was going to BREAK ! And if you were part of the Tape Recorder Crew and a smart one ! You made sure you Brought either Energizers or Duracell Batteries cuz if you let you batteries go "Low", After you let your hearing comeback and played it at home after you plugged your BoomBox up, You're shit was "Mickey Mouse Speed" lol ! Toss that tape away ! Memories of the Go-Go's! Wow ! I'm getting old ! Now i'm a GRANDFATHER.
The best gogo beat group early 80’s
82 - 83...
I'm from virginia and grew up listening go go trouble, chuck brown, rare essence I seen at a local club and I have always been a go go head. My family lives all around the DC metro area and my entire family is in baltimore, I went to vsu from 86 to 88 and really got exposed to the essence of go go and the culture, it blew me away. I can honestly say go go is something everyone should experience
Good jazz my friend, as it should be
I agree.
❤
Born and raised in New Orleans! Heard this band one time as a kid and was hooked!
DMV FOLK CAN ONLY RELATE live from VA!💪
TROUBLE FUNK percussion and drummer killing it going into the year 2020.
Iv always listen to Trouble funk growing up in the early 80.s This is my shit right here. Aint no music like true FUNK.
True GoGo Here..... Man The Good Old Days.
NEWPORT NEWS VA DOWN THE BOTTOM
Straight up Go Go style still cranks to this day.
yes sir
Disturbing my whole house at 2:06 am.. I pay da bills... Phunk all u MFs tonight.. Im marinating this chicken rn. Im grilling tomorrow, BUT TONIGHT ITS A BY MYSELF FUNCTION
The great American funk band from Washington, D.C. that helped to popularize the sub genre known as "go-go," Trouble Funk remains a thriving institution on the Washington D.C. area live music scene. Presented here is their classic 1983 album "In Times Of Trouble" featuring the late Robert "Syke Dyke" Reed (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards); James Avery (lead vocals, keyboards); Tony Fisher (lead vocals, bass); Mack Carey (drums, percussion); Chester Davis (guitar); Alonzo Robinson (percussion); Timothy David (percussion); David Rudd (saxophone); Lorenzo Wheatley (saxophone); Mark Gilbert (saxophone); Dean Harris (trumpet); Taylor Reed (trumpet) and Stephen Baxter (trombone). All selections newly remastered in 2014.
1983.
were can I buy this CD or MP3?
Name one band of today with an opening this funky and this D.C. Cranking good god have mercy .
Man I wore this cassette tape OUT! This jont bout 30 years old and will STILL get up in your chest!
Tubastein1, you ain't lying about this. Man, I lost this tape and I am trying to find a CD or download it online!!
mee too i killed mine lol
Tubastein1 children
NOTHING LIKE GO GO! WE LIKE IT BECAUSE OF OUR HERITAGE. THOSE AFRICAN DRUMS MAKE YOU MOVE!
Jonathan Booker yes
Trouble funk.....forever
@@jamescarter8686 t free
Dam this still sounds good I can listen to this all day .. I love my era 🔥🔥🔥
Now this is the GO-GO i grew up on....Miss you S.E.
This is the real deal. Only gets better the more you hear that GO GO
THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKN BOUT!!
TROUBLE FUNK,... never gets old,.. non stop CRANKIN !
Culture Mix Rare Essence at Capital Center
NOW TAKE DAT TO DA BRIDGE
Still rocking this in 2024 D.C. GO-GO
Trouble Funk, “Say What Now”!!! 👊🏾
Someone once told me that I would get bored at a TF show because they play one groove for the whole night. They didn't tell me what kind of groove they kick with. Absolutely amazing!
Whoa!!! Damn this reminds me of my childhood when mom & dad used to take me & my sisters with them to Anocastia Park (SE DC for those who don't know) with them to see the bands!! Go Go ALL DAY!!!!
Those were the days in the park!
The Awakening
Culture...
I saw them open for Run-DMC back in the 80s. TF wouldn't stop playing, and the production guys cut power to the stage and turned lights on! I wish they could have played all night!
Too bad they didn’t open for LL Cool J. They coulda played Rock The Bells live.
DAMN! This joint still pumps. I was a kid when this came out.
Best funk band ever.period. I wore out my cassette tape of this in the early nineties, and learned how to groove on my drums in the process.
One of the Best....
👉 Parliament funkadelic
Is the Best..
@qamyasharahla4876 I would put trouble funk up against them any day of week slim.
I lived all this gogo we rocked and kept on rocking and still rocking all old school gogo
i remember when i first heard this joint..i was like WOW!!! my brother in law took me to my first live gogo show in 87..been hooked ever since...lol #djtimdogg
Great Music 🎉😊I listen to it very Entertaining
Gods of Funk! That's it.
👉 Bootsy Collins
👉 George Clinton
Are the kings of Funk
The Every one Else follows ..
They tore that up 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽👋🏽🔥🔥🔥👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
My Homie Lived in Glennburnie when I was about 15 16 and took me to the parks in DC to hear the bands Dang man!!!! Run Jo Run Jo!!! so nice to hear these again thanx
That D.C. Funk
Chuck Brown and Trouble fUnk (GO-GO) LOVE IT IN NORTH CAROLINA
They were awesome to see live at anacostia gym in the 80s drop the bomb was on 🔥
Junk Yard, (EU) Experience Unlimited and Trouble Funk created GO GO. Talented African American Washingtonian Brothers created a beat that is loved by many people. Some of these brothers started using 5 and 10 gallon empty paint containers and sticks to create a beat people will never forget.
“...THEY ARE ROLLIN’ TONIGHT!!”
Trouble was my favorite go go band
THATS WHAT I'M TALKIN BOUT!!!!!!! Turn a party out with this.
Irish white guy just loving the beejezuz out of this.
Erin go bragh jack. I'm smiling my hooligan ass off
So hot!! A classmate at CalState Long Beach turned me on to Trouble Funk - I remember listening to this cassette in my car driving home north on the 405 and just funking out! LOVED IT!! ☹Never got to see them live.
Qq😊
- I used to blast this from my boom box in QUEENS, NEW YORK! NYC wasn't trying to hear ANYTHING about Go-Go. But I loved it. My second hometown is Washington DC, and I am a Go-Go head!
SMOKING CLASSIC FLASH BACK /IF YOUR NOT MOVING YOUR BODY SOMETHING IS BROKE /YOU BETTER ASK SOMEBODY TROUBLE FUNK IS IN THE MOTHER FUNKEN HOUSE. NON STOP GROOVE DANCING, OLD SKOOL WILL NEVER DIE /THANK YOU D.C. FOR TROUBLE FUNK & CHUCK BROWN💣💃😎
We used to crank this on the train tracks by McKinley Tech back then. Train tracks have been replaced by the FedEX bldg. now.
Deep down baby
Black Music at its BEST !!!Again *** Motown ,Atlantic , Stax, Philly Chicago House , D.C. Trouble Funk , Reggae , Blues , Rapp , Electro Rapp , Afro Rock , Brazilian Jazz, Jazz , Soca !! Calypso !!!
I was just listening to that whole CD in my ride...
OMG....I was there!! I want a CD of this!!! I used buy this cassette every 6 mos. cause I would wear it out playing it so much!!
Yo who ever uploaded this is my hero. Yo man I had all these joints I been lookin for this one I had on cassette.I just finished watching the Essense, EU, Chuck,and Little Benny joint from 1987. I also had that VHS in 88 but like everything I had from them days is gone...salute to all my old heads on here going down memory lane...
mookeychase0907 love it
mookeychase0907 what year was this song??
Is that a Kango? You must be one of my NY brothas
...still rolling in 2021! This. All of this! My ish!
I still have this on cassette!! TROUBLE FUNK! TONY BEST ON THAT DAMN BASSS!
Pa with you all the way Spx
2024...still bangin!!!!
Classic!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*This takes me back to my college days*
Think back to having a show like this live and recorded from a PA system cassette of those shows. Then someone with a boom box on the Metrobus playing it loud either going or coming from school. You hoped that person didn't get off the bus before you did? Those were the good ole days!
I can relate. Me to because I wanted to hear those sounds some more before the person got off the bus. I remember those days as a youngster. Especially when I use to go up town as youngster on Georgia Ave in NW.
I hear u big Tony!👍🏽👍🏽
Pa with you all the way Spx
HELL YEAH.OLD SCHOOL GO-GO
As a little G. I didn't even realize this was in the jam (rock the bells) by L.L. That's why rock the bells was the_ _ _ _!
The drums and percussions origins are from Africa.Go Go just added a little funk,ain't nothing wrong with that...its in our blood.The sound of the drum will always remind me of the mother and fatherland.This is why I love Go Go music since I can remember and I ain't from D.C. BUT MY MAMMA IS! .....lol!
Billy Noble Ase Hotep ✊✊✊✊
Go Go is more in tuned or associated with "indian" war drums......check your history.
@@earlyreed357 your wrong buddy 🤦🏿♂️
@@uptowngeorgiaave900 Yep, wrong as 2 left shoes...lol
@@earlyreed357 Chuck Brown introduced the Go-Go style of percussion due to the influence from his time with the Los Latinos band. Keeping the pocket going in between songs led to an isolation of percussion which led to innovations by the players. In a nutshell, Latin rhythms influenced the sound and since those rhythms have roots in Africa, well there you go. Here's an article about it. www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2012/05/17/152854093/go-go-legend-chuck-brown-dies
Still jamming 2020 dance 45 minutes straight 💛💚💜❤️
Saw them in London in 1987 - two hours of non stop sweaty funk - fucking brilliant!
Saw " Trouble Funk " at a CSU homecoming the drummer and Big Tony rocked the gym for sure.
Let’s get small!!
When those chords come in….talk about a massacre. sheesh too good
Classic Trouble Funk
saw these guys on the west coast in '87 or so. rotating, round stage, with fishbone and the untouchables. sick, sick shit.
I found this joint on vinyl!! Classic integral part of my collection!!!
Charlotte nc. Belmont center disco back in tha day in North Charlotte man i was a fool on tha floor when this came on...lol
Nothing like Trouble to get you on the dance floor in the 80s
all the beautiful ladies in the house y'all
Venus, always love Go Go! Good Good days!
This tape is so Goddamn fire. I mean really fucking fire.
Me to we started gogo late 70’s va dc all surrounding counties etc we rocked that shit follies them ery where moved up north In80 came home ery weekend from Ny and providence ri cuz gogo wasn’t there 😂🤣🤦🏾♀️
Classic, Im getting my party on at 630 in the morning.
J Smith keep doing what it do
Man. I've been vibing off this ish for 30+ f'ing years. This ish right here.!!!
I play it on vinyl loud!
This is the only GO GO groove you need to listen to! PERIOD!
yes my favor it bass trouble funk long time ago party fun. never stop muisc good sound.
Back in the day, put this 33 on and step away from the turntable, and let it rip. Miss those days!!
No doubt that "Saturday Night Live" is a classic and was rolling at plenty of parties back in the 1980s. This thing should be released on CD in the US. I believe there was a version overseas. Anyway you won't find too many (if any) live joints better than this. Big Tony and the boys were in a league of their own.
They don't make music like this no more! This was the shit!!!
Still banging for the new year 2014
Hell yeah!
strange never heard of these guys back in the day despite being so keen on funk and they being so funky this is funk
This groove was pretty much PG-Montgomery Counties Md, DC, Northern Va. Those of us that went to HBCUs back in the 80s were fortunate enough to be hipped to this man and it sounds as good if not better today than it did back 30 years ago!!!! Percussion driven but funky as hell!!!! Big up to RE, Chuck Brown (RIP) and the Soul Searchers, Ayre Rayde and on and on!!!!!
Bootney Farnsworth I was at Langston University in tha early 80's and we had folks from dc had us doin da go go 100 mph and we put it down "Jamm On"
+Bootney Farnsworth Trouble Funk came to Central State of Ohio and performed and Turnt it OUT!!! I was a DJ back then and when I played DROP THE BOMB it was over!!!
+tulsa4life Let's Get Small!
+Bootney Farnsworth I put tulsa4life up on Go Go when we were in college.. I'm from the Ave, Uptown!
I can remember up at banner high with the boom box high in the air.
The quality of this recording is outstanding for a record that's over 20 years old and it's not on CD.
Had this on cassette, and had it converted to CD and copied so many times so I could give it to friends.......had to educate them 'bout the Funk!!! Thanx for this post!!
This joint is nice and smooth....Cookout Music ya digg ......
We rocked this so hard that spring summer and fall umm ummm
shout out to all my DMV dudes and the G.H.crew. much love for all ya`ll. [JIM BEAN]
Woop woop!
Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!! My Funk!!!!!😮
Trouble funk 1 of the best funk bands ever my opinion
Nize & eiknuf Lov it & Love this.....
This song alwayz banged in tha club in my teen yearz
Trouble Funk ~ A-Groove/That's What We're Talking About/Take It To The Bridge /Grip It ♫ part.1
Don't forget drop the Bomb!!!!!!
I saw them at The Capitol centre in the mid-eighties. White people loved them too!
2022 2:27 in the afternoon here in Baltimore City groovin my ass off let's get it together Black people shine on yall
Stinky Dink..not stink a dink..I lived in philly for a minute.real rap!
I had that Drop the Bomb I think 2 album set. I heard that Drop the Bomb on one of the Wire shows back in the day
i would not trade the experience of living in Philly for nothing. pleasure to be thuuur! real rap!!
Say what? We hear YOU 🤗😊💕💕💯💯🤣🔥 music world gone viral💅💅💅💅🤟🤟🤟🤟🎼🎼🎼👣👣🌹🌹🔌🔌
TDK's, Memorex or if you bought the cheap kind you could best believe that tape was going to BREAK ! And if you were part of the Tape Recorder Crew and a smart one ! You made sure you Brought either Energizers or Duracell Batteries cuz if you let you batteries go "Low", After you let your hearing comeback and played it at home after you plugged your BoomBox up, You're shit was "Mickey Mouse Speed" lol ! Toss that tape away ! Memories of the Go-Go's! Wow ! I'm getting old ! Now i'm a GRANDFATHER.
castortroykrb
TDK or Maxell Metal, High Bias, 70us EQ! Nothing but the best for me!!!
castortroykrb
I'm a grandmother and still jam off this..Go Go G-MA...
It’s that DC sound. You ain’t been baptized until you GO GO DC style😎