This may be stupid, but I stayed in DC for a minute, I'm originally from Texas, and I was so impressed with the blackness and culture in DC. I was blown away when I frist heard GO-GO music(I believe it was Junk Yard), I never heard anything like it before, see down here we listen to this music called Screw and I can't get in to that s***. I have tried to find GO-Go here in Houston and it just don't exsist, and I tried to hip these BAMA's to it, but they just laugh at me, but I think you all should put some more websites up because it is really hard to find Go-Go music and capture the true essece of DC that I caught. I'm planning to come back and visit and I can't wait.

I am a first generation American of Nigerian descent.  I came up in P.G. County and on Go-Go music.  I can really respect that Go-Go is trying to collectivize and groom a conscious.  I have been trying to tell people that this is what is needed to put the D.C. Metro area on the map, build greater unity, and, inevitably, move this nation.  I'm down for whatever yall are trying to do.  Just holla at ya boy.

Peace

I've lived in the D.C. area for all my life and go-go is the most unique type of music I ever heard. Listening to the percussionists play sends a cool vibe up my spine that just makes me want to be a part of the action. Every chance I get to play the timbales or the congos I just think of the baddest pocket beat I know and just rip it. The reason I'm writing to you guys is beacause I want to know everything there is to be a part of a go-go band. Maybe there is a band that need people to play. In any case, I just want to be a part of the go-go music industry. I believe I have what it takes which is rythm and determination. Consistency is also a factor I have within, which would probably help at practice. Anyways, please write back and help a spanish brother out.

I was surfing the net and ran across your web page and I must say this is the BEST site that I have seen.. I am from the DC area and have been around go-go music since 1984 and thanks to you guys its still kicking strong.. I am 32 and still loving the music, guess I am kinda old school with "RE" and "Chuck" though.. Do you all have a newsletter or something of that nature? I would love to join it it if possible.. i will tell all of my frineds about your site here.. Much success to you guys.. please let me know.. thanks ..

First of all I would like to think yall for putting a web site up so that I can keep in contact with whats going on with gogo.   I moved up there for about a year and half from Lynchburg Va. and I miss it like crazy, the culture it self.  I grew to love gogo and thats one of the reasons why I'm moving back up there in August just to be around the music and culture cause where I am now in Lynchburg Va. aint nothing like what's up there. They still on that old stuff but I got to admit they be rockin.  Yall need to play down here so that they can really feel it.  They love it just as much as the metro area does.

I do not know if this message will even matter to anyone but in my heart I felt that I needed to send it. I am a 31 year old "white" female, what ever that means. My family heritage consist of American Indian, Irish, German and a few others that I probably don't even know about. So the technical term "white" only applies due to the skin tone God gave me. I was reading the information you have on Emmett Till at DCGOGO.COM after reading your page, my heart wrenched at the facts surrounding the demise of that young boy and the suffering of his mother and family. It sickened me to think that our laws allowed those men to be set free and then make money off of a book that they later published admitting to the crime! I do know that in the end they will pay for their crime when they stand before God and he is their judge!

Thank you DCGOGO for telling the world about Emmett Till

I am trying to contact any band that wants to battle, We are the High Contenders, and we are looking to hold a show with another Go-Go group, we are located in North Carolina but most of our band is from D.C, So anyone who wants to crank all night, we are trying to get involved, its football season coming up down here and the crowds are out, all they need is to hear that sound from D.C to help them get there party right. Ju-Ju,Sugabear, from EU whats up baby you partied w/us at Club G's in Raleigh,NC,Hey Ju-Ju, our drummer says He ready for you now. (lol)

  Your statement about the internet being an African invention is reminiscent of Al Gore's claim to having invented it. You would have been more accurate to have said that the techninque of scrolling, not the development of the internet as the heading lays claim to. Why don't we find any information about El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X)? He is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the latter half of the 20th Century, by whites and blacks. His vision of a world without racial injustice is one that should still be carried on. Who would we consider to be the leader in America for African-American Civil Rights today? Not Farrakhan, and not Jackson. Any ideas?

Hello:

I am an up and coming music video director.  I have 2 plus years working with music video production.  I have worked with Madonna, U2, P Diddy, CamRon, Jay Z, DJ 45 and a rack of others.  I have a reel that I am shopping around, if you are looking for directors PLEASE let me know!  I have a ton of contacts just no acts to shoot.  I hope to talk to you soon!

 

Hey:

Congratulations first and foremost!  I heard about DCGOGO.COM on the radio station (GO GO Rudy's Sunday night show).  It's amazing how far GO GO has come.  This web site is an accomplishment of a culture!  I am in the process of developing a non-profit magazine aimed at 18 and under urban kids.  GO GO Music and Computers are two of the topics that I will explore.  I would like to further discuss my plans with you when you have time.  Keep up the good work.

 

Hello:

My name is Rasmus and Im a singer and GOGO singer from Denmark Europe.  I bet you didn't know that the groove was going on in Scandinavia.  Well I can tell you that it is and strong.  My band is called EW and the GOGO Busters.  We are about 15 members.  The reason I write you is that we are working on our second release.  It will be called Gogorilla and its really some of the finest GOGO I ever heard and then again Im cut off with the grove of Scandinavia but I try to keep up anyway.  Im 100 percent sure that you will dig our sounds the Gogo live crew here were very excited. 

I am coming over to the States this winter and Im coming to New York.  I would want to make a stop in Washington DC and try to make some gigs for the band next fall.  Can you help me, I don't know much about the club's where they are, who to talk to etc.  Please if you can help me or email me with your phone number or address and I'll contact you!!  I hope that it is possible. 

Bye for now,

Rasmus.......EW and the GOGOBUSTERS
 

Im currently enrolled at Indiana State University, but I am from Washington, D.C. (N.E., I also graduated from H.D. Woodson) and I have to do a report about GOGO.  I need to know what it is and the history of it.  I would appreciate it if you could email me some information.
 

Hi I just wnated to know if it were a way possible to find out if I could get some help in my brothers band opening for one of the major Bands such as Backyard,Indecent X-posure or UCB. My little brother and his band sound so well and they are really trying to get out there. Where ever they play at I'm sure a crowd is going to pop up. I have alreasy gotten in contact with someone from TCB but if tht dosen't work out you just have to keep on trying. So if you would help me out I would really appreciate it.

I find your website to be both compelling and informative. It's  great to view a site filled with such conciousness about our people and our history. I look forward to shopping on your site in the near future and will pass the website address on to my friends here on the West Coast.

I would just like to congratulate and commend the designers of this wonderful site.  I am a muscian as well as a former resident of the District of Columbia.  I now reside in Lake City Florida, where my father is a Baptist Pastor.  I love the diversity of this site and keep up the good work.

I was looking for info on Emmett Till and found your site. Interesting stuff here. Can you tell me please where the music for the loop gogo5.wav comes from. I like it.

 
Yo I'm from DC and I've been around gogo all my life.  Im from Clay Street and I enjoy gogo.  We need to put DC on the map cause Atl and New York and St. Louis is takin ova and we say we love where we're from.  We need to step it up and give it to the world unique and big.  I live in Virginia and these country people don't even know what BAMA mean we need to put Chocolate City on the line and we gotta do it with that gogo because its hot.  My friends from New York is even filling it so we gotta step it up you know.

holla

I am looking to locate and purchase GOGO music by EU - Experience Unlimited.  Hard to find.  Where can I purchase a CD.  Please advise.

I heard on the radio that Go Go.com was releasing a new album
March 11.  Who are some of the artists that will be featured.  Do you know which group does the song Southeast?  Where can I purchase the CD coming out March 11th?  Please contact me soon.

I would like to get information on booking for a show in Baltimore near Morgan State.  Please, email or fax any info that you can give as far as pricing, deposits and days of the week that the band is available. 

Thanks

How can I get my hands on some Gospel GOGO.  Please respond

Thanks

 I represent the Black Student Union at Towson University and I wanted to know if you had any information on how to get in touch with the Backyard Band, Rare Essence, and Chuck Brown about doing a show at our school.  I would greatly appreciate your help.

Why yall don't have any of that TCB that joint be crankin.  Now don't Backyard be crankin to but Backyard don't be crankin like they use to.  Now that TCB took over the spot light.  Now they are shining.  But on the forreal get some of that TCB.  Thank you and have a very nice day.

When can I meet Backyard, UCB, TCB because I never been to any of u guys (party so holla back at your s and maybe we can work something out)

Please let me know how I could be a distributor for GOGO music cause there are so many places that have none.  Plus there are many more that need more.  I'm Malik from the Brick Cities in Nwk, N.J.  Now I live in Utah, but I am a traveling man and have seen that brothers around the nation, at least, need to feel this part of our original peops.  Besides that, it's hard to get in these places where heads know about it but can't find it.  Big ups to yall fa holdin it down tho.  Yo, "Word Is Bond" a kidd need help out here!!!

I am originally from D.C.  Can you tell me if Big G from Backyard was shot this year?
 

  I've been DJ for over 17 years and one of the biggest problem is finding go-go on wax (vinyl).  Some of these local record store dealers due get a few go-go but by the time they get it it's like history now.  Does the go-go circuit have a network for the local DJ for wax (vinyl).  Because I never going CD only. Love my turntable to much.
 

I am in the military and I am stationed in TX and there is no go-go out here at all. All they play out here is screw I just can't feel it because it is so slow.  I wanna know how can I buy some go-go cd's from out here.

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Can you please locate the Erika Badu and Rare Essence Go-Go song on CD or tape? Please email me back with the information.

I love gogo music, I grew up around it while living in DC for 20 years now. Now I'm trying to get down here in North Carolina where I attend school at Fayetteville State University. Th