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
Started listening to this when I was a teenager. From Norfolk VA. Went to job corps. DC youngins heard us banging this joint. We got along with some of them 😂😂. But we ran the joint. Big up to my Philly niggas💯
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.
The best funky groove I was hooked when Chuck Brown was Busten loose late 70s After I heard T. F. Live i lost my mind in that best The drums were talking to me ❤
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!
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
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.
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!
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 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
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 😂🤣🤦🏾♀️
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💣💃😎
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.
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!!
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.
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!
@@geesehoward357 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
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!!!
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.
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.
You are definitely right about starting shit!! I was about 9 years old once when my parents took us out and almost got trampled on because the crowd went crazy when somebody yelled out somebody had a gun! This was in the early 80's and ever since then I get nervous when in SE!!
The best gogo beat group early 80’s
82 - 83...
Still rocking this in 2024 D.C. GO-GO
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.
❤
Cranking Slim
Iktr, dirty south love that gogo
They tore that up 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽👋🏽🔥🔥🔥👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Started listening to this when I was a teenager. From Norfolk VA. Went to job corps. DC youngins heard us banging this joint. We got along with some of them 😂😂. But we ran the joint. Big up to my Philly niggas💯
Born and raised in New Orleans! Heard this band one time as a kid and was hooked!
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😊
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.
The best funky groove I was hooked when Chuck Brown was Busten loose late 70s After I heard T. F. Live i lost my mind in that best The drums were talking to me ❤
Great Music 🎉😊I listen to it very Entertaining
DMV FOLK CAN ONLY RELATE live from VA!💪
TROUBLE FUNK percussion and drummer killing it going into the year 2020.
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
They were awesome to see live at anacostia gym in the 80s drop the bomb was on 🔥
Name one band of today with an opening this funky and this D.C. Cranking good god have mercy .
True GoGo Here..... Man The Good Old Days.
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!
We were playing this way back when all the way down here in South Cack! Still luv'n it.
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
Trouble was my favorite go go band
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
This is the real deal. Only gets better the more you hear that GO GO
THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKN BOUT!!
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?
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.
Now this is the GO-GO i grew up on....Miss you S.E.
NEWPORT NEWS VA DOWN THE BOTTOM
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.
Trouble Funk, “Say What Now”!!! 👊🏾
TROUBLE FUNK,... never gets old,.. non stop CRANKIN !
Culture Mix Rare Essence at Capital Center
NOW TAKE DAT TO DA BRIDGE
Dam this still sounds good I can listen to this all day .. I love my era 🔥🔥🔥
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 !!!
DAMN! This joint still pumps. I was a kid when this came out.
I lived all this gogo we rocked and kept on rocking and still rocking all old school gogo
Classic Trouble Funk
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!!
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
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 😂🤣🤦🏾♀️
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💣💃😎
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!
When those chords come in….talk about a massacre. sheesh too good
I still have this on cassette!! TROUBLE FUNK! TONY BEST ON THAT DAMN BASSS!
Pa with you all the way Spx
Man. I've been vibing off this ish for 30+ f'ing years. This ish right here.!!!
Gods of Funk! That's it.
👉 Bootsy Collins
👉 George Clinton
Are the kings of Funk
The Every one Else follows ..
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 was just listening to that whole CD in my ride...
*This takes me back to my college days*
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!!
THATS WHAT I'M TALKIN BOUT!!!!!!! Turn a party out with this.
This is the only GO GO groove you need to listen to! PERIOD!
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
Irish white guy just loving the beejezuz out of this.
Erin go bragh jack. I'm smiling my hooligan ass off
I found this joint on vinyl!! Classic integral part of my collection!!!
Chuck Brown and Trouble fUnk (GO-GO) LOVE IT IN NORTH CAROLINA
We used to crank this on the train tracks by McKinley Tech back then. Train tracks have been replaced by the FedEX bldg. now.
The quality of this recording is outstanding for a record that's over 20 years old and it's not on CD.
I can remember up at banner high with the boom box high in the air.
I hear u big Tony!👍🏽👍🏽
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_ _ _ _!
Nothing like Trouble to get you on the dance floor in the 80s
“...THEY ARE ROLLIN’ TONIGHT!!”
saw these guys on the west coast in '87 or so. rotating, round stage, with fishbone and the untouchables. sick, sick shit.
This is how I fell in love with Go Go. Right here. In the Va. Deep in Jeffersonton right near Cross Creek. What you know bout that? Peace
Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!! My Funk!!!!!😮
That D.C. Funk
2024...still bangin!!!!
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!!!
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.
Still jamming 2020 dance 45 minutes straight 💛💚💜❤️
HELL YEAH.OLD SCHOOL GO-GO
Venus, always love Go Go! Good Good days!
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.
@@geesehoward357 your wrong buddy 🤦🏿♂️
@@uptowngeorgiaave900 Yep, wrong as 2 left shoes...lol
@@geesehoward357 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
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!
Classic, Im getting my party on at 630 in the morning.
J Smith keep doing what it do
Trouble funk 1 of the best funk bands ever my opinion
all the beautiful ladies in the house y'all
It’s that DC sound. You ain’t been baptized until you GO GO DC style😎
This joint is nice and smooth....Cookout Music ya digg ......
I bought the cassette tape. wore that puppy out in '85. should have got the vinyl!!
i would not trade the experience of living in Philly for nothing. pleasure to be thuuur! real rap!!
FOR THE GO-GO FUNK MUSIC ONLY ONLY ONE BAND...THE NAME? TROUBLE FUNK..NR 1..GREAT BAND ..SURE!!!!! MY BEST REGARDS DJ VALE ROME
It's many more great GoGo bands
Back in the day, put this 33 on and step away from the turntable, and let it rip. Miss those days!!
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
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...
Pa with you all the way Spx
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
Classic!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This tape is so Goddamn fire. I mean really fucking fire.
Yall know! Trouble funk was the shiggidy indeed. They Funked Dallas up.
Wow wow
Love this music since I was a teen I am 55
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.
I'm from western PA & we kno bout trouble funk.
I play it on vinyl loud!
shout out to all my DMV dudes and the G.H.crew. much love for all ya`ll. [JIM BEAN]
Fun Times ! About 15 of us use to ride our Bikes from Palmer Park to Anacostia Park But as usally some one always had to start some shit !
Man, I first heard this back in 1984! Thank you very much :)
I know I've bought this at lest 4 times and STILL don't have a copy. Now it's outta print.. Thanks for postin it up bruh.
yes my favor it bass trouble funk long time ago party fun. never stop muisc good sound.
We rocked this so hard that spring summer and fall umm ummm
I saw them at The Capitol centre in the mid-eighties. White people loved them too!
You are definitely right about starting shit!! I was about 9 years old once when my parents took us out and almost got trampled on because the crowd went crazy when somebody yelled out somebody had a gun! This was in the early 80's and ever since then I get nervous when in SE!!