http://grownfolksmusic.com/blog/bbc-documentary Bridging the Gap Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:32:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://grownfolksmusic.com/blog/bbc-documentary/comment-page-1#comment-40887 Ivan Orr Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:43:34 +0000 http://grownfolksmusic.com/blog/?p=23417#comment-40887 My pleasure to do so! The music and the city have a very special place in my heart and when I was much younger I had the pleasure to open for a number of these groups when they would travel South to Central Virginia. It was a very cool experience to chat with CJ and he told me how go-go had bought his house for him and how it had taken him all over the world. He also told me a cool story about a band that he met in England back in the day that was playing go-go and that band ending up being The Brand New Heavies. Thanks so much for commenting and checking out the post.

]]> http://grownfolksmusic.com/blog/bbc-documentary/comment-page-1#comment-40878 Robert Sat, 03 Mar 2012 21:34:45 +0000 http://grownfolksmusic.com/blog/?p=23417#comment-40878 Thanks for putting this up. I was looking at Wikipedia just like two days ago, search for go go stuff at random. I saw this doc mentioned on one of the pages, but couldn’t find it. Thanks!!! I was born in DC, and lived there till I was 10 roughly ’79-80, and never lived there again, but that’s where mothership is for my family and still is to this day. Needless to say while go-go was taking off I lived in the midwest (Minneapolis), I would here about it from cousins, one still drops names of current bands. I did go back in ’85 and saw a show at what was the Capitol Centre: Chuck Brown, EU, TroubleFunk, Junkyard Band, along with Kurtis Blow, Doug E. Fresh, and Ready For the World. Thanks for finding and posting, reminds me of my hometown!

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