WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.517 align:middle line:84% I've never done the computer thing before 00:00:02.517 --> 00:00:04.350 align:middle line:84% and I'm not going to do it too much tonight, 00:00:04.350 --> 00:00:06.660 align:middle line:90% but I need it to DJ. 00:00:06.660 --> 00:00:09.385 align:middle line:84% So there might be a bit of DJing going on with this spot. 00:00:09.385 --> 00:00:11.010 align:middle line:84% Because I'm assuming that everyone here 00:00:11.010 --> 00:00:11.710 align:middle line:90% knows what Hip-Hop. 00:00:11.710 --> 00:00:12.030 align:middle line:90% Oh. 00:00:12.030 --> 00:00:13.080 align:middle line:90% It's great to be here. 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:14.858 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHING] 00:00:14.858 --> 00:00:17.400 align:middle line:84% And it's great because when we came from dinner, we drove up. 00:00:17.400 --> 00:00:19.020 align:middle line:84% And I was rushing into the little apartment. 00:00:19.020 --> 00:00:20.940 align:middle line:84% But I could see the bodies and the silhouettes 00:00:20.940 --> 00:00:22.710 align:middle line:90% and I could hear the music. 00:00:22.710 --> 00:00:24.600 align:middle line:84% And I think maybe, in that moment, 00:00:24.600 --> 00:00:27.240 align:middle line:84% I realized maybe that's what I'm supposed to do, 00:00:27.240 --> 00:00:32.220 align:middle line:84% to be that kind of an ambassador for our vanishing folk culture. 00:00:32.220 --> 00:00:35.233 align:middle line:84% That is where, happens where I come from, Washington, DC. 00:00:35.233 --> 00:00:37.650 align:middle line:84% I don't know if you know a whole lot about Washington, DC. 00:00:37.650 --> 00:00:39.810 align:middle line:84% Maybe I can throw in some tidbits about it. 00:00:39.810 --> 00:00:40.890 align:middle line:84% I mean, really know about it, other 00:00:40.890 --> 00:00:42.570 align:middle line:84% than being the seat of the nation's capital 00:00:42.570 --> 00:00:44.445 align:middle line:84% city, the government, all that kind of stuff. 00:00:44.445 --> 00:00:48.930 align:middle line:84% But, you know, it's highly taxed and has very little 00:00:48.930 --> 00:00:50.700 align:middle line:90% representation in Congress. 00:00:50.700 --> 00:00:52.530 align:middle line:84% So there's a non-voting delegate, 00:00:52.530 --> 00:00:54.420 align:middle line:90% what we call a shadow Senator. 00:00:54.420 --> 00:00:58.237 align:middle line:84% We didn't have home rule right, until the early 70s, maybe? 00:00:58.237 --> 00:00:59.820 align:middle line:84% Walter E. Washington, the first mayor. 00:00:59.820 --> 00:01:00.695 align:middle line:90% You should know that. 00:01:00.695 --> 00:01:02.880 align:middle line:84% You've all heard of Marion Barry, right? 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:03.660 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:01:03.660 --> 00:01:05.670 align:middle line:84% He's only our second mayor at the time. 00:01:05.670 --> 00:01:06.600 align:middle line:90% You realize that. 00:01:06.600 --> 00:01:09.180 align:middle line:84% Oh, sorry, second non-congressional 00:01:09.180 --> 00:01:11.790 align:middle line:84% appointed mayor, one that we voted for. 00:01:11.790 --> 00:01:12.870 align:middle line:90% So it's taken some time. 00:01:12.870 --> 00:01:14.940 align:middle line:84% And then after that, the control board took over. 00:01:14.940 --> 00:01:20.160 align:middle line:84% So DC, there's a bit of a, I could call it lots of things. 00:01:20.160 --> 00:01:21.450 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHING] 00:01:21.450 --> 00:01:23.490 align:middle line:90% Apartheid going on there. 00:01:23.490 --> 00:01:25.680 align:middle line:84% We come from that and this music comes from that. 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:27.960 align:middle line:84% And this music that we're going to talk about, 00:01:27.960 --> 00:01:30.690 align:middle line:84% this percussive, it's a percussive response, 00:01:30.690 --> 00:01:33.147 align:middle line:84% right, from the actual indigenous 00:01:33.147 --> 00:01:34.980 align:middle line:84% natives, the poor people who live there, OK? 00:01:34.980 --> 00:01:38.580 align:middle line:84% The people who do the, as Walt Whitman said in an essay 00:01:38.580 --> 00:01:41.130 align:middle line:84% called On Slang, the people who do their living 00:01:41.130 --> 00:01:43.960 align:middle line:90% and dying closest to the ground. 00:01:43.960 --> 00:01:44.700 align:middle line:90% Those folk. 00:01:44.700 --> 00:01:45.300 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:01:45.300 --> 00:01:47.400 align:middle line:90% So let me try. 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:48.813 align:middle line:90% Here we go. 00:01:48.813 --> 00:01:49.980 align:middle line:90% So you know what Hip-Hop is. 00:01:49.980 --> 00:01:51.150 align:middle line:84% Raise your hand if you know what Hip-Hop is. 00:01:51.150 --> 00:01:51.690 align:middle line:90% Come on. 00:01:51.690 --> 00:01:52.320 align:middle line:90% Right. 00:01:52.320 --> 00:01:52.820 align:middle line:90% Exactly. 00:01:52.820 --> 00:01:53.380 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHING] 00:01:53.380 --> 00:01:55.130 align:middle line:84% Raise your hand if you knew what Go-Go is. 00:01:55.130 --> 00:01:55.680 align:middle line:90% Really. 00:01:55.680 --> 00:01:56.370 align:middle line:90% Before today. 00:01:56.370 --> 00:01:56.700 align:middle line:90% Right? 00:01:56.700 --> 00:01:56.970 align:middle line:90% All right. 00:01:56.970 --> 00:01:57.470 align:middle line:90% Good. 00:01:57.470 --> 00:01:58.200 align:middle line:90% I like that. 00:01:58.200 --> 00:01:59.610 align:middle line:90% It has to be that way. 00:01:59.610 --> 00:02:01.230 align:middle line:84% That's my-- there'd be no work to do. 00:02:01.230 --> 00:02:02.490 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:02:02.490 --> 00:02:04.750 align:middle line:90% So you know, let's try it. 00:02:04.750 --> 00:02:05.250 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:02:05.250 --> 00:02:05.750 align:middle line:90% Here. 00:02:05.750 --> 00:02:07.800 align:middle line:84% We go I don't know where to start. 00:02:07.800 --> 00:02:08.394 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:02:08.394 --> 00:02:08.894 align:middle line:90% Listen. 00:02:08.894 --> 00:02:15.390 align:middle line:90% 00:02:15.390 --> 00:02:20.030 align:middle line:84% This is Doug E. Fresh speaking about Godfather of Go-Go, Chuck 00:02:20.030 --> 00:02:22.530 align:middle line:90% Brown. 00:02:22.530 --> 00:02:25.433 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:02:25.433 --> 00:02:26.100 align:middle line:90% [AUDIO PLAYBACK] 00:02:26.100 --> 00:02:27.670 align:middle line:90% - Yo, what's up, y'all. 00:02:27.670 --> 00:02:29.540 align:middle line:90% This is Doug E. Fresh. 00:02:29.540 --> 00:02:33.740 align:middle line:84% And when I think about Chuck Brown, 00:02:33.740 --> 00:02:36.140 align:middle line:90% his history is unbelievable. 00:02:36.140 --> 00:02:38.330 align:middle line:84% And that's why I say every time I go to DC, 00:02:38.330 --> 00:02:40.130 align:middle line:84% and whenever I'm there, we will always 00:02:40.130 --> 00:02:43.310 align:middle line:84% show respect and honor the one and only, 00:02:43.310 --> 00:02:49.430 align:middle line:84% the godfather of Go-Go, Chuck Brown. 00:02:49.430 --> 00:02:52.670 align:middle line:84% That's why every town we go, and every town we 00:02:52.670 --> 00:02:58.070 align:middle line:84% rock, the head, wind me up, Chuck. 00:02:58.070 --> 00:03:01.220 align:middle line:90% Wind me up, Chuck. 00:03:01.220 --> 00:03:02.850 align:middle line:90% So that's how we do it. 00:03:02.850 --> 00:03:06.350 align:middle line:90% 00:03:06.350 --> 00:03:10.010 align:middle line:84% I remember one night at the Capitol Center. 00:03:10.010 --> 00:03:11.760 align:middle line:90% 20,000. 00:03:11.760 --> 00:03:14.420 align:middle line:90% I did not know Chuck Brown. 00:03:14.420 --> 00:03:17.690 align:middle line:90% I did not know him like that. 00:03:17.690 --> 00:03:21.780 align:middle line:84% When I got to the Capitol Center, Run DMC said, 00:03:21.780 --> 00:03:24.260 align:middle line:84% if you've never seen Chuck Brown, 00:03:24.260 --> 00:03:27.140 align:middle line:90% he's about to change your life. 00:03:27.140 --> 00:03:30.350 align:middle line:90% And when he got on that night. 00:03:30.350 --> 00:03:33.635 align:middle line:90% He changed my life. 00:03:33.635 --> 00:03:35.850 align:middle line:90% [END PLAYBACK] 00:03:35.850 --> 00:03:38.430 align:middle line:84% That was the beat box Doug E. Fresh speaking about-- 00:03:38.430 --> 00:03:39.600 align:middle line:84% I know you don't know who Chuck Brown is yet, 00:03:39.600 --> 00:03:41.308 align:middle line:84% but this is all going to make sense soon. 00:03:41.308 --> 00:03:42.630 align:middle line:90% I'm going to do it like a poet. 00:03:42.630 --> 00:03:44.040 align:middle line:90% This is Chuck Brown's voice. 00:03:44.040 --> 00:03:45.270 align:middle line:84% I want you to hear what he sounds like. 00:03:45.270 --> 00:03:46.645 align:middle line:84% This is him offering a definition 00:03:46.645 --> 00:03:49.740 align:middle line:84% of sort of the matrimony between Go-Go and Hip-Hop. 00:03:49.740 --> 00:03:53.493 align:middle line:90% 00:03:53.493 --> 00:03:54.160 align:middle line:90% [AUDIO PLAYBACK] 00:03:54.160 --> 00:03:57.310 align:middle line:84% - If I make a mistake, we back it up, right? 00:03:57.310 --> 00:03:57.810 align:middle line:90% All right. 00:03:57.810 --> 00:04:01.282 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:04:01.282 --> 00:04:08.730 align:middle line:90% 00:04:08.730 --> 00:04:11.790 align:middle line:90% I want to do some hollering. 00:04:11.790 --> 00:04:14.480 align:middle line:90% Y'all do the following. 00:04:14.480 --> 00:04:16.644 align:middle line:90% Let's do some gathering. 00:04:16.644 --> 00:04:19.440 align:middle line:84% And then we all do some hollering. 00:04:19.440 --> 00:04:23.950 align:middle line:84% We're going to bebop it in, crock it in, flip-flop it in, 00:04:23.950 --> 00:04:27.140 align:middle line:90% hip-hop it in, DJ jock it in. 00:04:27.140 --> 00:04:29.366 align:middle line:84% You can't knock it in, just pocket in. 00:04:29.366 --> 00:04:30.030 align:middle line:90% Sock it in. 00:04:30.030 --> 00:04:32.720 align:middle line:84% When your rocket in, you got it locked in. 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:36.650 align:middle line:84% BEBOP IT in, crocket in, flip-flop it in, hip-hop it in, 00:04:36.650 --> 00:04:38.710 align:middle line:90% DJ jock it in. 00:04:38.710 --> 00:04:39.940 align:middle line:90% You can't knock it in. 00:04:39.940 --> 00:04:41.000 align:middle line:90% Just pocket in. 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:41.770 align:middle line:90% Sock it in. 00:04:41.770 --> 00:04:44.037 align:middle line:84% When you rock it in, you got it locked in. 00:04:44.037 --> 00:04:44.620 align:middle line:90% [END PLAYBACK] 00:04:44.620 --> 00:04:45.670 align:middle line:90% That's the epigraph. 00:04:45.670 --> 00:04:49.950 align:middle line:84% Bebop it in, crock it in, flip-flop it in, hip-hop it in, 00:04:49.950 --> 00:04:54.460 align:middle line:84% DJ jock it in, you can't knock it in, just pocket in, sock it 00:04:54.460 --> 00:04:58.240 align:middle line:84% in, when you rock it in, you got it locked in. 00:04:58.240 --> 00:04:59.680 align:middle line:90% One. 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:02.920 align:middle line:84% The real answer to what Go-Go is is right there, 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:04.270 align:middle line:90% hyphenated in its name. 00:05:04.270 --> 00:05:10.600 align:middle line:84% G-O, hyphen, G-O. Go-Go simply means to keep going, 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:12.550 align:middle line:90% to be continuous. 00:05:12.550 --> 00:05:17.450 align:middle line:84% Not in the, and you don't stop way, but in the don't stop. 00:05:17.450 --> 00:05:18.140 align:middle line:90% Don't stop. 00:05:18.140 --> 00:05:18.760 align:middle line:90% Don't stop. 00:05:18.760 --> 00:05:21.070 align:middle line:90% I'll tell you when, way. 00:05:21.070 --> 00:05:23.290 align:middle line:90% That's Rare Essence, 1979. 00:05:23.290 --> 00:05:26.530 align:middle line:84% In the same way that rap is led by an emcee, 00:05:26.530 --> 00:05:29.420 align:middle line:84% Go-Go is governed by a lead talker. 00:05:29.420 --> 00:05:31.075 align:middle line:90% What is Go-Go governed by? 00:05:31.075 --> 00:05:32.427 align:middle line:90% Lead talker. 00:05:32.427 --> 00:05:33.010 align:middle line:90% Remember that. 00:05:33.010 --> 00:05:33.640 align:middle line:90% Talker. 00:05:33.640 --> 00:05:34.140 align:middle line:90% Right? 00:05:34.140 --> 00:05:34.930 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHING] 00:05:34.930 --> 00:05:38.770 align:middle line:84% A talker, not a rhyming speaker, who leads the band. 00:05:38.770 --> 00:05:40.810 align:middle line:90% Speaking bandleader. 00:05:40.810 --> 00:05:43.840 align:middle line:84% During what we now call the Golden Age of Go-Go, 00:05:43.840 --> 00:05:48.100 align:middle line:84% 1976 to 1986, the lead talker was 00:05:48.100 --> 00:05:50.920 align:middle line:84% responsible for dispensing community news 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:52.810 align:middle line:84% to an audience, which was made up 00:05:52.810 --> 00:05:56.768 align:middle line:84% of folks who lived within an all black city, within quadrants. 00:05:56.768 --> 00:05:58.060 align:middle line:90% That's what we call them in DC. 00:05:58.060 --> 00:05:59.260 align:middle line:90% Wards and quadrants. 00:05:59.260 --> 00:05:59.980 align:middle line:90% Northwest. 00:05:59.980 --> 00:06:03.100 align:middle line:84% You know if you've been to DC, Northeast, Southwest, 00:06:03.100 --> 00:06:04.960 align:middle line:84% Southeast, with the Capitol building sitting 00:06:04.960 --> 00:06:06.585 align:middle line:84% right in the middle of the city, right? 00:06:06.585 --> 00:06:08.080 align:middle line:84% And all the avenues coming from it. 00:06:08.080 --> 00:06:11.380 align:middle line:84% If you stand on Capitol Hill you can look around and see down 00:06:11.380 --> 00:06:13.880 align:middle line:84% on the city, which is designed after Paris, right? 00:06:13.880 --> 00:06:14.560 align:middle line:90% All right. 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:18.370 align:middle line:84% A good lead talker being a band leader 00:06:18.370 --> 00:06:22.310 align:middle line:84% had to have a side to him that was also part hype man. 00:06:22.310 --> 00:06:24.602 align:middle line:84% How many people know that expression, hype man? 00:06:24.602 --> 00:06:26.060 align:middle line:84% You could figure out what it means. 00:06:26.060 --> 00:06:28.210 align:middle line:84% Think allegorically, the hype man. 00:06:28.210 --> 00:06:30.910 align:middle line:84% Imagine Public Enemy's Flavor Flav 00:06:30.910 --> 00:06:36.220 align:middle line:84% minus the mixture of gesturism and two-face signifying. 00:06:36.220 --> 00:06:38.530 align:middle line:84% The primary responsibility of the lead talker 00:06:38.530 --> 00:06:40.600 align:middle line:90% is to syce the crowd. 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:43.240 align:middle line:84% How many know that term, to syce the crowd? 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:43.870 align:middle line:90% To syce? 00:06:43.870 --> 00:06:45.590 align:middle line:84% What does it sound like it means? 00:06:45.590 --> 00:06:46.090 align:middle line:90% Syce? 00:06:46.090 --> 00:06:46.590 align:middle line:90% Syce. 00:06:46.590 --> 00:06:49.350 align:middle line:90% S-Y-C-E. Just think about it. 00:06:49.350 --> 00:06:50.350 align:middle line:90% Think in terms of slang. 00:06:50.350 --> 00:06:51.670 align:middle line:90% To excite? 00:06:51.670 --> 00:06:52.780 align:middle line:90% To excite, right? 00:06:52.780 --> 00:06:55.870 align:middle line:90% Syce, right? 00:06:55.870 --> 00:06:56.740 align:middle line:90% Syce the crowd. 00:06:56.740 --> 00:06:57.430 align:middle line:90% Where was I? 00:06:57.430 --> 00:07:00.160 align:middle line:84% While guiding the band through any number of grooves 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:02.500 align:middle line:84% and changes and bridges to cross. 00:07:02.500 --> 00:07:05.560 align:middle line:84% In his now legendary and groundbreaking recording, 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:09.460 align:middle line:84% Bustin' Loose, Chuck Brown asked his band, The Soul Searchers, 00:07:09.460 --> 00:07:12.323 align:middle line:84% for the bridge a record 13 times. 00:07:12.323 --> 00:07:14.740 align:middle line:84% Give me the bridge, now, give me the bridge now, now, now. 00:07:14.740 --> 00:07:17.692 align:middle line:90% 00:07:17.692 --> 00:07:18.676 align:middle line:90% [AUDIO PLAYBACK] 00:07:18.676 --> 00:07:22.120 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:31.750 align:middle line:90% 00:07:31.750 --> 00:07:34.790 align:middle line:84% I hope you're noticing a similarity in the songs. 00:07:34.790 --> 00:07:35.810 align:middle line:90% What's underneath? 00:07:35.810 --> 00:07:36.413 align:middle line:90% 00:07:36.413 --> 00:07:38.830 align:middle line:84% - (RAPPING) Need what you got until you get what you need, 00:07:38.830 --> 00:07:39.330 align:middle line:90% y'all. 00:07:39.330 --> 00:07:44.168 align:middle line:90% This is 1979. 00:07:44.168 --> 00:07:45.112 align:middle line:90% Hear that organ? 00:07:45.112 --> 00:07:47.570 align:middle line:84% - (RAPPING) You got to give a lot just to get what you need 00:07:47.570 --> 00:07:48.400 align:middle line:90% some times, y'all. 00:07:48.400 --> 00:07:53.640 align:middle line:90% 00:07:53.640 --> 00:07:54.630 align:middle line:90% Give me the bridge now! 00:07:54.630 --> 00:07:59.100 align:middle line:90% 00:07:59.100 --> 00:08:01.497 align:middle line:84% (SINGING) I feel like busting loose. 00:08:01.497 --> 00:08:02.080 align:middle line:90% Busting loose. 00:08:02.080 --> 00:08:03.556 align:middle line:90% Give me the bridge now! 00:08:03.556 --> 00:08:07.492 align:middle line:90% 00:08:07.492 --> 00:08:08.322 align:middle line:90% [END PLAYBACK] 00:08:08.322 --> 00:08:09.280 align:middle line:90% Give me the bridge now. 00:08:09.280 --> 00:08:10.240 align:middle line:90% Give me the bridge now. 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:12.100 align:middle line:84% And by my count, 13 is more times 00:08:12.100 --> 00:08:15.580 align:middle line:84% than James Brown, the man who popularized the bridge 00:08:15.580 --> 00:08:19.930 align:middle line:84% and taking it to the bridge, ever asked for it in one song. 00:08:19.930 --> 00:08:20.983 align:middle line:90% It's true. 00:08:20.983 --> 00:08:22.900 align:middle line:84% James Brown was Chuck Brown's idol, of course. 00:08:22.900 --> 00:08:27.010 align:middle line:84% So being a Brown, he was going to always be second, of course. 00:08:27.010 --> 00:08:29.800 align:middle line:84% It's also important to consider the bridge as a metaphor. 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:33.490 align:middle line:84% What actually happens beneath bridges, and at what time 00:08:33.490 --> 00:08:35.530 align:middle line:84% in DC cultural and political history 00:08:35.530 --> 00:08:37.690 align:middle line:90% the bridge is being asked for? 00:08:37.690 --> 00:08:40.650 align:middle line:84% The Go-Go bridge, going (SINGING) bah, bah, bah, bah, 00:08:40.650 --> 00:08:42.890 align:middle line:84% bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, 00:08:42.890 --> 00:08:46.180 align:middle line:84% bah, and its new percussive instrument of crossing, 00:08:46.180 --> 00:08:51.850 align:middle line:84% the Remo Rototom, came into its go-go height right around 1982, 00:08:51.850 --> 00:08:54.910 align:middle line:84% the same time Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five 00:08:54.910 --> 00:09:04.735 align:middle line:84% declared, "Don't push me because I'm close to the edge. 00:09:04.735 --> 00:09:08.230 align:middle line:90% I'm trying not to lose my head." 00:09:08.230 --> 00:09:09.370 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:09:09.370 --> 00:09:12.080 align:middle line:90% It's like a jungle sometimes. 00:09:12.080 --> 00:09:12.580 align:middle line:90% Come on now. 00:09:12.580 --> 00:09:14.290 align:middle line:90% Y'all go to do this with me. 00:09:14.290 --> 00:09:15.770 align:middle line:90% I ain't up here by myself. 00:09:15.770 --> 00:09:18.280 align:middle line:90% Look who I got with me. 00:09:18.280 --> 00:09:19.390 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:09:19.390 --> 00:09:21.190 align:middle line:84% Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 00:09:21.190 --> 00:09:23.770 align:middle line:84% During the Golden Age and probably due to a nod to its 00:09:23.770 --> 00:09:26.920 align:middle line:84% parents, Gospel and Funk, the Go-Go bridge was accompanied 00:09:26.920 --> 00:09:29.365 align:middle line:84% by horns, most notably a screaming trumpet-- 00:09:29.365 --> 00:09:30.910 align:middle line:90% [TRUMPET SOUND] 00:09:30.910 --> 00:09:34.690 align:middle line:84% --and a Hammond B3 organ, a standard traditional Go-Go 00:09:34.690 --> 00:09:37.870 align:middle line:84% bridge goes a little something like this. 00:09:37.870 --> 00:09:40.540 align:middle line:84% If a groove was being played, then the drummer 00:09:40.540 --> 00:09:41.290 align:middle line:90% rolled out of it. 00:09:41.290 --> 00:09:42.040 align:middle line:90% [DRUM ROLL SOUND] 00:09:42.040 --> 00:09:45.175 align:middle line:84% A long roll around the toms, then straight to the snare. 00:09:45.175 --> 00:09:45.790 align:middle line:90% [SNARE SOUND] 00:09:45.790 --> 00:09:49.210 align:middle line:84% One stick in hand there, while the other stick tipped in hand 00:09:49.210 --> 00:09:50.265 align:middle line:90% drove the cymbals-- 00:09:50.265 --> 00:09:51.880 align:middle line:90% [CYMBAL SOUND] 00:09:51.880 --> 00:09:53.980 align:middle line:90% --non crashing from above. 00:09:53.980 --> 00:09:56.500 align:middle line:90% A foot placed itself in a sock. 00:09:56.500 --> 00:09:59.380 align:middle line:84% But the sock was more like a sack and a belly, 00:09:59.380 --> 00:10:03.610 align:middle line:84% the belly of the bass drum, blanket, sleeping cinder block, 00:10:03.610 --> 00:10:04.510 align:middle line:90% or brick. 00:10:04.510 --> 00:10:06.580 align:middle line:84% The spaces between the bass bottom 00:10:06.580 --> 00:10:10.120 align:middle line:84% and the snares' sharp mid slap were left for the bass guitar 00:10:10.120 --> 00:10:13.600 align:middle line:84% to become liquid, to become a funky rubber. 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:17.350 align:middle line:84% To, in fact, lead this build up of a march from the center 00:10:17.350 --> 00:10:18.430 align:middle line:90% rear. 00:10:18.430 --> 00:10:21.940 align:middle line:84% Keep in mind that terrible things happen on bridges. 00:10:21.940 --> 00:10:25.160 align:middle line:84% In war, they get blown and destroyed. 00:10:25.160 --> 00:10:27.700 align:middle line:84% And in cultural movements and in times of crisis, 00:10:27.700 --> 00:10:29.440 align:middle line:90% they get blocked. 00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:32.200 align:middle line:84% The terrible thing that happened, 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:36.100 align:middle line:84% the terrible thing that happened at the end of the most 00:10:36.100 --> 00:10:39.970 align:middle line:84% Golden Age Go-Go bridges was the synthesizer. 00:10:39.970 --> 00:10:43.990 align:middle line:84% Particularly the infamous Minimoog, 00:10:43.990 --> 00:10:49.900 align:middle line:84% with its various form of sonic sneezes, shards, and debris. 00:10:49.900 --> 00:10:53.230 align:middle line:84% Listen again, if you will, to Trouble Funk's "E Flat Boogie" 00:10:53.230 --> 00:10:56.710 align:middle line:84% and "Drop the Bomb" for the evidence of such percussive 00:10:56.710 --> 00:10:57.790 align:middle line:90% calamity. 00:10:57.790 --> 00:11:00.490 align:middle line:84% But the bridge is not really as important in Go-Go 00:11:00.490 --> 00:11:02.680 align:middle line:84% as to what happens after the bridge. 00:11:02.680 --> 00:11:06.190 align:middle line:84% Because after the build up, after the construction, 00:11:06.190 --> 00:11:09.010 align:middle line:84% deconstruction, after reconstruction, 00:11:09.010 --> 00:11:10.990 align:middle line:84% after every instrument on stage is 00:11:10.990 --> 00:11:13.150 align:middle line:84% crossed from one side of the groove to the other, 00:11:13.150 --> 00:11:16.592 align:middle line:84% after the C natural debris and the rototoms 00:11:16.592 --> 00:11:17.425 align:middle line:90% of the forthcoming-- 00:11:17.425 --> 00:11:18.490 align:middle line:90% [DRUM SOUND] 00:11:18.490 --> 00:11:20.800 align:middle line:84% --silver age of Go-Go have had their say, 00:11:20.800 --> 00:11:24.640 align:middle line:84% after the lead talker declares the whole house safe by asking, 00:11:24.640 --> 00:11:26.410 align:middle line:90% was that safe y'all? 00:11:26.410 --> 00:11:28.690 align:middle line:90% (SINGING) Can we do it again? 00:11:28.690 --> 00:11:30.430 align:middle line:90% Yeah, I want to back it on up. 00:11:30.430 --> 00:11:31.990 align:middle line:90% [SNAPPING] 00:11:31.990 --> 00:11:32.725 align:middle line:90% One more time. 00:11:32.725 --> 00:11:34.390 align:middle line:90% [SNAPPING] 00:11:34.390 --> 00:11:35.140 align:middle line:90% Two more times. 00:11:35.140 --> 00:11:36.280 align:middle line:90% [SNAPPING] 00:11:36.280 --> 00:11:41.050 align:middle line:84% After all of that street and theater and church, 00:11:41.050 --> 00:11:43.850 align:middle line:90% after all that, this is funny. 00:11:43.850 --> 00:11:48.100 align:middle line:84% In the song "Bustin' Loose," Chuck Brown, after the bridge, 00:11:48.100 --> 00:11:52.390 align:middle line:84% asked after the bridge he asked his band, shall I, come on. 00:11:52.390 --> 00:11:53.703 align:middle line:90% Y'all say, roach them on down. 00:11:53.703 --> 00:11:55.870 align:middle line:84% Can I-- see you asking can you take us to the bridge 00:11:55.870 --> 00:11:56.860 align:middle line:90% and the band responds, 00:11:56.860 --> 00:11:57.950 align:middle line:90% Roach them on down. 00:11:57.950 --> 00:11:59.908 align:middle line:84% Now what do you think roach them on down means? 00:11:59.908 --> 00:12:02.710 align:middle line:90% 00:12:02.710 --> 00:12:03.430 align:middle line:90% Think about it. 00:12:03.430 --> 00:12:06.130 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHING] 00:12:06.130 --> 00:12:08.230 align:middle line:84% After all that roaching them on down, 00:12:08.230 --> 00:12:10.720 align:middle line:84% the bright moment in "Bustin' Loose," the thing that the LP 00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:12.940 align:middle line:84% cover visually captures so well, and the thing 00:12:12.940 --> 00:12:16.060 align:middle line:84% that distinguishes Go-Go from Hip-Hop from Funk, from Reggae, 00:12:16.060 --> 00:12:19.690 align:middle line:84% from Mozart's Jupiter Symphony, from sunrise space 00:12:19.690 --> 00:12:24.250 align:middle line:84% is the place, from flashlight, after the [INAUDIBLE] bridge, 00:12:24.250 --> 00:12:25.660 align:middle line:90% the pocket. 00:12:25.660 --> 00:12:28.210 align:middle line:84% Where we would eventually need some money. 00:12:28.210 --> 00:12:30.730 align:middle line:84% And where rap, too would learn to vocally ride 00:12:30.730 --> 00:12:33.850 align:middle line:84% in songs like Salt n Pepa's "Shake your Thang" 00:12:33.850 --> 00:12:37.850 align:middle line:84% and Kurtis Blow's "Paty Time," the pocket was born. 00:12:37.850 --> 00:12:53.810 align:middle line:90% 00:12:53.810 --> 00:12:54.731 align:middle line:90% What's on here? 00:12:54.731 --> 00:12:58.500 align:middle line:90% 00:12:58.500 --> 00:12:59.610 align:middle line:90% What was born? 00:12:59.610 --> 00:13:00.805 align:middle line:90% The pocket. 00:13:00.805 --> 00:13:01.710 align:middle line:90% The pocket. 00:13:01.710 --> 00:13:03.634 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHING] 00:13:03.634 --> 00:13:05.077 align:middle line:90% 00:13:05.077 --> 00:13:07.963 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:13:07.963 --> 00:13:09.900 align:middle line:90% 00:13:09.900 --> 00:13:11.030 align:middle line:90% Count the instruments. 00:13:11.030 --> 00:13:16.350 align:middle line:90% 00:13:16.350 --> 00:13:20.160 align:middle line:84% Imagine it as a grammar, a conversation right 00:13:20.160 --> 00:13:24.240 align:middle line:84% now between a drummer and a conga player. 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:25.560 align:middle line:90% How many congas do you hear? 00:13:25.560 --> 00:13:30.900 align:middle line:90% 00:13:30.900 --> 00:13:33.975 align:middle line:84% Two Big Belly congas and two Junior LPs. 00:13:33.975 --> 00:13:39.570 align:middle line:90% 00:13:39.570 --> 00:13:44.760 align:middle line:84% What are they saying, what could you say over that? 00:13:44.760 --> 00:13:45.900 align:middle line:90% Would you just talk a rap? 00:13:45.900 --> 00:13:49.500 align:middle line:90% 00:13:49.500 --> 00:13:51.510 align:middle line:90% Talk? 00:13:51.510 --> 00:13:54.660 align:middle line:84% I would say, it was really good having dinner with you tonight. 00:13:54.660 --> 00:13:56.080 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHING] 00:13:56.080 --> 00:13:56.910 align:middle line:90% Praise. 00:13:56.910 --> 00:13:57.900 align:middle line:90% You got a lot of names. 00:13:57.900 --> 00:13:59.500 align:middle line:90% Good to see you, big brother. 00:13:59.500 --> 00:14:01.750 align:middle line:84% All you people sitting in the back in the cheap seats, 00:14:01.750 --> 00:14:03.330 align:middle line:84% try not to move your feet too wild 00:14:03.330 --> 00:14:07.590 align:middle line:84% because the cops are out front and they watching you all. 00:14:07.590 --> 00:14:09.000 align:middle line:90% Anything goes. 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:11.130 align:middle line:90% Good to see you, Cybele. 00:14:11.130 --> 00:14:12.813 align:middle line:90% Right on, Hannah. 00:14:12.813 --> 00:14:15.480 align:middle line:84% How about you, the people, young brother there, with a high top, 00:14:15.480 --> 00:14:16.980 align:middle line:90% bush fade. 00:14:16.980 --> 00:14:20.330 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:14:20.330 --> 00:14:21.000 align:middle line:90%