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Live at Breeze's Metro Club

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Released
  
1986

Length
  
38:46

Producer
  
Rare Essence, Jas Funk

Release date
  
1986

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Recorded
  
1986

Label
  
Kolossal Records

Artist
  
Genres
  
Old-school hip hop, Go-go

Venue
  
Breeze's Metro ClubWashington, D.C.

Live at Breeze's Metro Club is a live album recorded and released in 1986 by the Washington, D.C.-based go-go band Rare Essence. The album was recorded at the now defunct Breeze's Metro Club, a music venue formerly located on Bladensburg Road in the Trinidad neighborhood of Northeast, Washington, D.C. The album is also referred to as The Album That Kept the Whole Neighborhood Rockin'.

Contents

The album includes the local hits in the D.C. music scene "Roll Call", "Shake It (But Don't Break It)", "One On One", and the nationwide hit "Do the Mickey", which is a remake of The Miracles 1963 song "Mickey's Monkey". The song "Do the Mickey" is a homage to Rare Essence's conga player Milton "Go-Go Mickey" Freeman.

Rare essence live at breeze s metro club 01 roll call


Personnel

  • James "Jas Funk" Thomas – lead vocals
  • Quentin "Footz" Davidson – drums
  • Milton "Go-Go Mickey" Freeman – congas, percussion
  • Michael "Funky Ned" Neal – bass guitar
  • Andre "Whiteboy" Johnson – electric guitar
  • Byron "B.J." Jackson - keyboards
  • John "J.B." Buchanan - keyboards, flugelhorn
  • Donnell Griffin Floyd - saxophone
  • David Green - timbales, backing vocals
  • Derek Paige - trumpet
  • Mike Neal – recording engineers, mixing
  • Bill Mueller – engineer
  • Songs

    1Roll Call10:36
    2One On One7:43
    3I Must Be Dreamin'6:10

    References

    Live at Breeze's Metro Club Wikipedia