Your Game: Live at the 9:30 Club Washington, D.C. [Live]

Chuck Brown | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 15, 2001)
• Original Release Date: December 31, 1969
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Raw Venture
• ASIN: B00005IC2Y
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #148,526 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Wind Me Up Chuck/Hoochie Coochie Man

2. Feel Like Movin' That Body

3. Chameleon

4. Get Your Hands Up/Playing Your Game Baby

5. It's Love

6. 2001 (That'll Work)

7. People Make the World Go Round

8. Wind Us Up Funk & Benny

9. One on One

10. Hey Go Go Mickey

11. No Diggity

12. Do You Know What Time It Is

13. Go Go Swing Outro

14. Hah Man [Sinbad, Main Title]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Let Me Tell U Bout the One on One, May 30, 2001

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russell (Hillcrest, DC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Game: Live at the 9:30 Club Washington, D.C. (Audio CD)

Ok, so mymainman chuck is almost 70 and he's still puttin out classics. This is by far the best commercial release by chuck in a live setting. the all-time classics are a set of him and lil benny at the takoma station (1998), and the great 1991 tape at the kilimanjaro club (where juju broke the bass drum on run joe, and improvised on bustin loose)

every cut on this cd slams, and all of the guests are up to par except for big tony.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not my game exactly, but I can't stop playing it, March 16, 2003

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Andrew Lindemann Malone - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Game: Live at the 9:30 Club Washington, D.C. (Audio CD)

Go-go is D.C.'s indigenous funk, but I'll freely admit that I'm way less familiar with it than I really should be. This realization came upon me with astonishing force upon listening to this record, which is unlike anything else I've ever heard except Chuck's actual live show, which I had to check out after hearing this CD.
The audience for this live show seems to be specially selected people who know every rite of the go-go show and who appreciate the cameos from Jas, Funk, Benny, Andre "Whiteboy" Johnson (some irony there), and other special guest artists from old school go-go luminaries such as Trouble Funk. I hope one day to be well-enough versed in go-go to savor such moments.
Coming to this CD from classical and hip-hop, though, there are priceless moments enough. A horn riff with (electronic piano doubling as) harpsichord under it in the opening "Wind Me Up, Chuck" sounds freaking exactly like the opening ritornello in Bach's second Brandenburg Concerto, but about five million times funkier. Herbie Hancock's "Chameleon" gets a conga-driven workout and some ultrasmooth Chuckster lyrics. "2001 (That'll Work)" again takes a classical work, in this case "Dawn" from Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra, and funkafies it mercilessly into the go-go strut, producing extra-special glee for anyone who likes historical irony and remembers Strauss's vile late-life racism. "No Diggity," the one hit in the wonder that was Blackstreet, and the Kool Moe Dee classic "Do You Know What Time It Is?" both get slamming covers towards the close of the album, showing that Chuck and his band can cover all the R&B bases they choose to.
But mostly this record is about bold, jazzy brass playing, guitar riffs powerful enough to shake mountains, Chuck's magesterial presence, and the go-go beat powering it all. It's really a wonderful thing, and the only reason I don't play this record more than I do is that I'm worried about becoming inured to its glories.
The fact that the first of like five shout-outs to Silver Spring occurs at 4:26 into the record is purely incidental to my enjoyment of it, by the way.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Way to go Chuck, June 11, 2001

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Charles M. Yancey (Pickerington, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Game: Live at the 9:30 Club Washington, D.C. (Audio CD)

Man this CD is off the chain. Chuck is back with a vengeance. The Barry White mix is live as ever. Reminds me of the IBEX when listening to live GO-GO was safe and partying was hard.