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Issue Includes: ...Them Bammas Be Crankin! * Proper Utensils This is a Demo Copy of TMOTTGoGo Magazine TMOTTGoGo Award Winners Inside TMOTTGoGo The Magazine Of The Washington DC Go-Go Music Culture NEG Issue Includes: ...them bammas be crankin! * Proper Utensils *The All Around Honies *Nico & Big Mark TMOTTGoGo 1 This is a Demo Copy of TMOTTGoGo Magazine FULL PAGE ADVERTISEMENT INSIDE COVER GOES HERE $125.00 TMOTTGoGo 2 This is a Demo Copy of TMOTTGoGo Magazine Georgia Avenue, that the Go-Go Community is Vender’s Market, an essential part of my life, Children's Hospital, and I am blessed to have Walter Reed, UDC, been/be a part of it. That’s the Howard University, purpose of TMOTTGoGo -- to Children's Museum, educate, uplift and promote Stuff, Newsbag, our culture with the Galludet, Columbia positiveness that it deserves. Hospital For Women, The bottom line is, I don’t Southeast House, Job care what you are doing in life Corp, etc. I mean, the -- whether you've moved away Having grown up in this list goes on and on. and are doing well with community, I take pride to And lets not forget about movies, such as "What’s Love have been a recipient, as well the music that has paved our Got To Do With It" or television as contributor in the way, such as, Duke Ellington, programs, such as "In The achievements that has been Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye, Heat Of The Night" -- whether accomplished throughout the The Ambassadors, Simba, The you’re performing on shows many years. Soul Searchers, Experience On Broadway, Las Vegas and This is a very historical Unlimited, Fate’s Destiny, across the world -- or whether community that has furnished The Stratocasters, as well as you’re performing on tour with such historics as the Black others. such acts as, Maxwell, Gloria Rep, The Howard Theatre, Dig Go-Go is a music that has Estifan, Carlos Santana, -It, Rap Inc., Lorton, Duke been contrived from all of the Rashawn Patterson, Boys To Ellington School of the Arts, above. Therefore, it’s more Men, Jean Carn or Roberta Washington Redskins, than just music -- a lot more. Flack, if you’re from this Washington Wizards, Marshall It's part of a culture. That’s why culture, you’re from the Go-Go Hall, The Wilson Line, The it’s so spiritual. There is no Community. Bottom Line! Shrimp Boat, Haines Point, other music like it on earth. Just as if you were from the Malcolm X Park, The Senator I, myself, have been able New Orleans culture, you Theatre (and its all night to participate in many of the would be from the Jazz movies), The Uptown Theatre, community activities over the Community. That’s why it Annacostia, Shaw, The Metro years. As a child, I performed bothers me to have other Club, The Club Lebaron, with the company CUE cultures dumped down my Northwest Gardens, RSVP, (Children’s Urban Arts throat, while my own culture Chapter's II & III, Triples, Ibex, Ensemble). I have danced with gets Panarama Room, The Atlas companies, such as The Bren- disrespected. You would not Theatre, The Washington Carr Dancers and The TNT go to Jamaica and dump Coliseum, Moonlight Inn, Tip- Poppers. I have played in such Country music down their Top Club, The Room, The bands as Pure Elegance, Little throats while disrespecting Maverick Room, The Black Benny & The Masters and Reggae. You would not go to Hole, The Classics, Eastside, Proper Utensils. I have even Nashville and dump Reggae The Chateau, Dance written a play, at the age of 17, music while disrespecting Connection, WOL, The Soul about the Go-Go Community Country. Papa, Moon Man, Petey Green that was not only performed TMOTTGoGo is here to be (remember in 1973 when he here at the Market Gallery, but a part of that body into making said that if the Redskins go to also won an award for the late the community a whole. That’s the Super Bowl he would ride Joseph Papp’s "Young our purpose. a tricycle up East Capitol Playwrights Festival" and Street? -- the rest was history), performed on Off-Broadway One Love, Street Theatre, The Show New York. Kato Mobile, Rock Creek Park, Basically, let me just say TMOTTGoGo 3 This is a Demo Copy of TMOTTGoGo Magazine TMOTTGoGo Contents The Best Kept Secret 14 The Ladies Of Go-Go 23 Interview with Nico & Big Mark ..........................p. 8 TMOTTGoGo Awards ............................................p. 16 Maiesha & This Hip-huggers ..............................p. 19 Departments TMOTTGoGo Picture Files.........................................p. 20 African-American Book Reviews.............................p. 30 The Reviews................................................................p. 34 TMOTTGoGo 4 This is a Demo Copy of TMOTTGoGo Magazine Web Page Designing Your #1 source for professional creation & Own a website that serves the purpose for what YOU originally had in mind. http://www.tmottgogo.com [email protected] TMOTTGoGo 5 This is a Demo Copy of TMOTTGoGo Magazine JOIN TMOTTGoGo 6 This is a Demo Copy of TMOTTGoGo Magazine THE T-BOMB SQUAD PUBLISHER/EDITOR Kevin Hammond RESOURCE DIRECTOR LaKisha Fogg PUBLIC RELATIONS Mark Ward Joseph Carter WRITERS David Smith Trina Jackson Chante Cunningham PHOTOGRAPHS Kevin Hammond Mark Ward GRAPHICS & LAYOUT Kevin Hammond TMOTTGoGo is published bi-monthly by TMOTTGoGo®, 263 Meadows Lane, NE Leesburg, Virginia 20176 (703) 589-1365. 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Only in this TMOTTGoGo 7 This is a Demo Copy of TMOTTGoGo Magazine Interview With Nico & Big Mark By David Smith Saturday, December 13th, 1997. 2:45 p.m. The the meantime, Big Mark and I were in the van hawk was out that day, and as I rolled up to the kickin' it... corner of 12th & F St. NW, I wasn't surprised to see A Little Background about Nico's Tapes that familiar blue van with the white Nico's Tape Das: When did you get started, and what got you sign on the door. Big Mark and Nico are at work, started in selling tapes? which is no surprise, because rain or shine, hot or Nico: Basically what happened, I started collecting cold, they do their thing. The world doesn't stop for tapes, and after a while I saw a lot of other people nothing, and they know this. That's why whatever it who were not only collecting them, but also selling is you feel you need, I guarantee you that 99.99% of them on the street. So my thing was, I wanted to be the time, they've got it on The Table. Go Go tapes able to buy a tape without having to worry about the from two days ago back to 1979. Rare Essence, quality, or any of the cutting up of the tape, or Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers, Ayre Rayde, remaking them like that, so after a while, after I Chance Band, Trouble Funk, E.U., Proper Utensils, started getting tapes and was taking care of mine, I Northeast Groovers, Junkyard, Backyard, and some thought it was a good idea for me to go ahead and more. Video tapes, from live shows at the Ibex to do the same thing, but with my own twist to it. home movies. The Smell Good, from all kinds of incense to a rack of oils for him and her. CD's, Das: Like with writing the songs down? from the Publicity Band to Rakim's "18th Letter". Mix tapes, from reggae to the latest DJ Clue. You Nico: Yeah, because I like to know what's on the ashy? They tape. You know, just listening to the tape and got lotion for you. Need to get to the Convention being able to tell the person what's actually Center and you have no clue if you in uptown, happening with the show, instead of selling a downtown, southeast or northeast? "Directions are product I a killer...", and they have those too. know nothing about. Because that was my whole This particular day, Big Mark is fired up about the idea, how can you buy something from someone, Washington Redkins getting punished by the New and the person that's selling doesn't know what they York Giants. So the only thing that was different are selling? than today was that there was no Go Go pumping from Nico's sound system built into The Table. Das: When was all this though? Because I Today on the radio was the football game. Folks remember the first time I seen you out here was in walked by, checked out the table, and exchanged '93, comments on ol' Norv Turner's crew. I was you had like the one little case out there and you preparing to get these brothers on tape, so that I can were standing right by the escalators, and it was share raining outside.
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