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. 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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.