RIP Chuck Brown

closg00 · Post #1 » by **closg00** » Wed May 16, 2012 9:05 pm

Chuck Brown was the King of DC, his loss is devastating to the city.

Please merge with the music thread. Thanks!

Nivek · Post #2 » by **Nivek** » Wed May 16, 2012 9:10 pm

Saw Chuck Brown perform with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Capitol last summer. It was an interesting night.

Really, it was the NSO doing Ellington and Sousa, and then a number with Chuck Brown. Then NSO departed and Brown's band came out and did a go-go set. Hella fun.

Sad to hear he passed.

Dat2U · Post #3 » by **Dat2U** » Wed May 16, 2012 9:14 pm

Noooo! I saw Chuck on New Years! I mentioned to my cousin how we wanted to see him before it was too late. How true that turned out to be. He looked to be in good shape then. Gave a great performance but I know he was sick shortly after.

RIP to a music legend.

DCZards · Post #4 » by **DCZards** » Wed May 16, 2012 11:08 pm

The DC music scene will miss u Chuck! We'll keep on "Bustin' Loose" in your honor.

MJG · Post #5 » by **MJG** » Wed May 16, 2012 11:40 pm

When I worked at Best Buy, we'd occasionally have someone come in and ask "Do you have a go-go section?" My standard response would be "Not really, we just have some Chuck Brown mixed in with the rock." Sad news.

verbal8 · Post #6 » by **verbal8** » Thu May 17, 2012 12:32 am

A big loss for music in the DC area. He put on quite an entertaining show.

keynote · Post #7 » by **keynote** » Thu May 17, 2012 3:06 am

This wrecked my whole afternoon.

"Chuck baby don't give a..." (that ain't true!)
"Chuck baby don't give a..." (yes, I do!)
"Chuck baby don't give a..." (I love *all of you!)

long suffrin' boulez fan · Post #8 » by **long suffrin' boulez fan** » Thu May 17, 2012 3:10 am

A legend from my youth. RIP. You'll be missed

Higga · Post #9 » by **Higga** » Thu May 17, 2012 3:14 am

RIP to a true D.C. legend.

keynote · Post #10 » by **keynote** » Thu May 17, 2012 3:27 am

On a side note, I haven't lived in the area in years. I recently tried to find some current go-go - to see where the genre had gone.

Oof. Maybe I didn't find the right bands. But man, the stuff I found on YouTube was *horrible*. Atonal, sloppy, and lacking the grace and smoothness of Chuck's music.

Higga · Post #11 » by **Higga** » Thu May 17, 2012 3:31 am

keynote wrote:On a side note, I haven't lived in the area in years. I recently tried to find some current go-go - to see where the genre had gone.

Oof. Maybe I didn't find the right bands. But man, the stuff I found on YouTube was *horrible*. Atonal, sloppy, and lacking the grace and smoothness of Chuck's music.

Mambo Sauce is solid.

barelyawake · Post #12 » by **barelyawake** » Thu May 17, 2012 4:06 am

The playoffs and Chuck made me think of the old music thread.

My friend mixed Chuck Brown's last couple projects and was set to do another single with him. Over the years, he became tight with the man and deemed him the nicest human he'd ever had the pleasure to meet in his life. The two spent many a night out partying (mostly in VIP sections with a bottle and a blunt). He's got more than a handful of killer Chuck stories. And he's very torn-up today. Through him, I met Chuck once. Cool cat.

Thousands are gathered now in DC in condolence. RIP legend.

Chocolate City Jordanaire · Post #13 » by **Chocolate City Jordanaire** » Thu May 17, 2012 9:34 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPoNhZx8t8w&feature=related[/youtube]

RIP Chuck Baby

Wes_Tiny_Abe_ · Post #14 » by **Wes_Tiny_Abe_** » Thu May 17, 2012 3:14 pm

fishercob · Post #15 » by **fishercob** » Thu May 17, 2012 4:11 pm

barelyawake wrote:The playoffs and Chuck made me think of the old music thread.

My friend mixed Chuck Brown's last couple projects and was set to do another single with him. Over the years, he became tight with the man and deemed him the nicest human he'd ever had the pleasure to meet in his life. The two spent many a night out partying (mostly in VIP sections with a bottle and a blunt). He's got more than a handful of killer Chuck stories. And he's very torn-up today. Through him, I met Chuck once. Cool cat.

Thousands are gathered now in DC in condolence. RIP legend.

Hey! Where ya been all year?

dobrojim · Post #16 » by **dobrojim** » Thu May 17, 2012 4:28 pm

what Fish said

Plus I just heard Donna Summers just passed too.

Chocolate City Jordanaire · Post #17 » by **Chocolate City Jordanaire** » Thu May 17, 2012 5:06 pm

dobrojim wrote:what Fish said

Plus I just heard Donna Summers just passed too.

Wow, jim, literally 10 secs ago my sister called me with this news.

dobrojim · Post #18 » by **dobrojim** » Thu May 17, 2012 5:13 pm

superstitious?

who'll be the 3rd?

Chocolate City Jordanaire · Post #19 » by **Chocolate City Jordanaire** » Thu May 17, 2012 5:17 pm

Whitney was recent enough, but I don't know jim.

barelyawake · Post #20 » by **barelyawake** » Thu May 17, 2012 5:29 pm

Hey Fish,

Let's see. Long story short (too late)... I'm still roaming the country for work. On various hotel beds, I wrote one and a half movies (that I now believe will never be produced, despite the umpteen phone calls ardently promising the contrary). I outlined and started a book (that I will never finish). The book is based on a movie short that I wrote (that MIGHT actually be shot). The short is a horror (but poetically told).It is the best thing I have ever written. And the director agreed wholeheartedly, until he started his "edits." Suffice to say, I've fully learned to never trust a syllable from any cog of the Hollywood machina. So, I have zippy faith in any of it ever coming to pass (even as we set dates to shoot the short).

Oh, and my art auction got robbed in Canada. So, I was a hostage for fifteen minutes. First time I had a gun in my face. So, that was new. Took me a month to stop jittering. That incident, and my job in general, was the plot of the half-a-movie. If you lost count, that's four projects that I have utterly wasted my time on.

Besides that, I've been playing as much hold'em and hitting as many shows as I can. Latest: Melvins, Drums, Maps and Atlases, Black Keys (x2), Andrew Bird, No Age, Animal Collective, Death Cab, Buckethead and RHCP.

Thanks for askin'. Hope all is well.