''The Reunion'' (also titled as ''The Reunion: Live At The Hyatt Regency 9.11.2010'') is a live album released on January 11, 2015 by the

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band

Rare Essence Rare Essence is a Washington, D.C.-based go-go band formed in 1976. Rare Essence has been amongst the most prominent musicians of the D.C. music scene, producing numerous hit songs in the local D.C. market and several hits nationwide, including ...

. The album was recorded live at the Hyatt Regency in

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on September 11, 2010.

Track listing

#"Intro" – 2:31 #"I Got That Feelin'/Roll Call" – 5:42 #"R.E. Herman" – 5:03 #"Do You Know What Time it Is?" – 4:42 #"Hey Buddy, Buddy" – 3:56 #"GoGo Mickey" – 7:16 #"Cherchez La R.E." – 6:21 #"20 Minute Workout" – 2:27 #"Uh Oh/Where My Troopers At?" – 3:26 #"Where They At?" – 3:10 #"Geraldine" – 3:54 #"Party Lights" – 2:01 #"Lock It" – 3:56 #"King of the GoGo Beat" – 3:27 #"Work the Walls" – 2:13 #"All Da Time" – 3:24

Personnel

*Andre "Whiteboy" Johnson –

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gu ...

, vocals *James "Jas Funk" Thomas – vocals *Darrell "Blue-Eye" Arrington – drums *Michael "Lil Mike" Smith – drums *Milton "Go-Go Mickey" Freeman – congas,

percussions A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Excl ...

*Tyron "Jungle Boogie" Williams – congas, percussions *John "JB" Buchanan – flugelhorn, keyboards *Michael "Funky Ned" Neal –

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

*Michael Baker – bass guitar *Byron "BJ" Jackson – keyboards *Benjamin "Scotty" Haskel – keyboards *Mark "Godfather" Lawson – keyboards *Norris "Marky" Qwens – keyboards *Eric "Bojack" Butcher – percussions *Quentin "Shorty Dud" Ivey – percussions *Donnell Floyd –

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

, vocals *Rory "DC" Felton – saxophone,

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate ...

*Derek "DP" Paige –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

*Charles "Shorty Corleone" Garris – vocals *Kimberly "Ms. Kim" Graham – vocals *Kenecia "KeKe" Taylor – vocals *Bonita Glenn – vocals *Lawrence "Maniac" West – vocals *Michael Muse – vocals

References

External links

''The Reunion''
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