# Loss of a music legend: RIP Chuck Brown **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 16, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loss-of-a-music-legend-rip-chuck-brown/622136 "2012-05-16T20:57:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loss-of-a-music-legend-rip-chuck-brown/622136/1 "2012-05-16T20:57:25Z")
DC Dopers should head out tonight to celebrate the life of Chuck Brown: Father of go-go, the quintessential DC sound. (Didn’t know DC _had_ a sound? Ever pass a bucket drummer with an infectious groove that was unlike anything you’d heard before–yet you now recognize it? Thank Chuck Brown) [Chuck Brown](http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/chuck-brown-dies-the-godfather-of-go-go-was-75/2012/05/16/gIQAJAfPUU_story.html) ---
**Author:** ![BeeDubU2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BeeDubU2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeDubU2)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loss-of-a-music-legend-rip-chuck-brown/622136/2 "2012-05-16T21:04:53Z")
I’ll be playing all my go go LOUD tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loss-of-a-music-legend-rip-chuck-brown/622136/3 "2012-05-16T21:10:11Z")
Dang. I’m not a big go-go fan, but I’ve gotta give him respect. He created a sound unique to DC, and is a local icon. Seemed like a pretty decent guy too. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loss-of-a-music-legend-rip-chuck-brown/622136/4 "2012-05-16T21:20:07Z")
Oh no. Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers, right? I had a roomie who loved his stuff, so I got exposed to it out in California. Really fun and funky. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loss-of-a-music-legend-rip-chuck-brown/622136/5 "2012-05-16T23:37:20Z")
Oh, no. I never got to see him live. He played pretty regularly, and I always figured I’d catch him next time. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loss-of-a-music-legend-rip-chuck-brown/622136/6 "2012-05-17T04:28:20Z")
And (just to work my own obsessions into this thread) if Chuck Brown hadn’t existed, we would never have heard Eva Cassidy’s version of “Over the Rainbow”, since that first appeared on their duets album (which wasn’t all duets). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loss-of-a-music-legend-rip-chuck-brown/622136/7 "2012-05-17T04:42:28Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > (Didn’t know DC _had_ a sound? Ever pass a bucket drummer with an infectious groove that was unlike anything you’d heard before–yet you now recognize it? Thank Chuck Brown) How many drummers does it take to change a light bulb? None! They have a machine that can do that now!