''Live @ Club U, Volume II'' (also referred to as ''Old School Go-Go Meets Old School Hip-Hop'') is a

live album An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th centur ...

released on July 29, 2003, by the

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–based go-go band

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. The album is follow-up to the 2001 album '' Doin' It Old School Style'' (also recorded live at Club U) and features guest appearances by Doug E. Fresh & the Get Fresh Crew and Anthony "Lil' Benny" Harley.

Track listing

#"Camay All Over" – 5:47 #"Display" – 7:26 #"Do You Wanna Have Some Fun?" – 5:59 #"Mickey's Solo" – 4:36 #"Heap Big Fun" – 8:19 #"Glass House" – 7:49 #"Back Up Against the Wall" – 7:04 #"Play This Only at Night" (featuring Doug E. Fresh) – 5:50 #" D.E.F." (featuring Doug E. Fresh) – 5:41 #" La Di da Di (2003)" (featuring Doug E. Fresh) – 6:48 #" I'm Gettin' Ready" (featuring Doug E. Fresh) – 8:30

Personnel

*Andre "White Boy" Johnson –

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external electric Guitar amplifier, sound amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. It uses one or more pickup (music technology), pickups ...

, vocals *James "Jas Funk" Thomas – guest vocals * Anthony "Lil' Benny" Harley –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

, guest vocals * Doug E. Fresh – guest vocals *Milton "Go-Go Mickey" Freeman –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

conga The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), and tumba or salidor (lowest ...

s *Kent Wood –

electronic keyboards An electronic keyboard, portable keyboard, or digital keyboard is an electronic musical instrument based on keyboard instruments. Electronic keyboards include synthesizers, digital pianos, stage pianos, electronic organs and digital audio wor ...

*Roy Battle –

trombone The trombone (, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's lips vibrate inside a mouthpiece, causing the Standing wave, air c ...

, keyboards *Mike Baker –

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

*Kimberly "Ms. Kim" Graham – vocals *Charles "Shorty Corleone" Garris – vocals *Michael "Lil' Mike" –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

*Quentin "Lil' Dud" Ivey –

timbales Timbales () or pailas are shallow single-headed drums with metal casing. They are shallower than single-headed tom-toms and usually tuned much higher, especially for their size.Orovio, Helio 1981. ''Diccionario de la música cubana: biográfic ...

, cowbell,

rototom The rototom is a shell-less drum developed by Al Payson and Michael Colgrass that is able to change pitch by rotating its drumhead around a threaded metal ring. Unlike many types of drums, rototoms are designed to have a variable definite pi ...

s *Michael Muse – vocals

References

External links

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