Trouble Funk – Trouble Over Here Trouble Over There
(4th & Broadway Records 1987 BRLP513)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1 – UK Pressing
Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
– some slight wear to edges
Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
Trouble Funk is an American R&B and funk band from Washington, DC. It helped to popularize that area’s local funk subgenre known as go-go. Among the band’s well-known songs are the go-go anthem “Hey, Fellas.” They released several studio albums including Drop the Bomb, In Times of Trouble, Live, and Trouble Over Here, Trouble Over There (UK #54), and two live albums, Trouble Funk – Straight Up Go-Go Style and Saturday Night Live. In 1982, they released a single “So Early In The Morning” on D.E.T.T Records, later reissued on diverse labels as 2.13.61 & Tuff City. Trouble Funk sometimes shared the stage with hardcore punk bands of the day such as Minor Threat and the Big Boys.
Its song “Pump Me Up” was sampled by many other artists and was featured in the film Style Wars and the fictional R&B radio station Wild Style in the game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
“Pump Me Up” was sampled in Dimple D’s one-hit wonder “Sucker DJ,” which went to #1 in Australia.
Keyboard player Robert “Syke Dyke” Reed died at the age of 50 on April 13, 2008, from pancreatic cancer.
Trouble Funk continues to remain a figure on the Washington, DC, area live-music scene, and holds a weekly Friday night spot at Alexandria, VA’s Holiday Inn.
Trouble Over Here (also titled Trouble Over Here, Trouble Over There) is a studio album released in 1987 by the Washington, D.C. go-go band Trouble Funk.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Producer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Trouble” (featuring Vicky Vee) | Bootsy Collins | 5:26 |
| 2. | “Woman of Principle” (featuring Renee Geyner) |
|
3:31 |
| 3. | “Hey Tee Bone” (featuring Kurtis Blow and Renee Geyner) |
|
5:25 |
| 4. | “All Over the World” |
|
4:16 |
| 5. | “Stroke” |
|
3:30 |
| 6. | “New Money” (featuring Vicky Vee and Eddie Martinez) | Bootsy Collins | 7:04 |
| 7. | “Sexy” (featuring Alonzo Robinson) |
|
3:43 |
| 8. | “Break It Up” (featuring Kurtis Blow) |
|
5:24 |
| Total length: | 39:57 | ||
Personnel
- Chester “T-Bone” Davis – lead guitar
- Tony Fisher – lead vocals, bass guitar
- Bootsy Collins – bass guitar, drums, electric guitar, keyboard
- Emmett Nixon – drums
- James Avery – keyboards
- Robert Reed – keyboards
- Mack Carey – percussion, congas
- Timothy David – percussion, congas
- David Rudd – saxophone
- Gerald Reed – trombone
- Taylor Reed – trombone, trumpet
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