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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To all the people who think it's not possible for a local to not know who Chuck Brown was, is there the same lack of belief if you grew up here but don't know who Fugazi was?  I grew up here - DC native, black, went to DCPS, didn't have too many white friends, and I never heard of Fugazi until I was an adult and heard it mentioned on NPR.[/quote]

I think the double standard applies here - in the 90s, go-go was on the radio ALL THE TIME.  But not Fugazi - maybe one Waiting Room song made the radio on 99.1, and while lots of white people used to listen to 95.5 and 93.9, I doubt the converse was true about 99.1 (I didn't even really listen to 99.1 and I'm white).  I did both though - went to go-go's (early 90s), and went to see Fugazi (circa 88-89).[/quote]

Yeah, I grew up here, and I am just generally music-clueless.  I had never heard of Chuck Brown NOR Fugazi.  I, being white, had heard other references to Fugazi a few years ago in my 20s but still never paid it much attn.  I (again, being white but generally music clueless) started hearing about Chuck Brown and go-go this past week or so.  So yeah, I can attest:  as a native yet musically clueless indiv., I view CB and F about the same.  By virtue of my race, ,maybe I heard of F a few years earlier than CB, but neither was particularly meaningful to me.  [/quote]

Well, that's a real shame for you.[/quote]

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