I was thinking about putting on whatever Prince stuff was immediately accessible to me but I think I need to hold off for a while. I was listening to Ween already so maybe 'LYLYP' can be my baby steps in that direction.
― Trash Sandwich (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:22 (eight years ago) link
I saw one of those 2007 London shows and for real Prince was the single best thing I have ever seen on a stage
did you get the book ?the book was crap, just lots of pics, but there was a live cd that came with it.insanely good stuff.
― mark e, Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:22 (eight years ago) link
The clip of him doing While My Guitar Gently Weeps with every ageing rock musician in the world is astonishing, half way through he just steps into the middle of the stage and blows everyone else away.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:23 (eight years ago) link
that clip is really "why prince is amazing for non-prince fans" but I have watched it so many times. Dhani Harrison's face lighting up is so joyful
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:24 (eight years ago) link
haha yes
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:26 (eight years ago) link
where does his guitar go
I seriously hope he died while being fellated by a bare minimum of two nurses at once.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:27 (eight years ago) link
μpright mammal (mh)Posted: April 21, 2016 at 2:21:03 PMI'm wondering if this is another case of someone who has a ridiculous work ethic and a tendency to deny they're that sick dying from the flu or something that should have been a minor infection. Would be completely unsurprising if Prince was like that, he seemed like he was always "on"
Yes I posted on one of these threads that when the flu hospitalization thing came out I had a dark thought of 'I hope this does not turn out like Jim Henson'
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:28 (eight years ago) link
i realise this is small fry for you who collect studio offcuts/bootlegs/live rips etc, but i have just added my prince digital collection into a playlist, hit the random option, and crossfade function.321 tracks in total.ooh yes.unloved/forgotten deep cuts are sounding wonderful right now eg. push.
― mark e, Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:29 (eight years ago) link
How long until articles about Prince and Sinead start showing up on my FB feed
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:29 (eight years ago) link
this is on youtube and it's pretty glorious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4SGn-nnnhw
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:30 (eight years ago) link
Enjoy the fruits of his songwriting labors if nothing else:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STQ6Z4NnukY
― Trash Sandwich (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:31 (eight years ago) link
Jon, I immediately think of Jim Henson every time something like that happens, too! When I think of Henson dying at 53 it breaks my heart.
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:32 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMfAXjoqDks
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:33 (eight years ago) link
https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/t31.0-8/13041385_10154114849074841_6340402726226358794_o.jpg
― nomar, Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:34 (eight years ago) link
can't process this. saw him in London during the Lovesexy tour, still one of the best concerts I've ever seen nearly 30 years later.;_;
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
There have been a lot of recent deaths of people whose music I grew up with enjoyed immensely, or at least respected but none of them were as big a deal to me as Prince.
He's one of those artists that was around for as long as I was paying attention to music; when I heard he died I immediately remember the 1999 and Little Red Corvette videos (probably on Night Tracks while playing with Legos during sleepovers at my friend's house) and listening to my cousin's Purple Rain tape on a walkman while reading Mad Magazine. But he's one of the few that I stayed interested in as an adult.
I never saw him live and really regret not doing so in Seattle a couple years ago, I remember thinking ticket prices were insane and he wasn't that old and would probably be around again at some point. Alas.
― joygoat, Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
xxxxp see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1NLrpNhfRc
― T.L.O.P.son (Phil D.), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
Prince and Vanity both dead, both at 57 :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQQdA2aat2k
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
Like imagine being in your 50s and still being onstage being consistently, outrageously sexual and never once looking sleazy or creepy? No male musician in history has ever been able to pull that off, plenty of dudes 30 years younger can't, and Prince did it pretty much effortlessly.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
Goddamn, I can't even listen to a Martika song yet without feeling overwhelmed! Fuck!
I'm right there with you Jon & mh. Jim Henson is probably still the most impactful celebrity death of my life, and the weird, out of left field, too damn soon deaths of Prince and Bowie are close runners up.
― Trash Sandwich (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:37 (eight years ago) link
I really want to re-watch that one old awards show clip of Baby I'm a Star that's like 11 min long and just full throttle energy all the way through.
Also very curious to see what happens to his catalog & vault.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:38 (eight years ago) link
xpost Like people who you'd reasonably presumed had transcended such petty human concerns as death.
― Trash Sandwich (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:38 (eight years ago) link
the jukebox in my high school lunch room had "Erotic City" on it and I can remember female fans trying to convince school admin that it was okay because he was actually saying "funk" on the chorus and not "fuck" lol
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:38 (eight years ago) link
henson was a jhvh witness too, right? or xtian scientist?
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:39 (eight years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/uspto.gov/photos/a.128840003796166.21901.114912688522231/1267507836596038/
― T.L.O.P.son (Phil D.), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:39 (eight years ago) link
^^^ I brought this up earlier on Prince threads. with no children and no clear heir and *tons* of unreleased stuff + the back catalog you have to wonder who he was willing to cede control of his estate to.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:40 (eight years ago) link
well Prince didn't exactly look like a 57-year old man to begin with. he was more like...a space alien
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:41 (eight years ago) link
the jukebox in my high school lunch room had "Erotic City" on it
wow lol
i wrote my high school's comedy revue one year and had a really age-inappropriate prince parody in there that somehow was allowed in.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:42 (eight years ago) link
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, April 21, 2016 1:39 PM (47 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The latter, I think? And I'd always assumed that had something to do with his death, but the biography that came out a couple years back painted it as kind of a legitimately freak thing, like a very rapid decline pretty much out of nowhere.
― Trash Sandwich (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:42 (eight years ago) link
don't know if this has been posted but to me this is the best thing to watch right now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAYQUbh8HHA
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:42 (eight years ago) link
the current tribute is great, except for the banal, Minnesota nice public radio commentary, just like whatever that SNL skit was.
In terms of well known african american music from Mpls, there really isn't any after him and the scene he presided over, is there?
― veronica moser, Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:43 (eight years ago) link
in general i hate arena shows -- i probly have been to 20 max -- but he filled up MSG like a cabaret on both Lovesexy and the Musicology tour.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:44 (eight years ago) link
what Prince and Jam & Lewis aren't enough for you
xp
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:45 (eight years ago) link
with no children and no clear heir and *tons* of unreleased stuff + the back catalog you have to wonder who he was willing to cede control of his estate to.
i think its pretty clear the man was seriously lawyered up, so, would like to think this aspect has been well and truly locked down.i mean, he was insanely tight on his archive, so, there should be little problem sourcing mastertapes etc. for the inevitable boxset excess.
just so long as we dont get any l.a reid lead albums.
― mark e, Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:46 (eight years ago) link
xpost Sure, they pretty much dominated a couple decades worth of popular music, but who hasn't?
― Trash Sandwich (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:46 (eight years ago) link
i will buy all these prince box sets, no shit
still so bewildered and confused right now
!
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:47 (eight years ago) link
saw prince for the first and only time with 3rdeyegirl last year
we had seats way back in the gods, there were no screens to bring the onstage action any closer, and even though from that distance we could barely see him his charisma was still utterly transfixing. never seen anything like it and i guess i never will again.
― the world’s youngest hyper-polyglot (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:49 (eight years ago) link
It never occurred to me that he could die...it just wasn't on my radar. Wasn't he just starting to write his memoirs? Shit.
ps: props to Prince for outliving Rick James by one year
― musically, Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:50 (eight years ago) link
2016 can seriously go suck a fuck already.
― Fat Idiot (Old Lunch), Thursday, April 21, 2016 1:33 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― kevin smith what a bro (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:50 (eight years ago) link
btw re his queerness, it was quite literal, via an anecdote someone i trust shared with me recently
anythingthatmoveslikeaholeinyohead
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:51 (eight years ago) link
maybe this is weird but I keep thinking about how D'Angelo is handling this news
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:54 (eight years ago) link
at home i have all these fan-made "deluxe editions" of his albums with contemporaneous singles, 12" mixes, outtakes, etc. etc. the "sign of the times" one is like 9 discs and it's fucking glorious.
can't wait to get home to listen to those. stuck at work listening to prince marginalia...
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:58 (eight years ago) link
I just looked at Miguel's Twitter for that same reason.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link
i thank whichever ilxor made those "Perfect Unreleased Prince" comps a few years ago, i listen to those all the time.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:00 (eight years ago) link
not my favorite cover, but cool all the same
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3pIxfGEhM0
probably one the best pop songs ever no?
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:00 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd6JI5MD_cQ
― T.L.O.P.son (Phil D.), Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:01 (eight years ago) link
So grateful that I was able to go to the Baltimore show last May. An amazing show, and his song BALTIMORE is fantastic. God, he had so much energy. Completely perplexed because of his straight edge, super healthy life style. Listening to MSNBC right now and one of the guests mentioned that at some point Prince refused a hip replacement because Jehovah's Witnesses don't believe in blood transfusions. Just awful. Bowie and Prince were the two biggest rockstars that EVERYONE liked. Insane that we lost them in a three month span.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:02 (eight years ago) link
Saw him on the One Nite Alone tour at a relatively small concert hall. About twelve rows back. Although the seats were plush and comfortable, the audience was on its feet from the moment he was onstage. Played a bit less than 2.5 hours. I've never met anyone more charismatic, regardless of the profession. I actually missed his presence the next day.
Having a difficult time keeping it together this afternoon.
― doug watson, Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:04 (eight years ago) link
it's just that, having never been to Mpls but understanding it to not be a Afr-Am stronghold, it seems that there isn't a deep bench of black music. Its his scene, which Jam and Lewis were part of, and then… what? anything? Or beforehand? Being that I just finished the Replacements book, that band and its ilk makes sense. Prince's achievement seems all the more massive in that he came out of a vacuum.
― veronica moser, Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:05 (eight years ago) link