Prince RIP

release the album artwork and the track listing, but not the music

forgotten gems pt1 (album version) : the word.

the underlying beat and bassline with the vocal melody = sonic honey.
yeah i know he lost a lot of love in later years, but there were times he always hit the jackpot.
this is one such track i had totally forgotten about, and loving it.

2016 can seriously go suck a fuck already.

"love bizarre" on Sirius's Groove station right now…god that fucking drum sound…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu273pvAd_w

Wow, such a huge and unexpected loss. Really surprising as he truly did seem ageless and superhuman. He was a masterful writer in his prime, probably among the best writers ever.

Rest in Purple.

on "Muppets Tonight" (not sure of the year...early '00s?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0MSi7Ldxnc

was listening to "A Love Bizarre" (long version) in Seattle last week. I love how you can hear his guide vocal.

xp would have been between '96 and '98.

so did his Jehovah's Witnessing result in antigay outbursts? One of the 'major' gay blogs is saying so.

flappy bird can u post a link to that interview?

was walking to get lunch this afternoon with the guitar solo from "purple rain" (pretty much intact; i've probably heard that song 400 times) wafting through my head.

flappy bird can u post a link to that interview?

― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, April 21, 2016 3:43 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

unfortunately it was live on MSNBC about half an hour ago, will probably surface at some point

ok i'll keep an eye out thx

she is really awesome

xp my personal theory was that he was gonna have everything he made posthumously uploaded onto the web for free in perpetuity. seemed the right kind of iconoclastic move. here's hoping.

Seems unlikely considering how much he disliked his music being available for free on the web.

I saw him in '97 on the Love 4 One Another tour. I seem to recall he had just started going by Prince again.
He hardly played any of his bigger hits, other than snippets.

and it was still one of the best shows I've seen.

I wouldn't be surprised if he has a will mandating all of his unreleased masters to be destroyed

guys around the world in a day is so fucking good

the finger cymbals and strings and that tambourine sound

such a THE REVOLUTION record

Guess Erlewine was right on never seeing Purple Rain reissues.

http://www.theonion.com/article/nation-too-sad-fuck-even-though-its-what-prince-wo-52791

ATWIAD = underrated

remember when hardcore Prince fans would wonder why he coughed at the beginning of the "Raspberry Beret" video

so many great videos tbh - Little Red Corvette, Alphabet St, Raspberry Beret

I wouldn't be surprised if he has a will mandating all of his unreleased masters to be destroyed

no. no. no.
that's a suggestion too far ..

wow none of his videos are online are they

max brod to thread

xpost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJDuGjMwsow&index=7&list=PL8cFaF2b783Ls-_n2LcW25VzdHXJphxSx

sorry if it's already been posted but this show: http://www.panicstream.net/vault/prince-8191988-the-hague-netherlands/

so did his Jehovah's Witnessing result in antigay outbursts? One of the 'major' gay blogs is saying so.

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, April 21, 2016 3:42 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I remember hearing this, though I cannot confirm it. Anyway, it feels a lot like when the SJWs dragged out some of Bowie's more questionable sexual antics immediately in the wake of his death. Legends die, but perpetual outrage never can.

re: his masters. I'm sure I read this story on ILX. An engineer working with him, Prince came in one night, supposedly heartbroken, recorded this beautiful song top to bottom, engineer was floored, 8 hours later they're listening to the final mix and Prince just says "Erase it."

frankocean

i'm not even gonna say rest in peace because it’s bigger than death. i never met the man (i was too nervous the one time i saw him) and i never saw him play live, regrettably. i only know the legends I’ve heard from folks and what i’ve heard and seen from his deep catalog of propellant, fearless, virtuosic work. my assessment is that he learned early on how little value to assign to someone else’s opinion of you.. an infectious sentiment that seemed soaked into his clothes, his hair, his walk, his guitar and his primal scream. he wrote my favorite song of all time, ‘when you were mine’. it’s a simple song with a simple melody that makes you wish you thought of it first, even though you never would have - a flirtatious brand of genius that feels approachable. he was a straight black man who played his first televised set in bikini bottoms and knee high heeled boots, epic. he made me feel more comfortable with how i identify sexually simply by his display of freedom from and irreverence for obviously archaic ideas like gender conformity etc. he moved me to be more daring and intuitive with my own work by his demonstration - his denial of the prevailing model...his fight for his intellectual property - ‘slave’ written across the forehead, name changed to a symbol... an all out rebellion against exploitation. A vanguard and genius by every metric I know of who affected many in a way that will outrun oblivion for a long while. I’m proud to be a Prince fan(stan) for life.

wow @ frank ocean tribute

flappy bird can u post a link to that interview?

― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, April 21, 2016 3:43 PM (3 minutes ago)

unfortunately it was live on MSNBC about half an hour ago, will probably surface at some point

― flappy bird, Thursday, April 21, 2016 7:47 PM (50 minutes ago)

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/prince-driven-by-his-ideas-singularity-of-vision-670978115897

i have to go now
i don't know when i will return
goodbye

forgot about this LP ending like that...

yeah that's great

oops referring to frank ocean

xpost ha I thought it was going to be an interview with Susan Rogers (is rogers her last name? His awesome engineer during SOTT era)

from the adult baby thread:

I read an amusing anecdote recently from a guy who worked in a sound engineering capacity with Prince around the time of Paisley Park. One day Prince announced that he wanted to hear what a guitar sounded like underwater, so he ordered this guy to take various amplifiers out of the studio and set them up in his swimming pool. The engineer pointed out that the amps and microphones would instantly short out and never work again. Prince was all death-stare, "I wanna hear what they sound like in the pool". So this guy spent the afternoon dutifully lowering various cabs, combos and mics into the pool, and of course as soon as he turned the power on, they all immediately blew up. Prince had already lost interest and was like, get this crap out of my pool. So the experiment concluded with the engineer tossing thousands of dollars' worth of gear into a skip.

A friend who would know claimed Prince has a guy whose job was to organize and shepherd all his unreleased stuff.

It would be a wonder to see a list of people Prince has employed and what their job duties have been

try to imagine
what silence looks like

hearing it's gonna be #PONO exclusive

hearing it's gonna be #PONO exclusive

as the man says in HOUSEQUAKE : "BULLSHIT !"

(hopefully)

just watched the while my guitar gently weeps video, first time i'd ever seen it, laughed aloud for joy at the end. god his wicked little smile! how much he's enjoying himself! how self-assured yet how generous! fuck me.

:(

That skinny motherfucker with the high voice died????

what i love about that clip is that dhani harrison is too awestruck and joyful to be stern (and disapproving?) with the rest of his dad's friends

the onion is perfect as usual

am now hearing "black sweat" for the first time…didn't know he brought his old drum sound back so late in the game… this shit is hot…

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1159896994042718&id=162957660403328

This just showed up in my fb feed as my bus is driving past Gallaudet.

Black Sweat is great! there are plenty of gems in his post 2000 catalog