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, 21 April 2016 19:42 (eight years ago) link
flappy bird can u post a link to that interview?
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:43 (eight years ago) link
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.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:43 (eight years ago) link
― 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
― flappy bird, Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:47 (eight years ago) link
ok i'll keep an eye out thx
she is really awesome
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:56 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Position Position, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:01 (eight years ago) link
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.
― campreverb, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:03 (eight years ago) link
I wouldn't be surprised if he has a will mandating all of his unreleased masters to be destroyed
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:04 (eight years ago) link
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
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:11 (eight years ago) link
Guess Erlewine was right on never seeing Purple Rain reissues.
― campreverb, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:12 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/article/nation-too-sad-fuck-even-though-its-what-prince-wo-52791
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:12 (eight years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:14 (eight years ago) link
no. no. no.that's a suggestion too far ..
― mark e, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:15 (eight years ago) link
wow none of his videos are online are they
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:20 (eight years ago) link
max brod to thread
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:21 (eight years ago) link
xpost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJDuGjMwsow&index=7&list=PL8cFaF2b783Ls-_n2LcW25VzdHXJphxSx
― mark e, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:23 (eight years ago) link
sorry if it's already been posted but this show: http://www.panicstream.net/vault/prince-8191988-the-hague-netherlands/
― tylerw, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:24 (eight years ago) link
― 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.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:24 (eight years ago) link
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."
― flappy bird, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:25 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:26 (eight years ago) link
wow @ frank ocean tribute
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:37 (eight years ago) link
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, April 21, 2016 3:43 PM (3 minutes ago)
― 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
― Sushi and the Banchan (Spectrist), Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:39 (eight years ago) link
i have to go nowi don't know when i will returngoodbye
forgot about this LP ending like that...
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:42 (eight years ago) link
yeah that's great
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:43 (eight years ago) link
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)
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:44 (eight years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:44 (eight years ago) link
A friend who would know claimed Prince has a guy whose job was to organize and shepherd all his unreleased stuff.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:47 (eight years ago) link
It would be a wonder to see a list of people Prince has employed and what their job duties have been
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:48 (eight years ago) link
try to imaginewhat silence looks like
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:48 (eight years ago) link
hearing it's gonna be #PONO exclusive
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:48 (eight years ago) link
as the man says in HOUSEQUAKE : "BULLSHIT !"
(hopefully)
― mark e, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:52 (eight years ago) link
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.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:55 (eight years ago) link
:(
― maura, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:55 (eight years ago) link
That skinny motherfucker with the high voice died????
― Jeff, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
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
― goole, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:57 (eight years ago) link
the onion is perfect as usual
― goole, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:58 (eight years ago) link
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…
― veronica moser, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:59 (eight years ago) link
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.
― how's life, Thursday, 21 April 2016 21:00 (eight years ago) link
Black Sweat is great! there are plenty of gems in his post 2000 catalog
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 21 April 2016 21:00 (eight years ago) link
this sucks
― k3vin k., Thursday, 21 April 2016 21:02 (eight years ago) link
I was stunned & gutted this morning... I felt sad but wasnt crying, just lost i guess idk
and then Purple Rain showed up on my ipod after lunch & i cried big huge heaving sobs right here at my desk. having a hard time keeping it in my head that he's gone...the thought keeps flying away & then I remember :(
I saw him once in 2004 on the great Musicology in-the-round tour. Nosebleed seats, most I've ever paid for a ticket ever, could hardly see a thing, sound was garbage...and it was still the best concert I've ever seen. I ugly-cried all through the Purple Rain finale because I didnt want it to be over
Shout-out to the amazing women in his universe. What a constellation of brilliant artists.
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 April 2016 21:03 (eight years ago) link
The Current just got to Purple Rain and I'm a wreck again
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Thursday, 21 April 2016 21:05 (eight years ago) link
sad guitar makes me sad
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 April 2016 21:06 (eight years ago) link
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."― flappy bird, Thursday, 21 April 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― flappy bird, Thursday, 21 April 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31962180
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 21 April 2016 21:15 (eight years ago) link
Stevie Nicks: When we were recording "Stand Back" I decided to be really blatant and call Prince up and tell him that I had been inspired to write the song while listening to "Little Red Corvette." I told him that I figured my song was half his. He came over to the studio where I was recording and listened to it--as I turned extremely white and started to shake. Then he walked over to the piano and put on a really incredible keyboard track. And not only did Prince make it up right on the spot, he played it with only two fingers. Then he left.
Details: Did you see him again?
Stevie Nicks: Yes, when I was on the road a year or so later. I was sick, and Prince brought some cough syrup up to my hotel room. He was sweet--he walked around the room folding things, fluffing pillows, tidying up in general. Then he gave me a spoon of it himself. But when I asked for another spoonful he changed--he said, "I didn't come all the way up here just to get you hooked on another substance!" Then he left.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 April 2016 21:17 (eight years ago) link
that's amazing
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 21 April 2016 21:18 (eight years ago) link
Details: Do you still see him?
Stevie Nicks: No. I was at the premiere of Purple Rain, and in the scene where he slaps Apollonia I freaked and had to go sit in the bathroom. Afterward I went back to see him, and when he asked why I'd left, I had to tell him, "When you popped Apollonia, it kinda popped my brain." He looked at me like it just killed him. We've never spoken since. (sighs) It's a shame, really...we were alike in so many ways.
Details: Such as?
Stevie Nicks: Well, for one thing, we both liked wearing black chiffon around the house.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 April 2016 21:19 (eight years ago) link
Now it's "Damn U" from whatever yr sposed to call it. at the time, I had bought every record he put out the week it came out since 1999, but was with this record that I felt like his droit de seigneur took over and I did not buy his albums no questions asked afterwards. He was defensive re: hiphop's challenge to his authority and so many of the songs were overstuffed —anybody heard "3 Chains of Gold?" Yikes! Prince's "Boho Rap"!!!— but now I'm remembering shit like the "the Continental" and…now MTV has moved on to "The Morning Papers." ahhhhh…
The only record of his I heard that flat out sucked is The Rainbow Children.
― veronica moser, Thursday, 21 April 2016 21:19 (eight years ago) link