prince

Except he covers stuff all the time. (Including, apparently Beyonce's Suga Mama, which was on youtube at one point but which I have never heard. :(

you might be missing the raging egomaniac part of the equation

Wasn't space to include the rest of that quote, which might have seemed pedantic to general non-music-mag readers anyway. He says that (a) he plays them live rather than releasing them and (b) he calls up the songwriters to ask if they're cool with it.

yeah, like meshell ndegeocello is doing a full length prince cover tour that i imagine prince is cool with
he seems more snotty about the recorded versions.

me being the snot that I am, I would have asked about the covers on Emancipation

tbf, i now hear only his version of betcha by golly wow as the "real" one.

DJP, you interviewing Prince would be all kinds of hilarious/great because it would eventually be half an hour of shit-talking about mentally incompetent Minnesotans you've encountered.

"I went in intending to ask a musical genius questions about his art and his future. I ended up attempting to horrify him with stories about home town."

tempted to go with "mentally incompetent Minnesotans i have encountered" as a dn, but

Welcome 2 Hastings

xp The problem is his conversation jumps all over the place and you can't record it so you're just sat there scribbling down what he says and by the time you've got it together to quibble with a point like that he's on to something else. Except the Islam one where I had time to pull a "Bloody hell, really?" face.

then there was that time when Prince was the unpronounceable symbol, and his managers gave the specific font to use to journalists when writing about him in print, and then he tried to sue them when they tried to use it as directed...

Live review of Friday's show, courtesy of me, but since I have *no* idea how to do live reviews, it's pretty much a partial setlist plus commentary:

http://roverarts.com/2011/06/purple-reign/

The fourth encore began with Prince spot-lit at centre stage, performing an ethereal version of Joni Mitchell’s A Case of You

OMG

ddddaaammn

WOW Alex that gig sounds incredible!

holy hell

not saying it wasnt good but doesnt he play that kind of show pretty regularly these days? his aftershows/jams arent rare like they used to be.

No, Alex, you did very well indeed.

Entirely possible. He hasn't come to Montreal in a decade and in comparison the Saturday show was pretty much nothing but hits. They have a setlist for that over at prince.org and I was kind of jealous at first because we got maybe 8 recognizable prince hits and most of those were partial/medleys. But...there was a looseness to the set on Friday. Kind of felt like anything could happen.

Plus, I've never seen Prince live before so I don't have a point of comparison. I do know that my friends in the states have indicated that the Welcome 2 America tour was pretty much just the hits, so this felt like somewhat of a departure.

http://www.canalplus.fr/c-divertissement/pid3303-c-le-live-du-grand-journal.html?vid=483431

http://player.vimeo.com/video/18951826
Prince doing A Love Bizarre live with Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings and Maceo Parker
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wish this would load already so i could watch it

Outstanding. Note the teleprompter!!

I recently discovered the Electrifying Mojo's interview with Prince just after his 1986 (?) birthday gig in Detroit. Amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJZCoxZ5COY

i don't think i've heard his voice outside of his movies--so cool

1983 rehearsal tape:

http://thediscography.tumblr.com/post/7071635816/haruenishikawa-d-m-s-r-rehearsal-including

that Mojo interview's great.

this is crazy under-rated innit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heJ-FxhU0h0

saw prince last night for the first time. one of my top 5 shows of all time easy. and it was in a field at a crap festival. and it was godlike. amazing setlist plus Sly & Family Stone medley with Larry Graham. fuuuuuck.

Let's Go Crazy/Delirious, 1999, Little Red Corvette, Nothing Compares 2 U, Take Me With U, Raspberry Beret, Cream, Cool, Don't Stop Til You Get Enough, Let's Work, U Got The Look, Purple Rain, Kiss, Controversy/Housequake, Play That Funky Music, Dance To The Music/I Want To Take You Higher/Everyday People/Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), Come Together, Dance (Disco Heat), If I Was Your Girlfriend, Baby I'm A Star

^^^THAT is sort of the set list I wish I had seen? Much as I loved all the insane stuff he did. Baby I'm a Star and U Got the Look and If I Was Your Girlfriend = pure gold.

I was really worried he would do a cack new stuff set, but it was literally hit after hit and unbelievable

that's what he usually does

It's does seem an awful shame that because he hasn't released a decent record in over 20 years, I have an awfully hard time trying to convince people of his genius...fair enough they may never of liked him in the first place but you mention his name and it's either a blank stare or 'yeah, Sexy MF was good'...er no...

What world do you live in? Pretty much everyone I know loves this guy!

sonnyboy, find new friends

xxxxxpost SO many underrated james on "Graffiti Bridge:" Joy In Repetition, Elephants, We Can Funk, Thieves in the Temple, Tick Tick Bang... if that record was just the Prince songs it would be in my top 5 for sure.

"Joy in Repetition" is so swirly and weird.

i can sing every word of joy in repetition and occasionally do when i'm waiting for trains
Graffiti Bridge is badly underrated yes. It james out.

sonnyboy, find new friends

― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

xpost: was gonna say "sonnyboy if you don't think chaos and disorder, 3121, the gold experience or emancipation are *decent* then i dunno about your prince fandom"...
is that harsh?

Gold Experience and Emancipation no doubt
3121 eh
Chaos and Disorder has like two james and that's it.

Here I go pushing 20Ten again...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHWoK6P9XoM

That's kinda fun.

Everyone loves his guy...how many of them own 'TGE', 'Come' or anything after the Love Symbol album? There's a shitload of people who don't have anything past Diamonds and it's basically the Kid's fault.

It's does seem an awful shame that because he hasn't released a decent record in over 20 years
― The Pastiche Liberation Front (sonnyboy), Thursday, July 7, 2011 7:29 PM Bookmark

I stopped reading here. sorry, Emancipation, Musicology, and 3121 are all good to great....

also I like the Symbol album and Come

I currently don't own anything of Prince's past The Gold Album, and even then Diamonds and Pearls is the last album of his featuring anything I want to hear. It's just too much mediocrity to take/sift through. Granted, each Prince album has always had a track or two I've liked, even "The Rainbow Children," but I'd be lying if I gave a shit about his sort of gormless genius.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vITKFi2W_o

thread why u brake heart ;_;

^Obv. live is a different matter. I've seen the dude in several different live contexts, from clubs to arenas, and he's never been less than captivating.

Well, you are correct: nothing after Emancipation is essential.

yea I would agree that he hasn't made a CLASSIC in the last 20 years, but sonnyboy acting like he hasn't even achieved mediocrity in the last 20 years = o_O

There was a Prince vs Bowie thread a few years ago and I was more or less aghast that anyone could seriously pick Prince over Bowie. I only vaguely remember the "points" I was trying to make and I can't be bothered to find the thread, but anyhow, something clicked over the past few years and now I think I finally "get" Prince (ILM has certainly helped). I say that even as someone who was a Prince fan during the 80's. It's amazing that you can hear music one way for 20 years and then suddenly a light turns on and you hear things completely differently. This is also a big reason why I could never give up listening to music.