prince

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A_QVeo86rY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr6We2B5L6w

This is pretty incredible, if you consider the amount of hands-on work Prince was doing for results so frequently worthless: http://rateyourmusic.com/list/starsprinkles74/the_prince_protege_crash_course/

Dunno how they can call Mavis Staples a protege, because if she counts than so does George Clinton.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb0QVZmX_38

(then)

I love Andre Cymone's first two records but I wouldn't put him in the protege column - he was more of an early collaborator who went his own way. Prince certainly didn't encourage his solo career.

can we get a list?
Vanity
Apollonia
Jill Jones
Carmen Electra
Mayte

feels sort of wrong to call Sheila E. his protege (she's obviously the best of the lot) but he did produce 3 albums for her so I dunno

Sheila E may have had a better career, but Jill Jones's one album is probably the best single album released by a Prince protege. It's top-notch from the beginning to the end, and unlike Sheila (who obviously was a better percussionist than vocalist), Jones can sing too.

Wasn't Andre Cymone in 94 East w Prince?

i just bought the vinyl of that first madhouse album. In good shape, anybody know what it's worth?

xp He was even in the Revolution for a year or two before Mark Brown replaced him.

http://thepcprinciple.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/prince_9.jpg

Ingrid Chavez

Certainly the only protege who married David Sylvian, for what its worth

o i thought this was revived was for this recent article

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/sep/27/20-best-prince-songs-never-heard

BTW, when I saw him a couple of weeks ago, he had an 11-piece (!) horn section. Why? Who knows. There's no room for all of them - literally and figuratively - and he didn't even lean on horn-y stuff. Weird.

maybe he wasn't paying them

it was a kickstarter thing

[joke about prince leaning on horny stuff]

anyone read/reading this yet?

http://www.brunel.ac.uk/__data/assets/thumbnail/0006/232899/PrinceExternal2.jpg

I'd like to read it but this review is very critical:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/prince-by-matt-throne-8190754.html

Unfortunately, Thorne is a Prince fanatic, once considered for the job of approved biographer. A conventional life story wasn't expected, but this doorstop amounts to a speculative description of every song Prince has recorded – especially the unreleased ones. It is packed with adoring speculation. Every detail, no matter how trivial, is "interesting" or "fascinating". Tedious descriptions of obscure movies and bewildering explanations of the plotlines of forgotten albums take up hundreds of pages.

Prince probably warrants the song-by-song approach, but Thorne is no Ian MacDonald, trained in musical theory, and soon runs out of vocabulary. Any tune that swings with a I-IV-V change is dismissed as "rockabilly", while his use of "hard rock", to describe a guitarist often compared to Hendrix, is extraordinarily vague. Thorne's research into Prince's protégés is impressive, but of relatively limited interest, while his subject's drift into bigotry is barely questioned. In fact, Prince's religious journey is hardly mentioned, despite teasers.

hmm too bad...like the cover though

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/07/prince-biography-matt-thorne-review

This reviewer likes the first half of the book!

He's supposedly doing something for Baz Luhrman's (sp?) "Great Gatsby". The mind boggles.

Hopefully it reaches the heights of his previous soundtrack contribution, BATDANCE.

haha yeah "keep bustin".

Vicki Waiting was good

i like that whole album a lot really

Didn't "Girl 6" come after that?

yes, as did Graffiti Bridge, and everything else on Batman came after Batdance

Girl 6 was filled with stuff predating "Batdance" tho.

primarily

26 minute studio jam of I Woul Die 4 U

http://soundcloud.com/heymamad/prince-i-would-die-4-u-26min

wth

only song on Batman I like is Electric Chair

it's kind of weird how ephemeral so much prince-related stuff is. like you have to listen today cause there's a very real chance it will be gone tomorrow.

download these adorable pictures of kittens http://www.sendspace.com/file/dc8t0s

26 minute studio jam of I Woul Die 4 U

http://soundcloud.com/heymamad/prince-i-would-die-4-u-26min

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 7:27 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sounds v similar to an extended live-in-studio PR era "I Would Die 4 U" i have that's 'only' 8 minutes or so, so psyched to have one that's even longer -- one of my favorite songs ever that takes on a whole new amazing shape in those live arrangements

even if this isn't real -- i mean i have no reason to believe it isn't, but, you know, "internet" -- and like some modern producer's insane disco-edit, it's still fucking amazing.

no, it's definitely real, sounds like a lot of live arrangements i've heard of the song from that era.

one of the most vivid and cherished musical memories of my life is listening to the the 10-minute version on my iPod on the last day of my honeymoon, standing on the beach in australia

still can't believe this song placed #16 on the Prince tracks poll, unfuckwithable

no it's totally real i mean that is some unified 80s production there

haha maybe i just dont want to think about reams of shit like this existing out there that i'll never get to hear

the vocals that come in toward the 7 minute mark, that's my standing on the beach in Cairns moment

ommmmmmmmmmmggggggg

strongo, some dude, even you rennnavate:

i love you.

I'm pretty sure that that version is featured on The Work bootleg compilation along with the 8 minute version too if I recall correctly.

"even you rennavate" lol

man this is good

"lisa, gimme some kinda spacey chord!"

this is great...

i drove by paisley park the other day, boy that building was designed in the late 80s

so good

who's on sax there? eric leeds? i thought he came later

Well, Leeds was in the Family with Wendy's sister, I think. Which came about right after the Time dissolved. But he was definitely in the MN mix somewhere.

i love you gr8080!!!!!!