Prince RIP

Prince's guitar: I'm not sure how virtuosic his guitar playing was in terms of solo technique, I'm sure it was excellent, but what made Prince an amazing guitar player was his ability to coax that pure emotion out of the instrument, and knowing exactly what notes to play, etc.

Prince as a bass player: his strength to me wasn't those amazing melodic fluid basslines that James Jamerson laid down on the regular, but some incredible bass riffs like on Lady Cab Driver and Sign O' The Times. His bass playing and interplay with Sheila E's drums is one of the best things about Lovesexy for me.

As a piano player: I'm a keyboard player and from what I've seen and heard he's a very expressive player with very good technique. He probably did a good amount of his writing on the keys. When he lets loose like on "Strange Relationship" from the Lovesexy tour piano medley he can rock the shit out of the instrument. He's also obviously very capable of playing pretty too, like he did on his version of Joni's "A Case of You"

xps I own a dozen of the 12" singles, and I could use a dozen more tbh

wheeeerre is this 12" extended mixes comp ... i had something a while ago, can't seem to find it now.

^

yeah I would listen to that

I have several 12"s (Let's Go Crazy/Erotic City, I Wish You Heaven, Scandalous suite, etc.) but I know I'm missing a bunch

That D'angelo performance was making me cry and then I realized he looked like a silly creampuff and couldn't stop laughing.

lemme know if y'all got my emails

I know you can get all the 12"s from a few hq sources on P1rat3 B4y.

my webmail thang is on an ages-old email account ... could you send one to tywilc @ gmail.com, brad? THANK YOU.

i wouldn't mind one myself.
forksclovetofu at gmail if ya don't mind

I would also like to check that out - burningambulance at gmail. Thanks.

ditto

tarfumes at gmail

thx!

whoah thx v much Brad!!!

Brad I have the so called "Quintessential Extended 12" Mix Compilation" (good sounding needle drops) can u email me too if you got something better

Thanks Brad!

that's the one jon

i had a bunch of scattered vinyl rips before that so imo the "quintessential" comp is saving my life

you've got mine, Brad

mr. me too

donaldparsley at gmail

thanks!

Thanks so much, Brad!

man...d'angelo ;_;

hey brad ilu

sharon dot penny at gmail

sleeve at kittymail dot com please ;)

so I can figure out what I still need to look for on vinyl

yo brad, hook a brad up?

brad dot cahoon at gmail

lol ok y'all

um, i hate to be the dork who says "what about me" but i think you may have missed me on that email hookup given the others calling hosannas.
for those working at home it's forksclovetofu at gmail, gnarly spelling likely the culprit
and thanks!

That did it!

<3

thank yooooo

Anxiously awaiting - again, burningambulance at gmail dot com. Thanks!

can't remember for the life of me if it was this thread or the other where the rainbow children was suggested as his worst album. it is very much not. imo it's really good

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ChEIsTJU0AAi8mp.jpg

The Revolution is going to do shows.

the dangelo cover only got me when he said prince's name. other than that, it was nice, respectful, but bruce's PR cover packed more emotion for me. dangelo obv felt emotion *himself*, but i didnt feel it much. plus, every time i see him these days, i wonder whats going on with his hair, and then i wondered why he was wearing that white fur thing as whats good for prince isnt necesarily a good fit for dangelo. im being petty i know (though prince was pretty good at pettiness so im sure he would approve).

the rainbow children was insanely good apart from the song the work, which was another one of his slightly sterile JB tributes.

lol the Work is the only song on there I liked

J0hnjust3n at the gmail

If possible and thx in advance

Hey Brad, bigpermie at gmail thx pal ;-)

i wondered why he was wearing that white fur thing

it'd better be fake fur!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKQm3syBAQU

Wow, those are some Hannah's Field level lyrics right there.

LOL at that meme

I was thinking about his worst projects again, and I think, contrary to popular Prince fan opinion, that the Madhouse albums are pretty poor. Prince's jazz-funk isnt particularly strong IMO, even if it does have some good moments/riffs/licks/melodies here and there. I think fans just like to think Prince could do anything, but as NEWS made pretty clear, hes good at being jazzy, but actual jazz? Nah. I dont hear it. Like, hearing Miles play live with him at that NYE show is fantastic. Hearing a song between them? I dunno how good it would be.

I agree w that, altho I'm having a hard time putting my finger on what it is exactly about jazz that Prince doesn't get.

Looseness. Swing. Think about how much time he spent working with drum machines. A drummer like Tony Williams would have totally wrong-footed him.

Prince didn't get that it's best not to approach it as "jazz."

"Looseness. Swing. Think about how much time he spent working with drum machines. A drummer like Tony Williams would have totally wrong-footed him."

true, but even NEWS, some decades after madhouse, and several years playing off drummers, wasnt too hot either.

FYI someone on facebook calling themselves His Royal Highness is sharing the most insane collection of bootleg videos and such. shit like 90 minutes of 'out-takes' from the the recording of the Sign O The Times film. he must be 'connected'.

https://www.facebook.com/His-Royal-Highness-316507635225335/?fref=nf

The band who opened for D'Angelo at First Ave with St. Paul Peterson, Eric Leeds, etc. was not that good. Great players of course, but without someone like Prince to direct and frame things it was just jams. The only interesting part was watching Questlove try to keep things in check while the other drummer overplayed.

Loved the New Yorker postscript. I've got to admit, I'd never even considered Prince's iconography or pictograph lexicon as avant garde, but of course they were.