Prince RIP

.. yeah, t'was The Observer. About a five.

Graffiti Bridge vs Cherry Moon

would anyone seriously vote GB? UTCM is at least funny and competently shot.

i like gb's music better
plus there's a sequence where prince has "Beat Me" shaved into his chest hair, so there's that

you like gb's music better????????????????????

Yes.

saw that 35mm print of 'sign o the times' at alamo a few weeks back, with chaki delivering opening remarks. I still have my old fuzzy VHS tape but hadn't watched that for 20 years or so

it is just beyond belief how great that film is

I am sorry I missed that!

SOTT needs a remastered theatrical re-release. Purple Rain gets all the glory but I think sartorial datedness notwithstanding the SOTT film would blow some young minds.

Hell - they may even dig the clothes! Was Prince's coolest looking/sounding/band era as it is (IMHO).

Parade doing its thing here. Tracks 1-6 are light-footed magic. Thanks P.

Was listening to Parade yesterday. It is perfection.

thanks for coming to that, MP! I had to drive the reels back to QT the next day lol.

http://www.startribune.com/pills-seized-from-paisley-park-contained-illicit-fentanyl-same-drug-that-killed-prince/390816101/

Pills marked as hydrocodone that were seized from Paisley Park after Prince’s overdose death actually contained fentanyl, the powerful opioid that killed him, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation.

The musician, who weighed only 112 pounds at the time of his death April 21, had so much of the drug in his system, autopsy results later showed, that it would have killed anyone, regardless of size, the source said.

Prince did not possess a prescription for fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that has been described as 100 times more powerful than morphine, the source said.

Despite the finding, investigators still aren’t certain how the 57-year-old megastar ingested the fentanyl. However, they are leaning toward the theory that he took the pills not knowing they contained the drug.

oof

surely something even 10 times stronger than Morphine shouldn't be anything like legal let alone 100 times. Jesus.

fuck.

What the hell with that last paragraph

Makes it seem like he was taken out.

I wouldn't necessarily say that, but it definitely changes things if true

a lot of prescription narcotics that are sold illegally aren't what they claim to be, and afaik cutting fentanyl and labeling it as something else isn't uncommon due to its strength

it's responsible for a lot of accidental overdoses, especially among people used to opiates

yeah to me that last sentence just points to black market pills rather than, like, MURDER

I know of at least two friends-of-friends who have died of fentanyl overdose

well this is all just a touch more fucking awful now

like, as if him dying the day before the intervention wasn't tragic enough

Isn't fentanyl what almost got David Berman?

I think that was approaching perfection

lmao fuck

alright, good one :)

FYI NYC
http://www.lincolncenter.org/show/burnt-sugar-arkestra-under-the-cherry-parade-in-a-day-you-sexy-mf

Currently running a low grade fever but man I would like to go to that

LOVE the burnt sugar arkestra

make a trip! heal up!

Nice piece on the upcoming Revolution tribute shows:

http://www.startribune.com/prince-amp-the-revolution-survivors-talk-about-first-avenue-grieving-concerts/391346091/

Sad detail:

Wendy & Lisa were asked to perform Prince’s “Sometimes It Snows in April” with soul man D’Angelo on “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon” a few days after the death. They declined.

“I couldn’t even play my piano for a month or more,” Coleman said.

Purple Rain is $1 on Google Play Music today in case for us non-Tidal users missing Prince

I wish to god I had the dough to go home for those revolution shows

So I've been rehearsing for a Prince tribute concert here...the bandleader is going all in w/horns, strings, dancers, studying all the old bootlegs etc. It's a lot for one show but you can't half-ass Prince, I guess. So to speak.

Where, Jordan?

Madison WI

Cool!

Matos in the NY Times today on last night's first ave Revolution show. Sweet Jesus I wish I was there.

okay, have we grieved enough yet for me to ask when the first posthumous release is coming? I know there are a zillion reasons why not but does anyone have an article about it yet? Or a learned update?

this count?
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22338-one-nite-alone-the-aftershow-it-aint-over/

So, uhhmm. . .

http://www.rrauction.com/bidtracker_detail.cfm?IN=589

The Camille album apparently exists.

Wonder if all the versions on there are unique.

that label makes me feel weird

Idk if the version of Camille I have is the same mixes as on that 'genuine' article but it plays really well as an album

Pretty sure that's a bootleg. Camille album was never pressed up. The Black Album was but then all pressed copies were supposedly destroyed after P changed his mind about releasing it.

nah I used to own an Italian pressing of the Black Album, it went to press over there and a number of them hit the market - I bought it in iirc either December or '87 or January '88. expensive as hell at the time

In April 2016, an original promo copy from 1987 was sold on Discogs' marketplace for a record $15,000.00 US.

:( I sold it at some point I'm pretty sure

6 of the 8 tunes on that Camille album turned up on official Prince records anyway: "Housequake", "Strange Relationship", and "If I Was..." on SOTT, "Rockhard" on the Black Album, and "Shockadelica" and "Feel U Up" as B-sides. It would've been dope to have them on a proper Camille album though, as they're all among Prince's best tunes in this era.

There were other tunes from the late 80s that also used the Camille gimmick and would've fit that album: "Scarlet Pussy", "Partyman", etc. And the ur example of that style is of course "Erotic City". For some reason the chipmunk voice seems to have brought out the most funky side of late 80s Prince. Too bad he gave that up when he tried to form a tougher image with the New Power Generation. (Though arguably "Prettyman" from Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic is a continuation of that style, even though his voice is less chipmunky on it.)

And "Cloreen Baconskin" of course. And maybe at a stretch "Bob George".
I still remember the total WTF of the first Camille track I heard on SOTT.