xpost omg <3
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 April 2016 22:58 (eight years ago) link
From a friend:
In 2005 I went to the old Largo on Fairfax to see Wendy and Lisa play with Doyle Bramhall II. I'd seen them a couple weeks back and had a good time so a group of us signed up for one of those awful Largo meals just so we could get a seat and see them again. But when we got to Largo we immediately noticed something was different. The tiny place was packed. Early. And like, on a Tuesday. Maya Rudolf, Sheryl Crow, Nikka Costa, PT Anderson, and Eric fucking Clapton were all there. After a while Sheila E., with the largest body guard I'd ever seen, arrived.Then a sort of buzz started. A friend I was with said she overheard someone say Prince was coming.It didn't seem possible. In part because Prince didn't seem like the kind of human being who would go to things. Let alone things where I was. But it was possible, it did happen, and he took the seat in the booth right next to us.He was literally an arm's length away, but I didn't dare look at him. It seemed like a real "turn into a pillar of salt kind of moment" and I didn't want to mess with it. All I'd dare do was every now and again steal a glance out of the corner of my eye as I sat nervous and still, barely breathing.Nikka Costa got up and sang with the band. Eric Clapton even sat in for a song or two. What did he play? How the fuck am I supposed to remember, I was sitting next to Prince, people?!After Eric What's-His-Name played, Wendy asked if their old friend Prince wanted to join them onstage.He did not.Because he's Prince. And there's no reason he needs to share a stage with anyone.RIP Prince. He was my favorite.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 April 2016 23:00 (eight years ago) link
After Eric What's-His-Name played, Wendy asked if their old friend Prince wanted to join them onstage.He did not.
reminds me he was an asshole too, especially when it came to Wendy and Lisa.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 April 2016 23:07 (eight years ago) link
Been struggling to find some music to listen to, and can't really listen to Prince right now. Settled on "Nilsson Schmilsson," which is just the salve.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 April 2016 23:07 (eight years ago) link
That time he tore it up on American Idol
http://www.jukebo.com/prince/music-clip,lolita-satisfied,suv0l.html
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 21 April 2016 23:40 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hChFHq2Xkfs
just discovered this. goodness what a groover.
― mom, Thursday, 21 April 2016 23:48 (eight years ago) link
im in denial. my most favourite musican ever. havent really computed this yet.
and he was just in the middle of writing his memoirs. i was genuinely looking forward to reading what princes biography might be like.
interesting to see how people will canonise him. he often ended up being cast aside by all sides. not black or hard enough for funk fans. not enough soul for R&B fans. not really rock or masculine enough for rockers. etc etc. he was best before he started to worry about all of that.
ill be honest, i fell out of love with his music (and even live shows - god i wish he got some better bands in recent years, and i think he got into the habit of over-souling his vocals a bit in recent years, but hey, i can cut him some slack) over the past decade or so, but i never stopped being a fan of him. i just loved prince. even his shitty songs were listenable cos HE made them.
but i love that you cant stream his music or get it on you tube (though i imagine a lot of uploads might happen tonight) - not like hes losing money from spotify's meagre royalty rates. not even the beatles held out like he did. he never gave in to the shitty internet model for distributing music.
i smiled a little when i read he died in the studio. i cant imagine prince dying anywhere else. he was obsessive and a workaholic til the end. i sometimes wonder what state his personal life was in, cos all he seemed to do was record or play.
strange though - i just assumed he would be around for a long time. maybe his health wasnt as good as most of us thought. i hope there arent any suspicious circumstances.
i was really interested to see how he would age. in that recent guardian interview he seemed quite aware that critics were now giving him an easy ride (sometimes i wish they gave him as fair/rough/serious a ride as other artists, but i think a lot of critics just didnt quite know how to evaluate prince) so he had to think of ways to challenge himself. id have loved to see where that would have taken him.
RIP.
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 21 April 2016 23:55 (eight years ago) link
fuuuuuuuck
Prince was probably the first musician i ever rocked out to. When I was 7 or 8 I wanted the Batman soundtrack so my parents bought me it on cassette only it wasn't the score it was the Prince album. Some of my earliest memories are dancing on the little table in the playroom and miming along to "Party Man". He's been in my life ever since and he never stops surprising me. Thankfully we are blessed with a giant treasure trove of music.
RIP
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 22 April 2016 00:04 (eight years ago) link
http://eil.com/images/main/Prince+For+You+3397b.jpg
actual photo of Prince in heaven rn
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 22 April 2016 00:07 (eight years ago) link
Listening to Sign O the Times, funny how this such a perfect analogue to Physical Graffiti's "real heads know the deal" place in the Prince canon (compared to Purple Rain's Led Zep IV) it's not the biggest hit but it's all his most "Prince" instincts and interests taken to the farthest degree on a near perfect sprawling double
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 April 2016 00:08 (eight years ago) link
Damn I'm cut, which is standard but only now realizing I don't really know any hardcore Prince fans to commiserate with. Feels a lot more lonely than I could've expected.
Anyway while it's up. Always found this shit religous comforting.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfFXM6I8Sg4
― tsrobodo, Friday, 22 April 2016 00:13 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/alexanderbolton/status/723257547197677569?s=09
― Οὖτις, Friday, 22 April 2016 00:16 (eight years ago) link
I mentioned that Joni cover in my obit.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 April 2016 00:19 (eight years ago) link
from this interview with Joni:
But even when you were somewhat obscure, so many musicians were citing you as an influence or even name-checking you in songs. Of all the musicians and rappers who have cited you as an influence, whose work do you appreciate most?Prince. Prince attended one of my concerts in Minnesota. I remember seeing him sitting in the front row when he was very young. He must have been about 15. He was in an aisle seat and he had unusually big eyes. He watched the whole show with his collar up, looking side to side. You couldn’t miss him—he was a little Prince-ling. [Laughs.] Prince used to write me fan mail with all of the U’s and hearts that way that he writes. And the office took it as mail from the lunatic fringe and just tossed it! [Laughs.]
Prince. Prince attended one of my concerts in Minnesota. I remember seeing him sitting in the front row when he was very young. He must have been about 15. He was in an aisle seat and he had unusually big eyes. He watched the whole show with his collar up, looking side to side. You couldn’t miss him—he was a little Prince-ling. [Laughs.] Prince used to write me fan mail with all of the U’s and hearts that way that he writes. And the office took it as mail from the lunatic fringe and just tossed it! [Laughs.]
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 22 April 2016 00:23 (eight years ago) link
he was really great at the covers.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 00:27 (eight years ago) link
/After Eric What's-His-Name played, Wendy asked if their old friend Prince wanted to join them onstage.He did not./reminds me he was an asshole too, especially when it came to Wendy and Lisa.
Did he mistreat/throw over Vanity? Weird they died so close in time to each other
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 22 April 2016 00:29 (eight years ago) link
Oh no
http://www.tmz.com/2016/04/21/prince-treated-drug-overdose-dead/
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 22 April 2016 00:37 (eight years ago) link
Tampa Bay arena PA played a little bit of "Kiss" just now during a stoppage in the Red Wings/Lightning game
― kevin smith what a bro (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 22 April 2016 00:38 (eight years ago) link
I feel like this story is about to get real sad real fast.
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 22 April 2016 00:55 (eight years ago) link
Damn, 'Sometimes it Snows in April' has always been my favorite P song. Just playing Parade now and it's like it builds and builds up to that as the best thing, saved for last. Just heartbreaking, beautiful music.
― Austin, Friday, 22 April 2016 00:56 (eight years ago) link
xpost
jeez, i had always thought he stayed away from that stuff :(
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 22 April 2016 00:57 (eight years ago) link
"Sometimes It Snows in April" always used to give me chills, now it's going to carry this weight with it too. very tender, understated vocal performance. the "He used to stay so strong, unafraid to die" part always gets me
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 00:59 (eight years ago) link
its TMZ. how legit would that be?
i thought he was as clean living as could be.
i hope this story doesnt get sad.
― StillAdvance, Friday, 22 April 2016 00:59 (eight years ago) link
this does suck, RIP
― Bee OK, Friday, 22 April 2016 01:00 (eight years ago) link
Prince was always a dude I knew of tangentially until I was college aged, then I bought most of his albums in a year span and wouldn't shut up about him. This is such shit. if he made a guest appearance on some garbage show I never watched, I would tune in.
I was beside myself with excitement before his Super Bowl appearance and he didn't disappoint.
thank God for Tidal free trial to give me easy access to my favorite Prince shit cos I can't find any of my cds and none of them are ripped.
on the Dirty Mind album now, which I've always loved.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 01:01 (eight years ago) link
aww man, I love "When You WEre Mine" so much
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 01:03 (eight years ago) link
minneapolis station is streaming nonstop prince:
http://www.thecurrent.org/listen
― scott seward, Friday, 22 April 2016 01:07 (eight years ago) link
TMZ is often first to the scene w/ a lot of legit celeb stories these days. they're not always right, but hard to immediately cast aside.
hoping it's not the case - but we'll find out soon
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 01:09 (eight years ago) link
TMZ also broke the story of his death today
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Friday, 22 April 2016 01:10 (eight years ago) link
Michael Jackson too I think?
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 01:12 (eight years ago) link
hang tough, children
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 22 April 2016 01:12 (eight years ago) link
on "Uptown" now, god the synths all over this fuckin' album are so fuckin sweet
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 01:14 (eight years ago) link
I'm going to put on "Condition of the Heart", will probably immediately regret it but his ballads are callin to me now
Gossip sites are right way more than they are wrong :(
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 April 2016 01:15 (eight years ago) link
TMZ in particular is otm and ahead of the curve way too often to be dismissed
Didn't get into Joni until a few years ago and that track was my way in. (Well probably more so that I was dating a huge Joanna Newsome stan and like a pass-aggressive tool decided to undercut via Joni, but that track was one of the few reference points I had that wasn't a sterile James Blake cover, a Velvet Rope sample or Help Me, which at the time I didn't know was by her.)
But that cover man, pure gospel. Been making a playlist of songs working with that church aesthetic without being beholden to it and that was one of the first thing that came to mind. The range of things he could assimilate whilst remaining so effortlessly true was mind-boggling. The irony is, to me who was born in the 90's and didn't really get to experience him as a vital artist outside the odd time Diamonds and Pearls or The Most Beautiful Girl was on mtv, he never quite felt real; like, how could this guy exist?
― tsrobodo, Friday, 22 April 2016 01:16 (eight years ago) link
I still remember my mom buying me the "Batdance" single.
Vicki ValeVick-vicki Vale
Yo Jackie...let me stick the seven inch in the computer
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 01:18 (eight years ago) link
on "Head" now.
"I think you like to go downYou wouldn't have stoppedBut I, I came on your wedding gown"
man I'm gonna miss him for lines like this.....
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 01:19 (eight years ago) link
home now. listening to a 2-CD boot of a 1988 show, "live in dortmund." amazing. amazing. amazing.
check this set list: http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/prince/1988/westfalenhalle-1-dortmund-germany-63d856bb.html
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 22 April 2016 01:24 (eight years ago) link
omg
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XODMwMDY2ODQ=.html
thank christ for sketchy chinese video streaming sites.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 22 April 2016 01:28 (eight years ago) link
opening with Erotic City, damn nice
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 01:30 (eight years ago) link
So after feeling curiously non-gutted most of the day (I'm guessing because I've spend most of the day listening to Prince, and his music makes me happy), I finally lost it when my husband showed me this photo:
http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/musician-prince-and-actress-eva-longoria-watch-the-2007-nba-all-star-picture-id73364583
Maybe it's because I've been looking at older stuff all day, and here is looking happy in a (relatively) recent photo, but...wow.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Friday, 22 April 2016 02:03 (eight years ago) link
guys
play the second disc of Emancipation.
The string bit in "Soul Sanctuary" is killing me.
I've always loved the twosome of "The Holy River" and "Let's Have a Baby."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 April 2016 02:05 (eight years ago) link
the problem I'm having right now is as soon as I put anything on I'm already thinking an album ahead
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 02:06 (eight years ago) link
tho I'm on Sign O' the Times now and the guitar solo on "Play in the Sunshine" = fuuuuuuuuuuuck yea
guess you could say he had to gett off this mortal coil
― del griffith, Friday, 22 April 2016 02:10 (eight years ago) link
hey guys
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 02:10 (eight years ago) link
tell me
who on this board
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 02:11 (eight years ago) link
know about the QUAKE?
and I don't mean sexually satisfy to completion the members of musical group This Mortal Coil, but I wouldn't have put it past him
― del griffith, Friday, 22 April 2016 02:11 (eight years ago) link