Prince RIP

I remember a little scuffle broke out in front of the stage one night and Prince said, "Stop fighting, you'll mess up your clothes."

lol see what I mean? comedy

I like Tuomas' word - "mischief" - that's the perfect word for the wicked little grin he'd give

ha yes

I just listened to half of Purple Rain with my 7 and 4 year old, full blast, all of us just bouncing the fuck around the room and pretending to play every instrument. and once it was over somehow it ended up in a 'jam session' with me on guitar, one kid on 'drums' and the other on a variety of harmonicas and other noisemakers and, you know, even if they don't feel that sucker punch to the gut that the song Purple Rain always gives me, even when Prince was ALIVE, the fact that we could all just spin out of this music recorded some 30 years ago into our own exhilarating rock noises basically until we got too tired to do it any more somehow makes me feel better.

aw that's beautiful <3

could ready for the world's "Oh sheila" be the most prominent soundalike exponent, other than the records he made for proteges and…"Sussudio?"

another thing that's unusual about him is that alone among his megawatt peers, he didn't use big time session guys on record or name sidemen live. After the Revolution, he used young, unknown cats he could mold…largely from the Mpls area, I think? does anyone know if he used musicians from other towns? yet it's not like John Robinson or Lee Sklar or Larry Carlton or the Toto guys would have said "no man, I'm not playing that." those guys played herculean shit that was asked of them, I'm sure session guys loved him like everyone else, and it's clear he wouldn't have thought of them as soulless corporate tools: he liked slick shit.. maybe they were too expensive? I think Maceo, Larry Graham and other old funkateers are a different matter, and I don't think its insulting to Candy Dulfer or him to say that she got the gig because he liked the way she looks. He liked pretty women onstage with him! Sheila E counts as a pretty much a fully accredited member of his stable.

Westerberg piece is great.

I can't think of anyone better – an all-around composer, musician, guitarist, star, showman, the whole package, anyone better. If Elvis wrote all of his songs and played guitar, it still wouldn't quite be there. He'd play Jimi Hendrix-style, between his legs and behind his back. And then he'd do the splits. He could put the guitar down, and Jimi would become James Brown. He could hold the crowd like Mick Jagger, but could Mick Jagger play the piano like that?

does anyone know if he used musicians from other towns?

i think he found the guitarist for 3rd eye girl on Youtube and she found the other two members. so assuming not from MN.

he's the last (only?) virtuoso guitarist pop star i can think of - hendrix being pretty firmly in the rock camp

I like Tuomas' word - "mischief" - that's the perfect word for the wicked little grin he'd give

this this this ..
so many clips/instances of that grin.
a case of arrogance, or just self awareness of his perfection ?
he knew he was the living embodiment of musical perfection, and loved making sure we all knew it.

he's the last (only?) virtuoso guitarist pop star i can think of - hendrix being pretty firmly in the rock camp

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, April 22, 2016 3:34 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

john mayer (if he counts as a pop star) seems to have a ton of cred in the guitar magazine world (and it was kinda news when he left fender for paul reed smith, meaning an end to his popular signature series stratocaster)

you guys should really listen to the audio of his last show if you haven't already. so good and he's so funny onstage. when he talks about how a little brother runs if he finds big shoes under a woman's bed so that he doesn't get beat up. haha! i loved that part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMyjANk22os
a phantastic cover of a phantastic song which does not sound like the prince we all remember but shows what a versatile genius he was.

a couple of things which relate me to prince.

my first girl-friend was the same height as prince and she was one year older. she was full of power too.

my favourite female singer is the same as prince's, my fave album of hers is his second fave, hejira.

the first time heard prince must have been on the bavarian radio when i studied in munich and sign o the times was released. yesterday i listened to that bavarian station for the first in years at 7 pm and during the emission the news that prince had died broke.

i cried when i heard that he was dead. it was like a part of me, my youth, hat died there. i was so sure that prince was immortal. no idea why, i liked a lot of his music but i never was a great fan. but there was something so perfect and universal about him he was a great songwriter, a gifted musician, so creative and obsessed by music. a phantastic singer, an amazing performer and he still came over as a human being and not an arrogant aloof star. he gave lots of good vibes to planet earth.

hey I found the Raspberry Beret video
http://www.totallyfuzzy.net/ourtube/prince/raspberry-beret-w-the-revolution-video_e83f1c395.html

i always loved whale's cover of darling nikki. one of my fave covers of anyone!

http://blog.thefilmstage.com/post/143230318886/princes-purple-rain-is-returning-to-amc-theaters

It's been weird watching people struggle to articulate Prince's genius and so often it is being shorthanded through the appreciation of other musicians. P4k has a long feature on what Prince meant to Miles which doesn't really provide insight to either of him. He was almost unfathomably talented and he sits, for me, in much the same way that Shakespeare might for writers.

When I used to interview musicians regularly, if it was getting rote and you could hear the boredom, I would ask about Prince. And once you got past the platitudes it always turned to this beautiful celebration of something minor that just blew their minds, the way Questlove has talked about the drums in Lady Cab Driver or how When You Were Mine is so clever in its collapsing structure, or sparse use of guitar chords for The Cross or whatever the hell is happening in Irresistible Bitch. Prince was just an inexhaustible well of daunting inspiration. And, I think, that's been hard to get across in his eulogising.

In that spirit, I remember the first time I, and I suppose most of us, got a glimpse at what Daft Punk looked like behind the mask was a video from Busy P's birthday. And of course, they played Raspberry Beret.

https://youtu.be/-uG1vL3AZLQ

john mayer

yes, i should probably have added the adjective "tolerable" in there

wait, one of Daft Punk is named Busy P? i did not know that. i might never have known that if Prince hadn't died.

That's their manager and owner of Ed Banger

you guys were talking about him being funny… 1:42, where he, Jerome and the other singers are running some place…WHOOPS!

then 3:18…he and Jerome look like they are having a blast…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv1RNLcVBRY

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgqE56tUkAEVRuN.jpg:large

i always loved whale's cover of darling nikki. one of my fave covers of anyone!

― scott seward, Friday, April 22, 2016 5:45 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Whale covered "Darling Nikki"?! Holy crap, that's like a dream scenario type thing. Is it a b-side? It doesn't appear to be on either of their albums.

https://youtu.be/nA1SOBt1oLk?t=3m38s

I don't know if I've ever heard of Whale, but I felt compelled to check it out.

I always liked that Whale cover too. I bought the CD just to get that song I think.

I think I had forgotten that track, all I remembered about them was Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe

Ah, never had that EP. Thanks, how's life!

We Care is brilliant, All Disco Dance Must End In Broken Bones less so, but still solid.

Clumsy employing of some MC Skat Cat mofos and a few scratch effects in the early 90s notwithstanding Prince was basically the last important major R&B figure to have no real connection to hip hop right?

Another cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQQYSWpxc4w

Clumsy employing of some MC Skat Cat mofos and a few scratch effects in the early 90s notwithstanding Prince was basically the last important major R&B figure to have no real connection to hip hop right?

― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, April 22, 2016 8:58 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

all depends on how you define 'important' or 'no real connection' i guess. i could toss out, i dunno, Maxwell (give or take a Nas collab).

http://twitter.com/chevrolet/status/723317157157691392/photo/1

I know this is happening all over, but our city lit up a bridge for him tonight.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/754b6b86-d18b-441e-8a13-a05904d08d6b_zps8bm5ylau.jpg

Created a total outpouring of social media love (which a few grumps in there, "What did he do to deserve lighting a bridge," etc.).

Good news! Prince is not dead! He was just outside my bar an hour ago!

http://i.imgur.com/m5cHeey.jpg

I hear Sly's influence all over "Lovesexy".

Eye Know always sounded to me like Parliafunkadelicment jamming with the Electric Mayhem and all the monsters off Sesame Street

cool all look same joke, moka.

, what?

Guy was a beggar that somehow knew who Prince was (not that many people in Mexico know who Prince was as he didn't have any massive hit in the radio aside from 'kiss' and that was a minor hit) and was asking for money for taking a picture in his Prince tribute outfit.

This extended personal memory from Paloma Faith, of all people, is well worth reading. No, really, it is.
https://www.palomafaith.com/prince-fly-with-the-doves-as-we-cry/

^^ That was good.

Didn't know about any of this stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMwH-4pA1NA

Yeah, that was thing I was wondering about before, should have just posted myself.

Maybe it was the JW thing but doing that kind of stuff and not publicizing it is just so remarkable these days (unless Trump reads to the blind on the weekends and doesn't want anyone to know!)

Is there a list of all the Prince videos played on MTV over the past 48 hours?

i didn't get to see VH1 or MTV's prince tribute and was wondering what got played, or more specifically how deep into his vault they were willing to dig.

Like that MTV broadcast of the final Purple Rain tour stop in Miami? I saw that once, and it was bonkers.

Found an insane link to a long tour clip here:

https://www.facebook.com/316507635225335/videos/395165634026201/

James Brown, Michael Jackson and Prince circa 1983:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy9L4ft7EGk

Man, listening to "The Cross" and the guitars and production on that really presage Jon Brion's 90s work, huh?

informally, the MTV/BET/VH1 soul sequence in the past two days would tend to start with the controversy videos, through 1999 (did not know there was one for "let's pretend," has Dez on keybs) then through the staple PR vids, then onto the staggering 20 min "I would die-Baby" live workout (watching that as a 12 year old made me want to be musician) and so on up to "7" and other shit from the glyph record, which is more or less the last time new Prince music would get played on MTV no questions asked, (the last time MTV played music full stop, too). I've been reminded that his imperial phase went to 1991: you damn well heard Diamonds and Pearls coming out of cars in NYC.

its pretty much everything, videos & live clips, you would see regularly on MTV/VH1 during the imp. phase…occasionally they have been going past "the Morning papers" to the 90s wilderness era, "the most beautiful girl," "gold" etc… I hadn't heard "black sweat" before Thursday…

Man, listening to "The Cross" and the guitars and production on that really presage Jon Brion's 90s work, huh?

― T.L.O.P.son (Phil D.), Saturday, April 23, 2016

haha good call