Prince RIP

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

Is there a toy piano on that one?

It's just unacceptable. He should have been playing Montreux and approving bad album art into his 80s.
Taught me so much, opened so many doors.

nobody will ever yell like this dude

Touched that Tommy Stinson referred to him as "Rog."

stoked that one of the last bits of news i heard about PRINCE was how into FIELD MUSIC he was. 57 years old and dude had better taste in new music than most

Dude was one of the deep cats who was into all types of music, like Charlie Parker, to name just one.

I haven't got anything to add, but he was great. Would love to hear more of the archival material, especially from the 80s. I haven't got as strong a personal connection as many of you, but he was still one of the greatest around, in my opinion.

I'm finding it essier to listen to the 90s stuff and later than the classic period. Emancipation, my one disc version at least, is so underrated.

Matos on the MTV website is unsurprisingly excellent

Yes.

Really missing the videos rn.

Agreed about Emancipation, a few standout songs but mostly just great vibe all the way through.

Human Body!

So the last song of the final show that he played (2016-04-14 - Late Show, Fox Theatre, Atlanta) was Purple Rain.

http://i.imgur.com/hYp0j1G.jpg

Prince passes by a pee-stained wall while holding a scepter

Has Bob Dylan made a statement?

He's recording a covers album.

He's still figuring out what to say about Merle Haggard.

He's still figuring out what to say about Merle Haggard. Glenn Frey

The fella from Warner Brothers who usually takes down all the Prince stuff from You Tube within minutes, appears to have taken the weekend off, so watch this and grab it before he's back at the coalface on Monday morning. Arguably the absolute peak of the absolute peak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SINtBF4_dHA

(apols if this has been posted already)

Yessssssss

Holy craaaaaap

That left me speechless

I've never seen that. I think I was too cool to watch the Grammies that year

Dortmund '88 is back up (if it ever was completely?)

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

haha @ prince blowing up the grammys

yeeeesss

Sign o the times is a incredible film. But the lovesexy show IMO is Prince at his live performing peak. Or his greatest show at least. Not one weak second.

I'm finding myself more preoccupied with Prince than maybe any time since my teen years. After MJ who was my childhood favourite, Prince was my all time musical hero. I fell out of the obsession in my late teens as I got into hip hop but its only now strangely that I realize just how much energy I put into thinking about Prince back then and how much I read about him! Still maintain that the Pop Life book is the best book written on him.

the way I see it is, Michael Jackson was the universal pop superstar that even casual fans of music loved. but there were always limitations to what he would do because he was confined within a very specific bubble (an awesome bubble mind you), whereas Prince was this also-huge pop culture icon who didn't mind fucking with his audience and going into left field and giving them a whole bunch of gifts they didn't know they wanted.

interestingly for me, I got into Prince right on the tail end of an MJ obsession. Invincible had just come out (and it kinda sucked), so I picked up History, and was spinning that, and I wanted something a little funkier, so I got 1999 was kinda blown away by the expansiveness of it, 8 minute funk songs! rockabilly done w/ synths a la "Delirious". his guitar playing though just added so much flavor to the songs, giving a rock edge where it was needed. just trying to imagine "Let's Go Crazy" without that driving riff underneath is impossible.

I think I bought 10 to 12 of his albums over the next year, it was an obsession. friends got tired of me talking about him. i wish I had pulled the trigger to see him live. never getting to see him is now going to be one of my biggest regrets.

holy shit at that grammys performance

His guitar work is getting just praise, but let's talk about his keyboard skills. As 1999 showed, he knew how to play synths.

his AMA perf of "Purple Rain" equally mindblowing.

the synths in 80s Prince were spellbinding. part of what made me sidle up to 1999 so quickly.

It's amazing how much Youtube has been flooded with Prince content now that he's not around to sue anyone. We'll see how long that lasts!

Right, watch it while you can!

The 2008 Coachella creep cover video actually has relatively extensive documentation of the paperwork of if going down and back up again.