Prince RIP

the bruce cover is emotional

though what i wouldnt give to hear bruce cover ICNTTPOYM or holy river

erykah badu poem -

http://www.vibe.com/2016/04/erykah-badu-prince-poem

That time Prince was your rhythm guitarist
then sent you the picture.
The time Prince was so gracious to come to your club in the hood of South Dallas and play for 4 hours into the night...
The time you recorded "Today -the earth song"
at Paisley Park.
All the times y'all shot pool and argued over religion.
The time Prince got in your Lemo to tell you that 'World Wide Underground ' wasn't finished yet and you 'felt a way'. Lol
The time Prince "evolved " and wouldn't sign yo mama's 'Dirty Mind' album cover cause he said he wasn't into that no mo and yo mama told him
"well you shouldn't have made it then" and you were embarrassed.
The time Prince had a "swear jar" and you just put a 20 dollar bill in it when you walk in.
The time Prince and Larry Grahm had you cornered in a Jehova's Witness...well, witness session.
The time you presented Prince with the ICON Billboard AWARD with 20 (Janell Monáe).
The time you sang "I wanna be your lover" on the 3rd grade talent show wearing a swim top and the teachers cut you short because it was "inappropriate".
The moment you remember how much he means to you...
You've been here all my life .
And You will live F O R E V E R in my cells.
Sometimes it snows in April?

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/news/a44279/prince-snl-40-afterparty-video-fallon/

don't know if this one's already been posted:

https://www.facebook.com/princesnowsinapril4no1/videos/701023170036217/?fref=nf

I don't want this to disappear, so if you search our man and WORK IT, enjoy!

The Bruce cover is nice; but holy cow, Nils Lofgrin's solo is incredibly powerful heartfelt stuff.

Yup. And to think only last week I was enjoying listening to Nils's upbeat goofy side on "I Came To Dance."

As they approached the solo I thought, ok, here's Bruce about to tear out something amazing. But then, one of Bruce's strengths as a bandleader is knowing who to throw it to at crucial moments. Nils absolutely nailed it.

He's obviously just happy to use prince to attack the monarchy but I did not expect Morrissey to pay tribute quite so fiercely!

http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_160424_01

Did he say much about Bowie?

I just realized how my brain breaks down Prince eras. Does anyone else's resemble this?

The first two albums
Dirty Mind thru Purple Rain
Around the World... thru Lovesexy
Batman and Graffiti Bridge
NPG albums
Rest of the 90s
The 00s
The 10s

Same for me

I don't think Morrissey said a word about bowie....

Didn't think so, and they knew each other.. Odd bird, that Moz.

Anyway, Prince yeah..

Maybe no one told him?

i def don't consider Dirty Mind and Purple Rain the same era unless there were only 3 or 4 eras...The Revolution/Wendy & Lisa era very much its own thing.

Oh, rthosde Prince eras work for me, although from yr NPG section I'd have..

Diamonds to Chaos
Emancipation to umm
Ah, anyone?

Well there's diff revolution phases just as there were several NPG phases...

FB recommends "WATCH: Adam Levine Performs Incredible Prince Tribute." Thanks, think I'll pass. But did take its recommendation to go to Huffpo to read about how Prince got Eric Clapton out of a depression.

the adam levine thing is old and... not as good as people seem to want it to be. but yeah it's suddenly everywhere.

That phases breakdown is basically mine but I go dirty mind thru 1999 and purple rain through SOTT, then lovesexy and batman are a pair.

Wait how is "When You Were Mine" not on The Essential Cyndi Lauper?

Unless it is on non-streaming version.

Get it while you can
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fsCsgQZww8

Sorry, haven't been able to stop listening to that myself.

used LP copies of Purple Rain now starting at $30 on Discogs, median price is still $8.50

kind of lol but mostly sad

so is Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic worth owning? No one's ever defended it.

It has a few good songs - especially the Gwen Stefani duet. Not as horrible as some of his later records.

20Ten is, to me, the last of his truly solid one-man-band albums. It's definitely the last one where he seemed to have fun recording.

Maceo spotlight on Rave is good i forget what its called

Wait how is "When You Were Mine" not on The Essential Cyndi Lauper?

― PiL Communication (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, April 24, 2016 6:49 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Unless it is on non-streaming version.

― PiL Communication (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, April 24, 2016 6:53 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah Prince actually even kept most of the COVERS of his songs off of Spotify so you get Cyndi albums/comps with only "When" missing, Sinead albums with "Nothing" missing, etc.

Somehow "Manic Monday" managed to find a breach in the perimeter fence.

But yeah, there is a 20-track Special Edition of I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got with no "Nothing."

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEfKAkkszxk/

Arto Lindsay cover of the B-sides poll winner somehow escaped notice as well.

I bet Prince thought that one was cool as fuck and let it slide.

From the movie, right? Damn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-PXSXkZuYw

I can't recommend highly enough the 34 CD "Work It" series--chronological of all the extant demos and outtakes they could find...discs one through 14 are the stuff up through Lovesexy. Google and follow the links, I don't want to link to it.

Oh man. I spent pretty much all day yesterday listening to Prince. This morning I put buy music back on album shuffle, which is how I usually listen, and the first thing it gives me out of thousands of potential options is Bowie's "Blackstar." Creepy.

i was thinking that while its nice to have his bootlegs and live videos on youtube, i still dont think the official albums should be there. im prob in the minority with this, but i hope his lawyers take them down again.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7341816/prince-number-1-and-2-on-billboard-200-albums-chart-very-best-of-purple-rain-albums

As noted in Billboard's earlier story forecasting the likely No. 1 coronation of The Very Best of Prince, his albums are selling incredibly well not just because of the artist’s extraordinary popularity, but also because his music has limited availability on streaming services and YouTube. The only streaming service with access to his songs is Tidal. And, as noted in Billboard magazine’s cover story about Prince in 2013, finding classic videos or performance footage of Prince on YouTube or anywhere else on the Web is difficult. "I have a team of female black lawyers who keep an eye on such transgressions," Prince said at the time. "And you know they’re sharp," he added with a laugh.

Thus, for many -- outside of listening to his music on the radio -- the primary way to experience Prince’s music is to purchase his albums and songs

i wonder how these are coming along?

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/prince-promises-new-album-and-remasters-after-label-partnership-20140418

My man on the inside claims Prince at least completed remasters of all his back catalog.

huh I thought there was a Rhino LP remaster of Purple Rain at least, in 2009. I guess that's "old" by today's mastering standards.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3557015/Former-Prince-engineer-wants-vault-music-released.html

"I think that it would be nice for historians and fans and scholars if someone went through that material," said Rogers, who worked as Prince's sound engineer from 1983-1987.

"I'd like to see the music put in the hands of the people who knew him best artistically and that would be the musicians who worked with him through different eras."

Rogers suggested that musicians with whom he worked in the 1980s and 1990s be allowed to finish unreleased songs in the style that they worked back then. "I think that would be lovely," she said.

Regardless of whether Prince wanted his music to see the light of day, Rogers believes there should be a debate.

"Maybe the artist is not thinking clearly about his legacy; there's a moral issue there and it's something we should be talking about."

It was Rogers who started the vault, collecting his tapes and starting to catalog them while Prince was working on "Purple Rain."

Susan Rogers is fucking cool

deejay friend of mine posted on FB about seeing a "secret" show in canada in 2011 in a club with about 150 capacity. anyone who pointed a camera/phone at the stage was immediately escorted out of the club. all female band + maceo parker doing nothing but p-funk and ohio players for two hours. !!!.

I was lucky enough to see him play Roseland on the Lovesexy tour. Can't remember how I found out but I rushed over after the show at the Garden to try to get in. I was front and center up against the stage and he played from like 1 to 4 or so. I feel like at the end he invited audience members up one by one to take over on each instrument and then he split but maybe I'm dreaming that.

listening to stare on spotify for the first time, it just reminds me how rote so much of his recent material was. you can almost predict how its going to go - unnecessary reference to some of his older songs, slick production, 70s funk, auto pilot jazzy horns, some clunky lyrics which try to be both nostalgic and modern (do i want to hear prince talking about going HAM?). think i will avoid that second hit and run album after all. i think i saw him with amy winehouse at an indigo club aftershow when he did his mammoth run at the O2, but im starting to think i imagined it (i cant be bothered to google it).

i like 'stare', the horn chart is great! it's just a vamp turned into a song really but i don't care