Prince RIP

I'm sure I've said this before, but I was listening to 'Let's Pretend We're Married' earlier, and that track strikes me as very Gary Numan in its melody and the use of the Simmons Claptrap, which Numan was using a lot at that time, particularly on I, Assassin.

Claptrap or ... Synare?

I'm 100% sure it's a Simmons Claptrap... it's a pretty distinctive sound!

Wendy, Lisa, Mark, Fink and Bobby just posted a group video saying they're gonna do a tour as the revolution

love all these people but how are they gonna deal with the gigantic hole in the middle of those songs...? maybe they can get D'Angelo onboard.

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, April 26, 2016 9:36 PM (5 days ago)

Have you seen this 2012 reunion video yet? Works pretty well. The five mentioned plus Dez and Eric Leeds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmPzMG9UTmE

yeah i think i'd rather just see the band cover the vocals than throw a star in there as a ringer for a Velvet Revolver vibe

Here's the rest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LQUHO0DBmk

lol at Velvet Revolver

Sound is messed up on the second part of that.

Oh wait, during the benefit presentation there must be some sort of cheap mic setting, but when the music starts you can hear a click and then it sounds better again.

Duh, guess video and audio are different sources.

God, is 'I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man' just the most perfect song, and superbly sung too. A lot of people have commented on his obviously excellent guitar playing, and his arranging skills, and I think Alfred mentioned his keyboard work, but nobody ever talks about his voice.

There's little I like more than Prince's self-harmonizing. He just knew innately where and how vocals should go. And had the chops to get there, too. D'Angelo seems to have the gist as well, but when he does it I still have trouble hearing anything but someone trying to do Prince (and I love D'Angelo). It's like singing well in and of itself is shorthand for imitating Prince.

I remember when Mark Sandman died, and Morphine toured the final album handling the vocals mostly in-house, with a couple of extra folks, and it sounded great.

watching all these clips on youtube i'm realizing now that my fav thing prince does, is his little 'woo' he hollers out in some songs when he gets real excited before shit really pops off.

ugh i remember reading this in march and i'm so sad we'll never get to read it...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/arts/music/prince-announces-coming-memoir-at-performance.html

Wendy or Lisa retweeted somebody saying "Y'all should get D'angelo".

After watching that whole reunion show, changed my mind and think that maybe they do need a ringer like that.

Also, if only all these nu youtube postings had an expiration date posted so we would know in which order to watch them

The City Lights series of soundboard recordings from the various tours is amazing--I had never really heard Dirty Mind shows and they are absolutely sick! Lots of guitar workouts...

God, is 'I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man' just the most perfect song

yesssssssssssss

also, is that thing abt Sometimes... being recorded 21st april 1985 verified? it's blowing my mind

also, that While My Guitar solo... it's not Prince's most important statement as an artist, but it is undoubtedly a cosmic event - and in a few minutes it shows a lot of the incredible talents and idiosyncrasies that made Prince unique... and it sounds soooo good

I think I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man has my favorite Prince guitar solo, Purple Rain second. Does it kind of seem like there might be a longer version of ICNTTPOYM somewhere? Remember being slightly underwhelmed by the SOTT-dvd live version but probably just bcz studio version is perfection.

is that thing abt Sometimes... being recorded 21st april 1985 verified? it's blowing my mind

according to princevault.com, which lists the recording dates/studio session notes for every track, yes

you know what album is a kinda underrated, "lost" outlier in his catalog is "The Truth". I don't think I'd ever listened closely to the entire thing and while it has some clunkers it's charmingly low-key, doesn't feel like his other stuff from the same period really.

yeah I really like it. kinda like a "what if prince did mtv unplugged" exercise

still haven't heard "Dionne."

after this past week's revelations I can't keep waiting for the ICNTTPOYM solo to segue into Don't Stop Believing... but that doesn't make it any less great

I love that he asked Journey permission...Prince is the best

Sinead O'Connor
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Two words for the DEA investigating where prince got his drugs over the decades.... Arsenio Hall (AKA Prince's and Eddie Murphy's bitch) Anyone imagining prince was not a long time hard drug user is living in cloud cuckoo land. Arsenio I've reported you to the Carver County Sherrif's office. Expect their call. They are aware you spiked me years ago at Eddie murphy's house. You best get tidying your man cave.

damn

She's a bit cuckoo, no?

kinda curious about what arsenio's man cave looks like...

haha just came to post that

it's a bad look

uh oh

i'd also like to know why sinead was hanging out at arsenio's house. but it's probably party central over there. both arsenio and eddie murphy are gay. that much i do know.

Holy shit.

this is an image I got when I googled "gay man cave":

http://imagehost.vendio.com/a/17997920/aview/nude-man-at-sea-side-caveWE.jpg

Gay. Man. Cave.

very platonic

calling Arsenio somebody's b____ is one of the least revelatory zings i've ever encountered. he carries the rare suckuppitude gene.

he's so unfunny. one of the least funny people who is supposed to be funny.

if he actually spiked sinead's drink fuck him

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/a-final-visit-with-prince-rolling-stones-lost-cover-story-20160502?page=6

I guess RS prepared this for a cover in 2014 but never ran it....until now.

does arsenio hall still have a talk show? he had a new one a few years ago.

sinead o'connor basically seems like a walking, talking cry for help.

In that she is literally often explicitly crying for help? She's done that at least three or so times that I can remember. And that's just what she's posted on social media. This might be the first I've heard from her since there were concerns she was suicidal a few months back. I hope she's OK, or at least around people looking out for her.

CHANHASSEN, MN—Ending rampant speculation regarding the extent of the late musician’s catalogue of unreleased recordings, the executors of Prince’s estate announced Monday that the performer’s famed vault in his Paisley Park residence sadly contains 37,000 hours of Billy Joel covers. “Prince was constantly creating throughout his career, and after finally accessing his vast trove of previously unheard music, we now know that he produced over 40,000 albums’ worth of material that is, unfortunately, made up entirely of songs originally recorded by Billy Joel,” said attorney L. Londell McMillan, reluctantly admitting that Prince had produced at least 9,000 hours of “Uptown Girl” covers alone. “We regrettably found a slowed-down, 40-minute version of ‘Scenes From An Italian Restaurant’ from the late 1980s, as well as a melodic vocal-only version recorded more recently—and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. It appears he was still recording pulsing, guitar-driven covers of ‘She’s Always A Woman’ up until his death. Tragically, we could be hearing new Prince tracks covering Billy Joel classics for decades to come.” Dejected executors went on to announce they had discovered Prince’s private journals containing hundreds of pages of additional, updated verses to “We Didn’t Start The Fire.”

http://www.theonion.com/article/disappointing-prince-vaults-found-contain-37000-ho-52853 natch

when did the onion stop being funny?

i bet Prince liked a coupla BJ tunes.

xp when all their best writers started working on the incredible and brilliant Clickhole