Prince RIP

I would have thought the 1999 parody would be about $19.99.

Prince on the Muppet show was basically Prince proving he could make fun of himself (at least a little) and change his song lyrics to be about food as well as Al could.

I went to the American History Museum yesterday and they had the yellow cloud guitar out on display! I guess it's been out there since he died, but I had no idea and I turned a corner and there it was. It was a lot smaller than I had imagined, but like, duh. I was with my family and we were in a bit of a rush so I didn't get to spend quite as long chilling with it as I would have liked, but I'll probably go back next week on my lunch break sometime.

And speaking of the Muppet Show, Kermit is apparently "not currently on view" at the Smithsonian, so the kids were a little bummed.

Pretty sure Kermit summers in Martha's Vineyard.

It was a lot smaller than I had imagined

Like Prince himself I'd imagine

Yeah, that's where I was going with that. And I guess also it doesn't look too huge here, for example, but the extended horn fools the eye a little.

http://www.guitaraficionado.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/prince-Patrick-Riviere-GettyImages-GA.jpg

Remastered Blu Rays on the way

http://theseconddisc.com/2016/08/08/die-4-blu-princes-filmography-coming-high-definition-video/

http://theseconddisc.com/wp-content/uploads/Prince-Movie-Collection-237x300.jpg

finally we can revel in the fully restored glory of the Grafitti Bridge bridge set

amen! there's a poll; Graffiti Bridge vs Cherry Moon.

Only seen Purple Rain, and the only other one I'd wanna see, Sign 'o' the Times isn't in here. I do like that the individual cases are purple instead of the standard blue, though.

'Sign o the times' was a newspaper freebie back whenever, maybe eBay has it cheap..

.. yeah, t'was The Observer. About a five.

Graffiti Bridge vs Cherry Moon

would anyone seriously vote GB? UTCM is at least funny and competently shot.

i like gb's music better
plus there's a sequence where prince has "Beat Me" shaved into his chest hair, so there's that

you like gb's music better????????????????????

Yes.

saw that 35mm print of 'sign o the times' at alamo a few weeks back, with chaki delivering opening remarks. I still have my old fuzzy VHS tape but hadn't watched that for 20 years or so

it is just beyond belief how great that film is

I am sorry I missed that!

SOTT needs a remastered theatrical re-release. Purple Rain gets all the glory but I think sartorial datedness notwithstanding the SOTT film would blow some young minds.

Hell - they may even dig the clothes! Was Prince's coolest looking/sounding/band era as it is (IMHO).

Parade doing its thing here. Tracks 1-6 are light-footed magic. Thanks P.

Was listening to Parade yesterday. It is perfection.

thanks for coming to that, MP! I had to drive the reels back to QT the next day lol.

http://www.startribune.com/pills-seized-from-paisley-park-contained-illicit-fentanyl-same-drug-that-killed-prince/390816101/

Pills marked as hydrocodone that were seized from Paisley Park after Prince’s overdose death actually contained fentanyl, the powerful opioid that killed him, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation.

The musician, who weighed only 112 pounds at the time of his death April 21, had so much of the drug in his system, autopsy results later showed, that it would have killed anyone, regardless of size, the source said.

Prince did not possess a prescription for fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that has been described as 100 times more powerful than morphine, the source said.

Despite the finding, investigators still aren’t certain how the 57-year-old megastar ingested the fentanyl. However, they are leaning toward the theory that he took the pills not knowing they contained the drug.

oof

surely something even 10 times stronger than Morphine shouldn't be anything like legal let alone 100 times. Jesus.

fuck.

What the hell with that last paragraph

Makes it seem like he was taken out.

I wouldn't necessarily say that, but it definitely changes things if true

a lot of prescription narcotics that are sold illegally aren't what they claim to be, and afaik cutting fentanyl and labeling it as something else isn't uncommon due to its strength

it's responsible for a lot of accidental overdoses, especially among people used to opiates

yeah to me that last sentence just points to black market pills rather than, like, MURDER

I know of at least two friends-of-friends who have died of fentanyl overdose

well this is all just a touch more fucking awful now

like, as if him dying the day before the intervention wasn't tragic enough

Isn't fentanyl what almost got David Berman?

I think that was approaching perfection

lmao fuck

alright, good one :)

FYI NYC
http://www.lincolncenter.org/show/burnt-sugar-arkestra-under-the-cherry-parade-in-a-day-you-sexy-mf

Currently running a low grade fever but man I would like to go to that

LOVE the burnt sugar arkestra

make a trip! heal up!

Nice piece on the upcoming Revolution tribute shows:

http://www.startribune.com/prince-amp-the-revolution-survivors-talk-about-first-avenue-grieving-concerts/391346091/

Sad detail:

Wendy & Lisa were asked to perform Prince’s “Sometimes It Snows in April” with soul man D’Angelo on “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon” a few days after the death. They declined.

“I couldn’t even play my piano for a month or more,” Coleman said.

Purple Rain is $1 on Google Play Music today in case for us non-Tidal users missing Prince

I wish to god I had the dough to go home for those revolution shows

So I've been rehearsing for a Prince tribute concert here...the bandleader is going all in w/horns, strings, dancers, studying all the old bootlegs etc. It's a lot for one show but you can't half-ass Prince, I guess. So to speak.

Where, Jordan?

Madison WI

Cool!

Matos in the NY Times today on last night's first ave Revolution show. Sweet Jesus I wish I was there.