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― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 18:14 (seven years ago) link
Sorry, just think "Moonbeam Levels" is ok. Better than many tracks, but not incredible.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 November 2016 15:58 (seven years ago) link
Do Yourself a Favor is the true gem of that era
― flappy bird, Monday, 28 November 2016 16:29 (seven years ago) link
No "Wally," no credibility
― Release Radar Raheem (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 00:35 (seven years ago) link
did we ever have a 'vault/unreleased/bootleg tracks' poll?
― piscesx, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 02:26 (seven years ago) link
don't think so, we should
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 02:31 (seven years ago) link
i think me and donald trump have the same favorite vault/unreleased/bootleg prince song. big tall wall y'all.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 15:56 (seven years ago) link
guys this is amazing
Prince’s Closest Friends Share Their Best Prince Stories
AMAZING
― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 8 December 2016 16:35 (seven years ago) link
Springs: After the show—it was maybe like 10, 11— everybody was leaving, and Prince grabs me and says, "Hey, let's go bike riding." He had four bikes—two white cruisers and two dark blue or black mountain bikes. So I got on a cruiser, he got on a mountain bike, and we rode past everybody with our Afros, and everybody's like, "Oh my God! Prince!" He lives in a kinda rural area. We rode down Audubon Road, then there's a park right across the street and there's a path so we rode down there a little bit.Washington: First, when you go on the bike rides, you're like, "Wow! I went on a bike ride with Prince down to Lake Minnetonka!" It's fun. And you think you're special. Then I stayed there long enough that I'm like, "Oh—this is his thing." This is what he does. He has the movie theater where you go to watch a movie—he'll buy out the theater. He has his routine with all these young girls who come in: movies, bike ride, possibly a jam session. That sounds about right.
Washington: First, when you go on the bike rides, you're like, "Wow! I went on a bike ride with Prince down to Lake Minnetonka!" It's fun. And you think you're special. Then I stayed there long enough that I'm like, "Oh—this is his thing." This is what he does. He has the movie theater where you go to watch a movie—he'll buy out the theater. He has his routine with all these young girls who come in: movies, bike ride, possibly a jam session. That sounds about right.
― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 8 December 2016 16:37 (seven years ago) link
We have a thing called Caribou Coffee in Minnesota, which is like Starbucks. He'd go over there, and he didn't have any pockets. He didn't have a wallet or any credit cards. He just had cash he'd carry in his hand—like, a $100 bill. And whoever took his order, they'd have a good day, 'cause he'd buy his coffee drink and then just leave the whole hundred. He doesn't wait for any change because he doesn't have anywhere to put it.
<3 <3 <3
― and this section is called boner (Phil D.), Thursday, 8 December 2016 16:40 (seven years ago) link
*Everything* about these stories. My current favorite:
Van Jones: He was very interested in the world. He wanted me to explain how the White House worked. He asked very detailed kind of foreign-policy questions. And then he'd ask, "Why doesn't Obama just outlaw birthdays?" (laughs) I'm, like, "What?" He said, "I was hoping that Obama, as soon as he was elected, would get up and announce there'd be no more Christmas presents and no more birthdays—we've got too much to do." I said, "Yeah, I don't know if that would go over too well."
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 December 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
amazing to read the other side of the infamous charlie murphy basketball/pancakes story
Davison: The backstory to that was—and this is the part Charlie doesn't tell—Eddie had wanted to play Prince his new album. So during that basketball game, Eddie's music was playing, via boom box, on a cassette. After that game, Prince goes over and he tosses the cassette out of the boom box, and he says, "Let me ask you a question: Do you see me stop my show to do comedy?"
― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 8 December 2016 16:47 (seven years ago) link
Damaris Lewis (model, tour dancer): I tried playing Prince in Ping-Pong once. I told him he was the Serena of Ping-Pong and I would never be playing him again. He was literally a master of Ping-Pong.Van Jones: At Paisley, the ping-pong table's right outside the studio. So it's kind of back and forth between recording, destroying somebody in Ping-Pong , go back to recording. Oh my God, it was embarrassing. To the point that he wouldn't even play me, he was just so disgusted with my inability to play. One time, he wouldn't even move—he'd stand in one spot, and his arms were not that long and I'm six feet two. Talking crap the whole time. He's like the worst trash-talker.
Van Jones: At Paisley, the ping-pong table's right outside the studio. So it's kind of back and forth between recording, destroying somebody in Ping-Pong , go back to recording. Oh my God, it was embarrassing. To the point that he wouldn't even play me, he was just so disgusted with my inability to play. One time, he wouldn't even move—he'd stand in one spot, and his arms were not that long and I'm six feet two. Talking crap the whole time. He's like the worst trash-talker.
― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 8 December 2016 16:48 (seven years ago) link
xp I was just going to post that. The idea of Prince clowning Eddie Murphy over his music career -- esp. given the Rick James connection and how much James hated Prince -- is beautiful.
― and this section is called boner (Phil D.), Thursday, 8 December 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
Figures a JW would hate birthdays and Christmas
― Our Sweet Fredrest (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 December 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link
Hayes: Nobody was allowed to say "deadlines" around him. He hated that word. He said: "That's arbitrary and stupid. What happens when I go over the line? I'm dead?" Prince would always tell us "time is a trick." I remember one day I was late, and he was, "You're late, Morris!" and I said, "Well, you know, Prince, time is a trick…" It didn't work. He was, "How about I Jedi-mind-trick that check when you don't show up again?"
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 December 2016 17:14 (seven years ago) link
holy shit
Davison: We were on a flight from Minneapolis to Los Angeles, about a three-and-half-hour flight, and we'd been up pretty late the night before, but he wanted to go out to record. On the plane [he's] asking for pads and paper, and so I get him a notebook and pen and he starts writing, and he writes a poem, and he hands it to me. And I read it, and I go, "Well, you know, that's nice…sounds clever, good." I hand it back to him. Ten minutes, fifteen minutes later, he hands me another poem. I'm, like, "Oh yeah, that's just as good as the first." And I'm like, "Why does he keep handing me these poems?" This goes on for the whole flight, and we land, and he says, "Do you mind if we go to the studio?"—he was always cordial—and I'm like, you know, "You can do whatever you want to do." And he says, "Well, I'll just be there for a few hours and then we'll head to the house." And so we go to the studio. We were in there for three days, almost four days, straight. When he's finished, I go into the studio and I'm listening to the music. I asked him on the way home: "Did you have all that in your head? Not just the lyrics, not just the music, not just the melodies, but the arrangement, everything?" And he said, "Yeah, you know, I have to get it out when it's in there, or I can't sleep." He had written [the first two album sides of] Sign o' the Times. He had basically written an album in a three-and-a half-hour plane ride.
― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 8 December 2016 17:29 (seven years ago) link
<3<3<3
― jane burkini (suzy), Thursday, 8 December 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
I love all of this so much ... but still the regret that we had to lose him to get these stories
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 December 2016 18:58 (seven years ago) link
Freed: He wanted to sell a shirt for $1,000 that would get you into Paisley Park for free for life.
― a full playlist of presidential apocalypse jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
― fact checking cuz
you think he's not that into "donald trump (black version)"?
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
i love the stories about his sense of humor. dude was a funny motherfucker
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 December 2016 21:57 (seven years ago) link
prince is not allowed to die
this, the second post on this thread, remains truer than ever
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 8 December 2016 22:34 (seven years ago) link
Walsh: I said to him, "Come on, man—don't you want to make another Sign o' the Times, another Purple Rain?" I don't know if I framed it exactly like that, but he said, "No, no—Jim, I've been to the mountaintop. There's nothing there."
o_O
― niels, Friday, 9 December 2016 09:53 (seven years ago) link
_*Walsh:* I said to him, "Come on, man—don't you want to make another Sign o' the Times, another Purple Rain?" I don't know if I framed it exactly like that, but he said, "No, no—Jim, I've been to the mountaintop. There's nothing there."_o_O
^^^^ this one stood out to me too
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (wtev), Friday, 9 December 2016 16:03 (seven years ago) link
This Susan Rogers RBMA lecture is fantastic. She goes deep on a few SOTT tracks, and so much more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ON0nQCQF08
― J. Sam, Friday, 9 December 2016 16:06 (seven years ago) link
For some reason, I thought that video title was Prince's full name, really.
― Mark G, Friday, 9 December 2016 16:21 (seven years ago) link
lol at "Prince Engineer Susan Rogers Nelson"
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Friday, 9 December 2016 16:27 (seven years ago) link
lolol
― J. Sam, Friday, 9 December 2016 16:30 (seven years ago) link
Dang, that was one of my screennames in reserve.
― I Walk the Ondioline (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 December 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
Idk, that quote doesn't seem particularly surprising to me. It's a really dumb question.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 9 December 2016 17:10 (seven years ago) link
I don't think that's a dumb question at all really
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 9 December 2016 17:14 (seven years ago) link
http://recordmecca.com/products-page/museum-quality-collectibles/prince-owned-worn-purple-rain-era-custom-made-pants/
― tylerw, Friday, 9 December 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
20k for one pair of pants!
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Friday, 9 December 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
I can't imagine Prince of all people wanting to consciously retread past territory in the studio or recapture past glories. I'm sure he was trying to make good records at the time, or rather just getting out what he heard, same as when he made his classics.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 9 December 2016 17:27 (seven years ago) link
This is also great from the GQ article upthread and seems worth sharing on here. I can picture the exchanges.
“When I first started, I tried one time to unify a group splintered by whether I was still ‘funky’ or not. That question still goes on, obviously.” — Prince, 2001, on his early experiences with web chat rooms
― Federico Boswarlos, Friday, 9 December 2016 17:38 (seven years ago) link
I agree with this, but at the same time, he seems to become less interested in Big-Gesture albums, doesn't he? he does giant-package things like Crystal Ball, and the Rainbow Children's a concept album, but he kinda withdraws, it seems to me - whereas both Purple Rain and SOTT are pretty zeitgeist-aimed record imo ymmv
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 9 December 2016 17:50 (seven years ago) link
― I Walk the Ondioline (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 December 2016 17:52 (seven years ago) link
You used to release zeitgeisty album after album. What went wrong: you or the zeitgeist?
― I Walk the Ondioline (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 December 2016 18:03 (seven years ago) link
*cue Sunset Boulevard reference*
― I Walk the Ondioline (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 December 2016 18:06 (seven years ago) link
I have a Prince-ordered but never sat-upon sofa in my living room (no kidding, really for real). I bought it at a factory sale a month before he died for 66% off of retail. I'm not selling it 'cause it's comfortable and we've already bought stuff to go with the cool purple velour.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 9 December 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
what??
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 9 December 2016 18:19 (seven years ago) link
Prince left his ass cheeks imprinted on them
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 December 2016 18:21 (seven years ago) link
Aren't you the afraid he is secretly still alive and will pop up from behind that sofa when least expected?
― I Walk the Ondioline (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 December 2016 18:22 (seven years ago) link
A certain ILX thread of yore comes to mind, and I would ask you to ensure such a fate never occurs to that couch.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 December 2016 18:25 (seven years ago) link
heh
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 December 2016 18:28 (seven years ago) link
I mean, it's obviously a sexy couch, but it should be kept clean. (It's from these guys:http://bretz.com/)
― Three Word Username, Friday, 9 December 2016 18:33 (seven years ago) link
“When I first started, I tried one time to unify a group splintered by whether I was still ‘funky’ or not. That question still goes on, obviously.”
This made me cry with laughter for about 30 minutes last night.
― jane burkini (suzy), Friday, 9 December 2016 18:43 (seven years ago) link
said in his baby powder-soft voice
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 December 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link
"Then I joined ILX and realized the original group was kinda sane in comparison, and..."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 December 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link