Prince RIP

Questlove posted a few clips on his Instagram, they sounded GREAT. Jealous that you were there, what a treat!!

susannah!

Meantime...

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/7784716/prince-estate-purple-rain-concert-film-documentary-streaming-services

In one of his first dealings as an advisor to the Prince estate, Spotify executive Troy Carter is helping negotiate a deal that could give one major streaming service exclusive rights to one of the late pop star’s unreleased concert films as well as rights to make a documentary about the film, sources tell Billboard.

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On the table is a film of Prince’s Aug. 3, 1983 performance in Minneapolis where he debuted several of the songs released on the soundtrack to his 1984 movie Purple Rain, plus additional footage that a buyer could use to produce a documentary about the making of the film, sources say. The storied show at Minneapolis’s First Avenue nightclub was a surprise gig billed as a benefit for the Minnesota Dance Theatre, with a set list that included “Let’s Go Crazy” and “Purple Rain.”

Even on shitty VHS-to-YouTube that show is pure fire

was that 83 show the one where he did "a case of you" solo?

Saw Webster H. show, and FCC and our pal said that it was Susannah onstage. Hope I'm not being an asshole when I posit that she looks under 35, not 53.

was gratifying to experience that music from folks who have the perfect right to play it…they did not do the following: "Girls and Boys" "Beautiful Ones" "Dahlin Nikki" "Pop Life" "Let's Pretend We Married" "Private Joy," shit from Dirty Mind other than "Uptown," "It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night"…

Really know nothing of Prince outtakes at all, but Electric Intercourse and Our Destiny / Roadhouse Garden that are on Spotify are so good.

Welcome to the Purple Wormhole, lamonti ; )

"our destiny/roadhouse garden" is INSANE

http://www.bam.org/music/2017/love-4-one-another

Thursday August 1- at noon - Liv Warfield, Judith Hill and Shelby J - Love 4 One Another at BAM - Free

Three brilliant female Prince protégés carry on the icon’s legacy for this special live show under the same banner as his Love 4 One Another charity. The trio combines the vocal talents of thrilling stage presence Liv Warfield, previously a member of Prince’s New Power Generation backing band; Oscar and Grammy winner Judith Hill; and powerful songwriter Shelby J. After touring with the likes of Michael Jackson, D’Angelo, Santana, and Stevie Wonder, the women come to MetroTech backed by Warfield’s own band.

The Revolution played SF tonight -- hell of a show. Personal highlight had to be Wendy and Lisa doing "Sometimes It Snows In April" with acoustic guitar, piano and nothing more, to a totally hushed crowd. But Bobby Z, it has to be said, is a total machine.

wow. jealous, Ned!

they took down the wall with my local prince graffiti on it. lasted a year but still.

Oh no! I'm glad I got to see that wall a couple weeks ago

Pretty envious of Ned rn

Yeah, me too - would have loved to have seen that!

The show I saw was fantastic as well, but some idiot yelled something out during the aforementioned "April" and it made me nearly homicidal.

Was it "... AND IN MAY, TOO"?

Awesome, going to see them tonight. Can't wait!

hate u tbh

baaaaaaby ur
so fiiiiiiiiine

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/13/business/media/prince-estate-distribution-deal-rescinded.html

Aw, fucking hell...

I don't really understand why they have to look for a new buyer when the rights are, apparently, already owned by warner bros?

Like I totally get umg backing out because of the warner factor but why doesn't warner move in and start developing projects

perhaps the people in charge are more interested in money than music

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this guy should still be around

that hoops pic is sweet

xpost We started moving into an alternate dimension of sh!t around 2015 so it's fine that he and many other great humans have decided to bail since then.

"Donald Talk To .. oh wait"

http://www.stereogum.com/1960447/princes-sister-disputes-other-sisters-claim-that-his-favorite-color-was-orange/news/

http://www.startribune.com/apnewsbreak-prince-tapes-moved-to-california-heirs-miffed/450496873

https://www.soulhead.com/2017/10/20/watch-very-rare-prince-era-mini-movie-mr-christians-birthday-apollonia-6/

The crazy syncopated hi-hat in the Time's "777-9311," is that Prince "playing" the drum machine pads manually? You couldn't program something that complex back then, could you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byzlQMpOr4M

Oh snap, posted March 2014:

The Time-777-9311 Was A Stock Drum Beat In Prince's Linn LM-1 ($5,500 drum machine you know it wasn't The Time's)
The beat was programed into the Linn LM1 by David Garibaldi from for Roger Linn. The phone number was Dez's home number and he was very pissed at us all.
LovePeace
Jesse

Oh snap again, from the comments to the video below:

Actually I asked Jellybean recently....He came to a show I play In in Vegas... He said Dave Garibaldi programmed the Drum Machine and Prince layed down the hi hat part... Believe it or not... He did laugh and tell me he's been playing it live for the last 25 years... Blew me away....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5y0o2fDXxM

Oh shit. That rings a bells (maybe I heard that once and forgot it), but also shatters some dreams. I feel like I've also heard people say Prince played it in (could you even play the buttons on a Linn in real time, or just sequence?).

xp

Oh ok, so both are true! The hi-hat is the real genius part anyway. I still wonder if it was played or programmed.

is there any drumming of Morris' on the first couple of Time albums?

Journal of African American Studies
Volume 21, Issue 3, September 2017
Special Issue on Prince
https://link.springer.com/journal/12111/21/3/page/1

From the introduction: "This collection of writings represents the first effort by an academic journal to explore, examine, and probe Prince in a manner not yet seen."

good catch!

OMG thanks for this!

ew

https://store.waxpoetics.com/products/wax-poetics-issue-67-prince-edition

Fuck, seeing that thread title.

listening to C and D sides of 1999

prince where are uuuuuu it sucks down here

does not compute

Sign O the Times theatrical concert film is on Amazon Prime now
it is crazy
Prince was amazing and also an insane person
Cat and Sheila E both go in....

that movie is a thunderbolt i love it

just everything...i mean obv the performances are crazy good but the weird "story" staging...the weird red haired sax guy who wears a druid robe for part of it? lite jazz charlie parker cover? it's got everything

seriously though Cat Glover...I wonder how many calories she burned a night? her energy level through the whole show insane (Prince and Sheila being not far behind)