Prince RIP

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)

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— your friend bijan (@bijanstephen) February 27, 2018

listening to C and D sides of 1999

prince where are uuuuuu it sucks down here

― Lockhorn. Lockhorn breed-uh (Jon not Jon)

there is no D side when it comes to 1999, only C sides

The second half of the CD, then.

A friend sent this to me, not sure if it's something y'all have heard already (supposedly a different version of the song that Prince told Susan Rogers to erase after recording it? idk):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHZ4YMbSNRw

It was on one of these blast from the past volumes - when I listened I was surprised that this legendarily poignant song was at least partly ‘Billy’s Sunglasses’

hmm I prefer the myth...

Print the legendary hearts!

Sorry, wrong thread, I guess

this book is awesome

https://www.duanetudahl.com/optin17400317

Oh man that looks good!

Has anyone got the wax poetics special yet?

Yeah I got it, just started reading it yesterday. First chapter is a great and elaborate interview with engineer/studio owner Chris Moon, describing meeting a teenage Prince (in the context of the band Champagne recording in his studio), getting in touch with him and subsequently working/developing/teaching in the form of a collaborative project, if you will, to develop him as an artist. Can't wait to read the rest. Great photos, too.

Yeah, I read the Duane Tudahl book a couple of months ago. It's astonishing that in that single year of work he basically wrote and recorded all of Purple Rain, Ice Cream Castle, Apollonia 6, Around the World in a Day and dozens of B-sides and other material. Plus filmed the movie. And toured. An absolutely mind-blowing level of being prolific.

No criminal charges.

:(

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/what-would-prince-want-two-years-later-his-estate-is-a-mess-and-his-legacy-unclear/2018/04/18/20136908-3ce9-11e8-8d53-eba0ed2371cc_story.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpGA0azFdCs&sns=fb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=41&v=cpGA0azFdCs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=cpGA0azFdCs

try again

Yeah, that video, man. He was so amazing.

so good

This move he's doing at 0:57 is like the best thing ever.

RIP

first Michael then Prince (and then Tom Petty). Big Pharma killing more beloved artists than heroin

ugh what a great version

also i want to curl up in the fetal position & cry i miss him ;_;

This particular Paisley Park police pic:

https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/prince-paisley-8.jpg

I think those are the CDs he got when he did his record store day interview.

Alfred, your new one is great:

https://t.co/OfHVr2ArcM

Thanks! I wrote it two years ago, though. I just revived it for the anniversary.

**NEW STUFF**

http://variety.com/2018/music/news/prince-album-of-previously-unreleased-material-coming-in-september-exclusive-1202783507/

"Michael Howe, who’s been working with us on the archive, has done a tremendous job of finding some special pieces of work, and one of the pieces that he found, all of us fell in love with it and decided this was special enough for fans to hear. So we’re putting the final touches on it — it’ll come in the fall..
Just two weeks ago we were doing a tape transfer and in one of the two-inch boxes we found the original lyrics to “Kiss”! It’s amazing, the things that are starting to surface. "

:D

That’s tantalizing
It’s an ‘album’ but it’s also a ‘piece’...?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwhWboNe35Y&sns=em

digging this

A friend passed on this fantastic early live jam on Lady Cab Driver:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLtZayqjJdo

A thought I find myself returning to every time I hear the song: I'm not sure anyone else in the world could pull off the OTT shrieking at the end of 'The Beautiful Ones' and make it sound urgent and cool rather than off-putting and concerning. I try to remember this any time I start thinking what an amazing karaoke song it would be.