prince

Yo, while me and Q-Tip were performing 'Vivrant Thing' in Vegas last night...this n-a Prince walked out on the stage, took the guitar from our guitar player and just started rocking! None of us knew he was there until he popped up on the stage...then the n-a vanished like Batman, LOL!

The sound crew said Prince was in the balcony watching the show from the very beginning (The balcony was closed off). Then when 'Vivrant Thing' came out, he just came backstage and walked out on stage.

None of us knew what was happening, then when we finished the show he was gone LOL!

that is awesome

that is Prince!

i guess when prince takes a guitar from you, you let him

this n-a

this n/a

i wonder what would happen if somebody refused to give prince his guitar.

no one's seen tevin campbell in years.

any excuse to post this:

Just another relaxed day at home:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2009/01/08/prince_ann_500.jpg

And he talks a bit.

nice. i am anticipating MPLSOUND.

also watch 'em while you can:

lol @ the pains taken to avoid his purple majesty's bare cheeks

I'm very curious about what he does with ProTools. Could be really interesting.

not like it's the first time, he's been using it since 3121 at least

earlier i had a crossword clue that was "part of TAFKAP" and even after i had filled in "ARTIST" it still didn't register for a minute

Utterly of non-interest to anyone anywhere. Unless you are, you know, alive and breathing:

http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/watch-while-you-can-prince-rehearsal-videos-1984/

Is Matos sittin' down?

Cool. Extended "When Does Cry" and "Erotic City" sound good.

http://twitter.com/PRINCE_OFFICIAL/status/8476096110

Shhhh, don't tell Prince about the Youtube videos

Like his little routine in "17 Days."

His James Brown rooted and updated moves were/are always fun to watch plus the extra little hopping and running around stuff here

Cave17 Matt C should be checking these videos out also

Matos, what do you think?

oh dear lord. this is fantastic.

I love how he goes through his moves, knowing they're already mastered, and keeps a more critical eye on the band. what a fun loving task master!

......aaaaand they're gone

got to see 5 of them, haha. oh well. hopefully someone capped 'em while they were up

Damn, I only got to watch "When Doves Cry". I hope these can make their way onto Dailymotion or something.

new song to debut friday on The Current radio:

http://www.startribune.com/blogs/85053272.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUss

.....and it's awful:

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/the_current/features/2010/02/prince-cause-and-effect/index.shtml

man he has so completely and totally lost it.

bad wrong false prince

wow yeah that is bad

WTF is Prince using MS Songsmith now?

i want to say "nothing can ever erase the work he did in the 80s" but i somehow wonder if this song is actually capable of erasing the master tape to "if i was your girlfriend"

With the amount of stuff going on in the background it sounds like he recorded over the top of something. In case anyone is wondering what the reverse bit at ~3:30 is, it's Prince saying "contracts just make you smaller".

the problem with all of prince's stuff from the 90s on is that i think he fundamentally misunderstands what made him great at one time.

he's a great minimalist that thinks he's a maximalist.

eh he's done some good minimalist stuff since the 90s - Black Sweat, for ex.

but yeah I agree that in general he's better when he's doing less

Am I crazy or has Prince benn listening to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=CXCiS2FpmIc&feature=related

eh he's done some good minimalist stuff since the 90s - Black Sweat, for ex.

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black sweat....and....black sweat...and..um...black sweat ; )

j.k. but yeah that's the only song i've heard in years i thought was GOOD good not just "hey this is pretty good for prince now, i guess"

i can't listen to this at work but it's probably for the best.

it's funny, i just listened to mplsound again and thought it wasn't that bad (if you have no expectations except for dad-prince).

oh what the fuck

like I could put up with the verse and I could put up with the chorus, but not both together in the same song; that is exactly the wrong thing to do, dude

i should do a poll, this song versus his vikings playoff song, which sounded like the work of a slightly deranged lutheran church choir director

at least the Vikings playoff song was awesome in its insanity; this is boring, mild-mannered shit that thinks it's shit-hot

replace lutheran w/ witness and you just about summarized prince 2010

j.k. but yeah that's the only song i've heard in years i thought was GOOD good not just "hey this is pretty good for prince now, i guess"

title tracks of musicology and 3121 were pretty good and stripped down imho. there was some other track on musicology that I liked but I'm blanking on it at the moment... but yeah his hit-to-miss ratio is pretty sad.

"Peach" is fun.

Power fantastic is top 5 prince so The Hits - B-Sides set was always mandatory

I only have two criticisms about that B-sides disc:

1) they're 45 edits instead of the superior full-length versions, understandable as they would've needed a second disc but it would've been worth it, especially for the Purple Rain and Around the World in a Day B-sides

2) they left out one of my favorites: "♥ or $"

Alexa de Paris isn’t on there either is it

no

I hope the estate can get it together and put out a Parade set. That’s the era that i’m most curious about.

same

That’d be great. There’s versions of some of those tunes with a lot more Clare Fischer orchestra in them, those would be awesome to hear
“There’s Others Here With Us” in hi fi think about that

i would love to hear any more clare fischer orchestrations i can... the purple rain/sott sets are great, honestly, a set covering the time in between, the around the world in a day/parade era... that would be amazing

I still need to figure out which Rufus albums to check out for maximum Clare content

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPs0O9nHxpE

(Prince - Television Performances (Through The Years))

Bryant Gumble trolling was the best

Well, fuck. Posted by the official estate account on FB:

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kqdyhnklmmv34nmml6btyqv6/bafkreiagetlhigbdrxo5knu4adcxky53o6qu6h54oreep62r5yxduwfqf4@jpeg

IOW, the Edelman documentary is toast.

I AM SO MAD RN

i mean, i guess i kind of expected it but still

If ever there was a case of something being exactly what he would have wanted, this kind of protracted run around and disappointing conclusion would be it.

yeah it is definitely honoring his legacy in that regard lol

maybe 50 years from now the prince estate will allow the peter jackson estate to turn edelman's footage into a six-part, 18-hour series.

well shit

Edelman has spoken out on the cancellation. It's well worth a thorough read of his comments.

https://deadline.com/2025/03/prince-ezra-edelman-celeb-slop-1236310672/

Was just reading that, such a shame.

He's also right. No one will care (beyond a few sickos like ilx).

That's a great collection of words, I don't use "slop" enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3MIhB6jM6Y

Huh. Anyway, Prince, 1999 Tour w/ The Time (1983) Lakeland, Florida

Chaka Khan:

What was performing with Prince like?

It was like working with myself, more than anyone else I’ve worked with. Sia’s bringing up a close third, behind Prince and Miles Davis. Quincy Jones, too: he oozed inspiration and shared it. Prince just grabbed ideas out of the air and left you wondering: “Where did you get that?” He was a really deep and beautiful thinker. We worked on a lot of songs, and they’re all going to be on a CD I’m soon to release – there’s a lot of red tape that’s been in the way, but we’ve cleared it. It’s him and me and Larry Graham, together.

Prince, Larry Graham and Chaka Khan? Shut up and take my money.

otm

I think Larry Graham had a pretty poor influence on Prince

Yeah, he single-handedly got him into JW which is supposedly why Prince refused a hip replacement for way too long (as much as five years due to religious-based objections), and that likely led him to painkiller addiction.

I mean, yes, but he's also one of the greatest bass players of all time, we're not talking about a beach boys album with eugene landy on bongos.

That is true.

So the Chaka prince LG album has been out of print awhile right, is this gonna be that with outtakes?

I don't think Larry Graham had a good influence on Prince musically either - Prince was a visionary, Larry Graham more of a conservative funk player

He's good at it but I don't really listen to Prince for extended funk jams

I don't think Larry Graham had a good influence on Prince musically either - Prince was a visionary, Larry Graham more of a conservative funk player

He's good at it but I don't really listen to Prince for extended funk jams

― corrs unplugged

yeah i don't go for the "supergroup" mentality... prince also was, like, extremely controlling, he was very frank zappa-like in his approach to the people he played with.

Surely he let Wendy and Lisa "suggest musical options" in a way that Zappa would never have allowed any of his musicians to do?

I've heard the argument that once he disbanded the Revolution, he never collaborated to the same extent again, but I feel like there have been exceptions, especially in the last few years of his life with Joshua Welton and 3rdeyegirl (though the results there could be uneven - some really good, some I have a tough time enjoying).

A very rare instance of the Prince estate licensing his music to a television show, and if that wasn't enough, they actually licensed TWO of them, both among his biggest hits.

Yep. Just watched lol

gonna go ahead and guess a big bag of money was involved

Maybe they saw what it did for Kate Bush and wanted in on some of that resurface chart action.

that’s what the article says

Duh sorry read up until an ad break and didn’t scroll down further.

Caropop posted an interview with Miles Davis's nephew Vince Wilburn Jr., and though he can't give many details, he does confirm there's several projects that will be released to commemorate Miles Davis's centennial. This leads to him discussing the Miles Davis film directed by Don Cheadle - apparently they had to crowdfund that project, and one of the big donors was Prince. This leads to a brief discussion on Prince's work with Miles, and Vince says they've been talking with Prince's estate because one of the centennial releases will hopefully be a collection of their unreleased work together. Fingers crossed!

I'm not super hopeful about the quality of whatever those projects were

yeah I would much rather have the Parade and Around The World In A Day deluxe boxes tyvm

Same here, but since they're likely marketing it as part of the Miles Davis centennial, it may not delay or interfere with other Prince releases in the pipeline.

(Also, IIRC a Parade box set is next, but Around the World in a Day is done - the estate decided against a full-blown box set, so the triple-LP/double-CD special editions were basically it.)

i _like_ "can i play with u?" and the live paisley park stuff from 1987-12-31, so...

"around the world in a day" is a weird one, cuz it was pretty much recorded during the later stages of "purple rain" and the start of the purple rain tour... aside from rehearsal versions and live versions i'm not aware of there being much in the way of "outtakes". interested in seeing what's on the "parade" set! i'd like to hear a full version of "an honest man" and the version of "velvet kitty cat" from the 1985-05-01 configuration of the album. and more clare fischer orchestrations! fischer did some really cool stuff that wasn't necessarily used...

Around The World In A Day deluxe boxes tyvm

the vibe I got when doing a feature on ATWIAD last year, from Susan Rogers and Bobby Z, is that there won't be a deluxe box because, though Prince was obviously writing three songs a day in this era, the tracks chosen for ATWIAD were of a particular vibe and sound - that the album had such a particular character and identity, adding other unreleased songs cut around the same time wouldn't make sense, because they wouldn't fit that vibe. Though I think they could at least have come up with the OG David Coleman demo of the title track, for history's sake.