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i picked up that wax poetics prince issue over the weekend.

also, i disputed that copyright claim on my youtube cover of prince, but:

UMPG Publishing has reviewed your dispute and reinstated its copyright claim on your video, "Purple Veins - I Wanna Be Your Lover @ High Noon Saloon". For more information, please visit your Copyright Notice page

40oz of tears (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link

Josh -- would be awesome, thx!

Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link

So that issue of Wax Poetics is still on the stands? Killer. I'll buy one asap.

bit.ly sno cone maker (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link

apparently it's hard to find, but i was at this sort of specialty record store in new orleans and they had it.

40oz of tears (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:51 (twelve years ago) link

Rob, messaged you on Facebook. Look for me on IM.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link

Rob, messaged you on Facebook. Look for me on IM.

Can you hook me up, too?

Change “Change of Heart” (WEA) 1984

Without looking up the credits, this is very much Prince's Chic record.

Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 13:12 (twelve years ago) link

just got through the first 'perfect unreleased' batch, this is a treasure. favorites:

wonderful ass
extra-loveable (nice to have this on something other than youtube)
lisa
chocolate
i wonder (this could have been something close to a hit!)
train (that crazy industrial snare sound really makes it, and the super high gospel ad-libs)

40oz of tears (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:45 (twelve years ago) link

AHHHHHHHHH WONDER IF SHE KNOWS HOW MUCH I NEED HER FACE AROUND
AHHHHHHHHH WONDER
IF SHE THINK ABOUT ME
AHHHHHHHHH WONDER

"in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:29 (twelve years ago) link

i wonderful ass

hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link

lol @ "vibrator", the bonus track on that wax poetics mix

40oz of tears (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah that was one...memorable way to end. Especially Prince's bitchy cameo.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link

'Vibrator' is also on a sprawling Prince boot thingy called 'The Work' which I managed to get a dozen or so tracks from in the days of Limewire.

"Matter of fact, my back acts up every time my boyfriend goes outta town!"

bit.ly sno cone maker (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link

amazing arena show in melbourne last night - ridiculous opening salvo of 'controversy' > 'sexy dancer' with the backing singers doing chic 'le freak' vox > sly + family stone 'thank you (falletinme...)' > KC + sunshine band 'play that funky music' > flava flav just appears from nowhere and does '911 is a joke' with prince on bass! chuck d turned up and freestyled on 'days of wild' during final encore too.

high point probably 'cool' by the time with 'don't stop till you get enough' woven through it, just destroyed the place.

bull pillman (haitch), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:45 (twelve years ago) link

Fantastic set list! The guy's still reaching.

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:46 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.waxpoetics.com/features/articles/the-second-coming

The story behind the unreleased 1982 Prince movie filmed by Chuck Statler (who did some of the earliest music videos including Devo's)

curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link

nice, thanks for posting. did not know about this film -- what are the odds of it ever being released? 1 in 1,00,000?

tylerw, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link

just starting reading that wax poetics prince issue, some good anecdotes so far, like jesse johnson meeting prince for the first time and calling him out after he (prince) denied listening to hendrix.

40oz of tears (Jordan), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link

damn i need to get a copy of that.

jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link

two months pass...

Any chance some kind soul would be willing to send me a link to that Perfect Unreleased Prince set? Thanks in advance!

zipzapzopzoup, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link

one month passes...
three weeks pass...

live in stockholm w the revolution, 1986, introducing a showoffy horn break 3/4 of the way through 'A Love Bizarre':

"You got roaches in your crib? Well this is sure to wipe 'em out!'

bass line has no point of view (Jon Lewis), Friday, 5 October 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link

:O

Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Friday, 5 October 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link

disappointed he didn't break into a cover of "TV Party"

stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 October 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link

question of the week : do i break the seal on my 21 nights book at long last ?

is the cd worthy ?

mark e, Friday, 5 October 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link

He was totally not on point the first show in Chicago a couple of weeks ago, and then a total no show at the first (ticketed) after party jam. Then supposedly he was awesome the second night as well as the second after party. I saw the third after party, and it was perfunctory at best. Like Monday night, the little dude didn't even play guitar, and being within 10 feet of him cheerleading his hack pretty protege was not worth staying up until 3:30am. As someone was quoted locally, he sure is one mercurial motherfucker.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 October 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link

what is it with him and proteges, pretty much none of them have ever worked out

stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 October 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link

um have you ever heard of carmen electra

tylerw, Friday, 5 October 2012 22:45 (twelve years ago) link

no

stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 October 2012 22:46 (twelve years ago) link

check and mate

EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 October 2012 22:46 (twelve years ago) link

she married dave navarro or something? unaware of any music career she actually had

and I mean I love those Apollonia and Vanity 6 singles but still

stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 October 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago) link

lol i was only foolin'--yeah prince should ditch the proteges! but he probably likes playing the svengali.

tylerw, Friday, 5 October 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago) link

can we get a list?
Vanity
Apollonia
Jill Jones
Carmen Electra
Mayte

feels sort of wrong to call Sheila E. his protege (she's obviously the best of the lot) but he did produce 3 albums for her so I dunno

stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 October 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link

kim basinger

tylerw, Friday, 5 October 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link

if we're counting her we gotta throw Kirstie Alley in there too

stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 October 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link

does Sheena Easton count? she was sort of already famous by the time Prince got around to her

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 5 October 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link

what's the level after protege?

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 5 October 2012 23:28 (twelve years ago) link

has-been

stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 October 2012 23:41 (twelve years ago) link

thx lol

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 5 October 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link

tbf, tevin did pretty well for himself

EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 October 2012 00:06 (twelve years ago) link

Eric Leeds/The Family

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 October 2012 01:21 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6zduBiRZw8

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 October 2012 01:23 (twelve years ago) link

Does Andre Cymone count? This cut is awesome:

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

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 October 2012 01:25 (twelve years ago) link

This is pretty incredible, if you consider the amount of hands-on work Prince was doing for results so frequently worthless: http://rateyourmusic.com/list/starsprinkles74/the_prince_protege_crash_course/

Dunno how they can call Mavis Staples a protege, because if she counts than so does George Clinton.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb0QVZmX_38

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 October 2012 01:40 (twelve years ago) link

(then)

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 October 2012 01:40 (twelve years ago) link

I love Andre Cymone's first two records but I wouldn't put him in the protege column - he was more of an early collaborator who went his own way. Prince certainly didn't encourage his solo career.

stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 6 October 2012 02:31 (twelve years ago) link

can we get a list?
Vanity
Apollonia
Jill Jones
Carmen Electra
Mayte

feels sort of wrong to call Sheila E. his protege (she's obviously the best of the lot) but he did produce 3 albums for her so I dunno

Sheila E may have had a better career, but Jill Jones's one album is probably the best single album released by a Prince protege. It's top-notch from the beginning to the end, and unlike Sheila (who obviously was a better percussionist than vocalist), Jones can sing too.

Tuomas, Saturday, 6 October 2012 08:41 (twelve years ago) link

Wasn't Andre Cymone in 94 East w Prince?

farte blanche (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 6 October 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link

i just bought the vinyl of that first madhouse album. In good shape, anybody know what it's worth?

EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 October 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago) link


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