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 (eleven years ago) link
(then)
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 (eleven years ago) link
can we get a list?VanityApolloniaJill JonesCarmen ElectraMayte
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 (eleven years ago) link
Wasn't Andre Cymone in 94 East w Prince?
― farte blanche (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 6 October 2012 17:08 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
xp He was even in the Revolution for a year or two before Mark Brown replaced him.
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Sunday, 7 October 2012 02:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://thepcprinciple.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/prince_9.jpg
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Sunday, 7 October 2012 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
Ingrid Chavez
Certainly the only protege who married David Sylvian, for what its worth
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 7 October 2012 03:43 (eleven years ago) link
o i thought this was revived was for this recent article
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/sep/27/20-best-prince-songs-never-heard
― zvookster, Sunday, 7 October 2012 11:05 (eleven years ago) link
BTW, when I saw him a couple of weeks ago, he had an 11-piece (!) horn section. Why? Who knows. There's no room for all of them - literally and figuratively - and he didn't even lean on horn-y stuff. Weird.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 7 October 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
maybe he wasn't paying them
― la goonies (k3vin k.), Sunday, 7 October 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
it was a kickstarter thing
― zvookster, Sunday, 7 October 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
[joke about prince leaning on horny stuff]
anyone read/reading this yet?
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/__data/assets/thumbnail/0006/232899/PrinceExternal2.jpg
― piscesx, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 14:42 (eleven years ago) link
I'd like to read it but this review is very critical:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/prince-by-matt-throne-8190754.html
Unfortunately, Thorne is a Prince fanatic, once considered for the job of approved biographer. A conventional life story wasn't expected, but this doorstop amounts to a speculative description of every song Prince has recorded – especially the unreleased ones. It is packed with adoring speculation. Every detail, no matter how trivial, is "interesting" or "fascinating". Tedious descriptions of obscure movies and bewildering explanations of the plotlines of forgotten albums take up hundreds of pages.
Prince probably warrants the song-by-song approach, but Thorne is no Ian MacDonald, trained in musical theory, and soon runs out of vocabulary. Any tune that swings with a I-IV-V change is dismissed as "rockabilly", while his use of "hard rock", to describe a guitarist often compared to Hendrix, is extraordinarily vague. Thorne's research into Prince's protégés is impressive, but of relatively limited interest, while his subject's drift into bigotry is barely questioned. In fact, Prince's religious journey is hardly mentioned, despite teasers.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
hmm too bad...like the cover though
― rap game klaus nomi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/07/prince-biography-matt-thorne-review
This reviewer likes the first half of the book!
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
He's supposedly doing something for Baz Luhrman's (sp?) "Great Gatsby". The mind boggles.
― Loo Reading (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
Hopefully it reaches the heights of his previous soundtrack contribution, BATDANCE.
― LaMonte, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
haha yeah "keep bustin".
― piscesx, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
Vicki Waiting was good
― rap game klaus nomi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
i like that whole album a lot really
― let's have sex and then throw pottery (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 00:55 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't "Girl 6" come after that?
― Loo Reading (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
yes, as did Graffiti Bridge, and everything else on Batman came after Batdance
― set the controls for the arse of your mum (sic), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 04:05 (eleven years ago) link
Girl 6 was filled with stuff predating "Batdance" tho.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 04:06 (eleven years ago) link
primarily
― let's have sex and then throw pottery (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
26 minute studio jam of I Woul Die 4 U
http://soundcloud.com/heymamad/prince-i-would-die-4-u-26min
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 23:27 (eleven years ago) link
wth
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
only song on Batman I like is Electric Chair
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
it's kind of weird how ephemeral so much prince-related stuff is. like you have to listen today cause there's a very real chance it will be gone tomorrow.
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 01:25 (eleven years ago) link
download these adorable pictures of kittens http://www.sendspace.com/file/dc8t0s
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 03:27 (eleven years ago) link
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 7:27 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
sounds v similar to an extended live-in-studio PR era "I Would Die 4 U" i have that's 'only' 8 minutes or so, so psyched to have one that's even longer -- one of my favorite songs ever that takes on a whole new amazing shape in those live arrangements
― burrito smalls (some dude), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 03:34 (eleven years ago) link
even if this isn't real -- i mean i have no reason to believe it isn't, but, you know, "internet" -- and like some modern producer's insane disco-edit, it's still fucking amazing.
― charlie the luna (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 03:37 (eleven years ago) link
no, it's definitely real, sounds like a lot of live arrangements i've heard of the song from that era.
one of the most vivid and cherished musical memories of my life is listening to the the 10-minute version on my iPod on the last day of my honeymoon, standing on the beach in australia
― burrito smalls (some dude), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 03:43 (eleven years ago) link
still can't believe this song placed #16 on the Prince tracks poll, unfuckwithable
― burrito smalls (some dude), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 03:45 (eleven years ago) link
no it's totally real i mean that is some unified 80s production there
haha maybe i just dont want to think about reams of shit like this existing out there that i'll never get to hear
― charlie the luna (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 03:46 (eleven years ago) link
the vocals that come in toward the 7 minute mark, that's my standing on the beach in Cairns moment
― burrito smalls (some dude), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 03:49 (eleven years ago) link
ommmmmmmmmmmggggggg
― king louie riel (rennavate), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 03:55 (eleven years ago) link
strongo, some dude, even you rennnavate:
i love you.
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 08:50 (eleven years ago) link
I'm pretty sure that that version is featured on The Work bootleg compilation along with the 8 minute version too if I recall correctly.
― picturemetrollin (prettylikealaindelon), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 09:50 (eleven years ago) link
"even you rennavate" lol
― king louie riel (rennavate), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
man this is good
― tylerw, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
"lisa, gimme some kinda spacey chord!"
― tylerw, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
this is great...
i drove by paisley park the other day, boy that building was designed in the late 80s
― terrell sug (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
so good
― let's have sex and then throw pottery (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
who's on sax there? eric leeds? i thought he came later
― Crackle Box, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
Well, Leeds was in the Family with Wendy's sister, I think. Which came about right after the Time dissolved. But he was definitely in the MN mix somewhere.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
i love you gr8080!!!!!!
― burrito smalls (some dude), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
I don't have time to listen now but iirc he called out the horns by names other than Eric and Atlanta.
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link