Ha, I guess us Seattlites are spared that being that our most iconic local musicians are dead.
― kendrick delmar - good kid, f.U.C.k. you (The Reverend), Monday, 4 March 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
so basically you are telling me I can pay $75 to be in the same room as Prince, who may or may not hear me lustily making up lyrics to the formless funk jamming and be so taken by my semi-trained bass-baritone that he recruits me into his inner circle and produces a vanity album for me, is the takeaway I am getting here
― "Bellini." (DJP), Monday, 4 March 2013 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
dan
yes lisa
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 March 2013 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
Indisputable fact: nobody cares, let alone loses their shit, about Prince outside MN. Couldn't even imagine him filling an arena for a fortnight.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 March 2013 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
Just no way. He's a total midwest thing.
Also, Madonna is more popular in Detroit than she is anywhere else.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 March 2013 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
― kendrick delmar - good kid, f.U.C.k. you (The Reverend), Monday, March 4, 2013 3:50 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
so there's not like OMG SIR MIX-A-LOT DROPS NEW SINGLE, SETS STAGE FOR 2013 COMEBACK type pieces?
― Shuwopley (some dude), Monday, 4 March 2013 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
the funny thing is that people on ilm would be LESS likely to listen to a DJP album is he were a Prince protege
― Shuwopley (some dude), Monday, 4 March 2013 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
rev, y'all should have been more excited about Shabazz Palaces IMO
xp: lmao
― "Bellini." (DJP), Monday, 4 March 2013 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
could people point out the part where i said prince was not popular or covered by the press in other places?
― in a chef-driven ambulance (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 4 March 2013 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
prince is not popular or covered by the press in other places.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 March 2013 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
Ipso facto.
ha, I really have no idea what Mix is up to. He hasn't released an album in ten years. Rumor is he made beaucoup money investing in real estate but I have no idea if that's still the case post-recession.
― kendrick delmar - good kid, f.U.C.k. you (The Reverend), Monday, 4 March 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, March 4, 2013 2:53 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
also madonna has totally lived in detroit all these years, and filmed an iconic movie there at a the most popular nightclub, and built a world class studio there, and held years of invite-only after parties there, etc since she got popular
― in a chef-driven ambulance (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 4 March 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
Shabazz are a BFD here, but Ish isn't exactly an icon on the level of Prince or Dylan or Jimi or Kurt.
― kendrick delmar - good kid, f.U.C.k. you (The Reverend), Monday, 4 March 2013 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
the "Nirvana at OK Hotel" thread title is all-time hilarious
― Shuwopley (some dude), Monday, 4 March 2013 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
ha yes
― kendrick delmar - good kid, f.U.C.k. you (The Reverend), Monday, 4 March 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
a pretty routine funk band formless jamming and prince mostly watched and or diddled around on keyboards every once in a while
bummed I apparently missed this rare live performance of the N.E.W.S. album in its entirety
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 4 March 2013 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
oh man, the short lived mixalot bloghttp://www.sirmixalot.com/sir-mix-a-lot-blog.html
― the 'dirty sprite' is implied (forksclovetofu), Monday, 4 March 2013 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
xpost hahah! : )
― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 4 March 2013 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
lol shakey
― Shuwopley (some dude), Monday, 4 March 2013 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
huh, this Mix song from 2010 is really weird and minamalistic and samples Gary Numan and has a million view and is kind of awesome? I wasn't even aware of it til now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwII0k2bSpM
― kendrick delmar - good kid, f.U.C.k. you (The Reverend), Monday, 4 March 2013 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
xpost I was totally taking the piss. But a point of comparison, there are cities where Bruce sales are relatively weak, whereas in NJ/NY he could likely sell out indefinite numbers of shows. But Prince could probably sell out indefinite numbers of shows just about anywhere, not just MN.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 March 2013 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
ha i knew i'd told this on ilm before:
This is a second hand story, but amusing nonetheless. I was wokring a temp job in college, and my supervisor was an pretty attractive woman a few years out of college at the time....Anyway, this was when Glam Slam was still in operation in Minneapolis and Prince still owned it etc...She and her friends went out to dance at Glam Slam, and she was wearing a catsuit apparently. A security guard said that Prince wanted to meet her and so she agreed to go to Prince's private lair in the club cuz she was a fan.....In any case, Prince was reclined, surrounded by his "people" so the security dude took her over to Prince. Apparently, Prince just kinda looked her up and down without saying anything for an uncomfortably long period of time. Then he finally asked the question: "Is that a MYSTERY suit?"....
She was baffled, and finally just said, "Um....yeah...I guess." Then more uncomfortable silence, and when it became apparent that she wasn't going to instantly start stripping and having sex with him, the security dude said she should probably go back to her friends.
― M@tt Sunday, November 21, 2004 12:46 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― in a chef-driven ambulance (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 4 March 2013 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― Harlem vs Alabama (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
Prince needs to work on his game.
― kendrick delmar - good kid, f.U.C.k. you (The Reverend), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 01:55 (eleven years ago) link
i dunno i'm gonna try the "mystery suit" line
― Shuwopley (some dude), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 02:00 (eleven years ago) link
http://storiesaboutprince.blogspot.com/
― the 'dirty sprite' is implied (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
I skimmed that entry about the person "teaching retarded kids how to swim" and welp
― "Bellini." (DJP), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
Questlove's story about Prince's roller skating party was all-time: http://www.hypnagogics.com/questo/#!/eddie-murphy
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
that made my entire month
― "Bellini." (DJP), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
up there with charlie murphy's extended prince fantasia on the chappelle show
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
Damn that ? post was AMAZING
― multi instru mentat list (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
Kevin Smith's Prince story from 'An Evening With Kevin Smith' is pretty amazing too.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
Okay, West Coast tour dates:
http://www.factmag.com/2013/03/21/prince-announces-slate-of-tour-dates/
Relatively small venues! Have to look into those Anaheim shows.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 March 2013 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
And the new album announcement:
http://www.okayplayer.com/news/prince-announces-new-album-plectrum-electrum-and-tour-dates.html
― doug watson, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
that is a tough title there
― gr8 tr∞lls i have known (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
worst discarded RHCP title ever
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
what are those weird things on his ears, is he wearing expensive backwards sunglasses or something
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
Well, it is better than Prostate Apostate.
― doug watson, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
perineum millennium
― sandra dayo connor (The Reverend), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 01:56 (eleven years ago) link
Taint Saint
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 02:12 (eleven years ago) link
Rejected Pavement b side song titles
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 03:07 (eleven years ago) link
haven't seen this posted on ilm yet:
http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/72887/prince-covers-prince-with-unexpected-new-version-of-lets-go-crazy
― anonanon, Thursday, 25 April 2013 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
referencing artists "covering" themselves always drives me insane. it's his song, it's not a cover!
but yeah that was posted
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 25 April 2013 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
whoops search-fu let me down
― anonanon, Thursday, 25 April 2013 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
Prince fans might enjoy this:http://www.datpiff.com/Maya-Vik-On-It-kapow-Mixtape.475379.html
Maya Vik was recently featured in the Playboy 2013 Music Guide, and she's doing some shows in NYC right now. Linn drums galore. Also, she plays the bass.
― longneck, Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
also, some good recordings out there from his shows at the Dakota earlier this year
― The Great Natterer (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 25 April 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
most recent setlist looks awesome:
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/prince/2013/dna-lounge-san-francisco-ca-7bd82ab4.html
was talking to a friend who was there and said "lets go crazy" was done in the stoner style as in the recent vimeo
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Friday, 26 April 2013 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
I can only imagine how awesome he'd be in a room that small. Like the Dakota shows.
― I will forlornly return to my home planet soon (dandydonweiner), Sunday, 28 April 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago) link