prince

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

'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!"

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.

Fantastic set list! The guy's still reaching.

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)

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

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.

damn i need to get a copy of that.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYA6PgZvn-0

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!'

:O

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

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

is the cd worthy ?

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.

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

um have you ever heard of carmen electra

no

check and mate

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

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

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

kim basinger

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

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

what's the level after protege?

has-been

thx lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KV24fTnbaI

tbf, tevin did pretty well for himself

Eric Leeds/The Family

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

Does Andre Cymone count? This cut is awesome:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A_QVeo86rY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr6We2B5L6w

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

(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.

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.

Wasn't Andre Cymone in 94 East w Prince?

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

xp He was even in the Revolution for a year or two before Mark Brown replaced him.

http://thepcprinciple.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/prince_9.jpg

Ingrid Chavez

Certainly the only protege who married David Sylvian, for what its worth

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

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.

maybe he wasn't paying them

it was a kickstarter thing

[joke about prince leaning on horny stuff]

anyone read/reading this yet?

http://www.brunel.ac.uk/__data/assets/thumbnail/0006/232899/PrinceExternal2.jpg

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.