prince

i haven't read much Minnesota-based coverage of Prince or Dylan but i have a hard time believing it's THAT much more reverent or excitable than press about them written anywhere else

I had never read that usher story - alltime lols

yeah it's more just prince and dylan, this state is so obsessed with being the home of prince and dylan....and the replacements, which is a band i really loved and it's worn on my appreciation of them....huskers, weirdly, not so much until recent years for whatever reason

or even, like, to the degree that press about Springsteen is more over the top in Jersey than elsewhere (xp)

i can DEFINITELY believe that the 'Mats and the Huskers are fawned over more there. but trust me, Bobby and Prince are fawned over everywhere.

i know. but in the case of prince he does a lot more stuff here so basically every time he takes a shit the local papers cover it like it's a really big deal

like his recent charging of 75 at a jazz club to watch him audition a new drummer

I would pay that price to watch that in a heartbeat tbh

djp otm

& the dylan thing is just more pathetic since he has had little interest in MN since like um 1960 or whenever he left, he maintains a home here he apparently never goes to and we just have this stalker ex-gf vibe w/dylan coverage

djp - apparently it sounded a lot like a pretty routine funk band formless jamming and prince mostly watched and or diddled around on keyboards every once in a while

(review from a huge prince fan that went)

Ha, I guess us Seattlites are spared that being that our most iconic local musicians are dead.

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

dan

yes lisa

Indisputable fact: nobody cares, let alone loses their shit, about Prince outside MN. Couldn't even imagine him filling an arena for a fortnight.

Just no way. He's a total midwest thing.

Also, Madonna is more popular in Detroit than she is anywhere else.

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, 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?

the funny thing is that people on ilm would be LESS likely to listen to a DJP album is he were a Prince protege

rev, y'all should have been more excited about Shabazz Palaces IMO

xp: lmao

could people point out the part where i said prince was not popular or covered by the press in other places?

prince is not popular or covered by the press in other places.

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.

Also, Madonna is more popular in Detroit than she is anywhere else.

― 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

Shabazz are a BFD here, but Ish isn't exactly an icon on the level of Prince or Dylan or Jimi or Kurt.

the "Nirvana at OK Hotel" thread title is all-time hilarious

ha yes

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

oh man, the short lived mixalot blog
http://www.sirmixalot.com/sir-mix-a-lot-blog.html

xpost hahah! : )

lol shakey

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

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.

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

lol

Prince needs to work on his game.

i dunno i'm gonna try the "mystery suit" line

http://storiesaboutprince.blogspot.com/

I skimmed that entry about the person "teaching retarded kids how to swim" and welp

Questlove's story about Prince's roller skating party was all-time: http://www.hypnagogics.com/questo/#!/eddie-murphy

that made my entire month

up there with charlie murphy's extended prince fantasia on the chappelle show

Damn that ? post was AMAZING

Kevin Smith's Prince story from 'An Evening With Kevin Smith' is pretty amazing too.

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.

And the new album announcement:

http://www.okayplayer.com/news/prince-announces-new-album-plectrum-electrum-and-tour-dates.html

that is a tough title there

worst discarded RHCP title ever

what are those weird things on his ears, is he wearing expensive backwards sunglasses or something

that is a tough title there

Well, it is better than Prostate Apostate.