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Prince Appreciation Thread - For Fans

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elmari said:
Since this Opus project was started before Michael passed and Michael approved of it, he wanted his Opus book to be affordable to all of his fans. :) That's what I heard!

I like Prince, but wouldn't call myself a fan because I don't keep up with him. I do have some of his albums, though. But I'm into his older music from the 80s and 90s. I was so in love with 'Diamonds and Pearls' when it first came out. I also used to play 'The Most Beautiful Girl in the World' over and over again. :) I'm a child of the nineties. ;)
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I don't see how any of Prince's fans would be able to afford his Opus, doesn't make sense to have one if nobody can afford to buy it. $2100 is alot of money to come up with but I guess it will be a collectors item for those people that can afford it. Michael was a thoughtful and generous man. I'm glad he was able to have some input into his Opus before he left us, I can hardly wait to get mine.
 
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did prince said anything about Michale after his death?
 
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Ohood said:
did prince said anything about Michale after his death?
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Prince doesn't talk to the press. The only time he might do an interview is when he's putting out an album. He's never been a media person.
 
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The Black Eyed Peas Told Off By Prince For Swearing!

They may be full grown human beings AND superstar musicians but that's not going to stop the Black Eyed Peas from getting a full-on dressing down from the one and only Prince!

take40.com caught up with the Black Eyed Peas during their live stint in Australia and they revealed Prince wasn't too happy with their language!

"Me and apl were at Prince's house and we had a jam session and we were like rapping," Taboo told take40.com. "Then he handed me the mic and I said 'rock that shit' - and the crowd was responding 'that funky shit!'"

"Prince doesn't like any cursing," adds apl.de.ap.

"But I didn't know that," Taboo continues. "I thought I was hyping the crowd because the crowd was saying it! So apl goes 'Yo tab, you gotta get off the mic, Prince doesn't want you on the mic no more'. And I was like 'Oh, what did I do wrong?!' To make a long story short, Prince comes up to us and says 'Can I speak to you?'"

"Oh my God!" Fergie chimes in.

"And he pulls us into this music room and we're sitting down and I'm just like 'Damn!' I'm a big prince fan..."

"...and Prince is like 'Cursing you know, it takes us back to slavery days and stuff like that and you know I wouldn't encourage cursing'. And Taboo was so excited he's like 'Hey Prince, you're the shit man!'"

Yikes! Note to self - never swear in front of Prince.

The Peas wrap up their 'The E.N.D' Australian tour in Perth tomorrow night, Saturday 10th October at Burswood Dome.

Source: Take 40 -- October 9, 2009
 
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mj1957 said:
I like Prince's older music. I found it odd that Michael's Opus is $330 and is over 400 pages but Prince's Opus is $2100 and over 200 pages......what is deal with that?
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Prince's Opus book is way too expensive. One of the reasons I think it's so expensive is because it comes with a iPod with an exclusive documentary and some amazing footage of Prince performing his O2 Arena concerts from 2007. I've seen the documentary in an Opus store in Covent Garden, London (I pass the store regually and always watch bits of it) and the footage is amazing. But I don't know why Prince can't just release a book the same price as Michael, and why he can't release a DVD of his O2 concerts because Prince would stand to make far more money, and get a lot of good publicity for his legacy and recent performances.
 
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'Call my name' is gggrreeeatt and I'm still searching for the video somewhere.. orgasmic!


Oh prince doesn' like people saying 'rock that shit'.. but he writes ''Sexy Motherfu**er!''

LOL.
 
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Carinemjj said:
'Call my name' is gggrreeeatt and I'm still searching for the video somewhere.. orgasmic!


Oh prince doesn' like people saying 'rock that shit'.. but he writes ''Sexy Motherfu**er!''

LOL.
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He doesn't perform those types of songs anymore. After he became a Jehovah's Witness, he cut out the profanity and the overly sexual songs like "Darling Nikki". Prince fines band members or employees if he hears them using profanity.
 
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^ BIG! sorry I don't know for sure but I'd venture 4+ octaves, correct me if I'm way off the mark.

I've *just* gotten into Prince properly, and by properly I mean by getting two full length albums and not just listening to random songs... I feel very behind! So much music!! What a prolific creator :)
 
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StarSecret said:
^ BIG! sorry I don't know for sure but I'd venture 4+ octaves, correct me if I'm way off the mark.

I've *just* gotten into Prince properly, and by properly I mean by getting two full length albums and not just listening to random songs... I feel very behind! So much music!! What a prolific creator :)
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Thanks! I was researching Michael's vocal range and learned that he has a 3.65+ range according to Seth Riggs. Some even say a 4.00 range. Then I wanted to know what Prince's range was because I've been listening to 'The Most Beautiful Girl in the World' a lot lately and his range is all over the place in that song. I just love it!
 
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adubbleSK said:
musicology "say my name" fav sonG for sure..my moms a big prince fan
oooops.... i meant "call my name"
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"I just can't stop writing songs about you/ I love you so much / I just can't wait to get my arms around you / to feel your touch" LOVE THAT TRACK TOO!
 
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I think my favorite from the Musicology album is "Dear Mr. Man". Such a funky jazz tune with a good message.
 
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Prince at Paisley Park: Return of the funk master
Jim Walsh
Mon, Oct 26 2009 8:52 am

Before he was a world-beating superstar, Prince Rogers Nelson was a kid playing high school dances around the Twin Cities with his first band, Grand Central. That was the mid-'70s, a time of sexy freedom typified by Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give It Up," which kicked off with slow-grind party sounds that ignited dreams of velvet-draped love nests, grooving in the living room near the cashew dish and, much later, blaxploitation camp.

Saturday night/Sunday morning, Prince, now 51 years old but preternaturally forever young, tore it up over three hours at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen like a cutting-edge artist who now seems content to operate as the best retro-funk band leader on the planet. To be sure, the set — strewn as it was with Prince hits ("Purple Rain," "1999," "Raspberry Beret") and covers (Doobie Brothers, Sly & the Family Stone, Chic) — was so loose and trippy, it felt more like Arnellia's than an arena.


"This will always be my home," Prince told a crowd of a couple thousand at Paisley early Sunday morning during a rave-up of "Let's Work," which sizzled like a call-to-arms for the Obama generation. Then, as if reminding himself of his own roots and what can happen when one man puts his mind to making music for the ages, he testified, "I lived in an apartment on Aldrich. I cashed my checks at Rudolph's [Bar-B-Que]. I swam in Lake Calhoun."

Point being, of course, that you can and should go home again. With the specter of Michael Jackson's tragic legacy hanging from the Paisley rafters, Prince rescued his old friend/competitor for the moment with an ebullient version of The Jackson 5's "I Want You Back." As he led the first few rows in a singalong, he grinned joyfully and shouted "that's what I'm talking about," as if the music alone could negate the ceaseless sordid Michael minutiae clogging the culture's consciousness at the moment.

As the well-drilled six-piece band (including spiritual backbone and keyboard player Morris Hayes) churned around him, Prince seemed eminently happy to lay back, scream his Telecaster, and crack himself up with such asides as, "This is how we funk on the north side," "What's my hair doin'?" and "I'm so funky I can't even sleep with myself."

In the '90s, early-morning shows at Paisley Park were the norm. Many, such as the 1994 NBA All-Star Game party and the debut party for "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" single in 1995 were lavish bashes decked out in cheesy bacchanalia themes. Saturday night, it was a decidedly spare affair: The only ornamentation in the soundstage was a giant Prince symbol on the wall, and the only paean to the past was the Oscar-winning movie star's motorcycle from "Purple Rain," parked behind a velvet rope in the back lot lobby.

Clearly, the emphasis was on the dance party — the kind that Prince has been whipping up in Las Vegas over the last couple of years (hilariously, the park-and-ride buses taking fans to and from their cars smacked of blue hairs and black jack at the purple casino). And, while it was more than a little goofy to hear an extended guitar-shredding version of Wild Cherry's "Play That Funky Music" (especially when, as Prince himself crowed several times, "I got too many hits, y'all!"), there were plenty of memorable moments to be had for hard-core fans and history buffs alike.

The most notable came an hour into the set, when Prince jumped off stage and sprinted to the back of the room, where Larry Graham and members of Prince's adopted church family sat on makeshift risers. Graham has become Prince's musical and spiritual mentor over the past 10 years, and Prince was not about to let his hero go unannounced. He jumped up on the riser, sat and chatted intently with a very tall and very beautiful woman, rocked a bit to the music, then jumped back down and returned to the stage with Graham, who was decked out in matching white suit and floppy hat and looking for all the world like he'd just stepped out of "Shaft" or "Superfly."

"I want to sit at your feet. I want to sit at your feet and watch you play," said Prince, of the man who, as co-founder of Sly & the Family Stone and Graham Central Station, invented the slap-thumb method of bass playing, and who, in turn, had a big hand in inventing this crazy little thing called funk. As Graham strapped on his bass, Prince said, "I wouldn't be anywhere without him," and then he ran down a litany of other giants on whose shoulders he stands: Miles Davis, George Clinton, The Jackson Five, James Brown, Joni Mitchell, and on and on.

But forget the false modesty; the man of the moment was the legend-in-waiting who delivered a scorching reading of "Guitar" (and made the chorus "I love you baby but not like I love this guitar" a big no-duh); the man who ad-libbed during "1999," "Mommy, why does everybody still have a bomb?" ("It's still good, y'all!"); the man who, during "Kiss," let it be known that, "You don't have to watch 'Gossip Girl' to have an attitude."

The man who, clad in black ruffles and heels, concluded the main set with a silly version of "The Glamorous Life," and a litany of hits by The Time, including '80s aphrodisiacs "Jungle Love" and "C-O-O-L," the latter of which found the little love god imploring, "Minneapolis, are you hot?! Uptown, are you hot?!"

The answer, at least in Chanhassen for one more night, was no; it was all very, very c-o-o-l — thanks to the man who, as the clock inched toward 2 a.m., screamed, "What's my name? What's my name?!"

By that time, it was obvious:

His name is Prince, and he is so funky he can't even sleep with himself.
http://www.minnpost.com/jimwalsh/2009/10/26/12822/prince_at_paisley_park_return_of_the_funk_master#
 
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and that man still brings it on stage. you can say what you want about the albums after the 80's but on stage you can always count on him to bring it. better appreciate his talent while he have him.
 
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mo_rizwan said:
Prince is the last Living LEGEND! :)
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B.B. King, Betty Wright, Gladys Knight, Etta James, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Paul McCartney, Smokey Robinson, Bobby Bland, The Rolling Stones, Jimmy Page, Stevie Wonder, and many others are still alive.
 
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Can someone tell me how Prince's music and/or performances have changed since becoming a devoted Jehovah's Witness in 2001? I know that he won't say swear words in his songs anymore. Are there any other noticeable differences to his fans?
 
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he stopped swearing and also took more of a laidback approach to his grooves. he has gone for a more smoother tone and feel in his music.

but this has been the case for many years now.
 
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Yes Michael Is my Favourite!!! Prince comes second..

Top Ten in no order
1. Dirty Mind
2. The Dawn
3. 1999
4. Sign O' The Times
5. Musicology
6. Purple rain
7. Lovesexy
8. The Rainbow Children
9. 3121
10. Lotus Flow3r
 
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elmari said:
Can someone tell me how Prince's music and/or performances have changed since becoming a devoted Jehovah's Witness in 2001? I know that he won't say swear words in his songs anymore. Are there any other noticeable differences to his fans?
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He's a little more laid back. Likes to do a lot jazzy jams. But that may have to do with age more then religion. I've seem him several times in the past few years and if the mood strikes he'll return to that old funky dirty Prince. A few years ago when he was doing the stint in Las Vegas. I went to see him and he he was getting angry with his bassist. So he just took the bass from him about 1/4 into the show and just played bass for the rest of the show. Which made it a very funky show and he was feeling it and got lost in the performance and started making some... well... gestures that weren't to Jehovah Witness like... haha.
 
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BONGANI said:
"I just can't stop writing songs about you/ I love you so much / I just can't wait to get my arms around you / to feel your touch" LOVE THAT TRACK TOO!
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i like 'call my name' alot too.
 
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