I've been left with so many good Prince stories by a friend who used to work for him! I wonder what could have taken him so soon.
Re: PRINCE
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2016 3:26 pm
by JackRiddler
Sad.
Spent a lot of time dancing to this man's work.
Really loved the two jazz-funk albums done in 1987 as "Madhouse" - anyone know where to find these?
Re: PRINCE
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2016 3:54 pm
by 82_28
Crazy. I literally thought I was hearing things because I was sleeping with the news on and didn't believe it and went back to sleep. I remember he played a sold out show in Denver way back when and then did an impromptu free show at this place called The Church. I knew people who worked there and he tipped very well. RIP.
Really loved the two jazz-funk albums done in 1987 as "Madhouse" - anyone know where to find these?
I'd imagine they would be pretty damn easy to torrent today.
Re: PRINCE
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2016 4:05 pm
by Cordelia
Luther Blissett » Thu Apr 21, 2016 5:43 pm wrote:I've been left with so many good Prince stories by a friend who used to work for him! I wonder what could have taken him so soon.
Damn. Prince seemed to have had the same face, look and energy since he debuted so I didn't see this coming. His peers like Madonna seemed to be fighting a running retreat from age, looks and relevancy wise, but Prince always seemed ageless.
Incidentally it is interesting that Chuck Berry (89) and Little Richard (83) are still going strong.
82_28 wrote:Jesus, we are losing all of our icons!
Love that; true, sad and funny at the same time.
What I liked about Prince was while he definitely seemed to play/experiment with his image he also seemed not to be able to be anything but who he was. I could see him still being just as extravagant if he had ended up working in a vintage store in Minneapolis.
Also, you know he was into weird shit. Him and Bowie are no doubt fist bumping in some outer dimension right now.
I read in a comments section that there was a blind item gossip/news story going around recently that said that a famous black American artist was secretly an HIV patient but that the disease was under control due to medication. Then some religious freaks/cultists supposedly got their claws in him somehow and convinced him to quit the medication. And here we are.
Prince was a Jehovah's Witness, no?
Re: PRINCE
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2016 5:06 pm
by brekin
Prince was a Jehovah's Witness, no?
Yes, can you imagine answering the door and Prince being there to talk about The Watchtower?
Prince joined the Jehovah's Witnesses in 2001 following a two-year-long debate with friend and fellow Jehovah's Witness musician Larry Graham. Prince said that he didn't consider it a conversion, but a "realization". "It's like Morpheus and Neo in The Matrix," he explained. He attended meetings at a local Kingdom Hall and occasionally knocked on people's doors to discuss his faith.[182] Prince reportedly needed double hip-replacement surgery since 2005 but wouldn't undergo the operation unless it was a bloodless surgery because Jehovah's Witnesses do not accept blood transfusions.[183] The condition was rumored to be aggravated by repeated onstage dancing in high-heeled boots.[184]