[puckerman]

I'm glad someone complied a list of the songs that he wrote for other people. Here are 15 songs:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/...s-20160421

[puckerman]

Kevin Smith also had this hilarious talk about Prince:

[AnonymousBosch]

(04-22-2016 03:54 PM)puckerman Wrote:  

I'm glad someone complied a list of the songs that he wrote for other people. Here are 15 songs:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/...s-20160421

^ If you have to read, archive the site.

Don't give clicks to a site that would throw every man on this forum under the bus.

[Excelsior]

[kbell]

I didn't like him when I was younger, but I have grown to like more of his music. Unfortunately he had a tendency of blocking a lot of youtube videos of him being posted. His skill with multiple instruments was incredible. RIP.

[Zep]

^ They're all going up now. I feel a bit guilty listening now that he's passed, but if I'm being reminded of how good he was, maybe others are too and he'd probably like this. The opening drum rolls for drama, contrasted with innocence, then the ache of desire in the tone of the female vocal, a violin line which is outside the key, this video with sunlight and grass and a motorcycle and water and a total babe, makes me feel good : )

[Mr. D]

More Prince videos popping up on YouTube. I've never seen this one:

[RawGod]

Never been a fan, but anyone could see he was just insanely talented.

Oddly he barely changed either in musical style or physical appearance from his first emergence in 1978 until his death. So he had the double blessing of a fully-formed musical persona at a young age, and a youthful appearance in late middle age.

RIP.

[fokker]

I never knew Prince. Where should I start?

[Vacancier Permanent]

One of the best musical talent of the past century the world has seen!
Sad to see such a legend go this early! RIP!

There are rumous online insinuating that his death was not as natural or due to health issues as they claim to be.

Anyone heard that? Thoughts?

[Mr. D]

(04-24-2016 11:52 AM)fokker Wrote:  

I never knew Prince. Where should I start?

I'd recommend "The Hits/The B-sides", for a general overview.

[Captainstabbin]

Prince's former drug dealer tells how the legend spent $40,000 at a time on six-month supplies of Dilaudid pills and Fentanyl patches - highly addictive opioid pain killers - for 25 years

Prince's former drug dealer, who asked to be named only as Doctor D, revealed the full extent of the late-star's secret drug addiction

Doctor D revealed the singer would spend up to $40,000 a time on six-month supplies of Dilaudid pills and Fentanyl patches

Prince regularly bought drugs from Doctor D between 1984 and 2008

The dealer said the musician suffered crippling stage fright and could not get on stage and perform without the drugs

Doctor D said: 'He was always a pill man - that's why nobody ever saw him do drugs. He never shot up, or snorted cocaine'

Prince was found dead on Thursday at his home in Minnesota just days after sources claimed he overdosed on the opiate Percocet

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ction.html

[Scoundrel]

Prince was one of the 3 biggest pop stars of the 80's, along with Michael Jackson and Madonna.

I once heard Quincy Jones say in an interview that Jackson's song "Bad" was originally supposed to be a duet between MJ & Prince. That seemed odd... How could it have worked?

Turns out Prince felt the same way. Here's an amusing clip of him explaining the issue:

[el mechanico]

I did actually rake in some prince fallout pussy in the 80s when I was mall rat cause we had the same kina hair.. I bought some clothes from chess king like a shiny Sergio velente jacket that was an upgrade from men's only

I wouldn't wear these clothes unless I was going to the mall and yeah there was an understanding man working at the mall liquor store back then that would sell me Wild Irish rose or heffs.

If you can wrap your heads around this...

[El Chinito loco]

(04-24-2016 06:48 PM)Captainstabbin Wrote:  

The dealer said the musician suffered crippling stage fright and could not get on stage and perform without the drugs

That explains a lot. Heard Howard Stern say that he went to a Prince concert and the dude turned his back to the audience and played. There's also another separate incident out there where he turned the lights out and played in the dark. There's another story i've heard where he just played a cd for the audience who came to watch him play.

If true all these stories are hilarious but made him sound like a dick too.

Prince was amazingly talented but definitely a freakshow. People probably mistook a lot of these things as musician quirks or ego when he was probably just a highly neurotic guy.

[Brodiaga]

(04-22-2016 05:18 PM)puckerman Wrote:  

Kevin Smith also had this hilarious talk about Prince:

Just learned from the video that Prince used to buy sports clothes from Nordstrom's boys department. Googled his height - he was 5'2''.

Any guys who complain about their height, take notice. The guy was 5'2'' and a fucking sex symbol, and you're going like "I'm only 5'8'' so girls don't notice me blah blah".

It's not that height doesn't matter, but it should't stop anybody from achieving their goals.

[Mr. D]

(04-24-2016 06:48 PM)Captainstabbin Wrote:  

Prince's former drug dealer tells how the legend spent $40,000 at a time on six-month supplies of Dilaudid pills and Fentanyl patches - highly addictive opioid pain killers - for 25 years

Prince's former drug dealer, who asked to be named only as Doctor D, revealed the full extent of the late-star's secret drug addiction

Doctor D revealed the singer would spend up to $40,000 a time on six-month supplies of Dilaudid pills and Fentanyl patches

Prince regularly bought drugs from Doctor D between 1984 and 2008

The dealer said the musician suffered crippling stage fright and could not get on stage and perform without the drugs

Doctor D said: 'He was always a pill man - that's why nobody ever saw him do drugs. He never shot up, or snorted cocaine'

Prince was found dead on Thursday at his home in Minnesota just days after sources claimed he overdosed on the opiate Percocet

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ction.html

Stage fright notwithstanding, I'd be on painkillers too, if I had to dance and jump around on stage while wearing high heels over years of touring.

[AnonymousBosch]

(04-22-2016 05:18 PM)puckerman Wrote:  

Kevin Smith also had this hilarious talk about Prince:

Even with the Camel story, Prince doesn't strike me as living in 'Prince World'. He was just making the classic mistake of high-intelligence: presuming everyone is as competent and committed as he is, and trusting them to do the job.

I mean, look at Smith's failure to understand why Prince hired him for the job. You'd think a guy who - by that time - had made a series of movies based around long static shots of talking heads in conversation could easily see himself transitioning to documentaries. He thinks he can't do it, Prince, like any good observer of people, believes that he can, and gives him the opportunity to step up.

Note the end of the story: Smith leaves without saying goodbye, then returns, expecting his failure to say goodbye had been noted and is on everyone's mind, only to find Prince simply shrugged and got on with work, and then decides to get sulky about it and judge Prince negatively-for doing so.

I recognise the behaviour from loser friends I had in my teens, which explains a lot about both Smith's weight and artistic-marginalisation since the Millenium.

[Fortis]

Prince is the man. Apparently a high school teacher at my school was a prince groupie back when he was big. She had some hilarious stories about the guy.

[markus85]

Always had my respect. Wonderful song writer, multi instrumentalist and great voice to top it off. A complete musician. Dirty Mind > Lovesexy was his creative peak imo.

[debeguiled]

Prince Nelson, before he met PRINCE (Played trumpet in the school band):



After:



First pic from article in WSJ.

My Classmate Prince, the Rock Star

[RawGod]

Apparently there's no will.

Hugely wealthy, has a musical legacy to think about as well as just financial assets, 57 years old, massive painkiller addiction of the same type that killed his peer Michael Jackson, no family or obvious heir, and presumably has a legal team on speed dial to handle business.

And yet leaves no will. Guy was living in fantasy land.

[AnonymousBosch]

(04-25-2016 05:46 PM)RawGod Wrote:  

Apparently there's no will.

Hugely wealthy, has a musical legacy to think about as well as just financial assets, 57 years old, massive painkiller addiction of the same type that killed his peer Michael Jackson, no family or obvious heir, and presumably has a legal team on speed dial to handle business.

And yet leaves no will. Guy was living in fantasy land.

I don't believe that for a second.

My theory: there's too much profit to be made from his music for his true post-death wishes to be respected, so the existence of any will that contradicted the financial exploitation of his existing and unreleased catalogue must be denied, particularly if it had laid down strict rules for no deluxe reissues; no social media sharing; no movie, television and advertising placement; and, hell, a demand to burn the entire contents of the vault so his unreleased work could stay unreleased.

It's only a few days later - how much money has Google made through advertising by no longer instantly-erasing the existence of Prince's music on Youtube, something that he was deeply-against? That's only the tip of the scummy exploitation we'll be seeing.

[Quintus Curtius]

^^^

Boschulus,

I was laughing when reading your post about Kevin Smith's monologue. I was thinking the same thing.

Smith sounds like a guy trying to score points off of Prince's eccentricities. I'm listening to his story and asking myself: why didn't he just take the goddamn job and do it? When a celebrity like that gives you a chance, you don't sit around and whine about how you "can't do it."

Instead, Kevin Smith obsesses about Prince's religious views and character traits. My feeling is: what the fuck do you expect? Almost every great artist is eccentric to some extent. Goes with the territory.

You shut your mouth, say "yes" to Prince, and figure it out. Roll with it: Y Ching, Tao of whatever. Go with it, and get the job done.

Funny thing is, I am not even a Prince fan.

I never really connected with his music, but that's just my preferences. But I have to give this dude some respect. If he needed hip replacement surgery from dancing with heels on stage, this guy must have been a very hard worker.

Anyone who works that hard, is all right in my book.

[DamienCasanova]