The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Prince Retrospective

    By PeraclesPlease on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 4:15pm |

    Ever since I heard Dirty Minds and Controversy, I've been a big fan. "Annie Christian, Antichrist...."

    He combined Hendrix and funk, managed the cross-over, a bit clean, a bit dirty, get your big on butt over here - gotta get up, get down.... oh shit. Way too young. And then that duet with Beyoncé.... and the Revolution.

    See ya, dude - and thanks

    Gett Off

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    Genius. From every angle. Disastrous day. The viddy starts at 2:00.


    by quinn esq on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 5:41pm


    by NCD on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 6:23pm

    Prince kept some of his stronger political views off with his side projects, like the New Power Generation. [Who were frighteningly good on their own.]

    Here's two versions - recorded and live - of Count The Days.

    Enormous song.  

    http://www.nicozon.net/player.html?video_id=sm14108178&k=1461368442.0.1....

    http://www.nicozon.net/player.html?video_id=sm8323302&k=1461367887.0.1.E...

     


    by quinn esq on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 7:43pm

    And here, because people often didn't realize just how this guy could PLAY. 

    At the Harrison tribute, listen to him from 3:00 in How My Guitar Gently Weeps.


    by quinn esq on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 7:54pm

    Thanks for the links

    Prince was a political activist. He fought from musical freedom from Warner Brothers. He copyrighted love symbol # 2.

    Hew as involved in the community. He gave a free concert in Baltimore in honor of Freddie Gray.

    http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/music/midnight-sun-blog/bs-ae-...

    A song "Baltimore" was written for the concert

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx2PCJaisqc

     

     


    by rmrd0000 on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 8:50pm

    Just listened to the Capitol Theater concert. What an incredibly tight band playing live.

    I would break some laws if I could replay the past and have been there.


    by moat on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 9:53pm

    Play ball

     

     


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 04/22/2016 - 7:42am

    Note Wendy's playing on the Arsenio Hall piece (Lisa on keys not so much showcased). Prince tried to do the Sly Stone thing, bringing together family - including women playing balls-out mad, not just tambourine & vocals, and men dancing, such as putting Sheila Escovedo out front with her drumming. His last all-girl band was similar - 3 women with huge talent, who'd been playing forever, but he also did that James Brown thing - keep your eye on me, cause I can change at any moment and you gotta be there. Brutal stuff, but fascinating - gotta have the chops. See "Whiplash" except in front of 30,000 people. and plus Prince was a nice guy, not a browbeater.


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 04/22/2016 - 8:46am

    I am from Minnesota and understand the love for Prince.

    Hell, before yesterday, I really did not know that his 'Christian name' was Prince.

    I never got into him.

    Even though I was only eight years older than him, I never got it.

    Falsetto never got to me. Hell, I could never, ever stand the Four Seasons for chrissakes.

    Hell, twenty or thirty million citizens adore rush, or at least did until a number of them have died from old age.

    Tens of millions loved this guy; this Prince.

    If Prince did not do drugs and if Prince was a severe Christian and if Prince did not do other things?

    I am going to get hated for this but all of the indications point to HIV/AIDS as the cause for his death.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HIV-positive_people

    I am not judging this bisexual.

    And I was never a fan, as I have already stated.

    Liberace and Rock Hudson and a host of others have died from this terrible disease.

    But the symptoms and the late night tours to Walgreens make me suspect that this is the reason for Prince's death.

    I think those in charge in Minneapolis are holding back for a number of reasons.

    I just point to the fact that I represented an HIV ridden client back in the 80's.

    I think that there is some skirting going on.

    I had no other place, proper place anyway to put this thought.

    Again, it is just a thought.

    Do I think that all bisexuals will die of AIDS?

    No.

    If you look at the Wiki article, all blood recipients and drug users and....might be subject to AIDS and HIV PROBLEMS.

    It just looks like this.

    PLEASE DO NOT HATE ME.

     

     


    by Richard Day on Fri, 04/22/2016 - 7:19pm

    Hey, Richard, you are not alone. I was more into Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz.

    I think we all love you more than we do Prince.

      


    by Oxy Mora on Fri, 04/22/2016 - 9:38pm

    Percocet, not AIDS.

    Most of his songs were without falsetto - I'm not much into it - though his shrieking in Nikki is pretty spine tingling. More James Brown than 4 Seasons - get on up, it's the sex machine....


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 04/22/2016 - 11:07pm

    Prince in the 80s film. Will embed later.

    & as promised...


    by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 04/25/2016 - 10:43am

    Fashion: Prince & the camera - should be stated - was a perfect pair. How bad early MTV videos were shouldn't be forgotten, yet Prince managed to mug and charm and seduce the viewer - with his continuous movement, both his smooth choreography and his natural ability to use his whole body to speak live, plus his boyish winks & asides and stern looks and all his other ways of mixing it up - he kept the viewer and audience engaged. Compare this with a Phil Collins I'm-so-earnest single emotion video, or The Police as completely awkward when not straight-forward playing. Even Michael Jackson was fairly monotonic facially, his bad/angst look, while his dancing while great also looked practiced. Prince just moved like a snake, with and without a guitar.

    And yes, his taste in fashion was a huge break from stadium rock and disco and punk with their single mode jeans or leather jacket motif. Early metrosexual, his stage clothing was lifestyle, 24 hour party people, perusing and breaking the latest fashion, always something different. How many male artists changed their hairstyle? He anticipated the mashup of the catwalk with party music by a good 10 years, such as George Michael's breakthrough supermodel-adorned "Freedom" in 1990 or Madonna's 1992 "Erotica". Prince had been doing that fashion lingerie thing for a decade already, sending his girlfriend to tell the keyboardist at the time to start wearing 24-hour sexy/edgy fashion or she'd be fired. Seems his sense of the stage was spot on. 3 decades later, he looked slamming with Beyoncé in front of a stadium full of people. How many 50-year-olds look and play cutting edge? Fuck, what a loss.


    by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 04/27/2016 - 3:32am

    Beautiful Prince tribute/memory.


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 05/06/2016 - 7:11am