Prince is dead

[FORD]

Yip ,Bon Scott was a poor replacement

Considering Bon's first group The Valentines was a 60s bubblegum band and his second, Fraternity, was some weird hippie music with flutes & shit, it's a miracle that he ever got the gig at all.

[twonabomber]

It's going to be a Replacement Singer Summer! First the Revolution, and then Queen + Adam Lambert in July...will staff be fired if they attend a Van Hagar reunion show? lol

[vandeleur]

It's going to be a Replacement Singer Summer! First the Revolution, and then Queen + Adam Lambert in July...will staff be fired if they attend a Van Hagar reunion show? lol

Fuck , daves dead ???

[DONNIEP]

will staff be fired if they attend a Van Hagar reunion show? lol

Fired?? Hell, attendance should be mandatory!

[twonabomber]

So the tracklist for the Purple Rain re-issue has been released, not really any surprises on it. The live DVD will be the PPV/VHS from Syracuse.

Here's one thing that's not on the re-issue...a 40 minute guitar workout recorded at a PR tour rehearsal.

[Seshmeister]

This is a good documentary with lots of music, not sure if you can stream it in the US?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08m09gh

Prince and Me

Paul Sexton introduces the people that knew Prince best, including fellow artists, friends, band members, engineers and others who were part of his life and work. These are the confidants who knew the real man, and who vividly describe his upbringing, his humour, his superhuman energy, his moods and motivations.

Embellished with a soundtrack containing both classic hits, lesser-known tracks from his formidable album catalogue and rarities, 'Prince And Me' builds into a vibrant portrait of a remarkable human. Andre Cymone, who rarely speaks in detail about his childhood friend, recounts the teenage years when Prince moved in with his family and they shared bunk beds and formed their first band together. The similarly private Susannah Melvoin, from the mid-1980s group The Family - one of Prince's first signings to his Paisley Park label - talks about her personal and professional relationship with him, and the group's original version of 'Nothing Compares 2 U.'

Beverley Knight recalls the thrill of performing with Prince at the famed aftershows during his epic 21-night residency at London's 02, and the even more surreal experience of being flown by him to sing at his private Oscars party in Hollywood.

His former UK publicist Alan Edwards remembers the night he and Prince went clubbing and ended up discussing Egyptology, and Suzanne Vega reveals why the Purple One sent her a hand-written letter about one of her songs. Plus contributions from biographer Matt Thorne, New Power Generation keyboard player Tommy Barbarella and more.
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[FORD]

Oddly enough, it seems to be working in the US. (Odd because BBC/IPlayer content usually IS geo-blocked).

Of course if anybody else is having issues, there's always the option of using the Opera browser with the built in VPN. (set it for a UK based IP, obviously)

[Seshmeister]

I wonder if it's ok because it's radio rather than TV?

Prince's engineer Susan Rogers came across a bit defensive at first which made me go back and look it up and apparently they fell out later when she commented on not liking some of his later stuff.

It's arguable that she engineered his best work but there is a big difference between being a producer and an engineer, this wasn't Mutt Lange and Def Leppard.

[twonabomber]

I was able to download it. Thanks for the link!

[vandeleur]

Working through it

[twonabomber]

Great show! Good to hear some of these songs live again. Especially the stuff from 1999 and earlier. Heavy on the Purple Rain era, eight songs including Erotic City. Pretty much everything but the Beautiful Ones and Darling Nikki. Stokely Williams from Mint Condition was guest vocalist and did most of the falsetto parts. Wendy mentioned Chris Cornell during Sometimes It Snows In April. Our Destiny / Roadhouse Garden will be on the Purple Rain reissue and were well received.

Had some excellent tacos at Zocalo Tequileria on East 4th St (within view of our usual DLR pre-show, Flannery's) and wandered around a bit before the show. Nice night to be downtown, Indians were off and the Cavs are in Boston.


Computer Blue
America
Mountains
Automatic
Take Me With U
Uptown
D.M.S.R.
Our Destiny / Roadhouse Garden
Raspberry Beret
Erotic City
Let's Work
1999
Paisley Park
Controversy / Mutiny
Sometimes It Snows in April (Lisa and Wendy acoustic and piano)
Let's Go Crazy
Delirious
Kiss
When Doves Cry
Purple Rain

Encore:
I Would Die 4 U
Baby I'm a Star

[Kristy]

Looks like Warner Brothers could not wait to rip that dead fucker off.

$35 retail for a compressed remaster and a shitty DVD?

[twonabomber]

Actually Warners is late.

When Prince re-signed with WB in 2014, the Purple Rain remaster was to have been released in time for the 30th anniversary of the original release. Prince supposedly nixed the remaster's release. Prince had been saying he wasn't interested in revisiting the past, only making new music.

In an interview promoting one of the Revolution's reunion shows, bassist BrownMark claims that Prince told him that once he was done with the 3rdEyeGirl phase he'd get the Revolution back together.

[Kristy]

^ ^ ^

Fake news.

[Kristy]

She has limey teeth