RIP Prince

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  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

    ^^^
    Ok, after the above post I am for sure not out of line for posting this article.
    http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/when-fans-cry-can-you-mourn-someone-you-ve-never-met-1.2871082

    That may be one of the dumbest articles I've ever read. Um, how many people mourned when JFK was killed? Did they know him? Or the thousands of people who died on 9/11? I didn't know anyone personally who died on 9/11, but I mourned. What about John Lennon?

    I was one of those people who posted the video of Prince doing While My Guitar Gently Weeps and I played the video over and over. And yes, I cried. And mourned for the loss of an amazing talent.

  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Nothing compares to U two :)

    We blasted that Guitar version (yet again!) earlier this evening and yup, tears. Grief. And it was OK.

    (should've seen me - or not - when Carlin died...I was a fucking mess)
  • OMGkatwoman
    OMGkatwoman Posts: 3,230
    edited April 2016
    northerndragon said:

    PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

    hedonist said:

    InHiding80 said:

    PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

    ^^^
    Ok, after the above post I am for sure not out of line for posting this article.
    http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/when-fans-cry-can-you-mourn-someone-you-ve-never-met-1.2871082

    You're out of line on anything political or not.
    I just hope the intent in sharing this was sincere though who knows.

    Otherwise, it's kind of a fucked up thing to question, or post.
    Of course it's sincere Hedo! http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/why-it-s-so-hard-to-find-prince-s-original-music-online-1.2870601?google_editors_picks=true
    The Minnesota-born artist was always irritated with the traditional music industry, and hated the fact that even if an artist made millions with a new album, the record label that funded it would always retain full ownership rights.
    Monkeywrench.....
    I posted this when you pulled this crap in the Philly thread and apparently you need to read it again. Give learning some compassion a try, it might not be as bad as you think. Even if this didn't affect you it did effect millions world wide. Let those people process in peace.

    Thinking about how we mourn artists we've never met. We don't cry because we knew them, we cry because they helped us know ourselves.

    — Juliette (@ElusiveJ) January 11, 2016

    I had the privilege of meeting and knowing Prince. I will share how this came about- My ex and I are musicians, me by hobby, my ex by career as he went on and has been a guest lead guitarist for David Lee Roth, Big Brother and The Holding Company and others... Many years ago we had gigs in the warehouse district of Mpls as well as Prince, that's when we first met. Later after Prince hit it big,we needed a better soundboard but money was tight for me and hubby, so Prince being the Prince of a person that he was,let us buy his from Paisley and make small monthly payments on it. It took us three yrs, but we paid him. I cry because I knew him....
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Very cool, Ms. katwoman. I've read so many good things about his and his family's actions. Talent completely aside, seemed like a sweet and stand-up guy.
  • OMGkatwoman
    OMGkatwoman Posts: 3,230
    Thank You Hedonist, Prince as well as his family are very sweet,nice people
  • OMGkatwoman
    OMGkatwoman Posts: 3,230
    edited April 2016
    . Stupid Iphone, I'm going to bed, it's been a long day... Good Nite All


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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    I'm sorry to hear of your personal loss katwoman, it is very apparent that Prince was proud of his craft and wanted very much to share that talent to enable others to also share their art with others.
    You are lucky to have known a beautiful soul.
    May his love fill the holes left in your heart.
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • TL170678
    TL170678 Near Louisville, in Indiana, closer to Kentucky Posts: 422
    I didn`t really know much about Prince until I became a Ween fan, and it made me dig into his stuff... He laughed at the word "genre" I think....Dude was just an Artist.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuHoQ5yYlbI

    And of course this gem
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlDY7TOSHio
  • OMGkatwoman
    OMGkatwoman Posts: 3,230
    edited April 2016
    RKCNDY said:

    I'm sorry to hear of your personal loss katwoman, it is very apparent that Prince was proud of his craft and wanted very much to share that talent to enable others to also share their art with others.
    You are lucky to have known a beautiful soul.
    May his love fill the holes left in your heart.

    Thank you Rkcndy- I switched to my laptop, ya know when somebody dies and you're so tired from the day yet you can't sleep feeling. I will share that as I stood at the gate at Paisley today, frozen, with tears in my eyes, the sweetest thing happened- Prince's brother-in-law came tearing up to the gate in his car, blasted up his car stereo with Prince playing ,jumped out and said with a smile - girl;today, we dance and then he danced at the gate, it made me smile as I snapped a photo. I will post the photo tomorrow, caught him in mid twirl...LOL
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  • edwho
    edwho Posts: 811
    PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

    ^^^
    Ok, after the above post I am for sure not out of line for posting this article.
    http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/when-fans-cry-can-you-mourn-someone-you-ve-never-met-1.2871082

    You're a real treasure...in someone else’s sky

    Prince’s music touched my soul. Brought out emotions nothing else could, I morn his death with no shame.

    Three Fish

    July 1996 San Francisco

    June 1999 Chicago

  • edwho
    edwho Posts: 811
    Controversy introduction :naughty:

    Captured by Purple Rain, but didn’t get to see any of those performances :bawling:

    Finally got my chance in 1988 :rock_on:
    photo prince oakland 88aa_zpsjb7x3h9y.jpg
    And a special bonus aftershow :lucky:
    photo prince warfield 88aa_zpspyziwn4u.jpg

    The aftershow was very laidback. Prince performed with his band that included the lovely Sheila E. on drums. Sheila E.’s father Pete Escovedo and her three brothers also performed. They played newer Prince material and covers.

    At one point Prince was at the drum kit while Sheila E. her father and three brother where center stage in a drum line all going at it together. Drum percussion mind melt. I can’t really describe the sound and feeling. It was just so cool, a massive drum explosion.

    It was pretty special to see. Bootleg is out there.

    Sheila got a beat for me?

    Three Fish

    July 1996 San Francisco

    June 1999 Chicago

  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    OMGkatwoman said:

    RKCNDY said:

    I'm sorry to hear of your personal loss katwoman, it is very apparent that Prince was proud of his craft and wanted very much to share that talent to enable others to also share their art with others.
    You are lucky to have known a beautiful soul.
    May his love fill the holes left in your heart.

    Thank you Rkcndy- I switched to my laptop, ya know when somebody dies and you're so tired from the day yet you can't sleep feeling. I will share that as I stood at the gate at Paisley today, frozen, with tears in my eyes, the sweetest thing happened- Prince's brother-in-law came tearing up to the gate in his car, blasted up his car stereo with Prince playing ,jumped out and said with a smile - girl;today, we dance and then he danced at the gate, it made me smile as I snapped a photo. I will post the photo tomorrow, caught him in mid twirl...LOL
    I can't wait to see the photo!

    I know earlier I said I wasn't a fan, I want to clarify that it's not that I didn't like his music, it was more of I wasn't exposed to the vast collection he created. Of course I heard the radio hits, but none of my friends had his albums...I feel like I missed out.
    I'm watching the SNL special, it's not too late to start listening to everything...I have a lot to catch up on.
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,236
    OMGkatwoman said:

    northerndragon said:

    PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

    hedonist said:

    InHiding80 said:

    PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

    ^^^
    Ok, after the above post I am for sure not out of line for posting this article.
    http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/when-fans-cry-can-you-mourn-someone-you-ve-never-met-1.2871082

    You're out of line on anything political or not.
    I just hope the intent in sharing this was sincere though who knows.

    Otherwise, it's kind of a fucked up thing to question, or post.
    Of course it's sincere Hedo! http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/why-it-s-so-hard-to-find-prince-s-original-music-online-1.2870601?google_editors_picks=true
    The Minnesota-born artist was always irritated with the traditional music industry, and hated the fact that even if an artist made millions with a new album, the record label that funded it would always retain full ownership rights.
    Monkeywrench.....
    I posted this when you pulled this crap in the Philly thread and apparently you need to read it again. Give learning some compassion a try, it might not be as bad as you think. Even if this didn't affect you it did effect millions world wide. Let those people process in peace.

    Thinking about how we mourn artists we've never met. We don't cry because we knew them, we cry because they helped us know ourselves.

    — Juliette (@ElusiveJ) January 11, 2016
    I had the privilege of meeting and knowing Prince. I will share how this came about- My ex and I are musicians, me by hobby, my ex by career as he went on and has been a guest lead guitarist for David Lee Roth, Big Brother and The Holding Company and others... Many years ago we had gigs in the warehouse district of Mpls as well as Prince, that's when we first met. Later after Prince hit it big,we needed a better soundboard but money was tight for me and hubby, so Prince being the Prince of a person that he was,let us buy his from Paisley and make small monthly payments on it. It took us three yrs, but we paid him. I cry because I knew him....

    Beautiful story OMGkatwomam, that must have so nice to have met him and then knowing the way you did.

    Here The Boss shows his respect in opening his show in Brooklyn with Prince's classic PR.....

    http://youtu.be/KkOxeKA2WNE

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • edwho
    edwho Posts: 811
    Something different, Prince performing in daylight with Tamar and Sheila E. 2006

    https://youtu.be/JDGZUzGxmR4

    Three Fish

    July 1996 San Francisco

    June 1999 Chicago

  • edwho
    edwho Posts: 811
    another from 2006
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D15woX5EqLk

    Three Fish

    July 1996 San Francisco

    June 1999 Chicago

  • InHiding80
    InHiding80 Upland,CA Posts: 7,623
    northerndragon said:

    PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

    hedonist said:

    InHiding80 said:

    PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

    ^^^
    Ok, after the above post I am for sure not out of line for posting this article.
    http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/when-fans-cry-can-you-mourn-someone-you-ve-never-met-1.2871082

    You're out of line on anything political or not.
    I just hope the intent in sharing this was sincere though who knows.

    Otherwise, it's kind of a fucked up thing to question, or post.
    Of course it's sincere Hedo! http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/why-it-s-so-hard-to-find-prince-s-original-music-online-1.2870601?google_editors_picks=true
    The Minnesota-born artist was always irritated with the traditional music industry, and hated the fact that even if an artist made millions with a new album, the record label that funded it would always retain full ownership rights.
    Monkeywrench.....
    I posted this when you pulled this crap in the Bowie thread and apparently you need to read it again. Give learning some compassion a try, it might not be as bad as you think. Even if this didn't affect you it did effect millions world wide. Let those people process in peace.

    Thinking about how we mourn artists we've never met. We don't cry because we knew them, we cry because they helped us know ourselves.

    — Juliette (@ElusiveJ) January 11, 2016

    Pjfanwillneverleave needs to shut up, already. Damn!
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Oh wow. Sorry if this has already been posted. But again - oh fucking wow!

    Goddamn, what a beauty of a man, and musician.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPwm6YHmlFU
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    And, again. Floored...hardwood style.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsdR8eycRys
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
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    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • OMGkatwoman
    OMGkatwoman Posts: 3,230
    edited April 2016
    https://yahoo.com/celebrity/exclusive-sheila-e-opens-princes-053000940.html
    US Bank Stadium being looked at
    Post edited by OMGkatwoman on

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