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Location: south east Michigan | Bruce Lee was in pretty good shape, too. |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | Sheila E and Prince's Family were out talking with the People around Paisley Park, hugging people and wanting to hear people's "Prince Stories". They were handing out purple boxes with a T-Shirt and posters/booklets/cd's, etc in them to people too. They have been very gracious and public with the Fans. It is amazing to see the range of ages that are there, from very young, to very vintage (I am being nice to the Old #arts like me).
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Location: Always beautiful canyon country of Utah | Nancy did you drive up to Paisley Park to see the gathering?? |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | No, I don't like city driving, and that was (and still is) a Madhouse.
And while allot of people like to see what is going on, and share their grief, I prefer mine private.
I was a fan, but not a Super Fan. The "All Night Prince Dance Parties" at First Avenue would have been fun though - they blocked off about 6 blocks, and the streets were filled with people dancing to Prince until 7 in the morning for 3 nights in a row. Thousands and Thousands of people. And get this, NOT ONE arrest or fight, that we heard of... Everyone danced, had fun, and went home very peacefully. I was very impressed with that happening now days.
To keep this guitar related, they interviewed the Luthier that built Prince's White and Gold guitars here. He made 3 of them for him, and they were made to Prince's precise instructions. And the Instructor from the Minnesota Dance Company that taught him and the Revolution to dance was interesting too - he said that he had never seen anyone work harder at getting something right, and that he and the band had just shown up, and said that they needed to learn how to dance (that had to have been a jaw-dropper for a Ballet Master!) |
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Location: Texas | Nancy, along the same topic, I came across this video of the luthier who made the guitar that Prince used in his last concert... I imagine that he was pretty picky (sorry) on the specs. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | One of our local singer-songwriters, Gayle Chapman, toured with Prince during the early years and had nice things to say about him. I only knew her as a gray haired local talent. It was interesting to see pictures of her as part of the Revolution. She's aged well, but Prince didn't seem to. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Was watching a documentary today on DirecTV... called Slave Trade or something like that. What I found interesting was in '95 he told his bandmates in an off-the-cuff way that all the hoopla with Warner Bros didn't matter because if this internet thing takes off the records industry will be dead and the people will be sharing music between computers and artists will be selling directly to the people and even giving away their music if they want. They (his bandmates) thought the train finally left the station with him standing on the platform. But.. here we are, and he called it. Guess he wasn't as nuts as they thought.
While the documentary kinda drags on... it kinda has to. He did so much and fought so hard for the art, and pioneered much of what we take for granted. The term "intellectual property" didn't really have meaning in music industry until he made it have meaning.
My favorite part of the doc is where they talk about "Most Beautiful Girl in the World" which Warner Bros let him release on his own label. They allowed it with the intention of teaching him a lesson that he needed them and he would loose all his money and come crawling back. Basically giving him enough rope to hang himself.... The Result... his first #1 in the UK and it was #1 in several other countries and #3 in the US. Oops. While I'm sure other artists about that time were starting to do their own releases of sorts.. This was pretty high profile and pretty much the proof-of-concept of what is commonplace today.
The more I dig into old interviews and press, the more of his genius comes out. In many ways, he was like a Zappa 2.0 Just amazing. |
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Location: undisclosed | Frank definitely was firing on extra cylinders down there in Joe's Garage. His classical orchestrations are almost past what a symphony can play as one example. |
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Location: Jet City | Cavalier - 2016-04-27 7:32 AM Frank definitely was firing on extra cylinders down there in Joe's Garage. His classical orchestrations are almost past what a symphony can play as one example. Nobody plays the bicycle like Frank |
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