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Reply #180 posted 02/03/07 3:15am

oldpurple

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June7 said:

And another...



thank you for my teenage Dreams!!!!!
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Reply #181 posted 02/03/07 11:32am

Handel

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I read that some Japanese pressings have "The Screams of Passion (Extended Mix)" on it! omfg


You read wrong. There was never a Japanese pressing with "The Screams Of Passion" (Extended Mix) on it, just a fan release...

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Reply #182 posted 02/03/07 2:59pm

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Who plays bass with them?
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Reply #183 posted 02/03/07 8:35pm

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"They are putting out a new record and are going out on the road and they will "work the family record the way it should have been worked awhile back."

Uh... okay. Is this a slam at Prince? Um, Prince created The Family. Prince wrote them their one and only hit... so... rolleyes Nice way to announce a "come back". Sounds kinda bitter to me.

...and another thing... why is this front page news? A sticky would have sufficed. confused



Bitter, but maybe justified. Prince allowed no personal expression of his protege's then... The Family was a talented group who had to do Prince's bidding. Prince created them, but could have let them develop & grow, as he did with The Time. No-one knows the real deal but Prince and The Family, though.

Front page news is deserving of this announcement. Many Prince fans have always appreciated The Family. I think it was the funkiest Prince record ever, and it's not entirely because of Prince. Great collaborators there - too bad they didn't get the chance to develop. Maybe now they can do some nice stuff.
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Reply #184 posted 02/03/07 10:45pm

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JudasLChrist said:



Well, the thing about The Family was that they rehearsed the shit out of that band, and Prince had just stopped paying attention to them due to negligence. When it ended, it probably seemed like a waste of alot of hard work. I bet they always regretted not touring. The Family Jamm show having been so sucessful, I bet they are doing this project now merely for the fun of it, it's not like it's gonna make them tons of money or anything. That's a great reason to have a band!



yeah, i understand that. but they weren't even really a band at the time. songs by Prince. performed by Prince (and a few others). vocals re-recorded by Paul, imitating Prince's original lead vocal. an excuse to put out a tester album for Eric Leeds.

The Family's album is fucking fantastic, but it has little or nothing to do with any of the actual members of the group lol


You can almost say the same thing for The Time and Sheila E's debut albums...etc...etc...

I saw The Family perform at The Family Jamm a few years back and they almost stole the f**kin show!!!

Rumour is they are going to visit the UK/Europe... I'll be first in the queue!!!

Welcome back The Family!! music
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Reply #185 posted 02/04/07 7:12am

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As before, this is very exciting news. I'm glad it's happening.

I'm very interested in the information, but my "Friends" requests to the official MySpace page keep going missing.

I'm positive that it must be a mistake of some kind, as that's not the kind of thing an "official" site would do; just not good business or PR sense. JessE, when you have a sec can you let me know what's going on?

Thanks
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Reply #186 posted 02/04/07 7:17am

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psychodelicide said:

SnidelyWhiplash said:

kidddddinnngggg ... altho ... thats the first thing i thought of ... i mean ... this dude "quits " the band ... never really does anything else ... how is he surviving ... lol

as far as "promotion" ... i remember working in a small radio station back then and i thought it was promoted well ... i remember playin "screams of passion " a few times .... of course i thought it ... "eh" for Prince ... but hey what do i know .... wink


giggle Not sure what Paul did after quitting the Family. I know he released several solo albums, but I don't think they sold very well, unfortunately.


Seriously, some of you laugh at this, but being Donny Osmond's musical director has likely been a really good gig for Paul. He played bass in the house band on the Donny & Marie talk show in the 90s, and I believe he's been touring with Donny ever since. Donny has quite a following, and the Osmonds are HUGE in the UK. I'm sure Paul is doing just fine.

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Reply #187 posted 02/04/07 3:47pm

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Paul needs to re-release his first solo album, and include the extended mix of "Intimacy". Now that is a jam.
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Reply #188 posted 02/05/07 10:59am

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I thought St.Paul sued Prince for breaking his career years ago. And now all of a sudden they are friends again? If so, there is definitly hope for all of the wars in the world. Love thy enemy.... cool

But seriously, I adored the Family's record and played it over and over again. Even before Skinhead O'Conner wrecked the most beautiful song in the world that's on it. The original sounds so much better...
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Reply #189 posted 02/05/07 1:09pm

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newdawn said:

I thought St.Paul sued Prince for breaking his career years ago. And now all of a sudden they are friends again? If so, there is definitly hope for all of the wars in the world. Love thy enemy.... cool


Hmm. I'm wondering where you got this idea.

I'm not saying that St. Paul and Prince aren't friendly again -- I have no way of knowing -- but I certainly haven't seen anything in this thread that tells me they are or really says anything at all about Prince's role in this, if any.
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Reply #190 posted 02/05/07 8:16pm

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Alliasan said:

newdawn said:

I thought St.Paul sued Prince for breaking his career years ago. And now all of a sudden they are friends again? If so, there is definitly hope for all of the wars in the world. Love thy enemy.... cool


Hmm. I'm wondering where you got this idea.

I'm not saying that St. Paul and Prince aren't friendly again -- I have no way of knowing -- but I certainly haven't seen anything in this thread that tells me they are or really says anything at all about Prince's role in this, if any.

I hate to contribute to rumours, but if anything I thought Prince sued Paul for breach of contract when he "quit", not the other way around.

At any rate, I would guess they are on good terms now....but i really don't know.

Paul seems like a really great, nice and real guy so I doubt he harbours bad feelings. Similarly, Prince seems to be getting over stuff with past associates as well (e.g. W&L).
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Reply #191 posted 02/07/07 10:34am

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Who plays bass with them?



Jellybean is a great bass player....
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Reply #192 posted 02/07/07 11:41am

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IDEJJD said:

calldapplwondery83 said:

Who plays bass with them?



Jellybean is a great bass player....


At the Family Jamm, Sheila's bassist sat in with them and Miko Weaver played guitar. I think some of the other keyboard players from Sheila's house band also supported them (as a keyboard player, I know it's hard to hold down all those parts by yourself!!!) Actually, if you watched closely, Sheila snuck on stage and played even more keys during Mutiny..... she later told me it was so funky she couldn't control herself! I dont blame her! But most of us did't know she played keys!

Actually, during one song Eric played keys a little too when he wasn't blowing (I think it was Screams of Passion).

In the post from Paul's manager above, I think he mentions that some of Sheila's peeps will be rounding at the backing band.

You know during the famous one night only Family concert back in 1985, Wendy and Susannah's brother Jonathan (RIP), and another guy whom I can't remember played keys (in addiiton to Paul playing a little too on a couple songs)....not sure who played guitar back then (possibly Miko).

Jellybean will most surely play drums.... I think Paul's favorite instrument is bass, although he plays guitar and keys too.

In his solo DVD which you can buy from his website, he actually plays bass and sings the whole time.... even during Jungle Love!!! Very impressive!
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Reply #193 posted 02/12/07 2:58am

groovyiau

a "sign of the times" in "family style"
mini movie... WOW!!!

a DVD plus 2 CD pajama box set.... WOW!!!!
with original album and 5 or 11 new songs.... WOW!!!!

WOW!!!!



and a CAT... WOW!!!! WOW!!!! WOW!!!! Yeah YEAAH.....



Please dont make us settle for a bodgee
5 minute mobile phone recording on youtube....

please.....

lol lol lol lol
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Reply #194 posted 02/13/07 7:38am

obsessed

^^^^^ I could go for "said" plan.... lol lol lol

Yes please, no mobile phone recordings....

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Reply #195 posted 03/11/07 4:32pm

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oldpurple said:

June7 said:

And another...



thank you for my teenage Dreams!!!!!


Nice purple Chia avatar! I like Zafaras myself.
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Reply #196 posted 03/14/07 2:37pm

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Alliasan said:

sosgemini said:

i hope my comments didn't spearhead the "defend the bangles" movement within this thread...

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im fully aware that prince did not create, manage or propel the bangels. he just gave them their first hit.


Thanks, SOS. Just in case we didn't get enough Hoffs/Melvoin confusion in the mid-80s . . .


I know! I just had to look back through all the pages of this thread to see what confused soul was talking about Susanna Hoffs! lol
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