TRICKY

Never paid a lot of attention to this Time B side back in the days.Just pulled it out and noticed thats it's basically Irresistible Bitch with the drums amped up loud....good shit.....

Yes it is...

Actually no it's Cloreen Baconskin

^Gotta pull out Crystal Ball again....^

love the synth on that track

and when prince is chomping on chicken near the end

Yes it is...good shit !

The really ironic thing is it's really a Prince track credited to the Time. Morris does the drums but Prince is on vocals.

I think I've posted this before but here it goes again:

- Tricky (basic tracks)(1 February 1984)*
From my notes, the song was recorded at Sunset Sound on Wednesday February 1, 1984 (drifting into the morning of Feb. 2), during a rare break from working on the Apollonia 6 album. The rumor was that they were returning from a George Clinton concert, but the session started at 7 PM, so that is doubtful. For 6 hours, Prince, Morris (I think you can also hear Jerome) and a few others goofed off in the studio. Prince was playing the bass (supposedly while wearing gloves) and keyboards, while Morris played the drums. They were supposedly singing about George Clinton, but since both of them respected his music, I don’t know why, other than they were still young and cocky. It is obvious that Prince and Morris were having fun, so some of the tension they had during the recording of ICE CREAM CASTLE was behind them. That album was finished (having been mixed on Jan. 18/19th).

The funny thing is they were using studio 2, so they had to take a microphone down thru the main recording area, down the hall to the bathroom where the toilet flush had to be cued for the end of the song.

A side note about this session: this was the last “new” recording of “The Time” for years. Technically, there was additional work done on the album in early May (a few tracks were edited down), but for the most part, it would be Morris’ last time recording with Prince until they got together for the unreleased Time album “Corporate World”.

These notes are from the book Prince: The Studio Sessions