He was credited as the guitar player on the album and IIRC he also was in the short-lived live version of the band, so how come he wasn't officially a member?

This band was just impossible without a guitar player anyway, so i just don't get it... Prince can't have just "forgotten" to include a guitar player in the line-up...

Somebody knows the story?

databank said:

I don't know either, he was originally a 'sessions' guitarist, Maybe it's because he was still playing for Sheila E since Glamorous Life. Mico would have been a perfect addition for the Family

You might be forgetting that Miko was part of The Revolution around that time, or was getting ready to be such.

There were a lot of the Revolution on albums for The Time, Apollonia 6, Jill Jones, etc, but that doesn't mean they should have been listed as part of the band/group.

Miko was just a session guitarist. Prince also had a specific idea for The Family. We saw Paul and Susannah as either a brother and sister, or as lovers. It was an image thing, much like The Time were musical gangsters.

Granted, they could have used a guitarist, but Paul played guitar, and bass. I forget who all were part of the only concert they had at First Avenue.

ernestsewell said:

Wrong again motherfucker. Eric Leeds played bass in The Family. Do your research.

squirrelgrease said:

LOL I meant in general, muthafukka!

ernestsewell said:

ernestsewell said:

Miko was only brought into the Revolution after The Family had folded. When St. Paul left, Prince incorporated most of the remaining members of the Family (Miko, Eric, Jerome, and to a lesser extent, Susannah) into the Revolution. If The Family had continued, the expanded Revolution might never have come to be.

duggalolly said:

Well Miko and Jerome were on the Purple Rain tour.