He went looking for the ladder.

And found a rope.

who dat?

chris dawson was a young man who ran a prince fan club and also had a great prince shop in otley leeds selling loads of rare prince goodies if u loved prince this shop was like a perv walking in2 a sex shop.

never heard of him.

Chris ran a record store (The Revolution) and unofficial fan club/fanzine (Crystal Ball) in the late 80's. Like Eileen Murton of the Controversy fan club he had (limited) access to Prince, the ability to offer priority seating to fans etc. Prince seemed to move on after a while, setting up camp with the Controversy team before dumping them and starting the NPG Magazine and later the NPGMC. Both Chris and Eileen later expressed remorse at getting involved with Prince for both personal & business reasons.

I know Chris still owes me a refund for a cancelled event... it's so long ago (circa 1990) that I can't fully remember what the event was for but I remember it got lots of bad press in the music weeklies, maybe even Trading Standards were involved as it was "possibly" implied that Prince was gonna be at the event. He seemed to disappear from the P fan community after that, possibly after getting his fingers burned or maybe he was bankrupted by the fiasco??? I don't personally think he was a bad guy, probably just a fan with more enthusiasm than experience. It's flattering if you're a fan and Prince aligns himself with your project but maybe terribly hurtful when he later bites your hand by closing down your project via a letter from his legal reprasentatives.

Apologies for any inaccuracies, please feel free to correct me on the facts. I'm relying on fading memories of events that happened over 20 years ago.

pacey68 said:

Chris ran a record store (The Revolution) and unofficial fan club/fanzine (Crystal Ball) in the late 80's. Like Eileen Murton of the Controversy fan club he had (limited) access to Prince, the ability to offer priority seating to fans etc. Prince seemed to move on after a while, setting up camp with the Controversy team before dumping them and starting the NPG Magazine and later the NPGMC. Both Chris and Eileen later expressed remorse at getting involved with Prince for both personal & business reasons.

I know Chris still owes me a refund for a cancelled event... it's so long ago (circa 1990) that I can't fully remember what the event was for but I remember it got lots of bad press in the music weeklies, maybe even Trading Standards were involved as it was "possibly" implied that Prince was gonna be at the event. He seemed to disappear from the P fan community after that, possibly after getting his fingers burned or maybe he was bankrupted by the fiasco??? I don't personally think he was a bad guy, probably just a fan with more enthusiasm than experience. It's flattering if you're a fan and Prince aligns himself with your project but maybe terribly hurtful when he later bites your hand by closing down your project via a letter from his legal reprasentatives.

Apologies for any inaccuracies, please feel free to correct me on the facts. I'm relying on fading memories of events that happened over 20 years ago.

The sad part is, you could easily replace business associate/record store/fanzine with wife and you still have how Prince handles situations.

sosgemini said:

pacey68 said:

Chris ran a record store (The Revolution) and unofficial fan club/fanzine (Crystal Ball) in the late 80's. Like Eileen Murton of the Controversy fan club he had (limited) access to Prince, the ability to offer priority seating to fans etc. Prince seemed to move on after a while, setting up camp with the Controversy team before dumping them and starting the NPG Magazine and later the NPGMC. Both Chris and Eileen later expressed remorse at getting involved with Prince for both personal & business reasons.

I know Chris still owes me a refund for a cancelled event... it's so long ago (circa 1990) that I can't fully remember what the event was for but I remember it got lots of bad press in the music weeklies, maybe even Trading Standards were involved as it was "possibly" implied that Prince was gonna be at the event. He seemed to disappear from the P fan community after that, possibly after getting his fingers burned or maybe he was bankrupted by the fiasco??? I don't personally think he was a bad guy, probably just a fan with more enthusiasm than experience. It's flattering if you're a fan and Prince aligns himself with your project but maybe terribly hurtful when he later bites your hand by closing down your project via a letter from his legal reprasentatives.

Apologies for any inaccuracies, please feel free to correct me on the facts. I'm relying on fading memories of events that happened over 20 years ago.

The sad part is, you could easily replace business associate/record store/fanzine with wife and you still have how Prince handles situations.

thanx 4 ur comments,eye didnt buy a ticket eye knew prince wouldnt show!but eye did send chris 8 coppies of the black album in peices which eye do regret now 20 years on.