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The Original 7ven (Formerly known as The Time) - Club NOKIA - Los Angeles Music for adventurous listeners tA  Tribal Records"Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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Wrong forum section Nick Ashford was someone I greatly admired, had the honor of knowing, and was the real-life inspiration for Cowboy Curtis' hair. RIP Nick. - Pee Wee Herman | |
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You can count...
Music for adventurous listeners "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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I beg to differ. Prince is not related to the band at this point.
Music for adventurous listeners "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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I seriously wish I could go to this gig. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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I hope they do more... 
I just saw Morris Day and the time sunday in Kansas City Mo but it wasn't the orignal seven. Monty Moir was the only original member besides Morris Day, bu tit was still a good show. Morris was really funny also. | |
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This article says they wanna do a show here in NYC in October too
t's time -- and perhaps over-time -- for some new music from The Time. It's coming in October, but the group will no longer be using that name.
"Condensate," which drops Oct. 18 on Time Life's SRR Records imprint and is the band's first new release since "Pandemonium" in 1990, marks the debut of the Original 7ven, the new moniker for the funky septet adopted after Prince -- who established The Time in 1981 -- denied rights to the original group name. Rather than making a fight out of it, however, the group members decided to view it as an opportunity for a fresh start.
"We took it as a chance to be free and liberated...and that was sort of the approach we took to making the album," keyboardist and co-producer Jimmy Jam (nee Harris) tells Billboard.com. "We sound like ourselves because we have a sound, for sure, when we get together, but we certainly didn't have the constraints of the name, and therefore we felt we could do music that represented where we're at right now. So we just kind of embraced it rather than getting all involved in legal stuff."
Guitarist Jesse Johnson, meanwhile, says that taking on a new name also ends any confusion between The Time -- the original lineup that includes Jam and Terry Lewis, who were kicked out of the band by Prince in 1983 -- and Morris Day & the Time, which tours regularly and includes Johnson, hype man Jerome Benton, keyboardist Monte Moir and drummer Jellybean Johnson. "It got confusing for people -- there's not enough of a distinction between the two acts to make a different," Johnson explains. "I think (the change) is more of a good thing than a bad thing. We are the original guys, so people will know who we are when they hear the Original 7ven."
The Time Reunite For Tour, New Album
The group also refers to itself, slyly, as "the band formerly known as The Time," and Jam adds that "the fans can call us The Time if they'd like to. We don't have any problems with that. We don't mind that at all. We can't call ourselves that, but the fans are certainly welcome to."
Though some of the material on "Condensate" dates back to the 90s -- particularly the song "Go Home To Your Man," according to Lewis -- most of the album's 14 songs have been developed during the past three years, since the group began working in earnest on the album following its performance at the 2008 Grammy Awards ceremony. Jam says the Original 7ven wound up working on about two dozen songs and was initially ready to hack the list down to 10 for the album, but he credits Johnson with lobbying successfully for the additional tracks.
"We got down to 14 and said, 'Let's cut two more out,' " Jam recalls, "and (Johnson) just said, 'Man, the fans have been waiting 20 years for us to do a new record. Why not give 'em 14 songs. They deserve it. What's the big deal?' And we all said, 'Y'know what Jess -- you're right.' " Johnson adds that, "the thing that makes me happiest is it's a reinvention instead of the same old same old. I never wanted to be part of that. I wanted to make sure every song on ('Condensate') was something built from the ground up, now, and not something that was pulled out of the closet from years ago. I didn't want to be part of that."
Jam is confident that the remaining songs "will see the light of day" in the future. But with the album done, the Original 7ven is gearing up to get into promotion mode. A video has been shot for the first single, "#Trendin," and the group is lining up TV appearances as well as special showings for a documentary that was filmed during the making of the album, which will also be part of a deluxe package of "Condensate." The Original 7ven will perform Oct. 19 show at Club Nokia in Los Angeles and hopes to play a similar small venue date during October in New York City.
Meanwhile, Jam says, the group will "focus most of our touring towards next year. We're planning on hopefully doing a ton of festival things. There's some interesting possibilities for bills with people that are kind of intriguing -- I can't say names yet, but where we would basically co-headline or even open for somebody. For us it's pretty wide open."
Jam adds that bringing out a new album in 2011 is something of an adventure for the group. "You have to remember that when we released our last record, there was no such thing as Facebook or Twitter or iTunes or any of those types of things," he notes. "The whole industry was totally different. All the record companies were still there. It was all defined. It's a whole different environment as far as releasing records, but we haven't changed the way we make music...We really tried to make it like an album. Those people who want to listen to something from start to finish, I think this'll really satisfy them. And then the people who want to cherry-pick song by song, that's fine, too. But we really tried to make an album that would hold together and was sequenced and would move the way we wanted it to, and hopefully people will enjoy that." The full track list for "Condensate" includes: | |
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I'm sick and tired of the Prince fans being sick and tired of the Prince fans that are sick and tired! | |
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You know, the more I see them with that name, the less disappointed I am. They're on the move at least.
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interesting  .....
" I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may,- light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful." - John Constable | |
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Glad to know there is a presale now. I will be there  will ALWAYS think of  like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that wasn't of this earth, would not have been that surprised. R.I.P. | |
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Damn Bean put on some weight. Don't laugh at my funk
This funk is a serious joint | |
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I feel all will go well for them and I cant wait to see them again. D.C. will welcome their talent!!! | |
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I wanna go! | |
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LMAO I love Prince, he snatched that name back.
Have the Time ever done their own music or has Prince been the mastermind behind the scenes?? Stevie Wonder = EARTH
Prince = WIND Chaka Khan = FIRE Sade = WATER the ELEMENTS of MUSIC | |
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Exactly!
No lawsuits, no foul. | |
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The Original 7ven is THE most perfect new name for the band.I'm ALL over that. Thanks for posting. I didn't go to the Morris Day show over the summer with the fake Jerome. So very glad I waited. Yassssssss! | |
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It's going down!
this will be there 1st with no prince involvment thats y they are not the time anymore everything is based on them now.everybody say how talented they are and how they dont have 2 use tracks from the vault that its all brand new lets see what its gonna do. i wanna hear some of monte moir prductions he does killer ballads. i hope has a few songs on the album i wish them well and hope they do what they set out 2 do.i really dont think prince gives a rat ass about wheter they personally use the name i think its his trying 2 protect them from having warner brothers get paid off there work. | |
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The name thing is probably related to what happens in the next couple of years when he fights to get back ownership of his past catalog, The Time music included. The band themselves are moving on. How would he "snatch" something that was his creation to begin with? The band is talented enough to carry on without it. | |
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It's petty of Prince to deny the use of the name by his best frenemies. There's money to be made, and he deserves to make it, from the use of the name. But it's found money on his part, because he can't really use it on his own. Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016
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Did he really? | |
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Bring it on fellas. | |
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Yes, some of the tracks on Pandemonium had no Prince involvement at all:
Blondie Skillet It's Your World Sometimes I Get Lonely | |
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I will forever love and miss you...my sweet Prince. | |
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Exactly!
U hit it right on the nose. That is what is going on. People here are always so quick to condemn Prince. When they have no idea what the hell is going on. They will be eating there words in a few years. The Time is all part of Prince's musical catalog & masters. [Edited 9/29/11 9:31am] will ALWAYS think of like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that wasn't of this earth, would not have been that surprised. R.I.P. | |
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i love the time and all of its members i think jesse is like the coolest cat in the group and i have always thought of him as the princely one.yet i listen 2 the stuff people say on here and i think nobody is denying these are some talented guys in every sense of the word but denying who prince is 2 the time is like telling michael jackson he has nothing 2 do with the sucess of the jacksons.i always wondered what these guys would be like on there own and now we about 2 find out and im kinda excited about it | |
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Thank you soooooo much.
Used the code, and I'm there!
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I love "Sometimes I Get Lonely" "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." | |
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