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Thread started 12/02/17 11:49am

rogifan

Morris Hayes discusses NPG Letterman performamce

Nice interview. He talks about the infamous Letterman performamce. :)

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Reply #1 posted 12/02/17 12:28pm

poppys

rogifan said:

Nice interview. He talks about the infamous Letterman performamce. smile http://amp.brisbanetimes....zrl79.html

Wow that's great, rogifan. Now I have to find a way to use the word murderized in a sentence! cool

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Reply #2 posted 12/02/17 5:40pm

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that's probably my least favorite Morris Hayes interview. I don't think he is lying or out of line. NOthing like that. But I get the feeling that the interviewer cherry-picked all the comments revealing this taskmaster, musical badass side of Prince. All you get from that interview is that Prince was a hardass who happened to be extremely talented. Most Morris interviews have more balance than that. They reveal that side but they also reveal that Prince became more humble as he got older and Prince's funny side. I get the feeling that all the interviewer either asked or focused on were Prince's early days with Morris and his tougher side (I am even the title is harsh). I hope and assume that his stomach didn't continue to hurt when he saw Prince's car in the driveway 10-20 years later--that he proved his merit and was used to Prince by that point.

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Reply #3 posted 12/02/17 5:56pm

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purplerabbithole said:

that's probably my least favorite Morris Hayes interview. I don't think he is lying or out of line. NOthing like that. But I get the feeling that the interviewer cherry-picked all the comments revealing this taskmaster, musical badass side of Prince. All you get from that interview is that Prince was a hardass who happened to be extremely talented. Most Morris interviews have more balance than that. They reveal that side but they also reveal that Prince became more humble as he got older and Prince's funny side. I get the feeling that all the interviewer either asked or focused on were Prince's early days with Morris. I hope and assume that his stomach didn't continue to hurt when he saw Prince's car in the driveway 10-20 years later.






Iโ€™d love to get more insight from those who worked with him over multiple decades how he change and how working with him changed over time. The Prince of the 2000s was vastly different than the Prince of the 90s but no interviewer has really gotten anyone to talk about this. Afshin Shahidi alludes to it a bit when he talks about Prince maturing, but Iโ€™d love to hear more.
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Reply #4 posted 12/02/17 6:22pm

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MOrris has talked about Prince mellowing however. The GQ article from last year with antecdotes about Prince, a few radio interviews. This recent writer framed the whole interview or article around Prince being a hardass and Morris being some kind of loyal, overworked minion. Annoying to me that the portrait was so one dimensional. If I hadn't read or heard other Morris interviews, I would just think that MOrris thought Prince was just a talented asshole.

Also, Kim talked about him mellowing. Prince was still Prince, but I recently read the facebook of one of his assistants. She said once he saw her breakdown in tears because of the stress of the job. His reaction was to give her a tissue and they talked for a while until she was calm. She said he was very compassionate at that point.

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Reply #5 posted 12/02/17 6:27pm

poppys

Some of that is just the way musicians talk.

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Reply #6 posted 12/02/17 6:29pm

purplerabbitho
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Good point. A bit hyperbolic. Drill sergeants are much tougher than any musical director could be. Drill Sergents have guns and can made you do hard physical labor...LOL.

poppys said:

Some of that is just the way musicians talk.

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Reply #7 posted 12/02/17 6:46pm

purplerabbitho
le

By the way, Letterman's jokes weren't that bad. I am not sure why he disliked Letterman for doing those jokes when Rosie O'Donnell did the same thing and they got along fine. (mild teasing from him about it but much lighter tone). I know men like Letterman. I grew up in the same place. Stoic midwestern humor can seem arrogant but it is ultimately harmless.

On the other hand, Prince's points about Clive were on the mark even though I can't imagine Prince standing on a table. When it came to music, sex, and business, Prince was almost always fearless. Away from those three things, I am not so sure he could be described as fearless.


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Reply #8 posted 12/02/17 7:48pm

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I knew he was irked by Letterman because when I watched the interview I saw that Letterman didn't really "get" Prince.
I love the last paragraph. I always figured he went easy on them until the performance. ๐Ÿ˜€
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Reply #9 posted 12/02/17 7:51pm

purplerabbitho
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I think he liked being under-estimated a bit. That one guitarist during rehearsal who went ahead and played P's part...just fed into P's ambition to show them.


anangellooksdown said:

I knew he was irked by Letterman because when I watched the interview I saw that Letterman didn't really "get" Prince. I love the last paragraph. I always figured he went easy on them until the performance. ๐Ÿ˜€

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Reply #10 posted 12/02/17 7:54pm

purplerabbitho
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a few more well-rounded portraits of Prince...

http://metro.co.uk/2017/0...r-6745556/

https://www.gq.com/story/prince-stories

rogifan said:

purplerabbithole said:

that's probably my least favorite Morris Hayes interview. I don't think he is lying or out of line. NOthing like that. But I get the feeling that the interviewer cherry-picked all the comments revealing this taskmaster, musical badass side of Prince. All you get from that interview is that Prince was a hardass who happened to be extremely talented. Most Morris interviews have more balance than that. They reveal that side but they also reveal that Prince became more humble as he got older and Prince's funny side. I get the feeling that all the interviewer either asked or focused on were Prince's early days with Morris. I hope and assume that his stomach didn't continue to hurt when he saw Prince's car in the driveway 10-20 years later.

Iโ€™d love to get more insight from those who worked with him over multiple decades how he change and how working with him changed over time. The Prince of the 2000s was vastly different than the Prince of the 90s but no interviewer has really gotten anyone to talk about this. Afshin Shahidi alludes to it a bit when he talks about Prince maturing, but Iโ€™d love to hear more.

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Reply #11 posted 12/02/17 7:59pm

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I do have mixed feelings about the TAKKAP stuff. Part of me thinks he had a myriad of justifiable reasons. A part of me thinks a more friendly and less cumbersome tactic would have been much better. Unpronuncable name? Really? I think the public would have been more sympathetic to what he was trying to accomplish if he just said "Hey, I need everyone to call me "The Musician" or something until I get my master recordings back." It seemed like an angry, depressed and anti-social tactic that ultimately harmed his career even if it helped revolutionize the industry in some ways. If people didn't understand P, ultimately that was Prince's fault.

anangellooksdown said:

I knew he was irked by Letterman because when I watched the interview I saw that Letterman didn't really "get" Prince. I love the last paragraph. I always figured he went easy on them until the performance. ๐Ÿ˜€

[Edited 12/2/17 20:00pm]

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purplerabbithole said:

I do have mixed feelings about the TAKKAP stuff. Part of me thinks he had a myriad of justifiable reasons. A part of me thinks a more friendly and less cumbersome tactic would have been much better. Unpronuncable name? Really? I think the public would have been more sympathetic to what he was trying to accomplish if he just said "Hey, I need everyone to call me "The Musician" or something until I get my master recordings back." It seemed like an angry, depressed and anti-social tactic that ultimately harmed his career even if it helped revolutionize the industry in some ways. If people didn't understand P, ultimately that was Prince's fault.







anangellooksdown said:


I knew he was irked by Letterman because when I watched the interview I saw that Letterman didn't really "get" Prince. I love the last paragraph. I always figured he went easy on them until the performance. ๐Ÿ˜€

[Edited 12/2/17 20:00pm]


By this 2004 he had flipped everything back and landed on his feet.
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Reply #13 posted 12/02/17 10:12pm

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As a touring artist, he came back with a vengence. As a recording artist, he had a few gold albums, but I wonder if he would have been more on the radar if the symbol approach had never happened. I know that the late 90's was patchy musically speaking but it wasn't horrendous and he could have remained a bit more relevant as a recording artist if he hadn't alienated folks. There were still folks' comments on articles from 2015 who wondered if he was still going by the symbol.

laurarichardson said:

purplerabbithole said:

I do have mixed feelings about the TAKKAP stuff. Part of me thinks he had a myriad of justifiable reasons. A part of me thinks a more friendly and less cumbersome tactic would have been much better. Unpronuncable name? Really? I think the public would have been more sympathetic to what he was trying to accomplish if he just said "Hey, I need everyone to call me "The Musician" or something until I get my master recordings back." It seemed like an angry, depressed and anti-social tactic that ultimately harmed his career even if it helped revolutionize the industry in some ways. If people didn't understand P, ultimately that was Prince's fault.

[Edited 12/2/17 20:00pm]

By this 2004 he had flipped everything back and landed on his feet.

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Reply #14 posted 12/03/17 3:53am

Shebanubi

What a great interview by Morris Hayes. Love Morris because he seems very real; can't wait to read his book about Prince if there ever is one because I think he will tell it like it is. Him and Kim Berry. Morris has been consistent with what he has revealed about Prince so far and it feels like it comes from the heart.

Watching that performance on Letterman where he sang Dolphin which is an absolute favourite of mine you could tell Prince was irritated by Letterman and now us knowing that he changed what he was going to do just before he went on makes perfect sense a stroke of genius because it was shocking and awesome at the same time. Loved it! My hero - nonconformists.

Loved how Morris speaks using some Ja'can slang like murderize and he did. Yeah Tom Petty and the others didn't know what hit them. That video has had so many millions of hits because of Prince alone. This brotha was THE genuine article going up against the big cats and telling them To Their Faces 'I'll die before I let you tell me how to swim'. So any interview with Morris is welcome and the book will be more coherent and flow better hopefully because he will have time to reflect on his magical difficult tumultuous 20 years with one of the greatest artist ever to walk the Earth.
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Reply #15 posted 12/03/17 6:45am

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Below is what Morris posted about the article:

"Funny what becomes the headline in some of these articles. I guess they have to grab you with the most sensational part of the article. Context folks. Context. Itโ€™s pretty well done in the end. Tell me what you think. Have a great weekend everybody! Peace."

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Reply #16 posted 12/03/17 7:59am

poppys

I loved the article - he worked for Prince, he wasn't his shrink, lawd. Prince shot himself onstage to get out of shaking Letterman's hand - LOL!!!

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Reply #17 posted 12/03/17 9:49am

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That was a great article. I loved the back story on the Letterman show performance - classic Prince Lol Morris was just keepin' it real. I was fortunate to attend the huge tribute concert following prince's death and one of the dance parties hosted by the family following the concert and it waa obvious at both of these events how genuine Morris is and how deeply he respects Prince.
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Reply #18 posted 12/03/17 12:12pm

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If you put out recordings independently you are going to struggle to get radio airplay which will hurt your sales. I firmly believe his getting older, being put in the RnB caterogy by WB meant if he stayed with WB and not have gone done the symbol road nothing would have been any differnt. Not to mention to this day WB is not a power house in the music business.

The fact that 1,000 Hugs and Kisses was a top 15 RnB song in 2015 was nothing short of remarkable. Also 3121 did very well. He did what he wanted to do and he had to know he was going to be on a hard road.

purplerabbithole said:

As a touring artist, he came back with a vengence. As a recording artist, he had a few gold albums, but I wonder if he would have been more on the radar if the symbol approach had never happened. I know that the late 90's was patchy musically speaking but it wasn't horrendous and he could have remained a bit more relevant as a recording artist if he hadn't alienated folks. There were still folks' comments on articles from 2015 who wondered if he was still going by the symbol.

laurarichardson said:

purplerabbithole said: By this 2004 he had flipped everything back and landed on his feet.

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Reply #19 posted 12/03/17 4:54pm

morningsong

It most definitely makes you understand some things about Prince.
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Reply #20 posted 12/04/17 9:30am

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Lol, I didn't care for Letterman either.

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Reply #21 posted 12/05/17 2:16am

PeteSilas

purplerabbithole said:

By the way, Letterman's jokes weren't that bad. I am not sure why he disliked Letterman for doing those jokes when Rosie O'Donnell did the same thing and they got along fine. (mild teasing from him about it but much lighter tone). I know men like Letterman. I grew up in the same place. Stoic midwestern humor can seem arrogant but it is ultimately harmless.

On the other hand, Prince's points about Clive were on the mark even though I can't imagine Prince standing on a table. When it came to music, sex, and business, Prince was almost always fearless. Away from those three things, I am not so sure he could be described as fearless.


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i can tell you why, many of us minorities see white humor as nothing more than arrogant smartassedness that ain't even really funny. if i could slap the shit out of every white guy who has said something stupid without getting in trouble, there would be a long list. they sure don't like it when you fire back, i can tell you that.

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anangellooksdown said:

I knew he was irked by Letterman because when I watched the interview I saw that Letterman didn't really "get" Prince. I love the last paragraph. I always figured he went easy on them until the performance. ๐Ÿ˜€

i could see him playing coy until it was real, if he showed his whole hand the whole time they might have tried to sabotage him.

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Reply #23 posted 12/05/17 3:32am

purplerabbitho
le

Not all white guys who try to be funny are saying offensive things and getting pissed when people fire back. those guys exist of course. Letterman has an arrogant tone but really doesn't say controversial or offensive things. His sarcasm is mild. that being said, I don't think Letterman is really that funny. Hell, I don't think Leno was either. Leno seems nice but he actually said something on tv once that I did offense over--20 something years ago he told some jokes about the 13 year old chelsea clinton's looks--he called a pre-teen girl who didn't chose to be in the public eye ugly...I didn't watch him for years after that. Now, i kind of enjoy him in old clips.

PeteSilas said:

purplerabbithole said:

By the way, Letterman's jokes weren't that bad. I am not sure why he disliked Letterman for doing those jokes when Rosie O'Donnell did the same thing and they got along fine. (mild teasing from him about it but much lighter tone). I know men like Letterman. I grew up in the same place. Stoic midwestern humor can seem arrogant but it is ultimately harmless.

On the other hand, Prince's points about Clive were on the mark even though I can't imagine Prince standing on a table. When it came to music, sex, and business, Prince was almost always fearless. Away from those three things, I am not so sure he could be described as fearless.


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i can tell you why, many of us minorities see white humor as nothing more than arrogant smartassedness that ain't even really funny. if i could slap the shit out of every white guy who has said something stupid without getting in trouble, there would be a long list. they sure don't like it when you fire back, i can tell you that.

[Edited 12/5/17 3:34am]

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