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Thread started 02/03/11 8:01am

Francis7

Prince's Ecstacy Trip

I keep hearing mention on the Org about "the night Prince did Ecstacy" - I'm confused- I thought he was anti-drugs? And what exactly happened on this night? details!

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Reply #1 posted 02/03/11 8:04am

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Francis7 said:

I keep hearing mention on the Org about "the night Prince did Ecstacy" - I'm confused- I thought he was anti-drugs? And what exactly happened on this night? details!

X is the least you should be worried about. Ask him about his habitual cocaine use over the years.

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Reply #2 posted 02/03/11 8:05am

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Francis7 said:

I keep hearing mention on the Org about "the night Prince did Ecstacy" - I'm confused- I thought he was anti-drugs? And what exactly happened on this night? details!

X is the least you should be worried about. Ask him about his habitual cocaine use over the years.

Seriously? No way! I just couldn't imagine he would do that...he's so clean living! Right? or have we all been misguided?

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Reply #3 posted 02/03/11 8:06am

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Didn't you listen to the black album?

Didn't you listen to lovesexy?

Or look in the Lovesexy tourbook?

Pills and thrills and daffodils will kill... If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.
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Reply #4 posted 02/03/11 8:14am

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Why is this a worrying fact?

Many artists do or did drugs. Why should Prince be granted the permission of his faMs to do the same?

BTW, I personally don't think he went farther than dropping a couple of X pills and snorting the usual couple of lines.

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Reply #5 posted 02/03/11 8:28am

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Francis7 said:

I keep hearing mention on the Org about "the night Prince did Ecstacy" - I'm confused- I thought he was anti-drugs? And what exactly happened on this night? details!

Allegedly!!!..personally i think Prince had reached a tipping point where he needed to evaluate the excesses in his life, there probably was a moment be it off his face or otherwise that made him sit up and take stock, we all do it at some point, It's called growing up and being responsible .In the past three years i myself have given up smoking and have not set foot in a pub for a year and a half... eek

We all need to grow as a person and constantly living the high life can only have a detrimental effect on you well being.... twocents..anyway what happened that night?... whew

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Reply #6 posted 02/03/11 8:36am

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Joyinrepatition said:

Francis7 said:

I keep hearing mention on the Org about "the night Prince did Ecstacy" - I'm confused- I thought he was anti-drugs? And what exactly happened on this night? details!

Allegedly!!!..personally i think Prince had reached a tipping point where he needed to evaluate the excesses in his life, there probably was a moment be it off his face or otherwise that made him sit up and take stock, we all do it at some point, It's called growing up and being responsible .In the past three years i myself have given up smoking and have not set foot in a pub for a year and a half... eek

We all need to grow as a person and constantly living the high life can only have a detrimental effect on you well being.... twocents..anyway what happened that night?... whew

That's what I want to know. WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT? lol

time flies.
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Reply #7 posted 02/03/11 8:54am

Francis7

vitriol said:

Why is this a worrying fact?

Many artists do or did drugs. Why should Prince be granted the permission of his faMs to do the same?

BTW, I personally don't think he went farther than dropping a couple of X pills and snorting the usual couple of lines.

Right. Anyone can do or has done drugs- but Prince has always shown how clean living he is and I thought that he was- I myself, have never done any drugs ( i did smoke pot ONE time at fourteen and that was absolutely the end of that!) it IS possible for someone to go through life not doing drugs and I thought Prince was one of those people- that's all-

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Reply #8 posted 02/03/11 8:55am

Francis7

udo said:

Didn't you listen to the black album?

Didn't you listen to lovesexy?

Or look in the Lovesexy tourbook?

Of course I did but nothing led me to believe he was tripping on Ecstacy - he's just out in left field- so what?

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Reply #9 posted 02/03/11 8:58am

Dogsinthetrees

X, coke, weed, and allegedly pain pills. You think he's immune to temptation? Have you listened to his music? I doubt he partakes of much these days beyond the occasional joint.

I'm just saying...
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Reply #10 posted 02/03/11 9:03am

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lockdance

Prince did an interview with a woman at Record World. They talked about whatever, then he asked her: "Does your pubic hair go up to your navel?" At that moment, we thought maybe we shouldn't encourage him to do interviews.
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Reply #11 posted 02/03/11 9:07am

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Dogsinthetrees said:

X, coke, weed, and allegedly pain pills. You think he's immune to temptation? Have you listened to his music? I doubt he partakes of much these days beyond the occasional joint.

lying.

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Reply #12 posted 02/03/11 9:12am

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Search the forums, this is one of the most discussed points in Prince's career and there are lots of great threads and info about The Black Album right here. smile

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Reply #13 posted 02/03/11 9:16am

Xibalba

Spinlight said:

Dogsinthetrees said:

X, coke, weed, and allegedly pain pills. You think he's immune to temptation? Have you listened to his music? I doubt he partakes of much these days beyond the occasional joint.

lying.

Whilst there's no concrete proof about any of this, rumours over the years have persisted. Of course, that in no way makes it true, but it in no way makes it a lie either.

According to popular rumour (mainly due to what the Mojica sisters claimed at least) after the death of Prince and Mayte's son, he hit the bottle and the pills pretty hard.

I'm not making a judgement on the guy one way or the other - God only knows what Prince and Mayte had to deal with emotionally. Nobody wishes that kind of thing on any parent.

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Reply #14 posted 02/03/11 9:25am

Dogsinthetrees

Just to be clear, Spinlight, there is a reason I used the word "allegedly". Not me lying, whoever alleged it. Not my words, somebody else's. I just wanted to make that clear.

I'm just saying...
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Reply #15 posted 02/03/11 9:31am

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He did salvia and recorded "Wedding Feast"!

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Reply #16 posted 02/03/11 9:40am

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ufoclub said:

He did salvia and recorded "Wedding Feast"!

Wedding Feat biggrin dancing jig

Have a look at 'The W2A: Euro Tour Song Survey' http://prince.org/msg/12/362417
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Reply #17 posted 02/03/11 9:40am

Francis7

NouveauDance said:

Search the forums, this is one of the most discussed points in Prince's career and there are lots of great threads and info about The Black Album right here. smile

You're right. I need to go check the forums cause this is all news to me smile

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Reply #18 posted 02/03/11 9:46am

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DMSR BOOK: Prince has spoken of a crucial "Dark night of the soul, when a lot of things happened all in a few hours" and described a vision of a vast field with the letters G-O-D hovering overhead. He would refer to that night, Tuesday December 1st as "Blue Tuesday" in the Lovesexy Programme.

"I suddenly realised that we can die at any moment", he said. "And we'd be judged by the last thing". Prince indicated in the programme liner notes that he realised that the Black Album was a work of hate and that realising it would be wrong. he believed that "Spooky Electric", which can be considered the dark side of his persona or a symbol of Satan himself, convinced him to create this thing of 'evil'. Prince eventually attributed his last minute decision to shelve the black album to god and the 'lovesexy spirit', "the feeling you get when you fall in love, not with a girl or boy but the heavens above"

Regardless of Prince's self-made mythology, it is alleged amongst some close associates that his decision to cancel the realse was directly influenced by an experiment with the drug ecstacy.

"I was told he got very scared when he was high on a trip and it made him realise that it would be wrong to release the album" Says badeux. "He thought he was going to hell and that stopped him from releasing it". Matt Fink confirms the story - "He had a bad xtc trip and felt that the album was the devil working through him. I heard this directly from Gilbert who was there at PP the night it happened. Prince was with Cat or Ingrid"

Krattinger recieved a perculiar phone call from prince the night of December 1st, "it was 1:30am and he said "karen?" and i said "what?!" and he said "i just called to tell you i love you" i said "you know what Prince? I love you too and I think you should know that because I wouldn't but up with this shit if I didn't". He said that he was sorry he was so hard on me and that he needed my help to do right. He also said that it was hard fro him to express his feelings. That was about the extent of the conversation. He never said anything like that again. The next day was very strange because he seemed embarassed. It's possible that the call was drug-induced, though I had never know him to do anything but drink wine"

(this is where things get interesting, gives me chills)

At about the same time, Prince summoned Rogers to Paisley Park in the early hours although she was no longer working for him. "I went into the rehearsal room, which is sort of in the middle of the building" she remembers. "It was two in the morning and it was empty. It was dark except for a couple of red canldes and I heard a womans voice say "Are you looking for Prince?". I found out later that the woman was Ingrid Chavez. I said "yes, i'm supposed to meet him here at 2am.". she said "well he's here somehwere". As I came out of the room, I suddenly came face-to-face with him an I'm certain he was high. His pupils were really dilated and he looked unlike I'd ever seen him look before. He looked like he was tripping. He was standing very close to me and he asked "I just want to know one thing, do you still love me?" And I said that I did and that I knew he loved me. He said "Will you stay?" And I said "No, I wont. Goodnight" I headed to the door. It was really scary"

Prince had always been very wary of drugs of all kinds and according to most accounts, the ecstacy trip was a one-off experience

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Reply #19 posted 02/03/11 9:51am

Francis7

TheScouser said:

DMSR BOOK: Prince has spoken of a crucial "Dark night of the soul, when a lot of things happened all in a few hours" and described a vision of a vast field with the letters G-O-D hovering overhead. He would refer to that night, Tuesday December 1st as "Blue Tuesday" in the Lovesexy Programme.

"I suddenly realised that we can die at any moment", he said. "And we'd be judged by the last thing". Prince indicated in the programme liner notes that he realised that the Black Album was a work of hate and that realising it would be wrong. he believed that "Spooky Electric", which can be considered the dark side of his persona or a symbol of Satan himself, convinced him to create this thing of 'evil'. Prince eventually attributed his last minute decision to shelve the black album to god and the 'lovesexy spirit', "the feeling you get when you fall in love, not with a girl or boy but the heavens above"

Regardless of Prince's self-made mythology, it is alleged amongst some close associates that his decision to cancel the realse was directly influenced by an experiment with the drug ecstacy.

"I was told he got very scared when he was high on a trip and it made him realise that it would be wrong to release the album" Says badeux. "He thought he was going to hell and that stopped him from releasing it". Matt Fink confirms the story - "He had a bad xtc trip and felt that the album was the devil working through him. I heard this directly from Gilbert who was there at PP the night it happened. Prince was with Cat or Ingrid"

Krattinger recieved a perculiar phone call from prince the night of December 1st, "it was 1:30am and he said "karen?" and i said "what?!" and he said "i just called to tell you i love you" i said "you know what Prince? I love you too and I think you should know that because I wouldn't but up with this shit if I didn't". He said that he was sorry he was so hard on me and that he needed my help to do right. He also said that it was hard fro him to express his feelings. That was about the extent of the conversation. He never said anything like that again. The next day was very strange because he seemed embarassed. It's possible that the call was drug-induced, though I had never know him to do anything but drink wine"

(this is where things get interesting, gives me chills)

At about the same time, Prince summoned Rogers to Paisley Park in the early hours although she was no longer working for him. "I went into the rehearsal room, which is sort of in the middle of the building" she remembers. "It was two in the morning and it was empty. It was dark except for a couple of red canldes and I heard a womans voice say "Are you looking for Prince?". I found out later that the woman was Ingrid Chavez. I said "yes, i'm supposed to meet him here at 2am.". she said "well he's here somehwere". As I came out of the room, I suddenly came face-to-face with him an I'm certain he was high. His pupils were really dilated and he looked unlike I'd ever seen him look before. He looked like he was tripping. He was standing very close to me and he asked "I just want to know one thing, do you still love me?" And I said that I did and that I knew he loved me. He said "Will you stay?" And I said "No, I wont. Goodnight" I headed to the door. It was really scary"

Prince had always been very wary of drugs of all kinds and according to most accounts, the ecstacy trip was a one-off experience

Thanks for this- I didn't know! Very interesting....... and sounds really creepy- scary eek

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Reply #20 posted 02/03/11 9:53am

TheScouser

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Francis7 said:

TheScouser said:

Thanks for this- I didn't know! Very interesting....... and sounds really creepy- scary eek

You're welcome, I recently got the book and i'm near the end so it was lying right next to me so I thought i'd type it up. It is creepy isn't it? The image of paisley park being all dark and candle lit and ingrid chavez hiding in the darkness with prince roaming around gives me chills lol

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Reply #21 posted 02/03/11 9:54am

Francis7

TheScouser said:

Francis7 said:

Thanks for this- I didn't know! Very interesting....... and sounds really creepy- scary eek

You're welcome, I recently got the book and i'm near the end so it was lying right next to me so I thought i'd type it up. It is creepy isn't it? The image of paisley park being all dark and candle lit and ingrid chavez hiding in the darkness with prince roaming around gives me chills lol

I gotta get this book!

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Reply #22 posted 02/03/11 9:58am

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Xibalba said:

Spinlight said:

lying.

Whilst there's no concrete proof about any of this, rumours over the years have persisted. Of course, that in no way makes it true, but it in no way makes it a lie either.

According to popular rumour (mainly due to what the Mojica sisters claimed at least) after the death of Prince and Mayte's son, he hit the bottle and the pills pretty hard.

I'm not making a judgement on the guy one way or the other - God only knows what Prince and Mayte had to deal with emotionally. Nobody wishes that kind of thing on any parent.


Lawd. Can we please consider the source. Stop it.

It's fun to speculate (I guess??? Ugh...), but let's stop short of pulling shit out of angry, fired nannies' asses.

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Reply #23 posted 02/03/11 9:58am

Spinlight

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To the OP, why didn't you even try to search for this information at least once? Jesus fucking Christ.

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Reply #24 posted 02/03/11 10:20am

Xibalba

Spinlight said:

Xibalba said:

Whilst there's no concrete proof about any of this, rumours over the years have persisted. Of course, that in no way makes it true, but it in no way makes it a lie either.

According to popular rumour (mainly due to what the Mojica sisters claimed at least) after the death of Prince and Mayte's son, he hit the bottle and the pills pretty hard.

I'm not making a judgement on the guy one way or the other - God only knows what Prince and Mayte had to deal with emotionally. Nobody wishes that kind of thing on any parent.


Lawd. Can we please consider the source. Stop it.

It's fun to speculate (I guess??? Ugh...), but let's stop short of pulling shit out of angry, fired nannies' asses.

Re-read my post.

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Reply #25 posted 02/03/11 10:20am

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There is no concrete evidence and these rumours if examined seem to fall apart.

The night when Susan Rogers saw him with dilated pupils.. erm IT WAS DARK with only a couple of candles, and that makes your pupils dilate!

Susan interpreting that as 'beings on drugs' means she doesn't understand this basic human response to darkness.

The reporter who claimed Cat told him she gave Prince extascy, firstly why should we believe anything a reporter tells us and secondly he was told that by an ex (disgruntled) employee...

Same principal applies to the Matt Fink comfirming some drugs story.

I'm not saying I don't think Prince never did drugs (we can never be 100% sure) but based on the very flimsy 'evidence' above plus that fact that up to and always after he has always sung AGAINST drug taking (and didn't he sack a bodyguard for taking drugs?), it seems very very unlikely.

The whole situation is just like say a Christian singer making albums promoting christianity and some reporter telling us on one night that singer denounced their religion and worshipped the devil then carried on being christian again, I think that would seem very unlikely too.

[Edited 2/3/11 10:21am]

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Reply #26 posted 02/03/11 10:22am

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I love how everyone puts it as he doing Ecstacy ONCE. I'm sure it was more than that, it just was one time in which there was a story publicly known about.

Anyone that thinks Prince hasn't ever tried or had a phase of doing certain drugs is in denial.

..."holding someone is truly believing"
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Reply #27 posted 02/03/11 10:33am

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"People Without, do extasy..."

All you others say Hell Yea!! woot!
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Reply #28 posted 02/03/11 10:35am

Spinlight

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Xibalba said:

Spinlight said:


Lawd. Can we please consider the source. Stop it.

It's fun to speculate (I guess??? Ugh...), but let's stop short of pulling shit out of angry, fired nannies' asses.

Re-read my post.

Why re-read it? I read it the first time just fine.

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Reply #29 posted 02/03/11 10:39am

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2freaky4church1 said:

"People Without, do extasy..."

And people without eyes.......can't see.

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