Guitarhero said:

Thanks oldfriends4sale another cool thread , in my top 5 Prince albums= masterpiece .

It definately is, this is the period where the vision became clear. UPTOWN

OldFriends4Sale said:

12.5.1980 @ the Warner Theater Washington DC

Prince ____ Andre Cymone

iZsaZsa said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

PRINCE: Well, you know, it's like...I worked a long time under a lot of different people, and most of the time I was doing it their way. I mean, that was cool, but ya know, I figured if I worked hard enough and kept my head straight, one day I'd get to do this on my own...and that's what happened. So I feel like...if I don't try to hurt nobody...and like I say...keep my head on straight...my way usually is the best way.

MOJO: Growin' up in Minne-wood, as it's been now called, simply because that is the hot point on this planet right now.

PRINCE: Well, it's been called a lot of things, but it's always Uptown to me.

MOJO: Uptown?

PRINCE: Yes.

MOJO: What was it like growin' up Uptown?

PRINCE: Pretty different. Uh, kinda sad, to be exact. (laughs) I mean, the radio was dead, the discos was dead, ladies was kinda dead, so I felt like, if we wanted to make some noise, and I wanted to turn anything out....I was gonna have to get somethin' together. Which is what we did. We put together a few bands and turned it into Uptown. That consisted of a lot of bike riding nude, but ya know...it worked. We had fun. That's why I wanted to come here on my birthday...'cuz I wanted to give them a little taste of where we live and get a little taste of where you all live. To me, this is like my second home. If I could spend the night at somebody's crib, I would...'cuz this hotel.... They're real nice to us, but, this bed is hard!

Electrifying Mojo Interview with Prince 1985

That's so ghetto.

lol that is hardly ghetto, that is very much Hippie

OldFriends4Sale said:

6.2.1981 @ the Lyceum in London England
1. Do It All Night

2. Why U Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
3. Got A Broken Heart Again

4. When U Were Mine

5. Gotta Stop (Messin About)*

6. Sexy Dancer

7. Sister

8. I Wanna Be Your Love

9. Head

10. Still Waiting

11. Party Up

12. Dirty Mind

13. Uptown
14. Jack U Off *

American Jam is an unreleased track recorded in May or June 1980, at Prince's Lake Minnetonka Home Studio, Minnetonka, MN, USA (during the same set of sessions that produced the Dirty Mind album tracks). Nothing is known about the song's music or lyrics.

Big Brass Bed is an unreleased track recorded in May or June, 1980, at Prince's France Avenue Home Studio, Edina, MN, USA (shortly after Sister, during the same set of sessions that produced the Dirty Mind album tracks). Nothing is known about the song's music or lyrics, and the song remains unreleased.

Prince
Dez Dickerson (Guitar)
Andre CYmone (Bass)
Matt Fink (Key)
Lisa Coleman (Key)
Bobby Z Tivkin (Drums)

Prince at Cobo Hall. 12.20.1980.

from the Dirty Mind album photoshoot

OldFriends4Sale said:

Look back on the live Prince era shows, it seems the live shows with the band gave huge inspiration to this next level of Dirty Mind

Bobby Z Tivkin (Drums) Dez Dickerson (Guitar) Lisa Coleman (Key) Matt Fink (Key) Prince Andre CYmone (Bass)

i just now realized how easily this picture implies an orgy

AndrePatrone said:

Bulgaria is an unreleased track recorded in May or June, 1980, at Prince's Lake Minnetonka Home Studio, Minnetonka, MN, USA (during the same set of sessions that produced the Dirty Mind album tracks). Bulgaria is a country in Southeast Europe, but it is not known if the title relates to the country. Nothing is known about the song's music or lyrics, and the song remains unreleased.

fan made unoffical fan art

Dirty Mind

There's something about U, baby
It happens every time
Whenever I'm around U, baby
I get a dirty mind
It doesn't matter where we are
It doesn't matter who's around
It doesn't matter
I just wanna lay U down

In my daddy's car
It's U I really wanna drive
But U never go 2 far
I may not be your kind of man
I may not be your style
But honey, all I wanna do
Is just love U 4 a little while

If U got the time
I'll give U some money
2 buy a dirty mind
Don't misunderstand me
I never fool around
But honey, U got me on my knees
Won't U please let me lay U down?
(Down, down, down, down, ...) {fade}

I really get a dirty mind (mind, mind, mind)
Whenever U're around
It happens 2 me every time (time, time, time)
U just gotta let me lay ya, gotta let me lay ya, lay ya!
U just gotta let me lay ya, gotta let me lay U down!

In my daddy's car
It's U I really wanna drive
Underneath the stars
I really get a dirty mind
Whenever U're around

I don't wanna hurt U, baby
I only wanna lay U down

-PrinceVault

While specific recording dates are not known, the album sessions took place from May to June, 1980, in Prince's Lake Minnetonka Home Studio, Minnetonka, MN, USA (credited as "Somewhere in Uptown"), and completed in June, 1980 at Hollywood Sound Recorders, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

The song is the first time a bandmember (Dr. Fink) was given co-writing credit for music, as he had developed the repeated keyboard line (Matt Fink "became" Dr. Fink while playing the opening act with Prince during the early stages of the Rick James "Fire It Up Tour", when he replaced a jailbird costume with a surgical costume, to avoid comparisons with Rick James, who was performing in a jailbird costume during the same tour).

Prince - all vocals and instruments, except where noted Dr. Fink - synthesizer

The word "fuck" was said twice in this episode. In Prince's performance of "Party Up", he sang the lyric "Fightin' war is such a fuckin' bore" and it went unnoticed at the time. But in the closing goodnight segment, Charles Rocket clearly said "I'd like to know who the fuck did it." Rocket and executive producer Jean Doumanian were fired after the next episode.

In 1980, Prince made his national television debut on American Bandstand. At the age of 19, the Purple One performed “I Wanna Be Your Lover” and “Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad.” In the interview with Clark, he revealed that he did not accept anyone’s record deals, despite people wanting to sign him because he would not be allowed to produce. This appearance by Prince was at the beginning of what would become a successful career. Throughout his career, Prince would go on to win seven Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe, an Academy Awards, and be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.

2. February 21, 1981: The f-word made two appearances in this episode. Musical guest Prince played his song "Partyup," and included the uncensored line, "Fightin' war is such a f***in' bore."

The show also featured a Dallas parody playing off the iconic "Who Shot J.R.?" storyline, which featured SNL cast member Charles Rocket as the Texas oil baron. As the cast and crew were saying goodnight to the audience at the end of the show, the host, Dallas star Charlene Tilton, asked Rocket how it felt to be shot. He replied, "Oh, man, it's the first time I've ever been shot in my life. I'd like to know who the f*** did it." Tilton and the rest of the cast were shocked at the slip-up, but laughed it off as the credits rolled. NBC execs, however, weren't laughing, and the event influenced their decision to let Rocket go as part of a massive round of layoffs after the season.

http://mentalfloss.com/ar...nl-f-bombs

-An all-time classic. Backing Prince is Dez Dickerson (guitar), Andre Cymoné (bass), Lisa Coleman (keyboards), Doctor Fink (keyboards) and Bobby Z. (drums). Perfect ending with Prince forcefully knocking the mic stand to the ground and the band all leaving the stage.
-Prince sings “Fighting war is such a fucking bore”

http://bjdwsm.wordpress.c...ce-s06e11/

^Dez Dickerson ^ Dr Fink

http://www.washingtonpost...ight-live/

Reading the breathless press coverage of his upcoming, eight-minute jam (Rolling Stone: “What better way to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Purple Rain…), it’s easy to forget that the Purple One has played this rodeo before. In fact, Prince made his SNL debut 33 years ago, on Feb. 21, 1981. And if you think Cecily Strong and Co. have got troubles, you’ve never seen Charles Rocket play J.R. Ewing.

That infamous spoof of “Dallas” occurred during the 1981 night known as Season 6, Episode 11. It’s an SNL cast at the nadir of the attempted reinvention of the Not Ready for Prime Time Players, but it’s also something else, a rare hole in the Hulufied pop cultural canon. You can find 82 copies of “The Best ... Kattan” selling for as little as a penny on Amazon.com, but just try picking up Episode 11. It’s not for sale, it’s not streaming, it’s not available on some crinkly VHS tape on eBay.

Hence, we must ask: If a skit bombs on late night but is never repackaged for DVD, did it ever exist?

“Thank God in heaven,” Gilbert Gottfried tells me when I called to tell him I couldn’t find any video record of his Episode 11 performance as Reagan budget director David A. Stockman. “I say thank God for anybody who enjoys comedy.”

Back then, before his endless stand-up gigs and 11 years as the voice of the Aflac Duck, the ingeniously grating Gottfried was one of the unknowns hired to replace Bill Murray, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, Al Franken and Laraine Newman. The other new hires included Denny Dillon, Ann Risley and a former local TV anchor named Charles Rocket.

“It was like if in the middle of Beatlemania, you said, ‘okay, John, Paul, George and Ringo are leaving and we’ve got these four other schmucks you’ve never heard of and they’ll be the new Beatles,’” Gottfried says.

Executive producer Lorne Michaels was also gone, replaced by Jean Doumanian, the show’s associate producer. Years later, she would produce Woody Allen movies and a slew of plays and musicals. But in 1981, she was unfairly blamed as the woman who crushed Lorne’s creation.

“For me, it was agonizing,” says Joe Piscopo, who, along with Eddie Murphy, was the only cast member to survive Season 6. “I felt in every sense that we were ruining America’s favorite TV show.”

Doumanian, speaking Thursday by phone from New York, remembers getting a tape from Prince’s agent. He was just 22, hot off opening for Rick James but still more than a year away from releasing his breakthrough, “1999.”

“I was blown away,” said Doumanian. “He was just the most original act I had seen in a long time.”

Strangely enough, SNL booked Todd Rundgren as the musical guest. But the show, she said, had a spot for new talent. Prince would go on at the end, performing “Partyup” off 1980’s “Dirty Mind.”

It’s an electrifying performance and not hard to find. But it’s far from the most notable moment of Episode 11. That came during the closing farewells. Host Charlene Tilton, best known for playing Lucy Ewing on “Dallas,” is leading the standard wrap-and-wave.

Rocket is in a wheelchair, playing off the “Who Shot J.R.?” episode of “Dallas,” the highest rated on television at the time it aired in 1980.

Who shot J.R.? “I’d like to know who the [expletive] did it,” Rocket said on live TV.

“That,” says Piscopo, “was the beginning of the end of Charles Rocket right there.”

Not exactly. Rocket would be gone from SNL, but he would continue to act, playing characters in a series of films, including “Earth Girls Are Easy,” “Dumb and Dumber” and “Dances with Wolves.” He killed himself in 2005 at the age of 56.

Prince performs on the Feb. 21, 1981 episode of “Saturday Night Live.” (Alan Singer/NBC via Getty Images)

So what to make of Episode 11? An NBC spokesman said it’s “unavailable due to shelf rights.”

“Oh, please,” says Doumanian. “I think they’re trying to forget it ever existed.”

Which is sad, considering that the episode features a double shot from then 19-year-old Eddie Murphy. He introduces “Mister Robinson’s Neighborhood,” his brilliant spoof of Mister Rogers, and does Stevie Wonder doing Tevye from “Fiddler on the Roof.”

“The truth is, if you think about Saturday Night Live, it wasn’t 72 minutes of non-stop laughter,” says Doumanian. “It was one great sketch or one great character and that’s what you would talk about the next day.”

I asked Doumanian if she had a copy of Episode 11. Turns out, she had kept videos of the season but, about 10 years ago, lost them in a fire.

As for whether Prince can save SNL – the show’s been up and down this season ratings-wise, but has clearly struggled to replace Seth Myers, Fred Armisen, Jason Sudeikis, Andy Samberg, and Kristen Wiig in recent years - she doesn’t expect anything Earth shattering. A little “Purple Rain” couldn’t hurt, though.

“I don’t think it’ll change the fortunes of the show but it’ll certainly bring the ratings up,” she says. “And people who tune it to see Prince, they may say, ‘I really like Saturday Night Live.’ I think I’ll watch next week, too.’”

3.9.1981 @ Sams (First Avenue) Minneapolis
1. Do It All Night

2. Why U Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
3. Gotta Broken Heart Again

4. Broken Lonely & Crying

5. When U Where Mine

6. Sexy Dancer

7. Sister

8. I Wana Be Your Lover

9. Head

10. Still Waiting

11. Party Up

12. Uptown

13. Crazy U

14. Gotta Stop (Messin About)

15. Dirty Mind

16. Everybody Dance

17. Bambi

OK Old Friends...Keep it coming!!

When Lisa joined the band in 1980 what do you feel her musicianship added to the lineup at that time?

Dr Fink: Lisa brought a wonderful sense of harmony and technical prowess to the table when she joined the group. I learned a lot of cool stuff from her and I always felt Prince made an excellent choice bringing her into the group.

How did you feel when Prince made you drive Lisa everywhere when she first moved out to Minneapolis? (question courtesy of Lisa)

Dr Fink:I didn't mind it at all because we became fast friends and I really enjoyed her company.

We all know that Wendy was around the Prince camp before joining the band, what is your first memory of her?

Dr Fink: I think I first met Wendy in LA when Lisa put me up at her house to work on some videos and session work for Prince back in 81'.

Lisa
Although written alongside the Dirty Mind material, this track instead points toward 1999 with its synth-dominated texture and use of a simple drum machine, creating a hypnotic feel. Written tongue-in-cheek about new band member Lisa Coleman, the lyrics state how Prince knows Lisa is nasty and how he plans to take her away from her current man(or woman).

Lisa, let's go 2 the movie
Lisa, let's go
Lisa, let's go 2 the village
Lisa, let's go
Tell your man, he'll understand
Lisa, let's go

Lisa, we're going 2 the movie
Lisa, let's go

It's alright, I don't care
Long as U know, somewhere
Some day, we'll be 2gether
Lisa, I don't care, oh
Lisa, I don't care

Lisa, let's go get blasted
Lisa, let's go
Lisa, I know U're nasty
Lisa, let's go

It's alright, it's OK
Long as U know, some day
Some way, we'll be 2gether
Lisa, it's OK

Yeah, let's go, yeah
Lisa, oh yeah
Yeah, yeah

It's alright, it's OK
Lisa, let's play

Alright

Are U ready, yeah yeah?
Yeah, oh yeah
Yeah yeah
Let's go {x2}

It's alright, it's OK
Long as U know, some day
Some way, we'll be 2gether
Lisa, it's OK, oh {x3}
Lisa, it's O... it's O... it's OK

Prince:Dirty Mind video

One of my favorite Prince eras.I remember the fall of 1980 when Dirty Mind was released.Everyone was talking about it.The songs didn't get much airplay (at least not in my area),but the hype surrounding this album was incredible! Prince was so raw and outrageous....totally ahead of his time! Damn,I miss those days!!!!!

SoulAlive said:

Back in the day review: Prince: 'Dirty Mind'

In 1979, Prince unleashed the Minneapolis funk sound on unexpected audiences, and listeners were stunned and amazed by the sound. The Minneapolis sound forged elements from funk and R&B with the new wave sound that was permeating at the time.

Prince’s self-titled debut was a tamer version of the sound, and it was a solid, but slightly uneven affair. But when Prince released his sophomore album, 1980’s Dirty Mind, he unleashed the full force of the Minneapolis sound, and the end result was pure magic.

The title track (No. 65 R&B) kicked things off to perfection, as his highly sexually charged lyrics matched the backing synth beat to wonderfully. “Uptown” (No. 5 R&B) followed in the same line as the title track, but it was a little more accessible than the title track, and for that, it was rewarded with a higher chart position.

Another standout track was “Head,” which is pretty much what you imagined it would be. The lyrics may turn some people off, but the backing beat embodied what the Minneapolis sound was all about, as both the new wave and funk elements were well represented here.

Outside of those three tracks, the rest of Dirty Mind flows more to the new wave sound than funk, but the tracks were no less intoxicating. “When You Were Mine” and “Sister" were straight forward new wave tracks, with fast, bouncy beats that will either get you up and dancing, or have you heading for the medicine cabinet.

“Gotta Broken Hear Again” followed in more of a country-tinged theme, but Prince pulled off the ballad well, and “Partyup,” featuring Morris Day, with whom Prince would tab to lead The Time in 1981, was a nice paced funky track that embraced the party vibe.

Over all, Dirty Mind was the album that put Prince and the Minneapolis sound on the map. This is one of the rare Prince albums that is not recommended for children and moral advocates, as some of the tracks contain very sexual lyrics.

But for both Prince and R&B fans, Dirty Mind needs to be in your playlist.

http://www.axs.com/back-in-the-day-review-prince-dirty-mind-29173