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. Which has been common knowledge for three decades. This was never much of a secret. Now, Prince's involvement in Sheila E.'s second album, there is something that was disputed for a long time, and it wasn't settled until Uptown did some in-depth research. © Bart Van Hemelen
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"The first time I went over there, there was no agenda or talk of a record; just jamming on stuff. A Thursday in, he asked me to play some of my songs and he would come up with these cool arrangements for these songs I had already written" U been bamboozled, hoodwinked, took. | |
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Angel In The Dark sounds like it may have had some input from Josh - pure speculation again. . Everything else has a nice live/organic sound to it. Love Trip and Wild Tonight are stand-outs for me. | |
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Angel In The Dark sounds like it may have had some input from Josh - pure speculation again. . Everything else has a nice live/organic sound to it. Love Trip and Wild Tonight are stand-outs for me. My standouts r, in order of preference, As Trains Go By, Back In Time, My People, Turn It Up, Cry Cry Cry. Friggin back in time is perfect... If I'm un/lucky and can read along with the lyrics, my dumb ass will choke up. Edit: if I had the power to travel back in time I would go back to the day when we both were nine on your bedroom dresser I'd leave my picture behind then I'd come back here and wait for you to find me back in time if I had some magic that could set you free I'd make you not love her any more as much you love me I'd send her on a journey accross the yellow sea nothing should be closer than you and me back in time high up in the mountain our hearts up on a shelf I'm settling on the notion of being all by myself if I had the power to travel back in time to the day before the two of y'all met I'd somehow make you mine. [Edited 10/29/15 17:12pm] | |
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Well a lot of it was already written. I was down at Paisley Park and just jammed with him, so he got to hear a lot of the songs and came up with some cool arrangements. It just happened organically, whereby we recorded the arrangements with live musicians. "Well, when I originally wrote the material the songs were in different forms. The songs were already produced and done up. For example, there was a song called Beautiful Life that I wrote and I just had a set of chords that I'd used to perform, play and sing that song, but Prince suggested that I should picture the song in a big stadium. He told me to change the chords to major chords, which opened up the whole thing and brought a kind of simplicity to it. "What I learned about working with him is that he writes and produces every song as if he was going to perform it live in a big show. So with that in mind, we recorded the songs in that range and it was cool to see him take some of the songs I already had and make them bigger." "A lot of the songs stayed as I wrote them, but for some of them we did rewrite the lyrics or wrote them together from scratch, so it was a combination from that point of view. 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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