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Interesting video but I swear that ninjas are coming out of the woodworks to be part of the Prince legend. Micki Free?!?!? Who's next? O'Bryan????? | |
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Well I knew about the Prince - Micki Free connection back in 1985
and unknown then Prince wanted Micki in Mazarati or the Coco Boys
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Touche. Keep the great threads coming! | |
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When The Dawn Of The Morning Comes is an unreleased track recorded in late September 1986, at Prince's Galpin Blvd Home Studio, Chanhassen, MN, USA (during the same set of sessions as Superfunkycalifragisexy, One Day (I'm Gonna Make You Mine) and Koo Koo. The song was written specifically for the planned musical The Dawn (along with Crucial and Coco Boys), but the musical was ultimately abandoned, and the song was never intended for any of Prince's many late-1986 album projects. The song remains unreleased. -PrinceVault | |
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Posted by Micki Free 22nd April 2016
Posted below is my "official statement" regarding the passing of Prince requested by the numerous press that has been contacting me...here and now; This is Micki Free....I am numb as the world is, I loved Prince and the times we hung, when we ruled Hollywood hanging at Tramps with Eddie & Charlie Murphy in Beverly Hills....and all the fantastic jams at Sunset Sound, I will never forget when you flew me to Minnesota to hang and audition for your group Maserati with Brown Mark, how you teased when you saw my then wife actress "Teri Copley" pregnant with my daughter Anastasia; "What's that under your dress, a basketball"!? you joked!...and when you asked me to be in your new movie "The Coco Boy's", when I recorded your song "We Can Funk" for you, and the infamous Dave Chappelle skit....ALL TRUE AS WE KNOW MY BROTHER!.....to many memories to state, and wishing today was just a bad dream....let's play basketball in heaven. RIP PURPLE ONE....Micki Free [Edited 2/1/17 10:53am] There's always a rainbow 🌈 , at the end of every rain ☔️ | |
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Thanks 4 this
the Vault holds more gems
I wonder would he have replaced Sir Casey Terry with Mickie | |
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Great thread! Thank you for this information. I always wanted to know more about this connection.  | |
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All Day, All Night is the fifth track on Jill Jones's first and only Paisley Park Records album Jill Jones. Although Jill Jones shared official writing credits, the song was written solely by Prince and is registered at the Library of Congress as having been written by Joey Coco. | |
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yes,that was the plan.Sir Casey Terry left the group abruptly,several months after the album came out.Sound familiar? The exact same thing happened with the Family and Paul Peterson! So Prince wanted Micki to become the new leader of Mazarati. | |
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ok wow, thanks, a lot of of background stuff happened all around | |
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Micki Free (guitarist, sometime member of Shalamar): It was the craziest thing ever. We were in a club again—Eddie Murphy was there, Eddie's crew, Prince and I—we were all just hanging. And we got to where we were gonna go to Prince's house, which I'd been to many times before in that day and age. Sometimes I'd go up to the house, and Prince would go in his bedroom and he wouldn't come out—he was pretty funny that way. But this particular time we all go up there—Eddie, Charlie, Uncle Ray—and there's a bunch of girls as usual, and Prince goes, "Let's play basketball." And Eddie and those guys go, "Sure, let's play." Eddie and the other guys changed into basketball clothes—I think they got them out of their car. Prince didn't change, and neither did I. Prince was wearing exactly what he had on from the club, and trust me, if we came from the club, he was looking like new money. He always did. Perfection: matching boots, matching outfit, matching handkerchief, hat, cane, whatever—it was always on point. And as far as I can remember, he was wearing his heels.
Free: It was just us six playing. Oh my God, I'll never forget it. We go out, the Murphys are looking at me like, "Yeah, baby—Free, I'm gonna eat you alive." I'm thinking that, too. So Prince…I'm not kidding you, he started playing basketball like he was Michael Jordan or someone, man. First shot of the game was nothing but net. He was just so bad. And everybody looked at each other like, "What the hell?" He was just so, so good—really controlled, sidestepping, just style. He could play basketball. That's how the night went, and we won. And then his cook, Rande, made us blueberry pancakes.
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