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Thread started 03/20/17 2:00pm

purplerabbitho
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5 Prince Revolution stories...

Enjoy. Stop arguing about Mayte for a moment... wink

http://www.vulture.com/20...ories.html

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Reply #1 posted 03/20/17 2:16pm

ladygirl99

Thank you! I want to read every story I can find of my favorite band all time Revolution. That is cool how Prince gave Wendy a birthday party and also the Joni Mitchell story.

I wish the public knows more about Prince's sense of humor outside his music and his practical jokes.

Even though its not in this article, I love of Brownmark said Prince left him strand for 45 minutes when he show up late to get on that tour bus and then he came back and got him. The fans were saying, Prince and the crew left him. I would been scare if that happened to me.

I heard Lisa story before. And she added more details. Prince had his mood swings and it look like he was mad about something and Lisa was the target, so that must explained why she was confused by what she did to made him mad.

See that is the stuff I want to hear more.

[Edited 3/20/17 14:29pm]

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Reply #2 posted 03/20/17 3:56pm

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These are just great stories! But the last one, of which we had heard a more brief origin story before, and also the song happens to be one of my favorite Prince bootleg gems... well that is so deep to me about what was great about his creative powers.

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Reply #3 posted 03/20/17 5:55pm

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The pancake story for Brownmark is funny. But this one struck me most:

Lisa Coleman
“It was 1981, and the band had gone out on tour, and when we came back I was homeless, so I went to live with Prince at his purple house in Chanhassen, Minnesota. One day he started talking to me about getting my own place and having my own life in Minneapolis. Like, Now you’re here, Lisa, so what are you gonna do? He was giving me a talking to about moving out, but I didn’t quite understand that was what the conversation was about. It just felt tense.

“So after our talk, I went for a walk to think about what had happened. I walked to the center of the town to get a beer — there was only one bar. A few minutes latter, Don Batts, Prince’s musical tech guy, came into the bar. He came over to me and said, ‘Prince wants to talk to you. He feels bad.’ So I went back to the house. Prince was down in the basement in the studio. He came came out, gestured to me to come into the studio, and said, ‘I hope I didn’t hurt your feelings. I wrote you a song.’ In that short time — I’d only been gone an hour or two — Prince had written and recorded a song as an apology to me. It was called ‘A Strange Way of Sayin...ve You.’ I was stunned. Music was always how he communicated best.”

"eye don’t really care so much what people say about me because it is a reflection of who they r."
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Reply #4 posted 03/20/17 6:05pm

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TrivialPursuit said:

The pancake story for Brownmark is funny. But this one struck me most:


Lisa Coleman
“It was 1981, and the band had gone out on tour, and when we came back I was homeless, so I went to live with Prince at his purple house in Chanhassen, Minnesota. One day he started talking to me about getting my own place and having my own life in Minneapolis. Like, Now you’re here, Lisa, so what are you gonna do? He was giving me a talking to about moving out, but I didn’t quite understand that was what the conversation was about. It just felt tense.


“So after our talk, I went for a walk to think about what had happened. I walked to the center of the town to get a beer — there was only one bar. A few minutes latter, Don Batts, Prince’s musical tech guy, came into the bar. He came over to me and said, ‘Prince wants to talk to you. He feels bad.’ So I went back to the house. Prince was down in the basement in the studio. He came came out, gestured to me to come into the studio, and said, ‘I hope I didn’t hurt your feelings. I wrote you a song.’ In that short time — I’d only been gone an hour or two — Prince had written and recorded a song as an apology to me. It was called ‘A Strange Way of Sayin...ve You.’ I was stunned. Music was always how he communicated best.”




Very sweet. They always seemed to have a real friendship...were they ever romantic?

And finally Wendy doesnt bash him...lol
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Reply #5 posted 03/20/17 7:08pm

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TrivialPursuit said:

The pancake story for Brownmark is funny. But this one struck me most:

Lisa Coleman
“It was 1981, and the band had gone out on tour, and when we came back I was homeless, so I went to live with Prince at his purple house in Chanhassen, Minnesota. One day he started talking to me about getting my own place and having my own life in Minneapolis. Like, Now you’re here, Lisa, so what are you gonna do? He was giving me a talking to about moving out, but I didn’t quite understand that was what the conversation was about. It just felt tense.

“So after our talk, I went for a walk to think about what had happened. I walked to the center of the town to get a beer — there was only one bar. A few minutes latter, Don Batts, Prince’s musical tech guy, came into the bar. He came over to me and said, ‘Prince wants to talk to you. He feels bad.’ So I went back to the house. Prince was down in the basement in the studio. He came came out, gestured to me to come into the studio, and said, ‘I hope I didn’t hurt your feelings. I wrote you a song.’ In that short time — I’d only been gone an hour or two — Prince had written and recorded a song as an apology to me. It was called ‘A Strange Way of Sayin...ve You.’ I was stunned. Music was always how he communicated best.”

Says a lot in a nutshell.

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #6 posted 03/20/17 7:10pm

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jdcxc said:

Very sweet. They always seemed to have a real friendship...were they ever romantic? And finally Wendy doesnt bash him...lol


Weelllll, seeing as how she's a lesbian, I'm gonna say no.

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Reply #7 posted 03/20/17 7:45pm

purplerabbitho
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Wendy didn't always bash Prince. She just talked a little smack every once in a while for his own good. LOL.

jdcxc said:

TrivialPursuit said:

The pancake story for Brownmark is funny. But this one struck me most:

Lisa Coleman
“It was 1981, and the band had gone out on tour, and when we came back I was homeless, so I went to live with Prince at his purple house in Chanhassen, Minnesota. One day he started talking to me about getting my own place and having my own life in Minneapolis. Like, Now you’re here, Lisa, so what are you gonna do? He was giving me a talking to about moving out, but I didn’t quite understand that was what the conversation was about. It just felt tense.

“So after our talk, I went for a walk to think about what had happened. I walked to the center of the town to get a beer — there was only one bar. A few minutes latter, Don Batts, Prince’s musical tech guy, came into the bar. He came over to me and said, ‘Prince wants to talk to you. He feels bad.’ So I went back to the house. Prince was down in the basement in the studio. He came came out, gestured to me to come into the studio, and said, ‘I hope I didn’t hurt your feelings. I wrote you a song.’ In that short time — I’d only been gone an hour or two — Prince had written and recorded a song as an apology to me. It was called ‘A Strange Way of Sayin...ve You.’ I was stunned. Music was always how he communicated best.”

Very sweet. They always seemed to have a real friendship...were they ever romantic? And finally Wendy doesnt bash him...lol

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Reply #8 posted 03/21/17 9:39am

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purplerabbithole said:

Wendy didn't always bash Prince. She just talked a little smack every once in a while for his own good. LOL.

I don't think Wendy based him at all. She told the truth. Once, she said that Prince had tried to tell them to stop talking about stuff, and she told him "Hey dude, this is our life, too. We can't just not talk about what we did." She also said they thought Prince had finally just thrown his arms up to it, because he figured out he couldn't shut the up 24/7. There's no reason W&L would ever have long term or a lot of animosity toward him. It was Prince sorta nitpicking with their interviews, sending them cease and desist letters over calling him a "fancy lesbian" that probably caused a few words here or there, just in rebellion or frustration perhaps. Hell, he could have answered that "fancy lesbian" thing by dedicating "Bambi" to them in his next show.

You know Wendy is Wendy, and she's never backed down from him. She respects him, but she doesn't lose herself in that (like fan cans).

"eye don’t really care so much what people say about me because it is a reflection of who they r."
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Reply #9 posted 03/21/17 9:41am

purplerabbitho
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You realize we are saying the saem thing, right? She challenged him; she didn't bash him.

TrivialPursuit said:


purplerabbithole said:

Wendy didn't always bash Prince. She just talked a little smack every once in a while for his own good. LOL.

I don't think Wendy based him at all. She told the truth. Once, she said that Prince had tried to tell them to stop talking about stuff, and she told him "Hey dude, this is our life, too. We can't just not talk about what we did." She also said they thought Prince had finally just thrown his arms up to it, because he figured out he couldn't shut the up 24/7. There's no reason W&L would ever have long term or a lot of animosity toward him. It was Prince sorta nitpicking with their interviews, sending them cease and desist letters over calling him a "fancy lesbian" that probably caused a few words here or there, just in rebellion or frustration perhaps. Hell, he could have answered that "fancy lesbian" thing by dedicating "Bambi" to them in his next show.

You know Wendy is Wendy, and she's never backed down from him. She respects him, but she doesn't lose herself in that (like fan cans).

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Reply #10 posted 03/21/17 10:17am

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purplerabbithole said:

You realize we are saying the saem thing, right? She challenged him; she didn't bash him.


Yes, I'm expanding on the conversation. I now need to go expand my waistline - it's lunch people!

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Reply #11 posted 03/22/17 3:12am

milesb

Thanks 4 posting

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Reply #12 posted 03/26/17 2:10pm

206Michelle

Great article!

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Reply #13 posted 03/27/17 7:44am

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Wendy Melvoin
“For my 20th birthday, Prince decided to throw a surprise party for me at a club called Tramps in Minneapolis. He even flew in my twin sister Susannah. At one point during the party, he said, ‘Do me a favor and sit down at this table and wait.’ So I waited, and then in comes Prince and Joni Mitchell to sit with me, and she gave me three of her lithographs as a present. It was one of my most profound moments. Prince was a fan of Joni’s, just like Lisa [Coleman] and I were, so to get to know her was incredible. I remember a time when we were in California, and Prince called me and said, ‘Let’s go out and have dinner at Joni’s place in Malibu.’ I just thought Oh my god! The three of us get in the car and we played Blue on the drive to her place. We got there and opened the door and Joni was calling for her cat Puss-Puss in that beautiful voice of hers. The walls of her house were covered with her portraits of people like Miles Davis — it was amazing. So we’re on the couch, having these incredibly deep conversations with Joni Mitchell, and Prince walks over to the piano and starts playing “A Case of You.” Then Joni says, ‘Oh wow! That’s really pretty. What song are you playing?’ We all yelled, ‘It’s your song!’ Prince got such a kick out of that.”

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Reply #14 posted 03/27/17 9:59am

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OldFriends4Sale said:

Wendy Melvoin
“For my 20th birthday, Prince decided to throw a surprise party for me at a club called Tramps in Minneapolis. He even flew in my twin sister Susannah. At one point during the party, he said, ‘Do me a favor and sit down at this table and wait.’ So I waited, and then in comes Prince and Joni Mitchell to sit with me, and she gave me three of her lithographs as a present. It was one of my most profound moments. Prince was a fan of Joni’s, just like Lisa [Coleman] and I were, so to get to know her was incredible. I remember a time when we were in California, and Prince called me and said, ‘Let’s go out and have dinner at Joni’s place in Malibu.’ I just thought Oh my god! The three of us get in the car and we played Blue on the drive to her place. We got there and opened the door and Joni was calling for her cat Puss-Puss in that beautiful voice of hers. The walls of her house were covered with her portraits of people like Miles Davis — it was amazing. So we’re on the couch, having these incredibly deep conversations with Joni Mitchell, and Prince walks over to the piano and starts playing “A Case of You.” Then Joni says, ‘Oh wow! That’s really pretty. What song are you playing?’ We all yelled, ‘It’s your song!’ Prince got such a kick out of that.”

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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #15 posted 03/27/17 1:04pm

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Cool stuff! It's interesting to hear that Prince had a real friendship with his musical heroine, Joni Mitchell. It is a unique kind of perspective to hear some bandmates' stories of interactions with him in their teens and early twenties--such an influential time to be together. Sounds like their experiences were strung with hijinks, laughter, and even heartfelt adoration--it must have kept them all loose enough to produce good music together.

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