His biggest misstep?

All opinion, of course.

I'd say the movie "Graffiti Bridge;" may have been.

Y'all?

Trusting the wrong ass people.

Leaving WB

That he could control everything in his life.

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

Trusting the wrong ass people.

Thinking he could take as many pills as he did that led to his death

Thinking that he could do everything himself.I'm talking about things like firing a movie director and deciding that he could direct the movie himself (UTCM)....or assuming that he could successfully run a record company (Paisley Park Records) without skilled people to assist him

Didn't make the right decision after Moline to get help and kick the addiction or whatever he was going through. Thant was a sign and if handled better he'd still be here.

- Becoming a JW which, eventually, significantly contributed to his death.

- miscalculating how many pills he could take

- disbanding the Revolution.

Larry Graham

rave unto blue suit

Hubris! Not seeking medical treatment and using illegally obtained medicine to treat a legitimate pain issue.

The doctor that some are mad at... if he would have prescribed Vicodin Kirk's name...

Throwing away his life after getting a 2nd chance in Moline.

OnlyNDaUsa said:

Hubris! Not seeking medical treatment and using illegally obtained medicine to treat a legitimate pain issue.

The doctor that some are mad at... if he would have prescribed Vicodin Kirk's name...

Spot on!!!!

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PennyPurple said:

Throwing away his life after getting a 2nd chance in Moline.

Agree, makes me think how many other close calls we dont know about

This website is so predictable.

1725topp said:

This website is so predictable.

We said you'd say that.

TrivialPursuit said:

1725topp said:

This website is so predictable.

We said you'd say that.

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And so it was written and done.

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firing Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis

Drugs. Larry Graham. Closing Paisley Park to other artists using it. Divorcing Mayte, and not adopting children with her. Did I mention Larry Graham?

CatB said:

Larry Graham

This.

Not leaving the studio to get ice cream. Releasing Dirty Mind in demo format. Replacing Gayle with Lisa. Plugging the Linn into a flanger. Dropping the bass from WDC. Taking Kiss back. Leaving the vocals on Forever in My Life and IIWYG as is. Going on stage at The Trojan Horse one night in 1988. Counting on a Batman-themed song being a hit in 1989. Releasing TMBGITW as his first independent single. Orchestrating a massive career comeback in 2004 when he was already 20 years older than most pop stars and innovating record release strategies. Playing 21 nights at the 02. Banging Kim Basinger, writing Controversy...

Is there a giant Prince's great decisions thread somewhere?

mtlfan said:

Not leaving the studio to get ice cream. Releasing Dirty Mind in demo format. Replacing Gayle with Lisa. Plugging the Linn into a flanger. Dropping the bass from WDC. Taking Kiss back. Leaving the vocals on Forever in My Life and IIWYG as is. Going on stage at The Trojan Horse one night in 1988. Counting on a Batman-themed song being a hit in 1989. Releasing TMBGITW as his first independent single. Orchestrating a massive career comeback in 2004 when he was already 20 years older than most pop stars and innovating record release strategies. Playing 21 nights at the 02. Banging Kim Basinger, writing Controversy...

Is there a giant Prince's great decisions thread somewhere?

Yeah all sounds good to me.

I was trying to think of a music reference but I can't. I like his creative journey as the highs and lows make the ride.

So I would have to agree with many people referencing his management of pain and taking prescription drugs. His biggest fault is not listening and believing in his own narcissism. Morris Day tried but couldn't get through to him.

sro100 said:

His biggest misstep?

All opinion, of course.

I'd say the movie "Graffiti Bridge;" may have been.

Y'all?

Reading all the nastiness on prince.org.

Artistically/career-wise, Carmen Electra and thinking that this album could be a hit of any kind.

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I do not feel it's my place to comment his personnal/private life and choices.

HerecomethePurpleYoda said:

The whole my name is now a symbol charade.

One of his coolest career moves ever if you ask me.

It had never been done before, and it can never be done again.

HerecomethePurpleYoda said:

The whole my name is now a symbol charade.

There is validity to this.

While we all understood the reasoning and could make quasi-sense of it, it played against him as much as MJ's shenanigans did. Frank Dileo, MJ's manager for a long while, and MJ created this campaign of planting crazy stories in the press, then denying them when asked about them, just to generate attention. The hyperbaric chamber, elephant bones, Liz Taylor shrine, it all backfired on him. Wacko Jacko was a term much of the press adopted. He hated it, and he hated that his scheme to get attention (because, apparently, the attention from Thriller was just not enough) and he never lived it down.

I don't believe Prince felt was a spiritual move. But I do believe he tried to Muhammad Ali his way through the better part of seven years until he let it go and went back to the only real name he ever had. He never had to change his name. He just had to let his contract expire in a few years. The name change didn't get him out of it sooner, nor did it relieve him of any obligations he signed up for when he inked those deals. The entity of the person still existed, despite what anyone called it.

Ultimately, it was sort of embarrassing, I think. Of course, he'd play it off as some pseudo-religious experience. While he created a new thought process for an artist's independence, we all knew better about the name itself. He could have done that under his birth name just as effectively, evidenced by the fact that he continued to fight for artist's rights more years as Prince, than as .