If you were an adolescent during the 1999 - Purple Rain era, you used to grab a broomstick for a guitar, run and put on your mama's clothes and jewelry and perform along with Prince whenever he came on television. Didn't ya? Come on, confess!

tennis rackets for guitars and broomsticks fr the mics












[This message was edited Sat Nov 1 22:47:11 PST 2003 by PEJ]

PEJ said:

that's what I'm talking about Come on outta that box don't be ashamed.

Yeah and a hair brush as my mic and the mirror to see my dance moves...

Yup... just try explaining to your mom that you were "only trying to do the Detroit Crawl" after she finds her broken high heels in the back of her closet.
[This message was edited Sat Nov 1 23:25:13 PST 2003 by alldayallnight]

alldayallnight said:

I used my dick as a mike, and boy could I sing!

i had a guitar and a bass and i used to hook those suckers up to the amp and TRY to play along while singing my heart out...oh, i was so wrong...lol! ithink the only thing i coudl get right was the opening chords to 'purple rain'...hahaha! but it was even better once i started playing saxophone...oooh, the neighbors would be mad when i'd try to play 'its gonna be a beautiful night".

psykosoul said:

Actually, during SOTT, i grabbed my baseball bat and held many a concert in my bedroom...

I was 10 in 1984. Purple Rain was the first record I bought, followed by 1999. My folks were not impressed with them, but strangely didn't take them away from me. I bought Purple Rain cuz a hot chick I lived next door to, brought it home one day and I happened to be riding my BMX. I asked her what she bought and she showed me the album cover. I was huge in motorcycles then too. I ran out and bought it right away. I had to hear what this vixen listened to. I used to use my toy machine guns as guitars and TP roll for a mic. And today, I still listen to that guys music 20 years later, and I play in a group of my own with real guitars and mics.

alldayallnight said:

SunDance said:

LOL!!!

thank goodness for my friends' moms' regency ruffles shirt

wildblueangel said:

I never dressed up as prince, but watched the concert videos with my mom, her friend had lots of bootlegs!

My sister and I (age 9 and 13 respectively) got out mum's lacy things and heels and lip synched to Apollonia 6. Mum does not know, don't tell her!

I liked Let's go Crazy and once my mum played air guitar and slid on her knees across the carpet and got the biggest carpet burn, I had friends over and I was mortified. (This is the kind of thing I am planning to do to my kids too.)

psykosoul said:

5stars to whoever did tho

Absolutley and so did my mum!!

I was just a toddler when I was doing that. Shucks, it's kinda embarrassing explainig it. I used to go into my Mom's closet and dress up like my hero. Or if I was at my Grand's I'd watch MTV non-stop and "go crazy" when a Prince video came on. And, yes, I'd get the tennis racket or umbrella and strum it or get a mop and sing into it. But it was his music that inspired me to become a musician. Good times, good times.

psykosoul said:

nearly! i used to try to dance a little like him...

alldayallnight said:

well i was to young to do all tht, but now i stand infront of a mirror and dance with a broom stick and a tennis racket as the guitar, i kick ass at hes dancing lol

i still do

I only did that when Jarvis Cocker was on tv, I used to put
my grandma's old mink on, pour some grease into my hair,
put on my cousin's bicycle glasses and an old pair of them
steve urkel pant and prance about the livingroom as if I'd
just been circumcised.

Ah those were the days.