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JUST KIDDING..

I WAS READING ANOTHER THREAD AND MADE ME THINK..

"WHY WASN'T THE TIME MUCH BIGGER THAN THEY WERE"

THERE WAS A TIME THAT MY FRIENDS AND I LISTENED TO THE TIME


WAAAAAY MORE THAN PRINCE

AND WE HAD ALL THE DANCES DOWN PAT..


IMAGINE.. A BUNCH OF WHITE COUNTRY KIDS PERFORMING "THE BIRD" AT A SCHOOL DANCE

I don't think people took them all that seriously. I know I never did. I always liked them and thought they were a fun band, but I never thought they had what Prince had. They were there to amuse us, not to mesmerize and wow us the way Prince did/does!

Where were you guys? The Time were really big.

they where amusing yes but they did have talent, remember the original time did spawn terry lewis and Jimmy jam..

i felt the minneapolis funk,

i would seriously buy another one if it came

FunkMistress said:

THEY WERE BIG...BUT I AM TALKIN "MAJOR BIG"

FunkMistress said:

thats what im thinkin' holy shit,.

MidnightFunk said:

That's right. The Time had some R&B success (three top 10 R&B singles vs. Prince's five by 1983), but broke up before their big crossover single "Jungle Love" became a hit. They could have been major big if they were still around to promote the 'Ice Cream Castles' LP.

If they had kept recording together they could have been bigger I think,
but they're by no means unknowns

FunkMistress said:

Ok, Name one album or single that sold more than 50,000 copies outside of the US?

FunkMistress said:

Yep..
They were also Prince's biggest threat.....
Prince admitted that himself.....

funkpill said:

oh please..the only reason he said that was because he wrote and arranged everything they said..

sosgemini said:

The Time would sometimes upstage Prince.....
Then Prince would limit their moments on the stage....
Now that's saying something....They were a threat to Prince.....
The Time was BAD!!!!!
They were the funkiest band in the 80's.....
Great musicians too.....
And they held their own.....
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funkpill said:

true..

true....

true.....

true.....

true.....

and true. but they still werent prince's biggest threat.

sosgemini said:

okay, if you say so.....

andykeen said:

"777-9311" I remember got played a lot in the clubs in the UK and you were extra special if U ever played "Tricky"! This is strictly a DJ/club referrence and not a chart one.

'dre

MidnightFunk said:

Two reasons...


***Jam and Lewis' departure in 1983
***The band breaking up in 1984 at the height of their popularity

If Jam and Lewis had remained,and the entire band had stayed together throughout the 80s,they would have been HUGE.By the time they reunited in 1990 for 'Pandemonium',the thrill was gone and rap had already taken over.


Don't get me wrong,The Time were extremely successful,especially with R&B audiences,but they could have been even bigger.


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sextonseven said:

I agree.'Ice Cream Castles' was their biggest album ever,but they broke up right at the time it was released.Major mistake.There was even a rumor that The Time would be doing their own headlining tour (with Apollonia 6 as the opener) in the fall of 1984,but this never materialized.In the wake of 'Purple Rain',that tour would have been a blockbuster! Another missed opportunity.

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DavidEye said:

Exactly. Morris and Jesse did fairly well with their solo projects in the mid to late 1980s so you can imagine the success The Time would have had as a group. By the time 1990 rolled around, rap had started taking over and every thing changed.



Very true. People tend to judge groups only by the success they have on the pop charts. To be truthful, most of the time when funk/R&B artists start enjoying pop success, they start watering down their music to continue the success. I'm glad The Time never made it that big.
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vainandy said:

There were a lot of R&B groups that did very well over a long period of time without sustaining any mainstream pop success. The Time is a good example of this, but Maze is probably the single best example of this. They have a long history of hits on the R&B chart and barely made a dent in pop music. Doesn't matter to me - they're still phenomenal musicians.

sosgemini said:

As far as a touring band, Yes, they Were a threat to him, and the fact that he had groomed them only compounded the situation."


From Prince's interview , with the Electrifying Mojo, in 1986: "They were, To be perfectly honest, the only band I was ever afraid of...and they were turning into, like, Godzilla."

Of course, Prince groomed them to be one of his stable of groups. But he did not realize how formidable they were on stage! There was still some of that old rivalry that they had back in the day in Minneapolis, with those band battles. While they were certainly no threat to him in the studio, or individually as musicians , it is true, as other Revolution members have also related, that the Revolution was getting their ass kicked nightly by The Time, so yeah as far as a show was concerned they Were a threat...he certainly never intended for them to upstage him, that's why he started limiting them....



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paligap said:

I WAS AT A TIME CONCERT ABOUT 5 YEARS AGO? CAN'T REMEMBER..BUT IT WAS STILL THE BEST CONCERT I HAVE BEEN TO..(BEING IN THE FRONT ROW DIDN'T HURT) BUT IT WAS AWESOME...

THE STAGE SHOW WAS SOOOOO TIGHT...

I CAN'T WAIT 2 SEE EM AGAIN

vainandy said:

True...Kool and the Gang, anyone?

paligap said:

When I played lead with Morris and Andre on a song called "Skirt", they both spoke on this. Morris said that one of the main reasons P and Jessie did not get along was because P felt threatned by Jessie as a guitarist. On the song "Jungle Love" which Jessie wrote, after Jessie left from the studio, Prince
erased some of Jessie's leads. He simply edited it out. When Jessie came back the next day and heard that it was gone, he REALLY wanted to jump on P. I went to two shows on the 1999 tour. The one in Los Angeles, that every celebrity went to, only P and Vanity 6 were on the bill. After that, when P played Long Beach, The Time was added on. When I first saw P in concert was on the Controversy tour at Santa Monica. The Time AND Zapp were on the bill. At that show, P's band was the strongest. BUT, on that 1999 tour, at least at the Long Beach show, The Time fucked P up. It wasn't even close. The Time were clearly the fans favorite. At that show, you could tell by the way people dressed, who they were there to see. They either dressed up like Prince with the trench coat or they wore baggy suits. But when the stagelights came on, you could hear who the crowd's favorite was. And it was The Time.

blackguitaristz said:

Great insight....thanks... could u tell us a little more about the session and what it was like?
and if you have never seen "The Time" live, do it... as they say "the only thing that changed is the date"

paligap said:

Thank you.....

MidnightFunk said:

I dunno. I've seen The Time live a number of times in the last few years and every show was great, but I would kill to the see the original lineup with Jesse, Jimmy and Terry. To me it isn't the same.

It was very cool. It was just two sessions and it was at Andre's loft in Los Angeles. They were both cool, very down to earth brothers.

SquirrelMeat said:

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So, I guess if you don't have a hit record outside of the U.S or make the pop chart you don't rate.

The Time was very popular in the black community pre Purple Rain and if they had stayed together and went on the road with Prince during the Purple Rain tour they would have been even more popular.

I don't think people on this board realize that RnB groups did not get the opportunity to cross over they why they do now.

sosgemini said:

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The fact that you don't know that P has said on serveral interviews that The Time was kicking his ass tells me a lot. It really explains this Wendy and Lisa worship. Anyone who knows anything about Prince knows the baddest muscians were in The Time.