Anji said:

Okay then, Brave Tart!



(I'm done now).

Something sounds familiar.

Okay, it's been a running joke for about five years, so I guess it's time to come clean...

I am responsible for the "Hey Hannigan" hoax.

"Hey Hannigan" is (obviously) not a Prince outtake. I don't know who created it. But I know who "performed" the vocals: John Grubor, a disbarred lawyer who was possibly the most deranged poster to Usenet back in the mid-1990s. (They were not by Beavis of Beavis and Butt-head, although I can hear the similarity.)

What happened was this: Mr. Grubor called Martin Hannigan (a well-known Usenet poster) and left a threatening message on Mr. Hannigan's answering machine or voice mail. For everyone's amusement, Mr. Hannigan posted a sound file of the message to the Web.

Then, some creative individual chopped up the recording into individual words and hacked together a Web page (entitled "John Grubor Sez!") where you could pick certain words and create sound files of Mr. Grubor saying anything, with the limitation that you could only use the words from the original telephone message.

Finally, somebody (I don't know whether it was the same person behind "John Grubor Sez!") decided to use this "cut-and-paste" approach to make a song. They assembled the vocals and put some simple music behind it. Tne result was the song "Hey Hannigan."

I don't know why, but I found "Hey Hannigan" very amusing, and I somehow came up with the idea for the hoax. Using a false identity, I inserted "Hey Hannigan" into a list of tracks known to exist and rumored to be on the (then) forthcoming Newpower Soul album. At least one Prince news site published my list as a possible tracklist for Newpower Soul.

Then, once I had created enough "hype," I posted links to the "Hey Hannigan" sound file, with the explanation that it was just a demo version (hence the poor quality).

Most people immediately realized that it was a fake. But at least one person believed that it was a genuine Prince song, and some other people indicated that they weren't sure. (Either Ben or Kevin commented on the PPML that the guitar sounded like Prince.) One person said something like, "Even if it isn't Prince, I wish he'd release something like that!"

When the final Newpower Soul tracklist became known, I made up some excuse about the track being yanked at the last minute (like "Days of Wild" being removed from The Gold Experience). I also claimed that Prince and the NPG would perform it during a television appearance to promote Newpower Soul, and when that didn't happen, my excuse was that "Hey Hannigan" got edited out of the broadcast version.

From that point forward, the joke sort of took on a life of its own, and people would facetiously insert "Hey Hannigan" into things like concert tracklists or discussions of best Prince outtakes.

So there you have it, from the horse's mouth. "Hey Hannigan" is a hoax, not a Prince outtake.

matt!!!

Well done Matt

I'm not that same twit "rdhull" that was from amp..I stole his name to fuck with him when the org V.2 began toute' suite

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[This message was edited Tue Feb 11 14:03:59 PST 2003 by rdhull]

My initials are really "E.S."

jnoel said:

She certainly was...i called her in the USA once. That's my sin, but she has a beautiful voice so i'm not guilty at all.

Karen...forgive me.

Paisley said:

just jealous

Aerogram said:

I never detected any Noveau B-ness about you

rdhull said:

who from here hangs out at AMP?

rdhull said:

Some would probably say that's because I'm all Old-B.

Christopher said:

you

Not only did I buy all of MJs back catalogue last week, but also I really, really LOVE "Heal the World".


Heal the world. Make it a better place.



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[This message was edited Tue Feb 11 21:02:38 PST 2003 by mrdespues]

rdhull said:

lol since when?...i do not.

mrdespues said:

That music was the work of his "giving tree".. Gotta chop that tree down and bring on the blame it on the boogie bush.

Christopher said:

ok TD

rdhull said:

Bush? You gotta be kidding me, only bush this man has gotten close to is his own.

rdhull said:

who is TD? goodness...i never even been to AMP

rdhull said:

I want the boogie back, too! But I'm a softy at heart as well sometimes.

Christopher said:

Hanging out on AMP is devilish.

LaVisHh said:

that boogie bush created Dancin Machine, Shake Your Body,
Lovely One, Workin Day n Night etc...

rdhull said:

I know.

:Brick:

rdhull said:

What albums are Dancin' Machine, Shake Your Body and Lovely One on?

mrdespues said:

Goin Places(?), Destiny and Triumph. Jacksons albums. Dest and Tri are are Parade and SOTT before Prince did his thing.

rdhull said:

Ta, I will look them up on AMG and check em out!

LaVisHh said:

Check you out..MS Moderator.. j/k. Congrats chica.

rdhull said:

Hey now, nuff of dat Modaraaaytor stuff.

(thanks, btw)

Moonbeam said:

So much for being an open book.

Diva said:

I'm open about MY secrets. Not others' though.