I'm so curious about how U guys became a fan of Prince.
I became a fan when I was 5 or 6 when my mom's friend introdued me 2 Prince the Artist. I had alot of Prince stuff...T-shirts,musicvideos,cds,and a big poster of Prince in his yellow outfit. So...How did U guys became a fan,and when U dig him and his music?? Tell me a story!!

I got shot in the shin and as I bent over to inspect my wound I spotted Prince walking past my shoe. He gave me a copy of New Power Soul for free and I've never looked back since.

Cloudbuster said:

That's a great story!

Cloudbuster said:

i saw it happen

Missy said:

when i was a kid in my father's houe, we were not allowed to listen to any secular music as my father was a complete religious zealot. it was disney or christian, nothing else.

the summer of 1984, we moved to tennessee, and my father took a job that kept him away from the house a lot (thank god) and my mother and i would listen to the radio, enjoying the music he wouldn't let us hear. i heard "let's go crazy" and i did go crazy. i was a 7 year old in love wiht prince.

whenever my father came back, the radio would go back onto it's normal religious station, but prince and madonna were always my mother and i's little secret love.

later when i was placed into a foster home in 1990, the first thing i did when i got enough money was to go out and buy a lot of prince and madonna, and i have been hooked ever since.

wrong forum!!

maybe that is why i detest all of prince's latest religious music... maybe subconciously it makes me feel like my father won.

Cloudbuster said:

Something similar happened to me. I was stuck in the middle of the Indian ocean on a small sailboat that was struck by lightning and started to sink. Just as I was about to go under, Prince floated on over in a yellow rubber dinghy and gave me a copy of Dirty Mind for free and I've never looked back since.

cborgman said:

theVelvetRoper said:

Cloudbuster said:

hey mister, looking for a date? i'm saving up to buy ONAL

Milty said:

When Is a forum isn't a forum?? Y do everybody keep saying that?? I ask a question..not an opinion.

cborgman said:

Is that the edition with Joyce as special guest?

Missy said:

well, this is general discussion forum, and this thread is more of a prince:music and more forum thread

Cloudbuster said:

does it matter? just gimme 20 bucks and take off your pants.

I saw the "Little Red Corvette" video and thats all it took.

cborgman said:

Over here big boy!!

Cloudbuster said:

uh...

if there is one thing prince and madonna have taught me, it's this:

always get the money first

:emptyhand:

cborgman said:

like i said, wrong forum...are the mods asleep today?

Milty said:

no, just dealing with the big dramas... this is small fries by comparisson to the two big ones going on

cborgman said:

really? like what?

I saw him before I heard his music. My cousin had the poster from Controversy, don't know why a wet man in a thong drove me crazy, but he did, it was 1982, just before he released 1999. I then made it my mission to hear his music and have continued to be crazy since. I used to play Dirty Mind on my toy record player...with 3 nickels attached to the arm...fake needle you know. Now that's devotion...

..at about age 7 or so when I saw him on Dick Clark's American Bandstand. I was GLUED to the tv and just knew he was the most wonderful thing to ever grace a television screen. I also remember my babysitter's son making fun of him because he didn't say much- telling me "Look at him! He from special-ed, he from special-ed...!" at that point I recall throwing my Darcy doll at him and nearly gouging his eye out for having no taste in entertainers, lol!

Later I would go on to see my first Prince concert during the Controversy era, at about 12 or 13 (my cousin took me, and NATURALLY my parents had NO idea what that show was going to be like otherwise they would have FLAT-OUT REFUSED that I go),and once I saw him perform "Do Me Baby" on that king sized bed, oh LORD, was it was all over...!!!

ReeseStrongnight said:

Cool... Wish I can go back in time 2 see Prince on the bed like that!!

I was young, before I was born, or was it after? I dont remember!

Lleena said:

althom said:

Althom you should get a Valentines Day Avatar!!!

Lleena said:

Really??? I hadn't thought about that.