According to the NY Times in recent article about Las Vegas.....

“The show is anything but a retirement show,” said Sam Jennings, director of Prince’s fan club operation. “He sees it as just an opportunity to stretch his legs musically,” by mixing up his song choices, booking performers of his own choosing several nights a week and inviting guests to perform with him on his Friday and Saturday gigs.

Has anyone ever heard of this guy? I never even heard of such a person when the npgmc was still up and running.

I'd personally like to get ahold of him to figure out why I haven't received any npg emails since June.

Insiders, please?

altavista said:

you've never heard of Sam Jennings? he's been around for a long time....I think he used to be just some joe shmoe fan and somehow got involved with P and designing the webpages and stuff. I could be wrong about all that but I'm pretty sure Sam J has been in the Prince camp for quite some time.

nope, never met him in my life, never heard of him.

Anx said:

are you being serious? (are you ever being serious?)

oh...and for the record...I don't know the man just heard of him.

Shorty said:

i'm never being serious.

he's a very nice person, seriously.

http://www.samnation.com/

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He is the long time DJ for Prince night at Berlin (in Chicago), I think he's aka SamNation...and he has a myspace page as well. I also think he was the web designer for the old NPGMC website as well as this new 3121 one.





Damn langebleu is fast with the samnation info! edit
[Edited 11/14/06 10:36am]

altavista said:

That would be Samnation from Chi-town.

Anx said:

shaking fist emoticon goes here.

Read your liner notes on Prince's releases for the past several years. Besides webmastering, Sam also did graphic design on most of the CDs.

Sam was taking pics saturday night of people

Anx said:

Name sounds familiar? Could someone describe how he looks?

Stymie said:

i think he's made up, or probably one of prince's alter ego names.

Stymie said:

Does Fred ring a bell?

obsessed said:

I don't know. Does Fred own a bell?

Anx said:

I believe he does, yes...

Anx said:

I never have seen them both in the same place at the same time.

Stymie said:

altavista said:

Yes, I believe he was director of the npgmc fan club. Me and my friends that attended the show this past weekend talked to him for about 20 minutes the night of the opening of 3121.He asked if he could take our pictures and we said yes. He took pictures and talked briefly with just about everyone waiting on line that weekend and put the pictures up on the 12 movie screens in the club. He is very nice.
[Edited 11/16/06 6:56am]

Stymie said:

I think Sam's taller...

PositivityNYC said:

Lifts in his shoes. Don't tell him I said that.

PositivityNYC said:

i think they're both robots operated by the same talking squirrel who controls their actions from a small control room in their chests.

but you didn't hear it from me.

So.....any chance of finding Mr. Jennings and suggesting that fan club members have a place to update their profiles? I was a member npgmc but haven't recieved any e-mail since the site shut down. VERY frustrating....gives me palpitations.....

Drales said:

The only way one can update their profile is by logging into a secure area of the website. And you wouldn't want your data & everything attached to be moved to an unsecured area because that could leave us all open to hackers, spammers, phishers & other trolls.

None of us can do anything until (unless) they unlock the doors, so to speak.
That call is Prince's....


patience is a virtue.... and I hear time is a trick anyways, so relax; it'll be over b4 u know it....

2elijah said:

Don't you all remember www.emale.com ?

That was Sam's site. He had some downloads on there too if I remember correctly.

There was also an interview with Mayte to where she mentioned her and prince inteviewing him via an online chat for the job. He was a fan just like most of us who had a fansite ( www.emale.com ) and his web design got the attention of Prince and Mayte. That's when www.love4oneanother.com was born. It was asked at the time for all prince related websites to come together to form one website. Or so the message said. Later www.npgonlineltd.com was launched and the former site was replaced by the flash file and song "One Song". www.npgonlineltd.com later grew into www.npgmusicclub.com . Now we only have www.3121.com .

It was also said that it was Sam's baby at the end of the track "Xpedition" on the album Xpectation.

Sam's been around for a VERY long time and I think his career length with Prince is starting to rival some of Prince's earlier bandmates! Ohh, did I just jinx him?

yamomma said:

He seems to be a very nice man. He was very courteous to those of us waiting on line on Friday/Saturday (11/10-11/11) and chatting it up with everyone, he's a cool dude.

Thanks yamomma for the chronological lowdown about the sites...
that is quite a lengthy history...

Any thoughts about this one? May not have anything to do with Prince...
just kinda wonderin'...

http://www.prince.com/