without a tiny man slappin the bass and busting funkyass quirky beats on his Linn LM-1 and some chicken guitar played on a Hohner telecaster (by that same tiny man)..I have ZERO INTEREST !!!!!

nice

prettymansson said:

u just wasted a post then

thats what the P&R forum is for ...

SammiJ said:

I said what I mean EXACTLY !!!!!

June7 said:

I feel the opposite. This news is bigger to me than a new Prince album.

You do raise a good point though in that if Prince isn't involved, who will be doing the songwriting? Paul? I wasn't that impressed with his first solo album.

I'm loving this and I hope they play somewhere near Ohio so I can catch them!

7kisses4U said:

That would kick ass!!

I for one am very excited about this!

Uh, did Doyle & Susannah break up or something? What'd I miss?
How's this gonna work? Doyle's not gonna play lead guitar 4 the Family?
It'll b interesting 2 c how this pans out!~plus, no Prince involvment?

WonderU said:

sextonseven said:

Hello, what about Susannah? She got some mad songwriting skills. Ask Madonna.

This is great news.... I flew from NY to Cali to see these guys play at the Family Jam... next to seeing The Revolution play, The Family was my second reason for making that trip..

June7 said:

Because they know only Prince fans (about 50,000 or so) are going to buy this album.

Adisa has it spot on. Only people who know the band's history will buy new material... unless they manufacture something great that puts them in the music spotlight. Until that time this is huge Prince news.

its cool and all but i would be more jonzed about a pacifico or funksway album/tour.

but cool news none the less.

WonderU said:

June7 said:

How about it's because St. Paul wants to write new songs this time around.

I would love it if they could release the new cd along with the original Family cd in a two cd package! I'll also settle for just the new cd.

I hear they're booked to play county fairs, Jr. High School dances, various charity galas, Jewish community centers and "commercial events" accross the midwest this Spring and Summer!!! Hell ya!!!
[Edited 1/30/07 0:03am]

Okay, my Ipod plays "Screams of Passion" & within a minute of that shit coming on I log on & see this

AntiConservative: grow up.

This is magnificent news. Irrelevant of Prince's involvement. The Family is a wonderful album. It is a shame that the project died the death it did. If the original members of the group can revive its spirit and, possibly, the potential popularity of the project then all is well in heaven and its five circles.

Actually, Anticonservative - live up to your name. Stop being so patronising. I'm almost moved to swear at you.

June7 said:

I think what they mean is,they're gonna actually promote the record the way it should have been promoted.Back in 1985,Paul Peterson and the other members were disappointed with the lack of promotion their album received.Prince was spreading himself too thin....filming 'Under The Cherry Moon',recording 'Parade',doing occasional gigs,AND trying to run a record company.As a result,the Family album came and went without making any impact.They don't want the same thing to happen this time.

This is great news for Family fams. They, along with Prince put 2gether a decent set of music. It was truly a shame that they put 2gether the best version of 'Nothing Compares 2 U' and most people have never heard it. If they can work with P and put 2gether some new tracks, that would be fantastic.

If they are bitter, who could blame them. I'm sure they worked pretty hard 2 put the album out and P pretty much gives them the Heisman because it conflicts with completing the 'Under The Cherry Moon' project. He's a great musician but u kinda have to admit that when he gets bored with or something more enticing comes along he tends to bail on certain projects.

i heard Paul has to make a payment on the "van down by the river" he is living in ....

bhayesview said:

According to Paul Peterson,the promotion for the Family album was non-existent.They did a video for the first single "Screams Of Passion" and played one gig at First Avenue.He angrily called Prince on the phone while he was in France filming 'Under The Cherry Moon'.He told Prince "You can't do a million things at one time",and Prince replied "Oh yes I can.I did it with the Time.I did it with Sheila E" After this heated conversation,Paul quit the band and they broke up.

7kisses4U said:

That would be great, since I didn't have their first album on CD, only on cassette.

SnidelyWhiplash said:

For real?????

kidddddinnngggg ... altho ... thats the first thing i thought of ... i mean ... this dude "quits " the band ... never really does anything else ... how is he surviving ...

as far as "promotion" ... i remember working in a small radio station back then and i thought it was promoted well ... i remember playin "screams of passion " a few times .... of course i thought it ... "eh" for Prince ... but hey what do i know ....

SnidelyWhiplash said:

Not sure what Paul did after quitting the Family. I know he released several solo albums, but I don't think they sold very well, unfortunately.