Isn't St. Paul Peterson still playing with The Truth on Thursday nights at Fine Line Music Cafe in Minneapolis? I met him when he was playing with The Truth at Trocaderos on Thursday nights but now they've moved to the Fine Line. Jellybean also plays with The Truth doesn't he? He did when I saw them.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong...

psychodelicide said:

Exactly...

way2funky said:

I hope you're right, cuz I never did get to see them at Trocs...

This is very cool!

I got 'The Family' CD as a Japanese import about 10 years ago... Been taking real good care of it since then - It'd be nice to add to that collection (of one)

... Kind of like 'The Power Station' did with their first CD (1986) and then Releasing 'Living In Fear' in 1996.
[Edited 1/30/07 11:30am]

obsessed said:

I'm going to see them at Fine Line next Thursday so I'll let you know. Unless of course you beat me there and go this Thursday.

way2funky said:

I looked up the dates on his MySpace, and I see they are there the next 2 weeks....

Unfortunately, I don't think I can make either one...here we go again..

However, I see they are there every Thurs. in March...

CosmicTalk said:

I used to own St. Paul's two solo albums, they were pretty good, I enjoyed them.

obsessed said:

obsessed said:

If they were smart they would re-release their first album. Who is going to write their new music? Is it still going to be R&B?

I'll get excited about this project when they reissue to the public the "Family" cd from Paisley Park, INCLUDING the 12" extended version of "screams of passion"..


then as far as the tour &/or a new album,
let's see if (or for how long) you-know-who can keep his flawlessly manicured, stubby, controlling little fingers off "his" band..
if he muscles his way in, it will probably end like it did 22 years ago :
with an unceremonious THUD.
but what the hell - I can cross my fingers..

It's great news.
I think they can do a good album,without Prince.
I liked St Paul's 1st album,it would be nice if there would be 1 or 2 tracks written by Prince....wishfull thinking

Does anybody have any info on the relationship between the Family and Prince? Did the relationship end on a good or bad note? why did they originally break up? All I remember is them releasing two singles then they disappeared.

Sorry to say (for 'them') but of course the Family album from 1985 was a Prince album. A sometimes genious experiment to mix the Minneapolis sound with real orchestral arrangements by Clare Fisher. And therefore a blueprint for a lot of the music on Parade, The Jill Jones album and parts of Lovesexy.

Some tracks were predating his Jazz-funk work with Madhouse, and were a result of him trying out things with Eric Leeds.

St. Paul is not a bad singer, but on the album he is obviously 'copying' the vocal tracks Prince layed out on the basic tracks. His solowork after that is often not more then very cheesy eighties-funkpop.
What dit we really hear from Susannah after this album. She might have written some nice tracks for others, and has performed some decent background vocals on the albums of Wendy and Lisa. But not much more.
According to the reports Jellybean Johnson and Jerome Benton (does he even 'play' an instrument?) weren't even on the album!

To conclude:
- Yes, please, release this fine album on CD.
- Don't expect some brilliant new music from the Family, its probably best they limit themselves to performing on the Minneapolis club circuit.

Riverpoet31 said:

Every word is true, but I can't help getting excited about them touring (even though I'm sure it will be a let down!).

BoySimon said:

The Family was one of the best all-around Prince protege acts of the 80s. Lighten up!

CalhounSq said:

Are you a Pisces? That would explain it

Super Weird Supa!

slakk said:

You have no idea about Super weird. My experiences would make that shit look normal

This is fantastically fantastic news!! The Family was such a great project & they deserve to get their props.

Jeff



http://jeffreyanderson.blogspot.com

um.... why? not that their album isn't great, but.... um, they didn't actually DO anything.

KidOmega said:

Well, the thing about The Family was that they rehearsed the shit out of that band, and Prince had just stopped paying attention to them due to negligence. When it ended, it probably seemed like a waste of alot of hard work. I bet they always regretted not touring. The Family Jamm show having been so sucessful, I bet they are doing this project now merely for the fun of it, it's not like it's gonna make them tons of money or anything. That's a great reason to have a band!

jaimestarr79 said:

Paul Peterson (lead singer) left the band a few months after their album was released.He was disappointed with the lack of promotion and felt that Prince wasn't giving them enough attention.The band broke up...Jerome,Susannah and Eric joined Prince's band while Paul went solo.Prince was pissed at Paul for leaving,filing a lawsuit against him and even writing a song about Paul's departure ("Dream Factory").

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So will a new Time album be next? Will Prince be a part of it?

Being this is a Prince group (for lack of a better term), will Prince have any input to this project?

From the artwork for Guitar...to the reunion of The Family.... as an observation, it would appear as though Prince may be going old school....purging out the old to make room for the new....

Will there be a reunion of the Revolution too? Wendy and Lisa definately have been working with Prince in the past year....

Bangles reunion next?

pardonme4livin said:

Actually The Bangles reunited about 6 or 7 years ago and are still active. They've got a couple of projects in the works for this year: thebangles.com

jeff

obsessed said:

thanks alot. you 2 JediMaster. sounds like Prince had alot of side projects. coolies.

herb55105 said:

Wait a minute... we're talking apples to oranges! The difference here is that the Bangles were already a successful group when Prince wrote "Manic Monday" for them. (That song took them to #2 on the pop charts.) Their first #1 was with "Walk Like An Egyptian". Other than dating Susannah Hoffs for a bit and writing "Manic Monday", he really had nothing else to do with them.

They did get together for a reunion tour to some success.- and Susannah still looks hot!




(Perfectionist Edit - Ironic, huh?)
[Edited 1/31/07 6:43am]

the bangles werent a success...they were a band before prince but they didnt have their first hit until Manic Monday...well, actually...that was their first single wasnt it?

The numbers after the title of the song indicate their placement on the US charts first, then UK. Okay, so their first big hit was with Prince, but, it's not like he was responsible for their career. By the way, the only thing that kept "Manic Monday" from going to number one was PRINCE! He was busy at number one with "Kiss".


1981 "Getting Out of Hand" - - Locally released in USA only
1983 "The Real World (Remix)" - - The Bangles Promo-only release in USA only
1984 "Hero Takes a Fall" - 96 All Over the Place
1985 "Going Down to Liverpool" - 79 All Over the Place
1986 "Manic Monday" 2 2 Different Light Written by "Christopher" (Prince)[2]
1986 "If She Knew What She Wants" 29 31 Different Light
1986 "Going Down to Liverpool (re-release)" - 56 All Over the Place UK only
1986 "Walk Like an Egyptian" 1 3 Different Light
1987 "Walking Down Your Street" 11 16 Different Light
1987 "Following" - 55 Different Light UK only
1987 "Hazy Shade of Winter" 2 11 Less Than Zero Motion Picture Soundtrack
1988 "In Your Room" 5 35 Everything
1988 "Eternal Flame" 1 1 Everything
1989 "Be with You" 30 23 Everything
1989 "I'll Set You Free (remix)" - 74 Everything
1990 "Everything I Wanted" - - Greatest Hits Continental Europe/Australia only
1990 "Walk Like an Egyptian (remix)" - 73 Greatest Hits UK only
1990 "The Eternal Mix" - - Greatest Hits Promo only, Spain only
2003 "Something That You Said" - 38 Doll Revolution
2003 "Tear Off Your Own Head" - - Doll Revolution Continental Europe & Japan only
2003 "I Will Take Care of You " - 74 Doll Revolution UK Only
2006 "Light My Way" - - - Download Only (iTunes)