June7 said:

thank you for my teenage Dreams!!!!!

CinisterCee said:

You read wrong. There was never a Japanese pressing with "The Screams Of Passion" (Extended Mix) on it, just a fan release...

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Who plays bass with them?

June7 said:

Bitter, but maybe justified. Prince allowed no personal expression of his protege's then... The Family was a talented group who had to do Prince's bidding. Prince created them, but could have let them develop & grow, as he did with The Time. No-one knows the real deal but Prince and The Family, though.

Front page news is deserving of this announcement. Many Prince fans have always appreciated The Family. I think it was the funkiest Prince record ever, and it's not entirely because of Prince. Great collaborators there - too bad they didn't get the chance to develop. Maybe now they can do some nice stuff.

KidOmega said:

You can almost say the same thing for The Time and Sheila E's debut albums...etc...etc...

I saw The Family perform at The Family Jamm a few years back and they almost stole the f**kin show!!!

Rumour is they are going to visit the UK/Europe... I'll be first in the queue!!!

Welcome back The Family!!
[Edited 2/3/07 22:49pm]

As before, this is very exciting news. I'm glad it's happening.

I'm very interested in the information, but my "Friends" requests to the official MySpace page keep going missing.

I'm positive that it must be a mistake of some kind, as that's not the kind of thing an "official" site would do; just not good business or PR sense. JessE, when you have a sec can you let me know what's going on?

Thanks
K

psychodelicide said:

Seriously, some of you laugh at this, but being Donny Osmond's musical director has likely been a really good gig for Paul. He played bass in the house band on the Donny & Marie talk show in the 90s, and I believe he's been touring with Donny ever since. Donny has quite a following, and the Osmonds are HUGE in the UK. I'm sure Paul is doing just fine.

Jeff

Paul needs to re-release his first solo album, and include the extended mix of "Intimacy". Now that is a jam.

I thought St.Paul sued Prince for breaking his career years ago. And now all of a sudden they are friends again? If so, there is definitly hope for all of the wars in the world. Love thy enemy....

But seriously, I adored the Family's record and played it over and over again. Even before Skinhead O'Conner wrecked the most beautiful song in the world that's on it. The original sounds so much better...

newdawn said:

Hmm. I'm wondering where you got this idea.

I'm not saying that St. Paul and Prince aren't friendly again -- I have no way of knowing -- but I certainly haven't seen anything in this thread that tells me they are or really says anything at all about Prince's role in this, if any.

Alliasan said:

I hate to contribute to rumours, but if anything I thought Prince sued Paul for breach of contract when he "quit", not the other way around.

At any rate, I would guess they are on good terms now....but i really don't know.

Paul seems like a really great, nice and real guy so I doubt he harbours bad feelings. Similarly, Prince seems to be getting over stuff with past associates as well (e.g. W&L).

calldapplwondery83 said:

Jellybean is a great bass player....

IDEJJD said:

At the Family Jamm, Sheila's bassist sat in with them and Miko Weaver played guitar. I think some of the other keyboard players from Sheila's house band also supported them (as a keyboard player, I know it's hard to hold down all those parts by yourself!!!) Actually, if you watched closely, Sheila snuck on stage and played even more keys during Mutiny..... she later told me it was so funky she couldn't control herself! I dont blame her! But most of us did't know she played keys!

Actually, during one song Eric played keys a little too when he wasn't blowing (I think it was Screams of Passion).

In the post from Paul's manager above, I think he mentions that some of Sheila's peeps will be rounding at the backing band.

You know during the famous one night only Family concert back in 1985, Wendy and Susannah's brother Jonathan (RIP), and another guy whom I can't remember played keys (in addiiton to Paul playing a little too on a couple songs)....not sure who played guitar back then (possibly Miko).

Jellybean will most surely play drums.... I think Paul's favorite instrument is bass, although he plays guitar and keys too.

In his solo DVD which you can buy from his website, he actually plays bass and sings the whole time.... even during Jungle Love!!! Very impressive!
[Edited 2/7/07 11:48am]

a "sign of the times" in "family style"
mini movie... WOW!!!

a DVD plus 2 CD pajama box set.... WOW!!!!
with original album and 5 or 11 new songs.... WOW!!!!

WOW!!!!



and a CAT... WOW!!!! WOW!!!! WOW!!!! Yeah YEAAH.....



Please dont make us settle for a bodgee
5 minute mobile phone recording on youtube....

please.....

^^^^^ I could go for "said" plan....

Yes please, no mobile phone recordings....

oldpurple said:

Nice purple Chia avatar! I like Zafaras myself.

Alliasan said:

I know! I just had to look back through all the pages of this thread to see what confused soul was talking about Susanna Hoffs!