I would have been satisfied with "Matt Blistan" - that's a pretty cool name in itself. "Atlanta Bliss", however, is somehow even more cool; manages to lose that small-time-session-musician-who-also-plays-in-a-really-smug-acid-jazz-band-at-weekends air!

I was just wondering if anybody knew where he got the name from. It's obviously not a Prince creation (Matty B?!)...

peterfalconer said:

Matty B got off lightly compared to Brown Mark...

LittleSmedley said:

Where is he?

gypsyfire said:

He's in a band called After Dark playing weddings, birthdays and bar mitzvahs, isn't he?

(Pardon my spelling)

I've just read in an Eric Leeds interview that just before he started working with Prince, Blistan moved to Atlanta.

I guess that solves that mystery!

(Here's the interview, in case you're interested:

http://www.thelastmiles.c...-leeds.php )

LittleSmedley said:

For real.

I've always hated that name for Mark.

Alasseon said:

Talk about demeaning

He might as well just called him "shitboy"

Poor Mark

The name is not as offensive as you think.
As a teenager, we had a friend affectionately called "Black" Mike.
He is of a very dark complexion--even his siblings referred to him by that name. Another nickname we used was “blue”. Almost everyone I know had a person of dark complexion others affectionately called "blue".

http://www.myspace.com/ggernard

GGD