Oh, yeah, I remember that song and still love it. Sheila had great b-sides.

Love the ending..."You thought I wasn't...ha!"

i recently got the japanese 45.....belle of st. mark was the a-side!!!!!

Most of Sheila E's b-sides out of the Prince-era are top-notch.
Save The People
Too Sexy
The World's Too High
Paradise Gardens

Did I miss any?

I like Bass Base, the b-side to Sex Cymbal

i love it and i've been trying to find this track...

SoulAlive said:

SoulAlive....THANK YOU!!!

Who's on guitar?

blue22 said:

Eddie Van Halen.






DOH!
Who you think that is? The entire record, except the percussion and the ever so slight vocals is Prince. Prince. Oh, and Prince.
Play it back to back with Shortberry Strawcake. And the extended part of JB and Aretha's duet Gimme Your Love.

HamsterHuey said:

Actually, someone just told me that Sheila wrote this with Stef Birnbaum (Burns), her guitarist at the time. He co-wrote this with her and penned all the guitar melodies. It might be 'Prince' inspired, but it's Birnbaum's work.

This is my first time hearing this and I am loving it. Even after all of these years, that particular "Prince Era" sound get me just as excited as I would have been in junior high when all of this music was being released. This is another reason why I would love to get my hands on the music from "The Vault".

blue22 said:

Oh, my! Yer right! LoL
It's still a Girlsongs ASCAP song, though.

But you could have fooled me. Serious.

LOVE the song.

And in retrospect; alot of her b-sides don't have Prince.

I love, love, love Paradise Gardens and Too High and they dont have much Prince on them either, except the sound.

blue22 said:

Save the People is a jam! The percussion on it is awesome.

blue22 said:

Exactly. I wanted to see just HOW many folks on here was going to swear untill the cows came home that it was P on guitar. Stef was a bad dude on axe. And could seriously imitate P's vocals as well. The screams and the whole 9. He had a good voice. If ya'll ever saw when Sheila was on SNL doing A Love Bizzare when Sheila was trying to play guitar, Stef is the blonde hair cat on axe singing P's vocal part to the song.

blackguitaristz said:

They also performed "Holly Rock" on the same show.

This is the JAM. Friggin love this.

blue22 said:

I saw him play with Santana a few years back. Wonder what he's doing now.

HamsterHuey said:

http://www.bennyworld.com/bio.html

blackguitaristz said:

Yes! I would match him against anyone. He can play Jazz Fusion, Blues, Funk, Metal, Rock. This dude is VERSATILE. And Yes, I remember the SNL performance. He totally screams and does a mean vocal on that. Out of all of them, I think him and Benny have done the best career-wise. I think when he played with Satriani and Steve Vai for a one-off performance, that was awesome.

He's hardly recogisable now, not because of age, but because of the hair! And he has just released an album. www.myspace.com/stefburns1







Joe Satriani & Steve Vai, Stef Burns

yes, very cool track -- like most all sheila's b-sides
nice to see stef get some recognition too... finally!
girlsongs, my butt
there's a lot more going on here than prince would let us know

it'd be nice if prince gave credit to more than just the originator
the completed work is a big improvement upon just the linn, pitched-up guitar, and synth hits

SoulAlive said:

Love it.


Dance baby, Dance.
[Edited 2/6/08 1:04am]

Snap said:

Well, there's bass. Are you saying Benny should get more credit?

Snap said:

True, but I thought that as a writer, it is your concept. In this case, 2 people co-wrote, Sheila & Stef. The other players do help to bring it to light. But you have to start somewhere, and writing is it.

HamsterHuey said:

Benny is one the greatest bassplayers! I've seen him many times,playing in the Santana Band.I also enjoyed his solo CD,released several years ago.As far as I know,he still plays with Santana.They start a new tour pretty soon.

Snap said:

In the 12" the right peoiple get the right credit. It's credited to Sheila, Levi, Benny and Stef. So.

I actually never checked and it sounds SO spot-on Prince. I love the Sheila E band. No wonder Prince stole her personnel all of the time.

Boni, Renato, Levi.