For conversation's sake.. IF the Revolution didn't break up..

The Following Album...
-Would we have gotten "Dream Factory", "Crystal Ball" or some other project...
I Know "Dream Factory" was Very much a Revolution project.. "Crystal Ball".. Somewhat involved...

The Following Tour...
-Was it to Prince's advatage we got the Historic "SOTT" tour... or was there something left in Prince and The Revolution that would have topped that or would it have been lesser than the SOTT Tour?

sovembol said:

For conversation's sake.. IF the Revolution didn't break up..

The Following Album...
-Would we have gotten "Dream Factory", "Crystal Ball" or some other project...
I Know "Dream Factory" was Very much a Revolution project.. "Crystal Ball".. Somewhat involved...

The Following Tour...
-Was it to Prince's advatage we got the Historic "SOTT" tour... or was there something left in Prince and The Revolution that would have topped that or would it have been lesser than the SOTT Tour?

Prince wanted Brown Mark to stay in the band. A band with Sheila on drums plus Mark, Fink, Wendy & Lisa, Eric & Atlanta would have been an interesting prospect. Lisa is a versatile keybord player who added classical, jazz, and ambient sounds to the mix, while Boni's strength was in her vocal ability (on the SOTT tour, Prince let Boni have vocal solos on "Forever in my life," but not a keyboard solo on "Now's The Time"). I think W&L could have continued to add to the band's sound on tour, and I would have liked to hear the combination of Sheila on drums and Mark on bass as Prince originally intended.

Prince's "final" configuration of the Dream Factory LP had already removed many of the Revolution elements ("Power Fantastic," "In A Large Room With No Light") in favor of solo recordings ("I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man," "Sign O' The Times"). If the Revolution had stayed together, it would have been nice to include a few of the band tunes on the album along with the solo tracks (as this had been the practice on every album credited to "Prince and The Revolution").

I wonder how the overall look and feel of the era would have been different, if at all. Still peach and black?

Your mixing an idea of having Fink, Lisa AND Boni on keys.. do u Really think it would have been a 3 keyboard band.. traditionally its always only been 2 on keys.

nevermind.. had to reread what u said about Boni...and yes I do agree her strengths were on vocals..

I would still take Lisa & Wendy's vocals anyday of Boni's. No matter what song they did with Prince, their vocals just made it so unique, Boni (nothing but respect by the way RIP) sounded like any other gospel/r&b singer. She didn't even have HALF the voice Rosie does. Plus when Boni would do that screeching it never sounded clean to me, say like when Patti does it.

sovembol said:

Your mixing an idea of having Fink, Lisa AND Boni on keys.. do u Really think it would have been a 3 keyboard band.. traditionally its always only been 2 on keys.

prince had used 3 keyboard players during musicology he had rad, reanto and chance

and doing the now period alot of times its reanto, cassandra and dr hayes

dr hayes is prince musical director i dont know y alot of times he dont play on the stage he had a seperate set up well thats how it was here in charlotte