This case was in 1999. Prince sued the Huntsberry family (Big Chick?)

Does anyone have a clue about this one?

Anyway, here is the document:

http://i.imgur.com/PceKP.png

Don't have a clue what this is about. BUT before everyone jumps in about how evil Prince must be to sue the Huntsberrys (this IS the org, after all - the #1 online prince fansite ) --

Chick sold him out to the National Enquirer way back in the day, saying all kinds of nasty, bizarre things. Later, he admitted he did it for the money, 'cause he had a bad drug habit. When he cleaned up, Prince took him back right away. When he died in '90, Prince put on a benefit concert on behalf of his family. When many fans called Paisley and said they'd like to attend/help but couldn't afford it, he let people come to a rehearsal concert for $10 and some donation of food/clothes for a shelter. So whatever this suit was about, I suspect he's not in the wrong. The attorney listed there is an IP attorney, so perhaps it had to do with some image/recording of his that they wanted to exploit (just speculation on my part). Here's the article about the benefit concert:

BY DAVID FRICKE

THIS WAS THE KIND OF PRINCE GIG you don't get to see much anymore: no props or heavy sacred-sexual shtick, just hit songs, dirty dancing, whiplash funk and blowtorch guitar. On April 30th, at Minneapolis's yuppie watering hole Rupert's Nightclub, the paisley potentate of Eighties crossover pop played his first live show of the Nineties, stripping down to pre-Purple Rain essentials in a torrid ninety-minute club preview of his European summer roadshow, appropriately titled Nude.

Fronting a five-piece band augmented by three male dancers, Prince didn't actually take his clothes off for the sellout crowd (he did start the evening shirtless). But he let his R&B soul hang out all over the place, giving "Housequake" the hyper-James Brown treatment and transforming his latest "hit" (via Sinead O'Connor), "Nothing Compares 2 U," into a steamy Stax-Volt prayer. He even whipped into a quick version of "Respect" during the encore, with new singer-keyboardist Rosie Gaines wailing like a brassy young Aretha Franklin.

It was actually a sober occasion, a $100-a-ticket benefit concert for the family of Prince's former bodyguard, Charles "Big Chick" Huntsberry, who died April 2nd of heart failure at age forty-nine. After leaving Prince's employ in 1985, Huntsberry -- who died without life insurance -- kicked a serious cocaine habit and became an evangelist, setting up Big Chick's Ministries and speaking in schools and prisons. The show raised about $60,000 for Huntsberry's widow, Linda, and their six children.

Prince, however, conducted the whole affair like an Irish wake. He opened with a brief eulogy and an eerie reading of "The Future" (one of four songs he performed from Batman), performed entirely in dusky silhouette. Then he went into funkadelic overdrive with a lengthy bump-and-grind suite that featured "1999," "Housequake," "Kiss" and a short, saucy dose of "Sexy Dancer" from his 1979 LP Prince. Fueled by the muscular whomp of new drummer Michael Bland, the corpulent sticksman from the "Partyman" video, this was a leaner, meaner act than Prince's recent stage productions -- no jazz brass, no Cat, no mating-ritual playlets. Instead, Prince and his Revolution-style lineup of guitar, bass and twin keyboards, including the veteran Prince sideman Matt Fink, concentrated on vocal sass and snappy propulsion, turning "Alphabet St." into a rap & roll mini-epic, complete with a quick snip of "It Takes Two," by Rob Base and D.J. E-Z Rock.

The show found Prince more celebratory than sentimental. He dedicated "Purple Rain" to Huntsberry and paid his final respects with several hallelujah choruses of incendiary Hendrixian guitar. The only new song in the set, "The Question of U," from Prince's upcoming film Graffiti Bridge, was a complex, compelling number that began as a bluesy piano romance, accelerated into a stirring Latin-flavored guitar sequence and climaxed as a funky raveup.

Alas, the Big Chick benefit was the only scheduled American performance of Prince's Nude revue. He will tour the U.S. this fall with a revamped production featuring music from the double-album soundtrack of Graffiti Bridge, which is scheduled for release August 10th. But if Prince's return to full-tilt sex boogie and mischievous good humor at Rupert's is any indication (he finished the set with the Joker's classic bon mot from "Batdance": "This town needs an enema!"), he still plans to keep his promise to "party till it's 1999."

ROLLING STONE, JUNE 14TH, 1990

I googled prince and huntsberry because I wanted to refresh my memory on the drama that occurred there in the '80s - and it pulled up that there was a Mechanics Lien against Huntsberry in 1999, Prince v. Huntsberry. So that would mean they owed Prince, and he (i.e., his lawyers, investors) were trying to collect. He probably gave/invested money in some private or commercial real property of theirs.

artist76 said:

Don't have a clue what this is about. BUT before everyone jumps in about how evil Prince must be to sue the Huntsberrys (this IS the org, after all - the #1 online prince fansite ) --

Chick sold him out to the National Enquirer way back in the day, saying all kinds of nasty, bizarre things. Later, he admitted he did it for the money, 'cause he had a bad drug habit. When he cleaned up, Prince took him back right away. When he died in '90, Prince put on a benefit concert on behalf of his family. When many fans called Paisley and said they'd like to attend/help but couldn't afford it, he let people come to a rehearsal concert for $10 and some donation of food/clothes for a shelter. So whatever this suit was about, I suspect he's not in the wrong. The attorney listed there is an IP attorney, so perhaps it had to do with some image/recording of his that they wanted to exploit (just speculation on my part). Here's the article about the benefit concert:

MUSIC NEWS

Meltdown in Minneapolis
Prince previews European show at benefit concert

BY DAVID FRICKE

THIS WAS THE KIND OF PRINCE GIG you don't get to see much anymore: no props or heavy sacred-sexual shtick, just hit songs, dirty dancing, whiplash funk and blowtorch guitar. On April 30th, at Minneapolis's yuppie watering hole Rupert's Nightclub, the paisley potentate of Eighties crossover pop played his first live show of the Nineties, stripping down to pre-Purple Rain essentials in a torrid ninety-minute club preview of his European summer roadshow, appropriately titled Nude.

Fronting a five-piece band augmented by three male dancers, Prince didn't actually take his clothes off for the sellout crowd (he did start the evening shirtless). But he let his R&B soul hang out all over the place, giving "Housequake" the hyper-James Brown treatment and transforming his latest "hit" (via Sinead O'Connor), "Nothing Compares 2 U," into a steamy Stax-Volt prayer. He even whipped into a quick version of "Respect" during the encore, with new singer-keyboardist Rosie Gaines wailing like a brassy young Aretha Franklin.

It was actually a sober occasion, a $100-a-ticket benefit concert for the family of Prince's former bodyguard, Charles "Big Chick" Huntsberry, who died April 2nd of heart failure at age forty-nine. After leaving Prince's employ in 1985, Huntsberry -- who died without life insurance -- kicked a serious cocaine habit and became an evangelist, setting up Big Chick's Ministries and speaking in schools and prisons. The show raised about $60,000 for Huntsberry's widow, Linda, and their six children.

Prince, however, conducted the whole affair like an Irish wake. He opened with a brief eulogy and an eerie reading of "The Future" (one of four songs he performed from Batman), performed entirely in dusky silhouette. Then he went into funkadelic overdrive with a lengthy bump-and-grind suite that featured "1999," "Housequake," "Kiss" and a short, saucy dose of "Sexy Dancer" from his 1979 LP Prince. Fueled by the muscular whomp of new drummer Michael Bland, the corpulent sticksman from the "Partyman" video, this was a leaner, meaner act than Prince's recent stage productions -- no jazz brass, no Cat, no mating-ritual playlets. Instead, Prince and his Revolution-style lineup of guitar, bass and twin keyboards, including the veteran Prince sideman Matt Fink, concentrated on vocal sass and snappy propulsion, turning "Alphabet St." into a rap & roll mini-epic, complete with a quick snip of "It Takes Two," by Rob Base and D.J. E-Z Rock.

The show found Prince more celebratory than sentimental. He dedicated "Purple Rain" to Huntsberry and paid his final respects with several hallelujah choruses of incendiary Hendrixian guitar. The only new song in the set, "The Question of U," from Prince's upcoming film Graffiti Bridge, was a complex, compelling number that began as a bluesy piano romance, accelerated into a stirring Latin-flavored guitar sequence and climaxed as a funky raveup.

Alas, the Big Chick benefit was the only scheduled American performance of Prince's Nude revue. He will tour the U.S. this fall with a revamped production featuring music from the double-album soundtrack of Graffiti Bridge, which is scheduled for release August 10th. But if Prince's return to full-tilt sex boogie and mischievous good humor at Rupert's is any indication (he finished the set with the Joker's classic bon mot from "Batdance": "This town needs an enema!"), he still plans to keep his promise to "party till it's 1999."

ROLLING STONE, JUNE 14TH, 1990

Thank you for posting this, artist76. I don't recall seeing it before.

I bet CJ is tearing her hair out that she missed this one!

Interesting research you've been doing alberto20....are you tempted to take over the completion of DMSR by Per Nilsen to cover 1989 +? Last time I heard he was looking for someone to take it over....