I was checking up on the lineage of one of my CDs, Spool Forka Dish, by The Blue Up!, and came across an interview with the lead singer. A few interesting lines about working at Paisley Park in it, which I thought you lot might appreciate me sharing.

http://westnet.com/consumable/1995/08.19/revblueu.html

Thank you. Did I miss the date of this interview? I thought there was no more swearing around Prince around year 2000?

Here's the relevant part of the interview:

C: So you guys recorded at the Paisley Park Studios, right? In the bio, it said that you were in the studio across from Prince.

Rachael: Yeah, he was rehearsing the whole time. He rehearsed like 6 or 7 hours a day. It was crazy. It's not like he was in there the whole time, but his band had to be. He has, all these tapes of his voice so he doesn't even have to be in the room while they're practicing. And, you would never really know if he's even in there or not cause you'd always hear... singing. But you'd always think, "Is he in there or is he not in there?". It was weird, but we were literally right next to it. He was in the other room rehearsing really loud. -bam bam bam bam kaboom kaboom kaboom- You know, you'd be recording "Capture This", and you'd hear "Mother fuckerrrrr!!!! One Two Three Four... and a One!" So it was really interesting for about the first month. Then after about the second month it was like, "Oh my god! Is he here again today!" But it was definitely a huge novelty. Most of the time, it was like, "Woooow!", and I was trying to see him. Actually, we were banned because we -looked- at him too much.

I find it odd that in a pro studio such as PP u'd hear what happens in the rehearsing room from a recording room. Aren't studios supposed to be sound-proof?

The interview is from 1995, so still plenty of swearing going on.