Giorgio great look but not very talented musically



Bryan Loren Talented, plays all intruments like Prince, not heavily vocally impressing though.



Chuckii Booker the CLOSEST talent wise to Prince. not sure if people know how really bad this cat is.



anyone out there I'm missing or would like to elaborate on any of the one's ive mentioned?



Bran




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Hmmm....lemme see:

Bernard Wright-remember "Who Do You Love" from 1985? Great session artist.

Marcus Miller-musically maybe more talented than Prince.

Kashif

Rick James-why not?

I"ll think of some more later. LOL

How bout:

Obryan="Just A Gigalo"....."Lady I Love You"....."Lovelite"

Micki Free=Shalamar guitarist

Jermaine Stewart="We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off"

Steam, i forgot about O'Bryan DANG!!!! did he play any instruments @ all? I'm not sure.

Miki Free was a good one but i iheard that he really didnt play the guitar too well. oh well..

Bran
her's a blast from the past... DREAMBOY remember, "Don't Go" ? ? ?

Chuckii Booker the CLOSEST talent wise to Prince. not sure if people know how really bad this cat is.[b][/quote]


Yeah, Chukki WAS talented, and an above average singer too!

I think Jodeci member 'Devante swing' could of been in Prince's camp! He wrote, arranged, composed and produced alot of Jodeci's material! I actuallly heard he went to ask prince for a job (before forming Jodeci) but Prince turned him down! (which was a shame and bad judgement on princes behalf).

Other then that, maybe New kids on the block writer/producer Maurice starr (in late 80's), Al b.sure (good producer and alright singer), Dr freeze (wrote Bellbivdevoe's "Poison" and Color me badds "I wanna sex you up"...), Narada michael Walden- (Tevin campbell, Whitney houtson producer/songwriter)


Not that this is really related to this topic, but I always would of liked Prince to of worked with corny pop star debbie Gibson (instead of Martika maybe!), they both started writing at a young age and are proberly both workaholics plus when Debbie collaberated with Lamont Dozier (of 60's super team Holland/Dozier/Hollan|) on her "Anything is possible" album, the collaberation was good.....anyway

Chuckii has chops for days.


Anyone remember Nikki? He really wanted to be (in) Prince('s camp).

Tupac of course. Remember when he was a backup dancer for Digital Underground? He would have totally jumped at the chance to be w/ Prince in those days. Imagine a world where Tupac rapped for Prince instead of Tony M...

shirley & pepsi...

krebsne said:

Im feelin that!!!

***Giorgio almost became a Prince protege.In the mid-80s,his demo tape made it's way to Paisley Park Records and Prince was interested in signing him.But according to him,they offered him a raw deal."Prince and BrownMark wanted to take all the credit for writing and producing my songs",he complained to Black Beat magazine in 1986."Now I understand how Prince's thing works.He finds people who would do anything to become a star.I'm not one of those people".


***Micki Free,the guitarist for Shalamar in the mid-80s,is another artist who could have been in the Prince camp.He became friends with Prince and the two of them jammed together a few times.Several times,there were rumors that he would be joining the Prince camp.With his androgynous look,he could have easily been a member of Mazarati.In 1991,when Jesse Johnson was fired from The Time,there was talk of Prince wanting Micki Free to replace him.


***Madonna is another artist who probably would have become a Prince protege if he had spotted her before others did.She's a huge fan,but it's best that she decided to make it without his help.

DavidEye said:

Dang, Micki Free in The Time? That would have been something to see--kind of like when Dave Navarro joined the Chili Peppers. No one beats Jesse though. I just wish I knew what he was up to these days.

dang..... Miki Free in the Time? ? ? Nah....I'm not saying that it would have worked but.. Jesse is the guy.

brante said:

I agree, but it still would have been something to see. Dave Navarro didn't exactly work with RHCP either, but when he became their guitarist, it had rock fans in a tizzy.

"Yeah, Chuckii WAS talented, and an above average singer too! "

what do you mean WAS? ? ? Did he die or something?

Bran

Does anyone remember Lushus Daim and The Pretty Vain? She was a Vanity wannabe in the mid-eighties with two so-so singles, "More Than You Can Handle" and "The One You Love". I may have her appearance on Soul Train on a video buried somewhere in my parents' house.

sextonseven said:[quote]Does anyone remember Lushus Daim and The Pretty Vain?

OH WOW!!!! I REMEMBER HER!!!! yeah, she was fine, hahaha I cant quite remember her face but i know she hads a "vanity like" look. that was a good one

ThreadBare said:

Dude, I have this on tape somewhere....WTF was I thinking, buying this tape???
I couldn't tell ya one song off of it...maybe i'll go listen to it once again, cause
there must have been something to trigger me buying it.

What about Tamara and The Scene? Better yet....how about Pretty Poison...."Catch Me I"m Falling" and "Night Time".
[This message was edited Fri Apr 9 20:54:24 2004 by SteamForest]

SteamForest said:[quote]What about Tamara and The Scene?

Dang dude... you got me again. I LOVED Tamara and the Scene. oh oh oh oh oh oh//oh oh oh , oh oh EVERYBODY DANCE! hahaha. ok, here's one for you Steam.. KOOL SKOOL (another one of Jesse's groups) If I'm not mistaken, i think they were on Capitol.

Bran

brante said:

Sorry,I was just agreeing with you, plus after his "Niice and wild" Cd came out (with that brilliant title track), he sort of dissapeared (off the pop/rnb scene anyway)! I know he produced and wrote for other artists, but except for Philip baileys solo album in '94 ("Live it up" is way out fonky!), I ain't seen him be credited on anything since! Iam sure he is still talented though and iam sure he has done other stuff!

Chukki rules plus "Turned away" is a classic still to this day

brante said:[quote]

SteamForest said:

I can not for whatever reason remember Kool Skool. UGH.

Hey I remember Nikki, I also have this tape somewhere...the song was "Notice me" a lushy lovey-dovey ballad came out around late 89 early 90 maybe.....yeah he did seem kind of Princely.

sextonseven said:

yes,I remember her! I had a major crush on her back in the day.She was really beautiful,and had a nice voice."The One You Love" should have been a huge hit.

SteamForest said:

Has Ta Mara done anything since her song on the 1-800-New-Funk CD?

I heard a story how Andre Cymone, while producing the first Pretty Poison album introduced Jade Starling to Prince and she performed one of her songs for him in the studio. According to her, Prince was really impressed.

Kool Skool was originally da'Krash then the lead singer left the band and they went in the rap direction. I liked da'Krash, but didn't care for Kool Skool.

sextonseven said:

I cant believe someone remembers her. I used to have her album and I had that Soul Train appearance as well. Now I cant fnd it anywhere. Any leads?

brante said:

O Bryan played several instruments and wrote his songs like Prince. He was one of the better Prince clones

brante said:

Micki could rip on guitar - his latest album proves it. I dont think he's Prince or Jesse but he was one of the better funk rock guitarists

Clay Aikens--

ever heard Chuckii Booker's songs THATS MY HONEY or FRONTLINE? dayum... that boy is no joke on the bass man, for real. Also, "I giit around" is pretty fonky too. anybody know what he's up to?

One of the funkiest non-Prince albums I ever heard was the self titled Madame X LP produced by Klymaxx's Bernadette Cooper. It's some real sophisticated, high-class, quality funk. They had one top 10 R&B hit, "Just That Type Of Girl" amd then broke up. Lead singer Alisa Randolph released a solo album a few years later that was cool, but that Madame X album remains one of my favorites to this day. Anyone who hasn't heard it, go out and find it. You will not be disappointed!