I'll be damned. After a friendly session with my good pal "Bob Dylan"....my nickname for a certain natural earth substance....I'm sitting here at 2 in the morning listening to Duke Ellington's song "Caravan", and I'll damned! Prince used Duke's melody line as the guitar part of "Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic".

I was like "Man, this sounds damned famili.....PRINCE!"

Don'tcha love when that happens? You're listening to some music and you hear a Prince sample? It's like "Wait a second.....PRINCE!". First, it's Tupac....and then all of sudden it becomes "Tupac Rapping On A Prince Sample". Ya'll know what I'm talking about.

--CreoleFreak

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[This message was edited Thu May 2 0:41:04 PDT 2002 by ChocolateInvasion]

CreoleFreak said:

Clearly you should have been listening with Bob Dylan absent. the Rave Un2 - or Rave Un2 - it makes little difference - guitar motif comprises an arrangement of three notes only - in fact a sequence of three semitones or half-steps. The melody line to Caravan is considerably more dynamic in range, which you might hear if you wafted the smoke out of your ears.

Bob Dylan always enhances one's listening abilities!

Yeah, I feel you.

Once I was in a department store and 'Monday, Monday' was playing in the muzak speakers and I was like 'Dough lawd, that's 1999!'

In the early 90's i was really into Teddy Riley. I met some of his crew, and they toled me that he used to watch old italian movies and use the bass lines for songs. Listen to 'My Fantasy', then slow it down in yo mind.

R they all thiefs?

cuffwerks said:

You probably know this, seeing as you're at this site, but I didn't for a while, so:

Prince used the same chord sequences in writing Manic Monday as 1999. That's probably the reason he gave the song to The Bangles under the pseudonym Christopher Tracy.