Have any of you people actually been to Paisly Park? God I'd love to visit that place... but I'm way over here in freekin California.

I've been in there a number of times and it's a cool place but sadly I think its glory days are long past.

Nowadays Paisley Park is so dead and abandoned by Prince, being in California is probably more interesting in terms of Prince considering he and Mani are in LA more than anywhere else.

Lots of orgers have been there but nobody's stepping up with a story

KaleidoscopeEyes said:

Yeah I know they live in La just a couple hours from where I'm at... But I wanna see Paisly.

i havent been hardly likely to go now (i'm not as big a fan as i used to be)

but lots of orgers have been! they'll get the stories on your thread eventually,.....

have been 2 Paisley, not 4 any of the celebrations tho'...it was long ago...N the Beginning....they weren't all that eventful by 'story' standards N the outside world....they're more.....strange.....But True

No, I don't even know where it is...well it is in Channhassan I know that.

I have been there for the first time last year. I just went to the stage (the big garage) It was nice in there, but havent seen anything in the studio or anything like that.

I have seen there very very nice pictures of...

Indeed it is.


(nope haven't been, would love to tho)

i've been there about 5 or 6 times.

paisleypark4 said:

I took my significant other to his after party durng his tour at paisley. I didn't really want to go at all, but i took him cause he was such a die hard prince fan and never been there. I stod there all night for that person just so he can see his idol. I sacrificed a lot that night and even almost hit a deer coming from it. Were u in the simialr situation too PP4?

At Paisley Park sometime in the mid 90's for his 2am concerts. Doors would open at 12pm.The band would start between 2 and 3am IF they were going to play. It was never for sure. Sometimes he wasn't even there.

On one particular night it was just a dance party, none of his band was walking around you had the sense Prince wasn't there either, you could tell by the vibe.
It hit 3am and then 4am. Most people at this point were leaving because if nothing was happening by 3:30 nothing did. By 4:30am the crowd of several 100 people had left except for maybe 30 of us. I thought what the hell, they're spinning good music and I'm chilling at Paisley might as well stay what else am I going to do?

They would close the dance party around 5am. Just before 5am, Prince shows up steps behind the soundboard in the back of the room and starts singing for us,ok, he wasn't singing for us, he was playing around and letting us watch. mixing music on the fly,and singin off of different dubes he inserted into the deck. It was Prince and MAYBE 30 people. We were all standing around the soundboard while he sang and tried different music. Very intimate, I think everyone was about 4 to 8 feet away from him. He spoke to us, was very friendly and also very focused when it came to the equipment and making things sound the best they could.

A little after 6. He said alright guys you have to go home, walking out the entrance his White Z3 BMW was parked right at the door. Everyone was a little bit in a daze with what just happened.

I went there for the first time last year. He had tours during his concert dates in Minnie. It is really cool inside and the studios are really fun to visit, it makes you think about Prince making all that beautiful music right there in front of your face.