The intent of this topic is to discuss things that may not be worthy of a full topic outside of the chat room, or a way to discuss multiple Prince subjects in one thread, for example I will start off..

Is silver tongue a One Night Alone outtake?

someone else: I wonder what Prince had for breakfast this morning etc..

i really like that song i just downloaded, "glasscutter". talk about fonky! mm mm mm!

Yeah , it's

Meloh9 said:

no it's not a ONA outtake...he asked Nikka to send him some lyrics so he could write a song, she did, and he did. That's about the whole story.

O.K., here's one I always wondered; the scene in Purple Rain where P's dad is playing the "Computer Blue middle". I like the way that it sounds on the piano & thought that it would be cool to hear the whole thing.

I know that his real dad actually wrote that.

Does any one know if what we here on the released song was all the composition, or was there more?
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does anybody feel they have missed out on the theme of an album/tour?

i went to the gold concert but feel i didnt get his output, through not being a full time searcher of everything he did (in all its forms, mainly visual being the point here).

When i see the photos of a tour, the era seems to have passed me by (and i know that is not the case because i listened to each album intensely).

i suppose this is tied in with a feeling of regret, as if i have missed out on something (and made worse because it will never happen again).

spoida said:

I get that feeling with early Prince things.. For You to Dirty Mind.. those are the shows I wish could have seen at the time.

UUUHHH!!

I JUST NOTICED TODAY!!! ...

The Bass drum track on "Da,Da,Da" is sampled from "Atomic Dog" :thumbsup:
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paisleypark4 said:

Really? Never noticed that. If memory serves, there were some samples from "Atomic Dog" in "Style", don´t know what elements were sampled, though.

Karri

Does Prince wear regular men's underwear, like boxers, underneath his lace pants?

Novabreaker said:

err... No silly. Thongs or G-strings. Ya gotta let the skin show through the lace

medina said:

Agreed! I always loved that track, and wished that it had been recorded/released somewhere as a b-side or something. That's one of those things I love about Prince -- how he shows have the same song can have a different flavor.

Novabreaker said:

Hmmmmm..... {checks through mental roladex)

As I recall, it was nothing.

I was down front at Glam Slam LA one night when he was wearing that DAMN black lace jumpsuit.

He dresses to the left.

And he's been circumcised.

{me}

{My husband} "What are you lookin' at?"

{me} "Uhhhhh....his guitar?"

people think P is about to stop performing, I don't buy that

Meloh9 said:

I don't buy it either...why would he have gone to so much effort to tell ppl that he was done playing the hits--and be able to play lesser known gems at arena gigs--just to retire from live performances?
He lives for the live gig anyway, it's in 'Willy's' blood.

purpleizpassion said:

I don't think he wears underwear at all. During many of his latenite Paisley gis, standing 10 to 15 feet away, you could see just about everything in "outline".

medina said:

That part is called "Father's Song," supposedly written by Prince's father, John L. Nelson, and the sheet music for the complete song (a more simple arrangement than in the movie) is included in the Purple Rain songbook (which also includes a short arrangement of the "God" instrumental). The 2nd part of the song (with a 4/4 marching rhythm) is almost entirely left out of "Computer Blue." It's a beautiful composition. At least once, Prince had performed a short run-through of this song live during the Purple Rain tour, and that's the only "official" version I know of (outside of the movie) that exists.