This thread is truly making me feel way too young...

FrancerulzV99 said:

Chiat….yall are makin me feel old!!!!

Drkman said:

Nice memories though

I went in that theater a mere whisp of a boy aged 14, and after that hand-jivin' love scene, came out ALL man

I got to see the movie twice on the big screen, and it's a completely different experience than seeing it on the small screen - if you ever get the chance to do so, GO!

I'm surprised I never wore out my video copy of it, I didn't even have a VCR, and would carry it around with me in the vain hope I may get to watch it again

I also managed to get a quad poster from the cinema when the film run finished, but it got stolen - I'd love to get my hands on another British quad poster of that bearing the legend: 'Before he made the music, he lived it' or something.

FunkMistress said:

Yeah, I see my mistake now!

i was 2 years old

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I was 14 and totally in love with him after that.
It was a fun time beign a teenager then and brigns back a lot of fun and good memories.
You youg'uns missed it.

17. Just graduated high school.

herb4 said:

Same here. Like VainAndy, I remember the Premiere. I had just gotten over Michael Jackson fever. My favorite song at the time was Billie Jean when on MTV some strange video called "When Doves Cry" came out.

Oh no!!! Prince??? The 1999 guy? The Little Red Corvette dude? Wait. Wasn't he like, gay, or something? I remembered he had some hit years before with "I Wanna Be Your Lover" but damn, he was no Michael Jackson.

Wait. Look at the video. Wow, that song sounds different from everything on the radio. Holy S*t! It sounds pretty cool! He's on a motorycle...oh wow, he's actually with a good looking woman! Love the clothes! Great outfits and inventive video...Maybe I'll check out the movie.

Saw the movie. It was...ground-shaking. The opening with Let's Go Crazy, the dissonant piano made me cringe my face. Oh. That wasn't nice sounding. The final electric guitar solo! Oh wow! Who know electric guitar could be so funky? Ain't that the instrument for white rockers who can't sing??

Hey, Morris Day's on screen. What an ass. Well, he's kinda funny. Whoa! Apollonia? What happened to Vanity? Who cares, this chick looks hot! She's what? In the lake? Topless? Hmmmm.... this Prince cat is just a little dangerous. This ain't no Disney film.

Morris is trying to take Apollonia away from Prince? Hahahaha, good luck, loser. The Beautiful Ones.... OH MY. Prince is a genius! Wow, wow, wow! He can play keyboards too??? That scream! OH that scream! From the depths of his soul, he wants his woman! Wow.

The love scene. He's kissing her. Wait! Where is his hand sliding to? OH S*T! Umm, I wonder how my girlfriend is digging this? I'm kinda embarrassed. Wow. Umm. Well... NICE!

How about that motorcyle?

Morris and Jerome are hilarious! Hahahaha, the password is What?

Apollonia is cute, but I'm in love with Wendy. I love you, Wendy!!! Is the water warm enough? Not for me!!! Come make it warmer! Wow, Prince is now pretending his girls are into each other and he's in the middle...a little Prince sandwich. Nice guitar interlude--it sounds different from the rest of the song. Wow.

Hey! How does one go about masturbating with a magazine? Is she looking at the pictures or is she using the magazine in other ways???? In the hotel lobby???? ( those will be some nasty paper cuts...)

Oh this is one rude boy! But his body is chiseled. He's moving with his guitar in ways I've never seen. He's like Bruce Lee-- a master of what he's doing, completely in charge.

Wait. He can play acoustic piano too? Oh. My. God. I've never heard such a rich sound come out of an instrument. Mmmmmm, I love Prince! Michael who??

Very funny, Morris. How's the family? Ha. Dick. Hey, even you realize you were wrong. Cool...You're not a total tool.

Purple Rain. What? What the hell is he singing about? The freaks in the audience are digging it. Where's Dracula to introduce them again? Maybe he went off to be be a Modernaire.
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At movie's end, my life was changed completely. The beginning of the obsession. Countless hours singing and dancing and countless dates and dances and romantic dinners.... Any dogs in the house? Bought all the albums. (Then had to buy all the CD's.) It was magical. It was heaven.

It will never be the same again. Bruce, Lionel, Hall and Oates, Madonna, everyone else trying to bite off the musical genius, Amadeus Mozart vibe, but this Prince guy was special. I learned that I didn't have to like prepackaged, homogenized music, and that it was okay to take risks and chances in life. Learned the Art of Seduction by listening to Prince. "May I Have This Dance?"

It's been a wild ride. 2004, RRHF. Club Black. Webster Hall. Minneapolis. First Avenue. Grove Music. Paisley Park. Chanhassen. St. Paul. Concert. Afterparty.

Music. A life filled with music.

And through the years, no wondering about what could have beens or what should have beens. The brother took us all on a musical journey, cemented his place in Rock and Roll history, outlived many of his critics and competitors and reemerged as the Genius and not the eccentric others thought he was. New Generations of musicians and fans are waking up to the enormous debt they owe him. This difficult, obstinate, prickly, self-centered Musical God to whom we owe so much has graced us with his talent and steadfastly never allowed us to see his inner life, except through his music.

He will live forever. How many birthdays have you had? One. Time is a trick. He is immortal...

Alasseon said:

Beautiful choice of words . Love it .

I was 12 but not allowed to go into town to see the film. I got the album as soon as I could{I always had to wait until I had birthday money to spend} and I remember sitting in my bedroom absolutely drooling over the pictures on the record sleeves. I even had a little purple notebook where I used to write poems for Prince,completely believing that one day he would read them.I didn't get to see the film until I was 14,I went to stay at my much older brother's house and he asked me if I wanted to rent a film so I chose Purple Rain,we found it to buy on ex-rental and I still have it today. It was so worth waiting 2 years for that movie, I remember everything about that night;what I ate,what was said,everything,like it was yesterday.
I do envy all of you who got to see it on release on the big screen,I wish I had those memories. I do agree that this era was a unique time, I have such fond nostalgia for that time,sometimes more of an ache. The current 80's revival is really bugging me,all these young kids thinking they've invented it all. To me,Purple Rain defined that moment in time and still stands up today. I was the only kid into Prince in my area (not much has changed!} everyone else was into bland pop and they all thought I was some kind of freak, I intend to be that freak for a long time yet,that's the legacy of Prince.

i was 13, and it was the first R rated movie i went to see in theaters. my mom and i went to see it six times that year, and we had a blast every time.

skipper said:

Sorry you had to miss it-but I think that the rest of the orgers (myself included) have enough memories of Purple Rain to bring you back in time with us-were Prince fans forever just because of such memories .

I was 12, and not allowed to go see it. Finally saw it on video the next year when my aunt rented it for me.

Oddly enough, my sister who was 9 at the time got the Purple Rain tape for Christmas that year, and I got Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA!!!

I was 19 or 20, forget.lol. Tells you what an old fart I have become.

nurse said:

I second that motion!

1 YEAR OLD!!! But I was as big a MJ fan then as I am a P fan now. It's kinda weird...

jone70 said:

Yea thats what he says in the movie, anybody know the real deal.

14-years old, my mother took me to Purple Rain
and 20 years later, i took my mother to Musicology

Snap said:

I love that!!

M

13yrs old...8th grade...i was there the day it opened & ended up seeing it 4x's @ the theatre that summer...& of course, i bought the purple 45 record & was playing that all the x!

Astasheiks said:

That's funny. lol.

I didn't see Purple Rain in the theater; I saw it on TV. I wasn't alive when the movie came out. This thread only makes me wish I was born a little earlier.. ^_^ [off topic, but I'm so happy today.]

I was 3 years old. And I preferred Michael at the time. Boy, do times change.

Astasheiks said:

It wasn't Minnetonka, that's fo sho.

23

i was about 3, almost 4 at the time.

i was probably 1 1/2 about to turn 2

I was 12 and I remember it had came out on video and my aunt was the only one with a vcr at that time!! We went to her house to view it and I remember my parents making us kids cover our eyes during some of the "bad" scenes!!!!!