Is that Prince or Brown Mark?

coolcat said:

i wondered the same thing?

There are two additional stand up bass players (Tim Barr? and another lady) who did overdubs on Pop Life, however, the bass part on anotherloverholeinyohead is by Prince.

Jestyr said:

so the electric bass on pop life is prince? Thanks for the info.

EDIT: Wikipedia clarifies a lot of this. Though I don't know how reliable the information is.
[Edited 10/24/06 17:28pm]

coolcat said:

The other person on Standup Bass was Annette Atkinson. If you are curious about a little background of the song, this is abreviated from the book "PRINCE: THE STUDIO SESSIONS".

Sessions for POP LIFE began early in the afternoon on Sunday, February 19, 1984 in Studio 2 at Sunset Sound. After doing some overdubbing on ANOTHER LONELY CHRISTMAS, Prince had his engineer Peggy McCreary (Peggy Mac) set up for a jam session. Peggy spent an hour getting the room ready for recording and at 7:30 PM, Prince started recording. From my understanding, Prince did the basic tracks himself. The session ended at 6:15 AM on Monday morning.

Less than 12 hours later, Prince and Peggy were back in the studio working on overdubs for POP LIFE. That is supposedly when Tim Barr and Annette Atkinson added Bass, and Wendy and Lisa added their background vocals. The overdub session finished at 10PM and Prince spent 3 and a half hours creating a rough mix and playing it back before he left around 1:30 AM.

It was put to cassette tape the following day (Feb. 21) along with many of the tracks Prince was working on at that time (God, Another Lonely Christmas, and Sheila's album). He did some additional work on it in mid April, but then it went untouched for several months.


On Friday, September, 28, 1984 Lisa and Wendy had Sid Page, Marcy Dicterow, Vaj, Denyse Buffum, Suzi Katayama and David Coleman record the strings that would eventually become part of the song. Prince was not at this session.


More edits of the song were done in late May, 1985 and Sheila worked on her remix of the song on the 22nd and 23rd of June.

I figured some of you might get a kick out of more detail about the sessions. Let me know if you do.

Thanks for that madhouseman! Very interesting!

did sheila just turn on some flange and call it a remix?

ufoclub said:

Sheila's well into flange innit
[Edited 10/25/06 1:34am]

that was very interesting - thanx for posting that. I think I ought to get that book!