Anyone knows anything about the prince song "habibi"?
when was that made, in what period was that made?
I downloaded it as an mp3, and, yes it is prince.. but because the song is fading in and out, I got no idea of what the heck it is..?

heh, tell me, please.

/Shun.

Habibi is from the first year on NPGMC.

I use it as the leadin song to the DOW Live in Montreal cd single when I burn a cd.

where did u find "habibi" mp3..could u pls tell me?

shunchan said:

Yeah - it's not a Prince song - it's 'Machine Gun' written by Jimi Hendrix, considered by Uptown probably to have been recorded during a Paisley Park rehearsal in 1998.

Courtesy of Uptown #53 www.uptown.se

langebleu said:

Thanks.
I knew it sounded live I just never knew from where.

langebleu said:

Don't you think 1998 is unlikely? Doesn't really sound like Kirky J. on the drums, does it (especially the fills)?

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suomynona said:

I AGREE IT DOES SOUND LIEK MICHAEL BLAND'S PLAYING AND THE WHOLE JAM SURE IS FUNKY. IT PUMPS ME UP AT WORK EVERYTIME TIME I PUT IT ON.

Habibi=my love in Arabic...who the song was written for?

I think it was recorded after John Blackwell was on board. The drumming style is very Blackwell-esque.

suomynona said:

It's John Blackwell on drums...

Neversin.

myrtobelly said:

Isn't Habibi the masculine tern for "my Love" in arabic, As in reference to a male? For it to be a reference to a female it would be "Habibti". I always thought it was strange that he caaled his guitar this.

suomynona said:

This makes a lot of sense. I saw Michael Bland perform a few years back at a Jimi Hendrix tribute show.

Michael B played the whole night (about 3 or 4 hours) while various local guitar players and bass players would each do a song or two from the Hendrix catalog.

The show was incredible, but Michael B was the stand-out performer that night. He obviously knows his Mitch Mitchell licks by heart. Un-fucking believably tight. He was dead-on channeling Mitch.

I talked to him after the show and he said that it "was a lot of work". He of course made it look easy.

I never would have pictured Michael B to be able to cop the sounds of Hendrix's mad flailing drummer, but he did it.

Oh, and yes, I know that Mitch wasn't around when Jimi made Machine Gun.
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exodus said:

Well, I don't know...I listen to a lot of Egyptian an Lebanese music ( I bellydance), and male singers like Farid El Atrache, or George Wassouf say "Habibi" to their beloved, don't they?
Byebye.

female singers also use the word habibi when singing...my love or my darling is what i always thought it meant.