ZsaZsaZsu said:

mplsmike said:

YES!

'You know you are an old school fan when....'

... when you purchased "live in concert" tapes on a sunday flee market in Paris

mplsmike said:

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mplsmike said:

What beautiful eyes!!

You know you a old school fan when:

..you had the album of "Purple Rain" and taped(copied by holding a cassette recorder up to the speakers and remaining silent) just so your freinds can have a copy.

...you FINALLY got the cassette tape of "Purple Rain" and copying the cassette( cassette dubbing) so your friends can have their own copy as well(had better sound quality at the time).

The good OLD days of "ripping".

I still have the original cassette,sad isnt it? LOL

ROFL!
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toots said:

LOL! And the record industry acts like file sharing is so new!

Let's see:

--You still think that Prince was at his best when he was in his bikini underwear, licking a microphone and humping the stage.

--You think Prince looked great with the long hair--that he had in 1979.

--You usually wake up with the image of Prince in the Purple Rain emsemble and still think it's 1984, until you look over at your 3121 poster!

--You think Vanity 6 will reunite.

--You pray every night that wearing lingerie as outerwear will come back in vogue for men so Prince will do it again.

--You continue to live each day partying like it's 1999.

--When you think of Prince's symbol, you think of how it looked before about 1993--just a combination of the male/female signs and WITHOUT the horn attachment.

mplsmike said:

YEAH!

Dude was *so* nervous!

NuPwr319 said:

I saw this only a few years ago and I think they said that Prince was the only artist to not speak to Dick Clark in the history of "Bandstand".

I don't know if it's true, but that's pretty cool.

DC: How old are you?

Prince: This many!

when u recorded all of prince and associated artists albums on casette so u can play them on u'r boom box when u went out

When u were actually at the premire of Purple Rain and ended up on the dvd special edition. And u had already seen p in concert 3 times BEFORE that.

SexyBeautifulOne said:

Yep! Gotta love the good OLD days LOL!

You remember seeing Prince perform "1999" on Solid Gold in 1983.

You played the song 'Darling Nikki' backwards on your turntable,trying to hear the secret message.

You have vinyl copies of the albums released on Paisley Park Records,including the awful ones like Good Question,lol.

mplsmike said:

DifferentPsuedenum said:

Yup. Totally thought that too!

In high school, I was a feature writer for my school's paper. I wrote an article about Prince's new album "Controversy." In the last line of the story, I said, "So Chargers (my school's mascot), let Prince "Jack U Off!" A few teachers were so upset about the last line that I almost got suspended from school...

mplsmike said:

had 2 giveaways and still bought the retail version.

You have the prince's buttons I use to wear in the 8th grade. They are alittle messed up but I still have them

ZsaZsaZsu said:

When I was in college (Fashion), I had a class project to create a visual for a retail store. I brought in my "Dirty Mind" album and other albums with Prince in the center of my "merchandising store"....The teacher "blushed" but I got an "A" for the presentation!
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Jamzone333 said:

LOL! I thought I was the only person incorporating Prince into my formal education. My very first college paper was about Prince. Everybody else wrote about the usual safe bets, Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, etc and had the nerve to laugh when my Professor chose to read mine out loud. I had the last though. I got an A because it was well written and I got the + because of my unique choice of subject.

1990? Those aren't old school Prince fans. Those are middle-aged school fans. The real senior citizens like me started bitching in 1985.

You owned five Prince albums before some of your co-workers were even born.

tony23k said:

I miss that lovely hairstyle...

When you got to see Prince for $4.50.

FunkshaII said:

Lawd a mercy; I was there too.

ZsaZsaZsu said:

and I had one of those lol.. an old boyfriend gave me one for Christmas.. that hat from "Mountains" ..I wore it proud as we went to see Eddie Murphy's Raw @ the theater..

Genesia said:

.. hilarious thread.. i think im in this boat as well..

SoulAlive said:

o m gosh i saw that. . after the performance he went and sat ontop of the drums..

SoulAlive said:

I used to have literally a lilac colored album.. it was the 12' of "God"
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vainandy said:

we senior citizens need our thigh high boots, a clear glitter cane and a tamborine 2 get heard 'round here...all these younguns don't know what perils we faced back in dem dayz...

Every once in a while, I get one of the staff members at the nursing home to push my wheelchair up to a white horse. Then I take off all my clothes, get nekkid, and the staff members place me on top of the horse.

Afterwards, I pinch the little whipper snappers' asses and tell them "I Wanna Be Your Lover". When they turn me down, I get pissed and holler "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad".