There is this Documentary featured on youtube about Black Rock Musicians and it features a segment about Prince. It starts at 23 minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...rdEHvREfdI

This movie is awesome. I'm almost done watching.

Great movie, a friend just sent this to me a week or so ago. I liked that they mentioned P, although, I think that something important they left out was that P was an all-out rock musician and was well-grounded in funk and r&b.

Thanks for posting

Thanks

wow that was a cool doc...dont recognize where that prince live clip is from.

luvsexy4all said:

Controversy Tour

Thanks for the love. The Prince footage was tough to edit because I wanted to show the WHOLE solo. To trim 4min of magic to 1min and change was difficult for me as I have been a fan of Prince since the 4th grade.

Very cool documentary. Thanks for bringing this into the light.

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As bad as the music industry is and has been, I’ve got to say that they aren’t the devils and listeners somehow the great unwashed angels who are incapable of autonomous thought.

If people eat whatever it is that’s placed in front of them, then that is ultimately on them, not on the big bad suppliers.

Labels are simply a reflection of society not the tyrannical arbiters of taste. They don’t have that kind of power. No one does.

Yes, you could make the music industry far greater by making it a force for changing attitudes rather than marketing to stereotypical short-term money.

But if your job (else you’re fired) is to find a way to make money, you don’t concern yourself with the monumental task of improving society so that there will be a more informed consumer when it comes time to pony up to a purchase.

No, you exploit the hell out of all human weakness. And you try to do it faster and better than your competitor who has the same tactics.

How many record collections have you seen that very much mirror their owner? Their hopes, their dreams, their aspirations and their image.

That’s hard to overcome and it’s not necessarily racist. It’s just not terribly diverse. And just as long as that’s not based in hate, is it really much of a problem?

I think it comes down to improving your mind and refusing to do more settling for whatever it is that has been made most convenient -- which may or may not be the best, how would you know?

And that’s certainly not going to happen in any profound way with a music industry that’s mired in the same cultural muck.

Stereotypes have zero power in an intelligent culture.

And most of the people in this documentary -- outside of all the understandable frustrations -- have carved out their own place where they can do what is that they love for a lifetime.

That ain’t bad.

Yes, some aren’t as rich and popular as they should be. But having the privilege to pursue a passion is far more than a vast majority of the mainstream can ever claim.