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Reply #240 posted 04/27/09 5:02pm

Jillibean

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Does anyone living in the Milwaukee area know what time it comes on ?

Thanks in advance smile
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Reply #241 posted 04/27/09 5:38pm

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Jillibean said:

Does anyone living in the Milwaukee area know what time it comes on ?

Thanks in advance smile


The best thing is to check your local listings and also your local PBS website. In Minneapolis, it's on early today with Tracy Ulman and later today (really 4:30am tomorrow) with Prince. It's then repeated a few hours later and followed by the Prince/Bria interview again at 4:30am.

It's also not on the main PBS station, but a second tier of PBS. Ya gotta do some homework on this friggin' show.
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Reply #242 posted 04/27/09 6:02pm

kimrachell

liv4love said:

kimrachell said:



i saw the nips too! eek


I didn't...can't figure what all the fuss is about...her jacket covers her and her top is not see through. How did you all see anything ??

L4L


i don't know? lol upon my first view of the clip it sure looks like it to me. doesn't mean it is....of course. lol
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Reply #243 posted 04/27/09 7:14pm

torahwarrior

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

So Prince DID have Epilepsy as a youngster. ..is this old news? And I thought I knew everything there is to know about P.
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Reply #244 posted 04/27/09 7:50pm

LadyDi

I love when P interviews w/Tavis. They are good, good friends from years back and it makes for a more true and informative chat with such respect between them. Thanks for the info.
PRINCE IS UNFUKWITABLE!!
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Reply #245 posted 04/27/09 7:54pm

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torahwarrior said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agD9qVUVHrI&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo%2Egoogle%2Ecom%2Fvideosearch%3Fq%3Dprince%2Btavis%26emb%3D0%26aq%3Df&feature=player_embedded

So Prince DID have Epilepsy as a youngster. ..is this old news? And I thought I knew everything there is to know about P.



He said it in a song.. can't remember which one, but he was epileptic until the age of seven. Oh I wish I could hug him... hug
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Reply #246 posted 04/27/09 7:55pm

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torahwarrior said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agD9qVUVHrI&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo%2Egoogle%2Ecom%2Fvideosearch%3Fq%3Dprince%2Btavis%26emb%3D0%26aq%3Df&feature=player_embedded

So Prince DID have Epilepsy as a youngster. ..is this old news? And I thought I knew everything there is to know about P.


Yep.
"You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup...Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." - Bruce Lee
"Water can nourish me, but water can also carry me. Water has magic laws." - JCVD
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Reply #247 posted 04/27/09 8:06pm

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squirrelgrease said:

Jillibean said:

Does anyone living in the Milwaukee area know what time it comes on ?

Thanks in advance smile


The best thing is to check your local listings and also your local PBS website. In Minneapolis, it's on early today with Tracy Ulman and later today (really 4:30am tomorrow) with Prince. It's then repeated a few hours later and followed by the Prince/Bria interview again at 4:30am.

It's also not on the main PBS station, but a second tier of PBS. Ya gotta do some homework on this friggin' show.


this is lyle osbourne with 'perspectives'...
it's time for a new direction / it's time for jazz to die
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Reply #248 posted 04/27/09 8:17pm

tollyc

Can someone send me an orgnote if they know of the HD channel that Tavis can be found on? For some reason, I am only finding it on regular TV on Comcast.
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Reply #249 posted 04/27/09 8:18pm

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pplrain said:

torahwarrior said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agD9qVUVHrI&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo%2Egoogle%2Ecom%2Fvideosearch%3Fq%3Dprince%2Btavis%26emb%3D0%26aq%3Df&feature=player_embedded

So Prince DID have Epilepsy as a youngster. ..is this old news? And I thought I knew everything there is to know about P.



He said it in a song.. can't remember which one, but he was epileptic until the age of seven. Oh I wish I could hug him... hug


The Sacrifice Of Victor

I was born on a bloodstained table
Cord wrapped around my neck
Epileptic 'til the age of seven
I was sure heaven marked the deck
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Reply #250 posted 04/27/09 8:25pm

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tollyc said:

Can someone send me an orgnote if they know of the HD channel that Tavis can be found on? For some reason, I am only finding it on regular TV on Comcast.


Comcast channel 13 (TPT-Life) in Minneapolis. Not seeing a TPT-Life in HD.

http://www.comcast.com/Cu...shx?area=0
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Reply #251 posted 04/27/09 8:35pm

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Giovanni777 said:

lastdecember said:

What people fail to realize is that PRINCE was the first "mainstreamer" to take this plight on his own shoulders. NO ONE stuck by him back in the middle 90s they were all to scared of losing their deals to rise up and speak up. Every last artist at that time KNEW exactly what PRINCE was talking about and they stood by and called him crazy and NOW they are the ones still signed making ZERO and not owning shit. No one realizes what PRINCE sacrificed to get out of his WB deal, alot of the money he signed for in 92 he gave back, he funded himself at that time, created in his own studios and paid for it all from his own pocket. The thing with PRINCE that no one gets is that prince makes it and then funnels it right back into the creation. Sure he owns a studio, a house and things like that, but compared to the FOOLS out there now, selling a zillion ringtones and then buying 3 cars, those assholes are gonna be broke in a month.


Nice! Good point.


I'm afraid you're wrong. George Michael was the first to stand up for these kinds of artists rights, and he took it further: He actually took Sony to court to get out of his deal.

And where do you get the idea that Prince gave back anything? Most of it never changed hands in the first place, being tied to future sales figures, projects that never happened and some serious inflation in the first place.
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Reply #252 posted 04/27/09 8:37pm

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naturally my local affiliate doesn't carry tavis' show.
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Reply #253 posted 04/27/09 8:39pm

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TwiliteKid said:

Giovanni777 said:



Nice! Good point.


I'm afraid you're wrong. George Michael was the first to stand up for these kinds of artists rights, and he took it further: He actually took Sony to court to get out of his deal.

And where do you get the idea that Prince gave back anything? Most of it never changed hands in the first place, being tied to future sales figures, projects that never happened and some serious inflation in the first place.


according to what was made public about his deal, that $10 million advance on six future albums was only going to happen if each successive album matched the sales of 'diamonds & pearls.' once it became clear that 'o(+>' wasn't going to come anywhere close to that, prince "retired from studio recording."
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Reply #254 posted 04/27/09 8:54pm

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Staying up to watch it tonight . . . it's on in about 5 minutes (midnight, Detroit).
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Reply #255 posted 04/27/09 9:00pm

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stanleylieber said:

TwiliteKid said:



I'm afraid you're wrong. George Michael was the first to stand up for these kinds of artists rights, and he took it further: He actually took Sony to court to get out of his deal.

And where do you get the idea that Prince gave back anything? Most of it never changed hands in the first place, being tied to future sales figures, projects that never happened and some serious inflation in the first place.


according to what was made public about his deal, that $10 million advance on six future albums was only going to happen if each successive album matched the sales of 'diamonds & pearls.' once it became clear that 'o(+>' wasn't going to come anywhere close to that, prince "retired from studio recording."


The monetary figures were always tentative and based on sales. What wasn't in question was the album contract - he still owed WB so many albums, regardless of sales.
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Reply #256 posted 04/27/09 9:00pm

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Just got through watching Part I of the Tavis interview -- I loved it! Prince had some really interesting things to say on a variety of subjects.
RIP, mom. I will forever miss and love you.
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Reply #257 posted 04/27/09 9:11pm

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Se7en said:

stanleylieber said:



according to what was made public about his deal, that $10 million advance on six future albums was only going to happen if each successive album matched the sales of 'diamonds & pearls.' once it became clear that 'o(+>' wasn't going to come anywhere close to that, prince "retired from studio recording."


The monetary figures were always tentative and based on sales. What wasn't in question was the album contract - he still owed WB so many albums, regardless of sales.


yep. he had to keep turning in albums even if the advance (calculated against the sales of the previous album) dwindled to a less than he was happy with.
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Reply #258 posted 04/27/09 9:12pm

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or so we assume. we're working with a whole set of slightly conflicting assumptions here:

- what was reported in the press
- what we assume, correctly
- what we assume, incorrectly

all we know for sure is what was reported in the press.
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Reply #259 posted 04/27/09 9:13pm

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quote PRINCE ---->"I have a mean side ....I can go there "


lol lol lol lol

we know razz
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Reply #260 posted 04/27/09 9:13pm

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stanleylieber said:



according to what was made public about his deal, that $10 million advance on six future albums was only going to happen if each successive album matched the sales of 'diamonds & pearls.' once it became clear that 'o(+>' wasn't going to come anywhere close to that, prince "retired from studio recording."


Yup. I have it in my head (though I may be wrong on the figures) that he was supposed to sell 5 million of each album in order to receive $10 million for the next.

Se7en said:


The monetary figures were always tentative and based on sales. What wasn't in question was the album contract - he still owed WB so many albums, regardless of sales.


No one's said otherwise, but others in this thread have argued that Prince gave back or "sacrificied" money by waging his war against WB, a claim that isn't accurate, given that he hadn't yet earned that money, and most likely wouldn't have anyway.
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Reply #261 posted 04/27/09 9:16pm

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what a load of crap...prince is so full of shit. i don't know how he can keep a straight face while he's saying half that stuff.

talk to the hand
The check. The string he dropped. The Mona Lisa. The musical notes taken out of a hat. The glass. The toy shotgun painting. The things he found. Therefore, everything seen–every object, that is, plus the process of looking at it–is a Duchamp.
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Reply #262 posted 04/27/09 9:16pm

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it was prince's p.r. people who hyped the "$108 million" figure anyway. even at the time, some voices from within wb quietly tut-tutted the claim.
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Reply #263 posted 04/27/09 9:21pm

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"Pay the rent, collect". falloff
NEW WAVE FOREVER: SLAVE TO THE WAVE FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE.
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Reply #264 posted 04/27/09 9:21pm

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stanleylieber said:

it was prince's p.r. people who hyped the "$108 million" figure anyway. even at the time, some voices from within wb quietly tut-tutted the claim.


Indeed they did. I'm sure there were other details fudged as well, but Prince's people went out of their way to make it seem as though the $10 million figure was guaranteed. That alone would have totaled $60 of the reported $108. There was also supposedly going to money for a second label venture, which again was likely reported at being the maximum amount Warner was offering. In reality, that funding was likely due to be spread out over a number of years and tied to performance.

For all the fudging, I don't blame Prince's oraganisation for making those claims: the early 90s was the age of the mega deal, with Michael Jackson, Madonna and the Stones all announcing simiarlily ludicrious (and likely also exaggerated) contracts at around the same time.
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Reply #265 posted 04/27/09 9:23pm

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OH LORD....Prince will hear something and get so attached to it he drags it lol
he is still in Avalanche his mentality. This goes the same for him being a witness
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Reply #266 posted 04/27/09 9:25pm

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WTF is he talking about 8 presidents before George Washington? I cringe when he starts the religion babble, it makes him sound really, really stupid.
The check. The string he dropped. The Mona Lisa. The musical notes taken out of a hat. The glass. The toy shotgun painting. The things he found. Therefore, everything seen–every object, that is, plus the process of looking at it–is a Duchamp.
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Reply #267 posted 04/27/09 9:29pm

pricy503

Dig if U will the picture of me and Marvin Gaye and the kids.
nice guy.
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Reply #268 posted 04/27/09 9:30pm

utopia7

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I watched the Jack Johnson story some months back yes it was good. Jack Johnson was a womanizer too ! he defied racial rules in a time where it wasn't allowed.
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Reply #269 posted 04/27/09 9:31pm

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jone70 said:

WTF is he talking about 8 presidents before George Washington? I cringe when he starts the religion babble, it makes him sound really, really stupid.


Don't see what that has to with religion exactly (though I hate that shit too), but in this case, he's got some facts to back him: There were 8 different men who served as the President of the Continental Congress before the ratification of the Consitution. There are many historians who argue that they should be counted as the first Presidents of the USA, despite the fact that country technically didn't exist yet.

So, there you go. Not quite as crazy as some of the other claims he's made over the years.
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