How was it?Was it like,"I cant wait for the next album"?How was his public life?What was some of his names,I heard the fans were called "Purple Party People".Give us some info.



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Damn you need attention, don't you?

funksterr said:

Nah,not really.Im just in the mood to learn some Prince facts.Seeing how thats what the site is for.

TheKing662 said:

Tune down on the posts

Stratus said:

Hold up.let me get this straight,"LoDog" makes threads about "what's your top 5", and he get's mega love.I make threads about learning something yall tell me to calm down.

Any OLD folks show up yet?

Milty said:

Man I read that whole wikipedia page 9 times.Im talking about tell us how was it to be a Prince fan back in the day.

TheKing662 said:

Your self-esteem is way too wrapped up in these boards.

Gohi said:

Well thats yours and anyone else opinion.

TheKing662 said:

its my opinion aswell

RumAndRaisin said:

I said anyone else lol

Well, I am old. Prince ruled the world from 1984 through about 1988. You could not pick up a tabloid in 1984/1985 without a story about Prince in it. It was great, but then again, Prince was pretty weird and the tabloids made him weirder, so if you were a fan, some people looked at you funny.

Of course, Prince could not out-weird Michael Jackson so that was a mitigating factor.

Musically, it was heaven. It seemed like every other song on the radio was either sung by or written by Prince. No one could believe how many songs that cat was involved in. It was even better when Prince did it anonymously, like with "Manic Monday". It was fun telling a non-Prince fan, "Oh, do you like that song? Me too. Hey, guess who wrote it?"

The only bummer was that his videos were blah, except for maybe "When Doves Cry" and "Raspberry Beret". There were some great videos on MTV, but usually not from Prince.

Good times.

TheKing662 said:

It's mine as well.

buying
a
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its was nothing better ... 45s and 12 inch !

videos !

13 years old in line to see purple rain with friend and HIS MOM !!

I do miss the 12' records though. That was an extra 3 to 40 minutes worth of music sometimes. Those days are long gone.

There was something amazing about the 1st time you heard a new Prince single on the radio, first swallow off a new album - LRC, WDC, Paisley Park, Kiss, SOTT, Alphabet St (the fun kinda stopped after that).

Then buying the LP (!!!!), turning it over, listening to it carefully, reading the lyrics. Mindboggling, really...
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I remember when a friend called me around 11:30 in the evening... "man, they dubbed me a cassette tape of the black album, it's the bomb"; the day after, I went to his house and we played that shit for hours.

Ain't nothing like your 1st boot experience!
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Well ill be 20 soon. my dad is 40 and he was a huge prince fan,still has all the records he had when he was a teen. He told me Prince ruled the 80s. As for me,im a bigger fan then he ever was and i still get excited whenever he makes a new album or a new tv appearance. In todays time u have internet and bootlegs. Thats all i need 2 say and Ill leave it at that.

I'm old too ! I can tell you that it was a rollercoaster ride (already said that before...but i'm old, you know...) Prince was everywhere !
What was also extraordinary was the protege's records because it was always surprising, eclectic and there was a lot of them !!!! Madhouse, Sheila, Jill, Mazarati...keep on waiting for the next one...
You know, we thought that he would make a kind of revue across the country with all the other acts (like Motown did...)Can you picture this ?
Not to mention the pride hearing Roger sing about Prince and Minneapolis !!!!

His Royal Badness
The Purple One
His Purple Highness
Modern Day Mozart
The Nasty Man...

just to name a few

First boot experiences and the wondering what kind of bizarre stuff he was going to do next were fun.

As far as starting the thread is concerned, though, more specific questions and observations than more general ones. Not only is this a good rule of thumb for all kinds of writing, it also makes for a more interesting discussion board. This board has been around for a long time. A lot of stuff has already been discussed. The more specific you get, the more likely it is someone will have interesting things to share, and the better reading it is for us all.

So, try "What was it like when people were still nuts for Purple Rain, and then ATWIAD came out?"

I would love to comment, but:

A. I don't seem to remember.

B. My liver spots on my hands are starting to distract me.

3. I have to go yell at some kids that are on my lawn.

Well, I'm one of the real old timers since the old "I Wanna Be Your Lover" days in 1979. When it came to the hardest acts in R&B music, it was definately Prince and Rick James and they each had their own sets of fans who loved to down the other artist in comparison to their favorite. I personally was a huge fan of both and was very vocal that I loved them both. Yes, every year was an event waiting for each one of them trying to outdo each other with each album. Sometimes Prince outdid Rick, and sometimes Rick outdid Prince. This went on until the pop/rock fans disovered Prince and then they turned it into a Prince vs. Michael Jackson thing.

Yes, Prince was wild as hell. He did very few interviews, but when he did, he would say crazy things like he has a dog and a cat and is mating them to see what the offspring will be, or at a certain time of the day, everyone stop what they are doing and have sex. That was during the "Prince" and "Dirty Mind" era. After that, he just didn't say a damn thing to the magazines.

TheKing662 said:

Man, i swear, if i met a kid like you in school I would faint. Whenever i mention Prince in general I would just get alot of "prince? that gay purple rain boy fromthe eighties?" It's so frusterating.

Old guy here too. I was just playing my Madhouse album and I got to wondering how did we get all the information befor ethe internet? I'm not even sure how I found out Prince was involved with Madhouse, or any other people he wrote and produced for. But some how we found out. Then I would buy it all. I loved going to the record store because I would find the new Prince single and turn it over and...YES a new non album song! I'd be jammin that new song the a week or two later I would find a 12inch of it. There was always something new. If there wasn't a new Prince album, single, or other Paisley Park act then there was Jesse or Morris!

MrShockadelica said:

LMAO, that reminds me how I found out about bootlegs.

I was in the movie theater, watching "Graffiti Bridge". At the part when someone from the Time throws Prince's Hohner on the stage, I said kinda loud, "Don't you touch that guitar!"

After the movie, this dude came up to me and said, "I heard you. You must be a big Prince fan. Do you have any bootlegs?"

And the rest was history.

RodeoSchro said:

I remember doing this a few times Lots of fun... Later you could also do it with "NothingCompares2U" and Martikas "Love Thy will be Done" which was a big hit back then in Europe... Oh man these were the days...

And they were shocked when the found out that dirty P had written a song for the frigid Bangles.... I mean really shocked
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Back in the day when Prince was playing for "Vanity 6," during the "1999," tour, he didn't wear a shirt.

The girls were behind a pink curtain and the band was hidden. Could have been times when he was wearing nothing but boots...ya never know.