JayJai said:

Larry is a mean bass player, one of the best - ever.

BUT the Jehovah thing is just unbelievable,

and Prince making censorship to his own songs....

Prince was "revolutionary", kind of a "threat" to society, he was challenging every one, both in music and lyrics.

Now he's a "conservative", kind of opposite of what he stood for before.

This is why I hate Larry. If you like Larry and what he did to Prince, then fine with me,

But I hate that guy: Larry Graham. He took away some of what I love most about Prince, the rude, nasty Prince is gone now


Just imo....

ps. have you ever heard "The Christ" (the song formerly known as The Cross)??

awfull. Larry shouldn't try to sing...
[Edited 10/6/09 4:28am]

thedance said:

I don't even know if I like Larry or not...nor do I agree with most of the JW's teachings...
but to say I hate Larry for Prince's decision?...too strong for me.
Prince was a grown man at the time and he made his own decision.
I can't hate someone for that... If so I'd have too much hatred in me for too many ppl cause there are alot of JW out there winessing.

rgsince81 said:

I don't know the guy on the left...

thedance said:

I try so hard 2 understand why people would hate Prince because he desides 2 change his life 4 God.Everything mentioned in this artical about him is positive.He doesn't curse anymore,it seems like in the past if he was upset with you,then your relationship with him was over....now he's more forgiving. The world would be a better place if we had more love 4 one another.

This is discussed to death already, "Larry Graham and how he twisted the head of Prince", some fans thinks it's the worst thing ever happened to Prince in his whole career, and some see nothing wrong with it:

could it be a case of "Oldie fans" versus "Newbie fans"...?

I remember when Prince was known for songs like:

Erotic City,
Darling Nikki,
Head,
Sister,
Sexy Motherfucker,
Pussy Control

I miss those lyrics/ songs in his career today.

And no, I am not a religious guy, I'm political, a "liberal".. non-conservative.

maybe that's the reason why I don't understand why Prince would join a sect like the Jehovah Witnesses.

whatever, I guess I have to live with it - but damn you, Larry...

babynoz said:

Larry and Tina once gave me their phone number and address but I've misplaced it. George is a hard person 2 reach he called me a couple of months ago.The last I heard he was doing something in Africa.

JayJai said:

Thank you LadyChel for quoting the Notorious article once again...

did you actually read it... ?

thedance said:

Because you do not continue running with them in this course to the same low sink of debauchery,they are puzzled and go on speaking abusively of you...1Peter4:4

thedance said:

I'm glad that I'm not the same person that I was 25 yrs ago
..It's called growing and maturing

thedance said:

It's also old fans who don't want to blame Prince for his own decisions. Unless they are ones that are good and they agree with.

ladychel61 said:

I really doubt anybody here hates Prince. It is, however, completely understandable why folk might loathe his decision to become far more religious than he was: religion poisons everything. That includes Prince's artistry.

As for becoming more humane, it's rather saddening if anyone can't strive to be a more gracious human being without the threat of hell on their hide.

But I don't care much about his decision to become a JW; I still can listen to his worthwhile material, and at least JWs don't vote!

thedance said:

Are you referring to the classic brainwashing technique known here as "countless hours of biblical discussion"? Prince didn't stand a chance. No one needed to put a gun to his head... just have a "lifer" work on it from the inside out.

thedance said:

Hate... He that does not love has not come to know God,because God is love....1 John 4:8...

JayJai said:

ladychel61 said:

What's that.....a newborn?

ladychel61 said:

Then you woke up and reality hit ya like a rush of cold blood to the head.

ernestsewell said:

I've decided that I'm not arguing with you any more...

ernestsewell said:

no pics of George in here

ernestsewell said:

herrherr said:

nurseV said:

No one could find pictures of George and Prince...

ladychel61 said:

not one

ladychel61 said:

Welcome to the dawn.

I have always believed Larry saved Prince from himself.
Immediately before Larry got into the camp, Prince seemed headed towards self destruction, I may not have an appreciation for his new found faith, but those are not my shoes to walk in.
Glad Prince seems better now, I will respect his and everyone's faith as long as it does no harm to others, even tho I am personally repulsed by most religions .

violetblues said:

Hmmm, he got out of a record contract that he felt was restrictive to him, he got married, and tried to start a family. How exactly is that self-destructive again?

ernestsewell said:

If "1999 The New Masters" among his strange 90's decent doesn't sum it all up, i don't know what does.
We can look the other way and play it off as just "eccentric" like people did with MJ, but you have to be a delusional fan not to see something was horribly wrong with the picture.

[Edited 10/6/09 22:57pm]

BobGeorge909 said:

I don't think I have ever seen a pic of prince with George Clinton so you can google all day but it doesn't exist. I don't even recall the two of them in the same scene in Grafitti Bridge not even once. There was the mini Prince concert filmed at Paisley from back in the day that Clinton performed at and Prince was at the side of the stage but never were they caught on camera together





doesn't exist
[Edited 10/6/09 23:29pm]

ladychel61 said:

First of all Ladychel, don't confuse the Org with a bunch of heathens who need to be converted. If you want to preach or praise the lord, do it where it is considered appropriate.

I don't care what anyone's believes are, I respect them all and expect the same in return.

With regards to the JW's ways, I've seen some of my gay friends who were raised according to the JW's believes go through hell and back because they were ex-communicated just because they were gay. One of them tried to commit suicide not too long ago.

So go ahead and preach world peach but understand that in order to come even remotely close to that one would need to accept and respect every single person’s believes, whether they believe in a god or not.