I think it would be cool if Prince wrote his own biography. You know like Miles Davis did. His own words. Perhaps not this year but soon. Who wouldn't like to get his take on the many things he's experienced, his life, music, loves and lovers, everything.

Tame said:

Then that will never happen. So move on.

I think it would be cool if Prince wrote his own biography. You know like Miles Davis did. His own words. Perhaps, not this year but soon. Who wouldn't like to get his take on the many things he has experienced, His life, the music, loves and lovers, everything.
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ernestsewell said:

You know Ernest, there's nothing wrong with Tame or anyone else sharing their hopes and wishes on this forum. I'd like to see another Interactive style CD rom with a Lotusflow3r theme. Sure, it'll never happen, but I can dream, can't I? And I can share it with the other orgers too.

according the "Yellow" boot: Prince wrote the "Uh-Huh" song for Pepsi (or did he only co-write it?),

For fucks sake,= he SAMPLED the tune Ray Charles did for Pepsi, that's all.

BartVanHemelen said:

thanks wise guy....

ps. I wrote "according the boot Yellow".
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For 20 years, Ive wanted him to design and rlease his own line of guitars. Not a $5000 cloud guitar, but something affordable. Even if its something like a new line of fender, or Gibson guitar. You have Fender Squire, and Gibson Epiphone, so maybe something along those lines. Maybe include a dvd of some tutorials of Prince songs and famous guitar licks. (no not literally licking the guitar)
He is all about younger people getting into music, so I think it would be fitting for him to have an affordable instrument line.

BartVanHemelen said:

thanks wise guy.... :-?

ps. I wrote "according the boot Yellow".
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thedance said:

He wrote the bass-line, from what I've heard.

Its so subtle, that just 2 years later, Coca-Cola are sponsoring his tour! They wouldn't have done that if Prince had an obvious tie with Pepsi.

Anyways, a tour sponsorship and one bass-line for a jingle that no-one even knew was him in a 30-year career is hardly Prince selling out or being a marketing tool!

BartVanHemelen said:

thanks wise guy....

ps. I wrote "according the boot Yellow".

A blues-tinged number built around a funky bassline which Prince wrote for Ray Charles for use in a 1991 Diet Pepsi commercial. Reportedly, Prince received a cool $7 million for the slogan. The lyrics are about the virtues of a positive, spiritual frame of mind.

Diet Pepsi had been changing its somewhat limp advertising slogans frequently. "The right one" was conceived in 1989, but William Katz, now BBDO president and then head of the Pepsi account, said it "felt a bit stilted and marketingese." Creative director Alfred Merrin and jingle writer Peter Cofield tried to tailor "the right one" to Charles' jivey delivery and threw in "baby." They had two syllables left over for the Raylettes: Merrin said they played with the idea of doo-woo but ultimately went to uh-huh, "a two syllable grunt that embodies affirmativess."

Prince didn't actually write the song, in a thread a long time ago it was discovered his version just builds on an existing jingle written by someone else.

ASCAP Title Code 510092625 Uh-huh {Prince}

ASCAP Title Code 570059255 You Got The Right One Baby-Diet Pepsi {Peter Cofield and Alfred Merrin}

From that thread:

Well C.. If I had to back it up I would just say this... PLEASE PAY
ATTENION to the sample he uses.. DIRECTLY FROM THE COMMERCIAL, AND...
The sample is truncated badly...

Even more rubbish. Sheesh, why are people repeating nonsense that was debunked ages ago, and even add more nonsense?

Mindflux said:

Prince wrote a song Coca-Cola used for ages (apparently).

FYI: Prince has done several ads. LRC was used in an ad, and Tina Turner covered one of his tunes for an ad (and yes, he had to give permission for that).

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thedance said:

He wrote the bass-line, from what I've heard. Hardly blatant advertising tho, is it - I mean, MJ, Britney and others, they all appeared in the advert and tied themselves distinctly to the brand. Prince's contribution was so subtle, most people don't even know that he's done it.

Its so subtle, that just 2 years later, Coca-Cola are sponsoring his tour! They wouldn't have done that if Prince had an obvious tie with Pepsi.

Anyways, a tour sponsorship and one bass-line for a jingle that no-one even knew was him in a 30-year career is hardly Prince selling out or being a marketing tool! I've no objection to him earning a dollar by writing a jingle or something, just wouldn't want to see him plastered on the telly with Brand X!

Because I'm not a walking Prince encyclopedia

and, if I am to believe you (which seems, without investigation, no more valid than my original source)

It was also why I said its "what I heard" - I made no attempt to present it as fact!

Mindflux said:

Yet you happily repeat nonsense that has been debunked MORE THAN A DECADE AGO.



Ya know, you can just look up when a song was copyrighted. I'm backed up by quotes from articles on the likes of MSNBC, by posts from T, by a quote from THE DUDE WHO WROTE THE SONG. All it took was 5 minutes of Googling.

Oh, and it's also backed up by simply LISTENING to Prince's "Uh Huh", which quite clearly uses a sample from the TV ad.

Mindflux said:

So you admit you wrote a post about something you don't know much about, and you don't see anything wrong in that?

http://prince.org/msg/7/199978



but... Bart you are such a smart ass, talking down.

No need for that. But who am I to teach you some manners for discussions...


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I'd like to see him endorse a guitar brand like Eric Clapton did Fender or PRS and Santana. That would be smooth.

Hence, why I'm not even bothering furnishing that jackass with a response. I wonder if Bart has any social experience at all, or if he just sits in his room with his computer alone all the time - cos if he talked to people like that in reality, he'd come a cropper I think!

Mindflux said:

Funny how you don't like getting a verbal beatdown, and then lust for me to get an actual beatdown. For some, hurt feelings can only be resolved by physically abusing someone else.

Do I talk to people like this? Yup, increasingly I've stopped being polite to people who waste my time. Is someone blocking an escalator? I'm done saying "excuse me" and simply shove people out of the way, admonishing them for being idiots. It's a hell of a lot more entertaining for me, and I can only hope that being embarrassed in public will teach those idiots a lesson which apparently they hadn't learned after the previous ten people politely asked them to move out of the way.

reality show where fans can record a track in paisley park produced by prince

reality show where fans can record a track in paisley park produced by prince

NelsonR said:

Would it be a competition? Would viewers get to vote on which fan had the best recording? A Prince reality show needs to be more interesting than this imo. I also don't think Prince would ever let people see how he records in the studio? It's like how great magicians never reveal their magic tricks.
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Funny how you don't like getting a verbal beatdown, and then lust for me to get an actual beatdown. For some, hurt feelings can only be resolved by physically abusing someone else.

Do I talk to people like this? Yup, increasingly I've stopped being polite to people who waste my time. Is someone blocking an escalator? I'm done saying "excuse me" and simply shove people out of the way, admonishing them for being idiots. It's a hell of a lot more entertaining for me, and I can only hope that being embarrassed in public will teach those idiots a lesson which apparently they hadn't learned after the previous ten people politely asked them to move out of the way.