I have a question for those of you who were actually there or who just know your Prince lore better than I.

In the Fan Gatherings forum there is a post about an upcoming Prince themed party at First Avenue with the DJ being Dudley D, whose stated credentials are that he was (paraphrasing here) Prince's personal DJ and touring DJ.

I wasn't in the Prince scene during most of the 90s and unfortunately didn't attend Paisley parties or concerts during that exciting time, and so I'm not familiar with the history of Prince's 'personal and touring' DJs then. Were there others besides this Dudley D, or was he the only - or main - one? IIRC, I've read of others but can't recall names right now, or maybe I'm just misremembering altogether. I assume these DJs spun the music at parties at Paisley Park and before concerts (during concerts?) began...but did they have any other roles as well? I guess I'm just curious as to how DJs came to be and to fit into the Prince scene at that time, and what all exactly was it that that they did.

Thanks in advance.

Edited to add: oh yeah, as I was writing this I'd forgotten about the Glam Slam clubs in the 90s; I also assume Prince's DJ had duties at those....

[Edited 6/8/11 9:18am]

brother jules and rashida were 2 of the other dj's and ms cookie paris sometimes

they dj'ed at parties at paisley and the cellys, and dudley toured during the ONA tour, sometimes adding scratching to the jamming at aftershows

Thank you for the reply and info, unique.

He also worked with Michael Mac for a while, albeit briefly. Michael Mac is also from the Twin Cities and together with Scrap D and Steppa Ranks they were associated with Prince between 1995 and 1996. But Michael Mac wasn´t really his personal or touring DJ.

Brother Jules also did the "Remix Experience" cd-r promo.

DJ Rashida is a girl from PlantLife right? I absolutly love the return of Jack Splash LP...funky as hell!

Doug Davison (Gilberts's brother) was the DJ at Glam Slam Minneapolis. Brother Jules did the Paisley Park parties and after hour parties at Glam Slam from around 92 to at least 97 (I stopped going after that, so don't know who came after). William Graves did the private parties before Brother Jules did. I always remember there being tension between Doug and Prince at Glam Slam. Doug would get really annoyed when Prince showed up and wanted something he had played.