TheDigitalGardener said:

firstavenue said:

IF YOU DONT LIKE PRINCE AND HAVE NEGATIVE THINGS TO SAY ABOUT HIM, THEN WHY ARE YOU ON THIS SITE?? MAYBE YOU SHOULD BE ON A DIFFERENT SITE.. ITS CALLED A "FAN COMMUNITY" NOT A "HATER COMMUNITY".. SO ZIP IT HATERS!!!!

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Thank you! Well said.

Tremolina said:

laurarichardson said:

But it is not be sold. What is so hard to understand. In addtion, a lot of Prince covers are done by wack ass artist and are awful. I would be happy if no one covered his songs .

"Not to be sold"? How much money do you think Prince made with just that one-off live performance of that cover? How high were the ratings and how much advertsing profits did the producer of the show make? I bet you they made a hell lot more than if he would have covered the song on record.

The live performance is meant to be a one time event and even if captured on some form of media it's not meant for distribution. Prince has yanked his live covers off of the internet stopping the distribution of those covers. The only reason they still circulate is because the fans can't stop bootleging every burp that Prince makes. The legitimate recorded covers he's done are but a drop in bucket of the amount of people who have covered him. He hasn't even recorded enough covers to make an official album.

Lammastide said:

The spin here is amusing. Prince has both performed other artists' material live without permission and recorded other artists' material and subsequently released it for broadcast toward financial gain without permission.

Are we forgetting that in 2007 he covered "All Along the Watchtower/Best of You" (by Hendrix and Foo Fighters, respectively) without the permission of Foo Fighters, so says the band themselves? While that recorded mash-up was never released for purchase, it was given to the producers of Howard Stern's Sirius radio show for airplay preceding Prince's Superbowl XLI halftime show, where he again covered the songs without Foo Fighters' permission, this time live. Artists don't just send recordings to national radio shows so the DJs have pleasant background noise while at work. They do it for project promotion, which translates into $$$ for them.

Moreover, the very next year Prince tried to invoke copyright law on other artists' material! Remember when NPG Records ordered removed from YouTube all fan-recorded footage of Prince's Coachella cover of Radiohead's "Creep?" The performance was blocked from view by even Thom Yorke himself... until Yorke ordered the YouTube videos unblocked as he held the recorded performance rights to that song, not Prince/NPG.

I love Prince, but he's simply a hypocrite in some areas, this being one of them. No degree of fandom need bar critique... or obscure the recall of just a few years prior. That's downright pathological.

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blackbob said:

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you are feckin nuts....yes ...you are against cover versions then go and do a....cover version... .

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you are nuttier than a squirrels turd

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its just as well you are as brilliant as you have been during most of your 30 odd years in music biz or i would be questioning my own sanity...

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cant help but luv ya...

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Maybe you should watch again, he is not against all covers, just noy being asked.

powersoul99 said:

blackbob said:

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you are feckin nuts....yes ...you are against cover versions then go and do a....cover version... .

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you are nuttier than a squirrels turd

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its just as well you are as brilliant as you have been during most of your 30 odd years in music biz or i would be questioning my own sanity...

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cant help but luv ya...

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Maybe you should watch again, he is not against all covers, just noy being asked.

Yeah and when people ask him, they get told no. Ask Elvis Costello.

Spinlight said:

powersoul99 said:

Maybe you should watch again, he is not against all covers, just noy being asked.

Yeah and when people ask him, they get told no. Ask Elvis Costello.

What about these people...

Chaka Khan - "Sign O The Times"

Alicia Keys - "How Come You Don't Call Me Anymore"

Earth, Wind & Fire - "Superhero"

Eve - "Irresisitible Chick"

...and he hasn't sent out a firing squad to hunt down Meshell Ndegeocello yet and she's doing whole shows of his music.

cbarnes3121 said:

I agree...its as if they don't listen to exactly what he says, they just hear part and make the rest up.[img]

fantasticjoy said:

cbarnes3121 said:

yall so lame do u even listen and comprehend he has nothing against people doing covers with permission and payiing for it he has a problem with people being able 2 do it without consent. its stuff like where prince stopped doing innerviews he said his words were always blown out of porpotion and misquoted. like he said u cant just go make another copy of a movie without consent so the same should appy with music. michael jackson use 2 speak on the same issue

I agree...its as if they don't listen to exactly what he says, they just hear part and make the rest up.[img]

I heard exactly what he said and understand perfectly what he meant but he is still a hypocrite, mainly for the reasons Lamma listed. Some of you will be "on his side" no matter what evidence is presented to the contrary.

AND BTW, if Prince spoke like a regular human being in his interviews instead of Princespeak, there would be nothing to be blown out of proportion or misquoted. He doesn't allow taping of his interviews, remember?