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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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Of course he's nuts and crazy as a fox!

Off the planet bob, off the fecking planet.

Prince has BEEN crazy. Where YOU been all these years? That's why we love him.

Plus he says things just so he knows he can get people riled up. Works every time.

^ Ya, and he has been a lot crazier than the Prince of late too. By a very large margin.

Prince doing interviews are always a bit embarrassing, it's rare he is saying something of interest - to me at least.

so true, BlackBob it's funny about covers:

Prince is against covers and then the (very bad) cover of D-Train's "You're The One For Me"....

it gives no meaning at all...

still.... it's kind of funny.....

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yeahthatsthe1 said:

Performing a song & recording a song are two diffrent things.

But Prince has done both of these.

rbrpm said:

Of course he's nuts and crazy as a fox!

To quote the man himself:

Whatever U heard about me is true
I change the rules and do what I wanna do
I'm in love with God, He's the only way
Cuz U and I know we gotta die some day
If U think I'm crazy, U're probably right
But I'm gonna have fun every motherfuckin' night
If U like 2 fight, U're a double-drag fool
I'm goin' 2 another life, how 'bout U?

electricberet said:

rbrpm said:

Of course he's nuts and crazy as a fox!

To quote the man himself:

Whatever U heard about me is true
I change the rules and do what I wanna do
I'm in love with God, He's the only way
Cuz U and I know we gotta die some day
If U think I'm crazy, U're probably right
But I'm gonna have fun every motherfuckin' night
If U like 2 fight, U're a double-drag fool
I'm goin' 2 another life, how 'bout U?

Nuff Said

he contradicts himself a lot it's one reason we love him

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

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...

& I won't disagree with ya bob. My man sez somethin' that have you but, part of my thinking on that is that he does that to get a 'rise' out of us. George Lopez was sweatin' my man and givin' mad compliments and now that I think about it, it has me like him even more. I thought GL was a trip before I saw that show now, he's won me over even more.

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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no way!!!!!!!!!!!! don´t u get it!!!!!!!!!!!!. The man is born in june 7.. freakin GEMINI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GEMINI- MULTI PERSONALITIEEEEEES NICE GUY . BAD GUY - . SEXY GUY,SEXY FREAK, HAPPY MAN, COMIC GUY, FUNKY , THEY CHANGE MOODS, CLOTHES.. , RELATIONSHIPS EVERY YEAR!!!!!!!! HE ISN´T NUTS... JUST GEMINI .

yeahthatsthe1 said:

Performing a song & recording a song are two diffrent things.

Technically, performing a song on a TV show is recorded.

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

But he's done this, too.

MickyDolenz said:

yeahthatsthe1 said:

Performing a song & recording a song are two diffrent things.

Technically, performing a song on a TV show is recorded.

Technically, he isn't making a dime off the live "recordings" if he covers them on Lopez or any other show. TBS might, but not the artist. He could play 3 different songs of his own, but it wouldn't change how much he got paid from the show.

I've said this before, but I'm certain Prince gets the composer's or estate's ok to cover a song in the studio. As he did with 'Purple House'(Red House) on the Hendrix tribute cd.

As with any artist or group, if they are covering a song live, they don't need an ok from either the artist or publisher of the song. Yes, you might make some money off of it live in concert, but no more than you would without covering the song. Once you release a cover song in the studio, you are intending to make money off that original composition or single.

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!!!!

^ LOL "Zip it haters"......

every one here likes Prince's music (some of it)....

can we please discuss things, without being positive ALL the time.

different opinions are great.

We should not be ass kissers here should we.....?

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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If I remember correctly he also stated in that interview that (basically) the internet has been great for record companies but bad for artists. Hhhhmmmm........NO!!!! The internet is one of the reasons record companies are going the way of the dinosaur and touring artists are doing just as well (in some cases better) than before. Now, if you were an artist that relied soley on record sales you probably are shaking in your boots.....but people (PRINCE) tend to forget that the VAST majority of artists AREN'T superstars and don't get what Prince was getting as far as royalty points. In other words THEY WEREN'T REALLY MAKING ANY FUCKING MONEY!!!!

As a matter of fact the internet has helped a whole freakin' generation of artists that the majors would have NEVER given a chance become successful. Are they multi-millionaires? No. Are they making a good living doing what they love? Absolutely.

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thedance said:

^ LOL "Zip it haters"......

every one here likes Prince's music (some of it)....

can we please discuss things, without being positive ALL the time.

different opinions are great.

We should not be ass kissers here should we.....?

Seems to me that some of the so-called "haters" are the ones who love Prince's music the most. I wonder how many of his defenders have a fantasy that he might reward their internet devotion by giving them some of that good loving he's always singing about.

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

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...

on that note

tell me something i dont know

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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The main reason most of Princes live covers are being debated in regards to this issue is because the fans(not Prince) having been circulating them for decades. Prince didn't press the bootlegs with all of the covers on them and sell them. We did.

As for recorded covers you'd have to ask the owners of the songs if Prince asked them personally for permission. Some seem to be a given. 'Everyday Is A Winding Road' by Sheryl Crow was probably granted because she worked on the same CD on another track with him.

He still sees fit to allow his music to be covered by those he respects such as Alicia Keys, Chaka Khan, TLC to name a few. Maybe he doesn't want everyone in the industry to record 'Kiss' because they'll jack it up!

Weird Al obviously feels the same as Prince since he could do all the parodies he wants legally but still asks for permission first and respects the artists decision.

It's called respect. Something that's been lacking around here for a long time.

electricberet said:

thedance said:

^ LOL "Zip it haters"......

every one here likes Prince's music (some of it)....

can we please discuss things, without being positive ALL the time.

different opinions are great.

We should not be ass kissers here should we.....?

Seems to me that some of the so-called "haters" are the ones who love Prince's music the most. I wonder how many of his defenders have a fantasy that he might reward their internet devotion by giving them some of that good loving he's always singing about.

No fantasy here. I just don't like it when people attack him personally. It's wreaks of insecurity and pettiness. Talk about the music, the movies, whatever, but don't put him down for trying. I'm not delusional...not every song is great, not every movie or video is great. But he works his ass off trying to make great music with a positive message. And his so-called fans can be pretty cruel to say the least.

MickyDolenz said:

yeahthatsthe1 said:

Performing a song & recording a song are two diffrent things.

Technically, performing a song on a TV show is recorded.

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 .

when Prince does covers...he doesn't look at it as him doing covers. He looks at it as " I'm Prince and I can do whatever song I want....U should be honored"......

He's not against "covers" at all [Crimson & Clover]. He's against artist doing HIS songs and record lables encouraging it.

laurarichardson said:

MickyDolenz said:

Technically, performing a song on a TV show is recorded.

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.

Does anybody actually listen to what's being said on here anymore?