Maceo Parker Tamar & special guest Prince @ Prospect Park Bandshell



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I really was going to stay in Thursday night (June 15, 2006) - it was a long week already. But the prospect of laying out on a blanket under the stars (well you can't see them, but I know they're there) while listening to Maceo Parker and band was too irresistable, so I headed to Prospect Park for the opening night of the Celebrate Brooklyn! free concert series, and set up back behind the gate where there was plenty of room. I couldn't see the show, but it sounded just fine. Of course I couldn't resist getting some photos, so a few songs before the end I worked my way in the gate and through the huge crowd.



It was hard - the place was packed. When the show ended I worked my way back out. Then the encore started right about the time I got back to my blanket, and suddenly there was A LOUD ROAR. Everyone was going nuts. Somebody special was obviously on stage. I ran back to the fence and saw a lady in orange.



I wasn't sure who it was until I finally figured out there was a man in white to her left. Even from however-many-feet back I was, I knew immediately it was none other than Prince. That's when I realized the lady was Tamar - the singer he's been pimpin' for the past year (remember the Nokia Theatre show?). My pics of Prince are so-so, so thanks Noel Mendez for sending me this much clearer one....



The encore was just one song - not really that exciting, except well, IT WAS PRINCE....

December 13. 2005
New Video "Te Amo Crazon"



Hornz: Maceo, Candy, Greg, & Ray
Bass: Josh Dunham
Drums: Cora Coleman Dunham
Timbales,Bongo,Percussion: Ricky Salas
Congas,,Percussion: Herbert Urena
String Arrangement: Clare Fischer
All Other Instruments & Vox : Prince



For the release of his next album, "3121", Prince has dealed with Universal. The first single is "Te Amo Corazon", the Argentine actress Mia Maestro ("Frida," "The Motorcycle Diaries") stars in the video shot in Marrakesh, and is directed by actress Salma Hayek, réalisatrice, Scénariste, Productrice, Actrice américaine d'origines libanaises et mexicaines .

June 12. 2006

Cipriani Wall Street New York

"The Webby Awards"










"Don't Play Me"

Prince performing on stage before accepting a lifetime achievement award at the 10th Annual Webby Awards held at Cipriani Wall Street. New York City, USA - 12.06.06

An email was sent to website subscribers after NPGMusicClub.com had shut down, stating it was decided to "put the club on hiatus until further notice".

The announcement went on to say, "In its current (form) there is a feeling that NPGMC has gone as far as it can go."

The email ended with, "The future holds nothing but endless opportunity and we plan on seizing it wholeheartedly. Don't u want to come?"

According to website TMZ.com, the site's closure could be related to a copyright dispute.

Prince filed for a trademark on the name NPG Music Club last year (05).

An opposition was filed against the claim by HM Publishers Holding Limited, which owns the Nature Publishing Group, also known as NPG.

The opposition was filed the same day the PURPLE RAIN singer's website was shut down.

An attorney for Prince's company, Paisley Park Enterprises, insists that the two incidents are not related, and that the "opposition will be resolved shortly".

The pop star was the first major artist to release an entire album - 1997's CRYSTAL BALL - exclusively on the web.

He was honoured last month (JUN06) with a Webby Lifetime Achievement Award for his innovative use of the internet.

The Dance

I don't wanna give U my love
Cuz I don't wanna lose my mind
I don't wanna give U my love
Cuz if I do it's gonna be the last time
Ooh, ooh, ooh

Cuz I never want 2 feel this way again
If I can't be your lover
I don't wanna be your friend, no
I don't wanna be friends, no
Ooh, ooh

I don't wanna hold your hand, no (I don't wanna hold your hand)
Cuz I would just follow U everywhere, oh
I don't wanna see U dance (I don't wanna see U, girl)
Cuz I don't even really want 2 take the chance
Of fallin' in love with U, baby

If U ever said those beautiful words 2 me
"If I wanna be your fantasy," yes
I wanna dance, yes
Let's dance, sugar
Ooh ooh ooh, oh

I don't wanna give U my love

Oh baby, this must be temptation
Cuz I just can't get U off my mind
I try and try
But when I close my eyes
I see U every time

I don't wanna go 2 fast, ooh
Cuz if I do I just might stay (Stay with me)
I'd stay with U baby (Yeah)
I guess I better make it last (Make it last)
The longer that I feel this way (The longer that U feel this way, girl)
Ooh oh

Cuz I never want 2 feel this way again
If I can't be your lover
I don't wanna be your friend, no
I don't wanna be friends, no

I don't wanna give U my love, oh honey, baby (No no no)
Baby, r U gonna really just stand there
And act like U don't want this?
Baby, if U do then U know I just don't care
Oh baby, I could find another
Just like U anywhere
Oh baby, they might not have your hips, girl
And all that pretty hair, oh
At least they won't spend all day in the mirror
Tryin' 2 find somethin' 2 wear
At least, they won't wanna make love
Like U do on the stairs, against the pole on the north corner of the...
Oh baby, baby, baby, baby, it's just not fair
It's just not fair!
Oww!

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