Its not bad and not great. Its a nice idea and Ms. Rose seemed to enjoy your performance.

You don't appear to be mocking or trying to "be" Prince which is good. He's a character you're playing. In order to pull it off you need more practice if you continue doing parties.

Somebodys laughing off and on during the 1st 2mins of the video...

UncleGrandpa said:

In fairness, I have not listened to your performance, I would not expect you to get everything about him perfect. What I do respect is your willingness to this act at all, for some it would be too easy to ridicule you when they would never have the courage to do that themselves. If you have enough customers to make a decent check, you're doing great.

I have never made a dime prior to this and it was the insistence of my co-worker. I usually do Paul Stanley of KISS. It has always been for charity. This was my 3rd time doing Prince. I also did Purple Rain but did not bother posting as the camera man drowned me out with his singing, LOL!

I have a good enough paying check, thankfully that I would not have to rely on this; no way I could. I do however, totally enjoy it. I wish I were truly talented, but I think bravado is a talent as well as you pointed out.

If someone was laughing, I hope it was out of enjoyment, but for $100 for less than 15 minutes and a free dinner, I think I should be laughing. Plus I made a co-worker and her grandmother happy and enjoyed a good party!

Oh dear... those pics.....

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this is a perfect prince-0-gram!!

den i think u are a legend! this was so entertaining & i giggled me tits off!!

u seemed quite confident & delivered some princey mannerisms/moves.. which was probably enough to pull something like this off

the outfit was great, i loved when u went to get the jacket, changing the words up 4 the occasion was cool, convo with rose, talking about coming from minniapolis & keeping straight faced brilliant.

your voice really doesn't matter, but if u can tighten up the act, make the princey moves more exaggerated & maybe wear some shades, make the hair shorter & less blackface, u could try getting sexy on the floor & stuff

seriously u could market yourself as a 'prince o gram' without changing much at all, i'd hire u

den1226 said:

Your costume is BA too! I give anyone credit who can be out in front of people like that and not take it too seriously....

An A- for effort!

If this doesn't work out, you could probably do a Zappa tribute.

kewlschool said:

novabrkr said:

You should consider imitating Alice Cooper instead.

I agree! That certainly is the vibe I got. If you continue to do Prince-put makeup on your neck.

I agree about the Alice Cooper thing - though I thought Frank Zappa, myself.

Make-up on the neck...

I do have the exact same glasses he wears in Purple Rain but forgot to put them on.

novabrkr said:

You should consider imitating Alice Cooper instead.

I thought just the same!

I get the Cooper/Zappa resemblance a lot. Hate it, but I can't help how I look. Is the Prince look really off the mark? I try to keep the shirt buttoned but it can get very warm performing. I even had my press photo airbrushed to have the neck match the face.

Anyway, I posted here because I knew the best and most avid Prince fans frequent this board. You could have all ripped me a new one, but I was prepared for any criticism provided. I wanted to know how some of you felt. I found out from the granddaughter (and she was not bullshitting me) that the laughter you hear is towards another relative in the corner acting stupid. I do remember that now but at the time I just ignored it (as any performer should). He was dancing around with a red jacket over his head!

I read all you have posted and plan to use all the good ideas towards the next time I get to do this. I have no idea when as gigs can be hard to find, but if it's OK, I'd love to share the next one, and hopefully it will be better. Thanks again!!!!

Den

LOL - all I can say is that laughter in the background is very infectious 'cause I was howling everytime he laughed. Ahhhhhh I'm certain your 85 year old granny loved it.

Red said:

LOL - all I can say is that laughter in the background is very infectious 'cause I was howling everytime he laughed. Ahhhhhh I'm certain your 85 year old granny loved it.

It was a co-worker's grandmother and thankfully the laughter was not towards me as initially thought.

O__O What The.....? Okay.... Wow. Right.. Not workin too well for ya..

Astasheiks said:

Somebodys laughing off and on during the 1st 2mins of the video...

I was laughing continuously..

PaisleyDiamondz01 said:

Where did you get the replica guitar??

I made it:

http://prince.org/msg/7/363868

Prince White Cloud Guitar...ple Rai...

den1226 said:

ThePurpleYoda said:

Astasheiks said:

Somebodys laughing off and on during the 1st 2mins of the video...

I was laughing continuously..

So were we when we saw you at the second Toronto show... it was a bit embarassing watching you in your Prince get up.

The irony!

Truth be told man, charity's a good thing. If you're doing something for charity, you don't have to look or sound perfect. You just need to know that you're doing a good thing. (Sure, Prince wouldn't see it that way if he'd stumble across this, but still...)

But, in all honesty, not bad. Trust me, I've seen much much worse Prince imitations.

DJFreelan said:

jayARDAHB said:

ThePurpleYoda said:

I was laughing continuously..

So were we when we saw you at the second Toronto show... it was a bit embarassing watching you in your Prince get up.

The irony!

Touche' (:

Im glad you remember me though.

I left my mark in Canada!

Cuz im... "COOL!"

jayARDAHB said:

ThePurpleYoda said:

I was laughing continuously..

So were we when we saw you at the second Toronto show... it was a bit embarassing watching you in your Prince get up.

The irony!

But on a cocky note, it's funny you were laughing.. when SO many people thought i was the real man at first glance.. hmm... I think i did a pretty good job.

Also, my hair is real.. this guys is obviously not..

Okay, just had to say that..

Sorry if i offended ya, broskie!

Here's the bad news:

You don't look like Prince.

Here's the good news:

Neither do most impersonators.

If you're keeping your act lighthearted and fun and not trying to sell yourself as a dead ringer for Prince, only one thing matters...

Are you having fun?
If so, fuck what u hurrrrrrrrrrrrrd. Carry on.

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