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Prince Word Scramble Puzzle (just for fun) Can you guess where this word scramble text comes from? »rly one mprninx in Pcbivan'n{ !uSliitit.wli<'rf lm('lu>i»nt'ffi li wft»nlll fmwathon; a greatest kits revue i.iui inc.liiricil A vcitioii ot '* S>iii|»lr R»in" lh*t hA(,l th*1 p»tWO* w tl>» floor waving their arms back and toi-th relijpotisly Jii.st like in the tiwvic. Just lik<? in ih)nom\ietM8iiM]fUnmlnAn»U(^№lWwawA Maniod, had little left to offw butsiar powm. stwwinenshti). and hi»q nnstalato And (tie tnith is, since I'd saw it happen totoro. I cant say 1 was all that disawxiinwri liwftmd I twk imrtturt tfl (h» i«(^BDdonantlonarton. : But as I walked from the dub to ttia ptrtdng (amp that night 1 adfflit to ftwlinB a cgfaln awia Dympnthylw lh« iwuwau WftWjWwho'll |tm at tonjimlnB tftoti respects in the court ot His Royal BadnBSs.Because in)rB'tfwf)mythin8,ft80t8inSI«ffi 8t8 ~wMri n'waf thil ttow I'd WWt Ray ChartM BDdl«mM 8rowi^to dinner tt^tsis. Entertaining sho»vs. to be sum. but like all sin* axperfsnros, the mii»fc«W8ft»m»< I "Wu shoutdt been there whan...' Owmight then, it seemed as if ftincfl had prBmaturely siBned on with tht» mile dub, WSV ipmilttNtty fBf cMwueapliy, rttlu to hltt, a«rtwte|^8W^ wwugh-gll of which is and always has been anathema to his legendaivtwittltt for wlt^WrtmtnUtlBB. At I old iwws. that he'd been displaced by an army of nawjecks vihocouidm iw with him on B m»l tnimiitwnt (tthtlranttin colltrttw nt uinyl liunplM I Whuh is why. when ttw strains of "Puiple Rain" finatly hdsd that night and I wntdwd Priiicn uk* hit bWft, I wn^.l>h*"W^^itf(IJ^'on?OTd. WheiiMtiMdthatttiestuffwsiSjustthissKteofstato.andifhehaditinhrmtochBltennahlmsollnBBln ysars, but as I watched him nin through an admittadlymlnd-^lowlng litany utoh) hia, •nultioi. wiv'ilisl""-'. ImJlfWtlOn WA hBid: That he was bored out of his skull, and he was purging himsglt of hla past. Fast-foiwan) exactly one yaaf later. Prince is no longer Princa. but ^•. and wwym, IF from Vibfl maganne that ha knows peopla will make jokes about It—tw WBn KCBpts ttiat I between him and the comfort of his past laurels- Wsirdly, I gat It. On • gut Iml, I undOTtand MUIk* ft" hto "'u*1" VVM'} peisonal growtti Maybe it's because ho and I are ttia same age and grew up hi virtually the Mmina||lilwitioiid, hiil knowledge doesn't come easy: it raquiras a process that tlie psychottiempist calls "hard woik." and thhi •f- nills lu'iuiinB •W 'Vft6' wolutlonmdlhm* ictth* Which is to say ttiat+ doesn't mpnseffl tto past. bill possibility. In FsbniaiY of 1994, he ifflNBiid fnim nn lnan««wttl)l<) Wd I party (The Beaulifui Experience") at Psistey Paik to rommemorate the felesse of Tt» MoitftBlftl Glri In the ]j|»td" llnjll*, Th*(lj material you now hold in your handy—including the maivelous caitnon danco woriMHit "Niw^fld the Al Qmq^Md Malt I perfonronce was a gritty, lean. and supmnaly nasty coming-out baptismthtt, untilcthtGlam Slam gig a i fofwant-ttiinking wortd citizen capable of howling lines like "Hooker, bitch, -ho/1 don't tftlnk so; and "A \ respecVregret. and then, with genuine bad-ess sijuiirelnwiis. "tight us up and take a hit' Which, as a matter of fact, isexacttvwhatldkt.AsBftBn as possible. Last summer,^ and the NPG sot up shop tui u wiiok lii I rodi: City, tliii •*W",«i'w*n Minneapolis Glam Stein's uppwtf—WPiBV'd start at about 2:00 a.m. i skepticism and baited from ttw piPBmagic bus, so my friend Theresa was the only one I could ever talk Into going. Ona nl(|M weyw joined oy WPBOpr.i nan. 400. One night, he laid on his back and | Shoals band teadei; ttw next, he led 300 pwpte on a scmnger hunt out4 It was exhilarating, and exhausting. Theresa and I would drive I coming up. Ttie next day, we'd call each other up: Did you hear this?' Sonny T, drummer Michael Bland, kayboaidists Tommy Bartiaralla and I jam-ability. After a July Gtern Slam gig, Theresa said she thought "P CoftSI" was just I rt as a lighttwartaUl(B(mchy, take on the power of i We bitche^Bndered. anddanced. Ywh, we were hooted,I suppose in the same way) we were hearini» woite in nBwess unfettered by ttie uaual cheese, it was more exciting than |( those niflWfcjn JuT^UitidBBscqWing an undetgroum) band that nobody had ever heard of I ]llkuBti(oleu,iiiii»CtouiMutCle lco.y I detandN) gets hooked, but because l> wa» all nsw matBiial and ir-gailng In a wnalt club It was, us wa ottan Mid . At the time, I had grown aomewhat | or artistry. I'd spent much of the last year of power of music, bgcau.w too niany labelt WWB putting out jl Pioneer Press coming iho music ol (tospeli. and tha landscape MS riddted with ontinwy players, say-flothing whingis, and hmeless iiavn^aarswho espired to little else but fluninfl somelhlnfl ot< their chests when there tw notfiing intefBsting on their i^sts to begin «^.^^ of allj vns sick of euaybody being M damned «8fious. and I wanted to haw tome ^ NPG did it thay made me laugh and think and twitch. And there was something else: After spending the last few yeais cultivating personas of sofr-rocktrfladeer, elect^gglanw, and public relations goat btll, + rytumed to dofno what he does better than anyone else on the planet playing guitar. Upon first heericg Jimi Hendi^Bkple Han." Biuce Gary wrote thai "it was as it all the soul music and nx* & roll I'd BVBT heard had become this raging flood.' Tftat quota stuck $ my head nig^gW nlfltn as + consistently nailud my jaw to (ho floor and swept me up in his own raging, gushing. flash flood. As the summer wore on, + started showing up for more impgau11" 9i9s at Gtem Slams jnMiaml and Ins Angeles, and the flrapavine reported that he was perfbnning this brilliant new matenal along wrft covers by Stevl^^er, Sly Stone, and S^MI-ftpe. He's nevar made a secret of his passion (or musical hiittfy, and you can clearly hear the bridging of ttiose three BenerationsflNko these grooves j(there In (tie anttiemic utopiuii visiaft-meett-celebrityvulnawblltty of 'Gold," in the hant-won hubris of "We March," and in the intoriCdBJpMke that is 'No ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The feeling you get when... (you squeeze your balls?) no that's not it... |
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Jim Walsh, Pop Music Critic, St.. Paul Pioneer Press January 1995 | |
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The feeling you get when... (you squeeze your balls?) no that's not it... |
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now can we put this shit in another forum??? i am KING BAD!!!
you are NOT... 
STOP ME IF YOU HEARD THIS BEFORE... | |
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NO! | |
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Maybe the OP was not 'awake' ?? 
Ohh purple joy oh purple bliss oh purple rapture! REAL MUSIC by REAL MUSICIANS - Prince "I kind of wish there was a reason for Prince to make the site crash more" ~~ Ben |
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