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Reply #120 posted 11/12/12 8:31am

PDogz

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KCOOLMUZIQ said:

PDogz said:

I had just moved to Los Angeles in 1981, when a month or two later I learned that Prince would be performing at Flippers. Being new to the city, I didn't know where Santa Monica Blvd. & La Cienega was (...which is where Flippers was located at the time), nor did I know how to get there by public transportation. I had an older brother who had also just moved to the LA area a few years prior, so I asked him how to get there. I explained to my brother how awesome a performer Prince was, that I had just seen him the year before opening for Rick James on his "Fire It Up" tour, and suggested to my brother that he should even come along with me to Flippers to see Prince perform live. I rarely, if ever, asked my brother for anything, and it was apparent that I really wanted to go see Prince again in concert, as I was practically pleading with my brother to come along and show me the way. My brother's response to me? "I'm not taking you to go see that FAGGOT!"

Nearly 20 years later, my brother finally apologized and admitted to me that he had made a mistake. He said that he should have gone with me to see Prince at Flippers, and that if he had; he would have had the opportunity to have seen a legend in the making.

My only response to him was: "...yeah well, I told you".

Prince's next LA area concert subsequent to his Flippers appearance was at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in 1982. I knew my way around town by that time, the album "Controversy" had just dropped about 3 months prior, and there was no way in Hell I was missing THAT Prince concert!

Great story! But u never explained his per4mance there.

If you're referring to his performance at Flippers, it's because I didn't make it (...despite my best effort to be there). My story of the show at Flippers is about how I didn't know the way there, and why my brother wouldn't take me or show me the way. As it turns out, I was only about 20 minutes away.

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KCOOLMUZIQ	Oh! Sorry to hear that... will ALWAYS think of like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that wasn't of this earth, would not have been that surprised. R.I.P.
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KCOOLMUZIQ	rgsince81 said: Was I the only one at Flippers from the Org?... I find that hard to believe U need to provide every detail of that show. U are a treasure now... will ALWAYS think of like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that wasn't of this earth, would not have been that surprised. R.I.P.
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SometimesIwond er	July 29th 1993- I was 17. I was never the same after that. He shaped my late teens & adulthood with his music. Yes, Prince was my entire world! Actually, what on earth am I talking about, 'was' ? Ha ha
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Fonkyman	ZombieKitten said: sexton said: No, my dad took me. He kept going on and on about Sheila E. Is Pink Floyd considered nerdy? Very. Depressing, I'll grant ya but nerdy? They wrote some... Well, they wrote some.
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