Love it. It's a shame it was hidden away as a B-side. Would have been great on The Gold Experience or NPG Exodus, deserves to be on an album!!!

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Always loved this tune. Got a real cheesy Motley Crew vibe to the guitar going on.

Kicks azz

It was a jam off "Get Wild".

A lot of great stuff came out of the mid-90's!

Classic B-side!

Prost!

SuperSoulFighter said:

I guess that was the whole point. Just a quick throwaway jam that was never supposed to be on any album. It just goes to show that the stuff Prince regards as unimportant can be so much fun just because of the lack of ambitions.

Not always, usually he does well on songs where he is trying to compete with someone or 'prove a point' to them, which is quite ambitious in itself.

Think PFunk. But if you mean making it without a clear end in mind ie. an album then yes.

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^ Oh yes, good example love that song....

nayroo2002 said:

It was a jam off "Get Wild".

A lot of great stuff came out of the mid-90's!

Classic B-side!

Prost!

What makes you say that? I don't recall any similarities (but it's been a while since I've listened to either).

TwiliteKid said:

SuperSoulFighter said:

U mean "Dead on it", right? Well, I guess the whole album was a bit like that. And in the mid 90s, P/ must have had that same feeling. Funk/rap/rock? I can do that! Silly name-change or not, he still made some kick-ass tracks in those 90s. Days of Wild, anyone?

Yep....i did mean that, the song is kind of way out and bizarre but amazingly addictive....a bit like the item he was referrring to....

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Great song,

and I looove the music video too.

(It is cold in Minneapolis, right?)

SuperSoulFighter said:

There was a story posted at the time that some Prince fans were at a Lenny Kravitz concert and they had a banner that read "Rock & Roll's Alive." The story goes that they were approached by Lenny's security as asked about the banner. They said something like "It was a song that Prince did as a take on "Rock & Roll is Dead" and that Prince was a friend of Lenny's"

the security guard leaves and then comes back and says something like "Lenny and Prince are not friends."

*i am sure it must have been posted here... or could have been AMP?

themend said:

SuperSoulFighter said:

... And it lives in Minneapolis! Does anyone remember this little ditty from back-n-da-day? It was written as a quick response to Lenny Kravitz' Rock & Roll Is Dead, a hit in 1995 (I take my username from a Lenny Kravitz song but really, Prince beats him in every respect) and I always thought it was a funny bit of healthy competition. The Prince song features the NPG band in full shape rockin' all over the place. What do ya'll think?

Dull and lazy, I actually think the Kravitz song it's 'responding' to is much, much better.

I think it was okay... saddy still better than just about everything he has done in years...

oh and the video shows Prince taking a hit off a joint...

SuperSoulFighter said:

OnlyNDaUsa said:

There was a story posted at the time that some Prince fans were at a Lenny Kravitz concert and they had a banner that read "Rock & Roll's Alive." The story goes that they were approached by Lenny's security as asked about the banner. They said something like "It was a song that Prince did as a take on "Rock & Roll is Dead" and that Prince was a friend of Lenny's"

the security guard leaves and then comes back and says something like "Lenny and Prince are not friends."

*i am sure it must have been posted here... or could have been AMP?

Circus Tour, October 7th in cologne, germany at the "E-Werk". The concert was broadcast a few hours later on german television and is circulating as a bootleg.

I was there. I saw these people with the banners and yes, they couldn't bring them into the venue. I heard that they said it had something to do with the broadcast and the fact that Lenny was under contract with Sony and Prince with Warner Bros. They (Sony) didn't want to give an artist from another label (Prince) free promotion via the television broadcast.

ludwig said:

OnlyNDaUsa said:

There was a story posted at the time that some Prince fans were at a Lenny Kravitz concert and they had a banner that read "Rock & Roll's Alive." The story goes that they were approached by Lenny's security as asked about the banner. They said something like "It was a song that Prince did as a take on "Rock & Roll is Dead" and that Prince was a friend of Lenny's"

the security guard leaves and then comes back and says something like "Lenny and Prince are not friends."

*i am sure it must have been posted here... or could have been AMP?

Circus Tour, October 7th in cologne, germany at the "E-Werk". The concert was broadcast a few hours later on german television and is circulating as a bootleg.

I was there. I saw these people with the banners and yes, they couldn't bring them into the venue. I heard that they said it had something to do with the broadcast and the fact that Lenny was under contract with Sony and Prince with Warner Bros. They (Sony) didn't want to give an artist from another label (Prince) free promotion via the television broadcast.

cool, thanks for the info.... the real questions is WHY do I remember that?

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I liked it, and the video for the love 4 one another special.

In my mind it was always a natural follow on groove from the Peach outro, Get Wild extended live groove (doesn't it use the same "Impressive" Darth vader sample as on the Channel 4 UK White Room performance of Get Wild), and then the intro to Chaos and Disorder.

Nice bit of faux-live rock fun.