-An all-time classic. Backing Prince is Dez Dickerson (guitar), Andre Cymoné (bass), Lisa Coleman (keyboards), Doctor Fink (keyboards) and Bobby Z. (drums). Perfect ending with Prince forcefully knocking the mic stand to the ground and the band all leaving the stage.
-Prince sings “Fighting war is such a fucking bore”

http://bjdwsm.wordpress.c...ce-s06e11/

Prince would have been 21 or 22 in 1980 not 19. Its crazy to think that someone that young had it all in terms of performance, presence, and musicianship. I can't think of any artist today who has the entire package in their very early twenties.

lrn36 said:

Prince would have been 21 or 22 in 1980 not 19. Its crazy to think that someone that young had it all in terms of performance, presence, and musicianship. I can't think of any artist today who has the entire package in their very early twenties.

Yes, Prince would have been 22 when this episode aired. The text provided by OldFriends4Sale says 19 years because (if I recall) for a period early on in Prince's career, managers or Warner Bros. put forth his age as being two years younger than he actually was in real life. I don't remember why; to perhaps market him as a boy-prodigy (which he was anyways). I seem to remember finding out his real age around '83-'84, when his music started crossing over and Purple Rain took off.

GREAT post! I didn't realize I had seen this episode when it originally aired until I saw a re-run of it on VH1 many years later. At the time I was in 5th or 6th grade, at a sleep over birthday party. It had to have been the first time I ever saw him or The Revolution. I wasn't real focused on the performance and have no memory of the music. My main impression was that they looked kind of scruffy. Vaguely remember being in the middle of talking with one of my friends and we looked up at the TV at one point and were like "did he just say...?"

Bluu said:

lrn36 said:

Prince would have been 21 or 22 in 1980 not 19. Its crazy to think that someone that young had it all in terms of performance, presence, and musicianship. I can't think of any artist today who has the entire package in their very early twenties.

Yes, Prince would have been 22 when this episode aired. The text provided by OldFriends4Sale says 19 years because (if I recall) for a period early on in Prince's career, managers or Warner Bros. put forth his age as being two years younger than he actually was in real life. I don't remember why; to perhaps market him as a boy-prodigy (which he was anyways). I seem to remember finding out his real age around '83-'84, when his music started crossing over and Purple Rain took off.

GREAT post! I didn't realize I had seen this episode when it originally aired until I saw a re-run of it on VH1 many years later. At the time I was in 5th or 6th grade, at a sleep over birthday party. It had to have been the first time I ever saw him or The Revolution. I wasn't real focused on the performance and have no memory of the music. My main impression was that they looked kind of scruffy. Vaguely remember being in the middle of talking with one of my friends and we looked up at the TV at one point and were like "did he just say...?"

Yeah, I remember Warners knocking 2 years off his age. I thought that info would be corrected by now.

http://mentalfloss.com/ar...nl-f-bombs

nursev said:

Never saw it-very nice.

Rude boy at work

And Todd Rundgren, too? That's kind of unusual to have had two musical guests, and kind of interesting that it's two very similar (in a way) artists

In 1980, Prince made his national television debut on American Bandstand. At the age of 19, the Purple One performed “I Wanna Be Your Lover” and “Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad.” In the interview with Clark, he revealed that he did not accept anyone’s record deals, despite people wanting to sign him because he would not be allowed to produce. This appearance by Prince was at the beginning of what would become a successful career. Throughout his career, Prince would go on to win seven Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe, an Academy Awards, and be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.

Wait? Wasn't he on Midnight Special first? And was 21.

The word "fuck" was said twice in this episode. In Prince's performance of "Party Up", he sang the lyric "Fightin' war is such a fuckin' bore" and it went unnoticed at the time. But in the closing goodnight segment, Charles Rocket clearly said "I'd like to know who the fuck did it." Rocket and executive producer Jean Doumanian were fired after the next episode.

Are we SURE about that? I am sure he sang "Freaking..." Why would they have bothered to edit it to freaking? (I used have a copy of the orginal with Rocket saying it unbleeped... and I SWARE Prince said Freaking"

lrn36 said:

Prince would have been 21 or 22 in 1980 not 19. Its crazy to think that someone that young had it all in terms of performance, presence, and musicianship. I can't think of any artist today who has the entire package in their very early twenties.

he was 21... he had not yet had his birthday.