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Through the gates.
Knock on the door.
Put your clothes in a pile, on the floor.
Take your pick from the Japanese robes and sandals.

-3121

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I hope no one is offended by the use of Orient in this thread. I know people are not 'oriental'.

I want to look at the use of oriental/Asian things/places in the creative process of Prince's musical journey. Not that he actually went deep with it.

Also Asian descendant musicians that Prince has worked with directly for his music or produced music for.

What other touches of Asian culture that you know of are found in his music/style etc?

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o·ri·ent (ôr-nt, -nt, r-)

Kimberly Ann Delfin, a Huntington Beach resident, died Monday after an 11 year battle with ovarian cancer. She was 47. Earlier, Delfin pursued a career as a professional dancer and actor. Nicknamed "Popsicle", she danced on "FAME", "Merv Griffin", and several other TV shows and commercials. The break dancer was even featured in Prince's music video for "Raspberry Beret", which won an award for best choreography. Specializing in pop and lock-style dancing, Delfin was responsible for popularizing several moves such as her signature "tut-toes". Her most notable acting performances included roles in "Pretty Smart", "Hunter" and "Who's the Boss", She was especially passionate about giving back to the community. In 2010, Delfin awarded a thousand dollar performing arts scholarship to an aspiring dancer from Huntington Beach High School. She is survived by her daughter, Misha Delfin; her mother, Dina Velarde; her father, Emmanuel Delfin; her siblings, Gina Lachowicz, Roy Celestino, Valarie Delfin, Anthony Delfin, Dwight Velarde, Michelle Velarde and Teresa Velarde. www.dildaybrothers.com

Prince & Kahoru Kohiruimaki 1989 Paisley Park

You might throw in the Arabic-influenced sword dancing stuff Mayte did and some of the atmospherics during the D&P tour since Oriental refers to the exoticized East from the perspective of the West.

I don't think much of it, overall. Not a thing he particularly had much handle on, just some stuff that got thrown into the mix. The guitar riff from "The Max" and 8/18/1988 "Instrumental Jam"...just little stuff like that.

Love the pictures.

Has ever officially had someone of Asian descent in his band?

A lot of his outfits during ONA/Musicology/3121 had an Asian influence

I think Vanessa Mae (known for her electric violin) has recorded some stuff with Prince. I'm tempted to say it was something to do with the Xpectation album - but I couldn't swear to it.

On the Album N.E.W.S. "East" has a flavour of the orient though arguably it's only one section of the piece.

C-note - has the songs "Tokyo" "Nagoya" a"Osaka". "Tokyo" has a very serene oriental feel to it IMO.

The songs "7" and "Thieves in the temple" also have aspects of the orient, but it'd be overstating the point to say the orient was a theme.

OldFriends4Sale said:

Has ever officially had someone of Asian descent in his band?

Yeah, for a very short time period between 2003 and early 2004 that asian musician "Rad" was in his band. She played keyboards. You can see her playing and dancing with Chance Howard on the "Musicology"-performance at the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...usician%29

http://www.bay-area-bands...b00100.htm

Anyone remember prince's guitar tech Takumi?

ludwig said:

Anyone remember prince's guitar tech Takumi?

thanks 4 the name

Takumi Suetsugu

From there we’re ushered to Richieworld, guitarist Richie Sambora’s area which holds his amp racks, both guitar displays and his personal tech Takumi, yet another very nice guy, fresh from a nine-year stint with Prince.


Takumi hard at work in Richieworld

Taken from Guitar Player, January 2000

Photograph shows a selection of prince's guitars with the following text: The Artist's stage axes include (from L-R) a custom Schecter nicknamed 'Habibi', a Warwick bass, an Ibanez george Benson, and a David Rusen 'Cloud.' Guitar tech Takumi Suetsugu reports that the solidbody guitars are equipped with EMG pickups and strung with .009 - .042 guage High Beams. All of the stage lines are from Monster Cable.

Second photograph shows Prince's view of his pedalboard which is explained as follows:

Left side: Roland FC-100; Boss DS-2 Turbo Overdrive; Boss VB-2 Vibrato; Boss DD-3 Digital Delay; Boss FL-2 Flanger; Boss OC-2 Octave; Boss BD-2 Blues Driver

Right Side: (Dunlop) CryBaby Wah; Roland EV-5 (controls GP-16 whammy); Dunlop Rotovibe

Text explains:

UHF signals from the Artist's four main stage guitars hit a wireless rack equipped with four Sampson UR 5Ds. An Uptown Technologies Flash switcher is used to select between the wireless units. The Digital Music Corp MX-8 is used for MIDI switching, the Roland GP-16 is for whammy effects only and the Zoom 9030 is used for all other effects. An Uptown Great Divide routes signal from the Snyder unit to Flash switcher #2, the GP-16, and the main and backup 9030s. Outputs from these units feed a Behringer Denoiser, a Soldano/caswell preamp and, finally, a splitter box which sends 'clean' and 'dirty' signals to the Mesa/Boogie Strategy 500 and rackmount Soldano SLO 100 respectively.

Onstage Cabinets are straight-front Peavey 5150 4 x 12s loaded with EV speakers. The offstage 'clean dog' and 'dirty dog' Marshall 4 x 12 slant cabinets are miked to feed the front-of-house system. These are loaded with Celestion vintage 30s.

The illustration provides greater detail together with the wiring.

The interview also provides input largely about recording for 'Rave' (the album.)

Hans Buff provides some detail, including: 'The Artist's favourite funk setup is his Hohner Tele copy equipped with Fender noiseless pickups through either a Countryman or an Avalon direct box, then into a DiMideo mic preamp, and finally through a compressor, usually a tube Urei LA2A.

The Prince Q & A is not particularly long, but it provides the sort of technical detail he rarely offers in standard interviews: e.g.

Q 'How did you get such a massive sound on 'So Far, So Pleased'?'

A 'I ran my guitar through a Boss Vibrato and Flanger. The octave and delay effects are from the Zoom 9030.'

Then again, he still provides his usual:

Q 'Speaking of 'Crystal Ball', how did you get that eerie tone in 'Animal Kingdom' and the incredible rhythm guitar in 'Da Bang'?'

A If I told you , you'd have to die.

ludwig said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Has ever officially had someone of Asian descent in his band?

Yeah, for a very short time period between 2003 and early 2004 that asian musician "Rad" was in his band. She played keyboards. You can see her playing and dancing with Chance Howard on the "Musicology"-performance at the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...usician%29

http://www.bay-area-bands...b00100.htm

thanks 4 the name drop

Rose Ann Dimalanta: Rad joined Prince and his band, the New Power Generation, for his Musicology tours in 2003 and 2004

Rose Ann Dimalanta, a.k.a. rad, grew up in Oakland, California and began playing piano at the age of 4. In 1990, she completed her jazz studies at U.C. Berkeley. By this time, she had already played alongside Bay Area jazz musicians like Pete Escovedo and was recognized as a pianist. In 1988, she met Sound Engineering student Michael Kirsch at the College for Recording Arts in San Francisco. The two were married in 1991 and Rose Ann moved to Kirsch's hometown Hamburg, Germany. In 1992, she started her solo project with the first release, Radified, on her husband's record label, Soulciety Records. The record instantly won critical acclaim and sold over 50,000 units independently.^{[citation needed]} The following years brought collaborations with Tower of Power, Roger Troutman, Howard Johnson, Marc Russo of the Yellow Jackets, Sheila E. and others. After leaving the label Soulciety Records in 1996, both Rad and Kirsch moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area and started attracting musicians to the project, including jazz guitarist Ray Obiedo and Tower of Power drummer David Garibaldi. Rad joined Prince and his band, the New Power Generation, for his Musicology tours in 2003 and 2004. She left the New Power Generation to focus more on her new born daughter and finish work on the album East Babe which was released on hers and Kirsch's label 7 Bridges Recordings in 2007. A live album "Live in Japan" was released in early 2008. She was joined by Patrice Rushen on her next studio album "Getting Down Is Free". After a brief stint with the Prime Time Band on NBC's Jay Leno show, she returned to live touring in 2009.

Live: Known for delivering electrifying live performances with her band, rad. repeatedly sold out London's Jazz Caf?and Paris' Hot Brass Club, and in the early 90's shared the stage with such luminaries as Incognito, Maceo Parker, Carleen Anderson, Raw Stylus, and ex-James Brown's right hand man Bobby Byrd. In 1995, she performed in San Francisco for the United Nations 50th Anniversary Celebration-Festival and co-hosted the popular "Groove" show on Euro-VH1. rad. toured Japan with the drummer Sheila E. which in 2002 led to Southern California performances with Stevie Wonder, Sheryl Crow, Wendy & Lisa, Mick Fleetwood and grammy award winning gospel singer Yolanda Adams. Thanks to a recommendation from NPG drummer John Blackwell, who listens to rad. since 1993, rad. joined Prince's band in mid 2003 and toured with Prince & the NPG until spring 2004.

that is Rad to the far right

OldFriends4Sale said:

I know people are 'oriental' Asian.

Fixed.

hopefularranger said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

I know people are 'oriental' Asian.

Fixed.

I meant to type people are not oriental...things are

I did not see my mistake

OldFriends4Sale said:

I meant to type people are not oriental...things are

I did not see my mistake

I know. I'm here to help!

hopefularranger said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

I meant to type people are not oriental...things are

I did not see my mistake

I know. I'm here to help!

thanks 4 spotting that lol

Anotherwontdare said:

You might throw in the Arabic-influenced sword dancing stuff Mayte did and some of the atmospherics during the D&P tour since Oriental refers to the exoticized East from the perspective of the West.

I don't think much of it, overall. Not a thing he particularly had much handle on, just some stuff that got thrown into the mix. The guitar riff from "The Max" and 8/18/1988 "Instrumental Jam"...just little stuff like that.

Don't forget 'Habibi', the font on , and ATWIAD. There's a lot of this stuff.

(Also, "Oriental" refers to objects. "Orientalism"--per Said--refers to the West exoticizing and defining the East.)

Prince's Nude tour outfits sometimes had Kana written on them.

I think it said stuff like "Love, sex etc".

I'm not really sure from what I can see on the picture above but from my fucking awful Kana reading skills I'm gonna take a guess that it says "Nuido" (how the Japanese would pronounce the western word "Nude").

I swear to fucking god I'm such a weeaboo I knew I should of avoided this thread

Anyway, have Prince written in Kana because its pretty:

プリンス

Angelsoncrack said:

Prince's Nude tour outfits sometimes had Kana written on them.

I think it said stuff like "Love, sex etc".

I'm not really sure from what I can see on the picture above but from my fucking awful Kana reading skills I'm gonna take a guess that it says "Nuido" (how the Japanese would pronounce the western word "Nude").

I swear to fucking god I'm such a weeaboo I knew I should of avoided this thread

Anyway, have Prince written in Kana because its pretty:

プリンス

please do not avoid, and do not apologize for helping out

Thank U for what you enlightened me on