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Thread started 10/07/14 7:24am

TonyVanDam

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Who would you have fired from The Revolution?

I'll start this thread by saying, no one! I love The Revolution!

However, I still think Purple Rain (the album & the movie) would have been a success no matter what, even if Dez Dickenson would have stay in the band that would be called The Revolution. But then again, I wouldn't dare change history at the expense of robbing the world a chance of seeing greatness that are known as Wendy & Lisa.

Just saying!

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Reply #1 posted 10/07/14 7:40am

BobGeorge909

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I would a fired bobby z and got a better drummer. No offense Bob.

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Reply #2 posted 10/07/14 8:05am

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BobGeorge909 said:
I would a fired bobby z and got a better drummer. No offense Bob.

Ri-i-iiight... lol

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Reply #3 posted 10/07/14 8:21am

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BobGeorge909 said:
I would a fired bobby z and got a better drummer. No offense Bob.

I will admit that you have a point there (READ: give Shelia a call!).

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Reply #4 posted 10/07/14 11:26am

Polo1026	Probably Bobby and Brownmark and replaced them with Sheila E and Sonny T.
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Reply #5 posted 10/07/14 11:45am

paulludvig	Wendy The wooh is on the one!
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Reply #6 posted 10/07/14 12:15pm

TrevorAyer	i would fire that weak ass honky tonk version of 'something in the water' .. where was the birthday show version on tour?
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Reply #7 posted 10/07/14 12:17pm

Genesia

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Wally and Greg. disbelief

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Reply #8 posted 10/07/14 1:44pm

BobGeorge909

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I don't know who he should have fired...but he should have found some way to hire a Kennedy or Dolores Claiborne or Mayor Quimby...a new englander... to speak the intro to Let's Go Crazy.

THAT would have been CLASSIC.

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Reply #9 posted 10/07/14 1:59pm

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Polo1026 said:

Probably Bobby and Brownmark and replaced them with Sheila E and Sonny T.

Brownmark had those sick gospel funk grooves down cold. No one could play them like him.

I always thought Shiela E's 1984 band was overall tighter than the Revolution.

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Reply #10 posted 10/07/14 7:29pm

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lrn36 said:

Polo1026 said:

Probably Bobby and Brownmark and replaced them with Sheila E and Sonny T.

Brownmark had those sick gospel funk grooves down cold. No one could play them like him.

I always thought Shiela E's 1984 band was overall tighter than the Revolution.

Yeah they were and the Time was killing them in terms of in the pocket funk grooves but the Revolution was really good at being an entension of Prince. People go crazy over Wendy and Lisa and their contributions to his music then and they did contribute a lot but my feeling is they always 'painted with the same strokes' if you get what I'm saying.

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Reply #11 posted 10/07/14 7:38pm

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Prince. The Revolution was much better without him. wink

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Reply #12 posted 10/07/14 8:09pm

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Yeah, I loved The Revolution. Kinda reminds me of Sly and the Family Stone. Sheila E would have made a nice blend in, if she didn't have her own band.

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Reply #13 posted 10/07/14 8:30pm

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Polo1026 said:

lrn36 said:

Brownmark had those sick gospel funk grooves down cold. No one could play them like him.

I always thought Shiela E's 1984 band was overall tighter than the Revolution.

Yeah they were and the Time was killing them in terms of in the pocket funk grooves but the Revolution was really good at being an entension of Prince. People go crazy over Wendy and Lisa and their contributions to his music then and they did contribute a lot but my feeling is they always 'painted with the same strokes' if you get what I'm saying.

Yeah, the Revolution had that mystic arua that the other bands didn't. It was kinda replicated in the Family.

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Reply #14 posted 10/08/14 2:25am

paulludvig	2020 said: Prince. The Revolution was much better without him. There are probably people on the org that really think that. The wooh is on the one!
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