Thought this might be of interest to some. Jon Bream, the Minneapolis music critic for the Star Tribune, who has followed Prince's career since the beginning, is parting with his massive record collection:

http://blog.thecurrent.or...ollection/

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very coool, thanks for sharing!

Excellent, thanks for posting!

the cool part is its sale will be used to fund a scholarship. (It would be hard to part with that collection!)

That's Jon Bream??? He says he went to Jr. High with Prince? He can't be Prince's age, can he???


No sale to the public sadly but I'm happy the money will go for a good cause.

babynoz said:

That's Jon Bream??? He says he went to Jr. High with Prince? He can't be Prince's age, can he???


No sale to the public sadly but I'm happy the money will go for a good cause.

U r so funny.... I had 2 check out Mr. Bream and I have the same question as u

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pennylover said:

babynoz said:

That's Jon Bream??? He says he went to Jr. High with Prince? He can't be Prince's age, can he???


No sale to the public sadly but I'm happy the money will go for a good cause.

U r so funny.... I had 2 check out Mr. Bream and I have the same question as u

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No offense to Mr. Bream but it's very hard to believe....he looks so much older than P.

pennylover said:

babynoz said:

That's Jon Bream??? He says he went to Jr. High with Prince? He can't be Prince's age, can he???


No sale to the public sadly but I'm happy the money will go for a good cause.

U r so funny.... I had 2 check out Mr. Bream and I have the same question as u

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When you see Prince, you see dyed hair and lots of foundation all over, plus mascara. He looks fabulous, but without all the make-up and dye jobs, he wouldn't look as young as he does. He'd still look younger than Jon Bream but there's no doubt if he let the greys show and went sans fard, he'd look plausible as a well-preserved specimen that definitely is no spring chicken.

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Aerogram said:

pennylover said:

U r so funny.... I had 2 check out Mr. Bream and I have the same question as u

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When you see Prince, you see dyed hair and lots of foundation all over, plus mascara. He looks fabulous, but without all the make-up and dye jobs, he wouldn't look as young as he does. He'd still look younger than Jon Bream but there's no doubt if he let the greys show and went sans fard, he'd look plausible as a well-preserved specimen that definitely is no spring chicken.

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Do you think P has a lot of gray? He is only a couple of years older than me and I don't even have a dozen gray hairs.

babynoz said:

Do you think P has a lot of gray? He is only a couple of years older than me and I don't even have a dozen gray hairs.

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Grey hair is genetic.

BartVanHemelen said:

babynoz said:

Do you think P has a lot of gray? He is only a couple of years older than me and I don't even have a dozen gray hairs.

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Grey hair is genetic.

Indeed. I started going grey at 28.

BartVanHemelen said:

babynoz said:

Do you think P has a lot of gray? He is only a couple of years older than me and I don't even have a dozen gray hairs.

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Grey hair is genetic.

Really??? Do tell, oh great one...

Seriously though, I'm pretty sure that's common knowledge. What I'm doing is comparing people within the same age group. For example, in my experience it is not common to find someone in their mid fiftiies whose hair is completely white, like Bream's hair. I know that it's genetic but what I'm referring to is that I don't think it's commonplace to have completely white hair at that age.

My whole family grays at an older age, except for one uncle who was in his mid thirties when he turned almost completely gray seemingly overnight, after his only daughter almost burned to death at the age of 5. Go figure.

http://www.scientificamer...gray-hair/

My grandmother and the rest of the family were well over 65 before they had significant gray.

Rebeljuice said:

BartVanHemelen said:

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Grey hair is genetic.

Indeed. I started going grey at 28.

I was wondering how many people that happens to though?

thedoorkeeper said:

I believe Bream is older than Prince. He had been the music critic for the Tribune since 1974. I doubt he was hired for that job when he was 15. Judging by his photo he looks to be in his late sixties at least. I looked for his birth date online and had no luck. If he is in his fifties he is aging badly.

I could be mistaken but I was under the impression that he was talking about Prince because what he says in the article is what I have always heard happened between them...


"Well–it’s hard to tell the story without naming the person. But I’ll just say that there was one artist who I’d known since junior high. We’d gone to the same junior high school. And he was upset about a negative review I wrote about a major label album that he put out. And I’d been real supportive of his work at first, because it was great and groundbreaking, and all of a sudden it became pretty garden variety, and he felt that I should have cut him some slack because he was local. And so he got mad at me and didn’t speak to me for several years."


I don't know who else he might have been referring to?

He could've known Prince since Prince was in junior high, the same junior high school that Bream went to years prior...

scorp84 said:

He could've known Prince since Prince was in junior high, the same junior high school that Bream went to years prior...

After thinking about it a bit more and talking to you guys I think that may be what he meant.


I was trippin' for a minute there...

scorp84 said:

babynoz said:

That's Jon Bream??? He says he went to Jr. High with Prince? He can't be Prince's age, can he???

Prince is practically mummified in make-up. Not many 57 year olds look like him.

babynoz said:

Rebeljuice said:

Indeed. I started going grey at 28.

I was wondering how many people that happens to though?

My dad and his dad before him..... But yeah, not so common. I call it the George Clooney look, my wife calls it the "why dont you try dying it? Go on, just for a laugh.... just once.... go on... ha ha" look.

bluegangsta said:

babynoz said:

That's Jon Bream??? He says he went to Jr. High with Prince? He can't be Prince's age, can he???

Prince is practically mummified in make-up. Not many 57 year olds look like him.

LOL....he does tend to cake it on at times.


I met and spoke to him face to face for a few minutes when he was 49 and I gotta tell ya, it ain't all maybelline. It was at sound check so he wasn't wearing as much makeup as usual and the guy is still positively exquisite.

I remember thinking to myself, "no wonder so many women lose their minds when they meet him..." hell, they probably forget their own names.

Scorp and doorkeeper are probably correct that they went to the same school at different times though.

Rebeljuice said:

babynoz said:

I was wondering how many people that happens to though?

My dad and his dad before him..... But yeah, not so common. I call it the George Clooney look, my wife calls it the "why dont you try dying it? Go on, just for a laugh.... just once.... go on... ha ha" look.

You should show up at home one day wearing one of those Elvis wigs and tell her you finally decided to take her advice.

"Oh honey....remember when you said I should dye my hair? How do you like it?"

galactus said:

Thought this might be of interest to some. Jon Bream, the Minneapolis music critic for the Star Tribune, who has followed Prince's career since the beginning, is parting with his massive record collection:

http://blog.thecurrent.or...ollection/

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So what does this have to do with Prince?