this might be the 1st of him wearing purple

Prince @ Flippers Roller Disco Boogie Lounge 3.31.1981

1. Do It All Night Play Video
2. Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad? Play Video
3. Gotta Broken Heart Again Play Video
4. Gotta Stop (Messin' About) Play Video
5. I Wanna Be Your Lover Play Video
6. When You Were Mine Play Video
7. Sister Play Video
8. Sexy Dancer Play Video
9. Head Play Video
10. Partyup Play Video
11. Encore:
12. Uptown Play Video
13. Dirty Mind Play Video
    (incl. Dez' guitar solo)
14. Crazy You Play Video
    (full band version)

Prince said he was inspired to write the rock song while listening to John Lennon. The track is full of guitar licks, and includes a Farfisa-inspired organ sound played on an Oberheim OB-X.

When U Were Mine

When U were mine
I gave U all of my money
Time after time
U done me wrong
It's just like a train
U let all my friends come over and eat
And U were so strange
U didn't have the decency 2 change the sheets

Oh girl, when U were mine
I used 2 let U wear all my clothes
U were so fine (So fine)
Maybe that's the reason that it hurt me so

CHORUS:
I know (I know) that U're going with another guy
I don't care (don't care) cuz I love U, baby, that's no lie
I love U more than I did when U were mine

When U were mine
U were kindasorta my best friend
So I was blind (So blind)
I let U fool around
I never cared (Didn't care)
I never was the kind 2 make a fuss
When he was there
Sleeping in between the 2 of us

CHORUS

When U were mine
U were all I ever wanted 2 do
Now I spend my time
Following him whenever he's with U

CHORUS

When U were mine, oh no
Love U, baby, love U, baby
When U were mine

Prince: Mom's Favorite Freak - Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Out!

Who is this charismatic, elfin performer who confronts audiences, inspires laughter, good feeling and dancing in the aisle?-and who used to answer the question with, "Who am I? I'm just my mother's favorite freak."

But if it's true that clothes make the man, then what can be made of a talented singer/songwriter/musician/producer who calls himself Prince and wears onstage what could be either the Emperor's new clothes or the Empress' old undies?

(a) That Mr.Prince is a screaming queen?

(b) That he is no man at all, but a woman with a peachfuzz moustache?

(c) That he has forsaken clothes onstage because he does not wish to be judged by what he wears?

(d) All of the above?

If you selected answer (c) you are correct. Prince doesn't wish to be judged by what he wears, which by the way isn't very much. One look inside his wardrobe locker tells the tale. Let's see: one pair purple tights; black thigh-high tights; one pair black leather briefs; one pair leopard skin bikini briefs. This Prince could catch a cold and die!

By way of partial explanation, the 20-year-old Minneapolis-born and bred wonderboy would probably like us to peep into his Dirty Mind, not just coincidentally the title of his third Warner Bros. album and second single release. And although the words to many of his funk-disco may not be dirty on the dance floor, don't expect to hear it on the radio. Prince has been sentenced to twenty years at hard rock somewhere in the underground of total orgasm, lesbianism, inscest, sodomy, anarchy, revolution-and more than a dash of tender love and care, just to confuse things more.

Using sex to sell records predates Elvis Presley, who twitched, quivered, and shook himself to fame and beyond. But you'd have to go back to Little Richard and, later, Jimi Hendrix, to find a Black rocker whose sheer outrageousness could mesmerize both Black and White, male and female, the way Prince does. With softer sounds filling the Black music mainstream, the electronic roar of Prince's '80s-style loin-shaking punk-funk has made him a champion of the people. While other Black artist thrive on bleaching funk for the middle of the road, Prince is getting raunchier.

Musically, it might be easier to simply dismiss him as a sicko, if it weren't for the fact that he also happens to be a multidimensional artist who has welded well-crafted R&B songs to hard-edged rock - the Motown falsetto of Smokey, Kendricks and the young Jacksons to heavy new-wave rhythms. The result, a sophisticated, uptown sound both strikingly original and stunningly perverse, is dirtier than Donna Summer, raunchier than Sly Stone. Along with the Bus Boys, Prince stands in the vanguard of a wave of Black rock and roll that has not yet arrived.

The leaping legend of Prince starts in the refrigerator of America, Minnesota, where the population is only one percent Black and Hispanic, and rock is plowed under the field or crushed into gravel.

Prince's father was the leader of a jazz group, the Prince Rogers Band (so Prince is really Prince II). When he was 5, Prince got a chance to see his father in action. The sights and sounds of his fathers music filled him with excitement, the effects of which still reverberate through Prince's music, whatever direction it may take.

Prince wanted to bask in the same musical glow, perform the same musical miracles, and when his father went out of town again, he sat at his fathers piano and taught himself to play by ear the themes from Batman and Man from U.N.C.L.E.. It wasn't too much longer before he began entering talent contest, playing for people, and writing songs he spun from his childhood fantasies.

Sexual awareness dawned early and rudely. Doctor Freud would have had a field day. For Prince, though, it marked the beginning of a odyssey that would take him down the trail of lonelines, povetry, and awakening.

Rock and Soul spoke to Prince recently in Buffalo, N.Y., where he was about to embark on his second extensive national tour within a year. In early 1980, he'd upstaged the act he opened for - Rick James. This time Prince was the headliner.

"My mom used to leave trashy pornography around, and I used to sneak them out of her room when I was eight years old. Then I got sick of those and started writing my own. I didn't write risque lyrics, I didn't know the two went together; peoples feelings and music."

Prince's preference for sexy lyrics never wavered. Even when he began to play (top 40) for money, he'd sneak in one or two of his own songs whenever he got the chance . Once he was old enough, Prince moved in with his friend and bass player Andre Cymone, whose father played in Prince's band.

"When I was sixteen," said Prince, his shyness dissolving as he warmed to the subject, "I lived in Andre's basement. It was a turning point for me. I wrote a ton of songs, my brain was free of everything, I didn't have anything to worry about. That's when I realized music could express what you were feeling, and it started showing up in my songs.

"One night Andre's mother said , 'Prince, is that girl still down there?" I got nervous but said 'Yes.' She said, ' Okay, just lock the door when she leaves.' After that, I knew things weren't forbidden anymore."

By the time Prince was 17, he already had five years as a professional musician under his belt, played in groups and written some solid songs. He then went to New York City and, with studio time exchanged for arranging chores, recorded demos of Soft and Wet (on For You), Aces, and Machine, all with sexual lyrics. Prince received offers from one record and one publishing company, but none to produce his own music. A management dispute followed, and Prince was forced to return home, but not without new enthusiasm.

"I went back to Minneapolis and back to Andre's basement." he said candidly. "I could deal with the centipedes and poverty better because I knew I could make it. I'd proven it to myself and that's what really mattered."

When Prince signed with Warner Bros., the headlines of strait-laced Minnesota newspapers were rife with rumors of a vulgarian given a six-figure contract to fill the airwaves with raw, sweaty sex. And when his first album was followed by a second, Prince, and a hit single, I Wanna Be Your Lover, the scalphunters were not disappointed.

"Sex is always the most interesting thing to write about," he says. "It's the one subject people can't talk about without losing their cool. Have you ever noticed people can talk about Iran, they can talk about JFK being shot, but as soon as you bring up their sex life they start stuttering. My family, my father and my mother, life and death are far more personal to me than sex."

Printed lyrics are not included in Dirty Mind, Prince's breakthrough rock and roll LP. Even though you need a headset to hear the lyrics, the music still kicks up a storm of rhythm and kink. The album cover is stickered with the warning : "Album contains language which may be unsuitable for some listeners." The sticker does not however obstruct the cover photo of Prince in the royal bikini. Obviously, Prince's kingdom has come.

Prince's five-piece band is tight and crisp, and, as a result an undercurrent of energy gets audiences to their feet. Pretty soon he has everybody singing the chorus to Head without any help from the band. The Prince's sparkling green eyes dart and dash as he writhes and moans in ecstasy. All of a sudden clothes start coming off, the audience goes berserk. Is this any way for a real Prince to behave?

Eros is an unreleased track recorded in May or June, 1980, at Prince's Lake Minnetonka Home Studio, Minnetonka, MN, USA, during the recording of the Dirty Mind album. It is not known if the track was intended for this or any other project. The track was remixed by engineer Chuck Zwicky in 1988. Little is known about the track, but it is believed to be an instrumental.

3.22.1981 @ the Ritz NYC

1. Do It All Night

2. Why U Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
3. Gotta Broken Heart Again

4. Broken Lonely & Crying

5. When U Where Mine

6. Gotta Stop (Messin About)

7. Sexy Dancer

8. Sister

9. I Wana Be Your Lover

10. Head

11. Still Waiting

12. Party Up

13. Uptown

14. Crazy U

15. Dirty Mind

16. Everybody Dance

17. Bambi

6.2.1981 @ the Lyceum in London England
1. Do It All Night

2. Why U Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
3. Got A Broken Heart Again

4. When U Were Mine

5. Gotta Stop (Messin About)*

6. Sexy Dancer

7. Sister

8. I Wanna Be Your Love

9. Head

10. Still Waiting

11. Party Up

12. Dirty Mind

13. Uptown
14. Jack U Off *

photo session 5.29.1981 @ the Paradiso in Amsterdam

How cool it must have been to have been a fan during this cruicial period. This is where Prince became Prince and they were right there to see it.

5.29.1981 @ the Paradiso in Amsterdam

1. Do It All Night

2. Why U Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
3. Got A Broken Heart Again

4. When U Were Mine

5. Gotta Stop (Messin About)*

6. Sexy Dancer

7. Sister

8. I Wanna Be Your Love

9. Head

10. Still Waiting

11. Party Up

12. Dirty Mind

13. Uptown
14. Jack U Off *

emesem said:

How cool it must have been to have been a fan during this cruicial period. This is where Prince became Prince and they were right there to see it.

RAW

the time moved so fast from For You - Dirty Mind and into COntroversy, it was all a whirlwind

OldFriends4Sale said:

Prince said he was inspired to write the rock song while listening to John Lennon. The track is full of guitar licks, and includes a Farfisa-inspired organ sound played on an Oberheim OB-X.

When U Were Mine

When U were mine
I gave U all of my money
Time after time
U done me wrong
It's just like a train
U let all my friends come over and eat
And U were so strange
U didn't have the decency 2 change the sheets

Oh girl, when U were mine
I used 2 let U wear all my clothes
U were so fine (So fine)
Maybe that's the reason that it hurt me so

CHORUS:
I know (I know) that U're going with another guy
I don't care (don't care) cuz I love U, baby, that's no lie
I love U more than I did when U were mine

When U were mine
U were kindasorta my best friend
So I was blind (So blind)
I let U fool around
I never cared (Didn't care)
I never was the kind 2 make a fuss
When he was there
Sleeping in between the 2 of us

CHORUS

When U were mine
U were all I ever wanted 2 do
Now I spend my time
Following him whenever he's with U

CHORUS

When U were mine, oh no
Love U, baby, love U, baby
When U were mine

John Lennon? Really?

Sounds more like it belongs on the Grease soundtrack.

Still love it though.

OldFriends4Sale said:

Now this is my kind of thread!



Too bad I'm at work or I'd put Dirty Mind on and blast the speakers right now!

Sittin' outside your door, about to break down
Fourth time this week, somebody's come around
Who's it gonna be tonight? Who's the lucky man?
Where you get the attitude, I'll never understand

Here he comes now, so happy that he came
Was it good boy? Thoughts on, of her aim
What goes on inside your head
That makes you want to take them all to bed?

Gotta stop, gotta, gotta stop, messin' about
You know you gotta stop, gotta, gotta stop, messin' about

When I call you on the phone, you act so unconcerned
I wanna, I wanna get you all alone, baby, to show you what I've learned
Why you won't give me the time of day? You won't give me some time
You won't give me anything, God, you think you're too fine

Can't you see? All I want is a little time
I've been playin' with my toy so much I'm gonna go blind
Gotta stop, gotta gotta stop, messin' about
You gotta stop, gotta, gotta stop, messin' about

Gotta stop, gotta gotta stop, messin' about
You gotta stop, gotta, gotta stop, messin' about
You gotta stop, gotta, gotta stop, messin' about, you do it too much
You gotta stop, gotta, gotta stop, messin' about, stop

May 29, 1981

"Gotta Stop (Messin' About)" was the follow-up single in the UK to support Prince's third album, Dirty Mind.^[1] The single was not an album track, though it was written at the same time, and possessed a similar sound. This was the first time Prince released a non-album track, and would start a long tradition of releasing them throughout the 1980s.

The song is keyboard dominated, and the lyrics speak of a woman who's constantly "messin' about" with other men. The song contains familiar Prince themes of sexual frustration, masturbation and sexual metaphors. The track consists of two verses and multiple repeats of the chorus. It was played live on the Dirty Mind Tour with an extended instrumental section at the end.

"Gotta Stop (Messin' About)" was released in the UK as two separate 7" singles, one with the Dirty Mind track "Uptown" as a B-side, and the other with "I Wanna Be Your Lover", from Prince. Each single also had an accompanying 12" single, both with the same tracks as the 7" and both including the song "Head", from Dirty Mind. Despite an extensive advertising campaign and promotion, and coinciding with Prince's first UK gig, neither issue of the single charted. The track would later be released in the U.S. as the B-side of the 12" single for "Let's Work", and become a highly sought after collector's item. "Gotta Stop (Messin' About)" was also later released on The Hits/The B-Sides.

DISC THREE

4 GOTTA STOP (MESSIN’ ABOUT) (2:54)
Produced, Arranged, Composed and Performed by Prince
Published by Controversy Music, administered by WB Music Corp. ASCAP
B-side of “LET’S WORK”

As quickly as he was capable of working in the studio, Prince was growing equally prolific with his pen. Unable to squeeze all his new material onto a single album, there were several outtakes. Of these, the rockin’ GOTTA STOP (MESSIN’ ABOUT) became the first of many non-LP tracks assigned to the B-sides of his singles. This rare cut was only made available on the 12-inch edition of “Let’s Work” in 1982.

With Prince now the unmistakable darling of the music press, the buzz around DIRTY MIND spawned his first full-blown tour and the expansion of his base of operation to include a professional-caliber home studio. Enjoying a state-of-the-art facility in his own house was something it didn’t take long to get used to. When it came time to record DO ME, BABY, an all but lurid ballad of lust and conquest, Prince turned the control room into a bedroom. When the engineer reported to work, he walked into a studio sexily lit with scented candles and draped with chiffon in every nook and cranny. Invited out as soon as he got the tape rolling, he heard the door lock behind him and left for home. It’s never been established who else, if anyone, was in the studio at the time.