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The Time Opening 4 Prince 01.30.1982 @ the Capitol Theatre
1. The Stick 2. Dance 2 the Beat 3. Oh Baby 4. Get It Up 5. Cool
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Oh Baby
While specific recording dates are not known, initial tracking took place during the Prince album sessions from late April to 13 June, 1979 at Alpha Studios, Burbank, CA, USA. The track was re-recorded for The Time in April, 1981 at Prince's Kiowa Trail Home Studio, Chanhassen, MN, USA (along with the rest of the album). As with much of the rest of the album, the recording features only Prince and Morris Day. -PrinceVault
Oh baby, we're all alone. Oh baby, take off your clothes. Oh baby, honey take your time. Yeah, oh baby. Oh baby, baby, don't make me wait. What's it gonna be, baby? Break down, baby. Oh, baby, let me do ya please.
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February 14th, 1982 • Civic Auditorium, San Francisco
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BBP: So what’s this I hear about him getting handcuffed to a—what was it—a coat rack?
Jellybean Johnson: That’s back in our early days of The Time and shit. We got into a food fight with Prince’s band…that was our first year out. That was us, them and Zapp. And the last couple of nights of the tour we got into it with him and his band, Prince and his band, and they started doing shit to us while we were on stage. And one night they just took Jesse off stage—and Jerome—and took Jesse back in their dressing room while we were in concert. Prince had his bodyguard take Jesse off the stage, take him back in the dressing room, handcuff him to the thing. He (Prince) played guitar, Prince jumped in The Time and played guitar while this is going down. Back then his band put food and shit all over Jesse and Jerome.
BBP: Wow…
Jellybean Johnson: This is the kind of childish shit that Prince did. So, after we got done, we went back and rescued Jesse, and we went and got us some shit, put us some dirty clothes on and found every egg, and everything we could and waited for them after the concert. And we beat their asses! Of course it cost Morris a bunch of money because Prince charged Morris a bunch of money for wrecking the arena.
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O F F I C I A L A L B U M C R E D I T S
R E A L A L B U M C R E D I T S
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The stick was originally written by Lisa Coleman, but it was registered to Jamie Starr. initial tracking took place in April, 1981 at Prince's Kiowa Trail Home Studio, Chanhassen, MN, Matt Fink delivers synthesizer Lisa Coleman (listed as "various girlfriends")background vocals)) Terry Lewis (background vocals) all other known instruments by Jamie Starr Lead vocals/Drums by Morris Day
My stick, I just love my stick
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Dapper brand of 'cool' still suits Time
In the '80s, when backdated attire turned a handful of street-wise musicians into sartorial hipsters, fans nationwide struggled to keep up with The Time.
Inspired by zoot suits, bygone Hollywood glamour and underworld cool, the band scoured hand-me-down shops for designer castoffs to enhance their image as swaggering funk kingpins. Porkpie hats, pleated trousers, wide-shouldered long coats, Morris Day's gold jacket with the tiger-print lapels. OK, not every outfit screamed panache. Some just screamed.
Little has changed, except now they can afford new threads. "Our first clothing budget was $100," Jesse Johnson remembers. "For all of us." Sporting flashy suits, shades and fedoras, The Time continues to pride itself on fashion sense. And in typical Time fashion, the band is still behind the times, opting for a Godfather vibe over today's sloppy chic. It all started with sprees at Minneapolis vintage shops Ragstock and Tatters Clothing. "We were interested in being cool," Jimmy Jam says. "It was about attitude and feeling good about ourselves, even though we didn't have the money." Morris had to overcome his retail snobbery. "I ain't going to lie: I was a little apprehensive about going into a used-clothing store," he says. "But that original Presley (suit) came out of Tatters, and I wore it till it fell off." No designers or stylists played a role in The Time's flamboyant early press photos or videos. At concerts during the first tour, "every kid was dressed like us, because they could do it cheap," Jesse says. "The prices at Ragstock went way up." The Time's dapper-duds scheme soon backfired. Says Jerome Benton, "By the end of the tour, used suits at Aardvark's (in L.A.) were $300."
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How can you say that it isn't much and the whole (attack W&L) bit is tired. This has nothing to do with Wendy. Do you not have any interest in the Time period in this thread outside of finding that 1 piece with Lisa's name in it so you can argue?
Andre Cymone, who played bass in [Prince]'s band, had been very involved in THE TIME project from the beginning. He was also assembling a girl group, called "The Girls", and saw the side projects as an opportunity to supplement his relatively small income from being a band member only. Andre claimed that he came up with many of the ideas for THE TIME before being muscled out of the project, wich led into falling out with [Prince]. The relationship between Andre Cymone and [Prince] had been deteriorating for some time. Andre felt, that he didn't receive enough credits for his input into [Prince]'s music and stage act, even accusing [Prince] of knowing stealing his ideas. He decided to leave [Prince]'s band and embark a solo-career. He accepted to participate in the upcoming european tour, but he left the band immediately afterwards.
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She says she cowrote the song. And in the quote (that's Lisa answering a question on twitter) she also explains what she means by that. She came up with a frase that sparked an idea. Not many others would claim co-writing credit for that.
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No it's not, she is tweeting she said she cowrote it, came up with the lyric that sparked the idea... Dude I know you don't like W&L, this is expected. But ... eh nevermind lol
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Dancin' Flu is an unreleased song believed to have been recorded in April 1981, at Prince's Wayzata Home Studio, Wayzata, MN, USA or Kiowa Trail Home Studio, Chanhassen, MN (during the same set of sessions as I Can't Figure It Out). The song includes lyrics by Dez Dickerson (who wrote the lyrics for Cool around the same time). It may have been intended for The Time's first album The Time, but little is known about the track. The song remains unreleased. -PrinceVault
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I remember hearing "Get It Up" for the first time.It was in August 1981 and I was in Detroit.My older sister was raving about it,but she mistakenly assumed that it was the new Prince single | |
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