Decide the Hohner Telecaster with the leopard skin pick guard would be his one mainstay axe throughout his career.

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Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Develop the big balls to demand creative control while still an inexperienced teenager without a recording contract.

Not allowing Verdine White to produce his music. (Nothing personal against Mr. White, who is one of my favorite bass players).

Taking the can't be bothered with these inane questions attitude about Dick Clark's interrogation on American Bandstand.

Three words: Cavallo, Ruffalo & Fargnoli.

Advancing synthesizers more than anyone since Stevie.

Create the 1999 album.

Decide the Hohner Telecaster with the leopard skin pick guard would be his one mainstay axe throughout his career.

Make it impossible for Black radio to ignore his outright hard rockiness when most of these stations would ignore other Black rockers.

Wear the black suede boots in the 1999 video.

Having the keen sense of timing to get the Purple Rain movie released when it was.

Taking the bassline out of "Doves" and getting WB to release it as a single.

Not batting an eye, changing, or attending the PMRC hearings while Tipper & Co. got their panties in a bunch by making him their whipping boy. (Thank God for Frank Zappa!)

Not allowing the previous year's hype to box him into a Purple Rain part II box and moving on to other things.

Not performing 1999 for the eMpTV music awards a few years ago.

Taking the high road by not responding while Rick James publicly throws an envious, never-ending, tantrum about him for 20+ years now. (And even if he did, it would still be understandable.)

Becoming passionate about his work again after years of flashes of brilliance and cruise control.

Not letting Najee turn his music into syrupy shlock.

Hire John Blackwell as his drummer for recordings AND live gigs.

Keeping his gotta know what's going on every hour of everyday when you're this quiet type of fans on edge by maintaining privacy on his own terms.

Pissing off scary, irrational fanatics who don't think they're scary, irrational fanatics.

cborgman said:

Build Paisley Park.

Great list. I would like to add not recording the song I Bad with Micheal Jackson.

LaVisHh said:

I'm not too sure about that. Besides the financial problems one could also argue that changing venues would have provided some freshness to his music. It could be just coincidence, but I don't think he recorded too many great albums at Paisley. His sound became very stale after the first two.

LaVisHh said:

I'm not too sure about that. Besides the financial problems one could also argue that changing venues would have provided some freshness to his music. It could be just coincidence, but I don't think he recorded too many great albums at Paisley. His sound became very stale after the first two.

laurarichardson said:

I Bad?..was this a Tarzan mode song?


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[This message was edited Sun Mar 30 22:45:43 PST 2003 by rdhull]

Develop the big balls to demand creative control while still an inexperienced teenager without a recording contract.

Not allowing Verdine White to produce his music. (Nothing personal against Mr. White, who is one of my favorite bass players).

Taking the can't be bothered with these inane questions attitude about Dick Clark's interrogation on American Bandstand.

Three words: Cavallo, Ruffalo & Fargnoli.

Advancing synthesizers more than anyone since Stevie.

Create the 1999 album.

Decide the Hohner Telecaster with the leopard skin pick guard would be his one mainstay axe throughout his career.

Make it impossible for Black radio to ignore his outright hard rockiness when most of these stations would ignore other Black rockers.

Wear the black suede boots in the 1999 video.

Having the keen sense of timing to get the Purple Rain movie released when it was.

Taking the bassline out of "Doves" and getting WB to release it as a single.

Not batting an eye, changing, or attending the PMRC hearings while Tipper & Co. got their panties in a bunch by making him their whipping boy. (Thank God for Frank Zappa!)

Not allowing the previous year's hype to box him into a Purple Rain part II box and moving on to other things.

Not performing 1999 for the eMpTV music awards a few years ago.

Taking the high road by not responding while Rick James publicly throws an envious, never-ending, tantrum about him for 20+ years now. (And even if he did, it would still be understandable.)

Becoming passionate about his work again after years of flashes of brilliance and cruise control.

Not letting Najee turn his music into syrupy shlock.

Hire John Blackwell as his drummer for recordings AND live gigs.

Keeping his gotta know what's going on every hour of everyday when you're this quiet type of fans on edge by maintaining privacy on his own terms.

Pissing off scary, irrational fanatics who don't think they're scary, irrational fanatics.

rdhull said:

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If called a typing error. I am sure that a perfect person like you never makes a mistake like that.