NorthC said:

iZsaZsa said:

I understand, but I didn't get to go so I definitely think everyone who went got their moneys worth. A longer show with more days added means triple/quadruple more work for Prince and being away from home for twice as long or more. I guess he didn't want to do that.

Did you know BB King who died last year at 89 still toured year-round? Prince is young compared to that and he could easily take this tour around the world for the rest of the year. Sure, if he wants to do that, but if he doesn't do that I guess he doesn't want to. But I don't think a concert like this sjould last too long. Even the most diehard fan would get tired of seeing Prince sitting behind a piano for 3 hours. The length of the shows is just fine. And if a celebrity like Prince plays in a small theatre, you just know it's going to be exclusive. And that you're going to have to pay for that.

nyse said:

funksterr said:

I was feeling bad about Vanity's passing, but reading Prince's comments... idk. I think it's a distasteful tribute to reminise on the day of a friends' passing, about the time he... domesticaly abused her. 'Called me short. I had your azz thrown in a pool. RIP Vanity'. That's Prince ghetto azz for ya'! Seems like everything in Purple Rain has an element of truth to it.

Cmon, this is a joke right... you call playfully throwing your friend in a pool ABUSE??? Prince never really acknowledges how short he is.. never mind someone poking fun at his height lol he was being real.. in her honor. but to play along with your wacked view point. . Maybe prince was just retaliating frrom Vanity's horrible and traumatic verbal and mental abuse by making fun of his height lol... gtfoh... in all reality i found the sentiments he shared touching

As far as I recall he has mentioned how short he is quite often, and mostly in a joking way. He mentions it in Lady Cab Driver, he has mentioned it in his adlibs during songs (like he did in Stockholm while playing Purple Rain and adding "...I only wanted to be your little friend...", he mentioned it during interviews when he talked about his basketball skills and ambitions, and there are many other examples.

But yeah, I totally agree with you that what he did there was very touching and heartfelt. Especially considering how many years have passed since their ways parted, and how different their lives had become over the years, and the many different partners they´ve had. And yet he still acknowledges her. I found that a very moving gesture.

nyse said:

funksterr said:

I was feeling bad about Vanity's passing, but reading Prince's comments... idk. I think it's a distasteful tribute to reminise on the day of a friends' passing, about the time he... domesticaly abused her. 'Called me short. I had your azz thrown in a pool. RIP Vanity'. That's Prince ghetto azz for ya'! Seems like everything in Purple Rain has an element of truth to it.

Cmon, this is a joke right... you call playfully throwing your friend in a pool ABUSE??? Prince never really acknowledges how short he is.. never mind someone poking fun at his height lol he was being real.. in her honor. but to play along with your wacked view point. . Maybe prince was just retaliating frrom Vanity's horrible and traumatic verbal and mental abuse by making fun of his height lol... gtfoh... in all reality i found the sentiments he shared touching

Some of you have a little trouble seeing reality when it comes to Prince. It must be his eyeliner and glitter and whatnot.

murph said:

funksterr said:

I was feeling bad about Vanity's passing, but reading Prince's comments... idk. I think it's a distasteful tribute to reminise on the day of a friends' passing, about the time he... domesticaly abused her. 'Called me short. I had your azz thrown in a pool. RIP Vanity'. That's Prince ghetto azz for ya'! Seems like everything in Purple Rain has an element of truth to it.

lol....This shit^^^^^

Oh... hey speaking of Prince opening up more during the 'Piano and Mic' shows.... When are you going to ackowledge that you were wrong about Wendy and Lisa not doing any writing for Prince, since he brought it up at the Paisley shows and said that in fact they did. I remember you claimed you had a lot of, ahem, 'inside information', that has since proven to be false. You may as well own it on this thread.....

DID NOT say Wendy or Lisa wrote anything @ his PaisleyPark Piano & a Microphone Gala. He only said Lisa did a very small harpsichord part 4 Raspberry Beret that's it!

funksterr said:

nyse said:

funksterr said: Cmon, this is a joke right... you call playfully throwing your friend in a pool ABUSE??? Prince never really acknowledges how short he is.. never mind someone poking fun at his height lol he was being real.. in her honor. but to play along with your wacked view point. . Maybe prince was just retaliating frrom Vanity's horrible and traumatic verbal and mental abuse by making fun of his height lol... gtfoh... in all reality i found the sentiments he shared touching

Some of you have a little trouble seeing reality when it comes to Prince. It must be his eyeliner and glitter and whatnot.

What you read into things is on you. What I read into things is on me. It's all assumptions.

laurarichardson said:

Replica said:

funksterr said:

Some of you have a little trouble seeing reality when it comes to Prince. It must be his eyeliner and glitter and whatnot.

What you read into things is on you. What I read into things is on me. It's all assumptions.

That's true... except... I'm a lot closer to the facts at hand, than what a lot of you are saying. Prince is notoriously insensitive and dickish to people. Expecially when he was 22-25 years old. Even Prince said it was a story he probably shouldn't be saying. Guilty conscience.

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

DID NOT say Wendy or Lisa wrote anything @ his PaisleyPark Piano & a Microphone Gala. He only said Lisa did a very small harpsichord part 4 Raspberry Beret that's it!

Ehh.. that's not what he said at all so keep your misinformation out of it.

antonb said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

U people ALWAYS trying to find negativity in everything does..Smh

No just being realistic. Something you are incapable of being. But thats fine, because hopefully you will get an invite to paisley park for all your arse licking, which does seem to happen to fans from time to time!

Ive gotta say antonb, I am with you on this one. The concert was great, I went to the 10:00pm show on Wednesday 17th. But for my $397 ticket, I would have liked to have seen the show at least breach the 2 hour mark.

babynoz said:

babynoz said:

iZsaZsa said:

babynoz said:

He will discover how healing it can be to open up sometimes. I've always felt that Prince did not realize how strong he is inside. Maybe now he does.

Is it the talking live with strangers, you mean? I always thought that he was wide open in his lyrics, even if he wasn't always completely understood, that he knew what he was 'dumping' into his songs. But just talking about it is very new. It's nice.

I agree. His lyrics can be very expressive but even when they aren't I usually understand what he's saying. I dont think the OP was talking about lyrics though, so I was trying to respond to the OP.

I don't know if you have older relatives but often as we reach a certain age and have gained more maturity and wisdom we become more comfortable in our own skin. Younglings have yet to realize how perspective can change over the years.

So I was just trying to discuss what I thought could be a reason for him being more open because that's what I thought the thread was about. Apparently for others it's just another excuse to bring up their own baggage and off topic issues.

Anyway, thanks to Militant for trying and thank you too. This could have been a good thread but, oh well....

babynoz said:

funksterr said:

murph said:

lol....This shit^^^^^

Oh... hey speaking of Prince opening up more during the 'Piano and Mic' shows.... When are you going to ackowledge that you were wrong about Wendy and Lisa not doing any writing for Prince, since he brought it up at the Paisley shows and said that in fact they did. I remember you claimed you had a lot of, ahem, 'inside information', that has since proven to be false. You may as well own it on this thread.....

I never said W&L didn't do any writing for Prince or contribute music u silly, Troll....lol

I even mentioned that Lisa contributed music for the first Time album and that W&L contributed to the ATWIAD and Parade periods (most of their contributions on The Dream Factory, which was shelved)....Hell, I even mentioned that Jesse Johnson contributed to "Jungle Love".......

What I said was Trolling ass folks like yourself have made it seem like Prince would not be Prince without W&L....I also balked at SPECIFIC songs that were being listed by yourself and others that supposedly Prince had help on....Big difference....But mostly? I based my info not from hating ass fans like yourself on the Org....I based it straight from the girls themselves....FROM THEIR OWN MOUTHS....one-on-one....lol

Now go play in the middle of the street and try not to miss the moving cars........

[Edited 2/18/16 5:50am]

iZsaZsa said:

babynoz said:

I agree. His lyrics can be very expressive but even when they aren't I usually understand what he's saying. I dont think the OP was talking about lyrics though, so I was trying to respond to the OP.

I don't know if you have older relatives but often as we reach a certain age and have gained more maturity and wisdom we become more comfortable in our own skin. Younglings have yet to realize how perspective can change over the years.

So I was just trying to discuss what I thought could be a reason for him being more open because that's what I thought the thread was about. Apparently for others it's just another excuse to bring up their own baggage and off topic issues.

Anyway, thanks to Militant for trying and thank you too. This could have been a good thread but, oh well....

I want to learn more. I think he's very brave to do this show. I could say that he has always had it in him, but that makes it seem/sound so easy, and I think that that's not true. It's age in a good way.

I think you nailed it....it hasn't been as easy for him as commonly believed. I had every confidence that he could do this but I'm not sure if he did?

We're all headed in the direction of aging so we may as well do it right. I'm turning into my mother in a good way because she was an exceptional woman.

Prince is gonna be reflecting on a lot of things that he thought he never would.

funksterr said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

DID NOT say Wendy or Lisa wrote anything @ his PaisleyPark Piano & a Microphone Gala. He only said Lisa did a very small harpsichord part 4 Raspberry Beret that's it!

Ehh.. that's not what he said at all so keep your misinformation out of it.

Uh huh...lol....I'm not finished with u yet....

Don't know about KCOOL....But this is where I get MY information from....From the girls themselves....They broke it down to me....A blast from the past.....Hope u learn something...

VIBE Magazine

[Edited 2/18/16 5:55am]

antonb said:

Sorry about that. I won't dicuss the pricing stuff on this thread any more. I should have started another thread. Sorry again

No worries, like I said in my first reply, it's a legitimate concern. There was some discussion about it over in the concert threads.

iZsaZsa said:

What did Prince say? My silence is part of the music. lol

That's a good saying and I've heard other musicians say the same thing.

Militant is a young musician and I'd like to hear his take on it. Can a song be too cluttered? Sometimes a silence in the right place can have meaning.

funksterr said:

babynoz said:

babynoz said:

funksterr said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

DID NOT say Wendy or Lisa wrote anything @ his PaisleyPark Piano & a Microphone Gala. He only said Lisa did a very small harpsichord part 4 Raspberry Beret that's it!

Ehh.. that's not what he said at all so keep your misinformation out of it.

Actually KCOOLMUSIQ is correct. On the second show that night he spefically said "She wrote that part. NOT the song. That part. Not. The song" I think this is word for word what he said.

babynoz said:

iZsaZsa said:

What did Prince say? My silence is part of the music. lol

That's a good saying and I've heard other musicians say the same thing.

Militant is a young musician and I'd like to hear his take on it.

Can a song be too cluttered?

100% yes.

[Edited 2/18/16 7:44am]

babynoz said:

iZsaZsa said:

What did Prince say? My silence is part of the music. lol

That's a good saying and I've heard other musicians say the same thing.

Militant is a young musician and I'd like to hear his take on it. Can a song be too cluttered? Sometimes a silence in the right place can have meaning.

For sure. I often say that you know you've got a good song when you've got too many good parts, and you end up having to make the tough decision of which parts to take out. This is consistent with how Prince worked in the 80's, because all the stuff he took out would end up on the extended mixes! And the extreme end of that is knowing when you just don't need a part somewhere and that whole part of the audio spectrum can be silent - like WDC not having a traditional bassline and letting the low end of the drums cover that part. That's what brings attention to the genius of the drum programming.


It's hard though. Letting the track breathe is really tough sometimes. And sometimes it's hard to tell whether you need to remove a part, or whether you can just be a bit more creative with the production and mixing so each part can breathe without getting in the way of other stuff.

But I think Prince is talking more about the songwriting than the production here. He definitely uses a lot of space in the way he constructs his songs, his chord progressions etc. I remember "Crystal Ball" was the song that made me really stand up and take notice of the way he uses silence.

funksterr said: