bonatoc said:

Even Sheila E. gets on my nerves. Claiming out of nowhere, now he's dead, that they were engaged? Responding to the cesspool that TMZ is? I'll leave that on account of shock, but I'm mad at her.

Out of nowhere? She talked about his marriage proposal in her 2014 autobiography, The Beat of My Own Drum. Prince didn't deny it.

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Available on newsstands Friday, April 29th.

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Cerebus said:

Prince would in no way be supportive of people using his death as an excuse to spread hatred and negativity in his name. Guaranteed. And that's really all I've got to say about that.

Exactly.

I couldn't agree more. Everyone one of your words and feelings are the same as mine. I'm from Minnesota so it's impossible to escape his image all over now and is easy to be "down". I actually found it easier after reading some of the older posts where he wasn't painted in such a great "light". He was human, not a God. There won't be any other artists like him, but he did leave a great deal of material to listen to, and the vault will provide much more I think. Take care and know you're not alone. Peace and love.

cc4npg said:

I have read over the countless posts of those grieving here. I simply am echoing everything that has been said, I suppose just to feel understood. I had someone unfollow me a couple of days ago... an extended family member no less... who said they were unfollowing me for a while and suggested grief counseling. It would have been nice if I thought for a moment that they were being actually understanding of what has happened, but I believe it was said in a different tone entirely (and I'll bet many of you are nodding your heads, since some of your posts have indicated similar happenings).

I have tried to give myself a good shaking to snap out of it. I've tried reasoning with myself. But like hundreds of others out there, it's as if a piece of me... a piece of actual close family... is gone forever. For most of us, he was a kindred spirit. He reached across all barriers of language, race, color, and creed.

He was the only artist I can think of that was as gifted as he was. He was the only one who changed SO much of the world around him, not just the music industry, but so much more. The sheer talent, creativity and artistic performance that was ever changing, and the fact that he not only demanded privacy, but actually retained his private life is absolutely remarkeable. He was respected by so many people from so many different backgrounds and yes, the outpouring of love and condolences from every facet of our world screams the words that we cannot find to say about him.

Yes, I too would love to see a day set aside that recognizes and commemorates the life of Prince.

I wake up every day along with the hundreds of other voices on here, thinking at first it is a nightmare, only to realize it is real. I always thought he'd be here and grow old with the rest of us from his generation. It's so shocking.. I'm just stunned.. and no matter how hard I pinch myself, I can't wake from this. Yes, it will mellow. Those of us who have lost family, brothers, sisters, children, parents... we know it will mellow and we all probably question ourselves on why it feels so similar to a family members death. We should all remember that truthfully we are all connected, and that he created a world of family who truly did love him. It's not just his music we miss. It's HIM. He was part of us and no amount of time nor no other person will ever fill the void left. We were blessed to have had him in our time and to have been a part of it all.

In 100 years, it won't matter anyway. In that amount of time, we'll all make our own crossing over. It's difficult to move forward, but that's exactly what we have to do. This life is so terribly short. I believe he lived many lifetimes worth in the 57 years he had on this earth. It was always about what was to come... it was always about something bigger than what we "see" here. We only see such a small portion of the "big picture". Forever... it IS a mightly long time and there IS something else... that is the FACT. Right now, the sting of death hurts greatly.. we're still here but trust me, there's more. He isn't in the body he left. Now he's truly free.

I'm so sick of it all.


Everything that happened and all the speculations.

It's wearing me out.

dJJ said:

FUCK YES!!!!!!!

THIS !

bonatoc said:

They can all kiss my butt with their homages and tributes.

They all suck, even ol' Bruce turned out pathetic, it was a massacre.

Please musicians of the world, please oh please shut your mouths. It only comes to show that you're bad singers without the studio technology to audio-photoshop your average performances.

A month ago, no one fucking cared about the Purple One, except for the occasional award ceremony. You always need your glory of the past / circus freak on these occasions.
Now all of a sudden everyone is in awe... fucking vultures.

Even Sheila E. gets on my nerves. Claiming out of nowhere, now he's dead, that they were engaged? Responding to the cesspool that TMZ is? I'll leave that on account of shock, but I'm mad at her.

In a week Skipper will be gone from the news, and at last all of this hypocrisy will cease.

I often wished Prince would do that instead of this, just to spread his art better to the masses.
Well, it turns out the masses are the rednecks who ruined all the live recordings of his last tour.
The masses are the bozoes who think that the Super Bowl is the only concert he's given in the last ten years. Buffoons who resume his life to "Purple Rain", "Kiss", and "Cream". Tourists!

Now I understand. We are special people who recognized someone special.
We championed a maverick, an outsider, someone with a vision of the future.
Someone persuaded that you can be good in more than one field, and that's not what the world wants one to believe.

Go on, World, go back to your shitty mp3s, it's been almost two decades now of watching you slowly destroy everything a true musician stands for: audio quality, good songs, sincere performances, risk taking. The grungiest guitar shredder is a poser. Small men, everywhere. Fated to pretend.

Poor World, it's too easy to herald Prince and praise his vertues, as an alibi for your total lack of.
As an official member of the New Power Generation, I feel entitled to give U the finger.

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terrig said:

I finally slept a little last night. Its a start I guess.

I still can't sleep. I've been waking up in the middle of the night since he passed on. I'm having trouble concentrating at work. I thought that I was strange for having this type of anxiety over Prince's death. It's good to know that others are experiencing the same thing.

Cerebus said:

Prince would in no way be supportive of people using his death as an excuse to spread hatred and negativity in his name. Guaranteed. And that's really all I've got to say about that.

yes.

and even if he would (i'm sure he wouldn't, but say he did), hatred & negativity aren't needed here. i'd say they're rarely needed at all, but they certainly aren't needed now.

Cerebus said:

Well dang...

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and i think this is great.

Identity said:

Identity said:

^^^

Well now I'm bawling again. I just want to wake up from this nightmare.

Shhh747 said:

Identity said:

This tribute did it....damn. :'( I feel so weak with grief. fuck.

Identity said:

beautiful... and heartbreaking

bonatoc said:

They can all kiss my butt with their homages and tributes.

They all suck, even ol' Bruce turned out pathetic, it was a massacre.

Please musicians of the world, please oh please shut your mouths. It only comes to show that you're bad singers without the studio technology to audio-photoshop your average performances.

A month ago, no one fucking cared about the Purple One, except for the occasional award ceremony. You always need your glory of the past / circus freak on these occasions.
Now all of a sudden everyone is in awe... fucking vultures.

Even Sheila E. gets on my nerves. Claiming out of nowhere, now he's dead, that they were engaged? Responding to the cesspool that TMZ is? I'll leave that on account of shock, but I'm mad at her.

In a week Skipper will be gone from the news, and at last all of this hypocrisy will cease.

I often wished Prince would do that instead of this, just to spread his art better to the masses.
Well, it turns out the masses are the rednecks who ruined all the live recordings of his last tour.
The masses are the bozoes who think that the Super Bowl is the only concert he's given in the last ten years. Buffoons who resume his life to "Purple Rain", "Kiss", and "Cream". Tourists!

Now I understand. We are special people who recognized someone special.
We championed a maverick, an outsider, someone with a vision of the future.
Someone persuaded that you can be good in more than one field, and that's not what the world wants one to believe.

Go on, World, go back to your shitty mp3s, it's been almost two decades now of watching you slowly destroy everything a true musician stands for: audio quality, good songs, sincere performances, risk taking. The grungiest guitar shredder is a poser. Small men, everywhere. Fated to pretend.

Poor World, it's too easy to herald Prince and praise his vertues, as an alibi for your total lack of.
As an official member of the New Power Generation, I feel entitled to give U the finger.

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Sheila E. revealed that Prince asked her to marry her in Sheila's book last year. They had a 40 year friendship, don't hate on her. This is a tough time for her.

I had to wait five days before I could post anything.

I used to be a member here years ago, same username. Don't know if anyone remembers or if any of those people are still on here now (the few names I remember: chilli, prb, alej, imago...)

I was a "new" fan of Prince, while I was sort of familiar with his famous songs because my family were fans, it wasn't until the 2004 Grammys with Beyonce that he caught my attention. I was 14 and wanted to know who this "old" effortlessly cool rocker was that Beyonce performed with lol. I think when I was around 16, I really delved into his music and it had such a profound effect on me, still does, ten years later.

I joined the Org right around when the Superbowl performance was announced, I'd just fallen hard for Prince's music and everyone was abuzz with excitement about Superbowl. He was quite mainstream then, with the Guitar video and the Twinz. It was a cool time. I also remember when the Planet Earth album cover was released, I think it was just the photo on his website and we all had fun trying to decipher it and figure out why he was wearing a leather corset

Some other select memories from here include applying captions to under the cherry moon screencaps, and choosing prince's worst outfit both of which had me in stitches for days, a fan on here sending me the crystal ball album (thanx mate, it contained my fave prince song ever), all the info here helping me work through his discography which i never would've been able to otherwise (prince's aversion to the internet was not kind to his new fans), the massive hype after the superbowl & becoming completely obsessed with Under The Cherry Moon.

I was just a teen but I had great times here getting to know other fans. There was no way in hell my friends would come around to his music so you guys gave me a sense of community to share a love for an incredible musician.

I can't say I was overly shocked to hear the news after his emergency plane landing. That would only happen for something super drastic and dire. Still, I figured he'd live on for a good while, I didn't quite realise how young he was till my mother mentioned "He's only a few years older than me" and it really hit me. My only regret is not being able to afford or get to either of the Australian shows he did in the past few yrs.

His music never left my iTunes but I've been pouring over it the last few days, savouring everything. It'll be sad to never hear his voice again, never see him show up to present some award looking fly as hell and everyone there for a brief moment realises they'll never be as cool as that.

Thank you Prince, for your wonderful gift of music and thanks to the Org for opening me up to his genius and being a great community for fans. xxoo

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Phishanga said:

Does anyone else feel this gets more unreal every day?

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George Clinton Remembers Prince in Billboard Mag

04/27

''He came to a show we did, that would've been '77, and he was looking like Bootsy, all Funkadelic, and Warners was telling him he was the new artist. The same [management] people who had Earth, Wind & Fire brought him to the show for us to check him out, and I just met him for a minute. But then a few years later, I was off of Capitol and I called and asked him what was up, and he said, "Come on!" It was that simple.''

''Y'know, Detroit, where we were at the time, is where he really got his foot on, 'cause we brought his stuff to [Detroit DJ the Electrifying] Mojo. That's how he got so big on WGPR, with Mojo. We were already there, and we told Mojo, "You got to check this dude out." Matter of fact, everybody on Prince's team came pretty much from Detroit -- the background singers, the roadies. Billy Sparks, the guy who owned First Ave in Purple Rain, he was selling flashlights for us at the time.''

''When Prince first came out, we introduced him, and he and his crew -- they were all working for Mojo back then -- just went with [Prince].

When you come to the concept of a rock star, he is that. He's the epitome of that.''

''As an artist, I think it's becoming more clear to everybody now just how much volume of work and stuff he's done, all the stuff and how fast he was doing stuff and all the stuff that I know has never come out. Coming to grips with all that stuff he was doing and knowing how he worked and, wow, people are just now beginning to see what that was all about.''

''And he did it so good. When you look at his guitar playing, even on the stage with [Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Steve Winwood] and all them when they did the George Harrison song [during a 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tribute, below], when you see him on stage with those people and they're giving him props like he's supposed to be getting, you realize, "Damn, this motherf---er is all that," even though to me he kept the songs that he made very commercial and pop.''

''Some might even say bubblegum but not really bubblegum, 'cause he was too clever of a writer. But they were hits, so many hits, that it seemed like he was just churning out bubblegum. But they weren't. Those are stories and those are pieces of work that are gonna be around.''

''He was quiet in the studio. He just did his thing and he gave it to me and I did mine. I pretty much work that way too. I can work with everybody, but when it came time for me to put my part on there, he was never there, and when it came time, I'd put my part on it and give it to him and he'd send it back to me.''

''That's what he was talking about when he inducted us into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame -- when he said, "You pee on it, send it back and I'll pee on it." That was our conversation: "We gonna do this..." He'd send me a tape. … And the very first tape he sent me was something called "Cookie Jar," and we had had a song on the Parlet album called "Cookie Jar."

''He sent it to me to do something on it, and before I got to the track, the engineer had put the song on backwards and erased half of it. I was so glad I wasn't in the studio, 'cause I would've got blamed for it! But then after that I went out to Paisley [Park], and that's when I started making The Cinderella Theory.''

''Then he took care of business in a way that I admired more than anything in the world, 'cause it took me late to get to that point to where I started paying attention like that. He did that from the moment he started. He took care of business so good, I was looking at him back then going, "Damn, I wish I could've done that." I mean, he got rid of your ass if you weren't doing it right.''

''I was about him the same way I'm about Kendrick Lamar now. You could see it coming. You could see he was Sly [Stone] for the new generation. This is so hard to process on my brain right now. That was just so left-field. I was not ready for anything like that. It's just hard to speak of, man.''

dJJ said:

I'm so sick of it all.


Everything that happened and all the speculations.

It's wearing me out.

Same here, same here

I can't imagine any suspect issues if they were allowed to cremate him, though. But who knows... we'll have to wait and see. I hope his family get all of the support that they need.

So many years coming here to first read the front page and find out if there was anything new going on that I missed. Every time I come here now and read the title Prince dead I just cant fucking believe it. Never thought I would see that day. Seema like the end of it all and the begining of something else.

Sorry about the negativity (Positivity is undeniably late).

I must be in my anger phase. Nothing but love for Sheila, a gigantic hug to her.
It's the journalists tossing the remembrance of the engagement,
in a hope a tear will roll by and the camera will catch it, that I can't stand.

But I stand firm on my views on the world.

With an attention span diminishing with each year passing by, I'm not sure we can bring much of the new generations to discover a body of work that requires countless hours of immersive listening.
I'd like the world to care about the music and the spirit.
Instead, the OD is the center of attention. Music is a commodity for mall alleys.

Maybe we're an elite, and all proselytism is in vain.

Prince was in a relationship with every single one of us.
You can have a crush on someone, but 30 years and couting is a mighty long time.
It's pretty hard to realize that he's always been the one who worked his ass off at the relationship, even when ideas were running dry. Us, we were just demanding.

I thought I could not love The Boss and the ESB more, until now:

hey everyone:

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PEOPLE GRIEVE DIFFERENTLY.

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we need to allow for that and respect that. let's not start playing holier than thou because mourners are grieving. no one said you had to engage.

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starkitty said:

hey everyone:

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PEOPLE GRIEVE DIFFERENTLY.

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we need to allow for that and respect that. let's not start playing holier than thou because mourners are grieving. no one said you had to engage.

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