On an alternative universe, Prince and Mayte would still be happily married and their son Boy Gregory would have survived to live life as a normal human being. Emancipation & The Crystal Ball/The Truth would have been Prince's final career albums to date. Prince would still do live shows on a part-time basis and release new music only as EP releases whenever he felt like it.

And Prince would still be alive in 2016.

djThunderfunk said:

panpac777 said:

U think I'm crazy, you're probably right, but I'm gonna have fun every MF night. If u like 2 fight you're a double track fool. I'm going to another life. How bout u? [Edited 5/13/16 23:45pm]

Track? I beieve it's "Double Drag Fool"...

Yes, "double drag fool." ("Let's Pretend We're Married"--Prince)

I think focusing on one project at a time late in his career, could have helped preserve his energy and give him enough time away from the rigors of the music industry to have time to focus on his his health and family life.

Prince + retirement = does not compute.

i thinksome of you have a very narrow view of "working'. He had more than enough areas he could do well Production, Playing, Writing etc.., Just because he couldn't jump off speakers anymore doesn't mean he had to go sit in a chair somewhere, that's absurd. Like Duke Ellington said when he scoffed at people suggesting retirement "stagnation ain't gonna look good on me". Same for Prince.

I don't know what kind of pain he was in but I'll bet that he really didn't fully understand what was to come when he was doing split after split into his forties. Shame really, out of all the things he did, that was really about the least important aspect, the dancing. I'd have been perfectly content to hear whatever music he would compose, no telling where it would have went. And even just he and his instruments sitting down would have been fine with me. Who the hell knows what compelled him to just keep dancing, up until the last 2 years or so he was hopping around, I wince when I see that now, knowing he had to be way far along in his deterioration. Long story short, in my mind, the physical price was not nearly worth it in the end. The music is what matters and he still had plenty of that to give.

His musicianship had grown leaps n bounds withing the last 16 years. Not that he wasn't great already in the 80's and 90's, but as he said himself, he had better mastery of the guitar. All instruments actually. More tme on them created the mastery we knew of recently in the past decade. He never stopped learning them, getting better and better. His shows were a spectacle of someone at the apex of being a musician. Rare to witness.

And music was his life. He would never retire. He lived in a recording and production studio as previously mentioned. That was how he relaxed. By creating.

He did it all at his own pace.

God bless him. Rest in peace Prince.

TonyVanDam said:

He would grow older doing shows and releasing music just as Bob Dylan, i'm sure the latter does not think on retirment.

when chuck berry was 60, he had a docu in which he looked, moved and acted like a 25 year old. And thing is, chuck never stayed on his chops, rarely played his best, seldom even cared enough to tune up. I really wish Prince had cooled it a lot on the splits and dancing so that he could have been that vibrant and alive at 60 because as a musician, he never declined.

Genesia said: