It seems like Prince literally worked himself to death by having so many creative pursuits concurrently. The Piano And A Microphone Tour, the band Prince was producing featuring Adrian Crutchfield, Kirk Johnson and Mononeon, writing and recording new material for another 3RDEYEGIRL album and finally writing his autobiography for release fall 2017. Given that what we know so far-would people rather Prince retire from music altogether and live a life away from it or Prince just follow his artistic muse and let the spirit dictate what he did until the end?

i think prince should have done what barry manilow did retire from touring but continue to record and make albums. he earned enought.

GoldStandard said:

How could he retire from music? I don't think he knew anything else. He was music.

There is no retire. All there is the everlong basalt loop of time, etched.

He was aleady semi-retired. How many shows did he perform in the last 5 or 6 years? He didn't even release an album for a four year period in there.

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He just pushed it too hard with the Atlanta shows at the wrong time and then that, with whatever happened afterwards, was a fatal mistake. It's just a reminder that you can do so many things right throughout your life and only takes one bad decision and all is gone.

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Although of course Prince's music is not gone and will live forever but he is gone and all is gone for him.

FunkiestOne said:

He was aleady semi-retired. How many shows did he perform in the last 5 or 6 years? He didn't even release an album for a four year period in there.

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He just pushed it too hard with the Atlanta shows at the wrong time and then that, with whatever happened afterwards, was a fatal mistake. It's just a reminder that you can do so many things right throughout your life and only takes one bad decision and all is gone.

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Although of course Prince's music is not gone and will live forever but he is gone and all is gone for him.

i'm as stiff as a board, you're more shook than maracas.

I am hair typing, there is no body, only whispers of soundbytes of motion.

SNAP OUT OF IT. remove your fingertips. stop quoting

AlgeriaTouchshreek said:

FunkiestOne said:

He was aleady semi-retired. How many shows did he perform in the last 5 or 6 years? He didn't even release an album for a four year period in there.

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He just pushed it too hard with the Atlanta shows at the wrong time and then that, with whatever happened afterwards, was a fatal mistake. It's just a reminder that you can do so many things right throughout your life and only takes one bad decision and all is gone.

.

Although of course Prince's music is not gone and will live forever but he is gone and all is gone for him.

i'm as stiff as a board, you're more shook than maracas.

I am hair typing, there is no body, only whispers of soundbytes of motion.

SNAP OUT OF IT. remove your fingertips. stop quoting

and i'm STILL too self conscious. I'll never live it down. Or up, or fkn sideways

FunkiestOne said:

musicamaria said:

bashraka said:

It seems like Prince literally worked himself to death by having so many creative pursuits concurrently. The Piano And A Microphone Tour, the band Prince was producing featuring Adrian Crutchfield, Kirk Johnson and Mononeon, writing and recording new material for another 3RDEYEGIRL album and finally writing his autobiography for release fall 2017. Given that what we know so far-would people rather Prince retire from music altogether and live a life away from it or Prince just follow his artistic muse and let the spirit dictate what he did until the end?

What does it matter when you have a majority of the Western World loving Prince? He's like the inverse Frank Zappa - not having to program computers towards the end of his life.

(c) 1995 UMG

bashraka said:

It seems like Prince literally worked himself to death by having so many creative pursuits concurrently. The Piano And A Microphone Tour, the band Prince was producing featuring Adrian Crutchfield, Kirk Johnson and Mononeon, writing and recording new material for another 3RDEYEGIRL album and finally writing his autobiography for release fall 2017. Given that what we know so far-would people rather Prince retire from music altogether and live a life away from it or Prince just follow his artistic muse and let the spirit dictate what he did until the end?

See - it wasn't work to him, though. He lived at a recording studio for heaven's sake. Call it what you want, but I don't know of anyone's home that has a sound stage on it, except maybe Lucas or Spielberg. It's not a job when you do what you love. Prince would never retire. The Piano tour wasn't back to back shows like Purple Rain days, or even like the Musicology tour, etc. He definitely slowed it down and took it at his own pace.

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I'd grown tired of Prince's music in the last decade. But reading about his finding a new sound on "Baltimore", and then relistening to that track has made me wain for what could have been with that idea. He would have always made music.

Prince would never have retired, playing music is what gave him joy. When you are depressed (not that I am saying he was depressed) or in pain, doing something you love eases that situation. I know when I have my back play up (prolapsed disc) if I am doing something I like, even if the pain is there , it makes it more bearable. but I would say Prince should have maybe stopped all the dancing earlier if he really did have that pain - but I could never imagine him without a guitar in his hand if there were listening ears around. You could see the happiness and joy radiate out of him and I dont think retirement would have given him that joy even if just in a recording studio?

He did slow down with the Piano tour - but he should maybe not have done back to back here in Australia not flit all over the place perhaps? it was alot in a short time.

I guess we all only have hindsight and not forsight - this is the sad thing. We dont alway make good choices. "Time and Unforseen Circumstances" as they say..........

here's a question for you. When Musicology was going strong, prince said many times that he was retiring from live performing. In hindsight, it would have been better if he did. However, does anyone think he had any intention of actually retiring?

He should hace retired in 96, except for an occassional greatest hits tour with The Revolution. The only successful project I can think of since that point was the Musicology greatest hits tour.

Prince wanted to do what he wanted to do. Miss you Prince.

It would have been easier to take his passing if he just retired and wasn't in the spotlight or doing what he was doing at the time of his passing.

funksterr said:

I do not for a minute believe that it would be possible for Prince to stop any of it. I believe he was a slave to the muse and if he didn't let it out it would have driven him crazy, in my not-so-humble opinion, of course...

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"...

funksterr said:

He should hace retired in 96, except for an occassional greatest hits tour with The Revolution. The only successful project I can think of since that point was the Musicology greatest hits tour.

Stop it!

djThunderfunk said:

I do not for a minute believe that it would be possible for Prince to stop any of it. I believe he was a slave to the muse and if he didn't let it out it would have driven him crazy, in my not-so-humble opinion, of course...

i'm really glad Prince obviously didn't listen to some of you. I don't care how many hits he had on the charts the last few years, he's still one of only two artists I do damn near anything to keep up on. Bruce Springsteen is the other, both those guys were capable of hitting you with peak power at any time and so it was worth following Prince for.

retire! no amount of acclaim was worth his life, imo

The thing is...as you get older,you have to slow down.You gotta listen to your body.You can't be as active as you were 30 years ago.I don't think that Prince ever really learned that lesson.According to reports,he was (still) sleeping very little and sometimes he wouldn't eat He sometmes had to be "reminded" to drink water.