I´ve just finished reading this nice little article. Brings back some great memories of the Gold Experience/Ultimate Live Experience tour in 1995 and the aftershows at the Paradiso in Amsterdam.

The author, a drum programmer named Fafu, worked for Prince in the mid 90s and got to work at Paisley through Michael Bland.

Since I am not a musician I have actually no idea what exactly Fafu´s job was so I´d appreciate if some of the musicians here on the org could explain that to me because I don´t understand what he would program and why Michael Bland didn´t just do that part.

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I like the part about Prince owning a tennis court, never practicing tennis, and then beating anybody who´d challenge him. How did he do that without any training?

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Anyway, I think this is a very enjoyable read, and the end is very touching.

Enjoy!

http://uk.complex.com/mus...er-mid-90s

"He’s so confident on stage, but it’s basically the opposite when you talk to him. He mumbles, he’d stutter a little bit, he’d look down. But when it came to doing the work, he always knew what he wanted. He was so confident in his abilities—even beyond music. He had a tennis court on his property but he never played tennis. Then somebody would say, “Oh, I want to play you.” So Prince would send for his tennis gloves, was completely insane on the court and would beat whoever he was playing. I never saw Prince make a mistake—in anything."

KoolEaze said:

I´ve just finished reading this nice little article. Brings back some great memories of the Gold Experience/Ultimate Live Experience tour in 1995 and the aftershows at the Paradiso in Amsterdam.

The author, a drum programmer named Fafu, worked for Prince in the mid 90s and got to work at Paisley through Michael Bland.

Since I am not a musician I have actually no idea what exactly Fafu´s job was so I´d appreciate if some of the musicians here on the org could explain that to me because I don´t understand what he would program and why Michael Bland didn´t just do that part.

-

I like the part about Prince owning a tennis court, never practicing tennis, and then beating anybody who´d challenge him. How did he do that without any training?

.

Anyway, I think this is a very enjoyable read, and the end is very touching.

Enjoy!

http://uk.complex.com/mus...er-mid-90s

"He’s so confident on stage, but it’s basically the opposite when you talk to him. He mumbles, he’d stutter a little bit, he’d look down. But when it came to doing the work, he always knew what he wanted. He was so confident in his abilities—even beyond music. He had a tennis court on his property but he never played tennis. Then somebody would say, “Oh, I want to play you.” So Prince would send for his tennis gloves, was completely insane on the court and would beat whoever he was playing. I never saw Prince make a mistake—in anything."

Prince was a vile tyrant in the 90's. Most people who worked with him hate it. He was a bully and paid poorly. Real shame.

keenly said:

KoolEaze said:

I´ve just finished reading this nice little article. Brings back some great memories of the Gold Experience/Ultimate Live Experience tour in 1995 and the aftershows at the Paradiso in Amsterdam.

The author, a drum programmer named Fafu, worked for Prince in the mid 90s and got to work at Paisley through Michael Bland.

Since I am not a musician I have actually no idea what exactly Fafu´s job was so I´d appreciate if some of the musicians here on the org could explain that to me because I don´t understand what he would program and why Michael Bland didn´t just do that part.

-

I like the part about Prince owning a tennis court, never practicing tennis, and then beating anybody who´d challenge him. How did he do that without any training?

.

Anyway, I think this is a very enjoyable read, and the end is very touching.

Enjoy!

http://uk.complex.com/mus...er-mid-90s

"He’s so confident on stage, but it’s basically the opposite when you talk to him. He mumbles, he’d stutter a little bit, he’d look down. But when it came to doing the work, he always knew what he wanted. He was so confident in his abilities—even beyond music. He had a tennis court on his property but he never played tennis. Then somebody would say, “Oh, I want to play you.” So Prince would send for his tennis gloves, was completely insane on the court and would beat whoever he was playing. I never saw Prince make a mistake—in anything."

Prince was a vile tyrant in the 90's. Most people who worked with him hate it. He was a bully and paid poorly. Real shame.

I think that´s pretty obvious in this interview. The guy hints at it and it reads like he´s holding back and doesn´t want to say anything disrespectful.

But...how would you know? Do you know people who were around him in the mid 90s?

"Hootie, you're fired!"...LOL!

keenly said:

KoolEaze said:

keenly said:

Prince was a vile tyrant in the 90's. Most people who worked with him hate it. He was a bully and paid poorly. Real shame.

I think that´s pretty obvious in this interview. The guy hints at it and it reads like he´s holding back and doesn´t want to say anything disrespectful.

But...how would you know? Do you know people who were around him in the mid 90s?

Pay no mind. He's been trolling since Prince passed, banned twice and working on number 3.

Thanks for the article.

Very cool article.

There are countless examples of him being hard on techs. The bit about Prince not liking the mix being tweaked while the band was playing was interesting.

I remember Micheal Bland saying that P was pissed off that his guitar solo in "Bambi" (Rock In Rio) was buried so low in the mix. He said after that incident, P would keep his own mixing board (behind a curtain) onstage. That way he wouldn't have to worry about a sound guy.

SPYZFAN1 said:

I remember Micheal Bland saying that P was pissed off that his guitar solo in "Bambi" (Rock In Rio) was buried so low in the mix. He said after that incident, P would keep his own mixing board (behind a curtain) onstage. That way he wouldn't have to worry about a sound guy.

That´s what Prince also did during the Gold Experience tour (Ultimate Live Experience tour) in Europe in 1995. He would go back and forth into the Endorphinmachine on a conveyor belt while playing guitar, mixing his own sound inside the Endorphinmachine.

It didn´t always work out well, but the balls it takes to do that, the idea itself and how it looked , as a part of his live show, was supercool.

I can still see him going in and out of the Endorphinmachine during those shows while playing his gold symbol guitar.

Good times, great shows, best live performer ever.

He´ll be missed forever.

babynoz said:

KoolEaze said:

I think that´s pretty obvious in this interview. The guy hints at it and it reads like he´s holding back and doesn´t want to say anything disrespectful.

But...how would you know? Do you know people who were around him in the mid 90s?

Pay no mind. He's been trolling since Prince passed, banned twice and working on number 3.

Thanks for the article.

Not trolling. The truth is the truth.

keenly said:

babynoz said:

Pay no mind. He's been trolling since Prince passed, banned twice and working on number 3.

Thanks for the article.

Not trolling. The truth is the truth.

If you had a single source, it would be the elephant in the room. This room has no elephants.

jasopig said:

keenly said:

Not trolling. The truth is the truth.

If you had a single source, it would be the elephant in the room. This room has no elephants.

The NPG hated Prince. He abused them horribly.

laurarichardson said:

McD said:

keenly said:

jasopig said:

If you had a single source, it would be the elephant in the room. This room has no elephants.

The NPG hated Prince. He abused them horribly.

Most of the NPG members only worked with Prince for a short time before he died in 1993 - was that really long enough for form a strong opinion?

If the NPG hated him so much, how come many of them worked for him for a long time?

That's a really touching and heartfelt article.

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Thanks for posting.

NorthC said:

Because they didn't. Keenly is just an ass.

Tommy B says different.

If you are Tommy B, say so. If you're not, do you think he'd think it's cool that you're shooting your mouth off about something he's said, presumably in private?

I think you're Michael Jackson's ghost and you're still pissed off with Prince.

keenly said:

KoolEaze said:

I´ve just finished reading this nice little article. Brings back some great memories of the Gold Experience/Ultimate Live Experience tour in 1995 and the aftershows at the Paradiso in Amsterdam.

The author, a drum programmer named Fafu, worked for Prince in the mid 90s and got to work at Paisley through Michael Bland.

Since I am not a musician I have actually no idea what exactly Fafu´s job was so I´d appreciate if some of the musicians here on the org could explain that to me because I don´t understand what he would program and why Michael Bland didn´t just do that part.

-

I like the part about Prince owning a tennis court, never practicing tennis, and then beating anybody who´d challenge him. How did he do that without any training?

.

Anyway, I think this is a very enjoyable read, and the end is very touching.

Enjoy!

http://uk.complex.com/mus...er-mid-90s

"He’s so confident on stage, but it’s basically the opposite when you talk to him. He mumbles, he’d stutter a little bit, he’d look down. But when it came to doing the work, he always knew what he wanted. He was so confident in his abilities—even beyond music. He had a tennis court on his property but he never played tennis. Then somebody would say, “Oh, I want to play you.” So Prince would send for his tennis gloves, was completely insane on the court and would beat whoever he was playing. I never saw Prince make a mistake—in anything."

Prince was a vile tyrant in the 90's. Most people who worked with him hate it. He was a bully and paid poorly. Real shame.

You must have something better to do than douche out all over a Prince board. Wait, probably not. Douche away!

McD said:

laurarichardson said:

He was getting his ass whipped on the charts by shitty ass Hip-Hop and fighting with Warner Brothers which would explain the low pay. He was going thru bad times and I am pretty sure he did not hold gun to anyone's head and making them stay around.

Real bad choice of words there. Read that Rolling Stone article about Prince's treatment of the NPG in the early 90's again.

Do you happen to have a link to that article?

smoothcriminal12 said:

McD said:

laurarichardson said: Real bad choice of words there. Read that Rolling Stone article about Prince's treatment of the NPG in the early 90's again.

Do you happen to have a link to that article?

Here it is: http://www.rollingstone.c...y-20160505

DarkKnight1 said:

keenly said:

Prince was a vile tyrant in the 90's. Most people who worked with him hate it. He was a bully and paid poorly. Real shame.

You must have something better to do than douche out all over a Prince board. Wait, probably not. Douche away!

You condone abuse. You are the one with the problem.

keenly said:

KoolEaze said: