1. He gave us quality music

2. he gave us great concerts

3. Great guitar playing

4. Almost constant music releasing, with great gems

5. Always surprising us with his fashion statements

6. Early on in his career, the hair, the hair...

Just in so many other ways....

I was just listening to a concert he did here (SC) in '81. He was so young (so was I lol)...but even then as a kid basically, he was great with the fans...talking, making everyone sing, just so personable...that wasn't something he developed later...he had it from the get go.

We as fans have been blessed indeed. Thanks Prince, RIP.

funkaholic1972 said:

We as fans have been blessed indeed. Thanks Prince, RIP.

I agree.. I feeling truely blessed to have Prince in my life. He has been the soundtrack of my life for the past 34 years...and his music (as well as the man himself) will continue to live in my soul each step of the way... thank u Prince! u r still so loved!

He was one helluva box chocolates.

It's going to be a weird world from here on out.

Ingela said:

sharonbell said:

1. He gave us quality music

2. he gave us great concerts

3. Great guitar playing

4. Almost constant music releasing, with great gems

5. Always surprising us with his fashion statements

6. Early on in his career, the hair, the hair...

Just in so many other ways....

Who else are we going to find that will give us exemplary concerts, then leave a do an after show. Who else does that? Who? Who?

-I'll miss the excitement of trying to leave one concert, adrenalin still pumping, trying to get to that after show.

RiotPaisley said:

I have a Prince album for every year of my life. It's really hard to fathom the rest of my time here will be without him. [Edited 6/10/16 18:26pm]

My thoughts exactly

morningsong said:

He was one helluva box chocolates.

It's going to be a weird world from here on out.

SO TRUE

sharonbell said:

sharonbell said:

1. He gave us quality music

2. he gave us great concerts

3. Great guitar playing

4. Almost constant music releasing, with great gems

5. Always surprising us with his fashion statements

6. Early on in his career, the hair, the hair...

Just in so many other ways....

agree

Truth. We were so lucky to be along for the ride.

Kind of nice people are realizing this now. He sure did. 4ever grateful. Always was and always will be.

EloiseEloise said:

sharonbell said:

Who else are we going to find that will give us exemplary concerts, then leave a do an after show. Who else does that? Who? Who?

-I'll miss the excitement of trying to leave one concert, adrenalin still pumping, trying to get to that after show.

Agreed. Aftershows and all the excitement of these and even just trying to get a ticket to see him. So much excitement. And all the little exchanges with fans throught the internet also. From chatting to them, to even marrying one, to pranking them almost by performing songs that they would write about wishing he'd perform here on this forum. Even giving out tickets once to some special performance like Willy Wonka would have. And creating Paisley Park and performing there so often and letting people come to events there. ....who else does this/did this....??!! Who else involved his fans so much?? [Edited 6/11/16 1:52am]

And he came to Australia repeatedly, even starting tours here. I'll always be grateful for that.

I reveled in every show, afterparty, release, encounter over the past 35 years....

We are so lucky to have understood what we were seeing and jump on board - he was the ultimate demonstration of talent meeting opportunity, ambition and destiny...

I love him. I can't say anything in the past tense, it hurts too much to do so. But I am so so glad I never took him for granted and my love and support are undying.

A part of me died with him and I'm feeling as if that part of me belongs with him - and every rainbow I see now reminds me that I saw his rainbows live upclose in person and saw genius happen like lightening bolts.

I've been saying this for over 2 decades now, Prince won't be fully appreciated........until he is no longer here.

Cheers to that!

One of the things that makes Prince my all time favorite is that you NEVER KNEW what type of music he was going to release. He refused to be pidgeon-holed. He took chance after chance and bet on himself time after time. Sometimes the release would be SO different from something he previously or most recently released that I might not know how to wrap my head around the change. But then, before long, WAY MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, I would think nobody but Prince could release something like this. How awesome is this? How can he keep changing it up and he still have no equal? How can even the albums that aren't rated as well still have two or three or four tracks that most other artists couldn't dream of creating or wouldn't have the balls to release? Spoiled rotten. In the words of Florida Evans, "Damn, damn, damn!"

sharonbell said:

EloiseEloise said:

sharonbell said:

Who else are we going to find that will give us exemplary concerts, then leave a do an after show. Who else does that? Who? Who?

-I'll miss the excitement of trying to leave one concert, adrenalin still pumping, trying to get to that after show.

Agreed. Aftershows and all the excitement of these and even just trying to get a ticket to see him. So much excitement. And all the little exchanges with fans throught the internet also. From chatting to them, to even marrying one, to pranking them almost by performing songs that they would write about wishing he'd perform here on this forum. Even giving out tickets once to some special performance like Willy Wonka would have. And creating Paisley Park and performing there so often and letting people come to events there. ....Yes! -who else does this/did this....??!! Who else involved his fans so much?? [Edited 6/11/16 1:52am] [Edited 6/11/16 2:13am]

Exactly! I'm trying to come up with one...and I can't.

Noone did after shows, who the f does that .. NOONE ..noone ever said come over to my house .. yes it was painful to never have never gotten to a celebration or gotten a purple ticket in LA house gig in LA or a lot of other things I never got to go to but what I did get to go to was about as krazy fun as it gets. ..

[Edited 6/11/16 12:18pm]