I know this sounds weird but hearing other people do his songs and never getting to hear live clips of the actual Prince on these awards shows seems wrong to me. they are not celebrating the life of a great songwriter who was an average performer. They are celebrating (or should be anyway) celebrating the work of a great songwriter and performer. When Clapton dies, are people just doing to butcher "Layla" over and over again. the BET tribute might be as good as we get, but unless we see concert footage (like we did when Frank Sinatra died) than I don't see these as "proper tributes'. I hope the Revolution's tributes atleast provide nice stories and photos.

ALso, goddamn, someone please do a tribute that contains songs that are not just from the 1980's. Throw a bone to the 90's and 2000's. It is not like all this music was just dreck.

I have been watching that 2004 clip of The Question of U/ The One...awesome work. If they are not going to show footage of the actual Prince, than atleast they should do some research into his back catalogue a bit more. Someone do the Question of U.

Best tribute so far--Adele in Minnesota concert playing the "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" video.

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I personally don't watch the tributes because it's not the same to hear someone else doing Prince's music. The ONLY person I liked doing one of Prince's songs was Adam Levine doing 'Purple Rain." Would still rather Prince but Adam is the only one who did it justice in my opinion.

purplerabbithole said:

I know this sounds weird but hearing other people do his songs and never getting to hear live clips of the actual Prince on these awards shows seems wrong to me. they are not celebrating the life of a great songwriter who was an average performer. They are celebrating (or should be anyway) celebrating the work of a great songwriter and performer. When Clapton dies, are people just doing to butcher "Layla" over and over again. the BET tribute might be as good as we get, but unless we see concert footage (like we did when Frank Sinatra died) than I don't see these as "proper tributes'. I hope the Revolution's tributes atleast provide nice stories and photos.

ALso, goddamn, someone please do a tribute that contains songs that are not just from the 1980's. Throw a bone to the 90's and 2000's. It is not like all this music was just dreck.

I have been watching that 2004 clip of The Question of U/ The One...awesome work. If they are not going to show footage of the actual Prince, than atleast they should do some research into his back catalogue a bit more. Someone do the Question of U.

Best tribute so far--Adele in Minnesota concert playing the "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" video.

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But does it piss you off like it does me. I watched BET tributes and Madonna's on the internet. That's all I have been able to watch. The BET had some nice moments. Madonna just ticked me off.

anangellooksdown said:

I've had little interest. If rather watch vids or read stories about Prince.

purplerabbithole said:

I know this sounds weird but hearing other people do his songs and never getting to hear live clips of the actual Prince on these awards shows seems wrong to me. they are not celebrating the life of a great songwriter who was an average performer. They are celebrating (or should be anyway) celebrating the work of a great songwriter and performer. When Clapton dies, are people just doing to butcher "Layla" over and over again. the BET tribute might be as good as we get, but unless we see concert footage (like we did when Frank Sinatra died) than I don't see these as "proper tributes'. I hope the Revolution's tributes atleast provide nice stories and photos.

ALso, goddamn, someone please do a tribute that contains songs that are not just from the 1980's. Throw a bone to the 90's and 2000's. It is not like all this music was just dreck.

I have been watching that 2004 clip of The Question of U/ The One...awesome work. If they are not going to show footage of the actual Prince, than atleast they should do some research into his back catalogue a bit more. Someone do the Question of U.

Best tribute so far--Adele in Minnesota concert playing the "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" video.

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I totally agree. Have never liked other people singing another artist's work... especially someone that was such a great live entertainer. Video clips of prince himself and a personal story/words by someone who he touched.... a much better tribute.

Until now, they all sucked.

Some a little, some big time.

Springsteen sucked. D'Angelo sucked. Madonna almost deserves a lobotomization for what she commited.

Don't start me on the tribute records, they're all atrocious.

The only one worth of interest is by a semi-professional orchestra.
The arrangements are proof of the quality of the compositions, as they respect the original material.
And it's full of humour: I'm sure SKipper would have enjoy it.

Take The Beautiful Ones for instance. It starts as a schmaltzy hawaiian guitar muzak for elevators,
but ends faithful to the ad-lib spirit, with a sax section replicating the guitar solo.

It's certainly no London Symphony Orchestra, but you can tell it's made with love.

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blondie1147 said:

I personally don't watch the tributes because it's not the same to hear someone else doing Prince's music. The ONLY person I liked doing one of Prince's songs was Adam Levine doing 'Purple Rain." Would still rather Prince but Adam is the only one who did it justice in my opinion.

purplerabbithole said:

I know this sounds weird but hearing other people do his songs and never getting to hear live clips of the actual Prince on these awards shows seems wrong to me. they are not celebrating the life of a great songwriter who was an average performer. They are celebrating (or should be anyway) celebrating the work of a great songwriter and performer. When Clapton dies, are people just doing to butcher "Layla" over and over again. the BET tribute might be as good as we get, but unless we see concert footage (like we did when Frank Sinatra died) than I don't see these as "proper tributes'. I hope the Revolution's tributes atleast provide nice stories and photos.

ALso, goddamn, someone please do a tribute that contains songs that are not just from the 1980's. Throw a bone to the 90's and 2000's. It is not like all this music was just dreck.

I have been watching that 2004 clip of The Question of U/ The One...awesome work. If they are not going to show footage of the actual Prince, than atleast they should do some research into his back catalogue a bit more. Someone do the Question of U.

Best tribute so far--Adele in Minnesota concert playing the "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" video.

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I agree with both of you. Why can't tributes be like the tributes for actors....scenes from their work? It's so frustrating. But I also agree that Adam Levine's PR was damn good. He got the emotional sensibility just right and yet he wasn't trying to sound just like Prince and he didn't oversing it. (So many people oversing that song, mistaking volume for emotion.)

There is a German singer called Kiddo Kat who did a good impromptu version of Kiss on a subway somehwere in Europe. You should look it up on YT (another singer, just a passenger, joined in and it was awesome). BUT, this was not a tribute. It happened and was posted on YT just a few days before he died.

Sigh.

P.S. Here's the link to Kiddo Kat: https://www.youtube.com/w...F6shrBX4L8

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willowcb said:

purplerabbithole said:

I know this sounds weird but hearing other people do his songs and never getting to hear live clips of the actual Prince on these awards shows seems wrong to me. they are not celebrating the life of a great songwriter who was an average performer. They are celebrating (or should be anyway) celebrating the work of a great songwriter and performer. When Clapton dies, are people just doing to butcher "Layla" over and over again. the BET tribute might be as good as we get, but unless we see concert footage (like we did when Frank Sinatra died) than I don't see these as "proper tributes'. I hope the Revolution's tributes atleast provide nice stories and photos.

ALso, goddamn, someone please do a tribute that contains songs that are not just from the 1980's. Throw a bone to the 90's and 2000's. It is not like all this music was just dreck.

I have been watching that 2004 clip of The Question of U/ The One...awesome work. If they are not going to show footage of the actual Prince, than atleast they should do some research into his back catalogue a bit more. Someone do the Question of U.

Best tribute so far--Adele in Minnesota concert playing the "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" video.

[Edited 8/27/16 17:29pm]

I totally agree. Have never liked other people singing another artist's work... especially someone that was such a great live entertainer. Video clips of prince himself and a personal story/words by someone who he touched.... a much better tribute.

Yes, hate them.

Under all the circumstances, every tribute, memorial, function of every kind (and discussions about them) has made it exponentially worse. Feels like getting kicked in the chest again for at least 24 hrs. afterward.

The only thing that I appreciated (at all) was those tap dancing ladies doing When Doves Cry, and that was largely b/c I came upon it by surprise. There's something less depressing and so much more Prince-like about seeing someone do what They uniquely Do at a superior level and in good taste, instead of all this other pathetic mess.

anangellooksdown said:

I've had little interest. If rather watch vids or read stories about Prince.

This x100

If it's the Revolution next week I'd be right there like Warp Speed so I could tri-corder Wendy's guitar whilst leaning on every single one of Lisa's piano keys just to see how it works at the atomic level, but seeing as I don't have money to spend on Higgs Field Boson research I'll have to settle with internet reports of revolution reunions.

Never did get over the onion soup did he?

These tribute things keep adding insult to injury over and over, and that is likewise, not cool (especially for Prince fans who once again, have to feel like people do Not get it.)

Christ, can you imagine being in the middle of Mountains with the whole band playing though - that's some sublimility right there.

U Know who's on the candle!!!

StopIt said:

Yes, hate them.

Under all the circumstances, every tribute, memorial, function of every kind (and discussions about them) has made it exponentially worse. Feels like getting kicked in the chest again for at least 24 hrs. afterward.

The only thing that I appreciated (at all) was those tap dancing ladies doing When Doves Cry, and that was largely b/c I came upon it by surprise. There's something less depressing and so much more Prince-like about seeing someone do what They uniquely Do at a superior level and in good taste, instead of all this other pathetic mess.

Yes I loved the tap dancing tribute to When Doves Cry. I guess that is because they were just dancing not trying to sing it. It was awesome!!

I just remembered: there is this incredible singer who recorded himself on the webcam,
multi-tracked a capella, doing a medley.

This is incredible. Now THAT's a proper tribute.

As for the tributes before SKipper's passing,
there is this crazy japanese who replicated the Lovesexy tour,
brass bed and all. Anyone remembers his name?
Can't find his video on YT.

and if they get bored they can perform cataclysmic junk music until everybody leaves - it's a win win situation overall

There's also this one.

It's the 21st century all right :
The real stars are (extra)ordinary men.

...and one more for the road.

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bonatoc said:

There's also this one.

It's the 21st century all right :
The real stars are (extra)ordinary men.

...and one more for the road.

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That Ben Lacy is well good. Hats off!

AlgeriaTouchshreek said:

bonatoc said:

There's also this one.

It's the 21st century all right :
The real stars are (extra)ordinary men.

...and one more for the road.

[Edited 8/27/16 20:33pm]

That Ben Lacy is well good. Hats off!

Though scratch man is a bit hipster bollocks - I'd rather John Cage and his 1930s sine wave

All I've wanted is a Memorial. I don't want a tribute, someone else performing Prince's music does not help. These tributes don't do anything but remind me all the more of what we are missing, which is Prince.

PurpleDiamonds1 said:

Kind of, yeah. I mean, I appreciate the effort and the respect behind them but they are difficult for me to watch. Why do I watch, then? I feel compelled I guess, curious to some degree, but they make me miss Prince so much, even more than usual while I'm watching them and they remind me that he is really gone. Just the whole reason for them being, saying goodbye to Prince. Immediately after Prince passed, I think I was in shock and in information -gathering mode, just kind of reading stuff like a robot. But it was when I saw those purple lights across the world, that I felt my heart really begin to break and that's when the tears really began. So beautiful, so respectful but the reason they were there. . . Just felt so final and real.