A life without love, a life without love
Don't die, don't die without love

The 2nd dude in that back-jacket photo looks like Michael DeLorenzo.

• Sheila E. - all lead vocals, bass, bongos, congas, drums, guitar, keyboards, percussion (official credits, although much of this was played uncredited by Prince)
• Prince - all instruments, except where noted (uncredited), backing vocals, bass guitar, guitar on A Love Bizarre, bass guitar, guitar on Toy Box, backing vocals on Yellow
• Eddie M.- saxophone on Sister Fate, Dear Michaelangelo, A Love Bizarre, Toy Box, Romance 1600 and Bedtime Story, backing vocals on A Love Bizarre and Toy Box
• "John" - horns on Yellow
• "Steve" - horns on Yellow
• "Ron" - horns on Yellow
• "Dick" - horns on Yellow
• "Robert" - horns on Yellow
• "Tim" - horns on Yellow

• Karl Perazzo - drums (album), bongos on Romance 1600
• Benny Rietveld - bass guitar (album), backing vocals on Romance 1600
• Ken Grey - keyboards, organ on Sister Fate
• Susie Davis - keyboards (album), backing vocals on Sister Fate, Dear Michaelangelo and Romance 1600
• Steph Birnbaum - guitar on Dear Michaelangelo and Bedtime Story, backing vocals on A Love Bizarre and Toy Box
• Juan Escovedo - percussion on A Love Bizarre and Bedtime Story
• Michael Weaver - backing vocals on Toy Box

TrivialPursuit said:

The 2nd dude in that back-jacket photo looks like Michael DeLorenzo.

lol Benny Rietveld

Levi Seacer jr replaced him

OldFriends4Sale said:

lol Benny Rietveld

Levi Seacer jr replaced him

haha yeah I know, but he has that look. For those that don't know him, google younger pictures of DeLorenzo. He was in "Beat It", Fame (TV series), and tons of other stuff as a dancer, and actor. He was later on a cop show that was popular for a while.

OldFriends4Sale said:

TrivialPursuit said:

The 2nd dude in that back-jacket photo looks like Michael DeLorenzo.

lol Benny Rietveld

Levi Seacer jr replaced him

and he went on to play for miles davis from 88-early 90 lol

TrivialPursuit said:

The 2nd dude in that back-jacket photo looks like Michael DeLorenzo.

You are right lol. Michael is friends with Sheila's younger sister Zena Escovedo and also Appollonia. And Michael is a huge Prince fan and even named one of his cats after him. Little know Purple tibit. Prince was this close of appearing as a musicial guest on New York Undercover during its third season and around the same time Emancipation was released but the deal felt through.

Michael Delorenzo is cool I talked to him a few times on social media awhile back. He also almost forgot that he appeared on Alexander O'neal's video Fake until I show it to him the video. He also thought the silly poem I wrote to him was nice when he had his myspace page.

1. Sister Fate
2. Dear Michaelangelo
3. A Love Bizarre
4. Toy Box
5. Yellow
6. Romance 1600
7. Merci For The Speed Of A Mad Clown In Summer
8. Bedtime Story

Romance 1600 is the second album from singer-drummer-percussionist Sheila E.. Whilst Prince wrote and played on the whole album, barring the instrumental "Merci for the Speed of a Mad Clown in Summer", the only track he is credited for openly on the album sleeve itself is "A Love Bizarre", which was co-written and produced with Sheila E. and is a duet between the pair. The song, a 12-minute epic, became a major hit in its edited radio-friendly form.

During her hiatus, she had garnered a lot of exposure via the media, including appearing in the movie Krush Groove, in which she performed "A Love Bizarre" and "Holly Rock". She had also performed for a wide audience as an act on Prince and The Revolution's Purple Rain Tour.

The video for "Sister Fate" (the album's lead single) introduced a new image of the performer: a somewhat female-Prince influenced protégée. "Sister Fate"'s B-side featured the cryptic protest song "Save the Children". However, the album itself featured many tracks that were personal and help to support the embodiment of the thematic faux-French Renaissance episodic adventure that the lead single's video and the album art intended to set up for the listening audience.

This concept-theme album became a staple within Prince's camp at the time, which saw Prince inspired by a more glamorous, high fashion stylized image, which included Romance 1600, along with The Family's self-titled debut album, and his own 1986 release, the soundtrack album Parade. This marked a clear visual departure from the more "street tough" image of the Minneapolis sound acts from his pre-Purple Rain success, namely The Time and Vanity 6. Although the album received mixed reviews, "A Love Bizarre" was the album's biggest hit single. On January 28, 1986, the album was certified Gold by the RIAA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...mance_1600

my favs on this are

- a love bizzare

- yellow -it's so cheeky

- dear michealangelo

I love this album........A Love Bizzare, Toy Box and Bedtime Story are on high rotation at my house

Latin said:

Thanks for this great thread! The "A Love Bizarre" encore performance with Prince on the Sheila E. concert video is absolutely amazing. Hopefully, one day they release that on Blu-Ray.

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True dat. I love, love, love that performance and wish we had it in better quality.

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if you listen to the actual tape of the show, which is circulating, they apparently did some edits and a couple of overdubs on the performance we see in teh video but it's near perfect so no complaints.....P in his prime.

Prolly my favorite Sheila effort! it 2 pieces .

• Sheila E. – lead vocals, percussion, drums, strings, bass guitar, keyboards, arranger, producer, writer
• Eddie M. – saxophone
• Ken Grey – organ
• Prince -

One of the things I try to do with the things I direct -- namely for our acts

-- is go for the different, the out-of-the-norm, the avant purple, so to speak. -Prince 1985

tab32792 said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

lol Benny Rietveld

Levi Seacer jr replaced him

and he went on to play for miles davis from 88-early 90 lol

and now he plays with Santana...he's been in Santana's band since the early 90s

I love this album, however A Love Bizzare long version is absolutely boring imo.

Latin said:

Thanks for this great thread! The "A Love Bizarre" encore performance with Prince on the Sheila E. concert video is absolutely amazing. Hopefully, one day they release that on Blu-Ray.

It was ripped by some bootleggers but I ain't ever found that digitally anywhere online except for DVD's on ebay (but I'd rather not pay for boots, God knows I've spent enough money on those in the 90's!).

My old VHS of it ended-up in the dustbin with all my VHS many years ago. I realize even though few people still have VCR's I just threw away all my Prince VHS, which may one day end-up being rare collectors, future generations please forgive me.

I found a rip of the audio once, from the LD, but of course one track is missing

jn2 said:

I love this album, however A Love Bizzare long version is absolutely boring imo.

So much happens all throughout, though. Maybe you haven't listened to it?

It never fully recovered from the faster, more dynamic live version on the live album, though: Prince ruined the original by making the live cut faster and, therefore, funkier. But the original is still pretty mindblowing if u manage to forget the live one.

Tracklist Hide Credits

lyrics coming soon... unless someone else already has them?

OldFriends4Sale said:

Tracklist Hide Credits

A	Sister Fate (Extended Version) Organ – Ken GreySaxophone – Eddie M (2)	5:45
B	Save The People

lyrics coming soon... unless someone else already has them?

Is there anything more 2 it than "save the people all Feed their hungry eyes Save the children all Don't let them die"?

6.7.1985 @ the Prom Center in St Paul Minnesota

Prince's 27th Birthday show celebration

1. A Love Bizzare

2. Mutiny

3. Sometimes It Snows in April

4. Irresistable Bitch

5. Possessed

6. the Bird

7. Burn It Up

8. Drawers Burnin'

9. Holly Rock

Prince & the Revolution: Bobby Z, Dr Fink, Lisa Coleman, Brown Mark, Wendy Melvoin, Sheila E Eddie M (I don't know who else from her band was in attendance) Jerome Benton Jellybean Johnson St Paul Peterson Susannah Melvoin Eric Leeds

Band Prince (vox, bass) Bobby Z. (drums), Brown Mark (bass), Wendy Melvoin (guitar), Lisa Coleman (keyboards), Dr. Fink (keyboards),

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June 7. 1985
Prom Center"St Poul
27th Birthday Concert
1. Love Bizzare w/ Sheila E. (drums) & Eddie M.,

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2. Mutiny St. Paul & Susannah Melvoin lead vox, w/ Jerome Benton, Sheila E. (drums) & Eddie M..

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Another new song follows as Prince And The Revolution are joined by St. Paul Peterson, Susannah Melvoin and Jerome Benton from The Family for an over 14 minute version of their song "Mutiny". St. Paul sings lead on this performance. The Family's one and only album would not see release until September of that year, so this was another new song to those in attendance.

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3. Sometimes It snows In April only Prince, Wendy Melvoin, Lisa Coleman, Sheila E.

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After a two minute Sheila E. drum solo, the band slows things down for the public premiere of "Sometimes It Snows In April". This song would not see release for almost another year, on the "Parade" album in late March, 1986. It's obvious the song is a work in progress at this point as Prince sings the first two lines of the song, then it becomes an instrumental performance save the chorus which the band has worked out, full lyrics and all. It's a fascinating look at a song in its skeletal form. Prince tells the crowd 'y'all wanna get a drink or something, it's cool', probably aware of the funk explosion they were about to lay on them the rest of the evening.

The first familiar song of the night starts a 30 minute non-stop funk marathon as they kick into "Irresistible Bitch". I simply love the way The Revolution re-worked this song live, usually leading into the unreleased "Possessed" as it does on this night. Eric Leeds and Eddie M. on saxophone add to the massive groove emanating from the stage on this performance. Given his incredible Sign o' The Times and original NPG bands, I think I have underestimated The Revolution over the years and listening to these shows is a great reminder of just how bad-ass this band was.

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5. Possessed
6. The Bird
7. Burn It

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"Possessed" then runs into a brief workout on The Time's "The Bird" featuring Jerome Benton helping with the chants. This leads into the seemingly improvised "Drawers Burnin'", a hilarious song with Prince singing in his 'Morris Day voice' and Benton again backing him up on the chant. This song has also been referred to as "Burn It" in the past, but that seems to be more from crappy recordings of this show making it hard to tell what they were saying. Prince starts by singing 'Asshole tried to take my picture, kicked him in the neck! Sued me for a million dollars I said what the heck!' as Benton chants 'Drawers Burning' in between each line. Musically the song is little more than a popping bassline and drums, but it is still funky as hell. 'Good drawers hard to find, bad ones follow you home', too funny. Prince asking a woman in the audience 'Do your drawers burn honey? Sing!" kills me as well. I highly doubt this song was ever considered to be recorded, it all seems pretty much made up on the spot.

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8. Holly Rock Prince & the Revolution + Sheila E (timbales) Eddie M & Eric Leeds (sax)

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The night closes with a 13 minute version of another Prince written track given to Sheila E., "Holly Rock". Sheila rocks the timbales on this performance, again a debut as this song would not be released until September on the "Krush Groove" soundtrack. In all, six of the eight songs played on this night were unreleased at the time and two have still never seen the light of day.

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Guest(s) Sheila E. (vox, drums), Jerome Benton (vox), Susannah Melvoin (vox), St. Paul (vox), Eddie M. (saxophone) Eric Leeds (saxophone)

databank said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Tracklist Hide Credits

A	Sister Fate (Extended Version)	5:45
B	Save The People

lyrics coming soon... unless someone else already has them?

Is there anything more 2 it than "save the people all Feed their hungry eyes Save the children all Don't let them die"?

actually I don't remember... listening 2 it later today

OldFriends4Sale said:

databank said:

Is there anything more 2 it than "save the people all Feed their hungry eyes Save the children all Don't let them die"?

actually I don't remember... listening 2 it later today

From memory I don't think so.

She had odd lyrics on those b-sides, same with The World Is High. I could never understand parts of the lyrics on that last one, can u get what the say?

TrivialPursuit said:

The 2nd dude in that back-jacket photo looks like Michael DeLorenzo.