Poorlovelycomputer said:

This is an interesting topic! I was just watching come youtube vids and was wondering why Prince and Little Richard never teamed up and collaborated as well! I would have loved to have seen that matchup!

I thought by the thread title it was to do with the God Father movies

luv4u said:

I thought by the thread title it was to do with the God Father movies

It's a good guess considering the origin of the name "Appolonia" for Patricia Kotero in Prince lore, as well as his samples from the movie on Madhouse 8.

luv4u said:

i think jb never got into Prince-

He was an MJ admirer.

and when Prince got the chance to show him his stuff in 83'...

He blew it!

MD431Madcat said:

It's the first time I hear Possessed was ever offered to JB, what's the source?

I'm pretty sure I've read somewhere (Uptown Mag?) that Chocolate was offered and turned down in 1986, but there's no mention of it on Princevault so IDK. Anyone can corroborate this?

I don't know about P's ego's being bruised if JB refused any of those 2 songs, but it's clear that Prince wanted to prove something when he remixed Gimme Your Love: he absolutely killed it! The original is quite lame and generic sounding and Prince, most likely to both honor the 2 legends he was remixing AND to impress Brown (if not to show him he was funkier than him at that point in both their careers) did more than a mere remix, he practically reinvented the track, turning it into a 10 minutes killer jam with amazing horns.

Poorlovelycomputer said:

Prince got the chance to do alot of music with people he himself admired (Miles Davis,Mavis Staples,George Clinton,Chaka Khan,Ron wood) Its always been known of his James Brown influence I've always wondered why they both didn't collaborate before JB passed away.

James Brown was an ass so I don't see the both of them really getting along.

any thoughts or anyone else that would've liked to have heard a prince/James Brown track?

If you exclude Gimme Your Love because it was a remix, and imagine a proper collaboration (though Prince would more often work from a distance and rarely share the studio with peers: see how he "collaborated" with Miles, Stevie, Madonna, Kate, George or Mavis, so it's not so far from him remixing Gimme Your Love), it may have been disappointing. I've noticed that 1 + 1 geniuses working together often don't make 2. For some reason it's often that when 2 superpowers try to find a middle ground, the result is a little bland by comparison to both artists' solo works. I'm not sure why. It's not a rule, but it happens often.

You clearly know nothing about guitars...

thats a Peavey RIGHT HANDED guitar!

dmirer.

and when Prince got the chance to show him his stuff in 83'...

He blew it!

Only if it was a righty guitar 😭😂 [Edited 11/7/16 6:56am]

mrdxw1213 said:

databank said:

It's the first time I hear Possessed was ever offered to JB, what's the source?

I'm pretty sure I've read somewhere (Uptown Mag?) that Chocolate was offered and turned down in 1986, but there's no mention of it on Princevault so IDK. Anyone can corroborate this?

I don't know about P's ego's being bruised if JB refused any of those 2 songs, but it's clear that Prince wanted to prove something when he remixed Gimme Your Love: he absolutely killed it! The original is quite lame and generic sounding and Prince, most likely to both honor the 2 legends he was remixing AND to impress Brown (if not to show him he was funkier than him at that point in both their careers) did more than a mere remix, he practically reinvented the track, turning it into a 10 minutes killer jam with amazing horns.

I believe this story about Possesed came from the book Possessed or DMSR but the story has been around for a while.

mrdxw1213 said:

MD431Madcat said:

i think jb never got into Prince-

He was an MJ admirer.

and when Prince got the chance to show him his stuff in 83'...

He blew it!

Only if it was a righty guitar 😭😂 [Edited 11/7/16 6:56am]

Jill Jones already explained what happend here. Just Prince not being prepared to be on the stage as Jill said they were drinking in the limo over to the show. Not the big deal it has been made out to be.

Unortunately.. he still blew it!

laurarichardson said:

mrdxw1213 said:

MD431Madcat said: Only if it was a righty guitar 😭😂 [Edited 11/7/16 6:56am]

Jill Jones already explained what happend here. Just Prince not being prepared to be on the stage as Jill said they were drinking in the limo over to the show. Not the big deal it has been made out to be.

said:

Possessed was dedicated to James Brown.

could ya hook me up with a link to that jill interview? i'd love to hear it..

Thanks.

laurarichardson said:

So I think he more than made up for it later. According to Jill the people in the audience were white people wearing polyester suits. I doubt anything he did was going was to win that crowd over. said:

Unortunately.. he still blew it!

[Edited 11/7/16 12:32pm]

ufoclub said:

It's a good guess considering the origin of the name "Appolonia" for Patricia Kotero in Prince lore

I'm one of the few who have never seen any of the Godfather movies. I had no idea there was a character named Apollonia in that film.

I always thought he got it from the bible: Acts 17:1

LovesexyIsThe1 said:

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[Edited 11/7/16 17:33pm]

ufoclub said:

luv4u said:

I thought by the thread title it was to do with the God Father movies

It's a good guess considering the origin of the name "Appolonia" for Patricia Kotero in Prince lore, as well as his samples from the movie on Madhouse 8.

mmm..yes

bluegangsta said:

Possessed was dedicated to James Brown.

Indeed. But offered to him?

What about Chocolate? Anyone else heard about this?

The first thing that came into my head when I seen this thread...

.

'The style we're sporting the ladies and the fellas, hmmm Godfather III meets Barbarella'

databank said:

bluegangsta said:

Possessed was dedicated to James Brown.

Indeed. But offered to him?

What about Chocolate? Anyone else heard about this?

Yes, it was offered to him. Why must you doubt everything.