Lovejunky said:

COMPUTERBLUE1984 said:

rogifan said:

Lovejunky said:

Its JUst NOT is it....?

I miss him SO MUCH...its an ache that I dont think will ever leave me...its more tolerable these days but if I linger too long the ache can easily excruciache

Since Prince's passing I've listened mostly to whatever live stuff I can get my hands on. A lot of that includes covers. I'm just reminded over and over what an amazing performer he was. Obviously no one could live up to that but I would have preferred Bruno being Bruno not a Prince impersonator. And I honestly don't know why the Time was there. This was supposed to be a Prince tribute not a Purple Rain tribute.

uh. what?
You dont know whay the Time was there? Really?
What I dint get is why MORE of the people that wprked with him werent there? I dig Bruno a lot, but lots of living, breathing musicians who WORKED WITH PRINCE and are awesome in their own right could have made a far better tribute.

Kara said:

^ You, Prince!

Not saying Bruno is not talented, I am saying that it is disturbing to see him dressed up as Prince.

This was not a tribute at all in my mind. A real tribute would have been more intimate and would have actually taught the audience something about the man. Bruno dessing up to impersonate Prince does not accomplish that. It is disrespectful to Prince and his legacy.

The only one who can pull off Prince.....is Prince.

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leadline said:

Not saying Bruno is not talented, I am saying that it is disturbing to see him dressed up as Prince.

This was not a tribute at all in my mind. A real tribute would have been more intimate and would have actually taught the audience something about the man. Bruno dessing up to impersonate Prince does not accomplish that. It is disrespectful to Prince and his legacy.

The only one who can pull off Prince is.....Prince.

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You can say that again!

Zannaloaf said:

rogifan said:

EDIT: apparently Andre deleted this post. Found this on Facebook. Andre not messing any words here. < [Edited 2/13/17 6:20am] [Edited 2/13/17 6:35am]

He is spot on, if Peter Gene Hernandez had any sense he would have not agreed to play dress up.

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the grammy's clearly thought Prince and a tribute was significant or they wouldn't have waited until the end. It just drives me nuts that he keeps getting thrown back to Purple Rain era, as if he didn't do anything significant after that.

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Morris looked emotional to me; I'm sure it was very hard. I just wish he would have sang his new song https://www.amazon.com/gp..._tlw_thmb7 with perhaps some video footage of Prince in the background to show the different eras and how much he transformed over the decades....Oh well, rant over. I kinda hope the so called tributes are finally over.

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I saw Tyka in the audience; does anyone know what her opinion was?

Graycap23 said:

That performance was embarrassing.

I can't bring myself to watch any tributes at all. What was embarassing about it?

against my own wisdom . i did stay up .

wow . i stayed up for that ?

I don't why everyone is complaining about Prince's tribute, which I thought was very good.....Look what they did to poor George Michael.

The best tribute of the night was the Google commercial. I cried my eyes out, then I went back and watched it again, and cried my eyes out again.

I respect what Bruno Mars tried to do but Andre Cymone is right. Poor Bruno looked like a Vegas lounge act, no disrespect to the Prince tribute bands intended. The only thing that impressed me about it was that he was using Prince's guitar strap.

COMPUTERBLUE1984 said:

TO echo someone else's statement from earlier:

Bruno did his thing, but the trap that the Grammy's (and some other tributes) get trapped in is pinning Prince to ONLY the Purple Rain era.

- It makes me mad, also, that Prince is always treated as an "80s artist" only

leadline said:

Not saying Bruno is not talented, I am saying that it is disturbing to see him dressed up as Prince.

This was not a tribute at all in my mind. A real tribute would have been more intimate and would have actually taught the audience something about the man. Bruno dessing up to impersonate Prince does not accomplish that. It is disrespectful to Prince and his legacy.

The only one who can pull off Prince.....is Prince.

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It was a award show performance not "I'm Prince, buy my new records under the name Bruno Mars"

It wasn't disrespectful to his legacy,

You want Bruno to be a professor of Prince at an awards show? He had no time in the schedule to do what you wanted. It was a Grammy Awards performance not a memoriam or a symposium on the music of Prince.

Seeing Andre Cymone´s comment, I understand that dressing as Prince can be seen as disrespectful, because there is only one Prince. I was so happy with an energetic tribute without ´Purple Rain´ and ´Nothing compares´ that I didnt see this other side. Anyway, I still like it.

GustavoRibas said:

- It makes me mad, also, that Prince is always treated as an "80s artist" only

Agreed. It's as if they only see him through the lens of 1984 and nothing else. It's a shame because his body of work is incredible and we'll never have another artist like that ever again.

leadline said:

rogifan said:

EDIT: apparently Andre deleted this post. Found this on Facebook. Andre not messing any words here. < [Edited 2/13/17 6:20am] [Edited 2/13/17 6:35am]

He is spot on, if Peter Gene Hernandez had any sense he would have not agreed to play dress up.

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THIS!^^^Andre's ENTIRE RANT!!! Like RJORION stated, Andre kept it 100% REAL

EnDoRpHn said:

Alright, I'll bite. Someone prove me wrong.

I don't think Bruno was playing that guitar.

that's exactly what I thought

Agree 100% with Andre Cymone. But I also think Bruno Mars is an embarrassing and awkward pop music person and I really don't understand why he was there to begin with.

A fitting tribute would be to have all the different bands he had each play a song they were involved with so it wouldn't just be some Purple Rain Karaoke fest.

how cool would it be to have his Dirty Mind era band play When U Were Mine and then have the Revolution play something from there time with Prince etc. and then end with 3rd Eye Girl playing something from his last album. That would all probably take too long but still 5 minutes of that would not be as ill fitting as that awkward outfit Bruno Mars wore.

kinskie said:

EnDoRpHn said:

Alright, I'll bite. Someone prove me wrong.

I don't think Bruno was playing that guitar.

that's exactly what I thought

Nah, he played it. Either that, or he did a perfect job hitting the frets that someone else was playing.

When they say it took "months" to plan this, I suspect that much of that time was devoted to Bruno Mars getting the guitar parts down. I know he can play the guitar, but I don't think he could have played LGC without a lot of practice.

Tokyo said:

To be fair to Bruno Mars, that wasn't easy,

I thought he did a really good job. He's not Prince, no one is...

I thought he brought a lot of energy and star quality to Let's Go Crazy.

The real problem is that this wasn't a real tribute.

As with many tributes, I was expecting more participation from contemporaries and more than 3 half-songs.

The Time -- who I always like to see on stage -- wasn't enough.

Bruno couldn't win, but he was a real pro and gave it his all.

Seemed like a rushed, karaoke-on-steroids sendoff for one of greatest artists of the last 2 generations.

(PS -- Bruno . . . playing "Let's Go Crazy" without a single female bandmember in sight was ironic.)