I feel your pain, I was at that last show in ATL.

it's a tough pill to swallow

rainbowchild said:

Sorry, just read your thread, and I had an awful realization, too, and started a similar thread. I guess we were both thinking the same thing.

MODS: Please lock my other thread or merge my thread with this. Thanks.

lust said:

rainbowchild said:

Sorry, just read your thread, and I had an awful realization, too, and started a similar thread. I guess we were both thinking the same thing.

MODS: Please lock my other thread or merge my thread with this. Thanks.

Wow. Yes, we're on the same page. Comforting to know it's a feeling shared.

dm3857 said:

CalhounSq said:

dm3857 said:

I feel your pain, I was at that last show in ATL.

it's a tough pill to swallow

DAMN, that's ROUGH. Sometimes I think (stupidly) skipping this last tour was a bit of a twisted blessing. If I'd JUST seen him, I'd be handling this much worse. But man, if I'd known it would be the last show, I would have gladly gone broke. There was always the next show... FUCK

Agree totally, 2016 started on such a high with Hitn Run Phase 2 and then the concerts in New Zealand, both of which were just unforgettable, only to be followed by his death 2 months later and a media beat up over Fetanyl or whatever it is called.

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Add on all the other celebrity deaths (Particularly David Bowie and George Michael)and the underwhelming 4ever set, Real Groovy records charging $80 for a used copy of Graffiti Bridge and you have one stinker of a year.

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Bring on 2017!

Adorecream said:

rainbowchild said:

CalhounSq said:

rainbowchild said:

Can we rewind time instead? Back 2 2015....2014....etc.

I'd love to roll it back even further, & have him seek medical help for pain sooner... or give up the heels/riser jumps much sooner. That's undoing a lot, but I'd give just about anything to have that dude here

I am so glad that I am not the only one feeling like I want to hold on to the year like if I do that he will somehow still be here. I know this is really silly but I have just watched one of those 2016 news round up shows and I had this wave hit me that this is real and he is not coming back. I know that after 8 months I should have worked that one out but it just keeps hitting me like a punch to the chest.

onelap said:

CalhounSq said:

Just gotta hang on to the music, he left us with tons of amazing memories

I haven't really written much on the subject of Prince's passing as my year has been tainted by other experiences. Prince dying was a complete shock and I was of course saddened by the news, yet I didn't cry, grieve or mourn in any way for his passing. Prince, or more specifically, his music, has been and will continue to be, a large part of my life. I've been a fan for over 25 years, have all the official releases, many more bootlegs and attended about 30 live performances. In this respect, while some here have done way more than that, I've been far luckier than many others in my experiences of Prince and his music.

So what's happened that meant I wan't more affected by Prince's passing?

About a month before Prince passed, we had to put my Dad into a nursing home. He'd been suffering with dementia and had been deteriorating to the point where my Mum couldn't look after him any longer and he was now a non-recognisable shadow of the man he once was, unable to communicate and seemingly quite unaware of who we were and where he was. Six months to the day since Prince died, my brother and I sat in the nursing home and watched Dad take his last breath and pass away on October 21st.

There was sadness of course, but still no proper grieving as we had other things to deal with.

Ten days before Dad passed, Mum was admitted to hospital. She'd been tired a lot but everyone, including herself, had assumed this was due to the extreme physical and mental demands of looking after Dad and watchng the man she'd loved for nearly 50 years waste away before her. Tragically, there was much more to Mum's condition than merely that. When she was admitted to hospital, they said it was with a lung infection but they also had the suspiscion that it may be lung cancer. A week after Dad passed, Mum was sent home with the news that she was terminal and had six months to two years. However, on the 2nd December Mum was back in hospital, this time having contracted pneumonia and this time there was no recovery. On the 5th December, my brother and I sat for a now too familiar sight and we watched Mum take her last breath, as we had done with Dad a little more than 6 weeks prior.

Now there was some grieving!

But with all this said, and even if my parents hadn't passed, I still don't think there would have been much, if any, grieving for Prince. When I think of Prince and what being a fan of his music has given to my life I can only summon up feelings of happiness and joy. All of the shows and recordings, of course, but above all that there's my wife, the love of my life, who I met at a Prince concert and have now been happily married to for the past seven years. And without having been a Prince fan and having met my wife, my world would be without my youngest son, pictured below with his big brother. This little bundle of mayhem brings fun and joy to every day.

So instead of grieving for Prince I can only say, thank you Prince, thank you so very much.

mynameisnotsusan said:

anangellooksdown said:

lust said:

Fucking hell. I'm so sorry. I can't relate to losing a parent but I can only imagine what it's like and to lose both so quickly is herendous.

Thanks lust. Dad had been a long time coming, so while not easy, it was not a shock and we were prepared. Mum was a complete shock though. The only silver lining with Mum was that it was so quick and she didn't have to suffer.

lust said:

mynameisnotsusan said:

Definitely feel the same - just thinking how ecstatic I was when he announced he was coming to AU/NZ at the beginning of THIS year.

That was the first thing that made me well up this year when my friend in radio called to tell me about the press release. Finally, he was coming to town. Still can't believe how lucky we were that he came and brought THAT show to NZ.

You were very lucky to see that. We were going to get the shows in London but they were cancelled after the terror attack in Paris, so I didn't get a chance to see a piano show. I can only imagine that it would have been very special and as much as I'd like to see something released from that tour, I can only think that these sort of shows will lose an awful lot when the experience of actually being there is removed.

TheEnglishGent said:

I haven't really written much on the subject of Prince's passing as my year has been tainted by other experiences. Prince dying was a complete shock and I was of course saddened by the news, yet I didn't cry, grieve or mourn in any way for his passing. Prince, or more specifically, his music, has been and will continue to be, a large part of my life. I've been a fan for over 25 years, have all the official releases, many more bootlegs and attended about 30 live performances. In this respect, while some here have done way more than that, I've been far luckier than many others in my experiences of Prince and his music.

So what's happened that meant I wan't more affected by Prince's passing?

About a month before Prince passed, we had to put my Dad into a nursing home. He'd been suffering with dementia and had been deteriorating to the point where my Mum couldn't look after him any longer and he was now a non-recognisable shadow of the man he once was, unable to communicate and seemingly quite unaware of who we were and where he was. Six months to the day since Prince died, my brother and I sat in the nursing home and watched Dad take his last breath and pass away on October 21st.

There was sadness of course, but still no proper grieving as we had other things to deal with.

Ten days before Dad passed, Mum was admitted to hospital. She'd been tired a lot but everyone, including herself, had assumed this was due to the extreme physical and mental demands of looking after Dad and watchng the man she'd loved for nearly 50 years waste away before her. Tragically, there was much more to Mum's condition than merely that. When she was admitted to hospital, they said it was with a lung infection but they also had the suspiscion that it may be lung cancer. A week after Dad passed, Mum was sent home with the news that she was terminal and had six months to two years. However, on the 2nd December Mum was back in hospital, this time having contracted pneumonia and this time there was no recovery. On the 5th December, my brother and I sat for a now too familiar sight and we watched Mum take her last breath, as we had done with Dad a little more than 6 weeks prior.

Now there was some grieving!

But with all this said, and even if my parents hadn't passed, I still don't think there would have been much, if any, grieving for Prince. When I think of Prince and what being a fan of his music has given to my life I can only summon up feelings of happiness and joy. All of the shows and recordings, of course, but above all that there's my wife, the love of my life, who I met at a Prince concert and have now been happily married to for the past seven years. And without having been a Prince fan and having met my wife, my world would be without my youngest son, pictured below with his big brother. This little bundle of mayhem brings fun and joy to every day.

So instead of grieving for Prince I can only say, thank you Prince, thank you so very much.

I am so sorry for your loss of both parents like that. I feel your pain and thank you for your courage in sharing this information with us.

TheEnglishGent said:

lust said:

TheEnglishGent said:

You were very lucky to see that. We were going to get the shows in London but they were cancelled after the terror attack in Paris, so I didn't get a chance to see a piano show. I can only imagine that it would have been very special and as much as I'd like to see something released from that tour, I can only think that these sort of shows will lose an awful lot when the experience of actually being there is removed.

That type of show had been a long held dream of mine so actually had flights held to London (Mum lives there) and had multiple web pages loaded for tickets. It was what, 90 mins before they went on sale that it was pulled due to the practices of the ticket sellers and then Paris happened so it was canned. If rather have had to fork out for the trip and Baticlan didn't happen but couldn't believe my luck when Auckland was announced.

ah yes, I'd forgotten about the whole resale of tickets before they'd gone on general sale, thing. I certainly applauded Prince for his action in dealing with that.

Adorecream said:

It will hit me like a brick when i visit PP in April And also the silence in the summer of no up coming concerts out of the blue.