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Heartbreaking that P felt the death of Ahmir [RIP] was because of his past actions. Reason for the thread was seeing a quote from Mayte on her recent media blast referring to this. Truly affected me & made me reflect. The impact on P cannot be underestimated. We of course could guess how much pain this casued him but I suspect the impact lasted until the end.
I guess the huge change in his outlook, how he mellowed, the vast change in his musical output, his ever changing view of the world, his faith, perhaps his increase in charitable activity & all together seemingly being a nicer person. I dread to mention LG [please dont make this an LG bashing fest!] but maybe..just maybe he saved P & at least gave him some positive focus..although his influence on Maytes marriage leaves a lot to be desired! Maybe LG reinforced P's belief & took advantage of a vulnerable situation..maybe if he didn't P might have gone totally off the rails..we will never know.
The upshot is that given the info from Mayte, P possibly blamed himself & past actions leading to the death of their son & seemingly spent the rest of his days trying to repent. I may of course have this horribly wrong but I suspect I may be right. I'll conclude with P's constant battle between Good & Evil..think about his performance of Temptation during the P.Rain era...it all played heavily on his mind & was a constant theme with God watching over his every move.
Hi Mods, just wanted to put this out there, will more than understand if you want to lock it up.
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Ive always thought that myself. That he felt he was making amends fir his past stage antics that he felt cursed him etc. Which is why I never fell into that bash him for changing his lyrics mob mentality. "Climb in my fur." | |
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There is the book discussion thread over in Associated Artists. You can post there. Ohh purple joy oh purple bliss oh purple rapture! REAL MUSIC by REAL MUSICIANS - Prince "I kind of wish there was a reason for Prince to make the site crash more" ~~ Ben |
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