Good interview with some intersting tidbits

Prince: from Paisley Park to the O2

As an exhibition of Prince memorabilia arrives in London, Lisa Verrico talks to the woman who is cataloguing the extraordinary riches of Paisley Park

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/prince-from-paisley-park-to-the-o2-fr2kdkvrw

Standing in Studio A at Paisley Park sends shivers up your spine. The large, dimly lit, half-wooden room where Prince recorded most of his music from the late 1980s onwards remains almost exactly as the pop legend left it on the day he died in April last year.

On the console in the control room is one of his hundreds of handmade guitars. The swivel chair from which Prince Rogers Nelson produced his sessions is set noticeably low: out of heels, he was officially 5ft 2in. More guitars, a piano and a drum kit sit in the glass-fronted, granite-walled live booths opposite. Through a speaker drifts an instrumental mix of the song on which Prince was working when his body was discovered in a lift nearby. You half expect to hear tiny high-heeled boots click-clack across the parquet floor.

Thanks, Studio A sounds lonely.

Studio A is magnificent! It was such a joy to be able to be inside that big room surrounded by all of that lovely wood, to see the beautiful woven carpets on the walls, to see that swivel chair in between the consoles where Prince would record his vocals. Very awe inspiring to say the least. There are three other smaller recording rooms connected to the main studio where Prince would place his drummer, his horn players, guitar player, etc. The acoustics are incredible!

nelcp777 said:

Thanks, Studio A sounds lonely.

nelcp777 said:

Thanks, Studio A sounds lonely.

It probaly was cozy and suited his needs. I would not take what some of these reporters have to say about anything at PP seriously. They are not artist and I have never heard any musicians have one disparging thing to say about the environment at Paisely in fact most say they loved it as a great creative space and that is exactly the way Prince designed it.

The media is always trying to find a negative spin to put on everything and I love that they cannot find it with Prince nothing sticks but they keep trying.

Maybe I should have been clearer on my earlier remark that Studio A, from the description, now sounds lonely. Almost like the studio misses Prince. I can only imagine how PP and Prince were "joined" together.

I felt his presence when I was there. How could one not? That was where he spent so much of his life.

nelcp777 said:

Maybe I should have been clearer on my earlier remark that Studio A, from the description, now sounds lonely. Almost like the studio misses Prince. I can only imagine how PP and Prince were "joined" together.