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Purple Rain - why wasn’t Sheila E in it? Prince and Shelia we’re Friends way before Purple Rain, was she offered a part? Did she want one? I never thought to ask before. No More Haters on the Internet. |
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well, for starters, she refused to purify herself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka | |
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Because she wasn't really in his orbit until early 1984: http://www.princevault.co...orous_Life . By then the movie was already filmed. . [Edited 4/18/18 7:45am] © Bart Van Hemelen
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RJOrion said: well, for starters, she refused to purify herself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka I figured that much No More Haters on the Internet. |
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BartVanHemelen said: Because she wasn't really in his orbit until early 1984: http://www.princevault.co...orous_Life . By then the movie was already filmed. . [Edited 4/18/18 7:45am] They meet before that around for You and Prince. He ask her if she would be his drummer and she said he couldn’t afford her. No More Haters on the Internet. |
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We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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THIS will always be a staple response to things and it is always funny lol | |
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But like BartVanHemelen said, she wasn't in the 'purple' orbit yet. . When Magnoli was looking at the scene to put the script to film he didn't see Sheila E, he saw Prince (the nituloveR) Morris Day the Time, Vanity 6 Jill Jones . So that is probably the big thing. | |
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All or almost all filming of the movie was done by the time Sheila came into the picture. | |
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When Magnoli was looking at the scene to put the script to film he didn't see Sheila E, he saw Prince (the nituloveR) Morris Day the Time, Vanity 6 Jill Jones . So that is probably the big thing. Yes I think that is mostly why. Too bad, I think it would have been better with Shelia even in a small part. [Edited 4/18/18 9:49am] No More Haters on the Internet. |
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Right, she said they met 1978 in the Bay Area in an interview. | |
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Yeah I though even a club scene camio would have been great | |
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Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking. |
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It's always incorrectly assumed the woman in the skip is Sheila. | |
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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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RJOrion said: well, for starters, she refused to purify herself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka TY so much for the laugh.. I've been alittle down as 4/21 approaches and I am again unable to afford going to the Celebration. Until the end of time | |
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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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Yup, that's why I hope those that manage to get there somehow, despite the snowstorms, will share their experiences on this board and not just on Facebook. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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purplethunder3121 said:
Yup, that's why I hope those that manage to get there somehow, despite the snowstorms, will share their experiences on this board and not just on Facebook. I hope so too. Until the end of time | |
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i work there. i can share what my NDA allows 🙂 |
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. Which part isn't true? . I've just checked Duane Tudahl's book. First mention of Sheila E is for the 27 December 1983 entry, which also mentions that "the bulk of the movie was now in the can" and that the director and editor would assemble a rough cut to determine what still needed to be shot. Sheila is mentioned as "someone who had been visiting Prince in the studio recently" (yet she wasn't mentioned before). . At that time they were way too late in the movie's production process to implement significant scenario changes, lacking both money and time. Shoehorning in Sheila would have been a costly affair, and I doubt anyone involved was even considering this. Prince's work with Sheila only seems to really kick off mid-February. . [Edited 4/19/18 5:00am] © Bart Van Hemelen
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givegoodlove said: i work there. i can share what my NDA allows 🙂 TY  Until the end of time | |
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