Every single time I'm lookin at the Prince section in the second hand wrecka stow, he is always tucked away behind some dude called "John Prine" (On occasion, he is tucked away behind "Princess" that super sucessful 80's singer )

Anyone know who the fuck he is??

I've often wondered that myself, rather bored this evening, eh, JimmyNothing.

Here is a link: http://www.jpshrine.org/

and a pic:

That pic makes him look like Micky Dolenz.

LaVisHh said:

You have no idea!

Oh, thaks for the link and pic btw

JimmyNothing said:

Oh yes I do... this thread is possibly something everyone has thought of, but was never bored enough to remember to post about it!

JimmyNothing said:

Go study him, ok? Then I will refer all orgers who ask about this guy to you.

LaVisHh said:

I think I'll do just that! I may even buy a John Prine CD on tuesday when I'm at the store. Hell, mayb I'll even update my signature with a "John Prine Fact of the day" every day for the next month!

JimmyNothing said:

I'll be checkin'!!!

John is a famous old folkie who has been around so long that Kris Kristofferson wrote a song for him in the early 1970's. It's quite the track I'll relay the lyrics for you.

Jesus Was a Capricorn (ode to John Prine) - By Kris Kristofferson.
Jesus was a Capricon he ate organic food
He believed in love and peace and never wore no shoes
Long hair, beard and sandels and a funky bunch of friends
'reckon they'd just nail him up if he came down again

cuz everybody's got to have somebody to look down on
who they can feel better than at anytime they please
someone doing something dirty decent folks can frown on
if you can't find nobody else then help yourself to me

Eggheads fussin and rednecks cussin hippies for their hair
others laugh at straits who laugh at freaks who laugh at squares
some folks hate the whites who hate the blacks who hate the klan
most of us hate anything that we don't understand

cuz everybody's got to have somebody to look down on
who they can feel better than at anytime they please
someone doing something dirty decent folks can frown on
if you can't find nobody else then help yourself to me

So there is a little rock/ country history for you...

i've always been tempted

See a TRUE FAM would be a John Prine fan as well, just because his CDs have the honor of being next to Prince's in the record stores...

Whats funny is I always see John Prine after Prince, but I can never recall what comes before Prince in the bins.
[This message was edited Mon Mar 10 7:06:40 PST 2003 by Tom]

JimmyNothing said:

I've seen that name for years too...as for Princess,haven't seen her since the days of LP's(before CD)...trip in music we have had a group named King, Queen, and singers named Prince and Princess...no Jesters though...

Tom said:

Primus!

JimmyNothing said:

I always saw his name when I looked thru Goldmine magazine for Prince stuff.

Another one was some dude named 'Elvis Presley'...anyone know who he is???

There were always 2 things that got me when I used to go shopping for Prince cassettes when I was a kid (for you youngins cassettes were the format used prior to the advent of cds ). One was the John Prine thing the other was a Robert Plant cassette that was always in close proximity to Prince that had a multi-colored j-card very similar to Around The World In A Day. Anyone else remember this?

LittlePill said:

Was it this one?