Camille Project

the Black Album

Prince
Eric Leeds

Atlanta Bliss

Susannah Melvoin
Camille

There isn't much background information on the Black album cuts, yet.

Sheila E 95% of the time, has never gone into talk of individual songs,

and Cat in an interview said: The Black Album was the first time Prince got me on tape recording. It was intense. I can't even go into that right now, because, it's too intense. The album didn't really have any production. It was spur of the moment. The Black Album was about personal things he was going through, which is why I don't want to discuss it.


I hope one day soon she can talk a little more about what she knows.

Along with others who took part in the album.

Basic tracking took place on 28 October 1986 at Sunset Sound in Hollywood, California

-PrinceVault

Does anybody know you're here?
This house of ill-repute (Ooohh honey I'm scared of you)
Trying to deal with all your fears
I guess this is what you get for being cute (Cute, cute)

Soaked in banana cologne
No wonder you're all alone
It's written all over your face
You're just-a rock hard in a funky place

Rock hard in a funky place

[Verse 2]
Here comes a lady so you cover up
She's a freaked out
Funky electric mama with double cups
Say you, you could cop if you wanted to
Because something near your leg
Is haunting you, such a disgrace
You're rock hard in a funky place, ow!

[Chorus]
Rock hard in a funky place

[Verse 3]
You was working on the line
You could drop on her
But you couldn't concentrate
When your dick so hard
Maybe if you cop a nut in the car (Maybe if you cop a nut in the car)
Maybe you could think
About playing guitar

(Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock)
(Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock)
Oh yeah

[Chorus]
Rock hard in a funky place

[Vesre 4]
All you're looking for is love
Or a reason to believe there's a God above
Pretty soon you'll get enough
And head back to a life so tough
I just hate to see an erection go to waste
I'm just-a rock hard in a funky place

[Chorus]
Rock hard in a funky place
Say it
Rock hard in a funky place
Rock hard in a funky place
Oohh for rock hard in a funky place
You rock hard in a funky place
Say it, you'all

[Bridge]
(Rock, rock)
What? (rock, rock, rock, rock)
We got to go, y'all
Tune in next week (rock, rock)
Same time (rock, rock)
Same boogie (rock, rock, rock, rock, rock hard)
Oohhh yeah (rock, rock, rock, rock)
We will rock, y'all (rock, rock)

[Outro]
But until then keep your finger on the trigger
That's the only way it'll get bigger
(What kind of fuck ending was that?)

• Prince - all vocals and instruments, except where noted
• Eric Leeds - saxophone (uncredited)
• Atlanta Bliss - trumpet (uncredited)
• Susannah Melvoin - background vocals (uncredited)

WAXPOETICS ISSUE 67 pg 91

"Sheila E, and I were in Los Angeles, doing The Tonight Show with my brother Alan that night," remembers Eric Leeds.

"Early the next morning, at the airport, Alan said, all jaunty, 'Okay, got some news for you!" laughs Eric, "and my first reaction was 'Oh shit!' I was very disappointed that it was shelved for a very practical reason-I owned a song on that album!" To lose out was the brilliant "Rock Hard in a Funky Place," including Eric's nasty sax line (plucked from an unreleased, jazzy Leeds original called "Peaemaker").

http://diffuser.fm/prince...nky-place/

On Oct. 28, 1986, Prince recorded a slinky, horn-heavy song named "Rockhard in a Funky Place." It would spend the next 14 months lined up for release on three shelved albums -- and then vanish (legally speaking, anyway) for another seven years.

The song's distinctive horn line was crafted by saxophonist Eric Leeds. "It’s just the melody of a song of mine called ‘Pacemaker,'" he told the Prince Podcast. "Prince wanted this line for 'Rockhard in a Funky Place,' and I think I had it half done. He wanted something that was really out there. So I kind of completed the line for that."

OldFriends4Sale said:

Does anybody know you're here?
This house of ill-repute (Ooohh honey I'm scared of you)
Trying to deal with all your fears
I guess this is what you get for being cute (Cute, cute)

Soaked in banana cologne
No wonder you're all alone
It's written all over your face
You're just-a rock hard in a funky place

Rock hard in a funky place

[Verse 2]
Here comes a lady so you cover up
She's a freaked out
Funky electric mama with double cups
Say you, you could cop if you wanted to
Because something near your leg
Is haunting you, such a disgrace
You're rock hard in a funky place, ow!

[Chorus]
Rock hard in a funky place

[Verse 3]
You was working on the line
You could drop on her
But you couldn't concentrate
When your dick so hard
Maybe if you cop a nut in the car (Maybe if you cop a nut in the car)
Maybe you could think
About playing guitar

(Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock)
(Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock)
Oh yeah

[Chorus]
Rock hard in a funky place

[Vesre 4]
All you're looking for is love
Or a reason to believe there's a God above
Pretty soon you'll get enough
And head back to a life so tough
I just hate to see an erection go to waste
I'm just-a rock hard in a funky place

[Chorus]
Rock hard in a funky place
Say it
Rock hard in a funky place
Rock hard in a funky place
Oohh for rock hard in a funky place
You rock hard in a funky place
Say it, you'all

[Bridge]
(Rock, rock)
What? (rock, rock, rock, rock)
We got to go, y'all
Tune in next week (rock, rock)
Same time (rock, rock)
Same boogie (rock, rock, rock, rock, rock hard)
Oohhh yeah (rock, rock, rock, rock)
We will rock, y'all (rock, rock)

[Outro]
But until then keep your finger on the trigger
That's the only way it'll get bigger
(What kind of fuck ending was that?)

• Prince - all vocals and instruments, except where noted
• Eric Leeds - saxophone (uncredited)
• Atlanta Bliss - trumpet (uncredited)
• Susannah Melvoin - background vocals (uncredited)

The lyric is "but you couldn't concentrate when your dick SAW HER!"

That is all!!!

williamb610 said:

The lyric is "but you couldn't concentrate when your dick SAW HER!"

That is all!!!

LOL..

I always thought the Lyric was

"But you couldnt concentrate coz your dick was so hard"

same same I guess....

Lovejunky said:

williamb610 said:

The lyric is "but you couldn't concentrate when your dick SAW HER!"

That is all!!!

LOL..

I always thought the Lyric was

"But you couldnt concentrate coz your dick was so hard"

same same I guess....

I always thought the same Lovejunky

Lovejunky said:

williamb610 said:

The lyric is "but you couldn't concentrate when your dick SAW HER!"

That is all!!!

LOL..

I always thought the Lyric was

"But you couldnt concentrate coz your dick was so hard"

same same I guess....

Priceless...

I guess I've been wrong this whole time?! I thought the lyrics was "but he couldn't concentrate sitting next to her"...I like y'alls version better!

Lots of handwitten lyrics have hit the market lately, wish this one was out there as well, so we could check the lyrics.

The guitar in this is so filthy and rude!

benjaminira said:

I guess I've been wrong this whole time?! I thought the lyrics was "but he couldn't concentrate sitting next to her"...I like y'alls version better!

There are always parts of songs that seem to be saying something that are different from the lyrics

Like when he yells "Come back Nikki Come back..." what he says after that I have to bend the printed lyrics in my mind to fit what he is screaming on the album

I was just listening to this...that horn line is sick. Love the Black Album, and of course this song. So nasty dirty and wonderful

Thanks for posting that Old Friends...I always thought the line was "dick so hard" too. One of my favorite P guitar solos too.

benjaminira said:

But until then keep your finger on the trigger
That's the only way it'll get bigger

This song is all about the erection LOL

but if he was going thru some" dark times."...how did lovesexy pop up so quick????

luvsexy4all said:

but if he was going thru some" dark times."...how did lovesexy pop up so quick????

lol U better stop startin stuff lol

I think this was Prince at the top of his game. It's a song that sounds so effortless that some might think it throwaway, but it's actually brilliant - It's Prince commanding his talent, band and station at that specific time. It's not artsy-fartsy or too deep (both modes of Prince which I love), but I think it's confident and cool in a uniquely Prince way. It's also funny and funky as fuck, so what more could you ask for?

Just love it and whole heartedly endorse all you have 2 say. Dirty, but dirty funky too - this is pure nasty ass Prince (Camille). It is like he is poking his tongue out at us why he sings it. I ain't going to say anymore as you guys have pretty much said it all.

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Camille may have been scared of Spooky Electric and all that he crawls for, but in reality she was just a bitch ho bitch and a nasty ho as Sheila may put it. Camille is the shit. She/he knew that life wasn't a game of cards motherfucker. Sorry feeling a bit craazzaayyy today.

[Edited 9/11/18 18:18pm]

NouveauDance said:

I think this was Prince at the top of his game. It's a song that sounds so effortless that some might think it throwaway, but it's actually brilliant - It's Prince commanding his talent, band and station at that specific time. It's not artsy-fartsy or too deep (both modes of Prince which I love), but I think it's confident and cool in a uniquely Prince way. It's also funny and funky as fuck, so what more could you ask for?

Any alternate takes or longer version of this song known as exiting/repertoried in the Vault?

NouveauDance said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

I never got into that song, hardly ever played it, contrary to all the others on it.

OldFriends4Sale said:

luvsexy4all said:

but if he was going thru some" dark times."...how did lovesexy pop up so quick????

lol U better stop startin stuff lol

no one else will...

TheFman said:

I never got into that song, hardly ever played it, contrary to all the others on it.

Deserves a re visit...

THe Title is so damn clever...

It can mean two things..

Rocking hard in a funky place

or

you know

Rocking HARD in a FUNKY Place...

luvsexy4all said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

lol U better stop startin stuff lol

no one else will...

He had an epiphany on the night of Dec 1 1987, meeting Ingrid Chavez and then seeing his name spelt out in flowers, and realising if he was 2 die and his soul 2 take, he would be judged by the last thing he left behind, the evil Black Album. He realised Spooky Electric had made Camille create something evil, called the Black Album, Camille started 2 cry, for Spooky Electric was all he crawled for but God, Love and Positivity embolded Camille thru the power of Lovesexy and the Black album was blown away - now Camille had seen the light and the power of Lovesexy. The rain began 2 fall as God helped create a divine masterpiece.

Spooky electric had not been killed, but he was neutralised in the belly of the beast, for Lovesexy is the 1 until his job is done, he crossed over the line.

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Sorry ahd to entertain this guy

[Edited 9/13/18 20:58pm]

luvsexy4all said:

since the blacl album was scheduled to bew released 12/87 ..had he started lovesexy whilst he realized he would shelve TBS?