Telecaster5 said:

that is the point: Since we're bored as hell:

oceanblue said:

Sorry, but "what if" is pointless to me, because I know that the man is gone, and no "what if" or anything else will change the past or bring him back.

OldFriends4Sale said:

that is the point: Since we're bored as hell:

Is it me or has the amount of new threads radically slowed down in the past few months? After Prince died it felt like the whole internet came to the Org to the point that it had become ridiculously overcrowded, and now it feels like there's only a few of us left. IDK, in 17 years I've been here it never looked so calm to me. But that's a perception, IDK if you mods have access to stats of any kind.

databank said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

that is the point: Since we're bored as hell:

Is it me or has the amount of new threads radically slowed down in the past few months? After Prince died it felt like the whole internet came to the Org to the point that it had become ridiculously overcrowded, and now it feels like there's only a few of us left. IDK, in 17 years I've been here it never looked so calm to me. But that's a perception, IDK if you mods have access to stats of any kind.

it feels like the regular swells and low tides.

Maybe people going back to school-children back to school, holidays etc
When the 1983 Piano piece and Duane's book came out there was a lot of posting

the investigation and conspiracy stuff might tire people out

Spring/Summer I tend to be offline more. November-early January I'm not on as much-life to be lived etc

databank said:

Yeah! I want to play. What if Prince's life was fdifferent without Mayte Garcia! I think Prince's music career would not had been fading away if she was not presence.

42Kristen said:

Yeah! I want to play. What if Prince's life was fdifferent without Mayte Garcia! I think Prince's music career would not had been fading away if she was not presence.

That's an interesting one.

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Let's imagine that Mayte's mom didn't give Prince's dancer the tape. No Mayte on the D&P tour. A different version of The Love Symbol Album without the middle eastern flavor or Egyptian princess angle. No mildly successful single with 7. No salary bump for the band or giant wastes of time/money like the NPG Dance Company. Name change and disintegration of the WB relationship probably still would've happened. So let's pretend that Come, The Gold Experience and C&D were relatively unchanged.

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Who knows what Emancipation would've turned into without the marriage to Mayte or her pregnancy. Would Prince have married Nona Gaye and tried to have a baby with her or would she have been kept in the Jill Jones sidechick role? It's hard to imagine the Emancipation era with Nona or some other girl as the muse and them successfully having a child. Would it have slowed him down? Would he still have tried to do projects like Happy Tears? Would there still be a religious awakening without the tragedy and desire to control Mayte? I'd imagine there would still be a divorce or two in his future since he didn't play well with others for long.

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Beyond that, I think his music career wouldn't have been that different. Prince didn't seem to want a protege or wife that was equal to him in talent or life experience. and WB free Prince was still lightyears ahead of the curve and there was no chance of him independently being able stay the superstar he was with no infrastructure around him to push him to the masses.

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Plus no Hypnoparadise

jaypotton said:

Might be wrong but I think Databank was more interested in career rather than life defining things. So I will add some...


What if a Prince had not disbanded The Revolution in 1986?

What if Prince and the Revolution had released Dream Factory (if that ever REALLY existed as a defined project in Prince's mind) in 1987 instead of SOTT?


What if we ignore those and revert to the real 1987 and Prince had toured the USA behind SOTT?

These are the ones I wonder about a lot.

Along with . . .

What if Prince had officially released Camille in 1987?

Apparently there was a pressing of it so it was ready to go. SoTT as we know it wouldn't exist.

databank said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

that is the point: Since we're bored as hell:

Is it me or has the amount of new threads radically slowed down in the past few months? After Prince died it felt like the whole internet came to the Org to the point that it had become ridiculously overcrowded, and now it feels like there's only a few of us left. IDK, in 17 years I've been here it never looked so calm to me. But that's a perception, IDK if you mods have access to stats of any kind.

There is just nothing new happening anymore. The only thing new was a 1983 release of practice session(s). That's it. That's all we got. I fear people are losing interest and they are getting tired of waiting.

Strive said:

42Kristen said:

Yeah! I want to play. What if Prince's life was fdifferent without Mayte Garcia! I think Prince's music career would not had been fading away if she was not presence.

That's an interesting one.

.

Let's imagine that Mayte's mom didn't give Prince's dancer the tape. No Mayte on the D&P tour. A different version of The Love Symbol Album without the middle eastern flavor or Egyptian princess angle. No mildly successful single with 7. No salary bump for the band or giant wastes of time/money like the NPG Dance Company. Name change and disintegration of the WB relationship probably still would've happened. So let's pretend that Come, The Gold Experience and C&D were relatively unchanged.

.

Who knows what Emancipation would've turned into without the marriage to Mayte or her pregnancy. Would Prince have married Nona Gaye and tried to have a baby with her or would she have been kept in the Jill Jones sidechick role? It's hard to imagine the Emancipation era with Nona or some other girl as the muse and them successfully having a child. Would it have slowed him down? Would he still have tried to do projects like Happy Tears? Would there still be a religious awakening without the tragedy and desire to control Mayte? I'd imagine there would still be a divorce or two in his future since he didn't play well with others for long.

.

Beyond that, I think his music career wouldn't have been that different. Prince didn't seem to want a protege or wife that was equal to him in talent or life experience. and WB free Prince was still lightyears ahead of the curve and there was no chance of him independently being able stay the superstar he was with no infrastructure around him to push him to the masses.

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Plus no Hypnoparadise

With the exception of the Egyptian flavor and the belly dancing, I really don't think Mayte was that much of an influence at all - even with the music. She came officially came on the scene in '91, but for the next 4+ years Prince was dating/spending time with many other women/muses/influences - Nona, Carmen, and more I'm sure. Prince was running around and enjoying the single life while Mayte was dancing (really mainly gyrating) on stage with him.

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Even looking at the evolution of the Emancipation album - there were several configurations for that album as far back as July 1995, and the earlier ones did not include songs about his relationship with Mayte - in fact, many were related to lost love or wanting someone back. There were really only a few songs on Disc 2 which were connected to the marriage/baby, and they were all recorded in early 1996.

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Prince really wanted a child, and it is a sad and tragic situation. I'm sure if his child had been healthy and survived he would not have turned so heavily toward religion. I don't think he would have stayed married, but I think he would have tried to be an involved Father. However, I think that would have been difficult, because I don't think he would have slowed down his recording/performing.