OldFriends4Sale said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

kindofblue said:

TheTruth123 said:

violetcrush said:

poppys said:

80tomato said:

Found this on the internet as being part of the original Purple Rain script

Provide an actual source - sounds like (really terrible) fan fiction. Man, this thread's gone downhill fast.

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H Poppy...I agree it reads like fan fiction ...It is from a post on LSA from May 2016 ....I checked back to see if there was a source cited but there was none .I did feel it was significant because it mentions the stroking of his cheek and the earrng scenario which he mentions in his book published 3 years later

80tomato said:

poppys said:

Provide an actual source - sounds like (really terrible) fan fiction. Man, this thread's gone downhill fast.

H Poppy...I agree it reads like fan fiction ...It is from a post on LSA from May 2016 ....I checked back to see if there was a source cited but there was none .I did feel it was significant because it mentions the stroking of his cheek and the earrng scenario which he mentions in his book published 3 years later

It's fan fiction. You can tell by the writing. Prince didn't write that for Purple Rain, lmao That's also why you have no source except Lipstick Alley.

It is not significant to anything except someone took something Prince wrote and riffed off of it. Nothing to do with The Beautiful Ones book either.

TheTruth123 said:

TheTruth123 said:

TheTruth123 said:

Prince was writing this memoir to help us. One lesson he was trying to give us was to “Respect Yourself”.

And create your life. There is a quote that i love, I'll repost it

TheTruth123 said:

I was thinking this morning about why it is that so many of us felt a huge loss when Prince passed, even though we did not follow him in recent years. I think there are several reasons, but a big one is that he never blamed anyone. Yes, during his life he had relationship problems as we all do, but in essence, he never blamed anyone for the state of his life today. That is a remarkable quality, and I think deep in our hearts most of us want that and admire it. [Edited 11/4/19 6:19am]

I followed him right up to the end.

But he did blame WB for some hefty things of his career.
He did put some 'blame' in the wrong places here in there, why certain movies flopped and some other things.

violetcrush said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

A lot of times keeping stuff can mean, you want to see what you were like when you were younger, how much you changed, stayed the same. Or a reminder of what the times were like.

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It is interesting looking at things I have still from my pre teen/teen years. I have a drawing-journal of things. I draw his symbol back in the 90s when he announced it. I designed my own.

I think he was sentimental and nostalgic about his life even though he claimed mot to be. The whole “what’s in the past is past and I never look back” spiel was a facade. He looked back in his music and by keeping all of his mementos. I’m sure it was also to gauge where he was at certain times and how he’d changed. In that way like most people - holding on to memories and items to mark periods in time.

Yes

Even when it comes down the 'the Vault' music.
Even if he never listened to the majority of it, he sure did keep it.

And if he didn't want anyone to hear it, he would have destroyed it.

OldFriends4Sale said:

Yes

Even when it comes down the 'the Vault' music.
Even if he never listened to the majority of it, he sure did keep it.

And if he didn't want anyone to hear it, he would have destroyed it.

This is what I say to anyone who says he didn't want anyone to hear the vault stuff. It's so damn obvious though, I'm not sure why anyone who's been around should have to be told this. He even said in an interview that he wouldn't release it but somebody would....that says to me it was his plan for it to play out that way.

Mumio said:

Mumio said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Yes

Even when it comes down the 'the Vault' music.
Even if he never listened to the majority of it, he sure did keep it.

And if he didn't want anyone to hear it, he would have destroyed it.

This is what I say to anyone who says he didn't want anyone to hear the vault stuff. It's so damn obvious though, I'm not sure why anyone who's been around should have to be told this. He even said in an interview that he wouldn't release it but somebody would....that says to me it was his plan for it to play out that way.

Yep. And let's not forget this quote:


"Are there full unreleased albums?

Yeah, I like time capsule stuff. I have a couple Revolution albums in the vault and two Time albums, one Vanity 6 album … and tons of stuff recorded in different periods. But so much gets recorded that you don’t have time to compile everything. In the future you could put all the best stuff from one particular time period together and then you can release it. It’d just be like if we found a Sly and the Family Stone album and they saved their best stuff. If that’s even possible!"

Not only did he want it heard, he left an instruction on how he would like it released.


https://www.rollingstone....ne-227347/

SchlomoThaHomo said:

Mumio said:

This is what I say to anyone who says he didn't want anyone to hear the vault stuff. It's so damn obvious though, I'm not sure why anyone who's been around should have to be told this. He even said in an interview that he wouldn't release it but somebody would....that says to me it was his plan for it to play out that way.

Yep. And let's not forget this quote:


"Are there full unreleased albums?

Yeah, I like time capsule stuff. I have a couple Revolution albums in the vault and two Time albums, one Vanity 6 album … and tons of stuff recorded in different periods. But so much gets recorded that you don’t have time to compile everything. In the future you could put all the best stuff from one particular time period together and then you can release it. It’d just be like if we found a Sly and the Family Stone album and they saved their best stuff. If that’s even possible!"

Not only did he want it heard, he left an instruction on how he would like it released.


https://www.rollingstone....ne-227347/

Thanks so much for that! I'd seen it before but could not remember where it was....now I can add that too

Are there people who don't think what's in the vault should be released since he passed? Before he died was a different situation. It was his material to do what he wanted with when he was alive.

I went to the book release party at Paisley Park Friday. They had tables set up in the soundstage. Andrea Swensson from the Current interviewed Dan on the stage. She covered various topics throughout the book. It lasted about a 1/2 hour. After that was the dance party. Some people hung out in the soundstage and others in the L4OA/NPGMC room to dance. They gave us different colored wrist bands when we first got there. Throughout the rest of the night they called the different groups to go to Studio B control room, where we were met by Bobby Z. They played 2 tracks from the forthcoming 1999 release and Bobby gaved us a short talk about each song before they played it. Our group heard Do Me, Baby live and Possessed. All the groups took a photo with Bobby. Tyka and Sharon were there.

darkroman said:

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motherfunka said:

motherfunka said:

TheTruth123 said:

I have always noticed that prince had very strong forearms and wide wrists for his size. Did anybody notice that his mother also has larger wrists? This is noticeable in the photo of her standing by his crib. Yes, I notice details!

I need some clarification please, re: Prince's High School?

Does anyone know when Prince transferred to the Southside High School? Ninth grade?

It was likely so that he could live with his Aunt Olivia?

-Did he stay and graduate from that school?

I thought Kim Upsher was a big crush; was she a Northside student?

Trying to get a more accurate sense of his whereabouts during that time.

Thanks for any help!

motherfunka said:

I went to the book release party at Paisley Park Friday. They had tables set up in the soundstage. Andrea Swensson from the Current interviewed Dan on the stage. She covered various topics throughout the book. It lasted about a 1/2 hour. After that was the dance party. Some people hung out in the soundstage and others in the L4OA/NPGMC room to dance. They gave us different colored wrist bands when we first got there.

Throughout the rest of the night they called the different groups to go to Studio B control room, where we were met by Bobby Z. They played 2 tracks from the forthcoming 1999 release and Bobby gaved us a short talk about each song before they played it. Our group heard Do Me, Baby live and Possessed. All the groups took a photo with Bobby. Tyka and Sharon were there.

Many thanks for posting about the book release party. Breath of fresh air!

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motherfunka said:

I went to the book release party at Paisley Park Friday. They had tables set up in the soundstage. Andrea Swensson from the Current interviewed Dan on the stage. She covered various topics throughout the book. It lasted about a 1/2 hour. After that was the dance party. Some people hung out in the soundstage and others in the L4OA/NPGMC room to dance. They gave us different colored wrist bands when we first got there. Throughout the rest of the night they called the different groups to go to Studio B control room, where we were met by Bobby Z. They played 2 tracks from the forthcoming 1999 release and Bobby gaved us a short talk about each song before they played it. Our group heard Do Me, Baby live and Possessed. All the groups took a photo with Bobby. Tyka and Sharon were there.

Awesome you were able to attend a once in a lifetime experience.
What did Bobby tell you about each song?

TheTruth123 said: