I wish people would STOP bringing up the clothes on backwards. Prince(r.i.p.) routinely wore his clothes backwards purposely. It had NOTHING to do with his state of mind or someone dressing him. "That mountain top situation is not really what it's all cracked up 2 B when was doing the Purple Rain tour had a lot of people who knew 'll never c again @ the concerts.just screamin n places they thought they was suppose 2 scream." | |
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Why hasn't the estate released any of his latest material from the vault? 2014-2016? Maybe they're just focusing on the 80s, but what if there's something in the vault more revealing than say "Way Back Home" or the last words on his last album? We all know Prince would always re-write songs that were too revealing. I bet there's original lyrics to 'Way Back Home' either recorded or written down somewhere. | |
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Prince dying alone makes me sad. I wonder if there was anyone in his life he could truly trust before he died. "I want to be the only one you come for...." | |
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Fan fiction. | |
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All fair assessments, I think! . I also think it plays into whatever struggle, internally, a person may have when facing down the things Prince was facing down in his waning years. . I'll say that during the period where Prince was releasing no albums (2011-2013), it was quite shocking to me. Sure, he was putting out those internet singles or whatever, but this is a man who really always had something to say. And then he followed up LotusFlower, which to me was a huge and epic statement, with a very muted record in 20TEN and then just disappeared. . When he came back to the spotlight with AOA and PE, the focus still wasn't on him. It was on Joshua Welton, 3EG, Lizzo, etc. Then he threw a bunch of weight behind Andy Allo, Judith Hill, and his bands, etc. Something was just way off ever since the hip surgery and I almost feel like he had come to the point where he had worked on himself so much that he had said what he wanted to say with LotusFlower and by the time 2016 rolls around (7 years later, for the numerologists out there), he's talking about being done and having reached the mountain top. | |
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Enjoying both of your musings.
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My comments were speculation, not fact. I do not believe that the food in the dinnette was addressed in the investigative files. Photo 16-0709_0001__469-SLB_DSC_0293 from the folder 16-079 Wiorking Copies, Request 0001, Electronic records 2 is the food the chef prepared for Prince in the refrigerator. | |
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No no. I'm referring to CB's statement that Prince liked wearing his clothes backwards as fan fiction. | |
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Ask Judith. "That mountain top situation is not really what it's all cracked up 2 B when was doing the Purple Rain tour had a lot of people who knew 'll never c again @ the concerts.just screamin n places they thought they was suppose 2 scream." | |
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Give me her phone number and I will, miss thing. | |
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If I recall, the food in the dinette was not addressed. Just odd considering the chef allegedly prepared food for P and it was untouched. After visiting Dr. S I wonder if P didn't trust the chef and was going to attempt and eat the other food left in the dinette?!? [Edited 1/7/20 12:33pm] | |
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"That mountain top situation is not really what it's all cracked up 2 B when was doing the Purple Rain tour had a lot of people who knew 'll never c again @ the concerts.just screamin n places they thought they was suppose 2 scream." | |
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For some reason, nobody has yet mentioned the acyclovir he took to treat his rash. At least, I haven't seen any mention of it here, maybe I missed it. I read it in the police files a few years back, screenshot of a cellphone.
I am not sure of the right English word, but I think the disease is called shingles (gordelroos in Dutch). It is very painfull, excruciatingly painfull. I know some one who takes fentanyl to kill that aweful pain, so it figures that also Prince took the stuff, legit or not.
And shingles can be a secundary disease when ones immune system took a hit from cancer treatment. So it isn't that far fetched to assume that he had cancer of some sorts, probably some aggressive form of leukemia. It would explain the weightloss in the last couple of years. As mentioned before, he was very skinny the last year, compared to tour pictures from 2010 when he still had muscles. Of course, this is still speculation, but it is an educated guess.
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Of course, P was known for album release sequences that countered expectations with huge contrasts. Also, Lotusflo3er's companion releases presented plenty of immediate contrast, as well as focus on another (Bria Valente).
Back to 20TEN, gotta give props to an album that closes out with "here come the purple Yoda." [Edited 1/7/20 13:58pm] | |
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Very possible. On a seperate note, I found these guideline interesting an interesting read:
https://www.health.state.mn.us/communities/opioids/data/deathreporting.html | |
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i really think it was simply that he did not feel well and did not have an appetite. He was anxious, 'antsy' and in withdrawal. [Edited 1/7/20 20:15pm] | |
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i really think it was simply that he did not feel well and did not have an appetite. He was anxious, 'antsy' and in withdrawal. [Edited 1/7/20 20:15pm] Completely agree. Prince already had a habit of being kinda "meh" about food for most of his life anyway. | |
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Of course, P was known for album release sequences that countered expectations with huge contrasts. Also, Lotusflo3er's companion releases presented plenty of immediate contrast, as well as focus on another (Bria Valente).
Back to 20TEN, gotta give props to an album that closes out with "here come the purple Yoda." [Edited 1/7/20 13:58pm] I'll say that although I am not a big fan of a good half of 20TEN, it includes one of the best Prince songs I've ever heard in my life. Future Soul Song. It pours from my speakers like honey and feels like one of his most honest songs ever. Very much a cousin to songs like Way Back Home and Reflection. I think when I listen to that song and then listen to stuff on AoA/HnR, it becomes very clear there was a dramatic shift in the man. I actually remember listening to AOA for the first time and being extremely disappointed. It just didn't sound like him at all and after so many years, it was a real letdown. It wasn't until HnR2 that I heard the Prince I loved again. In retrospect, it makes more sense to me now. I think it was more than just someone else being in charge of production that made the record sound off kilter. I think it was his entire disposition. I think you could hear whispers of this downturn in songs like Lavaux - a song where he outright says being in America depresses him. The message in that song and FSS are very clear to me. "Whatever path I choose will lead me home" and then by the time AOA comes out, he sounds very disenchanted and realizes that no, not any path will lead you home at all. And now he's even more lost than before. I think that's why he was doing the projects he was doing. Always wanted a girl band. Always wanted to do a piano tour. Writing a book and reminiscing (I think someone put it really well that he actually got all the pure good and fun stuff out of the way and everything left was music business era stuff of varying weirdness). He was bored, tired, and searching more than he ever had been. With all that known, his last 7 days do not seem so confusing, though they do remain quite sad. We're all strangers here, but even the most critical orger, at the end of the day, loved prince. [Edited 1/7/20 22:23pm] | |
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People can get shingles at anytime, you don't have to have or had cancer for shingles to appear. It is the chicken pox virus that stays within our systems. Back in the 60's and early 70's they didn't have the chicken pox vaccine that they do now to immunize our children. Most of us had the real deal chicken pox when we were young. Yes, shingles are very painful.
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Don't have time now, but I seem to recollect that both Clindamycin and possibly Acyclovir were ordered for either Kirk of one of his cousins or some such thing. It was not for Prince. Or...
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I agree, I thought the Acyclovir was prescribed for Kirk. But given how things were prescribed for Kirk that were actually for Prince, who knows. But I believe you can take that for a cold sore as well. Wasn't that medicine found in the garbage can at PP? Trust me, if you had shingles, you would make sure you took that medicine as soon as possible. | |
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Agree. Acyclovir is used for viral conditions such as Shingles, Herpes 1 & 2. Usually the result of a stressed immune system. Interesting post. Hmm
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I'm listening to a lot of other celebrity interviews regarding different things they go through mostly health and dependency issues. It seems like in this time more are willing to open up about these things. I've gotten a lot of insight there because they live similar lives with the same demands, same thought patterns even similar egos. It's not all clinical but personal experiences. Time keeps on slipping into the future...
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I can see that and agree with you. | |
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Would that I could exercise restraint but it's wild and windy out. The moon is gonna shine like a spoon. Kick your shoes off. We've had snow squalls and sunshine and who knows what's next. Appears to have affected my mood such that I'm posting to this thread, which I'd determined to leave to the knowledgable. Anyway. I had to take clindamycin once. Nasty piece of work. I had an infection in my jaw, which, you know, is near some important organs, e.g. the brain. There's one prominent nerve in the jaw, the mandibular branch. Nerve-nervous system-brain... stuff. Infections in bone are difficult to treat... low blood flow being the reason? I was prescribed clindamycin. Antibiotics don't have any effect on viruses. Wikipedia says of clindamycin, "It increases the risk of hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile colitis about fourfold and thus is only recommended when other antibiotics are not appropriate." A doctor-relative impressed the fear in me that my infection could be dangerous, so I determined that, hell-or-highwater, I was going to take the whole course of the antibiotic. By day 2, I was experiencing diarrhea. Never mind. I'm doing this. Day 4 or so, I finally informed my dentist and was told to discontinue the antibiotic immediately. 6 months later, yep, I still had diarrhea and not just average, run-of-the-mill but completely uncontrollable. Apparently, from my desperate internet searches at the time, that's not an uncommon side-effect for this antibiotic. Actually, just the other day, a friend reminded me that I looked skeletal. I couldn't absorb much nutrition at all. Very gradually, I recovered. | |
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Clindamycin is the worst... I doubt Prince had cdiff though as I believe enemas were found in his things.
I was looking at a string of pictures from Dr S's phone between him and Kirk. I thought Kirk asked 'do I take just 1 or do I take all 3'. I believe that Dr S said to take the 1 for the 'rash' or something like that. However that text was at 9:00 in the morning the day before Prince died (Wednesday), and I didn't think Prince had seen Dr. S before that afternoon (well I think he did earlier in April). So its kinda confusing. And, is it Kirk texting or Prince using Kirk's phone? Regardless, the Valacyclovir appears to be for a rash. I don't remember reading about a rash at all on Prince, but they obviously didn't disclose all his medical findings. [Edited 1/8/20 15:01pm] [Edited 1/8/20 17:07pm] | |
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So many twists and turns that each finding needs to examined 8 different ways with lots of discussion as well. | |
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That is my sense, but obviously? | |
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