Prince got inducted as a solo artist but If they decide to induct Prince And The Revolution who should be there?

Was Dez part of The Revolution(band name was on the 1999 back cover)?

Would it be Purple Rain band minus Prince?

But if they induct the classic era linup what about the extended Revolution?

Are Eric Leeds and Wally Brooks The Revolution as well?

thebanishedone said:

Prince got inducted as a solo artist but If they decide to induct Prince And The Revolution who should be there?

Was Dez part of The Revolution(band name was on the 1999 back cover)?

Would it be Purple Rain band minus Prince?

But if they induct the classic era linup what about the extended Revolution?

Are Eric Leeds and Wally Brooks The Revolution as well?

My vote is The Revolution with Dez included...as well as Sheila E and Eric Leeds.

The could all perform a medley of:

Controversy/I Want To Be Your Lover/Little Red Corvette/America/Purple Rain.

LoveGalore said:

Something about this feels like a bit of a stretch. Furthermore, The Revolution was also Jill Jones, Miko, Wally, Jerome, Atlanta, etc etc.

i didn't name all the members

but besides Prince ,who else should be in RNR Hall Of Fame if they ever induct the band ,and you never know ,it may happen.E Street got inducted a few years back

No way in hell should the Revolution be inducted separately into the hall of fame. You started a thread on here talking about how overrated Prince is but then you start one considering the hall of fame induction of THE MOST overrated "band" in Prince's history??! Just stop already.

95% of everything you heard came from Prince or his direction. I'm sick of all these barnacles trying to attach themselves to his battleship. It's a joke.

jfenster said:

The time should be there before them

YESSSSSS! ( In my Morris voice)!

jfenster said:

The time should be there before them

I love The Time but The Time is Morris Day and Prince

soladeo1 said:

My vote is The Revolution with Dez included...as well as Sheila E and Eric Leeds.

That's not The Revolution, though. Eric, at most, was in it one year, and not a seminal year for Prince and the Revolution anyway. Dez also wasn't in The Revolution despite the album cover on 1999.

Dez long wanted out by that point. Prince purposely waited to properly introduce The Revolution in the Purple Rain era. He told Dez, "I need you for three years. If you can't be there for that, that's cool. But I need to know now." So a proper Revolutio would be the one we know: Bobby, Matt, Mark, Wendy, and Lisa. Those were the ones who were there for Purple Rain, and made it what it was. Not Vanity, not Sheila, not Eric, not Dez. (Yeah, Dez was in it what - 20 seconds?)

Overall, it's a stretch to induct them. While it was a monumental era for Prince, it was shortlived as a band. It's like trying to induct the New Power Generation, a name he's used exponentially longer. But what version of the NPG would go? What was his most seminal time w/ the NPG? There is no answer to that.

But there is an answer what version of The Revolution should be in RnRHoF: The only one that existed.




If Sheila had enough credit on her own as a solo artists who wrote and produced albums that people remembered and change the landscape of music, she may be considered. But alas...

BalladofPeterParker said:

No way in hell should the Revolution be inducted separately into the hall of fame. You started a thread on here talking about how overrated Prince is but then you start one considering the hall of fame induction of THE MOST overrated "band" in Prince's history??! Just stop already.

95% of everything you heard came from Prince or his direction. I'm sick of all these barnacles trying to attach themselves to his battleship. It's a joke.

thebanishedone said:

jfenster said:

The time should be there before them

I love The Time but The Time is Morris Day and Prince

If you feel that way you never saw them live in their hey day. They were unbelievable on tour. The list of bands in RRHOF that they would destroy on stage in loooooooooong!

lol........ZERO chance of that happening.

If it were close, they would have been in the 1st time around.

BalladofPeterParker said:

jfenster said:

The time should be there before them

YESSSSSS! ( In my Morris voice)!

Ironic you are backing a band who worote little and played little of the music they are known for. Revolution members helped write the first Time album.

lol that no one in the public would think much of this but it'd be Prince fans who will be freaking out with rage. That'd be reason alone for it to happen tbh, which it won't.

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oh lord have mercy lol why on earth would they be inducted?

BalladofPeterParker said:

No way in hell should the Revolution be inducted separately into the hall of fame. You started a thread on here talking about how overrated Prince is but then you start one considering the hall of fame induction of THE MOST overrated "band" in Prince's history??! Just stop already.

95% of everything you heard came from Prince or his direction. I'm sick of all these barnacles trying to attach themselves to his battleship. It's a joke.

ALL OF THIS

BalladofPeterParker said:

thebanishedone said:

I love The Time but The Time is Morris Day and Prince

If you feel that way you never saw them live in their hey day. They were unbelievable on tour. The list of bands in RRHOF that they would destroy on stage in loooooooooong!

Yes they are a BAD (in a good way) band live but let's keep it 100, they are just a live unit. The studio albums are 99% Prince and Morris. So that's like inducting Milli Vanilli

RJOrion said:

no Revolution members should be inducted...at all... i would vomit daily, knowing that Wendy Melvoin is in the RRHOF while Chaka Khan, Pat Benatar and Dionne Warwick arent.

LMAO THIS

No way in hell should the Revolution be inducted separately into the hall of fame. You started a thread on here talking about how overrated Prince is but then you start one considering the hall of fame induction of THE MOST overrated "band" in Prince's history??! Just stop already.

Prince fans hate Prince culture

while Blue Ivy get's an award for a song her parents wrote

stay on topic please

OldFriends4Sale said:

Hell, I don't see why they shouldn't be inducted - it'd give the R&RHOF another excuse to honor Prince and his music, as well as giving props to the band that most people remember him playing with. No, they weren't the be-all end-all of Prince's backing musicians, but some of y'all are way too eager to dismiss their contributions entirely

To the Bansihed Bun:

Bullshit. You DID try to go on and on about all the musicians that are better than Prince on various instruments. That's fine for you to have your opinion but to try and say anyone in the Rev is an all time great and recognized as such is laughable. I'm a huge fan of Matt but I can easily use your tatic and name dozens of players that would "chop his head" to use an old jazz parlance. Bernie Worrel, Herbie Hancock, Kenny Kirkland, Joe Zawinul, Chick Corea would all destroy Matt. Now using that tatic is idiotic but I just want to make the "point" you tried to make in the other thread.

Spare us all with how great the Revolution is and how mediocre you think Prince was. We all know that's bullshit!

OldFriends4Sale said:

Prince fans hate Prince culture

while Blue Ivy get's an award for a song her parents wrote

What's Blue Ivy got to do with this?

mbdtyler said:

Hell, I don't see why they shouldn't be inducted - it'd give the R&RHOF another excuse to honor Prince and his music, as well as giving props to the band that most people remember him playing with. No, they weren't the be-all end-all of Prince's backing musicians, but some of y'all are way too eager to dismiss their contributions entirely

I would love a full recognition of what Prince did, if even just in that time period of 1981-1987 with his vision bands and proteges. That was a marvelous period

thebanishedone said:

Prince got inducted as a solo artist but If they decide to induct Prince And The Revolution who should be there?

Was Dez part of The Revolution(band name was on the 1999 back cover)?

Would it be Purple Rain band minus Prince?

But if they induct the classic era linup what about the extended Revolution?

Are Eric Leeds and Wally Brooks The Revolution as well?

Iof course Prince, but he is no longer with us.

And of course this is coming from a fan of the man and purple culture

Prince the band 1980-1986/87 and the proteges