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New Prince book by Benoît Clerc Anyone familiar with this author or his book? It's titled: "Prince: All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track". I'm wondering is this guy is credible? | |
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Great plug on the book. It looks sickkk! I just preordered one. Thannk you! | |
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Yeah I have it. 60 Euro's. Not worth bying. There are books like that about Bowie and many others (written by him too i believe). Just another shit book. Lay out is shit. Its fucking heavy. Was dissapointed when i opened it. Expected a bit more insight. Every short info with every song is something we don't need. Most fans know what the song is like and honestly i expected something completely different than just a discription of the song, instruments, how good or bad he thinks it is. Although he never thing it's bad, so even worse. [Edited 11/7/22 1:22am] "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts" (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972) | |
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This book is just a shove-out by Benoit Clerc who has also created similar fanbooks like: Welcome to "the org", laytonian… come bathe with me. | |
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Ha! That is funny about People magazine
But I disagree with you guys. Most people aren't sick deranged fans like us and don't know most of the info in this book. I didn't know, for example, that Prince kicked studio execs out of the studio when they suggested he add a bass ine to "Crazy You." I like the lay-out too. I'm a fan of the book... just my 2 cents | |
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Spirituality said:
Ha! That is funny about People magazine
But I disagree with you guys. Most people aren't sick deranged fans like us and don't know most of the info in this book. I didn't know, for example, that Prince kicked studio execs out of the studio when they suggested he add a bass ine to "Crazy You." I like the lay-out too. I'm a fan of the book... just my 2 cents You didn't know THAT? It's well-known and in many sources, including, I believe, Husney's book. Welcome to "the org", laytonian… come bathe with me. | |
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He was fervently anti-bassline in the first part of his career. Then when he'd use it he'd often play the lines higher up in the frets and mix it with the treble higher than the actual bass frequencies... YouTube reactors are always like "what is that instrument?" on basslines like "If I Was Your Girlfriend" or "Pop Life" because they were so trebely/higher up in the frets than the way basslines are traditionally used. https://youtu.be/FETPaGyPNKI?t=163
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It's a good book for people who are interested in Prince. It's going to be bashed by Superfans who already know and are familiar with Nielsen's and Duane's work. | |
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It's a good book for people who are interested in Prince. It's going to be bashed by Superfans who already know and are familiar with Nielsen's and Duane's work. | |
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laytonian said: Spirituality said:
Ha! That is funny about People magazine
But I disagree with you guys. Most people aren't sick deranged fans like us and don't know most of the info in this book. I didn't know, for example, that Prince kicked studio execs out of the studio when they suggested he add a bass ine to "Crazy You." I like the lay-out too. I'm a fan of the book... just my 2 cents You didn't know THAT? It's well-known and in many sources, including, I believe, Husney's book. Haha, some people need to lighten up! I'm glad I've got this book. I see it as a great resource for future generations to have access to a career and talent that would otherwise seem incomprehensibly complex. Snooty attitudes to what people do, or do not know tend to put others off learning about things. | |
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This book arrived at my door in October, I knew absolutely nothing about it. I have a friend who work in publishing and knows that I am a huge Prince fan. Even though I’m the kind of fan who wants everything I can get on cd and vinyl when possible (if needed even on cassette or digital if only format available), books of this nature wouldn’t be something I would have purchased myself at the cover price. That said, I have really enjoyed flipping through the book, remembering songs I might have forgotten about for a bit. There are many songs that Prince wrote for others unmentioned in the book, though there are a few listed that I am completely unfamiliar with. My favorite thing about the book is that anyone who comes over, they pick it up from my coffee table and with an astonished look they start peeking around that 600+ page tome. I tell them to let me know if something sounds interesting and I can most likely queue it up next to listen to.
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Espio said: This book arrived at my door in October, I knew absolutely nothing about it. I have a friend who work in publishing and knows that I am a huge Prince fan. Even though I’m the kind of fan who wants everything I can get on cd and vinyl when possible (if needed even on cassette or digital if only format available), books of this nature wouldn’t be something I would have purchased myself at the cover price. That said, I have really enjoyed flipping through the book, remembering songs I might have forgotten about for a bit. There are many songs that Prince wrote for others unmentioned in the book, though there are a few listed that I am completely unfamiliar with. My favorite thing about the book is that anyone who comes over, they pick it up from my coffee table and with an astonished look they start peeking around that 600+ page tome. I tell them to let me know if something sounds interesting and I can most likely queue it up next to listen to.
That’s what I’m saying Espio!! Almost I’ve had over flips the pages. It really is a nice coffee table piece, | |
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I went to a Barnes & Noble for the first time in ages yesterday. It's sad. The music section is tiny. They don't even group all the Prince books together, since there's only a couple of them. I did see a different all-songs book by Clerc, I forget which, but not Prince. I thought I would pick up the Hornby book, but it was $28 and looked about three pamphlets long. Not even any discount on it. I'll wait for the paperback. (I did buy the new Stephen King because it was 50% off.) | |
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