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Gregory looks just like a ghost and then a beautiful girl the most.... Who the heck is Gregory anyway??? *~* +*+ *?*
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This line has intrigued me all these years and I have never been able to interpret it.
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he better not be singing about the dude with the Davey Crocket hat -------------------------------------------------
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Moderator | SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said: This line has intrigued me all these years and I have never been able to interpret it.
Anybody???... I don't know where I got this but I always thought it meant his guardian angel/spirtual guide. But I maybe completely wrong. In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. |
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I always took it to be an angel, especially since Lovesexy came from a dream after the Black Album was created.
Of course, another oddity about this is that Prince named the child that died Gregory (perhaps on purpose knowing that he was soon to be an angel). | |
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Well some people have said that Anna Stesia was partly about Prince's negative experience of drugs. Dunno if that is true but I took the "gregory" line to describe a bad trip, hallucinations or revelations or whatever...
Wasn't there a guy in the band called Greg at the time anyway? Or did I dream it? | |
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Moderator | jsb23nc said: I always took it to be an angel, especially since Lovesexy came from a dream after the Black Album was created.
Of course, another oddity about this is that Prince named the child that died Gregory (perhaps on purpose knowing that he was soon to be an angel). In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. |
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ian said: Well some people have said that Anna Stesia was partly about Prince's negative experience of drugs. Dunno if that is true but I took the "gregory" line to describe a bad trip, hallucinations or revelations or whatever...
Wasn't there a guy in the band called Greg at the time anyway? Or did I dream it? yes the guy in the funny hat was Greg Brooks and he had just left the band right before the Lovesexy era was in effect... -------------------------------------------------
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heard it was Gregory (yes, with the Daniel Boone hat). had heard that it was suppose 2 paint a picture of Gregory doing cocaine. U know, white powder on his face. Gregory looks like a ghost. The Beautiful girl, heard is suppose 2 B Ingrid Chavez.
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http://www.prince.org/msg...7&tid=3330
i think this thread posted a while ago by miabocca answers all the questions about the song. major love 2 mia 4 posting this thread...one of the greats ***************************************************************************************
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Joshy84au said: http://www.prince.org/msg/thread.html?fid=7&tid=3330
i think this thread posted a while ago by miabocca answers all the questions about the song. major love 2 mia 4 posting this thread...one of the greats Da Org sez: "Thread missing or not yet approved Sorry, the requested thread doesn't seem to be available." Care to summarize or cut-n-paste? | |
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Gregory was one of Prince's alter-egos wasn't he? I thought perhaps he was referring to his own image? The beautiful girl was Ingrid Chavez, of course.
Shame that Mia's thread is gone - that summed it all up. | |
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pejman said: ian said: Well some people have said that Anna Stesia was partly about Prince's negative experience of drugs. Dunno if that is true but I took the "gregory" line to describe a bad trip, hallucinations or revelations or whatever...
Wasn't there a guy in the band called Greg at the time anyway? Or did I dream it? yes the guy in the funny hat was Greg Brooks and he had just left the band right before the Lovesexy era was in effect... Yup. Sometimes the most obvious answer is the right one. Gregory = Greg, most likely. | |
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ian said: pejman said: ian said: Well some people have said that Anna Stesia was partly about Prince's negative experience of drugs. Dunno if that is true but I took the "gregory" line to describe a bad trip, hallucinations or revelations or whatever...
Wasn't there a guy in the band called Greg at the time anyway? Or did I dream it? yes the guy in the funny hat was Greg Brooks and he had just left the band right before the Lovesexy era was in effect... Yup. Sometimes the most obvious answer is the right one. Gregory = Greg, most likely. Except Greg Brooks gets called "brother Brooks" in 'Superfunkycalifragisexy'... . "You don't frighten us, English pig dogs. Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person." | |
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It's supposed to be about a real party Prince was at.
Gregory is Greg Brooks, the girl is Ingred Chevez. They were all pretty fucked, Greg looked pale, either because he'd taken too much drink or drugs, or both, or Prince had ! Ingred pointed out that his music was pretty dark and he needed to cheer up a bit, at the time he'd just recorded the Black album. Prince looked around, decided he needed a change of lifestyle, thus Lovesexy and the cancelation of the Black album. Ta Da ! | |
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giotto said: ian said: pejman said: ian said: Well some people have said that Anna Stesia was partly about Prince's negative experience of drugs. Dunno if that is true but I took the "gregory" line to describe a bad trip, hallucinations or revelations or whatever...
Wasn't there a guy in the band called Greg at the time anyway? Or did I dream it? yes the guy in the funny hat was Greg Brooks and he had just left the band right before the Lovesexy era was in effect... Yup. Sometimes the most obvious answer is the right one. Gregory = Greg, most likely. Except Greg Brooks gets called "brother Brooks" in 'Superfunkycalifragisexy'... . What's that got to do with it ... | |
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james said: It's supposed to be about a real party Prince was at.
Gregory is Greg Brooks, the girl is Ingred Chevez. They were all pretty fucked, Greg looked pale, either because he'd taken too much drink or drugs, or both, or Prince had ! Ingred pointed out that his music was pretty dark and he needed to cheer up a bit, at the time he'd just recorded the Black album. Prince looked around, decided he needed a change of lifestyle, thus Lovesexy and the cancelation of the Black album. Ta Da ! Best answer so far! | |
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james said: Ingred pointed out that his music was pretty dark and he needed to cheer up a bit, at the time he'd just recorded the Black album.
Yeah, Ingrid was supposed to have said that if Prince smiled more he'd be a really nice person, or something like that which could explain the line "We could live for a little while if you can just learn to smile". [This message was edited Tue Jun 3 8:32:05 PDT 2003 by ConsciousContact] | |
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james said: It's supposed to be about a real party Prince was at.
Gregory is Greg Brooks, the girl is Ingred Chevez. They were all pretty fucked, Greg looked pale, either because he'd taken too much drink or drugs, or both, or Prince had ! Ingred pointed out that his music was pretty dark and he needed to cheer up a bit, at the time he'd just recorded the Black album. Prince looked around, decided he needed a change of lifestyle, thus Lovesexy and the cancelation of the Black album. Ta Da ! I'll settle for this convincing scenario . "You don't frighten us, English pig dogs. Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person." | |
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giotto said: james said: It's supposed to be about a real party Prince was at.
Gregory is Greg Brooks, the girl is Ingred Chevez. They were all pretty fucked, Greg looked pale, either because he'd taken too much drink or drugs, or both, or Prince had ! Ingred pointed out that his music was pretty dark and he needed to cheer up a bit, at the time he'd just recorded the Black album. Prince looked around, decided he needed a change of lifestyle, thus Lovesexy and the cancelation of the Black album. Ta Da ! I'll settle for this convincing scenario . ina nutshell,thats basically it yep. P messed up,greg looks weird 2 him. & then the rest as said. ***************************************************************************************
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Greg is also one half of the object of the lines:
"The sun set in my heart this afternoon 4 2 friends of mine got stuck in the snow In Uptown when winter's alarmin', oh Cocaine becomes charmin'" from the original "Old Friends 4 Sale" | |
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jerseykrs said: Greg is also one half of the object of the lines:
"The sun set in my heart this afternoon 4 2 friends of mine got stuck in the snow In Uptown when winter's alarmin', oh Cocaine becomes charmin'" from the original "Old Friends 4 Sale" I don't think that's Greg Brooks since he was still around a couple of years after that was recorded. I think the cocaine reference refers to Vanity and Morris (if not more people) and the stuck in the snow is Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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