In your opinion what are some of the most amazing feats
(thangs) that prince has ever done?
it can be a particualr song.performance,thing said,anything
that made you say...mannn that's one talented mf!

i'll give a couple of amazing feats:

on the first 4 songs on PARAde. legend sez prince began
the recording session by laying down the drums for all
for songs without any musical backing...he heard the drums
beats in his head...and did this with very few pauses!

(think uall...all 4 of those songs have different tempos...
how in the world can a guy do this feat...going by the music
in his head!)

amazing feat number 2:
during a live performance of DAYS of wild
ole boy has the bass guitar between his legs...and is thumpin da HECK outta dat bass!

i saw this and say...GEToutta here!

those are just 2 thangs that made me say...this dude's BAD!

charles yc..."song of the moment" "girl"

My Uncle claims he saw Prince Live in concert once.

He ran, jumped off of a couch, spinned in the air like a ballerina. Touched ground and broke into a quadruple split, back and forth 4-5 times. He slid back up into stance, only to drop back down again into a split, then he spinned around and did that move where he's jumproping with his own leg! (Like on the lil' red corvette video), spinned back up in a ballerina spin. He then stood there in that Prince stance (High heels, legs spread out, in a bowlegged kinda way, no shirt, sweatin like a offensive lineman, playing in Tampa Bay.)

My Uncle must have told that story to me a hundred times. He always ended it with...

"The Man was BAD Shaun, nobody could touch him performing!"

Now I tell my Uncle stories about his concerts. He's not jumping all over the place anymore, but the MUSIC! Everybody leaves FUNKY! Jus' Stankin!

Blue

during a twelve month period he worked on around eight or nine albums, including two of his own, a couple for Sheila,The Time, and some others.

Watching him jump off those tall ass speakers with those heels on and not bustin his shit.

He got me to join the fuckin' club AGAIN.

TheBluePrince said:

Whew!!! Thanks for the visual>

i think his whole career is amazing.

everything

He got straight guys listening to a man in makeup and heels.

stymie said:

excellent point stymie.
that's one of his most incredible feats!

TheBluePrince said:

exactly. what your uncle say...i seen the same feat.
absolutely incredible.
actually he still does stuff like that every now and then.

4nowneway said:

yep. that dude was prolific back then.
how in the world did he find time to "mess around" with all
of those ladies?

lets see...susan moonsie,jill,susannah,sheila...vanity...
amazing!

stymie said:

not to piss on your chips, but have you ever heard of Elvis, Little Richard, Punk, Sly & The Family Stone...

P did have a lot of androgony (sp), but certainly wasn't the first straight male entertainer to use make-up...

NME said:

agreed.

Hit the high notes with perfect pitch at the ONA concert.

NME said:

yes. you are right. MArc bOLan did it. james brown...early
in his career did.

Avoid the press like he did when he was a superstar..

that was amazing.

not sure is this is true but i heard back in 84, prince had the:
number 1 song - the doves
number 1 album - the rain
number 1 movie - the rain

first artist to ever accomplish this feat...not sure if its been duplicated

Oh, and he had those ribs removed so he could... uh...

That's an accomplishment unsurpassed by many.

to completely alienate the majority of his fan base.

play as many women at he did at a time and not get his ass kicked...that's amaizing

lovebizzare said:

hell yeah!!!

okay, I'll try to get this back on track...

The most amazing thing I heard of was him writing, playing and recording the "Sign Of The Times" track in one day.

CHAOSMAN87 said:

ditto

Would either be Carmen Electra, Vanity, Kim Basinger or Mayte, all the time 5'4"and dressed in lace sporting eye make-up.

Impressive.

lovebizzare said:

kiki...what you said made me crack up-until i realize your
words are dead on! how did he avoid not gettin' KILLED by
all of those girls. the dude is either lucky-or he made the girls love him SO much they could bring themselves to
KICK his little skinny butt!

charles yc..."he must have a wondeful ass-they couldn't
bring themselves to KICK it."

sinisterpentatonic said:

sinisterpentatonic said:

^^^ROFLMAO!

I'm personally still mesmorized from the SOTT video during "Housequake" when he says "I think it's Cat!", runs to where Miko and Levi are, falls on his back and slides himself across the floor only to come up from a split and twirl! Still trying to figure that one out.

Someone told me that they once saw Prince in concert slide down an inclined ramp on his heels without falling! Seems pretty amazing to me.

His ability to constantly reinvent himself yet remain consistently Prince-like. His pure funk energy, and his ability to let us revel in it through his own interpretation of music.