How many peole actually own the song Modernaire? You know the song from the purple rain movie, the guy singing it after Andre Cymone left the group...This song always made me laugh when I heard it and I said 2 myself whoever owns this song is the ultimate Prince fan, I gotta give you mad props. I was gonna post the lyrics to the song, but I can't even find it, I'm not so sure who even song it

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[This message was edited Tue Jul 15 5:57:49 PDT 2003 by Mizzunderstood]

there's a song called "modernaire"... and that wuz dez dickerson who sung it, used to play guitar for ol' boy...

"Modernaire"

There is a fan-mix floating around, it is quite badly edited, but there isn't anything else widely circulating.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Oh yeah... I use always sing Mountainer Mountainer I need 2 learn how 2 spell

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

I wonder why dez dickerson ain't credited on purple rain

Mizzunderstood said:

He is credited on the film because his song appears in the film. He's not credited on the album because he isn't on the album.

Wasn't the name of Dez's band Mazerati? (Not sure if that's spelled right).

JASONP32 said:

nope, mazarati had nuffin to do with dez, methinx...

Mazarati had nothing to do with Dez at all,think Brown Mark brought them 2 Prince's attention

Mark Brown was the dude who had connections with Mazarati

isnt that dez i hear on take me with you?
"drive me crazy...drive me all night..."

LouieLaFunk said:

nopers!

Modernaires was the name of Dez's band.The Modernaire album was supposed to be released in the summer of 84 along with Purple Rain,Appolonia 6,& Ice Cream Castles.For "unknown" reasons it never appeared.

Rumor said that Prince and Dez had a falling out and Prince blocked the release.Others said that WB thought the entire project was weak and left it in the can.

Dez lives in Nashville and is a part of the Christian rock scene .People who have talked with him says that he hates Prince.

muleFunk said:

I would hate him to If i was to live a life in obscurity with a bunch of bible thumpers in Nashville. I wonder if he still sports that japanese bandana around his Perm?

sinisterpentatonic said:

i think dez's group was called the Modernaires.

i think the story was-he left prince bcuz of a religious
conversion. he didn't feel right doing the sex tunes p
was doing. p knew this...and surprising didn't "fire dez like he did other guys apparently he respected dez and let him leave-putting wendy in his place.

he gave dez (and wife) a going away present-and helped him
get the Modernaire tang together. my guess is-its in the movie as a concession (favor) to dez.

why it never came out...who knows?

my guess is by the time the movie hit-dez went out on his own and p lost interest in promoting the song.

personally i always liked the tune...the dance everybody in
1st avenue is doing reminds me of what the peeps are
doing in the raspberry berey video!

btw the cd dez put out in the late 90's is alright.

its spiritual-christian ROCK n Roll. dez still can play his
butt off. his message is different now.

second btw...was checking out my old 1981 RITZ tape and
diggin' on dez,andre,p,lisa,fink and bobby...loves this
band! they took no prisoners. looked strange as hell
(p at his most WEIRD LOOKING-leg warmers! but still looking
cool...to me anyway!) they rocked HARD with a new wave funk
edge.
(i'm with handclaps the dirty mind era prince was DA bomb!)

youngca. "we just wanna jam

youngca said:

yeah, s'pretty much it right there...dez became a born-again christian in late '80 or so...


and there's that one guy in the crowd who's totally off-key in doin the dance...he sticks out like a sore thumb!!


reminds me, i have my copy of ritz '81 with me today...

Go find Dez's solo CD, OneMan. Its great guitar rock

Dez should've stuck around they would have probably got along famous these days since Prince is a total religious nut.

When was the last time Dez and Prince met, anyone know?

muleFunk said:

m-funk U could be dead on about your reasons why dez's album
never saw the light of day!
as far as dez hating prince? that's not what i've heard.
he didn't agree with what he was doing musically...but in the interviews i've read with dez (quotes & stuff) he seems
to be the most honest ex-prince person-he's never mean-
spirited about prince-he gives a balanced account of his ex-boss. he has even said he was shocked p put up with him
near the end (he missed rehearsals and generally didn't
give a fuck and prince didn't launch his ass!)

still U could be right.

like i said in my previous post dez's album was alright.
(a funny thing-on the cover of the cd-they refer to him
as prince's former guitarist,which is kinda funny...if he is
"hatin'" on ole boy-why even use your previous ties with
him? ha ha!)

youngca" on da one ya'all...just da sexy people..."

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

handclaps...play dat sucker! i was watchin' it at 1:30 in
the morning last night...the house was quiet - iw as enjoying a night off from work and i wanted to get up and
get down...but i couldn't cuz my other hous-mate was asleep!
"when u play it-you'll wanna DANCE!!!"
"lisa really looked "trashy-cute" at this performance".

youngca..."lights action...