KingSausage said:

Please tell me about that AND the Madonna thing. I have never even heard of them.

Yeah, what's up with the letter to Madonna?

stymie said:

The open letter to Madonna was posted a couple of years ago on npgmc.com (or perhaps it was still npgonlineltd.com or even l4oa.com then?) and asked Madonna to join Prince in his fight against WB.
The whole thing was witten in language not much different from the cryptic stuff that now fills npgmc's music news section.

Santa's Claws was an email all clubmembers got, i think it was in year one (i have no memory for these things). We got it around christmas time and I don't think i even fully read the thing, but anyway ... Santa's Claws = Santaclaus ... "christmas is wrong" was basically the message.

Perhaps someone here has both these texts so you can read them (or maybe the org gods can get around to fixing the search )

m3taverse said:

I was in the club in year one and I don't remember the Santa's Claws thing at all.

funkaholic1972 said:

He begged her help in his fight against Warners to get his master tapes back. As the open letter was posted on his website and not send to her directly, I kinda doubt she ever even read it.

Now what's with this Satan Claw? I've never heard about that.

Oh, it got answered while I was typin'.

Locking himself in the dressing room at the Septimo Show.

"Please Mr Prince. Get out"

"No"

"Mr. Almodovar is waiting for you"

"No"

-Over-priced concert tickets.
-The name change, of course (I'm still trying to figure that one out).
-Converting to JW. He should've just studied Buddhism, but that's just my opinion.
-Splitting up with the Revolution.
-Basically, going off the deep end to become a free-Jazz musician.
-Pimping their fams on the NPG site (which is why I'm not a member).
-Shedding his freak-nasty image (which was his initial true essence) for a more clean-cut, wholesome, religious stance.


...but, you know, I don't necessarily think these are stupid moments. I'd rather consider them mistakes than stupid decisions. And if he has to learn the hard way, then let him.

all of these stupid moments and he kept all of us coming back

PANDURITO said:

1) When he made a fool of himself at that James Brown concert in 83, while Michael Jackson showed so much class.
2) When he performed dolphin on david Letterman with Mytae or whatever her name is dancing around with ribbons. Oh yeah at the end of the song he pretends to die and the drummer Michael Bland runs out from behind his drums and drags him off stage.

thedog said:

Yeah. He's so tiny and thin, even Mayte could have dragged him. Why did it have to be Michael Bland?
[This message was edited Wed Sep 17 11:34:06 PDT 2003 by scififilmnerd]

rdhull said:

Right...we're the stupid ones.

stymie said:

I wonder how many thought the things they say were stupid were not stupid at the time.

rdhull said:

I don't know about other folks rd, but I said the name change, the slave thing and the assless pants were stupid when they happened.

I really don't think that any of his artistic choices have been stupid. . .and I like NEWS, dammit.

But yeah, taking his fans to court. . wow. Not so much that in itself, but the fact that he has acted so completely clueless about bootlegging and filesharing. He could have been on top of this yeeaaarrrs ago, but he just doesn't have a progressive attitude about it. Stupid.