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Thread started 11/12/03 4:54am

Milty

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Prince's Best Impersonations

what, in your opinion, are Prince's best impersonations according to his four biggest influences:

Jimi Hendrix
James Brown
Sly and The Family Stone.
George Clinton (and all his incarnations)
for me they would be:

Habibi
Sexy MF
Make Your Mama Happy
If I Was Your Girlfriend
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Reply #1 posted 11/12/03 4:57am

SquirrelMeat

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The Work Pt 1. Could almost be a JB track!
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Reply #2 posted 11/12/03 5:08am

Fhunkin

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SquirrelMeat said:

The Work Pt 1. Could almost be a JB track!


Pretty man is even more a JB-track !
Futuristic Fantasy
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Reply #3 posted 11/12/03 6:42am

KeithyT

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I've tried to visualise/sonicise(?) who would sound good doing which songs...

Jimi Hendrix - Joy In Repetition
James Brown - Housequake
Sly and The Family Stone - 1999
George Clinton - Big Fun

shrug
Just somewhere in the middle,
Not too good and not too bad.
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Reply #4 posted 11/12/03 7:05am

lovemachine

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Well obviously Forever In My Life is a Sly-esque track.
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Reply #5 posted 11/12/03 7:46am

softandwet

not to quibble but i think santana is a bigger influence that hendrix, and prince said a similar thing to rolling stone in 85? i think!
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Reply #6 posted 11/12/03 8:36am

Milty

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softandwet said:

not to quibble but i think santana is a bigger influence that hendrix, and prince said a similar thing to rolling stone in 85? i think!


oh stop quibbling
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Reply #7 posted 11/12/03 9:25am

VinnyM27

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While not an influence in the same sense as James or Hendrix, I've heard people say that "Loose!" kind of sounds like something Nine Inch Nails would have done, but with more funk.
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Reply #8 posted 11/12/03 10:44am

ThataintFunky

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Bootsy Collins - Do Me, Baby
James Brown - The Parade Tour & almost every funk-track
Funkadelic - Shockadelica
Jimi Hendrix - no particular song, but Prince stole the image
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Reply #9 posted 11/12/03 10:46am

JDINTERACTIVE

eheheh, his best impersonation is Ozzie Osbourne!

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Reply #10 posted 11/12/03 3:52pm

EverlastingNow

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Santana on I'm Yours.
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Reply #11 posted 11/12/03 4:19pm

NCC2012

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Here I thought this was going to be about voice impersonations, like his Morris Day voice, his Italian voice, his country voice...
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Reply #12 posted 11/12/03 4:22pm

Milty

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NCC2012 said:

Here I thought this was going to be about voice impersonations, like his Morris Day voice, his Italian voice, his country voice...
nuts


heheh
lol
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Reply #13 posted 11/13/03 2:18am

manki

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2songs that´s really Sly Stone-esqe in my ears
R Strange relationship with that pumping
bassline & the singing as well as If I was your
girlfriend
with his upspeeded Camille-voice.
Another 1 is Let´s have a baby,not the song
but the way he sings I´ll B right by your schide.
That sounds like something Sly would say it like.
/peace Manki
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Reply #14 posted 11/15/03 10:33pm

4nowneway

"Ozzy Osburn"
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Reply #15 posted 11/16/03 12:04am

Jasziah

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Make Your Mama Happy / lots of others -- Sly Stone
The Work Part 1 / Prettyman -- James Brown
Condition of the Heart / Power Fantastic -- Joni Mitchell
Erotic City / Joint to Joint / The War -- Funkadelic
Damned If I Do (last half) / Sensual Everafter -- Santana
The Good Life (remix) -- Cameo
La, La, La, He, He, Hee -- George Clinton
Get Wild -- Bootsy Collins
Feel U Up -- Jesse Johnson
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Reply #16 posted 11/16/03 1:50am

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Fhunkin said:

SquirrelMeat said:

The Work Pt 1. Could almost be a JB track!


Pretty man is even more a JB-track !


Amen! nod nod nod
"A united state of mind will never be divided
The real definition of unity is 1
People can slam their door, disagree and fight it
But how U gonna love the Father but not love the Son?
United States of Division"
gigglebowfroguitar
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Reply #17 posted 11/16/03 5:48am

lonelyxmas1

JDINTERACTIVE said:

eheheh, his best impersonation is Ozzie Osbourne!

giggle


I also thought by the title of the thread, this is cool, Prince impressions, as he has done a couple. I personally get a kick out of his Bela Lugosi impression near the start of Under the Cherry Moon movie. Ozzy is well done to. I read he grew up on the streets of Minny doing impersonations of Mad Dog Vachon, an old AWA wrestler. I'm sure this would take the cake. An other impersonations or impressions anyone knows of?
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Reply #18 posted 11/16/03 5:55am

IstenSzek

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Scarlet Pussy reminds me most of George Clinton
and true love lives on lollipops and crisps
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Reply #19 posted 11/16/03 6:23am

Marrk

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Don't blow me away, but i see a fair bit of Mick Jagger in Prince.
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Reply #20 posted 11/16/03 6:44am

deMatthijs

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Marrk said:

Don't blow me away, but i see a fair bit of Mick Jagger in Prince.


Must be the libido wink
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