Assortment of big names in music offer their praise for Prince
Contributed by Glamslam on Thursday, March 18 @ 17:38:20 CST
Topic: General News
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An assortment of big names in music offer their praise for Prince:

Missy Elliott: Prince is a genius. He's opened so many outlets, not just R&B music. He has taken it somewhere else. Sometimes you get people that's so much of a genius that they become far ahead of people. That's the type of person he is. I can't even explain it, but it's a good thing.

Joe Perry of Aerosmith: His name was on my ballot. He's an art form unto himself. He's an amazing talent. He stands up for what he believes in and makes no bones about it. He kept creating in spite of the industry. Fortunately, he was commercially successful in the beginning to support his habit.

Al Green: His contributions have been tremendous. He's a super artist. To me, Prince don't have as many blemishes as a lot of other super-superstars with these different elements that they get themselves into. Prince has got a space in here and it's just for him and can't nobody take it. Just like you can't take the Four Tops' space, you can't take Al's space, you can't take Aretha's space, Prince has got a piece of this puzzle.

Joan Osborne (whose hit "One of Us" was covered by Prince): I think he's a genius. I've seen him in concert a number of times and he's probably the only one who can lay claim to carrying on the mantle that people like James Brown and Sly Stone kind of raised up as live performers. He's the only guy who can claim to be that next generation of that kind of incredible performer. I've never seen anything like it. He's so talented. It's like he's living on some other planet of talent from the rest of us.

I can see how someone with his talent and his ability to generate as much material as he does could be frustrated. It's nice to see somebody take on those big corporate entities and stand up for himself and try to come up with a different paradigm and a different model for how music can be made, distributed and enjoyed. Because we certainly need that now.

Lars Ulrich of Metallica: I've always had a tremendous amount of respect for Prince first and foremost because he challenges the status quo. Anyone who plays by his own rules, that's great. I relate to his individuality. He's not part of a scheme, not part of a wave, not part of a fashion, not part of a trend. He's his own damn thing. That's absolutely cool.

Terry Lewis: After watching Prince, who's my all-time favorite, on the Grammys, you could see how much talent at that level is missed. He's so far ahead of everything else. Prince loves music. He lives, breathes, is -- Prince is music. He is truly one of the cats that is married to the music. He doesn't compromise that. And not a particular brand of music -- music in general. He can pick up any instrument and play it better than you if it's your main instrument. He hears melodies, he hears notes that you don't. He's just a musical genius that comes very, very, very seldom in a person's lifetime.

He'll make you go way past where you perceive your mortal threshold to be, and you'll end up way on the other side where you thought you could never get. He's a master at that. Taking a mediocre staff and turning it into something special. Hard work, drilling, mind-control manipulation. He's brilliant at all those things. He's a great leader. He's a general. If I was in a musical fox hole, he would definitely be the cat I could follow.

Bette Midler: I think Prince is a genius. I've always thought Prince was a genius. Because he plays every instrument, he writes it all, he arranges it all, he produces it all, he's such a great performer. I adore him. He's had a really curious career. Why, I have no clue? Maybe that's the career he wanted. To me, he's as good as it gets."

I used to say "Prince, Prince, Prince" to my daughter. She used to be "Oh, don't bother me with that Prince" because she was into something else. Then I showed her "Purple Rain" and she said, "Omigod!" because she had no idea. I have everything he ever recorded; I dumped all the CDs in her lap and she's been a Prince fan every since.

Bob Seger (fellow 2004 Hall of Fame inductee): A couple of my light crew were working on the Controversy Tour. They called me and said, "You got to come." They were playing Joe Louis Arena (in Detroit) to 19,500 even though they were getting no radio airplay. I'd never heard of him. I went there and I was just floored. They were so-o-o-o good. He just knocked me out. He reminded me of a young James Brown. Oh my goodness! I bought all of Prince's albums. He's a great artist. There's not too many better.

Paul Stanley of Kiss: Prince has been an innovator and a groundbreaker. From that early album with "I Wanna Be Your Lover" on it, he's somebody I've watched. First time I saw him was in a club in New York in like 1979. The music and the show just blew me away. Although some of what he's done in recent years is a lot more obscure and narrower in its appeal, I admire him tremendously for following his own vision and for having a huge, huge wealth of talent.

Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty: He's pure genius. His music defined the '80s. To this day, if you put on "Purple Rain," it doesn't sound old. Same thing with "Sign o' the Times." Same thing with "Parade."

Yanni: I think he's brilliant. He does incredible work, he's incredibly creative, he's a brilliant musician.

Anita Baker: People don't even realize what he's done. There's such depth to who he is as a businessman, as an artist, as a producer. When you look at him, he's like this amazing hybrid. It's like James Brown with a guitar, it's Jimi Hendrix, the swagger of Jim Morrison, he's just this amazing hybrid of every artist who ever influenced him. He takes his own outrageousness and sets it on top of those influences -- and then there's the businessman on top of that.

Josh Groban: He's so experimental but such a genius with catchy tunes as well.

Jimmy Jam: He does everything well. Greatest guitar player? You might say Jimi Hendrix, but you'd have to put Prince in the Top 5 of a bunch of categories -- songwriting, performing, musicianship. Maybe he's not No. 1 in any of those, but if you put all that stuff together, he is No. 1. Besides all that, he's a visionary, the way he fused music and film in "Purple Rain" or the way he put his stage shows together or his concepts for things like the Time. All those facets, he does better than anyone else; but somehow it's all in one package. I don't think anybody's done that better.

Kelis: Prince is amazing. He set a precedent for music. He was everything a lot us aspired to be -- from sexy to innovative to incredible musician.

Travis Tritt: I was on the same label, so I saw him at Warner Bros. events. Although I was never a huge fan, I have a lot of respect for him. He's extremely talented, an incredible musican. I respect his musical integrity. He called his own shots and paid his price. He stayed true to his focus.

Sean Lennon: We need a moment of silence for Prince. There are no words to express how talented that guy is.

Marika: Parade is my all time favourite album



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wow...my favoritest singer, al green, gave 'im some props.

Prince is unworldly talented, no one has done it better, EVA!

Believe what you want, cause I'm tired of trying to convince folks,
but THE TRUTH will not be SQUASHED!

Cute story.

Yanni said:

Wow! Praise from Caesar!

I love articles like this!! Your peer group always appreciates you better when you are truly great at something. Prince makes it seem so easy that most people rarely understand how good he really is. Prince is a musician's musician, and I agree that he's #1 because he is the best at doing everything. As much as I love his influences, none of them had the total/composite talents that Prince posses. Prince is so good its frightening. I swear he is one of the greatest musicians/performers/songwriters/entertainers that has ever walked the face of the earth.

HobbesLeCute said:

pizza pizza?

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Oh shit, now I'm hungry for some Crazy Bread!

HobbesLeCute said:

My yoga teacher told me and RaspberryWoman tonight that she is a big Prince fan but we kind of snickered to ourselves because we just don't think she is big fans like we are big fans.

The reason she brought it up is because we could hear the Purple Medley playing next door at the end of the Jazzercize class.

*rools eyes* kool!

That was awsome! Even in his meticular, alienating, name changing, days, Prince could still walk into a room o' super celebs, and watch it part like the Red Sea. Thats a BAAAAD man

lovemachine said:

I think Jimmy Jam explains it. It's not that Prince is the best guitar player, singer, keyboardist, producer, etc., etc.... it's that he can be compared to the best in so many categories and in so many styles. That's extremely rare. Most of the greats are masters of one thing and darn good at a couple of other things. Prince has mastered so manythings at once. Add the fierce attitude and genuine individuality, and you've got yourself a talent for the ages. And that's not even it yet --- so much of his music is unreleased and what has seeped is so awesome it's as if Lennon and Mcarthney had held back key tunes from the best Beatles albums and they'd still be on a tape somewhere in a vault -- an artistic tragedy so far, but I dare hope...

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Yep, my sentiments. I read his words and I thought ... that means something.

I fucking love Kiss, that's sweet that Paul Stanley is giving props to Prince. The reporter could have left the Travis Tritt quote out tho, that was a bit of a buzz kill in the midst of all these nice comments, lol.

My Pastor even likes Prince. But, can someone please provide information that confirms that P wrote a song for Kenny Rogers? My pastor, a HUGE country-Western music fan thinks I'm lying when I told him that P wrote for Kenny Rogers. Any info to confirm would be appreciated...

laylow03 said:

The song is "You're My Love" from the album They Don't Make Them Like They Used To. I think it was released in 1986? I think it is under a psuedonym, Jimmy Coco maybe?

rialb said:

Joey Coco

Here's the entry at the Library of Congress for 'You're My Love':

Registration Number: PA-316-643
Title: You're my love / J. Coco.
Note: Performed by Kenny Rogers.
In: They don't make them like they used to. RCA Victor 5633-1-R, 1986. 1 sound disc : 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in. side A, band 3
Claimant: Parisongs
Created: 1986
Published: 17Nov 86
Registered: 1Dec86
Author on © Application: words & music: Joey Coco, pseudonym

Here's the reference at the ASCAP database for collection of publishing:

YOU'RE MY LOVE (Title Code: 550244494)
Writers: PRINCE

Performers: KENNY ROGERS

Publishers/Administrators:
PARISONGS
% UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUBLISHING GROUP
2440 SEPULVEDA BLVD.
SUITE 100
LOS ANGELES , CA, 90064
Tel. (310) 235-4700

The pseudonym, Joey Coco, is one Prince assumed on album liner notes for a number of songs given to other artists (Deborah Allen, Nona Hendryx, Jill Jones, Three O'Clock) during the same time period.

Parisongs was the publishing name used in connection with these songs.

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wonderful comments from his peers

i do think prince is a musician who

casts a rare yet brilliant shine

onto others

under appreciated and miles ahead of most

LOL! You copied an article from princefams.com that was copied from housequake (that was copied from star tribune). I'm gonna be famous!

LOL @ Marika

I don't know if Glamslam or Littledragon is reading this, but as you can see you need to be more carefull when you copy stuff.

Cool. Marika is tagging her threads. Great idea!

LOL!! Marika is now famous!!!