I FELL OF THE PRINCE BANDWAGON AFTER THE SYMBOL ALBUM. SO PLEASE TELL ME WHEN PRINCE HOOKED UP WITH LARRY AND I HAVE NOTICED A LOT OF PEOPLE ON THIS WEBSITE
DONT CARE FOR HIM. WILL ANYBODY PLEASE ENLIGHTEND ME ON THIS?

get those other two threads deleted by a mod.

i think around 1997-98

Well here's the story: Prince needed to get back on the charts, so he went down to the crossroads and sold his soul to Larry (Satan). Yada yada yada... the rest is history.

squirrelgrease said:

ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT PRINCE WENT TO HIM FOR ADVICE, HE ONLY HAD ONE HIT THAT I KNOW OF? SAY IT AIN'T SO!

OH for the love of Jehovah....MAKE IT STOP!!!!!

You guys trip me out. I don't really like Larry either. He doesn't seem to be close to the

musician Prince is. I know he's supposed to be a great bass player but heck Prince can

play that also. I don't really see any reason for him to be around. Now he's got P in that

JW cult.

Where's my gun?

Larry

You know Larry gets all the shit for introducing Prince to the JW, but from what I read his mother was one also and that was one of her dying requests. She wanted her son to convert. Also Prince got down with them when he was going through a very rough time in his life. I think that Larry should be commended, if he indeed did help Prince find some kind of balance through that very bad period in his life.

Also did you really want Prince running around like some sort of dumbass trying to act like he did when he was in his early twenties? God that would have been aweful. I love the new Prince but I was never a Prince fan just because of his racy lyrics and stage antics. While I enjoyed them and still do. I have always known he was deep cat (or dude for the ebonically impared) So to me at least I have no beef with LG.
Peace

opinions are like assholes.... (so the saying goes)

chiltonmusic said:

actually, i thought it was george benson who originally talked to prince about JWs. then prince asked larry.

so everybody should go hatin' on george benson, actually...

FiveFootNine said:

or betta yet

FiveFootNine said:

bluelight said:

Come on - let it go - Prince is an adult who makes choices in his life just like you and I do. We should respect his choices just like we would want our choices respected.

Don't you think he thought about this decision before he made it? We give him credit for being a musical Genius - but we chose not to give him credit for being wise enough to make a decision regarding HIS choice of worship to God.

Larry is to Prince, what Yoko was to John, what Don was to Mike and what George W is to america... just bad fuckin news

I think Larry got his claws into Prince when he was most vulnerable, after the death of child.

reading this thread, it seems that most of you dislike the idea of prince being close friends with larry.

let me ask u this...would you all rather him been with larry, or in a crackhouse shooting up?
[This message was edited Sat Jun 5 18:22:21 2004 by missfee]

missfee said:

in a crackhouse shooting up! him working with Larry never got us a Black Album, did it?

Ditto, crackhouse - Have you ever heard John Lennon's Cold Turkey? Some of the best music comes from serious personal turmoil and some of the great artists have recorded their definative albums in a time pain, desperation and introspection. Maybe unfortunately he's been famous, rich and well-catered to since he was a teen. But wouldn't it be great to hear Prince, just once, go from the spoilt, often on a soap-box, wrapped in cotton-wool existence to making a raw, honest, devastating PlasticOno "i've-been-thru-the-ringer-but i'm-holding-on phase. It's the one thing that's always been missing from his catalogue - It would inevitably be a classic album and it would sure beat another New Power Soul or Musicology.