blackguitaristz said:

I heard it only a few times.It was released as a 12" single in 1985 but it went nowhere.If I remember correctly,it includes lines like...
"we want Prince in his little red corvette....we want Prince with his dirty mind"

it was meant to be a tribute to him,but I thought it was a little odd.
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SoulAlive said:

I tried to youtube it but the band doesn't even come up. All I get are all of these sexual harrassment lawsuit videos!

Type in "Sexual Harrassment I Need A Freak"...but I don't think "We Want Prince" is there.

Definitely remember 'We Want Prince'. But for some straight Prince-like cuts nobody tops this cat:



Does anybody remember this guy? 'Cold Tears' and 'Driving Me Wild'?? Man, I wish somebody could upload some of this stuff.

Or Jak


I Go Wild

He also had a minor radio hit with a slow jam called '69'.

Sorry didn't mean to jack...

violator said:

Oh man, I've been talking about Jak on here for years. His WHOLE album is Controversy mixed with the 1999 album. "69" was the jam. Too bad NONE of the shit is his! It's a combo of 2 and 3 P songs put together. His whole album is like that. I remember seeing Jak walk up and down the front of The Palace at a Mazarati gig in 86. I think I was the only cat there who knew who Jak was. I swear to GOD, he had on the same blue outfit he's wearing on that album cover.

blackguitaristz said:

Now that's hilarious. I have that album. And the 'Circuitry' album. One day, I'm gonna upload some of this stuff and do a big Prince biters thread. Some of that shit was decent though. I dug the hell out of '69' and 'You, Only You'.

Exotic Storm was another group that tried to ride the Prince gravy train.



There's dozens of them.

blackguitaristz said:

I vaguely remember this cut.

violator said:

Yeah, there was a thread over in Ass Artists forum about all the P jackers. I definately remember Exotic Storm. I still have that album. They were whack....With that Dez look alike cat. I mentioned on that thread my encounter with Larkin Arnold, the dude responsible for signing all of this mess on Epic Records. He heard a track of mine from when I was 17 or some shit. Had the nerve to tell me it was "too rock"!. I was like "Man, I'm from the Hendrix, Funkadelic school. Not none of this watered down shit!". By then, he didn't even work at Epic anymore. They probaly dropped him for all of that whack ass shit he was signing. All u had to do was sound like Exotic Storm and have a curl and PRETEND to know how to hold a guitar. Please don't really know how to play because then u were too wild.

blackguitaristz said:

This group was off the chain and riding the paisley wannabe bandwagon.
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blackguitaristz said:

That's the gospel right there. Back then, they were signing any fool with a S curl and a Juno 6. I wonder how they missed me...

Yeah, this thread is gonna make me start diggin in my crates.

LOL...there were sooooo many Prince wannabees,it was ridiculous I remember Jak and Exotic Storm! I used to laugh at those copycats.Remember The System's 1985 video "Pleasure Seekers"? LOL

Sam Bostic? Jak? Erotic Storm??

I've never heard of these acts.

Cinnie said:

They were crap Trust me,you aren't missing a thing.It was hilarious how,after "Purple Rain",these guys were blatantly ripping off Prince.We could have an entire thread on the Prince copycats of the 80s,lol.

Which ones use the Linn Drum??