I have a feeling that some of u will be converting back 2 Prince in April.

I have a feeling that some of u will be converting back 2 Prince in April.

Graycap23 said:

Yeah I'm with you on that Gray. When Prince delivers....he REALLY delivers....and that's what I feel is going to happen.

I have a feeling that some of u will be converting back 2 Prince in April.

lastdecember said:

I'll say this, I miss The Revolution a lot more than the New Power Generation.

It always boggles my mind when some clown thinks they know what is and isn't funk.

1979 is calling, the mother ship connection in the chocolate city wants your ass home now!


.....And The Mary Jane Girls said hello.

TonyVanDam said:

Elements of it maybe, but his ONA band of Rhonda and John and Renato, thats just another league.

Militant said:

I can't see videos on this computer so that website don't do me any good. Even if I could see the videos, it's the stuff before "Purple Rain" that I would want to see, not after "Purple Rain". Prince became a totally different person after "Purple Rain". He was still good but not great like the years before.

Exactly. There was also The Isley Brothers, Con Funk Shun, Xavier, Sunrize, D Train, The Gap Band, One Way, Rafael Cameron, Ebonee Webb, Lakeside, New Horizons, Bootsy Collins, Bill Summers and Summers Heat, Sun, Starpoint, Kleeer, Slave, Ray Parker, Jr. and Raydio, Fatback, War, Junior, Glass, Bobby Nunn, etc.

People who really weren't into funk during the early 80s tend to only know funk that the critics have talked about for years which is usually groups from the early to mid 70s with all the horns such as James Brown or Parliament that have talked about to death. They don't realize that funk progressed, modernized it's sound, and continued on until around 1984. Then there are people who claim to like funk but weren't really into it back then or a lot of the younger people. They hear that extreme uptempo funk of the early 80s with that modern sound and less horns and confuse it with disco. I can't tell you how many stupid DJs I have heard say that "You Dropped A Bomb On Me" was released in 1979.
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TonyVanDam said:

Elements of it maybe, but his ONA band of Rhonda and John and Renato, thats just another league.

lastdecember said:

Specifically Dr. Fink & Lisa because I love the sounds of 80's synths.

daPrettyman said:

Hell, he still looks good enough to get into them today. Except now, I'd have to forge a permission note from "Jehovah" in order for him to let me get in them.

TonyVanDam said:

daPrettyman said:

That's the same station that thought Shitney Houston originally recorded "I Didn't Mean To Turn You On" before Robert Palmer did his version, they used to slip in early 80s songs like "You Dropped A Bomb On Me", "Fantastic Voyage", and "Super Freak" on Saturday nights when they used to play all disco, and they used to pronounce Chic as "Chick".

Hell, it's Clear Channel. It's not like they actually know music. All they know is business.

Militant said:

People say the same thing every time he drops an album. Especially with 3121 and Musicology, yet people still complained that the music wasn't good to them.

I don't care what others think. I will continue to support him. I'm sure I'll like a lot of the tunes on the album, but even if I don't I will continue to support him.

vainandy said:

No, Larry would have to grant permission (after he has tried it first).

I know...I'm beating my on ass for that one :

daPrettyman said:

Both were good albums to me although i enjoyed 3121 a lot more. After the
falloff with planet earth i think p is poised to deliver a winner this time.

phunkdaddy said:

That's what I'm praying for. I don't know if I can take another PE. I liked quite a few of the PE songs, but as an album, they didn't work well.

daPrettyman said:

I have a hunch that PE was a very last minute project designed simply as a give away at the London concerts. Nothing more.

I didn't know Rick had a DVD coming out this month. Cool stuff but I'm excited about Prince more.

I read last week's jet article feature on the MJG where are they now.
All the girls seem to be live and well. Lead singer Jo Jo tours on
her own without the rest of the girls and was said to be the only girl
who didn't attend rick james funeral. She admitted they fell in and out
just like friends do but regretted they didn't resolve their issues before
his death. Cheri left the group because of rick's drug problems.
I wonder if JoJo fell out with the rest of the girls because the other
girls had been touring with Val Young as lead singer for awhile before the other girls gave Val Young the boot. Strange things going on here with the girls.