Chancellor said:

D'Angelo is my boy but its too soon to be doing shows @ $100 a pop...I'm in the Dirty-South and a little birdie told me ya'll dwelling in the City of Angels gots the Cash to pay for high priced traveling-off-broadway shows and Concerts...

So is $100 bones expensive or is that bubble-gum change?

[Edited 7/5/12 12:44pm]

100 is really not THAT expensive. However, its pricey for an artist who has been way for over a decade and just recently got back to touring about 8-9 months ago. With that being said, the money is well worth it because D can put on a show but I think for certain areas he shouldnt price it as high. This was House of Blues so maybe thats why his peoples priced it high. Its still not really an excuse...

[Edited 7/5/12 12:50pm]

mjscarousal said:

100 is really not THAT expensive. However, its pricey for an artist who has been way for over a decade and just recently got back to touring about 8-9 months ago. With that being said, the money is well worth it because D can put on a show but I think for certain areas he shouldnt price it as high. This was House of Blues so maybe thats why his peoples priced it high. Its still not really an excuse...

[Edited 7/5/12 12:50pm]

I agree...It's amazing how the Promoter took D's well received reception @ the BET awards as the Green Light to get a $100 dollars a ticket...

If he plan on coming to Columbia, South Carolina, HOME of his baby-Momma Angie Stone he better Walk up to the Microphone Bucket-Naked and Perfrom Bucket-naked all night if he expect the Sistas to pay $100 dollars a piece.....

I will say this....I know some Big-Bone Sistas that wil save their hair-do money, get a Pay-Day-Loan and wear an Old Ass wig to see D'Angelo...

Chancellor said:

mjscarousal said:

100 is really not THAT expensive. However, its pricey for an artist who has been way for over a decade and just recently got back to touring about 8-9 months ago. With that being said, the money is well worth it because D can put on a show but I think for certain areas he shouldnt price it as high. This was House of Blues so maybe thats why his peoples priced it high. Its still not really an excuse...

[Edited 7/5/12 12:50pm]

I agree...It's amazing how the Promoter took D's well received reception @ the BET awards as the Green Light to get a $100 dollars a ticket...

If he plan on coming to Columbia, South Carolina, HOME of his baby-Momma Angie Stone he better Walk up to the Microphone Bucket-Naked and Perfrom Bucket-naked all night if he expect the Sistas to pay $100 dollars a piece.....

I will say this....I know some Big-Bone Sistas that wil save their hair-do money, get a Pay-Day-Loan and wear an Old Ass wig to see D'Angelo...

The ticket prices were annouced before D performed on BET to be fair.

If D angelo performed close to me I wouldnt mine paying a 100 bucks to see him but thats just me, if it was priced any higher I probably wouldnt

We will have to see if they continue with these prices...

21nights said:

anybody catch D on the BET Awards? He rocked. It was awesome hearing Sugah Daddy outsideof the crappy audience recordings + what Untitled sounds like with the Testimony, instead of just him doing it solo on electric piano. Hoping he plays Untitled with full band tonight. Also hoping he changes up the setlist a bit. How about playing I Found My Smile Again? She's Always In My Hair? Left and Right? Greatdayndamorning / Booty? Send It On? Black Hole Sun? More New Songs? Just thoughts.

I beg to DIFFER, his performance was awful. After the How Does it Feel "intro", the undecipherable rant he and the band went on wa unbearable and went on way too long. didn't generate any buzz for him IMO, just vamps, ad-libs, and runs, I was emabarrased for him! The band is tight tho

[Edited 7/4/12 18:18pm]

even so, his performance was the best one of the night, by far.

21nights said:

even so, his performance was the best one of the night, by far.

Outside of the tributes, His solo performance was the best one BET has had in a longggg time

seem 2 me that D got so caught up in syracuse 85... that's all he do

know he got chops & all but cant dig him cuz he steady bitin Ps 25 year ole drawers

do u my naga!

harmonicoscillations said:

seem 2 me that D got so caught up in syracuse 85... that's all he do

know he got chops & all but cant dig him cuz he steady bitin Ps 25 year ole drawers

do u my naga!

To be fair, you could also say that about Prince during the Parade Tour. He clearly had James' TAMI performance running through a loop.

Matter of fact, Rick Rubin said he actually did when he went to Paisley Park.

He definitely is channeling Prince who was channeling JB. Prince and James were more complete performers at that stage. All the dizzying dance moves and splits were on another level. On top of that, they both were and are very charismatic personalities. D has got the music part down. Not gonna take anything away from him cause I got mad love for his music. Especially some of the new songs he played in Europe. He is a a rare breed in music today. That's why there's so much pressure on him to put something out and blow us all away. Later for all the haters... What have you done?

[Edited 7/5/12 16:22pm]

SO WHO THE F>UCK WENT TO THE SHOW??!!

sunlite said:

He definitely is channeling Prince who was channeling JB. Prince and James were more complete performers at that stage. All the dizzying dance moves and splits were on another level. On top of that, they both were and are very charismatic personalities. D has got the music part down. Not gonna take anything away from him cause I got mad love for his music. Especially some of the new songs he played in Europe. He is a a rare breed in music today. That's why there's so much pressure on him to put something out and blow us all away. Later for all the haters... What have you done?

[Edited 7/5/12 16:22pm]

D Angelo isnt a dancer neither is Prince but D has good stage presence and knows how to work a mic. Yes, he is a musian but he most certainly isnt boring to watch. I find him more entertaining than most performers out now which arent many. I think what I like most about him is his ability to convey emotion which alot of artists of today dont do, he seems to have fun when he performs and his effortless charisma which doesnt seem forced, not manufactured.

[Edited 7/5/12 16:29pm]

In TODAY'S R&B.......If it ain't D or Mint, I DON'T KNOW!!!!!! U still have some "Teachers" out there (Patti, Aretha, Mr. Isley, Frankie Beverly & Maze, etc.) doin' it. Then U have the Mary J.'s & whoeverthehellelse doin' it. Much respect 2 Kem, Ledisi, and Janelle Monae 4 changing the game, cuz a lotta the rest of is R.A.B. (Robotic Ass Bullshit)!!!!!!!

woogiebear said:

In TODAY'S R&B.......If it ain't D or Mint, I DON'T KNOW!!!!!! U still have some "Teachers" out there (Patti, Aretha, Mr. Isley, Frankie Beverly & Maze, etc.) doin' it. Then U have the Mary J.'s & whoeverthehellelse doin' it. Much respect 2 Kem, Ledisi, and Janelle Monae 4 changing the game, cuz a lotta the rest of is R.A.B. (Robotic Ass Bullshit)!!!!!!!

THANKS for that sermon SOUL BROTHA MAN

RodeoSchro said:

I'm sorry, but my entire knowledge of D'Angelo is that I think Prince said his name once in a song.

Never heard a thing he's ever done, and have no idea why there are D'Angelo threads two or three times a week. Never, ever heard him mentioned on the news, in the paper, or anywhere else except here.

What is his connection with Prince? Are they friends? Have they done something together that I missed?

Shame. D'Angelo single handedly gave us Neo-Soul along with his then manager Kedar Massenburg, dudes a musical prodigy won Apollo before he was in his 20's ghost wrote You will know for a gang of 90's r/b stars in the 90's and basically brought black musicianship back to a forefront for a whole generation of cats raised on drum machines and samples. His relation to PRINCE is that as any good student he pays homage to the masters Marvin, Stevie, Curtis, Green, Prince,Sly etc... He drew comparasons to Marvin and Prince because of his falsetto, layering style and the fact that he made it apparant that he was a Prince fan. Prince has. Welcomed D'Angelo initally met him introduced to them Chaka Khan with his then girlfriend Angie Stone, had D' perform with him on piano when he did the The Work on Leno, then in a change of mind (or under the influence of his advisors) started distancing himself from D'Angelo after D's major hit Untitled, (not to mention the AWESOME remake D'Angelo did of She's Always in My Hair) claiming to be offended about some bs in D's linear notes to his follow up Voodoo, which he didnt even write,and started doin sneak disses at D' in the WACK Daisy Chain video. Where they are now? Who knows.

sunlite said:

He definitely is channeling Prince who was channeling JB. Prince and James were more complete performers at that stage. All the dizzying dance moves and splits were on another level. On top of that, they both were and are very charismatic personalities. D has got the music part down. Not gonna take anything away from him cause I got mad love for his music. Especially some of the new songs he played in Europe. He is a a rare breed in music today. That's why there's so much pressure on him to put something out and blow us all away. Later for all the haters... What have you done?

[Edited 7/5/12 16:22pm]

Exactly! He defintely has been studying Prince's live stage performances since he has been absent. Particularly Syracuse 85 & Parade 86 like someone said. Plus picking up the guitar adds to all of that. But what is wrong with that? That is why I said on here not long ago.The critics always compare him to Marvin. But Prince is the one he idolizes ..

RodeoSchro said:

nd33 said:

I've followed D since 95.

I'm just wondering how you've come with this notion that he has a bunch of money?

I see no evidence of that...

I'm sure he's getting annual royalty cheques from songwriting, but I don't think he's loaded by any stretch.

Any artist of his calibre and fame should be able to "get by", just by not being a greedy idiot

[Edited 7/4/12 23:10pm]

I didn't say he had a bunch of money. I just said he apparently has enough money to live without having to put out albums. So I was curious as to what his income sources were.

Not for any reason pertaining to him directly, I'm just curious as to how the music business works over the long haul.

The insiders in the industy sustain D'Angelo, believe it or not. You guys are acting like hes Dwele or somebody, dudes always had Top Notch Deals the first through Virgin/EMI where he was a big PRIORITY and was given a boutique label and they even marketed Nikka Costas Everybody has their Something through his imprint, go on with the bullshit, Rolling Stone called dude R/B Jesus and that was a decade ago when he was chubby playing a rhodes, smokin cigarettes and singin falseto, I think now hes signed to RCA who have funded for him to record in Electric Lady for the past 2-3 years, dude is O.K. He just needs to drop and album, he's like the Dr. Dre of soul/r/b or whatever there calling it these days...

alexnvrmnd777 said:

RodeoSchro said:

What should I check out first?

He's only got 2 albums out (in 17 fuckin' years). It doesn't matter which one you listen to first, to be honest.

Yeah and countless remakes of obscure funk classics like Heaven Must Be like this, Give Me Your Love, Girl You need a Change of Mind, Shes Always in My Hair, and some Earth Wind and Fire stuff, oh and countless production/features on Method Man, Wu-Tang, Snoop, Qtip, JDilla, The Roots, Erykah badu, Raphael Saadiq, etc...Im new to this community and Im sensing alot of "if it aint Prince" haters and yall need to get on with that if I gotta run down a laundry list of credits to defend and KNOWN and RESPECTED artist that bs, I came here cause I thought people here had TASTE.What Prince needs to do is quit hating on talanted new people and get rid of his troop of "yes men" and hangers on like all the wack non-rappers and Larry Graham, name something funky hes done in the last 30 years??? Sheesh

JamesStarJr said:

alexnvrmnd777 said:

He's only got 2 albums out (in 17 fuckin' years). It doesn't matter which one you listen to first, to be honest.

Yeah and countless remakes of obscure funk classics like Heaven Must Be like this, Give Me Your Love, Girl You need a Change of Mind, Shes Always in My Hair, and some Earth Wind and Fire stuff, oh and countless production/features on Method Man, Wu-Tang, Snoop, Qtip, JDilla, The Roots, Erykah badu, Raphael Saadiq, etc...Im new to this community and Im sensing alot of "if it aint Prince" haters and yall need to get on with that if I gotta run down a laundry list of credits to defend and KNOWN and RESPECTED artist that bs, I came here cause I thought people here had TASTE.What Prince needs to do is quit hating on talanted new people and get rid of his troop of "yes men" and hangers on like all the wack non-rappers and Larry Graham, name something funky hes done in the last 30 years??? Sheesh

Well that would put us at 1982 and I think I can name a few things he's done since then that are moderately funky.

JamesStarJr said:

Yeah and countless remakes of obscure funk classics like Heaven Must Be like this, Give Me Your Love, Girl You need a Change of Mind, Shes Always in My Hair, and some Earth Wind and Fire stuff, oh and countless production/features on Method Man, Wu-Tang, Snoop, Qtip, JDilla, The Roots, Erykah badu, Raphael Saadiq, etc...Im new to this community and Im sensing alot of "if it aint Prince" haters and yall need to get on with that if I gotta run down a laundry list of credits to defend and KNOWN and RESPECTED artist that bs, I came here cause I thought people here had TASTE.What Prince needs to do is quit hating on talanted new people and get rid of his troop of "yes men" and hangers on like all the wack non-rappers and Larry Graham, name something funky hes done in the last 30 years??? Sheesh

lol you got a Prince themed moniker/screen name

T

MajesticOne89 said:

JamesStarJr said:

Yeah and countless remakes of obscure funk classics like Heaven Must Be like this, Give Me Your Love, Girl You need a Change of Mind, Shes Always in My Hair, and some Earth Wind and Fire stuff, oh and countless production/features on Method Man, Wu-Tang, Snoop, Qtip, JDilla, The Roots, Erykah badu, Raphael Saadiq, etc...Im new to this community and Im sensing alot of "if it aint Prince" haters and yall need to get on with that if I gotta run down a laundry list of credits to defend and KNOWN and RESPECTED artist that bs, I came here cause I thought people here had TASTE.What Prince needs to do is quit hating on talanted new people and get rid of his troop of "yes men" and hangers on like all the wack non-rappers and Larry Graham, name something funky hes done in the last 30 years??? Sheesh

Well that would put us at 1982 and I think I can name a few things he's done since then that are moderately funky.

Did this fool just say name something funky he's done in the last 30 years???

It might have been a security (emotional) move.

He wanted to secure a devoted audience.

Graycap23 said:

Love D.......but it is time 2 start playing some NEW material.

Umm D has been performing new material. The Charade, Ain't That Easy, Sugah Daddy, and he performed Really Love at the concert.

You forgot Another Life.

21nights said:

You forgot Another Life.

I knew I was missing one, I couldn't think of it. Thanks!

rdhull said:

JamesStarJr said:

Yeah and countless remakes of obscure funk classics like Heaven Must Be like this, Give Me Your Love, Girl You need a Change of Mind, Shes Always in My Hair, and some Earth Wind and Fire stuff, oh and countless production/features on Method Man, Wu-Tang, Snoop, Qtip, JDilla, The Roots, Erykah badu, Raphael Saadiq, etc...Im new to this community and Im sensing alot of "if it aint Prince" haters and yall need to get on with that if I gotta run down a laundry list of credits to defend and KNOWN and RESPECTED artist that bs, I came here cause I thought people here had TASTE.What Prince needs to do is quit hating on talanted new people and get rid of his troop of "yes men" and hangers on like all the wack non-rappers and Larry Graham, name something funky hes done in the last 30 years??? Sheesh

lol you got a Prince themed moniker/screen name

All the time, lol. Im a Prince fan. What you think Im here for, as far as my comments, I stand on that. Now you know that my statement about the last 30 years was about Larry Graham, not Prince, I bought 3 of the last 5 Prince releases (liked them and understood hes always growing) and didnt sit and over analyze them the way I see others did, but hey its whatever. I just felt it was discouraging to see how D'Angelos been thrashed on here due to some "beef" with P' and all hes ever done was praise Prince, sad, then to see the Daisy Chain video, and believe me I never seen it til today. Was a big WOW for me. Lol.

dorothyparker11 said:

Graycap23 said:

Love D.......but it is time 2 start playing some NEW material.

Umm D has been performing new material. The Charade, Ain't That Easy, Sugah Daddy, and he performed Really Love at the concert.

4 songs out of 20 plus is not what I'd call new material.

D angelo has performed 5 songs and besides his audience wants to hear his classics first since he is just getting back. His presenting a good mixture.

A better question is.. WHEN IS THE ALBUM DROPPING D?

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

sunlite said:

He definitely is channeling Prince who was channeling JB. Prince and James were more complete performers at that stage. All the dizzying dance moves and splits were on another level. On top of that, they both were and are very charismatic personalities. D has got the music part down. Not gonna take anything away from him cause I got mad love for his music. Especially some of the new songs he played in Europe. He is a a rare breed in music today. That's why there's so much pressure on him to put something out and blow us all away. Later for all the haters... What have you done?

[Edited 7/5/12 16:22pm]

Exactly! He defintely has been studying Prince's live stage performances since he has been absent. Particularly Syracuse 85 & Parade 86 like someone said. Plus picking up the guitar adds to all of that. But what is wrong with that? That is why I said on here not long ago.The critics always compare him to Marvin. But Prince is the one he idolizes ..

They compare him to Marvin because you can hear that in his music and thats the primary influence that he mentions. I highly doubt D angelo was studying Prince 85 concert, not to mention even had the time to... The man is just gifted. His performance style is really not like Prince.. I dont see why some of yall feel that way. Is it because he can play alot of instruments? I hate when yall compare artists out now to Prince... D angelo is great artist standing alone.. just let it be like that.

I LOVE that guitar

mjscarousal said:

D angelo has performed 5 songs and besides his audience wants to hear his classics first since he is just getting back. His presenting a good mixture.

A better question is.. WHEN IS THE ALBUM DROPPING D?

Much better question.

mjscarousal said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Exactly! He defintely has been studying Prince's live stage performances since he has been absent. Particularly Syracuse 85 & Parade 86 like someone said. Plus picking up the guitar adds to all of that. But what is wrong with that? That is why I said on here not long ago.The critics always compare him to Marvin. But Prince is the one he idolizes ..

They compare him to Marvin because you can hear that in his music and thats the primary influence that he mentions. I highly doubt D angelo was studying Prince 85 concert, not to mention even had the time to... The man is just gifted. His performance style is really not like Prince.. I dont see why some of yall feel that way. Is it because he can play alot of instruments? I hate when yall compare artists out now to Prince... D angelo is great artist standing alone.. just let it be like that.

I LOVE that guitar

C'mon, you know damn well why D gets compared to Prince. Besided him having Jesse Johnson in his band, and Eric Leeds playing saxophone for him a couple of weeks ago at Bonnaroo.

Listen to this version of Brown Sugar and tell me this isn't Lady Cab Driver.

It's not just because he uses falsetto and can play an instrument.