Purple Rain: The Official Prince Thread.

[zeb]

Ugh. Amazing.

Yeah.

[bada]

If I remember right Billy Gibbons was Hendrix's favorite guitarist. It's a shame ZZ Top is often derided their 70's stuff is great.

[MadTIGERmaN]

Easily one of the top 5 moments ive seen live - Prince's acoustic midset during the Musicology tour. AWESOME!


PJ could easily swap out the do do do do do outro to Black
with the doo doo doo doo outro from Purple Rain for a night

[Strat]

Id be fine if they covered bambi!

[Strat]

Chills in my back turned to a tear in my eye\



Good god. So many great videos are popping up on youtube now. Stuff i would have never been able to see.

[Strat]

I think i just found my new favorite prince song. i actually haven't heard this song

The girl on the seesaw is laughing
4 love is the color
This place imparts (Paisley Park)
Admission is easy, just say U
Believe and come 2 this
Place in your heart
Paisley Park is in your heart

[PHATJ]

Chills in my back turned to a tear in my eye\



Good god. So many great videos are popping up on youtube now. Stuff i would have never been able to see.

That was awesome.

[VinylGuy]

Listening to The Gold Experience right now.

[evenslow]

Chills in my back turned to a tear in my eye\



Good god. So many great videos are popping up on youtube now. Stuff i would have never been able to see.

strat why did you do this to me

[evenslow]

Yet another great story...

Vancouver attorney recalls sharing stage with Prince

http://www.columbian.com/news/2016/apr/ ... th-prince/

Nearly 20 years ago, Michael Green was playing a gig with his ’80s cover band in Birmingham, Ala., when Prince made a surprise appearance and joined them onstage.

“I freaked out. In fact, in the picture I have of him and me, you’ll see I’m looking off and can’t believe this is happening,” the Vancouver defense attorney recalled as news broke of Prince’s death Thursday.

Green, the bassist in the five-member band called The Cheesebrokers, is a Tuscaloosa, Ala., native and was living there at the time. It was Jan. 18, 1997, and The Cheesebrokers were playing at the 5 Points South Music Hall — one of the group’s regular weekend gigs.

That same night, Prince, then known as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, was in town performing at the Birmingham Jefferson Civic Center.

Rumor had it that the music icon would often make club appearances after his performances.

“He would show up with his band and play for fun,” said Green, now 52. “So we were expecting it might happen. We were hoping it would happen.”

The night wore on, however, and there was no sign of Prince.

Green said he started to lose hope by 1 a.m. The band only had about 10 songs left.

Suddenly the band’s leader, Paul Milazzo, called out “Raspberry Beret,” from Prince’s 1985 album “Around the World in a Day.”

“I started playing it, but I was confused because we never repeated a song. We had already played that earlier in the evening. And then, the 350 people milling around suddenly rushed the stage at the same moment,” Green said. “I looked over to the right side of the stage and Prince was walking up onto the stage.”

Prince launched into the lead vocals.

“He was amazing. He didn’t have to do that,” Green said. “He had his whole band there. We were just a cheesy cover band. But he did it so we could have a good story to tell.”

When the song was over, Green walked off the stage and handed his bass to Rhonda Smith, Prince’s bassist.

“I told her, ‘Here, this is yours for the rest of the night,’ ” he recalled.

Prince’s band joined him onstage and played for the next 25 minutes. Afterward, they tried to coax The Cheesebrokers back up.

“We said there’s no way we are going to follow that,” Green said, chuckling. “They were amazing.”

So Prince continued his performance for another 20 minutes.

Green said he remembers the flamboyantly dressed artist playing the drums, bass and keyboard that night, all while singing lead.

“He was wearing at least 5-inch platform shoes, sunglasses and a tan, full-length coat. It looked great, even though I think it was a woman’s coat,” Green said.

“We talked about music a little bit,” he recalled. “He was incredibly nice and very gracious, and he didn’t have to be. I got the distinct impression from his interaction with his band mates and with my band mates that he was just a genuinely nice human being.”

At the end of the night, Prince thanked The Cheesebrokers for letting his band use their instruments.

“I said, ‘Are you kidding me? I get to tell my future grandchildren about this,'” Green said.

They shook hands and Prince left.

To this day, Green has kept the photos of that night in a musician’s magazine that shows Prince’s band mates. That way, anyone who doubts Green’s story can see this was not just another Prince look-alike.

On Thursday, Green said he was devastated to hear of Prince’s death.

“He was so young. He was only 57. I was immediately reminded of the ephemeral nature of life and that there are no guarantees,” he said.

[Strat]

The past few years there is this concert that my friends put on at the FIne LIne downtown Minneapolis. Holiday donation show of sorts. A few local bands and friends of friends get up to play. One time my band back in the day got back together and played some of our songs but busted out a couple fun covers. Raspberry Beret being one of them. Its always dumb/fun to bust out a Prince cover in Minneapolis. We had two backup chick singers and another one of our friends who has the best cover band voice ever. It probably sucked but it was so much fun.

Prince did not show up and take the stage.

Two years after that we played "I could never take the place of your man". Unrehearsed but fun.

Im hoping next time we do "Cream"

[spike]

snl prince special just started

[spike]

[Strat]

Seems like they just learned it that day but man thats great.

[evenslow]

snl prince special just started

holy shit that awful batman performance. 1990 was a pretty bad version of prince. coming off that killer 80s streak. always hated the straight hair look too. before he (very quickly) figured shit out again with diamonds and pearls.

[evenslow]

Seems like they just learned it that day but man thats great.

pretty fucking cool to open the show that way. god love bruce. he better live another 100 years.

[evenslow]

Two years after that we played "I could never take the place of your man". Unrehearsed but fun.

so when the fuck do we get to hear this?

[Strat]

Two years after that we played "I could never take the place of your man". Unrehearsed but fun.

so when the fuck do we get to hear this?

ah fuck whatever.



Literally the only rehearsal we did was with everyone but the drummer the night before with just acoustic guitars. We werent sure we were gonna play it but the drummer knew and loved the song. So we just....did it.

Im the bro on the right with the main lead at the end

[evenslow]

Haha holy shit not in a million years did I think you'd actually post something!

Now I'm gonna go watch and report back.

[evenslow]

Everybody fast forward to the 3:12 mark in the above video and take in the genius that is strat. Fucking great man! You did my favorite Prince jam justice.

Next time tell the singer to memorize the lyrics. What is he, Eddie Vedder?