RIP Prince

[Drunk Monk]

This is hitting me hard.  I have so much respect for Prince and I just saw him for my birthday - http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...p?tid=2178.  He was on top of his game then - never saw this coming.  Maybe I'm just a little raw from last night, but I mourn his passing deeply.

If you never saw Prince live, you have no idea what he was about.  He was an unbelievable talent, such a virtuoso on every freakin instrument he touched, a singular iconic artist that changed the landscape of pop music forever.

[thatguy]

I am on vacation and only catching headlines occasionally. I just read this and it's hitting me as well. I never saw him live and now, I never will. Shit.

There's terrible euro-pop playing everywhere. I heard an up-tempo, poppy version of Tracy Chapman's Fast Car today, with a thumping bass. Really crappy music, then, this afternoon, I heard a Prince song and I thought that ah. I can listen to this....now I guess I see why he came up in the mix :-(

It really must be a great gig in the sky...

--tg

[cranefly]

DM, your birthday Prince concert review greatly enlightened me to his genius -- as it turns out, just in time to fully appreciate how much was just lost.

[cranefly]

Guess I'll mention this here.

Purple Rain - very special midnight tribute screening

When Fri Apr 22
Where  Roxie Theater
Time 11:55pm
Cost  $12

http://www.sfstation.com/purple-rain-ver...g-e2294979

[Greg]

I liked this from Chevrolet.

[Drunk Monk]

I went to Bocci's for the dancehall. It was one of the DJs birthday - Aye Que Linda, the sigO of DJ Spleece, who is a former Kung fu practitioner so we become friends.  Massive Sound Intl (Spliff Skankin & Robert Rankin) spun; Spliff was a fellow DJ of Peggy O so we've met many times - I even guest DJed on his show an announced that we were expecting T, but he still doesn't remember me. As I walked in, there were two guys in full Kung fu garb practicing at the door. Still not sure how that came about - a
Shaolin rasta t'ing. The place went wild when spliff dropped the one song I hadn't yet heard in all of the tributes over the last few days - erotic city. Damn Daniel - dirty dancing inna dancehall. Alas Prince - no one was sexier that way. No one.

[El Dingo]

Fucking ticketmaster and their bots had denied me tickets to all 3 Oakland shows. My one consolation was that he loved Oakland and I knew he would be back.

I had taken half the day off to go to the Giants day game. Dee Dee called me and gave me the news. I was stunned.

The organist and between-inning music was mostly Prince (some fans around me didn't even know what had happened and were destroyed when told).

I still remember buying "1999" and being overwhelmed with how awesome every song was (on a double-album no less!). It was the first record I had bought from the 'R&B' section of Tower Records and led me to abolish the seperation of 'R&B' and 'Rock' from my store in Emeryville. This turned out to be a great business move in the Bay Area where people have wider tastes.

I saw the 'Purple Rain' tour in Austin, TX and still have one of the plastic flowers dropped from the ceiling at the end of the show.

Fuck you 2016 for stealing Bowie and Prince.

Maybe I should hold that in.

It's only April.

[King Bob]

ED's post reminded me of how I got into Prince. I had a friend of a friend who loved KSOL, and I started listening to it. (1999 broke there way before it made it to "rock" radio; I seem to remember that it was about a year, but may be wrong.) I started listening to Prince and my more rock-oriented friends were totally not interested - until it made it to radio stations that they listened to, of course.

KSOL was awesome in those days.

[Drunk Monk]

Prince's 'Nothing Compares 2 U' Will Be Simulcast on Radio Stations Nationwide on Wednesday
5/3/2016 by Gary Trust



Prince is seen on stage at the 36th NAACP Image Awards at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on March 19, 2005 in Los Angeles.

KEVIN WINTER/GETTY IMAGES

Stations will play the hit "7 hours and 13 days" after his passing.

The opening line from one of Prince's most beloved songs has sparked a tribute to the late icon, set to air on radio stations worldwide tomorrow (May 4).
KCMP (89.3 The Current) Minneapolis has invited stations to fete the legendary Minneapolis native by joining in a simulcast of Prince's version of "Nothing Compares 2 U," which he wrote in the mid-1980s and which Sinead O'Connor took to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks in 1990; Prince's version reached No. 62 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in 1994.
KCMP, and others, will air Prince's recording of "Nothing" at exactly 5:07 p.m. CT (6:07 ET/3:07 PT) tomorrow. Why that moment? It marks "7 hours and 13 days" since Prince's April 21 passing, referencing the song's famous opening lyric. "It's been 7 hours and 13 days, since you took your love away," Prince's version begins. "I go out every night and sleep all day, since you took your love away …"
Notably, O'Connor's version changed the time span to "7 hours and 15 days."
Among stations in the U.S. reportedly confirmed to join KCMP in the simulcast are tastemakers (and fellow public radio outlets) WFUV New York, WXPN Philadelphia and KEXP Seattle. People are encouraged to listen to a local participating station or streamthecurrent.org/listen, as well as tweet, Facebook or Instagram clips of themselves singing along, using the hashtag #NothingCompares2U.


"I think the shocking suddenness to Prince's passing and at such a young age have combined to throw the entire world for a loop," says KCMP program director Jim McGuinn. "Like [David] Bowie, Prince's music made us all more alive, more accepting, more open to being able to express who we are. But, like no artist in our lifetimes, Prince united people with his music. Black, white, young, old, rich, poor, he cut across all boundaries with music that touched on rock, funk, soul, pop, R&B, new wave and jazz, and the world responded."
McGuinn adds that in Minneapolis, even nearly two weeks after Prince's death, "It's impossible to go to dinner or a party or a water cooler without the conversation somehow sliding over to" the legend.
"We just wanted to honor the man we called our friend, and the music we all love, and thought that maybe we might be able to get radio stations all over the world to share this moment with fans who are missing this great artist."