PURPLE BUBBLE

It is hard to put into words what I've been feeling these past few months in the life of music without PRINCE. I think I have yet to feel any kind of deep emotion in the loss of PRINCE for the fact that I've been consistently listening to his music these past few years even before his death. So I guess you could say I've been trapped in a purple bubble ignoring any kind of rumors and what not in regards to his death. But in truth outside of that, I do feel a disappointment behind his death and that's hard to put into words.

When I say purple bubble I guess you can say it's a metaphor for consistently listening to Prince's music. Because his music is visual so colorful words in tones and sounds it makes you think and for me, it is very inspiring. Through that inspiration, I've been able to write many poems and after many years of not being able to write a poem it just came back to me that day of his death. I found my muse once again after not writing anything for the past 10 years before that April 21.

So I rediscovered poetry in a different way and went back through my archives of poetry that I wrote many years ago. Seeing these poems and I've written so many years ago some made me laugh some made me wonder what was I thinking when I wrote this?  So I went back through and edited some and started posting poems to my poetry blog called My Moment of Inspiration.

I guess for me writing these poems gave a voiced my emotions on how I felt about PRINCE and the music he left behind. Through his passing and dealing with these emotions I've written quite a few poems so far this year that I've been inspired by him and some of them are Saying A Prayer For The Lonely One, If I Could Sing, His Name Is Prince, Shake It Like It's Fake, Mary Soul and most recently I wrote one called Purple Love Child the list of poems continue on and if you're a PRINCE fan like me, you can easily pick out the ones that are inspired by him. 

Before his passing other poems that were inspired by him where Cool As You, To The Dawn And Back and Died which I wrote inspired by his album COME and on this album he acknowledges the changing of his name by talking about himself in the past tense in one of his songs.

Even though I enjoy sharing my poetry with people I feel a sense of how emotional connection to them as if they were like children. Even though I share these poems with many people it is rare that I get a comment or input that is productive criticism that would help me better my skills as a poet. Is prince took pride in every song that he wrote and performed I feel like I have that kind of pride and every call my right so when I do get criticism it doesn't go well and most times I get upset over it and I hope those of you reading this understand.

Enclosing, Peace Love and Purpleness

Prince over Michael Jackson

Got in a debate with a friend about who was most talented PRINCE or Michael Jackson. For me this was mute debate obviously from this blogg you know who I am for. Even though Michael holds a place in my hear too.
My stance in the argument was PRINCE did it all write, produce, compose, play every thing. He was consistent with his art and work.
My friends argument was that Micheal took his time he wanted perfect his songs.
I said Micheal didn't read music. He just went on about that claiming Michael did saying he played keys, guitar and drums. I researched it I have yet to see one minute of footage of Micheal playing something. They where all still photos of him at drums him holding a guitar and one peace of video when he was in china with a guy who programed synth Michael touch the key and the video goes black and you hear the guy talking in Chinese.
None of that proved any thing ya he could beat-box and communicate what he heard in his head. But that does not mean he knew how to read music.

As much as I like Michael comparing him to PRINCE there is none. PRINCE WINS in my book and in my blogg. 

WRITING

I have another BLOGG called Moment of Inspiration where I have been posting my poetry. I guess you can say it is my VAULT but unlike Prince, there is access to it for everyone to see.
I started writing in high school around my senior year I made a goal of writing 100 poems a year. I was inspired to make that goal after reading Maya Angelou books of poetry. I did that three years in a row but it kind of slowed down, it was like I had lost a good a friend.
Then on April 21, 2016, it when it came back to me the day PRINCE passed away. It came back to me and I wrought "Save A Prayer For The Beautiful One"  that was then when I rediscovered this long lost love called poetry.
Sometimes a new poem just comes to me and sometimes I feel it but nothing is there so I listen to PRINCE for inspiration and that might be why some of my poems have the metaphoric imagery. Sometimes when I go to work I will leave my iTunes playing PRINCE all day just so that vibe is there when I get back from work.  

FaceBook

Few months ago I joined a FaceBook group dictated to PRINCE where people would post their thoughts about what PRINCE meant to them. There would be allot of cool video that people took at his concerts and unreleased music that I never heard.
But there is one thing that get me about this is when people use PRINCE to gain attention for them self. With out giving any more attention to this talentless hack what they do is take a clip form a PRINCE performance and make poorly recored beat and post it as a video meme. I can understand taking his video and photos and creatively edit them to one of his songs.
I feel things like that is a insult to him memory we have yet to experience a year with out him. Even though PRINCE was complex person I don't think he would have gone for something like that. 

Real Music

PRINCE was asked, What do you consider real music? This obviously is a stupid question from some one that knows nothing of PRINCE. His response to the person who asked the question "Have you been to one of my shows?"

Hopefully you know about the clip I am talking about. Today I saw a clip of PRINCE clip of one of his show with hip hop mashup. I feel it was the stupid thing and the person who maid it knows nothing of PRINCE music.

A real PRINCE PLAY LIST

PLAY LIST

DEDICATE TO: The purple Yoda from Minnesota

Jam of the Year
there ant no standing around here
can you understand what you hear

Poom Poom
do you hear that baseline
turn it up shake the room

P. Control
every man thinks he owns
even when he is alone

Style
with out soul life is lie
are you really going to wear that tonight

Tamborine
this music will make see many things
make you think you can sing

Chelsea Rodgers
walking with her jelly
girl please don't hurt me

Freaks on this Side
why do you hide
when the party is on this side

The Ballad of Dorthy Parker
hey waitress the tip on the table is all for you
and my number too

Glasscutter
flood is coming break out on the roof
do it some one might shoot
did I stutter

Face Down
dead legends lay around
others make money for their sound

Breakfast Can Wait
you can reheat the pancakes
after you and I...
you know what

1000 X's & O's
play spin the bottle
stops on you give you hug
stops on me kiss me please

Love Like Jazz
can't smoke like Miles
got to go out side if you want to take other drag

Cinnamon Girl
five prayers a day
eastward I will go
it is just the sound of the soul

This is my play list


©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2016


Underline are titles form various Prince albums. PASLY PARK / WARNER BOTHERS

Moving Day

Helping friend move to west Phillie. At the house unloading the truck and the most important part got the PRINCE jams going.

Top 10 PRINCE songs

After we lost PRINCE many article about his top ten songs would be written by people who knew nothing about PRINCE they would list the most obvious chart hits. 

Why would you write about something with out doing any research. It show that whom ever write these article with out listening to his published body of work. There is more to PRINCE than Purple Rain.

I will not even bother listing my top 10. With the body of work there is no top 10 the top song is the song that a ture fan is lisoning at this moment. That could be any song.

Bumped into PRINCE

It was a round the summer of 1997 I worked at place called The Mark of the Quad Cities an arena in Moline IL. It was there I almost stepped on PRINCE. He was doing a random concert there as I was working with the set up crew I turned around and almost bumped into the little guy. He had to big balled bodyguards one white on black kind of a matching set. That was my brief encounter with Prince.

At that show there was only two times he was in the building once for sound check where he adjusted  every knob on the sound board as his band plays the same song for nearly an hour. The second time was for the concert. It seem he spent the day running around town with his wife at the time and went to see the movie BATMAN the one he contributed to the sound track.

When he came to do the show that night, there was a few DJ's from two of the locale radio station on stage after every each one of them did their pitch for their station. The first DJ's who was to introduce Prince as you felt the energy of the show was about to start he said "Prince will be on in 15 min."
At that point Prince was ready to go on stage and as that guy said that Prince turned around and went back into his car back stage and sat there for 15 min. The building director was mad after that and possibly had that DJ taken from the building. In the building control room you can here the lighting director say "Well this will give us time to go over the lighting queues, well there are no lighting queues so just listen for my calls."

Other musings inspired by PRINCE: Under my other blogg of poetry called Moment Of Inspriation
SAVE A PRAYER FOR THE BEAUTIFUL ONE
TRIBUTE TO SOUND
TO THE DAWN AND BACK
MELLOW SEASON
SHAKE IT LIKE ITS FAKE

Jimmy Jam

You ever have one of those conversation that days after you have some regret about. I might have had one of those conversations with Jimmy Jam.
I was working the BET Honors a few year ago where Jimmy was there to honor Herbie Hancock with Noah Gray-Cabey. I seen a reality show that him and Terry where going to write music for a group that where trying to make a comeback. I asked him how it was going and it would be great to see that group make a come back. He told me that wan't going to happen because those guys can't work together.
As we where still talking I just happen to say how cool it was to meet some one who has worked with PRINCE. He wasn't thrown back by the comment what said was, you know PRINCE sent the TIME a ceases and desist letter and now we are The Original Seven. I was surprised by that because I always thought of that group in Minneapolis where like family and for the fact every time the TIME performs PRINCE makes money. He shook his head agreeing with me. 

The Discovery

I discovered PRINCE back when 1999 came out and I had saw the video 1999 on a show called Night Flight that was on TBS. For me with that album each song was more visual for me it brought picture that I only could see. His music was like the camera his words was like the shutter and the music was the lens and my mind was the film. 

PRINCE 365 DAY1

This blogg is about one PRINCE fan experience of a year without PRINCE. This will consists of thought about Prince music, career and poetry inspired by the Purple Yoda from Minnesota and I also hope to get interviews from the people who worked closely with Prince and other fans who have come in contact with him.

This will be for me a personal adventure into writing and to discover some thing new about how and why Prince inspires me.

7/27/2016 3:59pm