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