On FB today, people were passing around the video of Prince singing "Kiss" on the Ellen show.....and then I looked him up and realized it's his birthday today. 53 years old.
On FB today, people were passing around the video of Prince singing "Kiss" on the Ellen show.....and then I looked him up and realized it's his birthday today. 53 years old.
I know the foreclosure crisis has been super-bad, but now it's even badder, given that it's knocking on the door of the baddest, most ridiculously funky musician to ever emerge from the frozen north: the Minnesota Landowner Currently Known as Prince. Or MLCKP, if you prefer.
The Carver County Sheriff's Office reports that the multitalented, multiplatinum Rock and Roll Hall of Famer has fallen behind $368,382 on the mortgage to his 20-acre former manse in Chanhassen, the Minneapolis suburb that he's called home since 1980. A sheriff's auction is set for May 13.
Has Prince been paying property tax like it's 1999?
According to the foreclosure notice in the Chaska Herald, His Paisleyness bought the property in 1994 for $605,000. But you won't find him mixing tracks there these days; he leveled the place in 2005, leaving only the tennis court and gatehouse. The property is currently valued at $1.15 million.
Here's a nice interview with Prince where he notes that "the Internet is over." His comments are getting a lot of press. Why? Because he's a frickin' genius.
Remember, though, that he was one of the first - along with Bowie, Rundgren, & TMBG - to take advantage of the net to sell his product directly to the public. It's not that he's a Luddite, but he does have an eccentric, non-mainstream, opinion as to what belongs on the Internets.
He makes a good point that places like YouTube have successfully prevented the site from becoming a primarily porn site, but monitoring the material that's on their servers, BUT they don't do an adequate job of protecting copyright, because to do so would cut off their ability to attract as many people. He could be right on that one.
I loved his idea of passing out "Musicology" to everyone who bought a ticket to his show. A great alternative concept of distribution, although it prevents people from being able to preview the music beforehand.
So...newspaper? That catches me off guard. But are there other choices besides the music industry that burned him, or the Internet?
i own all of his music ( i think) and he is quite talented.
but nixing the net will limit or make it more difficult to get his music out.
the abuses he refers to are unfortunately unavoidable to some extent.
may be that he's on to something, but i don't see it.
Here's a nice interview with Prince where he notes that "the Internet is over." His comments are getting a lot of press. Why? Because he's a frickin' genius.
Remember, though, that he was one of the first - along with Bowie, Rundgren, & TMBG - to take advantage of the net to sell his product directly to the public. It's not that he's a Luddite, but he does have an eccentric, non-mainstream, opinion as to what belongs on the Internets.
He makes a good point that places like YouTube have successfully prevented the site from becoming a primarily porn site, but monitoring the material that's on their servers, BUT they don't do an adequate job of protecting copyright, because to do so would cut off their ability to attract as many people. He could be right on that one.
I loved his idea of passing out "Musicology" to everyone who bought a ticket to his show. A great alternative concept of distribution, although it prevents people from being able to preview the music beforehand.
So...newspaper? That catches me off guard. But are there other choices besides the music industry that burned him, or the Internet?
