sunybuny wrote: 
What a bummer. He was major influence on SRV and that generation of guitar players. I think I remember an album w/ SRV and him playing on it.

 
Bowie, Glenn Frey, Prince, Merle Haggard, Lemmy Kilmister that's one crazy alternative band..........

sunybuny wrote: 

and now Lonnie Mack!!!!
Great old school guitar and new school in one week. God must be putting together on heck of a jam band!

 lily34 wrote: 
I did.

 n4ku wrote: 
  you must have done this just for me. you know how much i love greg dulli!!!

Bill just played Sinead O'Connor doing Prince's song 'Nothing Compares 2 U'
Reminded me of a story I heard/read long ago
Prince was a tad upset when O'Connor did his song
He invited her over to his place when she was in town
He unloaded a verbal berating and destroyed just about everything in the room to get the message across that he didn't ever want her to do any more of his songs
As long as he didn't lay finger on her I'm okay with it because Princce was always overly dramatic 
drama is a fullfilling drug 
O'Connor is tough, I'l bet she took care of herself

I'd forgotten about this... I lived in California at the time or I would have gone over the hill to witness it...
 

 
A crowd gathers outside the Centennial Theater in Sheridan for the 1986 premiere of the Prince film “Under the Cherry Moon.” The town was selected to host the premiere in an MTV contest.

Let's go crazy: The time Prince came to Wyoming

 

 n4ku wrote: 
 
I remember the hype surrounding the movie Purple Rain...my friends and I could hardly wait and had a plan to go on opening night. Everyone showed up decked in purple...and ended up standing and dancing to most of the songs. What charisma. I remember listening to some of his songs on alternative college radio before he hit the Top 40 big time.

City hall in Montréal

Sirius XM has turned Channel 50 into a Prince tribute channel. Not sure how long it will be up. The Bowie one was gone after a week and a half or so.

Bridge in Minneapolis

Here's the one that did it for me, yeah this kid has got it all, lyrics, music, performance
http://www.chartsinfrance.net/Prince/id-102751001.html
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When You Were Mine

When you were mine
I gave you all of my money
Time after time
You done me wrong
It was just like a dream
You let all my friends come over and meet
And you were so strange
You didn't have the decency to change the sheets

Oh girl, when you were mine
I used to let you wear all my clothes
You were so fine (so fine)
Maybe that's the reason that it hurt me so

I know (I know)
That you're going with another guy
I don't care (don't care)
'Cause I love you, baby, that's no lie
I love you more than I did when you were mine

When you were mine
You were kinda, sorta my best friend
So I was blind (so blind)
I let you fool around
I never cared (didn't care)
I never was the kind to make a fuss
When he was there
Sleeping in between the two of us

I know (I know)
That you're going with another guy
I don't care (don't care)
'Cause I love you, baby, that's no lie
I love you more than I did when you were mine

When you were mine
you were all I ever wanted to do
Now I spend my time
Following him whenever he's with you

I know (I know)
That you're going with another guy
I don't care (don't care)
'Cause I love you, baby, that's no lie
I love you more than I did when you were mine

When you were mine, yeah, oh no
Love you, baby, love you, baby
When you were mine

 

Oh yeah, NSFW.

 ScottN wrote: 
. It's very cool that he didn't just bugger off to California.

Minneapolis is lighting the I-35 bridge over the Mississippi in purple tonight, in memory and tribute.

Wow, I spend one day of RP and look what happens. 

 

I am eternally grateful to him for making skinny cool in the 1980s

 Alexandra wrote: 
Mark Goodman, Nina Blackwood, and Alan Hunter were all on Sirius XM this afternoon playing his music and talking about him and how important he was to MTV..