<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/daveweigel">@daveweigel</a> I was born in 1967. My first awareness of Prince is that girls&#39; clothing flew off when I put the Purple Rain tape in the deck.</p>&mdash; Greg Benage (@GregBenage) <a href="https://twitter.com/GregBenage/status/723206518586273792">April 21, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">i&#39;m already mad about the bruno mars prince tribute medley at next year&#39;s grammys</p>&mdash; andy levy (@andylevy) <a href="https://twitter.com/andylevy/status/723208837419782150">April 21, 2016</a></blockquote>
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He had the "flu" for several weeks? If true he probably had pneumonia and became septic. Same thing that killed Henson the founder of the Muppets. Saw way too many people die on me that waited too long to come in for help.


No matter why he died, he made his mark in music. I think my favorite moment was actually the SNL medley he did a couple of years ago. Not only was it some great music but he and the band looked to be really enjoying themselves. Very fun to watch.

Merle Haggard, too. (Not this week, but recently.)

Wow. Wtf?

Keith Richards has been dead for over a decade but no one has ever told him that. Keith Richards is immortal.

Dang. RIP

I read awhile back he had signed with a publishing company and was writing his memoirs. I wonder if he finished and also if he knew he wasn't long for this world.

Helluva baller too...

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Legend has it that he recorded 100 songs for every album but only released just the few. Wonder if they ever release all those unpublished songs?

A few more than 3.
The 3 thing has nothing to with it. It's just time passing and age.
You got older,they got older

He had to make an emergency landing in IL just last week.

They played it off as flu symptoms.


What a sad loss.

This loss will effect a lot of people deeply for a while.

What a year.

Wow. RIP to a very talented musician.

5 #1 hits, 40 top-100 hits. Total and complete musical virtuoso. Michael Jackson may be the king of pop but he didn't play one instrument. Prince played 27.

Chris Rock interviewing Prince on the supposed Michael Jackson feud, pretty funny... "yo butt is mine"

LMAO

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Great cover:

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Shuffling Prince now on Google Music --- dude was one of a kind. A shooting star with so many gifts.

Prince was a hell of a talent as well....

{rimshot}

He was the one guy able to keep all his stuff off Youtube and the internet

So I told my gf about it and her reply:

"So what, he was a weirdo with one popular song"

I think its time to find a new gf.

I got grounded in high school because my mom got in my car to move it and 'pussy control' came blaring on when she started it.

"You know, women don't like it when you talk to them like that...."

No shit, ma. Thanks.

And for a guy that seems to have carefully cultivated one of the oddest persona's in entertainment history, he comes across as incredibly normal and down to earth in some of his more candid interviews.

I think he's one of those guys that is just so preternaturally gifted that he just kinda starts trolling life here and there.

All my Prince albums are pirated.

How do you know she isn't playing your sarcasm game?
Just a thought

People with that level of talent live fundamentally different lives, in different worlds than the rest of us. You have to create a bubble for yourself, so it's easy to become wildly eccentric. The fact that he was wildly eccentric yet still somewhat down to earth is a part of what makes him so interesting I suppose.

Fox has been interviewing a lot of people who got to hang with him regularly at the compound in Chanhassen and half of them, including the official compound dj are completely average looking 40-60 year white people... they look like housewives and plumbers

I think he was a lot more down to earth than the public persona lets on

I'f she swallows I'll take her

27? What are those 27 instruments?

Exactly.

I don't even think the dude was eccentric; I think he just got bored and was the world's first apex troll.

She will if you drink lots of pineapple juice

"Time for your pineapple pop honey"

good comments.
wonderful musician. one of a kind.
rip

Found this out the hard way a couple hours ago, couldnt find "1999 full album" anywhere

Took a few minutes and was watching some of the coverage on CNN,I absolutely agree the guy was a very talented musician but they were also talking about him being a poet and one guy said his favorite song was Soft & Wet....maybe it's just me but I don't see it in that song.

Found it in 2 minutes. Or are you talking 'legal' ways to find it

Legal, youtube

Drudge went all purple font.

Darling Nicky

Man, this sucks. The world was a better place with him in it. Thanks for the music.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...pisrc=nl_popns

ROFL

LMAO

Yes, who can ever forget that song and other hits like Little Red Mazda

Wolf's favorite Prince song is "Fast Car".

Nation Too Sad To **** Even Though It’s What Prince Would Have Wanted

CHANHASSEN, MN—After hearing the shocking news of the iconic pop star’s unexpected death, the U.S. populace reported Thursday that it was simply too sad to ****, even though they knew it was what Prince would have wanted.

“If Prince is looking down on us right now, I know he’d want to see us all get down and ****, but I’m still just so upset that he’s gone that I don’t think I could get in the mood,” said 37-year-old Arizona resident Carol Parnum, echoing the sentiment of tens of millions of Americans across the country, who acknowledged that, despite recognizing that nothing would have brought more joy to the seven-time Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist than everyone getting freaky and ****ing all night long, their emotions were still much too raw to do so.

“Look, I understand that Prince wouldn’t want us to be moping around with our heads in our hands, crying about how he’s gone and never coming back—no, he would want us to **** raw and to **** nasty. But I...I just can’t. My heart just isn’t in it right now.” After much personal anguish, the teary-eyed nation reportedly took a deep breath and solemnly mustered the resolve to get naked and start ****ing, saying it was simply the right thing to do.

The year when music legends died

2016. Written by George R. R. Martin.






/not an eDave original. This silly joke is floating on the line.

I've always been a fan of Wolf Blizzard's news show.

He was a hell of a guitarist.

What does the Wolf say?

not Prince,but he wrote stuff for Wendy and Lisa if i'm not mistaken?
what ever? they were in his band and its a hidden gem in music history
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A true legend, and the best musician I ever had the pleasure of seeing in person.

Hidden gem?

:spock:

Everyone knows Wendy & Lisa. Hell, they've been scoring TV shows for nearly two decades.

Define everyone.

hardly any consumers know about them or Danny Elfman's current work for that matter.

no one on the street gives a damn about people that score
tv shows etc. on that grand a scale

:facepalm:

Do you know what no one "gives a damn" about?

YOU.

A quick google says that he was basically the only musician on most of his albums, and the 27 number comes from the liner notes of "For You" which featured 27 instruments at some point on the album.

The small caveat is that the instruments were all strings, percussion, and keyboards, so it's really four core skillsets (including singing) and a huge number of variations.

Don't get me wrong - playing the guitar and playing the bass are very different, as are playing piano and playing the organ. And even then, there are very few people in the world who can play even the basic versions of all of those as well as he could.

Everyone still remembers where they were when they first saw this

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RIP Prince.

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I think this might be the first time this song was played for anyone?

I had to look them up. Crossing Jordan (never saw it), Bionic Woman (never saw it), Carnivàle (never saw it), Heroes (never saw it), Mercy (never heard of it), Nurse Jackie (never saw it). They've done some films as well, but I haven't seen those either.

Maybe everyone minus one.

While Prince was an excellent musician, his true gift was as a songwriter and producer.

He wrote hit songs for so many artists and was the consummate professional.

LMAO

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Howard Stern, &quot;Do you think Prince is a better musician than you?&quot;<br><br>Dave Grohl, &quot;Dude, Prince is a better DRUMMER than I am.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Prince?src=hash">#Prince</a></p>&mdash; David Hayter (@DavidBHayter) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidBHayter/status/723246303203840000">April 21, 2016</a></blockquote>
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I saw him live only once, when he was the symbol. Dude played a lot of different instruments, don't know how many but he jammed. 27 just sounds like a lot but yeah, they are probably variants on the same thing in some cases...

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Guy was an amazing performer. Saw him in concert 3 times.
Only complaint about his shows were that he didn't seem to like playing some of his big hits--he'd either skip them or do medleys. And sometimes he'd disappear and let his sax or horn guy noodle on for 10 minutes. On the other hand, he would also throw in some completely unexpected blues and funk covers and just tear them up.

A weird dude, awesome musician.

he didnt do his real sexy overtoned stuff later because of being a jehovah witness.

I didnt know he was epileptic.

If you can play piano proficiently, picking up and playing other instruments become infinitely more easy.

Film composer Brian Tyler (who's one of my favorite composers working today) plays more than 31 instruments.

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Really? Did not know that. Wonder why?

Heres the story of his all timer half time show, as told by the producers... with plenty of live music thrown in

It is, was, and will remain the best Super Bowl show of all time (embedding disabled)... worth the click

https://youtu.be/7NN3gsSf-Ys

Yeah, I've heard that reasoning. But he still played some 'sexy' stuff.
I do remember him playing the opening of Darling Nicki...crowd goes nuts...he does the first line, then stops before 'masturbating' and goes on to another song.

Because with piano, the notes are laid out right in front of your fingers. C to C, which is referred to as an Octave (8 notes). There are 4 Half Tones, which are the black keys.

So once your brain has become accustomed to music theory via piano, picking up other instruments is easy because one already understands the relationship between the notes, also known as Music Theory.

At that point, it's just physical manifestation of the instrument.

And yet, Kanye draws breath.

I can't ****ing believe this. The only instrument Prince wasn't a complete master at was the drums. Everything else, he was a ****ing PHD.

The music he wrote with Wendy and Lisa was some of the most original and prolific pop-rock that has ever been recorded.

When he moved away from the group mentality and became more of a solo artist, I thought his music was a little too self-indulgent, but he was still a master at crafting songs and he definitely wrote some gems along the way.

This is just no good. RIP.

This sucks.

Literally everyone likes Prince.

Nice find Easy - thanks.

Listening to it now, excellent, great find from the early days... and the sound quality is NUTS, my little plug in speakers are literally 5x louder than they've ever been before

the annoying thing is some of the best musicians dont know crap about music theory. They just learned on their own and play by ear or sight.

I know 2 people like that and I hate them (not really) for it.

Then add me to the list.

I don't read and never took lessons. Many of the Composer/Producers that I know are the same, although I know just as many that are schooled as well.

Hans Zimmer is the perfect example of a musician turned film composer that was never schooled.

Keith Richards will outlive us all.

He was a great coach for KState

Watch this mfer just RULE the stage, a born performer (good sound quality)

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A friend of mine went to his last show in DC and reported, "I knew within the first 6 minutes that this was the greatest show I had ever been to".

And that cat has been to a LOT of shows in his life. I mean everyone who has ever been anyone across a metric shit-ton of genres.