| Author | Message | ||
| lidon2001
Senior Member Username: lidon2001 Post Number: 573 Registered: 4-2005 |
Wow... Sad. | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 12105 Registered: 5-2002 |
Just saw the breaking news. Initial reports say he canceled two shows last week because of a hospitalization related to the flu. | ||
| tubeperson
Senior Member Username: tubeperson Post Number: 537 Registered: 5-2005 |
It is tough not to speculate on what happened. He was Modern Funk and Soul personified. Another tragic death claims a great one. | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 12106 Registered: 5-2002 |
While My Guitar Gently Weeps | ||
| pauldo
Senior Member Username: pauldo Post Number: 1627 Registered: 6-2006 |
Ugh. Sad. That video made me smile. RIP Purple One. | ||
| terryc
Senior Member Username: terryc Post Number: 2465 Registered: 11-2004 |
This is getting ridiculous! Another one gone! A well known UK comedienne Victoria Wood died this week as well. Moral; Don't be famous in 2016! RIP Mr Red Beret | ||
| hammer
Senior Member Username: hammer Post Number: 876 Registered: 9-2009 |
As a fellow Minnesotan, all I can say is that its so sad to see someone who still had so much wonderful music left pass away so young. I can't say that I responded to all of his music, but Prince was one hell of a guitarist whose virtuosity on the instrument was under appreciated by many. | ||
| mica
Moderator Username: mica Post Number: 8842 Registered: 6-2000 |
He was still so very young. | ||
| stout71
Advanced Member Username: stout71 Post Number: 291 Registered: 7-2011 |
 One of my greatest influences. | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 12107 Registered: 5-2002 |
I remember going to see the movie Purple Rain when it first came out. I went because I thought it was important; I thought that the music he was making, or more accurately, the way he was making it, was significant. He changed our culture for the better; and that, I think, is a greater gift than the actual music. | ||
| smokin_dave
Senior Member Username: smokin_dave Post Number: 452 Registered: 10-2002 |
Back in 81' a friend gave me a copy of Dirty Mind saying that he couldn't stand this disco garbage and I gave it a listen to. And it took a couple of spins but I got it.This wasn't disco.This is something else.This was funk,soul,r&b,Party music.Not to mention subject matter that nobody else was recording that's for sure. Even though I was into my punk period I really dug what I was hearing.Still do. Learning of his passing yesterday hit me real hard. | ||
| jcdlc72
Senior Member Username: jcdlc72 Post Number: 490 Registered: 11-2009 |
Although I never did truly understood everything he did, I was not really getting all there was to it, there is a lot of Prince music I enjoyed and appreciated, and I think after that I am able to recognize a genius, which he truly was. Some of his tunes and works are really superb, as a composer, as a creator, as a player and performer. Another sad loss adds up to this already shocking 2016 in matters of geniuses and creators departures from our plane... How I really wish it would stop at least for a while... | ||
| gtrguy
Senior Member Username: gtrguy Post Number: 1052 Registered: 9-2004 |
I was never really into his music, but I remember him performing at the Super Bowl a couple years ago in the rain and how he didn't even blink at the bad weather and I thought, "Man, what a pro this guy is!" | ||
| jzstephan
Advanced Member Username: jzstephan Post Number: 298 Registered: 1-2012 |
https://www.facebook.com/john.diss.54/posts/761017390664351 | ||
| funkyjazzjunky
Senior Member Username: funkyjazzjunky Post Number: 1018 Registered: 5-2007 |
"Lets Work" has one of my favorite bass lines. Very difficult for me to replicate |
