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lidon2001
Senior Member
Username: lidon2001

Post Number: 573
Registered: 4-2005
Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 9:59 am:   Edit Post

Wow... Sad.
davehouck
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Username: davehouck

Post Number: 12105
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 10:18 am:   Edit Post

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
Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 10:30 am:   Edit Post

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
Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 11:28 am:   Edit Post

While My Guitar Gently Weeps
pauldo
Senior Member
Username: pauldo

Post Number: 1627
Registered: 6-2006
Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 1:10 pm:   Edit Post

Ugh. Sad.

That video made me smile.

RIP Purple One.
terryc
Senior Member
Username: terryc

Post Number: 2465
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 2:14 pm:   Edit Post

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
Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 2:59 pm:   Edit Post

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
Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 4:42 pm:   Edit Post

He was still so very young.
stout71
Advanced Member
Username: stout71

Post Number: 291
Registered: 7-2011
Posted on Friday, April 22, 2016 - 8:21 am:   Edit Post

:-( One of my greatest influences.
davehouck
Moderator
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 12107
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Friday, April 22, 2016 - 3:22 pm:   Edit Post

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
Posted on Friday, April 22, 2016 - 6:55 pm:   Edit Post

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
Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2016 - 6:33 am:   Edit Post

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
Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2016 - 10:43 am:   Edit Post

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
Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2016 - 4:48 pm:   Edit Post

https://www.facebook.com/john.diss.54/posts/761017390664351
funkyjazzjunky
Senior Member
Username: funkyjazzjunky

Post Number: 1018
Registered: 5-2007
Posted on Sunday, April 24, 2016 - 5:37 pm:   Edit Post

"Lets Work" has one of my favorite bass lines. Very difficult for me to replicate

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