Report: Prince Dead at 57

crimsonaudio said:

You know what? It's sad that sometimes it takes something this awful happening to make me remember and once again marvel over someone's talent...

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a guy who i worked with for several summers in tuscaloosa was a prince fanatic. i would come away each summer with cassette tapes full of albums, extended re-mixes, and euro bootlegs of prince's stuff. i think my favorite work of his was controversy. that was in my walkman for a couple of summers as i mowed grass to make $

sign o the times and batman was about the last of his stuff that i remember paying attention to.

i remember once in the high school parking lot after school playing something by prince in my truck and some guy walked by and asked, who is playing that awesome guitar, that rocks. and when i told him prince, he just looked at me weird and walked away.

he played two shows at the fox in atlanta last week. i wish i would have made it to one. it sounded like he gave two awesome shows.

i thought i remembered some folks claiming prince was a crappy guitar player when talking about his halftime show on the ns board

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Actually , I did enjoy the show . Thought I was 13 again . There was always a debate regarding how much guitar Prince really did play . The girl used to play most of it .

I play guitar and feel Prince knows enough to make non-players think he's good but , hell I dust him and I'm no Jimi Hendrix . Anyway , people that play can see through others and IMO , he's no great guitarist . Thought he butchered a lot of it . Well , still enjoyed the show and the old memories that came with it .

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crimsonaudio said:

You know what? It's sad that sometimes it takes something this awful happening to make me remember and once again marvel over someone's talent...

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that's it exactly. When Prince first got popular I was exactly the age to rebel against it because it was popular. I was, and still am, a bigger fan of Punk, New Wave, Ska and many other forms so it took me years to really appreciate Prince to begin with (it was the song Kiss that first blew me away for whatever reason it resonated) over the years I came to appreciate the talent, then the music and then over the last few years I never really thought about it. The last 24 hours is making me recall how truly amazing he was

92tide said:

he played two shows at the fox in atlanta last week. i wish i would have made it to one. it sounded like he gave two awesome shows.

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The fox has ~4,700 seats and over the years I bet 50,000 people will claim to have made it to one of these two shows

I didn't even know he was playing and I keep up (though I hate the Fox as a venue) with Atlanta music scouted good shows

Jon said:

that's it exactly. When Prince first got popular I was exactly the age to rebel against it because it was popular. I was, and still am, a bigger fan of Punk, New Wave, Ska and many other forms so it took me years to really appreciate Prince to begin with (it was the song Kiss that first blew me away for whatever reason it resonated) over the years I came to appreciate the talent, then the music and then over the last few years I never really thought about it. The last 24 hours is making me recall how truly amazing he was

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the parents in my church freaked out when purple rain came out. they actually had a parents meeting talking about all of the naughty things that were in darling nicki and the rest of his songs

so then the parents went out to all of us teens asking questions like "this music is evil junk that glorifies sin, do you know what it means to masturbate with a magazine?"

this was about the same time as all of the moral panic was going on about heavy metal and backwards messages. i kept messing up my turntable trying to find backwards messages on my albums.

Jon said:

The fox has ~4,700 seats and over the years I bet 50,000 people will claim to have made it to one of these two shows

I didn't even know he was playing and I keep up (though I hate the Fox as a venue) with Atlanta music scouted good shows

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i've seen a couple of really good shows there, but mostly, i am not a fan of the fox as a venue.

honestly, my favorite music venue in atlanta is the variety playhouse.

92tide said:

i've seen a couple of really good shows there, but mostly, i am not a fan of the fox as a venue.

honestly, my favorite music venue in atlanta is the variety playhouse.

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Center Stage for me, love the setup and acoustics. But I also love the variety playhouse and the masquerade but not in the summer, gets too hot in heaven

I've seen great shows in all three

the Fox however just has a bad layout, no matter how good your tickets are the views are poor

92tide said:

i thought i remembered some folks claiming prince was a crappy guitar player when talking about his halftime show on the ns board

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I clicked on the link. Thought it had to be NYBF.

" I was, and still am, a bigger fan of Punk, New Wave, Ska "

This explains a lot.

crimsonaudio said:

LOL

I guess I just don't know what I'm talking about...

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i remembered there being another thread with quite a bit of back and forth with a few folks saying he sucked, but i couldn't find it

I always though he was a better "talent" than Michael despite Michael's name. It's a shame both are gone.

Frey, Lemmy, Merle, RIckman, Bowie, come on now, ease up 2016.

RIP Prince. :frown: