R.I.P. PRINCE
[Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016)]
Many of us who read the announcement last week that Prince had been admitted to hospital after some kind of medical crisis may well have been concerned and not a little confused. Reflected a fleeting thought that he could not have succumbed to something as prosaic as flu!? Surely not? This was PRINCE! The man who didn't believe in time! Surely he was otherworldly enough to not be from this planet and suffer from exhaustion or head colds. His workaholic level commitment to pursuing his talent may just have caused pause for thought.
Many fans in the past may have wondered at his supposed legendary ability to go without sleep at the height of his creative output. He seemed nothing if not superhuman, a creature beyond us mere mortals at once superfit and handsome if not beautiful, metrosexual somehow displaying refined aspects of both genders, attractive to both sexes but also possessed of immense talent and a somehow tireless non-stop outpouring. If he wasn't playing guitar he was writing concept albums, at once naughty and bold, funky and power pop driven to producing the work of others from allegedly saving the music histories of artists from our past like Mavis Staples to modern day Fonk-masters like George Clinton. Well yesterday it all came to a sudden and all too real stop and we found him mortal after all.
'Prince' is dead at 57
There has been a flurry of bootleg reminders out there on the net immediately and Prince was a always cool with that. So long as you didn't sell them. I have the bootleg ‘BLACK’ album somewhere here but can’t locate it at the moment it is extraordinary and weird as weird can be . . . it is filthy!!! . . . . . he is like Frank Zappa . . . with HITS! Hendrix inherited talent with pop sensibilities that Jackson would have and did envy
Big O has listed some fine fine boots already two new and two from their back catalogue
Good stuff check out the weirdness about Miles Davis too . . . . . . .
Early classic boots 1988 this set the bar!
Small Club
Crucial - with Miles Davis
Baltimore 2015
All the hits and more - great quality! If nothing else get this one . . . . . . .
Louisville 2015
Big O goes on to say
+ + + + +PRINCE R.I.P. 1958-2016Prince, the songwriter, singer, producer, one-man studio band and consummate showman, died on April 21, 2016 at his residence, Paisley Park, in Chanhassen, Minn, according to a statement from his publicist, Yvette Noel-Schure. He was 57. No cause of death has been given. In a statement, the Carver County sheriff, Jim Olson, said that deputies responded to an emergency call at 9:43 am: “When deputies and medical personnel arrived, they found an unresponsive adult male in the elevator. First responders attempted to provide lifesaving CPR, but were unable to revive the victim. He was pronounced deceased at 10:07 am.” The sheriff’s office said it would continue to investigate his death.
Last week, responding to news reports that Prince’s plane had made an emergency landing because of a health scare, Ms. Noel-Schure said Prince was “fighting the flu.” Prince, born Prince Rogers Nelson on June 7, 1958, was a man bursting with music - a wildly prolific songwriter, a virtuoso on guitars, keyboards and drums and a master architect of funk, rock, R&B and pop, even as his music defied genres. In a career that lasted from the late 1970s until an arena tour this year, he was acclaimed as a sex symbol, a musical prodigy and an artist who shaped his career his way, often battling with accepted music-business practices. Prince’s Top 10 hits included “Little Red Corvette,” “When Doves Cry,” “Let’s Go Crazy,” “Kiss,” and “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World”; albums like “Dirty Mind,” “1999” and “Sign O’ the Times” were full-length statements. “Purple Rain” (1984) also won him an Academy Award. - The New York Times
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