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Y'all ready 2 get this #PurpleParty started? @Prince entered @Sunset Sound early May '82 to record what would become his longest electro-jam #Automatic. At over 9 minutes sending the project dubbed 1999 he began in Jan into unintentional Double LP territory 
He arrived with clearly something on his mind as everything in #Automatic feels like a confession An urgent unsettling genuine desperation unfolding with lyrical themes of emotion as technology. Lockstep speak-singing in the same pattern of his drum machine.
Both principal themes at the time, spiritual & profane come into play, the latter on full display when he makes cavalier declaration of a sexual favor, the listener & backing singer @JillJones simultaneously snap to as she excitedly responds “You will?!”
I recently did a thread on #PurpleRain where I broke down the ridiculous business model of the (fictionalized) First Avenue nightclub portrayed in the film.
Naturally, I have a follow up on #Prince’s “Graffiti Bridge”, which has not one but FOUR nightclubs...
Naturally, I have a follow up on #Prince’s “Graffiti Bridge”, which has not one but FOUR nightclubs...
...all of them run like trash.
So, another dive into the PCCU (Prince Cinematic Club Universe). I have 18 observations. Get comfortable.
So, another dive into the PCCU (Prince Cinematic Club Universe). I have 18 observations. Get comfortable.
The story of Graffiti takes place in Minneapolis at the fictional Seven Corners...art district? Skid row? The Seven Corners AREA is populated by lots of steam grates, nowhere near enough streetlights, the most unsavory creative class to ever bebop in a street, and 4 clubs:
It’s raining hard right now in San Francisco. It’s making me miss the hard rains and thunderstorms on the East Coast.
*This rain would not be considered hard rain on the East Coast.
*This rain would not be considered hard rain on the East Coast.
I will use this to point out that when Prince recorded #PurpleRain, it was at a benefit for the performing arts school he attended in Minneapolis. He did so at the request of a teacher who had made a big impact on him. That recording was the first time he ever played the song. ☔️
That’s just amazing to me (it’s one of my favorite songs). He would later polish the track in the studio, but it’s just amazing that what you hear here was his first performance of the song - and he performed it at the request of a former teacher.
open.spotify.com/track/54X78diS…
open.spotify.com/track/54X78diS…
