Just kidding…a taste….of Joy…in Repetition. Circa 2002. It’s fine I didn’t technically share it just pointing y’all to this fine soldier in Prince’s army
04…we knew the things that happened then…but here’s another thing that happened….Pulling a song he wrote, covered by Tevin, reclaimed by him on 95’s Gold Experience, presented to you here by a mature Professor.
(It didn’t grab me when he performed this back in 95.)
Not a huge fan of Purple Rain (sorry not sorry) but this performance. This…performance… Milan 2010.
That is a straight channel from source and no one can tell me different.
Another inspiring song, the Love We Make another inspiring solo North Sea Jazz 2011
Something is still in the water…in 2013…a bit refined 30 years later, no?
And finally, March 2016 Chanhassen Dinner Theatre…the final documented time we have of him playing and it's a bit of the blues.
We covered 40 years of Prince working the strings tonight. It’s a side of him you may not know if you haven’t seen him live, or if you haven’t spent much time with “collectors items”.
#Prince's energy was so big and he truly “filled the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run.”
What a time to be able to witness his gifts!
And how lucky are we to be the benefactors of his life work for years to come? 💜
Prince is an icon. A legend. A mood. Sometimes though, it seems like his image crowds out his gift as a musician. Why were so many people blown away by the RRHOF performance? Why didn’t people know that kind of thing was a regular occurrence for him…for decades?
Why did a panel of musicians and critics not tap him to be a recognized and celebrated guitar player until 2011 when he FINALLY made the list of greatest players at #33?
There may be a few reasons, but I think it's mostly because people truly had no idea. The fun part of being an admirer of Prince is that his best work requires effort to find. A regular treasure hunt.
A lot of my dude insecurity stuff is linked to internal expectations of what I'm supposed to do and want and be as a Black woman within my own culture. That pressure comes from family as well as general expectations of needing to have booty and breasts to be attractive.
My family literally has a retrospective at the end of the year to talk about stuff we should have done better. For the two sisters who are unmarried, we are talked down to because we are too independent (they raised us to be this way)
Sorry we have our own careers and houses and cars and whatever else. We are set financially on our own accord. When you have a woman who can provide for herself financially, it's much harder to find someone who can be there for her emotionally. Patriarchy doesn't work that way
I'm in an interesting mood where I feel extremely present and human in a way that I don't usually feel during the day. I'm definitely a night person.
Daytime feels like obligations and jobs and stuff. Night time is quiet and reflection and feeling present on top of time. 💜
If you are a nap person like me, invest in blackout curtains for your bedroom. I got these ones for me and they literally changed my life. (Photo of my bedroom before I bought my house... I have these curtains up now and it's like perfectly dark at noon)
There are so many #Prince#StevieWonder connects! I want to take tomorrow to honor Stevie for his 70th birthday outside the context of P. He is in my top five artists & as much as he influenced my favorite artist, he deserves his own recognition on his day. A quick purple thread:
Now normally I would sit and listen to the whole album while putting out tidbits about each song that comes up, but that quite literally would take 3 hours or more (as I pause often).