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Title: RIP Prince
Post by: lidon2001 on April 21, 2016, 09:59:30 AM

Wow...  Sad.

Title: RIP Prince
Post by: David Houck on April 21, 2016, 10:18:29 AM

Just saw the breaking news.
 
Initial reports say he canceled two shows last week because of a hospitalization related to the flu.

Title: RIP Prince
Post by: tubeperson on April 21, 2016, 10:30:14 AM

It is tough not to speculate on what happened.  He was Modern Funk and Soul personified. Another tragic death claims a great one.

Title: RIP Prince
Post by: David Houck on April 21, 2016, 11:28:41 AM

While My Guitar Gently Weeps (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y)

Title: RIP Prince
Post by: pauldo on April 21, 2016, 01:10:39 PM

Ugh. Sad.
 
That video made me smile.
 
RIP Purple One.

Title: RIP Prince
Post by: terryc on April 21, 2016, 02:14:54 PM

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

Title: RIP Prince
Post by: hammer on April 21, 2016, 02:59:47 PM

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.

Title: RIP Prince
Post by: mica on April 21, 2016, 04:42:09 PM

He was still so very young.

Title: RIP Prince
Post by: stout71 on April 22, 2016, 08:21:47 AM

  One of my greatest influences.

Title: RIP Prince
Post by: David Houck on April 22, 2016, 03:22:49 PM

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.

Title: RIP Prince
Post by: smokin_dave on April 22, 2016, 06:55:40 PM

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.

Title: RIP Prince
Post by: JuancarlinBass on April 23, 2016, 06:33:50 AM

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...

Title: RIP Prince
Post by: gtrguy on April 23, 2016, 10:43:56 AM

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!

Title: RIP Prince
Post by: jzstephan on April 23, 2016, 04:48:09 PM

https://www.facebook.com/john.diss.54/posts/761017390664351

Title: RIP Prince
Post by: funkyjazzjunky on April 24, 2016, 05:37:36 PM

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