Prince... just died.

[Rockstar]

Oh heck as for myself, I didnt know the guy, I never met him, never listened too his music, nor did I like his act in any form or fashion. The body dies. Don't they all.

Wait I take some of that back, as a guitarist he did pretty in this. Still a drama queen though

[Commander Wallace]

I wasn't crazy about the music that he did or his flamboyance. However, You can't argue though that he was incredibly talented, combining funk with Jimi Hendrix and a driving rock sound with soul and R&B. He was particularly innovative in combining all these things.

He was also a gifted producer, working with Jimi Jamm who produced a few Janet Jackson albums. He worked to form the 80's group, " the Bangles " with Suzanna Hoffs and also Sheila E. along with many others.

I remember when there was a tribute to George Harrison of the Beatles at the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Iinduction. The all star cast included Prince and keyboard great Steve Winwood as well as the son of George Harrison, Danni, playing rhythm guitar. They played the Iconic song " While my guitar gently weeps " and Prince did the solo. It was incredible. I had no Idea Prince could play guitar but the all star cast knocked it out of the park.

He was a bit of a rebel, fighting with his record label to maintain creative control over his music resulting in his new name " The artist formally known as Prince "




Prince at the 2004 rock and roll hall of fame induction.



We have lost so many great ones like Glenn Frey and such. I hope we don't lose any more.



Rest in Peace.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Show some class, skybird.

Do yourself, Neal.

I stayed, mostly, silent when there were threads on Michael Jackson, Witney Houston, they had some musical strengths but all in all are not really amongst mankind's - or art's - greatest known names and will be forgotten in a hundred years; regarding Amy Whinehouse I really bit my lips considering what I really thought; I stayed silent on David Bowie since I found him sympathetic after a long TV biography about him many years ago, and liked at least his intense performance in Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence at least - his musical work is overrated, however.

But always seeing dilettantes being hyped and crocodile tears being shed over their departures is no nice experience, and is frustrating, and it is unfair, because there are so many really talented and really skilful musicians of many different genres and other artists out there who are or were capable of so much more class and skill, but just did not or do not get talked about because they lack(ed) the media lobby and the wide class-less audience that knows - and often knows nothing - about quality in this or that arts - and that is the far greater lack of class here than me calling a dead man as what he really was: a hopelessly overrated peacock so much in love with himself that I know no cure for this syndrome - and who was, in the end, a dilettante craving for validation who knew not half as much about making music as the world now claims him to have known.

You devalue and and offend musicians and artists who are so incredibly much more better than this peacock ever was, if you think dying is a value in itself and death reserves the deceased person the right to claim merits he did not justify in life, at least not by the outcomes of his chosen profession. If you compare a random limmerick to Shakespeare, you offend Shakespeare. Popularity is no indication for quality, I have learned already a long time ago. The taste of the masses all too often misleads you.

I prefer to give credit were it is due - and to give not were such compliments would go at the damage of people doing so much better. To die is no accomplishment healing the failures of a person's life. No personal friends or relatives are present here. No offence is being done. And this "man" was acting in public like a carricature of a man. Being a man myself, I take offence from this clown.

No loss there that is beyond the family's circle. And the family - is not here.

And u crank, music is not completely an issue of taste, it has a basis in mathematics, in harmonics, and in capabilities of people doing it. This guy especially lacked the voice to sing. He yelled or whimpered, he had no volume and no voice fundament. His arranegment are said to innovative, I see them as opportunistic and clueless. Respect the dead, you say. I would have said nothing if he died and media would have left it to it. But the headlines scream "one of the greatest musicians/artists/younameit". Simple truth is - he wasn't. And as I said: dying is no achievement.

So that's what happens when people get old and bitter...

[Buddahaid]

Biting my tongue. What a load of self righteous drivel.

[Kixa]

No more if you'd be so kind.

Originally Posted by Kixa

Prince.. frigid.. symbol or Prince, but he is what is prince/symbol.. or something, what theres is left.. fk Madonnna

Call an ambulance, you probably had a stroke.

[flostt]

Skybird, you should go into the brig for a few days, have you been drinking?

....you could have been a bit more subtle on this topic....music is a matter of taste, no need to start flaming around....

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by flostt

have you been drinking?

Such as that would be the case, but nay, tis his normal demeanour.

[Oberon]

Nurse, nurse, he's out of bed again!

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Do yourself, Neal.

I stayed, mostly, silent when there were threads on Michael Jackson, Witney Houston,blaaaaaaaaahhhhh.

I bet you're a lot of fun at a party.

And Kixa, stop spamming this thread.

[u crank]

Originally Posted by Skybird

And u crank, music is not completely an issue of taste....

That is not what I said. I said everybody has different tastes in music. That taste is an opinion. Opinions vary.

..it has a basis in mathematics, in harmonics, and in capabilities of people doing it.

There is much more to music and the appreciation of it than that. Music is not science. There is an aspect of it that cannot be readily defined by the analytical mind. That part of this appreciation can vary widely. Those who say their taste is better than others are musical snobs plain and simple. Tell me what you like and I'll pass judgment on your taste.

[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

Oh heck as for myself, I didnt know the guy, I never met him, never listened too his music, nor did I like his act in any form or fashion. The body dies. Don't they all.

Makes two of us ... I heard Purple Rain though does that count.

Let the poor guy rest in peace ... @ not shy skybird

I've never heard any thing like that about someone that just died your sure like to make your point though

[HunterICX]

R.I.P Prince.

Unexpected and sadly still to young to go too.

[Commander Wallace]

Originally Posted by u crank

That is not what I said. I said everybody has different tastes in music. That taste is an opinion. Opinions vary.



There is much more to music and the appreciation of it than that. Music is not science. There is an aspect of it that cannot be readily defined by the analytical mind. That part of this appreciation can vary widely. Those who say their taste is better than others are musical snobs plain and simple. Tell me what you like and I'll pass judgment on your taste.

I can't really say it better than that. Skybird, U crank and others are simply saying have respect for those that have just passed and have respect for the opinions of others as well. I agree with them.

I agree with you in that I didn't particularly care for his music and I'm free to like the music I like, as you and everyone else is as well. as my uncle would say, " If we all liked the same thing, the world would run out of Chocolate Ice Cream.

Prince was a gifted musician and producer in addition to being innovative in his approach to music. Innovation and taking chances and risks are what make music great. People are simply saying observe some decorum.