[Perform-Talk] musical influences

Sat Apr 30 00:22:19 UTC 2016

Hi.

I have a bootleg recording of the last gig he did a few days before he
died and it's really good. Just Prince and a piano. I think people
that aren't musicians don't quite appreciate how talented he was...

Cameron.

On 4/29/16, Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via Perform-talk
<perform-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> He had a very eclectic sound. He worked with a lot of genres. That's another
> thing about Prince is that he did not stick with one sound or style.
>
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> Darian Smith via Perform-talk
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> I feel like he really  didn’t do a great amount of hip hop  type of stuff
> too much. He had some stuff on his second to last album, and of course “My
> Name is Prince” which was kind of his own “answer” to Michael Jackson’s
> “Bad”.
>> On Apr 29, 2016, at 10:09 AM, Jennifer Aberdeen via Perform-talk
>> <perform-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> The other night I listened to Prince's last album that came out in
>> December of 2015. Very jazzy...lots of horns, piano etc. I think that was
>> wonderful...to have made a jazz type album. I liked Prince's early stuff
>> through the early nineties, but then he changed to more hip hop sounding
>> music and I went in another direction, but I didn't know he changed again
>> over the past decade or so. I actually didn't know he was putting out
>> albums anymore; I thought he was done with performing etc. I was wrong.
>>
>> Jen
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via
>> Perform-talk
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>>
>> The amazing thing about Prince is his musical genius. Whether you like his
>> music or not, you have to recognize his talent. He literally played every
>> instrument and was a prolific song writer. When and if they release his
>> catalogue, it will be extensive. And he understood staging. His shows were
>> not just music shows, they were performances.
>>
>> And BTW, my favorite dancer Misty Copeland often danced at Prince's shows.
>> Whenever he was performing in New York, he asked her to dance on stage.
>> And she toured with him at times too.
>>
>> Bridgit
>>
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>> Of Sandra Streeter via Perform-talk
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>> Cc: Sandra Streeter <sandrastreeter381 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [Perform-Talk] musical influences
>>
>> Cameron, your list of favorites is probably as long, perhaps longer than,
>> my own, and, like a lot of people on this list, I am quite eclectic (my
>> Aspergers bent toward one particular artist for 2-3 years came to an end
>> in high school, when I began doing choral classical work; I still go
>> through phases, but they may only last 1-2 months—which is why my
>> collection is so large: when the mood hits, I better have a particular
>> artist/CD available for my craving)! As to favorites for me, they run the
>> gamut from Brahms, Britten, Bernstein (in particular, the mass and the
>> Chichester Psalms), Rutter, Saint-saens, Durufle, Faure; the Moody Blues,
>> the Who, early Elton John, Pink Floyd, a little Jethro Tull, some Clapton
>> and the New Yardbirds and the Jeff Beck Group (especially “Beck’s Bolero);
>> classic rock from the 60s through the mid-80s; Johnny Cash, Sugarland;
>> Brubeck and Branford Marsalis; early Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, John
>> Michael Talbott, Kings X, Jars of Clay—BTW, looking for more
>> off-the-beaten-track rock/metal Christian artists, since much of what gets
>> airplay seems so corporate and unoriginal. And, although I was not a fan
>> of Prince, I do appreciate that he ventured into such a mix of styles—I
>> particularly like “Take Me With You,” “Purple Rain” (of course), “Signs of
>> the Times, even “When Doves Cry,” if you’re only talking the musical
>> aspects of his work. Such a sad loss to the music world. Really enjoying
>> this thread, folks...
>>
>>
>>
>> Sandra
>> "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential
>> is invisible to the eye." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Little Prince
>>
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