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Prince is a contradiction. His 1982 Classic funk jam lays out the dichotomy. "Am I black or white, am I straight or gay...? Controversy". He nailed controversial all day every day. From his risqué concerts to his sartorial choices to the wild lyrics.
Prince took this to serious levels in the studio. Not to say that he was the first, but he did his studio thing with relative frequency and apparent ease. His Jamie Starr alter ego became a Rock Journalist curiosity. The most respected Rolling Stone magazine & Starr tribune reporters were looking around Minneapolis for this elusive producer/svengale/manager. Of course he didn't exist. We now know he was Prince. However Prince employed a Purple House full of talent that he could conveniently draw upon at his whim. Dez Dickerson wrote cool. MORRIS DAY was a credited writer and acknowledged performer on the records he and Prince created. Jesse Johnson killed with his contribution of the skeletal framework for Jungle love. All under the umbrella character of JAMIE STARR & the STARR COMPANY.
However, in 1984 Prince embarked on a risky mission. He was going to become the biggest Rock Star in the world. He wanted it. He talked to his soon to be girlfriend Susannah Melvoin about it. His managers were put on. notice to Marshall their forces. His band was put thru purple paces. His BFF MORRIS DAY was told to be ready. It was all in place. Not even the initial lack of financing from the Warner Bros pictures bosses could halt the coming purple juggernaut. His then girlfriend Denise Matthews (Vanity) derailed the built momentum momentarily but as soon as Apollonia Kotero signed on...the train was back on track.
For the first time Prince would be drawing inspiration not solely from his personal experience, but for a film he did not write. He would be asked to tailor songs to fit montages, leagues and scenes. He once said..."there are songs and there are scenes, I'm the painter, yawls the paintee".
So he recorded an all time classic from a mobile studio truck parked outside a minneapolis rock pub and nailed the performance that would define his entire recording career. He wrote the biggest hit of his life in the midst of a funk renaissance without a baseline. He cut and pasted his way to the guitar heavy rocker, "Let's Go Crazy" from his rehearsal warehouse.
All this got done as he was presiding over the demise of the Time, the breakup of his most notorious relationship, in-fighting in the "harem" and his own feelings of doubt as to whether Purple Rain could take him to his "higher floor."
Later Prince would have his most creative period. Producing at least 7 albums worth of material in the following 2.5 years. He would criss cross the country traveling from LA to MPLS. 1 day in LA he would create one of his biggest hits. It would turn out to be a song that utilized the rising technique of sampling. Prince would soon deride the practice. He actually sued the rap band arrested development for use of a tiny portion of Alphabet St. for the song Tennessee. Years before that he sampled no less than 2 songs for this mammoth pop hit...can you guess which one? Watch the EDIT!!!
29 июл 2022
