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Prince is primarily remembered as a solo artist, but if you ask fans to list all the bands he’s been in, it might take a while. There was Prince and the Revolution, the New Power Generation and 3rdEyeGirl, plus his jazz offshoot Madhouse, and the fact he played almost every note, including guide vocals, on albums by the Time, Vanity 6 and Apollonia 6. While Prince recorded most of these pop, funk and soul projects in Minneapolis or Los Angeles, he was also in a rock band, the Rebels, which briefly recorded together in Colorado.
The Pre-Revolution Rebels never caught on. However, this is exactly how Prince saw himself. Prince was fighting the man since day one. From the time of his initial signing he was rebelling against convention. Prince was the youngest artist at warner brothers to produce his own records. Even then his music bucked the trend.
Disco was still in its ascendancy in 1978. Prince was working out his funk plan that year. That plan included a wall of audio that would soon be known as the Minneapolis sound. I wanna be your lover was the smash that gave the world a hint of what was to come (for). It would have been easy for Prince to lean in to the formula that made I wanna be your lover the massive pop single it became. However Prince was a genius for his aesthetic sense as well as his musical depth.
Dirty Mind in 1980 was a tight mix of the young master's previous production quirks and the growing new wave/new romantic synth grooves coming from downtown New York City and London. Blondie, the Clash, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet and others created a sound ethic and a visual palette for a new generation that redefined rock. Also staking a claim in downtown NYC was a burgeoning musical style called Hip Hop. Hip Hop curated beats, toasting (MC ing), and brought with it the street art (graffiti) visual. Prince had one foot in the rock world and the other in the beat world himself. You could say that Prince's new aesthetic embodied what music was to become.
These changes were noticed by the critics of the day who would come to almost worship at Prince's feet. His low key New York tour of the Ritz, Saturday Night Live, etc...Came just as John Lennon was assassinated. Nothing would be the same.
Michael Jackson and Prince would come up against the subtle apartheid of MTV. Prince's two offerings in 1982-3 Little Red Corvette and 1999 would help Billie Jean & Beat it to blow the doors off MTV's reinforced blast doors. Yo! Mtv Raps, would follow in the years to come.
Prince's semi biopic Purple Rain would take rock visuals to rapturous levels taking a film director to essentially create the seagues that would serve as narrative breaks between Prince's other-worldly stage act. All at once the US and the western world was treated to a Prince concert. He was ready. 6 years of starts, stops, fails, insults, garbage, and a general misunderstanding of who this artist was created the image that is burned into our culture. A single figure wreathed in shadow..."dearly beloved, we have gathered here today..."
Gather round Sinniks and lets see how he did it. Song by song, show by show, Prince really created a universe.
This REBEL edition of the edit examines the genre breaking barrier crossing Rebel Prince and his Revolution.
21 июл 2022
