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Lately this lyric:
"Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
If you know what I'm singing about up here
C'mon, raise your hand"
Pisses me off... because you know people in that audience were raising their hands with NO fucking idea what Prince was singing about up there. I still don't have any idea what he was singing about. Mostly self-absorbed bullshit, I think.
He has such a different life that probably finding anyone who grokked his deal was a torturous ordeal.
It turns out it is related to his JW apocalypse fixation.
Purple Rain was supposed to be raining blood (blue sky and red blood = purple).
It was an end-time apocalypse song. Which made sense... there were backmasked messages that said, "Hello, how are you, I'm fine because I know the Lord is coming soon."
And other JW symbology throughout that album and 1999.
I think my Yngwie Malmsteen-obsessed JW friend got his aesthetic from Prince. He had a lot of the same physical features... and his Mom was divorced... or maybe he was PRINCE'S BABY OMG
I'd totally be Prince's bastard lovechild, if I could opt into something like that.
Thu May 16 2019 13:29:29 MST from ParanoidDelusionsI'd totally be Prince's bastard lovechild, if I could opt into something like that.
Nice work if you can get it! Does sound pretty sweet.
Sadly, he was *completely* tone deaf. And he wanted to be a lead guitarist, which was terrible. You can be a tone deaf rhythm guitarist if someone is composing for you. But lead? Not really.
He played with me in my first-ever public guitar performance. Every Rose Has Its Thorn. I guess I was 17. Church social, lol.
You played with Prince?
That is fucking crazy.
Lol no. With his apparent bastard love child
Oh. Still fucking cool. Was he small, brown, and sexy as fuck?
Calling Prince "tone deaf" seemed like a bold statement to me - but I am not a musician, so it seemed *plausible* that maybe the Purple One was not as much of a musical genius as I've always thought he was - from the perspective of an actual musician.
I did have a raised eyebrow, though. ;)
This makes more sense. How terrible to be Prince's bastard kid and get your MOTHER'S musical aptitude.
Life *really* isn't fair.
LOL I remember that kid, he was fun, as long as you were willing to listen to 85 hours of speed metal a day. Can't remember his name though.
Sun May 19 2019 23:02:13 MST from ParanoidDelusionsCalling Prince "tone deaf" seemed like a bold statement to me - but I am not a musician, so it seemed *plausible* that maybe the Purple One was not as much of a musical genius as I've always thought he was - from the perspective of an actual musician.
I did have a raised eyebrow, though. ;)
This makes more sense. How terrible to be Prince's bastard kid and get your MOTHER'S musical aptitude.
Haha, right? Prince's aptitude could have ushered in a new era, like Michael Jackson brought the world Pop qua Pop. Instead he decided to be amazing at established genres. I also think he did a lot to improve race relations as did his musical predecessors. So I won't lament the lost potentials of, for example, listenable atonal music he could have unleashed on the world.
He was conventionally attractive except for outsized lips, which he picked at which made them larger. But he had carmel skin and large eyes, wavy black hair and a flair for the dramatic. The more I think about it the more I'm convinced this was Prince's unfortunate JW lovechild.
His name was... Anthony maybe? He liked to introduce himself as Yngvie Malmsteen. He went to McClatchy when the "thing" was to be weird. People would try to out-weird each other by purporting to be necrophiliacs or carving Celtic knots into their skin or whatever was wierder than that. I wonder if that's where otherkin came from. The the self-flagelating persecution-desperation stew that was 90s McClatchy. Lock 2,000 Jussie Smollets in a mannerist revival building made by FDR's socialist PWA and you get male lesbian two-spirits arguing with their furry penguin headmates on Tumblr 20 years later.
Excuse me. The first paragraph above was about Prince. The second and third were about the aforementioned lovechild.
I followed along. I knew a guy at Sutter Middle named Anthony Platz who was very tall but otherwise fits the description of describe, including the ego - but Anthony thought he was Metal As Fuck (tm). Every time I'd see him at a house party, he would grab my hair and bang our foreheads together to illustrate to everyone around how fucking METAL we both were... I remember walking around parties with a throbbing headache having lost my desire to drink because of running into him while just getting a good buzz on. It seems logical he would have gone on to Sac High though... although... I toured Sac Hi, CkM and JFK... and they all tend to send me reunion invites for a RANGE of graduating years.
"Paranoid went here, right, and he graduated in.... 1987 - 1991... ish?"
Pretty sure his name was Stevie Hanley. Maybe it was Anthony Hanley.
I probably just put "Anthony" into your head. :)
This room has been quite for a few days....
The same guy who wrote "The Piña Colada" song wrote a song about cannibalism.
Fri Jun 28 2019 13:39:34 MST from New User
The same guy who wrote "The Piña Colada" song wrote a song about cannibalism.
This is the most interesting trivia I've heard in a while. What is the song called?
"The Long Pork," song?
"I was tired of my hamburger
It was just USDA
So I lurked in the shadows
And contemplated the way
That a nice shank of long pork
Would taste on my plate
So I got myself a hacksaw
And a kill room in place..."