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AP is running the story now. Prince is dead at 57. No details yet on how.

This sucks. Him and Bowie in the same year.

Maybe? He was 57 going on 22.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=prince+dead&tbm=nws

Maybe we can finally get that bizarre Kevin Smith documentary.

Edit: Removed maybe, cue dove headlines.

It was on TMZ and they never get anything wrong.  RIP.

Yes, this sucks pretty hard for music.

He was evidently hospitalized with a very bad Flu over the weekend.

Well damn, he was one strange dude, but he could sure as hell play the guitar. Never saw him live, but his Superbowl Halftime show was probably the best one I've ever seen.

RIP

Well that sucks.  :sad: :sad: :sad:

Really hope that's wrong. Purple Rain was an iconic point in music history.

Damn, he was just tweeting about record store day last weekend. RIP, Prince.

Good night, sweet Prince.

Seriously, fuck 2016. First Bowie, now Prince.

BBC has picked it up, so no...

And Glenn Frey as well.

Sad news, he was a very talented musician.  I really enjoyed his music in the 80s.  The 90s?  Whenever.

Good god what is going on. 57 is way too young ...

Pretty sure his video for "I Would Die for You" is burned into my memory more than his others. Really know you are getting older when the actors and musicians you grew up with start kicking off.

Prince and MJ both gone. 80s pop mourns the greats.

Immensely talented but eccentric guy.  Music lost a true artist here.  Being from Minneapolis and having watched him up close in the early 80's, it's another part of my youth gone.

Sad day.  

:(   :heartbreak:

That sucks. Was just listening to a great live jam of his the past few days in the truck. Fiancee just asked me to burn a copy of it for her and bam, this.

http://www.concertvault.com/prince/tramps-september-26-1998.html

Here's a track from that, with Chaka Khan on vox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfmRTF9jmDM

Great show, though the Doug E Fresh section is, em, not so fresh.

Shit, another really unexpected death  :heartbreak:

There were a lot of similarities for me between Prince & Bowie actually. Both incredible musicians, extremely influential in the music world, both a bit... odd. Also, I liked both of their early works much more than later stuff.

AIDS. Not trying to troll or be a dick, just a guess given his past lifestyle and going from "flu" to corpse in a couple of weeks. Could have been untreated pneumonia too, but any decent health care provider would have found that in plenty of time to prevent his death. THere are some cancers that don't have any noticeable symptoms until you're pretty much done for, and even then they feel like a flu. Lymphoma comes to mind.

But this does in fact suck, Prince and Morris day were the bulk of the music I listened too in high school. Purple Rain was one of the first movies I went to the drive-in to see, if you get my meaning.

That is what I was thinking as well. Definitely a possibility, given his age (since his sexual prime would have been right during the epidemic).

Fuck, I loved Prince.   :heartbreak:

Too many cool people dying lately.

Prince takes a stage filled with legends to school.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y

I love the 'and I'm done' mic-drop at the end of that.

God dammit. And yet, Ted Nugent is still going strong.

Random touch with Prince story...

I get a random call at 3AM from a friend who's going through a bad breakup and is just a complete shitshow. Said friend is a music producer. He puts me on hold about 10 minutes into the call as he's got another call. He comes back a few minutes later, "it's Prince on the other line, you should talk to him."

The fuck?

Next thing I know, I'm in a conference call with this guy and Prince.

"What are we gonna do about our boy?", Prince asks.

"I don't know! You're Prince, you're asking me? Work your magic, man!"

"Alright."

"Okay guys, you work this shit out without me, Prince, it was nice talking to you... At three in the fucking morning..."

Bizarre.

Superbowl XLI Halftime Show (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NN3gsSf-Ys)

There's also Charlie Murphy's Real Hollywood Story (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miZxYjqqjZM) about Prince. I don't know if it's actually true, but I want to believe  :tinfoil:

Charlie Murphy swears it's true.

Prince put Dave dressed up as Prince (holding pancakes) on the cover for the Single "Breakfast Can Wait."

Which is the only reason anyone remembers Breakfast Can Wait.

(https://i.imgur.com/6EJp80D.jpg)

Prince actually confirmed that it was true (or mostly). They even had pancakes!

https://soundcloud.com/zaheerali/prince-discussing-chappelle

I remember seeing that live on TV and my fiancee and I looking at each other, each thinking how much Prince just kerpwned that stage.

He is one of the most underrated musicians of our time, I've likened him to a funky modern Hendrix (who was also very experimental). And style for days.

TBH I'm more surprised that apparently he was this popular. It must have been before my time, because I've only ever heard of him as a punchline.

This comment made me think of Bambi (http://www.chartsinfrance.net/Prince/id-100558539.html). 

Sorry about the odd link.  Only place I could find it.

The artist formerly known as Prince  :cry:

Were you a teenager or in your 20's during the 80's? There's not really a current equivalent. I guess sort of like Taylor Swift if she sand about stuff besides her bad relationships.

I believe he played all the instruments on his first 5 albums.  Very underrated musician and a hell of a guitar player.

For a time after Purple Rain came out, he was pretty much like Rock's version of Michael Jackson.  He ended up going in a direction that was probably a bit too strange for most people, but had he decided he wanted to be a mainstream superstar, then that's exactly what he would have been and this page would be 6 pages long by now.  

Huh. No idea.

Plus playing every single instrument on all her albums while being one of the greatest guitarists of her generation.

Come on man, even I'm playing nice in this thread.

Which should indicate to Goreschach how much respect I think he deserved.

I actually don't think it is that bad of a comparison, just not 100% complete. Swift is writing her own stuff and is fully in command of both pop music and her own image. Prince just took it to another level.

I ruse.

Dude was a tiny colossus. He will be missed.

All you have to do is listen to Kevin Smith or anyone else's stories about Prince to realize Murphys had to be true. Hell, even surliboys lends credence to it.

Oh, sorry. I thought you were talking about Prince. My dad used to call him a her.

https://www.wunderground.com/q/zmw:30384.1.99999?sp=KGAVININ2

Now I get why the rain was turned to purple....I checked the app yesterday before I heard he had died and just thought they decided to mess with the color palette.

I R Smrt.

AIDS was my first thought as well given he landed a week ago for an emergency. The doctors would have had ample time to treat a flu.

My other thoughts were cancer or diabetic complications.

Damn that is a good one. All my rock / pop radio stations are playing prince songs today...

When I got to know my singer, we had very little crossover in music but it was really amazing hanging out turning each other on to albums. Early Prince is one he turned me onto, lots of funky stuff. Stuff like Prince made me realize just how diverse badass guitar music could be.

And then I'd turn him onto something like "Gimme Back my Bullets" to show how heavy southern rock could get. That was such a great time!

He also wrote a lot of music that main stream peroformers did and made big hits. His thing was I am not going to give you what you say you want I am going to try to give you what you really need musically and that was some really odd avenues but even his odd stuff like the original batman sound track were still some really good tunes.

Yeah, like he unleashed the horror of Sinead O'Conner onto the world because he gave her "Nothing compares 2 U", and then she spent years badmouthing him because she's Sinead O'Conner.

Google also gave him a nice doodle, for a few hours before Earth Day.

I was always somewhat turned off by his attitude and particular eccentricity, but there in no denying his creative genius and his incredible talent.

I find myself more moved by his passing than I would have thought.

Rest in Peace.

Do you have anything positive to say about anyone?

I loved his eccentric attitude. Spurning the mainstream record industry (remember the Slave period?) and having a private joke at all times while he did whatever the hell he wanted, with style.

His music helped define the 80's and 90's which is my teen/young adult years. That sticks with ya. Looking at his work in perspective to the industry and his talent and a musician, he is rightly enshrined in the Hall. For me, he was odd...just like almost all the geniuses in the world - no one I think I could hang out with. I think he rubbed a lot of people wrong when he drifted to the background and changed his name to a Symbol. That was too much for a lot of people.

Him as a person, didn't really float with a lot of people in popular culture. Him as an artist in music, a monster which I am glad I got to live through those years. For me, he hits a bit more since Bowie was a few years before I was coming into my own. Enjoyed Bowie after-the-fact in that I didn't get into his music till I was in college and never really caught up. Prince happened at the same time I was getting into music.

The symbol was brilliant, it allowed him to get out of a contract for two more albums.

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There is a special kind of hell for these people. The one special hell for people who talk while Prince is playing a guitar solo.

Shut the fuck up AND LET ME HEAR HIM PLAY.

I usually don't take celebrity deaths too badly, but Prince passing hit me pretty hard.  Been listening to his stuff for pretty much my entire life, and loved all of it.

Yep. I do a community radio show once a week for songs that I love. Prince was fantastic. "Nothing compares 2 U" was a fantastic song. Happy?

My wife & I are decorating our spare room this weekend, so naturally we're doing it to a constant Prince soundtrack. So many good albums. I'd kind of forgotten about Parade, fantastic album. It's so long since I've listened to it that I was waiting for the sound of the needle clunking off of the vinyl LP at the end of 'Sometimes it snows in April', which didn't happen because I have it on CD now.

I have a bunch of CDs where my mind expects that. Especially the Wall, where I mentally hear the needle pick up and the second disc drop.

I spent ages getting really annoyed with various digital media players that didn't do gapless playback because of albums like The Wall and Purple Rain. Ridiculously it's still a problem and one of the main reasons I often use Windows Media Player.

Prince kind of fell off my radar in the last decade or so, and I didn't think much of Purple Rain at the time it was released, but in the early 90's I really got to appreciate him and how work and picked up a good half-dozen of his albums, both as they were released and the classics. Always felt that he was just about the most talented musician alive, though. A huge shame about his passing. It feels like only Madonna is left of those huge, huge '80s megastars.

Ironically the mp3 disc I burned of the 1998 Tramps Prince show I've been listening to fucked up the gaps and it's making me nuts, because it's kinda just one long jam (that wouldn't fit on a redbook disc).

Apparently fake quotes from Prince were flying around facebook within hours of his death. This is interesting reading though becasue it reveals a bit about his private beliefs rather than his stage persona, which I certainly had no idea about.

http://www.snopes.com/prince-quote-politics/#

I saw a video from some christian channel on the youtube sidebar that he was sacrificed in some kind of blood ritual.

wat

Yep. And the antivax/GMO crowd has him down due to a vaccine reaction. Buncha herp. Depends on the crowd.