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DesertFox- wrote:

SuperJail Warden wrote:

I hope this doesn't turn into a David Bowie situation. You couldn't escape talk about him.

I know people actually viewed Bowie as an important and creative musician. Do people actually think that about Prince? (Seriously asking. I know of several of his songs, but never really listened to him and thought he was just a famous weirdo from the '80s.

prince had 10x the musical talent of bowie. he maybe wasn't the fashion/pop icon that bowie became, but every musician in almost every genre knew that prince had serious chops.

Last edited by uziq (2016-04-21 14:39:44)

those genres are full of tribalistic teenagers who think it's somehow a betrayal of identity to like other music. also lots of homophobic (homoerotic) bollocks about music that contains sex appeal or, you know, gets girls dancing. i'm pretty sure any metal guitarist or drummer will be able to concede that, just in terms of pure musicianship, prince was the shit. the dude could play every instrument and had like a 10 year period of putting out perfect songs.

Prince did so much production and writing for others a huge influence.

i watched a biopic about prince's life a few years ago and it was full of studio/session musicians saying what a genius he was. this anecdote was referring to when he was a complete unknown. on his first two albums he wrote, played and recorded all of the instrument parts, if i recall correctly. the dude just 'got' music. and coke is right, he was way more influential than almost anyone else in those circles. bowie was a style icon but no one ever took musical cues from him. bowie followed trends, hoovered up and made 'underground' music into pop hits (remember his embarrassing bjork/drum'n'bass/jungle phase? yeah, don't bother). prince was just singular. he did what he wanted. he was also strange and a bit loopy but i think that comes with the territory of basically being a creative talent of that magnitude.

wouldn't consider myself a prince megafan btw but your post just evinced a lot of musical ignorance. not in a negative way. just you really are missing out on a lot.

Last edited by uziq (2016-04-21 16:22:13)

wasn't he a jehovah's witness? he was a pretty hardcore brand of special-american flavoured nut.

e: later in life, i mean. like, a post-crisis conversion. as in, he had the bug. that cad.

Last edited by uziq (2016-04-21 16:35:26)

i have nothing but respect for a 4'6" black midget that fucking owned the decade that white people were being the most questionable, coked out motherfuckers on the planet. i hope he fucked a lot of women.

Last edited by uziq (2016-04-21 16:44:50)

Chyna died today too. 46 years old.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

She probably had a bigger wang than you did, Macbeth.  Does that emasculate you?

There goes Ken talking about dicks again. What is wrong with you?

Last edited by SuperJail Warden (2016-04-21 17:26:55)

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

you're getting to be as predictable as Jay and that dumb Georgian.  You used to be edgy and exciting, Macbeth. 

Has a future lifetime of chiseling gum off school desks and enduring spitballs to the back of your head dulled you?

because if i say something vaguely offensive the autistic cartoon watching mod will get together with that Finfag Eifa stalker and try to ban me again because I made fun of him in a PM.

the mods here are nazis. and i am not sure if you are the Ernst Rohm because you are a closeted homo or if you are Heinrich Himmler of this place you mouthy midget.

let me post in peace.

In reference to posts elsewhere you both sound "salty".

too much salt makes me thirsty.

I wanna be your lover

I was too quick to get cynical regarding Prince's importance. Even the classic rock stations here are talking about how good he was at playing guitar and are playing and pointing out the rock songs he wrote and produced that you would have never known. It is funny that even soon hardcore right wing blogs and sites mourned. Drudge Report went purple for the day.

I was wrong about David Bowie too. Interviews with him started popping up in other places not related to music and he seemed like a very thoughtful and considerate person.