2016 Dead Pool
April 22nd, 2016 at 12:56:46 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | He changed his name? To what, King? If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
April 22nd, 2016 at 3:22:28 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
I read the past few days he had issues with his label. I always give such stars a boo-hoo-hoo as they were happy for the push they got on the way up and when the label wanted to cash in they cried the blues. Today the labels have lost much of that power, but back then you knew going in that you sold your soul. The President is a fink. |
April 22nd, 2016 at 4:03:23 AM permalink | |
chickenman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 0 Posts: 368 | The Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known As Prince. Cool. He's everywhere, he's everywhere...! |
April 22nd, 2016 at 4:55:50 AM permalink | |
ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12422 | I have no strong feelings either way about Prince. I'm not a big music person. I think I've purchased maybe like 5 albums total in my life. So his death doesn't mean much to me. Same thing with David Bowie earlier this year. And Glenn Frey also... “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
April 23rd, 2016 at 5:55:06 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
From age 35 to age 42 he changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol. He was known as "the artist who was formerly known as Prince". It was a brilliant marketing move. When he was 37, he married his 22-year-old backup singer and dancer Mayte Garcia on Valentine's Day 1996. They had a son named Boy Gregory on October 16, 1996, who was born with a very rare genetic disorder characterized by the premature fusion of certain bones of the skull (craniosynostosis), which prevents further growth of the skull and affects the shape of the head and face and died a week later. Prince and Mayte divorced in 1999. |
April 23rd, 2016 at 11:00:52 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
It's so odd, I never heard of this. I never heard him sing, never saw him on a talk show, couldn't name a song he did if my life depended on it. Yet his death in getting Michael Jackson coverage, people are weeping. I looked at a couple Youtube performances and couldn't watch more than a minute of them. I don't get it. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
April 23rd, 2016 at 7:43:42 PM permalink | |
zippyboy Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 2 Posts: 665 | That's because you're so old and out of touch, Bob. You were probably still listening to Sinatra in the mid-80s when Prince totally ruled the airwaves. I bet you still listen to Sinatra. Tell me, how many instruments did Sinatra play? Price was a virtuoso of 27 instruments. I don't understand how anyone can live with blinders on like you do, and his head in the sand. And you seem so proud of it. |
April 23rd, 2016 at 9:48:17 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
I was in my 30's in the 80's, I never heard him sing. Listening to him on Youtube he has a voice almost like a girls, very high pitched. I probably heard him and thought it was a woman, and turned it off. He's dead of a 25 year addiction to opiates, it's a miracle he lived to 57. Wanna bet who'll they'll remember a hundred years from now? They'll still be playing Sinatra. Roy Clark can play any instrument that has strings, which is far more than 27. What's your point. And I consider Roy far more talented than Prince. Roy is still playing in his 80's, no pesky drug addictions for him. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
April 24th, 2016 at 1:25:59 AM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18633 | Sheesh, Prince is in almost every genre. Love this cover with Kravitz of the Guess Who's "American Woman" Hope that superstition about things happening in 3s is not going to come true. Bowie, now Prince -- another cool person is gonna die. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
April 24th, 2016 at 1:35:34 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
What was cool about Prince, I don't get it. Please clue me in.. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |