While he is a pop artist of sorts, those moments are infrequent in the grand scheme of his albums. Ronnie Talk To Russia, The Digital Garden, Darling Nikki, Guitar, Others Here With Us, Annie Christian, Calhoun Square, Computer Blue, and the list goes on and on.Īnd that’s what makes it difficult to pigeon hole Prince into any specific category. But any albums outside of that masterpiece have always had a lot of jaunts in various directions. Even Lady Cab Driver and Something In The Water were very funky. 1999 is undoubtedly his funkiest album if for no other reason that it had the fewest deviations from funk.
Prince has always been funky, but he would never attain a true funk branding because on every album there were always a plethora of songs that were far removed from funk. I have always loved how Prince keeps re-inventing himself and get asked why we cover Prince so much when he’s really not “funk”. I’m just setting the foundation for you of where this writer is coming from. And my stories of Prince encounters are vast, but designed for another time. But the travesty ends there as I would see pretty much every tour from there on out including Purple Rain 3 times at the Omni in Atlanta.
I like to brag about that being the first tour I had seen, but in truth my head was somewhere else at that time and I totally missed the significance of actually being present at that tour. I was brought to see him by a friend of my mother’s and I had no idea what I was looking at. The first tour I saw was 1999 way back in the early 80’s as a young kid all of probably 14 or so. The first I heard Prince was the Controversy album. Christopher) defense, I’ve been a fan for as long as I can remember. But what makes him so intriguing? How did he create such an indestructible persona and why does Funkatopia feel it necessary to be harsh sometimes? Let’s discuss. We even have a page dedicated to Prince that covers tour dates, news, videos, and other tidbits. Note: This was a post from a couple years ago that Prince loved. I decided that I would re-post it since it stands just as true today.įrom an outsider, it sure looks like we’re spending an inordinate amount of time reporting on Prince and everything that he’s doing and in truth, you’d be right.
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