• Pop,  Prince,  Rock

    The Future is Now

    Hey, it’s my first post from my sweet new iMac! I tell you, there’s a lot of different little habits I need to break and re-acquire. Right clicking, for example. You don’t get the ol’ right click menu in Mac.…

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    The End of the Revolution

    Old school Prince diehards like me get a bit nostalgic when thinking back to the Revolution days. There was a certain dynamic and chemistry with the lineup – Prince, Bobby Z. on drums, Matt Fink on synth, Lisa Coleman on…

  • Pop,  Prince

    Elisa: Oooh This I Need

    If there’s music with Prince’s fingerprints on it, there’s a good chance I have it (well, I never did buy Good Question). This includes Prince’s work with Elisa Fiorillo. He produced about half of her 1989 album, I Am. Elisa…

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    Whatever Happened to Andre Cymone?

    February 2014 Update: The Stone – The Return of Andre Cymone Andre Cymone, to you non-Prince freaks, was Prince’s childhood buddy and the first bassist in Prince’s touring band (before they were known as the Revolution). He left in 1981…

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    Prince,  Rock

    Prince Half Time Thoughts

    “During ‘Purple Rain’ a thin, white balloon emerged near the stage, and it appeared as if Prince was performing inside a condom.” – Dave Hoekstra, Chicago Sun-Times (in this article) Huh? I guess the human brain will interpret things in…

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    Prince’s Super Bowl Set List (Final)

    So the spoiler set list was right… We Will Rock You intro Let’s Go Crazy 1999 (short interlude) Baby I’m a Star > Proud Mary > Baby I’m a Star All Along the Watchtower (brief) > Best Of You Purple…

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    Prince’s Super Bowl Set List (Maybe)

    UPDATE: See this post for video of the performance. The set list was: We Will Rock You intro Let’s Go Crazy 1999 (short interlude) Baby I’m a Star > Proud Mary > Baby I’m a Star All Along the Watchtower…

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    Prince Week Continues: Acoustic Awesomeness

    This MTV special eluded me a few years ago during the Musicology tour. Cream I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man Sweet Thing Sometimes it Snows in April Update: like most Prince stuff on YouTube, this one has…

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    Howard Debuts Prince

    Okay, well, it very well may be morphing into Prince week here on Ickmusic. I was pleasantly surprised when I turned on Howard Stern this morning to hear them listening to some new Prince tracks. They were listening to (and…

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    One Week til Super Bowl Prince

    One week to go until Prince does it Super Bowl style. Rumors so far have the Florida A&M University ‘Marching 100’ marching band involved somehow. If you caught the Grammys last year, it’s the same marching band that played with…