Random thoughts and a few memories about his times

Prince inspired the odd fashion choice of many women wearing doilies around their wrists, ankles and necks.
Puzzling. Good for industry sales. Ruffles, berets, doily companies today all know sorrow.

Prince was another who made it okay for men to wear heels. Not so much with Michael Dukakis.

Our friend Gigi told us the day after the Prince show (late '80's) that she  kicked the chairs of the people in front of her because they weren't dancing.  To be a Prince fan did not involve your most laid back moments. It was something she had to do, no matter how crazy it seemed to us.

At the time, Maria was my Sign O' the Times.  She knew all the words.  Who was Cat?

Not his best album, but 1999 was the Prince record I played the most (we played it at Double Rainbow) and then Sign O'the Times, Lovesexy (not only because I wanted to be on my Maria's good side). Purple Rain played endlessly.  Prior to that my friend Suzette played Controversy and Dirty Mind, which was too dirty for my mind, at the time.

A thought occurs that he never wanted to be the old guy shuffling along to "Hey, that guy used to be Prince". And so he is ever vital, vibrant, an enigma.

He was always in the world at large and media, apart from the rest of us, unique, not quite like anyone else.
The commotion caused by his appearance at a recent Warriors basketball game was noteworthy, as was his shout out of Stephen Curry at one of his concerts. "Everyone will let you down. Except Steph Curry".

Imagining him hanging around with Miles Davis is kind of fun to think about, especially if they wanted to go to the local store together and purchased a Snapple.

He was one for all the short guys.

Mixed ethnicity, affection for multiple genres of music, kind of an odd person.   That's America.

With Michael Jackson and Prince gone, who are the Jehovah Witness folks going to latch on to now?
(Jackson left the JW in disagreement with their philosophies but) imagine those two brothers stopping at your door. Wouldn't you consider joining or at least pretending to, while you got your feet to somehow communicate to your family to sneak a photo; "well, I don't know....do you have a card that I call you?"

He inspired the imagination to where some people having gone into the Paisley Park facility, think they knew him, let alone even met him.  Locas Tambien!!

No known contact of Prince with Merle Haggard or Bowie but producing a Mavis Staples record,
checking out the Replacements in Minneapolis, and who knows what stories with his interactions with the Bangles all fascinate.

and just to prove that he could play well with others, is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y

and for a 20 minute live blast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHiNSYThDO0