Holy shit! TPM is the all Prince and the time web page now!
I never thought I’d find myself missing Trump articles.
Amazing performer, dancer, guitarist, singer, larger than life. RIP.
Well since the other thread about Prince dying has been closed…
all I can say is this news sucks the purple banana big time.
Speechless and Shaken,still after hearing news (3) hours ago.Saving grace is I caught him at the old Izod center here in Jersey.RIP,Prince you aren’t going any where,your music will live forever.WOW !
Have to say I missed my chance to see Prince when I should have gone.
Did see his one-time guitarist from the early years through the 1999 album, Dez Dickerson, in concert. Another hugely talented guitar player though he mainly left the music scene when he became “born-again”… which has happened to several people in the Prince orbit.
One of my friends, an insanely talented musician (guitar and bass player) by the name of Chris Bruce I hung out with back when I lived in Chicago went on to be a session musician at Paisley Park then into the George Clinton camp.
Tragic…
But, I had to come here to post that Aretha just diagnosed, to Brian Williams, the cause of Prince’s death as possibly Zika Virus…Brian’s thinking, “Chill…it’s Aretha…”
This list needs his performance on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”. I’m not familiar with his whole body of music and most of his more popular songs from the 80s are the kind of pop crap that I hate, so I hadn’t realized that he was really a great guitarist until I saw this. Comes in out of nowhere with the equivalent of a mic drop at the end 
No caps? This is snark, right?
As a very young kid of the 80s, my first 3 albums were Thriller, Purple Rain, Let’s Dance. I played them over and over until they essentially disintegrated. I was so lucky to be that age at that time. They were iconic singular albums, but also music encyclopedias that provided an introduction to so many different types of music. Rock, Funk, Soul, Blues, Disco, Jazz and may more. That education and love of music in all diverse genres carried over for the rest of my life. Those albums shape my world, and now it’s a world with without those three monolithic, larger than life artists (not just musicians or performers, ARTISTS). It’s hard to wrap my head around.
Thank you TPM for these. It may not be the typical daily political grind and muckraking that some people seem to enjoy, but I never got the opportunity to see Prince live, and these are great to see as those who enjoyed his brilliance mourn him today.
I appreciate the coverage.
i agree
Hehe…yeah…I posted that very thing in another thread and I have a number of friends who’ve already confirmed “damn…that was the first fucking thing I went and listened to when I heard about it.” Simply stunning.
Meh…why complain? I think it’s a neat community and we can get off topic once in a while if we want to, so plplplplplplplplpl 
Sigh… another musical genius and true artist gone too soon. What a spirit.
Covered David Bowie recently. Most recordings have been scrubbed from the internet, but a snippet can be found here:
Well, watch the whole thing and the white guys (although fine guitarists) are pretty lame, repetitive…kinda boring. Then comes Prince and wipes the floor with them. And his smile as he walks away is Priceless.
LOL…to be fair, it has nothing to do with them being white and probably everything to do with them being like 30 years older than he was at the time haha
Besides them being older neither Jeff Lynne or Tom Petty is particularly notable as a guitarist; they’re there because they played with George Harrison in the Travelling Wilburys. So I expect that that effect was fully intentional.