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[iamjessemartinz]

It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Celebrating the #Legacy and #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: #Madhouse • Love this? #SupportArt and become a #Patreon member at #ClubLPP 💜👉  patreon.com/clublpp • From princevault.com: Madhouse was originally a 'faux' jazz rock group conjured up by Prince in late 1986 in Minneapolis to be an outlet for some jazz material he had recorded with Eric Leeds. A live version of the band was made up when Madhouse was slated as a support act on the Sign O’ The Times Tour. The line up of the band comprised Eric Leeds (baritone saxophone), Dr. Fink (keyboards), Levi Seacer, Jr. (bass), and Dale Alexander (drums). • From the Current's 'Prince: The Story of Sign O' The Times, Episode 7': From June 19 to 22, 1987, Prince took over a soccer stadium in Utrecht, Holland, setting up chairs to host nearly 15,000 fans each night. I've gotten the chance to connect with a handful of Dutch fans who were actually at the show on June 20, 1987, which was recorded and has been remastered and included in the Super Deluxe reissue of Sign O' The Times. The opening act for the Sign O' The Times Tour was Madhouse, Prince's experimental jazz side project. The original live lineup of Madhouse included Eric Leeds, Dr. Fink, Levi Seacer, and drummer Dale Alexander. . [Dutch fan] Patrick Jordens: ‘I was watching Madhouse like my life depended on it because I loved it. I lot of people were not paying attention, but when I was looking at Madhouse, I looked to the side of the stage, and I see Prince, and he's watching Madhouse from the side of the stage, and he's hanging on some kind of bar. He's swinging, and then he jumps off and he stands there a little bit, and no one sees him but me, I think. So I tap Roald, and I say, you know, "Hey! Look over there it's Prince." And he sees me getting Roald and pointing at him, and then he waves at us — never forget it! It was beautiful!’ • #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt 💜👉 https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince https://www.instagram.com/p/CWyKVTIlNDZBzR-YlvDVWkiRVsO1h-TMiNGxZM0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[paisleyparkinyourheart]

@0rlando: The funkiest ever scene... #LPP #TroyGuaArt #TroyGua #Painter #Sculptor #Artist #FunkArt #PrinceArt #Prince #LePetitPrince #PaisleyPark #ItsInUrHeart #ItsInYourHeart #Studio #Art #Production #VideoProduction #ClubLPP #Prince4ever https://t.co/6ZsiBmoWTz

[iamjessemartinz]

It's Christmas Day, It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Celebrating the #Legacy and #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: #DETROIT • Love this? #SupportArt and become a #Patreon member at #ClubLPP 💜👉  patreon.com/clublpp • This piece is essentially a love letter to Prince's love affair with Detroit, capturing him onstage in the midst of doing the 'Detroit Crawl', with the city's glittering skyline in the background. • From The Current's 'How Prince's love affair with Detroit helped fuel the birth of techno', by Bobby Kahn, April 19, 2017: The demographics of the Motor City, as well as the infrastructure in place (radio, clubs, and retail) made Detroit a top market for a black artist. Motown had moved to Los Angeles in 1972, leaving a prime opportunity for someone like Prince to come into Detroit and become a star. That’s exactly what he did — but he had some help. “The Electrifying Mojo was the torch bearer for Prince,” Alan Freed says of a radio DJ colleague. “He’s a big reason Detroit played the role it did.” The enigmatic radio DJ known on air as the Electrifying Mojo (real name: Charles Johnson) had complete control over his show, since he paid directly for his own FM air-time. He was very forward-thinking when it came to music programming. He's perhaps most often remembered as being the man who first broke techno music to the world in the mid-80s, but he was also a very early adopter of Prince. By the time Mark Brown, aka Brownmark, joined Prince’s band in the summer of 1981, Mojo had whipped Detroit into a purple frenzy. “Detroit was crazy, I couldn’t believe the energy,” says Brown. “I don’t know what it was about the demographics and the sound, but they were Prince fanatics.” Minneapolis was starting to catch on by then, but not with the fervor of Detroit. “They would come to concerts wearing trench coats and have their hair thrown to the side,” says Brown. “There was something special about that place. They were Prince crazy.” • #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt 💜👉 https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince https://www.instagram.com/p/CX6ezCelyyFdno2j7SsA7NZAh3jUC_3Lni3KN40/?utm_medium=tumblr

[iamjessemartinz]

It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Celebrating the #Legacy and #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: #Europe . Love this? #SupportArt and become a #Patreon member at #ClubLPP 💜👉  patreon.com/clublpp . From The Current's 'Prince: The Story of Sign O' The Times, Episode 7': . Sign O' The Times was released on March 30, 1987, in the U.K., and March 31 in the U.S., and the Sign O' The Times Tour kicked off in Stockholm, Sweden, on May 8. The tour routed Prince and his new band through many of the same cities he'd just played the previous year with The Revolution on the Parade Tour. . LeRoy Bennett: 'Parade, based off of the movie, that opened Prince's eyes to Europe a lot. The European audiences in general are way more musically educated. There is a lot more sophistication than there is here in America. And because his musical mind was in another stratosphere, universe, they could relate to it they understood it they followed him, and he just loved that. He felt at home. He felt he didn't have to be commercial he could play what he loved, do what he loved, feel the freedom of being able to do all that stuff. They suddenly became his friends they became his people.' . In the U.S., mainstream audiences were introduced to Prince through Purple Rain concert experience his Purple Rain Tour sold over 1.7 million tickets. But in Europe, the entry point for many Prince fans were the Parade and Sign O' The Times tours, which would often set up camp in each city for three or four night runs. . #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt . 💜👉 https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince https://www.instagram.com/p/CWgTUF0FPkXn9NWXvRxaMr_RyebzJwWZGYExjQ0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[iamjessemartinz]

It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Celebrating the #Legacy and #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: #WhatDoUThinkOfThis . Love this? #SupportArt and become a #Patreon member at #ClubLPP 💜👉 patreon.com/clublpp [LINK IN BIO] . From Duane Tudahl's 'Prince and the Parade and Sign O' The Times Era Studio Sessions 1985-1986': Alan Leeds: "Prince would casually ask people, be it me, a girlfriend, be it [his manager, Steven] Fargnoli, be it a bodyguard, depending on where he was, what his mood was, "What do you think of this?" He loved playing music for people, and he would have their undivided attention. You would get in his car, he would ride around, maybe go to a Dairy Queen and get ice cream or a shake or something to sip on, sit in the car and listen to the proposed sequence of his next album, whatever that was. Then he would ask opinions, as to the flow and so on. It was only in an advisory capacity. You'd tell him what you think and he dropped you back off. Nine out of ten times it was gonna change 50 times, despite anything you said, so it was kind of an exercise. It was him surveying the people whose opinions mattered somewhat, and I'm sure I was hardly the only one." . #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt . 💜👉 https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince https://www.instagram.com/p/CVX-QVllXTY/?utm_medium=tumblr

[iamjessemartinz]

It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Celebrating the #Legacy and #Genius of #Prince 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: #MeetingCat . Love this? #SupportArt and become a #Patreon member at #ClubLPP 💜👉  patreon.com/clublpp . From 'Dyes Got the Answers 2 Ur ?s': Sexy Dancer: Cat Glover Talks 2 Beautiful Nights, by K. Nicola Dyes: 'The formal introduction to Prince was at his house in Beverly Hills. I was invited by Devin DeVasquez, a Playboy Playmate who was also on Star Search. She was dating Prince at the time. Prince's father and DeVasquez were good friends. She invited me to Prince's house for dinner and I met him when he walked in with a tape, and it was "Housequake." He wanted Fargnoli (Prince's then manager) to come upstairs and hear it. He saw me sitting at the table wearing all purple—suspenders, high-waisted pants—and I had on that chauffeur's hat that I gave him for his birthday. After dinner we all went to a club. We took different cars and we ended up at a club called Voila in Beverly Hills, a private club, downstairs in a mall. I was sitting there with Fargnoli, DeVasquez, Prince and a couple of other people. Prince said (speaking in a low, raspy voice) "Cat, when a good song comes on will you dance with me?" I said "Sure!" The first song came on and he didn't ask to me to dance. The second song came on he didn't ask me to dance. On the third song, "Simply Irresistible" by Robert Palmer, he asked me to dance.   He started doing dance steps and I started doing them whatever he did, I did. I think he noticed that, so, he started doing them more and I started doing them more. I think we stayed on the dance floor for two songs. After that, the DJ played some kind of uptempo house music, which I love, being from Chicago. I remember I walked toward the DJ and there was a wall. I put my hands on the wall and started jackin' (a dance move closely associated with house music that originated in Chicago). That's the night it all started. . #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt 💜👉 https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince https://www.instagram.com/p/CVGCmvWl42d/?utm_medium=tumblr

[iamjessemartinz]

It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Celebrating the #Legacy and #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: #TheRevolution ends . Love this? #SupportArt and become a #Patreon member 👉 #ClubLPP 👉  patreon.com/clublpp . From Duane Tudahl's 'Prince and the Parade and Sign O' The Times Era Studio Sessions 1985-1986':

September 9, 1986
 Wendy: 'I knew something shifted on our last night at Yokohama Stadium. He started calling a whole bunch of different people on stage with us and he hadn't done that before and we knew him so well and there wasn't a lot of...he wasn't looking at us. I could feel it."
. The performance on that night would be historic and publicly created a chasm in the band from which they'd never recover.
. During his solo on "Purple Rain," Prince slammed his white guitar down and was given  a replacement, but within 30 seconds he threw that one to the ground as well. Wendy realized that it was all coming to a head. "He destroyed it and I looked at Bobby and I went 'It's over.' I looked at Lisa , 'It's over.' And it was over." . With the relatively short tour over , and no routine from the road and none of the numbing adulation to distract him, Prince quickly jumped back into his disciplined recording schedule, but this time he closed the doors to his home studio to almost everyone, including those closest to him, giving him the opportunity to quietly reflect.
. What had become communal time with those he loved was being reclaimed as solitary once again. His once family-like band was placed at arm's length, and Prince privately tested the waters, possibly to verify that he still had the ability to create without exposing too much of himself in the process. "We wanted to be Prince's muses," Wendy explained, "but he felt like he needed to take back the initial thing that got him to where he was at, which was, 'I need to do this on my own.'" . #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt 💜👉 https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince https://www.instagram.com/p/CTrzyUOlCqW/?utm_medium=tumblr

[iamjessemartinz]

It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Celebrating the #Legacy and #Genius of #Prince 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: #FAIRLIGHT #NewSounds • Love this? #SupportArt and become a #Patreon member 👉 #ClubLPP 👉  patreon.com/clublpp • From Duane Tudahl's 'Prince and the Parade and Sign o' the Times Era Studio Sessions 1985 and 1986': "Prince got a FAIRLIGHT! This was the coolest sampler keyboard monster ever! We loved it and it inspired a lot of unique ideas. The type of songs that used sound effects and flutes and orchestral samples, etc. It was a brand-new box of crayons in a preschool with no grown-ups around to tell us not to color on the walls...Because we were also really high on the popularity of Purple Rain, we had all of this momentum, so as musicians we were really bold and brave. I think other musicians can feel that when they listen [to Parade]. There's an irreverence to it, and it's all over the place. It's the kind of stuff that record companies hate, but musicians love." ~Lisa Coleman • Prince had been using the Fairlight keyboard but sometimes struggled with how to stretch its potential and decided to bring in an expert to help, according to Todd Herreman. "I got a call from Alan Leeds saying 'We got this Fairlight from you guys, but Prince needs somebody to run it, could you recommend a programmer?' and I just said, 'Well, that would be me.' So they flew me up for an interview and I got the gig." "My first session with him blew my freaking mind. I get called at five or six in the morning and it's Susan and she said that Prince wants to record. So this is like being thrown into the deep end, I mean it was my first week there, I had no idea what I was in for and I really didn't know Prince as a musician at that point and I really had no idea what this man was capable of. And he was making the extended mix of "Mountains" for the 12-inch. And I just sat there the whole time with my mouth open and my jaw hitting the floor. I can't believe I'm seeing him do this." • #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt • 💜👉 https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince https://www.instagram.com/p/CRt1N57leGgP_no7jK1ikjYJmkYn2bRH9mdQ2w0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[iamjessemartinz]

It's an #LPPSaturday ✌️4☝️ (swipe for both) and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Let's celebrate the #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: the #Excitement and #LOUDNESS of the #PurpleRain Tour . Love this? Join the club - literally! 👉 #ClubLPP 👉  patreon.com/clublpp • From Rolling Stone: Prince’s Epic ‘Purple Rain’ Tour: An Oral History by David Browne, June 22, 2017: . Lisa Coleman: It was one of the loudest things I’ve ever heard. It’s like when sports teams come out onto the field. We were hitting the stage and it’s as if we were coming out from the locker room, you know? People were screaming and hanging over the rails and reaching for us. They knew our names, more than ever because of the film. We all kind of glanced at each other like, “Holy shit!” . Wendy Melvoin: When they turned the lights off and you’d stand by the side of the stage and hear, “Ladies and gentlemen …,” it was deafening. To this day, I have never heard anything like that. It was so loud that my ears became distorted at one point. . Mark Brown: It was hard to hear yourself onstage. The audience would settle down after the first couple songs, but still … I had a huge bass rig. And even with all of that equipment, I would only hear it if I walked back by the bass amp. You’d feel the beat, but there were moments where you could get lost. . Matt Fink: The loudest white noise possible. . Bobby Z: Then Prince would rile them back up. He’d shake his ass or do a costume change or something, and people would go nuts again. . LeRoy Bennett: The hair stood up on my arms. It still does thinking about it. It was just insane because none of us had experienced anything like that before. Suddenly we were elevated to a much higher level than we ever anticipated and it was a bit overwhelming. You had to really fight hard to concentrate on what you were supposed to do during the show, because you couldn’t believe what was going on. • #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt @therevolution @leleroybennett • 💜♾ 👉  https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince 🌹🙏🏼☮️💜♊😎 https://www.instagram.com/p/CLPOa6ilVQB/?igshid=shhjxe0qtxk5

[iamjessemartinz]

It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Celebrating the #Legacy and #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: #signs . Love this? #SupportArt and become a #Patreon member at #ClubLPP 💜👉  patreon.com/clublpp . From The Current's 'Prince: The Story of Sign O' The Times, Episode 6': . Jeff Katz: ‘I got a phone call: "Can you come photograph Prince?" No explanation of anything, and I go to the warehouse and he's got the Sign 'O' the Time outfits everybody does, and you know — he has these iconic symbols — and they're all on the floor and they're all over the place and Sheila was playing drums, and Matt Fink was on piano, and then there were some new players and it was really like this wild Fellini film where things would happen and I would photograph it and more people would come in and then less people would come in, and we'd be on the stage and we'd be here and we'd be there and then — and then it even got to the point where he wanted something more than what was happening there, like visually, and it happened to be a Sunday, and the only thing open, was the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre was putting on a production of Guys and Dolls, so that background is actually the Guys and Dolls backdrop that the dinner theater was doing. Karen Krattinger, who worked here, she went out and she found that and she procured that and she assured them nothing would happen and brought it here, and that became like the most iconic element of it.’ . Karen Krattinger: ‘I ran down with several of the guys to the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre, and they showed me a few backdrops, and I said, "That one! That one will work." And we loaded it up and got it back to the soundstage and hung it, and it was — started throwing the band gear around and whatever other little decorations, and it turned out great. It was a big scramble, but things with Prince often were a big scramble. But he had such an amazing group of people working with him that, you know what? Pat myself on the back as being part of that. We always pulled it off. It was something.’ . #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography 💜👉 https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince https://www.instagram.com/p/CVqEw_AF8mc/?utm_medium=tumblr

[iamjessemartinz]

It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Let's celebrate the #Genius of #Prince 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: #PurpleRain Tour kickoff in #Detroit (and MJ) • Love this? Join the club - literally! 👉 #ClubLPP 👉  patreon.com/clublpp • From Duane Tudahl's 'Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions': . "Detroit! My name is Prince, and I've come to play with you." ~Prince . "The tension the first night was astronomical," remembered Lisa Coleman. "But after the first chord, everything was okay." As he had with his last two tours, Prince decided to launch [the Purple Rain tour] in November, and this time he stacked the cards in his favor and premiered with a seven-night series at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. To give some perspective, Prince had played the same venue the previous year and sold out a single performance. Prince always had a very personal relationship with Detroit, on occasion referring to it as a "second home." The show was a tremendous success, overshadowing everything he'd done so far in his career. • Some other found quotes: . “Before we set out on the Purple Rain tour, it was a case of Prince wanting to see what Michael and the Jacksons were doing in terms of production, lighting, staging and everything with the Victory tour...There was a feeling in our camp that while what they were doing was a very solid stadium production, there was nothing really cutting edge about the technology. The Varilites, which was a brand name for a type of computerized lighting, was the gold standard in the industry at that time. And we made sure we had all that shit. But the Jackson's production didn't. Prince had a lot of respect for Michael, but he was mildly impressed with the show.”  ~Alan Leeds • “Michael attended many of the Purple Rain concerts...Michael knew Prince was a serious threat.” ~Questlove • “During the Purple Rain tour of America, Prince repeatedly threw down a single glove in mockery of the other's trademark.” ~The Glasgow Herald (19th July, 1988) • #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #GloveDrop #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt  • 💜♾ 👉  troygua.com https://www.instagram.com/p/CKrJ_eplke-/?igshid=h5o9dasjqbnq

[iamjessemartinz]

It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Let's celebrate the #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: #JoniMitchell • Love this? Join the club - literally! 👉 #ClubLPP 👉  patreon.com/clublpp • From the official @prince Facebook page, April 19, 2019: . “I love all Joni’s music. Joni’s music should be taught in school." — Prince, 2004 . The threads of Joni Mitchell’s influence are woven throughout Prince’s life and career. He first discovered her as a teenager by listening to the Twin Cities rock radio station KQRS in the mid-1970s, when her single “Help Me” became a radio hit, and when she toured behind her album The Hissing of Summer Lawns — an album Prince would hail as one of his favorites a decade later in an interview with Rolling Stone — he went to see her perform in Minneapolis. . “I saw him in an audience at that time,” Joni Mitchell recalled in an interview with the British rock artist Morrissey in 1996. “I believe it was him. Front row to the left. Quite conspicuous because he's got those eyes like a puffin, those Egyptian eyes, those big, exotic eyes.” . References to Joni’s music would appear again and again in Prince’s work. The album artwork for Prince’s 1981 release Controversy contains a small nod to his hero, with her name printed between stars on one of the newspaper headlines in the collage. The title of the 1984 album he wrote for the Time, Ice Cream Castle, was borrowed from her song “Both Sides Now.” On the 1987 album Sign o’ the Times, he quotes her song “Help Me” in the lyrics for “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker.” . And in 2001, he recorded a cover of her song “A Case of You” for his album One Nite Alone…, and would continue performing a rendition of that song throughout his career, [beginning in 1983 and] including at the Piano & A Microphone Tour kick-off at Paisley Park in January 2016 and at his final concert in Atlanta on April 14, 2016. • #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #StagedPhotography #Miniatures #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt  • 💜♾ 👉  https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince 🌹🙏🏼☮️💜♊😎 https://www.instagram.com/p/CKHR6avl6BW/?igshid=njd3hwc4todg

[iamjessemartinz]

It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Let's celebrate the #Genius of #Prince 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: #TheFamily and #ClareFischer (partial @housequakecom interview in comments) • Love this? #SupportArt 👉 #ClubLPP 👉  patreon.com/clublpp • From movingtheriver .com: 'Goin’ For The Duran Duran Money: Prince and The Family' Posted on December 17, 2014 by Matt P: [In the late 1980s] He was embracing jazz, fusion, psychedelia, classic rock and even modern classical, mainly prompted by his collaboration with the very excellent Wendy and Lisa but also other associates Sheila E, saxists Eric Leeds and Eddie M and string arranger Clare Fischer. . The Family slipped out on Paisley Park Records in summer ’85 (just three months after Prince’s Around The World In A Day) to a very low-key critical and commercial reception. These days, the album is known mainly for including an early version of ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’. . But it’s full of far superior fare to that such as the killer opening funk medley, classic near-hit ‘The Screams of Passion’, charming pop of ‘Desire’ and especially instrumentals ‘Yes’ and ‘Susannah’s Pyjamas’ where Prince indulges in some fantastic Sly Stone-meets-Miles bass, guitar and drum grooves. This is the album that led Tutu producer Tommy LiPuma to recommend Prince to Miles as a possible collaborator and it’s easy to hear why. . The Family was put together by Prince when the first incarnation of his massively successful offshoot project The Time split up in the summer of 1984. The band’s keyboardist/vocalist Paul Peterson (renamed St Paul by Prince), drummer Jellybean Johnson and vocalist/dancer Jerome Benton were summoned to Prince’s house along with his then-fiancee (and sister of Wendy) Susannah Melvoin and Leeds. . A band concept was quickly ad-libbed by Prince, who, according to engineer David Rivkin (reported by Per Nilsen in his superb Prince: The First Decade book), issued them with the directive: ‘We gotta go after some of that Duran Duran money!’ • #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt • 💜👉 https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince https://www.instagram.com/p/CNxlettlSlz/?igshid=w7erf0h4u95w

[iamjessemartinz]

It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Celebrating the #Legacy and #Genius of #Prince 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: #CrystalBall • Love this? #SupportArt and become a #Patreon member 👉 #ClubLPP 👉  patreon.com/clublpp • ‘The song "Crystal Ball" was written in a deepbluefunk depression as Prince pondered his future in a music business that had become more business than music. His only solace during that time was his continuing search 4 a soul mate.’ ~ Crystal Ball CD Booklet, 1998 • From Duane Tudahl's 'Prince and the Parade and Sign O' The Times Era studio Sessions 1985-1986': The events that influenced Prince's music could range from the subtle sound of an accidental beat or the most recent world event. It is likely that Prince's inspiration for "Crystal Ball" was at least partially influenced by the recent bombing in Libya and the threats for retaliation around the world. . 'As bombs explode around us and hate advances on the right The only thing that matters, baby, is the love that we make 2night' . Once again, Prince reached inward and combated the violence in the news, turning it into something more intimate and personal...Prince sang about soldiers drawing swords of sorrow while his "baby draws pictures of sex all over the walls in graphic detail" letting the listener in on what was happening with Susannah in his home while he was working on his music. @susannahmelvoin : "Whatever happened when he was in Europe, when Libya was bombed, when he came home he was like 'You're here. That's what matters.' I think when he felt that relief and he knew I was there, he got his creative spark to record 'Crystal Ball.' This was our moment. This was our life together." • #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt 💜👉   https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince https://www.instagram.com/p/CS1y18ELhigwHLh7psswVABXuZm0Sy3Kxl68co0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[iamjessemartinz]

It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Celebrating the #Legacy and #Genius of #Prince 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: #PowerFantastic • Love this? #SupportArt and become a #Patreon member 👉 #ClubLPP 👉  patreon.com/clublpp • From Duane Tudahl's 'Prince and the Parade and Sign o' the Times Era Studio Sessions 1985-1986: . The composition that Prince wanted to record with the band at his new home studio was "Power Fantastic," which was based on the instrumental recorded by Lisa and Wendy called "Carousel." "Power Fantastic" was a song that the three of us wrote together, Wendy, Prince and myself," according to Lisa, "and the melody that he put on it was so beautiful." . Susan Rogers recalled how the underequipped new studio provided her a unique vantage point for the recording. "The band was all set up in various parts of the house and Prince was going to be in the control room, singing, but there were no headphones for me. I had to be in the control room with him and also have the speakers off because we didn't want leakage, so that meant he had to sing in the control room with me hearing no music, only his voice. And we set up the vocal mic in the furthest corner of the room. He had his headphones on and he sang the song from top to bottom and all I heard was his voice. And it was just heartwrenching and beautiful. This was a magical moment." • #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt 💜👉   https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince https://www.instagram.com/p/CSjyyV4rOjOobeY5PCBU9C5d-sK1sU4f66jsWo0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[iamjessemartinz]

It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Let's celebrate the #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua 'til the world stops spinning. Inspiration: Studio Life . Love this? Join the club - literally! #ClubLPP 👉 patreon.com/clublpp . From 'Prince: The Story of 1999 bonus feature: The sound of Prince and Peggy McCreary' by Andrea Swensson: Peggy McCreary: 'I was just exhausted working with him because he never stopped. Which is why I taught him to record his own vocals, and everybody appreciated that. In Minneapolis when I did that panel with a lot of his engineers, I told them that I was just so tired and losing focus, and would miss a punch and he would get upset with me. And I said, "You know what, you can do this." I said, "I can set you up in here and you can punch yourself." And he said, "Really?" And I said, "Yeah." So that's what we would do, and I would hang the mic over and pull it down, and the engineers all leaned on the table and said, "That was you? Oh my god, thank you. That was the only time we got a break." I was talking to Susan Rogers in New York when we were walking down the street, and she said, "I remember one of the last things you told me, is that coffee loses its caffeine about a half an hour after you make it. So don't make him a fresh pot of coffee if you wanna go home.”’ . From Alan Light's 'Let's Go Crazy': "Prince had to make it happen, he had no choice," says Susannah Melvoin. "He was compelled, and he knew how to make everyone else feel that compulsion, too...He would call at 4am and say, "I'm cutting hits, what are you doing?' 'I'm sleeping.' 'Wrong answer' - and he'd hang up. You knew to get to the studio. Nobody was doing anything like that, and it moved us to believe in it. We got to do great things." . #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #StagedPhotography #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt @SunsetSound .  💜∞ ➡️  https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince 🌹🙏🏼☮️💜♊😎 https://www.instagram.com/p/CIJCFUIFC5y/?igshid=1bzb5wkz2ebzb