Truly.

anyway, enjoy this clip from Prince's best tour:

ATWIAD Deluxe otw 🫣

Hell yeah. Best version of this song finally on streaming

Girls & Boys this time 🥰

this was the something else...

I heard Voodoo for the first time when I was 14, during Summer 2016.... in Autumn, I heard Prince's When Two Are In Love on Tumblr, and immediately went to torrent his discog. For the next two years, I fell in love with both of their oeuvres, crisscrossing between their work while discovering their influences. I remember my glee when I found his rendition of one of my fav Prince joints. I reveled in the differences in every expressive nuance, wondering if the student had got the better of his master. Till this day, I can't go without playing them together in succession.

For years, I've been hoping that the video he shot for this cover surfaces

I remember scouring the net & watching all of D's shows, & being pleasantly surprised when recognizing the many instances of sauce acquisition during my subsequent viewings of Prince's & the Funk Mob's performances.

One adlib that isn't mentioned above is the classic "good god!" which I first heard D' spout, only to discover Prince had did the same decades before. Jesse Johnson reveals it came from Soul Brother #1 here
Imagine Eric Leeds accompanying you during your comeback show

All in all, I primarily have D'Angelo to thank for my sankofa through the genealogy of Black music, and most importantly for formally introducing me to what would become my favorite genre: Funk. I thank D'angelo for being the inaugural & shining example of what it looked like & meant to simultaneously honor your forebears in a musical tradition while pushing boundaries and defying corporate relegation in the process.

the ultimate tribute song that they wrote together... 💝🌹

𝄡𝄞♭ Rest in 𝓟, Michael Eugene Archer 𝄞𝄫🕊️

(10:42):

(1:18):

...so on a lighter note. The night we played with Prince.
(KOOL AID SMILE)
Yo man that night was so surreal.
Did it shock you that he forgot the bridge to "The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker"?
But we had his back though. I just want to work with him. Make him do some '82 s*** with the deep drums, and the synth. I wanna see him go there again. Back to some raw funk s***.
So what are our plans now. Today can be the beginning of a new movement. From what I hear there will be 2000 people in Brooklyn in the snow waitin for you......
Awww nigga, I just wanna bring the funk to the people. I can care less about if we sale millions or not. I just wanna funk.

(Interview w/ ?uestlove for Okayplayer, 2000)

(2:22):

Performing "Its Gonna Be A Beautiful Night" with Susannah Melvoin during a Prince Tribute at Carnegie Hall (2013):

(52:47):

its out!

Meh.

Doesn't contain anything unheard-before.

I have re-kindled my obsession with The Line

Real.

He should just leak it himself

We need unheard-before tunes first.

jellybean johnson passed away from a heart attack

another purple soldier gone

will die on the hill that version 2 is better

I adore both, tbh.

v1 has a lot of charm with those spacey synths throughout but v2 feels like the finished thought. I know v2 gets critised for being over produced (I'd be the first to accuse prince of overproducing songs at times) but if there was any song to go all out on it was the line.

but yes both are great.

Well said.

Love this remaster. ATWIAD b-sides are a treat.

Discovered 'Girl' when I went to see him live back in 2016 on the Piano & Microphone tour, been in love with the song ever since

What are the vault grails that are still unreleased? Going from memory

• The Line (both versions)
• Dance With The Devil
• Call Of The Wild
• Extraloveable '83
• The Voice Inside
• Small Club '88 aftershow

Astounding new bootleg.

Seek it out.

1987 rehearsals (soundboard recordings).

1. Crystal Ball/For Love (Instrumental) #1
2. U Got the Look
3. Rebirth of the Flesh
4. Play in the Sunshine
5. Housequake
6. Starfish and Coffee
7. Slow Love
8. It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night #1 (Instrumental)/Superfunkycalifragisexy/Mutiny/For the Love of Money
9. It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night #2/Planet Rock/Superfunkycalifragisexy
10. I'll Take You There
11. Tell Me What It Is/I Need a Man (Instrumental)
12. Hair
13. Electric Guitar, Drums, and Percussion Improvisation (Hair)/The Cross
14. Crystal Ball/For Love (Instrumental) #2
15. Crystal Ball/For Love (Instrumental) #3