eph221
People still do die of AIDS, despite the progress that's been made.  I just wish someone would do a documentary of some kind celebrating all the great artists we've lost to the disease.  They can start with Rock Hudson.  The Broadway community was completely destroyed amongst other things.

 
I keep thinking the NY and SF scenes were specially hit badly in the 70's and 80's ... for anything that was artistic related to the 60's and such. I was just thinking about Patti Smith's book, and Robert Mapplethorp.
 

Beepster

bitflipper
Drug overdose. Most likely prescription opioids.

Yeah, mayhaps an overzealous doctor and/or manager cranking him full of crap trying to keep gig dates. That flu was likely costing someone a LOT of money.

 
I'm thinking that if it was natural, the whole thing was over, and there was nothing else to discuss. So, yeah ... here comes the bad stuff and some doctor that has been prescribing pills left and right!

bitflipper
Drug overdose. Most likely prescription opioids.

I'm a little surprised. He did look ok, and all that religiousness and such. I thought he was living a reasonably disciplined life even though he was "odd".

Beepster

jamesg1213
Saw an interview with Prince's sound engineer yesterday, she said that there's enough recorded and unreleased music for a new Prince album every year for the next 100 years. Prolific isn't the word.

Apparently that was the case back even in the 90's (I had a buddy who was a huuuuuuge Prince fan and he told me that back then). Probably much more has been recorded since.

There might be a lot in that vault, but I'm betting that most of it is live concert material and such, and not necessarily new material. There might be a lot of new things, most likely unfinished, in that vault, and this is the same issue with the Frank Zappa Trust and Vault. They do not know what to do with the bits and pieces, and the recorded pre-show warmups by the band that were just instrumental, and non-stop, with various changes at the snap of a finger, or something like it. 
 
I doubt that there would be "complete" songs, and material, other than plain piano pieces, for example, as ideas for new pieces in the future.

I must admit I'm finding the coverage a little bit overkill. I appreciate his talent and he did pen a few great songs but come on, if you asked most people to name 5 Prince songs they'd probably get as far as Purple Rain, Raspberry Beret, Nothing Compares To U (as sung by Sinead O'Conner), Party Like It's 1999 and then....er.....er....
 
He was definitely a character for sure, but hadn't really done much or been in the spotlight to any degree for a good many years, yet the media's treating his death as the end of an era, like we lost another Lennon. Definitely see the need of some coverage for sure, but some news sites have had upwards of 10-15 Prince articles on their front page. Gawd help us when HRH the Queen of England dies, that's all I can say, I think I'll be avoiding the internet for a month. 

Actually, there's probably SIX songs that most people would remember (and the Sinead one isn't one of them since nobody, except Sharke, knew that Prince was involved):
 
Purple Rain
Raspberry Beret
Party Like It's 1999
Little Red Corvette
When Doves Cry
Erotic City
 

Normally I stay clear of the RIP threads …I don't want to be next  
 
Anyway , a couple of things , 
Prince was very much like many people on this board , except that maybe he had a lot more resources and talent than some of us …
A lot of people may or may not know that Prince would often play all the instruments and parts on his tunes .
I've also heard that he would stick with one song dialed up in his studio until he got the song exactly where he wanted it …
 
I find this to be pretty amazing because  I was working at some high profile NYC Music stores in the late 70's going into the mid 80's . Midi was about to become mainstream , all the hardware was expensive , Midi sequencers Synthesizers and Drum Machines were all new players in the game …
Many of those tools may have had lot's of character , but they lacked fineness and much of todays functionality .   
 
RTFM on all that $hit , figure out how too hook it all up and then go make some creative music …Yeah right ..lol 
While your at it , Create a  Unique Branded Image and Dance every bit as good as M J  while you play guitar with the showmanship and imagination of Jimi …
 
My Vibe and thoughts on Prince are  , Prince was more like a lot of US than we are like him . 
 
RIP Prince . 
 
all the best,
 
Kenny

For those who care about such things, David Gilmour substituted a bridge from Purple Rain into Comfortably Numb (around the 4:30 mark) Sunday night at Royal Albert Hall.
 
Not a bad audience recording.
 

For me one of his best ever is Diamonds and Pearls.
 
Here:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUckRkAgDwo
 
Please listen carefully and be amazed! They don't much better than this.
 
A few things to note. The melody line is just beautiful and it all follows so well. Listen to how the drums seem turned upside down in the verses. Great chorus and that incredible groove in the middle section. Comon this is it folks!!!

KenB123
How about this one...

http://www.flyheight.com/...nbcs-midnight-special/

That was proper funky... I may have to revisit the diminutive one's back catalogue...