MufasaChoppa
The Rise & Fall Of Mufasa Choppa
You saw how they found prince's prince.org account
Some of the post are hilarious and obvious its him or his staff or both
His web designer confirmed he was on the site A LOT too
RIP Prince
You saw how they found prince's prince.org account
Some of the post are hilarious and obvious its him or his staff or both
His web designer confirmed he was on the site A LOT too
i don't go on that site and haven't been in ages..You saw how they found prince's prince.org account
Some of the post are hilarious and obvious its him or his staff or both
His web designer confirmed he was on the site A LOT too
MufasaChoppa
The Rise & Fall Of Mufasa Choppa
Sunday, April 21, 1985
1. SOMETIMES IT SNOWS IN APRIL (tracking)
2. LIFE CAN BE SO NICE (tracking)
Sunset Sound, Studio 3, Los Angeles, California
3 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Producer: Prince
Artist: Prince
Engineer: Peggy Leonard
“Some people think Prince is loud and full of shyt, but the fact of the matter is he does a lot of things which manifest good. I mean most people don’t feel. They would like to, but the essence of their training has been so negative as to keep it all in check, so that men can’t sit and discuss things with their wife. They have to clam up and walk off and that’s a major problem in this country in that women are open and display their emotions and feelings and men are taught that you don’t do that because it’s not masculine. Well that comes out in music and you know the ones that feel.”
Clare Fischer (orchestral arranger for Prince)
Prince was one of those artists who could feel.
That was reflected in the lyrics to “Sometimes It Snows In April.”
“He used to say so strong unafraid to die.
Unafraid of the death that left me hypnotized.
No, staring at his picture I realized.
No one could cry the way my Tracy cried.”
Despite the gentle manner of this song, it was a very busy time for Prince.
It had been two weeks since the conclusion of the Purple Rain tour, but unlike most musicians, Prince had difficulty relaxing, so he booked his usual room at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles. Over the previous week, he’d worked on at least eight new songs for other artists as well as for his next album, seemingly ignoring the fact that Around The World In A Day (his follow-up album to Purple Rain), was scheduled to be released the next day.
For this session, he asked his regular engineer, Peggy “Peggy Mac” Leonard to set up the studio for him to record with Revolution members Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman. “It was just the three of us, one take,’ explained Melvoin to author Matt Thorne. ‘I think I had some of the words written. Lisa was playing the piano in an isolation booth. It was written on the spot and recorded in a couple of hours. A beautiful moment, hanging out for a while, recording at Sunset Sound.”
Coming off the Purple Rain tour, where everything was magnified and loud, this track is radically different in tone. If you listen on headphones and you can hear the intimacy that Prince shared with Wendy and Lisa, and in turn shared with everyone. It was obvious that when he worked with them, his guard would come down… at least temporarily. “Wendy makes me seem all right in the eyes of people watching,’ revealed Prince. ‘She keeps a smile on her face. When I sneer, she smiles. It’s not premeditated, she just does it. It’s a good contrast. Lisa is like my sister. She’ll play what the average person won’t. She’ll press two notes with one finger so the chord is a lot larger, things like that. She’s more abstract.”
It wasn’t uncommon for him to work on more than one track during a session and it is likely that he also recorded the basic tracks for “Life Can Be So Nice” on that same date.
A rough mix of “Sometimes It Snows In April” was created, and the session was over by 10 p.m., which was unusually early for Prince. The song was eventually gathered together with 11 other tracks for his Parade album, although he’d ultimately alter the direction of the project, filling in the sound on most of the tracks and adding strings created by Clare Fischer. Apparently he knew he had something special with “Sometimes It Snows In April.” Fischer wrote a score for the track, but Prince decided not to use it. According to Peggy, “The only song that I worked on that was unchanged from the original sessions was ‘Sometimes It Snows In April.’ The rest was changed.”
Prince did enjoy the orchestral parts of the track, and decided to use them as part of the score in Under The Cherry Moon.
“‘Sometimes It Snows In April’ was really the pinnacle of our relationship together [with Prince],’ according to Coleman. ‘The three of us had kind of a love affair. And when we wrote that song– again– it was just the three of us sitting together in a room. I really loved it.”
The released version of this track remains as a snapshot of this specific day, and a view of what have been.
“I had hoped we would follow that trail further, you know?’ reflected Coleman. ‘Like make a whole record like that or something. But, that didn’t happen.”
“He opted out,” concluded Melvoin.
Prince would continue to record with Wendy, Lisa and the rest of The Revolution for another year. “Sometimes It Snows In April” would be released in 1986 as the closing track on Parade, his final album with The Revolution, bringing down the curtain forever on his close collaboration with Wendy and Lisa.
“Sometimes I wish that life was never ending. But all good things, they say, never last.
And love, it isn't love until it's past.”
--
From an early draft of “PRINCE: The Studio Sessions” by Duane Tudahl.
“PRINCE: The Studio Sessions” is a daily diary of Prince’s time in the recording studio. Similar in scope to THE BEATLES RECORDING SESSIONS, the book is an historical overview about the music that was recorded by Prince during his time at Sunset Sound and the first volume covers 1983/84. Over the last 20 years, I’ve interviewed over 50 different band members, singers, studio engineers and others about their private stories surrounding his biggest successes, including Purple Rain, When Doves Cry, Raspberry Beret and dozens of others including never before revealed details about unreleased outtakes hidden from the public in Prince’s vault.
These stories are told by the people who were in the room with Prince when these tracks were recorded. The access I was granted is unprecedented and exposes an entirely new view of the genius of Prince, revealed by those who knew him best.
Over 200 sessions are detailed in the book including music recorded for Prince as well as The Bangles, Stevie Nicks, Sheena Easton, Apollonia 6, The Time, The Family, Sheila E. and others.
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Can't wait for this book to drop1. SOMETIMES IT SNOWS IN APRIL (tracking)
2. LIFE CAN BE SO NICE (tracking)
Sunset Sound, Studio 3, Los Angeles, California
3 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Producer: Prince
Artist: Prince
Engineer: Peggy Leonard
“Some people think Prince is loud and full of shyt, but the fact of the matter is he does a lot of things which manifest good. I mean most people don’t feel. They would like to, but the essence of their training has been so negative as to keep it all in check, so that men can’t sit and discuss things with their wife. They have to clam up and walk off and that’s a major problem in this country in that women are open and display their emotions and feelings and men are taught that you don’t do that because it’s not masculine. Well that comes out in music and you know the ones that feel.”
Clare Fischer (orchestral arranger for Prince)
Prince was one of those artists who could feel.
That was reflected in the lyrics to “Sometimes It Snows In April.”
“He used to say so strong unafraid to die.
Unafraid of the death that left me hypnotized.
No, staring at his picture I realized.
No one could cry the way my Tracy cried.”
Despite the gentle manner of this song, it was a very busy time for Prince.
It had been two weeks since the conclusion of the Purple Rain tour, but unlike most musicians, Prince had difficulty relaxing, so he booked his usual room at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles. Over the previous week, he’d worked on at least eight new songs for other artists as well as for his next album, seemingly ignoring the fact that Around The World In A Day (his follow-up album to Purple Rain), was scheduled to be released the next day.
For this session, he asked his regular engineer, Peggy “Peggy Mac” Leonard to set up the studio for him to record with Revolution members Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman. “It was just the three of us, one take,’ explained Melvoin to author Matt Thorne. ‘I think I had some of the words written. Lisa was playing the piano in an isolation booth. It was written on the spot and recorded in a couple of hours. A beautiful moment, hanging out for a while, recording at Sunset Sound.”
Coming off the Purple Rain tour, where everything was magnified and loud, this track is radically different in tone. If you listen on headphones and you can hear the intimacy that Prince shared with Wendy and Lisa, and in turn shared with everyone. It was obvious that when he worked with them, his guard would come down… at least temporarily. “Wendy makes me seem all right in the eyes of people watching,’ revealed Prince. ‘She keeps a smile on her face. When I sneer, she smiles. It’s not premeditated, she just does it. It’s a good contrast. Lisa is like my sister. She’ll play what the average person won’t. She’ll press two notes with one finger so the chord is a lot larger, things like that. She’s more abstract.”
It wasn’t uncommon for him to work on more than one track during a session and it is likely that he also recorded the basic tracks for “Life Can Be So Nice” on that same date.
A rough mix of “Sometimes It Snows In April” was created, and the session was over by 10 p.m., which was unusually early for Prince. The song was eventually gathered together with 11 other tracks for his Parade album, although he’d ultimately alter the direction of the project, filling in the sound on most of the tracks and adding strings created by Clare Fischer. Apparently he knew he had something special with “Sometimes It Snows In April.” Fischer wrote a score for the track, but Prince decided not to use it. According to Peggy, “The only song that I worked on that was unchanged from the original sessions was ‘Sometimes It Snows In April.’ The rest was changed.”
Prince did enjoy the orchestral parts of the track, and decided to use them as part of the score in Under The Cherry Moon.
“‘Sometimes It Snows In April’ was really the pinnacle of our relationship together [with Prince],’ according to Coleman. ‘The three of us had kind of a love affair. And when we wrote that song– again– it was just the three of us sitting together in a room. I really loved it.”
The released version of this track remains as a snapshot of this specific day, and a view of what have been.
“I had hoped we would follow that trail further, you know?’ reflected Coleman. ‘Like make a whole record like that or something. But, that didn’t happen.”
“He opted out,” concluded Melvoin.
Prince would continue to record with Wendy, Lisa and the rest of The Revolution for another year. “Sometimes It Snows In April” would be released in 1986 as the closing track on Parade, his final album with The Revolution, bringing down the curtain forever on his close collaboration with Wendy and Lisa.
“Sometimes I wish that life was never ending. But all good things, they say, never last.
And love, it isn't love until it's past.”
--
From an early draft of “PRINCE: The Studio Sessions” by Duane Tudahl.
“PRINCE: The Studio Sessions” is a daily diary of Prince’s time in the recording studio. Similar in scope to THE BEATLES RECORDING SESSIONS, the book is an historical overview about the music that was recorded by Prince during his time at Sunset Sound and the first volume covers 1983/84. Over the last 20 years, I’ve interviewed over 50 different band members, singers, studio engineers and others about their private stories surrounding his biggest successes, including Purple Rain, When Doves Cry, Raspberry Beret and dozens of others including never before revealed details about unreleased outtakes hidden from the public in Prince’s vault.
These stories are told by the people who were in the room with Prince when these tracks were recorded. The access I was granted is unprecedented and exposes an entirely new view of the genius of Prince, revealed by those who knew him best.
Over 200 sessions are detailed in the book including music recorded for Prince as well as The Bangles, Stevie Nicks, Sheena Easton, Apollonia 6, The Time, The Family, Sheila E. and others.
Click to expand...
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NormanConnors
Detroit/MSU Spartan Life
His last great performance of purple rain IMO..
OmegaK2099
Gettin' It In
MusicConsulting
All Star
Prince is proof that we create our own reality. He isn't supposed to exist, we willed him into existence to deal with so much dreck that filled our minds eye from other people creating such crap. There is no other way to explain a multi instrumentalist songwriting/producer prolific stylistic chamelon genius who built a mult million dollar studio complex in the middle of a cornfield in Minnesota & was so afraid of interactions with his day to day employees, he sprinted in the hallways with high heels if he thought an interaction was going to occur.Isnt it crazy how its already almost been a month yall?
Toxicology prob coming next week
MusicConsulting
All Star
Taylor Dayne recalls what it was like meeting Prince during the Lovesexy era. Sounds like it happened to me 
Yet another reason to love a lady like this, diva singing and honest as fukk to give respect to her singers as well. Find a girl like this, Coli Fam
The performance she's recalling is this:
(You can see her and friend at the mic)
May 9 at 12:00pm
Yet another reason to love a lady like this, diva singing and honest as fukk to give respect to her singers as well. Find a girl like this, Coli Fam
The performance she's recalling is this:
(You can see her and friend at the mic)
May 9 at 12:00pm
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MufasaChoppa
The Rise & Fall Of Mufasa Choppa
I just discovered The One
...how did I missed this Operatic/Classical/R&B infectous PIFFNESS back in 98
Still can't accept my Purple Majestic GOAT Immortal Beautiful One is actually gone, tho
...how did I missed this Operatic/Classical/R&B infectous PIFFNESS back in 98
Still can't accept my Purple Majestic GOAT Immortal Beautiful One is actually gone, tho
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MusicConsulting
All Star
What an ass move by Prince to hire all the YouTube police, now they are still here.
He was just mad because his fans loved the content that was being overlooked
He thought "hey check out this live clip, dearly beloved"
live clip, you got 100s of shows on audio & video, good luck with tiding (no pun intended) your fans over with that clip 
Man, if someone restarts his label on his birthday, I would support in a heartbeat.
paisley park must have freaked out when they had that library & he never did anything with it
Release the 1995 after shows
You can keep the hit medleys
I'm good on purple rain/lets go crazy/kiss/1999/nothing compares 2 u mega medley
Give me a crystal clear billy jack bytch live
enough of the same 10 hits 
I'm for the songwriting genius not the biggest hit