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Topic subjectDamn, Deja Vu, The Time was to Prince, what Prince was to Rick James.
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138150, Damn, Deja Vu, The Time was to Prince, what Prince was to Rick James.
Posted by Silky1, Tue Jun-09-09 05:54 PM
Think about it.

silk.
later

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>>"We are supposed to think that the Time, a mediocre
>dance-funk band led by the now->forgotten Prince protégé
>Morris Day, has any chance of outperforming the Kid?"
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>This^^^^is the reason it's hard to take Pop Matters seriously,
>even with some of the interesting insight they give into
>Prince's film work...
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>To me, this signals a writer whose first real experience with
>Prince was with the Purple Rain film...I love how the writer
>dismisses the idea that The Time would not have trouble
>kicking Prince's ass onstage...Of course, we all know that in
>the studio those first three Time albums were virtually
>Prince's hardcore R&B albums as he wrote, produced and played
>on the majority of the music himself...It was mainly all
>P...BUT! onstage, those boys turned into a monster...
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>I wonder if the writer knows that The Time was stealing
>Prince's thunder almost on a nightly bases when they were
>opening up for him? They were kicking his ass to put it
>bluntly...lol...It got so bad that Prince would not even allow
>them to open up in some of the bigger markets during some of
>his earlier tours...
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>The Time were the best thing that could have happened to
>Prince...They made him step his game up live onstage, to the
>point where you saw Prince even dancing more...It's ironic
>that Prince came up with their look, their dance steps and
>their sound for the most part (with some help from Morris and
>later Jesse)...Because those dudes were putting it on Prince
>at almost every gig...
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>But I guess when a group (The Time) doesn't cross over to the
>degree that Prince did, they are easily
>dispensable...FOH...lol
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>murph71


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