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>thanks for fleshing out the what had happened.
That story never gets old...And Bobby Z's reaction (below) is CLASSIC...As Questo said, this was indeed a clever set-up on MJ's part...Mike was on some, "Oh, you think you big time, now?!!!"...And that shit needed to happen...Because Prince needed to understand that the masters never take a night off....
Take it away Mr. Leeds....
ALAN LEEDS: Prince went to a James Brown gig in 1983 with Bobby Z, his drummer at the time, Big Chick, who was his security guard, and I think Jill Jones, who was one of his protégés. By now, everybody knows what happened at that gig. I don’t think Prince realized that Michael was going to be there. James looked a little puzzled in that video when Michael whispered in his ear, “Hey, bring Prince up.” And of course Prince didn’t really know what to do either. He went to the guitar first but he fumbles with that because it was left-handed. He played a few licks, did some dancing and knocked over a prop by accident. Now I always wondered if Michael intentionally brought Prince up to put him in that position just to say, “Hey, you think you’re on my ass? Well follow this, motherfucker *laughs*.” Bobby Z called me and said, “Oh boy…he made an ass of himself tonight.” He said Prince didn’t say a word the whole way to the hotel. GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....
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