and no joke (and should be a surprise to NO ONE who has been reading this board for a long time) ... my next favorite book in this vein was The Rock Says, written by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson before he even was a movie star. They favor one another.

The way of telling this story was pretty interesting, and hilarious. Because I can actually hear the voices in my head.

Morris actually (maybe unintentionally) dropped a few things that I as a Stan had been wondering about and didn't even connect the dots. Those who read liner notes or follow The Time in general know what I'm talking about.

I thought it was respectful to Prince, and did a good job of contrasting the two of them as people. If Prince lived in (and ultimately succumbed to the weight of) a world of his own creation, Morris was a man who lived on Earth who found himself in that world for a moment in time.

It's gonna be some members of the Purple Army in their feelings about his account of a number of things.

I did like that he talked about his solo records the way he did, I looked them back up again (they in my iTunes)

And you're ABSOLUTELY right, Blak about how some people try to pretend that P didn't listen to BLACK music. I'm like, "how the fuck do you think P came out making it?"

even the book that's about to come out about Prince is going to give you what Prince wanted to see. Between these books and The Prince Podcast you've seen and heard from a lot of people who were there and around him.

On the Original 7ven album, I swear up and down, that album belongs on the list of Jam/Lewis classics. If only because they have a way of putting together projects from artists we haven't heard from in a long time, hitting those nostalgic notes but doing something new. They did this with Janet's UNBREAKABLE, an album I can't stop talking about.

I think it was hard for a lot of people to hear them in that context, yet it didn't involve Prince directly at all. I like that Morris reinforces earlier comments about how he was really hurt by Jimmy and Terry getting fired. You can tell those were his dudes.

On another note I'm glad he didn't really go off on the whole Jesse thing. I love Jesse to death and think he's one of the GOAT for a number of reasons. but man, in that band context, he's turned himself into a bit of a meme/Lexicon term. I call it "Jesse-ing" when someone like say... Al DiMeola pulls the things he does with RTF in recent years.

Speaking of which, SHOUT OUT to Morris for acknowledging bands like RTF and Mahavishnu. You never would have known he was into them if not for this book

Yes, I'm mad. Let's move on.

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