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Post by Doc Quantum on Apr 21, 2016 11:41:10 GMT -6
Man, I grew up on Prince. I still have a recording of me and my little sister singing "Purple Rain."
And the whole Batman soundtrack was all Prince.
This year sucks. My dad died last month, and David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Prince, and others this year.
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Post by mh on Apr 21, 2016 11:59:31 GMT -6
you beat me, i heard it on the radio on the way home. wow doc, i'm sorry to hear about your dad.
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Post by Babu Baboon on Apr 21, 2016 12:16:16 GMT -6
That's another stunner. Apparently, his health hasn't been that great for a while and Prince had a lot of religious objections that made it hard to receive treatment. When he needed hip surgery, he refused blood transfusions making surgery impossible, so he just kept popping pain pills and living with the pain.
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Post by Doc Quantum on Apr 21, 2016 12:49:02 GMT -6
Right. Prince was Jehovah's Witness, I believe.
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Post by Doc Quantum on Apr 21, 2016 12:49:59 GMT -6
you beat me, i heard it on the radio on the way home. wow doc, i'm sorry to hear about your dad. Thanks, MH. |
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Post by Babu Baboon on Apr 21, 2016 14:58:47 GMT -6
you beat me, i heard it on the radio on the way home. wow doc, i'm sorry to hear about your dad. Thanks, MH. I was very sad to hear about your loss at the writer's group. My cousin is going through the same thing with her mother's passing. She procrastinated on the matters of the estate because, I think, to her that would finally mean she was really gone. I look at my own father who was once very athletic but it now constantly having a pin put in here, a bolt there, as he begins his slow march to becoming a cyborg. I think one of the hardest parts of getting older is watching your parents get older, too. In our heads they will always live on in our heads as the vital protectors who guided us through our childhood. |
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Post by Babu Baboon on Apr 21, 2016 14:59:51 GMT -6
Right. Prince was Jehovah's Witness, I believe. He was. It's those kinds of beliefs that cause you to be found dead from the flu at 57. |
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Post by Thai Ladyboy on Apr 21, 2016 16:55:38 GMT -6
Sorry to hear about your dad, TTT.
Not a fan of Bowie or Prince, and definitely not a fan of Chyna. But these people are very prominent images (and sounds) from my childhood. So I do feel a sense of loss when they pass away.
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Post by mh on Apr 21, 2016 20:18:51 GMT -6
Right. Prince was Jehovah's Witness, I believe. He was. It's those kinds of beliefs that cause you to be found dead from the flu at 57.
sing it!! like val kilmer who's a christian scientist who tried to use holistic methods and "crystals" (he's also an L.A. hippy wannabe) to cure a tumor in his neck and almost died! granted, he lost a bunch of weight after being fat for about 15 years, but that's no way to do it. i heard on the news programs people who knew prince saying over & over what "great shape" he was in. in celebrity terms that means as thin as death. he was a vegan and a hermit who despised and didn't understand technology -- the news seems to be glossing over the fact that he was in many ways nearly as detached from reality and as weird as michael jackson. from some things i heard, i wouldn't be that surprised if walked around with kleenex boxes on his feet like howard hughes
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Post by mh on Apr 21, 2016 22:06:38 GMT -6
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Post by Babu Baboon on Apr 22, 2016 6:06:25 GMT -6
If that's true, he really screwed up for ridiculous reasons. I'd wait until I hear it from a news source that doesn't have a section with pics of hot chicks.
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Post by mh on Apr 22, 2016 22:54:48 GMT -6
i wish i hadn't watched this, it really made me miss him
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Post by Babu Baboon on Apr 25, 2016 8:08:32 GMT -6
I read he played over 20 instruments. That's especially impressive when you think of the no-talent "artists" of today.
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Post by Thai Ladyboy on Apr 25, 2016 17:56:19 GMT -6
Lil Wayne's guitar mastery is the equivalent of 20 instruments.
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Post by mh on Apr 25, 2016 22:17:02 GMT -6
that guitar is gently weeping. it's trying to get the hell away from him!
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