Well, I SAID after 30 years, you’d think word would’ve leaked out. I guess it is taking longer than we thought, after all. 
Thanks, WordMan. One wonders what effect this had on her career, if she might have done better than she has.
Let me introduce you to Morrissey…
I would humbly suggest it has had a profound effect. Remember, she was bigger than Madonna for a bit, or at least in contention. Madonna is a sharp business person, regardless of any other considerations…
And FLIB, this is inside stuff. You may not hear that so and so is tough, but see if they get business and longevity. Cyndi has great songs and great talent; but has struggled to find her place. More power to her with Kinky Boots. But Look at her vs Madonna or Bonnie Raitt. Look at, I dunno, Elvis Costello vs Joe Jackson or Joe Satriani and Steve Morse vs. Yngwie the biggest Putz around.
Hey, I’ve had tickets to three Morrissey shows and saw him twice. The third time, my wife was in the hospital so we had to sell them. Both great shows (with a good number of Smiths songs in the setlist).
I know lately he’s been cancelling a lot of shows because of some serious health problems, which is actually quite concerning to me. Hopefully he’s alright.
Sorry, but Prince has that title locked up. His name is engraved on the trophy.
Just watched that on YouTube. ouch. Now imagine 2 1/2 hours of it. :-/
That’s because Prince is better than mere mortals. I’m not happy about it leading to dickishness, but I totally respect his place at the top of the pantheon. He can be a Picasso Jerk, and the world is still better off due to his presence.
Yngwie, on the other hand, *types fast. *
I worked a show with Prince, I’d heard all the rumours so I was shocked when he snuck up behind me and politely asked for a bottle of water! Meh…maybe he’s mellowed over the years.
Capt Kirk, please remind us what you do.
By the way, we’re getting the vestiges of hurricane Andrea, I’m enjoying a beer and playing some slide guitar on a 1930’s cheap-ass archtop. Mercury Blues by David Lindley and El Rayo Equis to be precise. That felt relevant for some reason…
By the way, this live performance totally rejects the OP:
Sorry it’s a mobile link…
I shoot concert video. Obviously the copyright on the song belongs to the songwriter, but the vast majority of songwriters have accepted that people are going to perform their songs and put videos up on YouTube. And in return for this violation of their copyright, YouTube puts ads for their music up next to the cover video. It’s a good deal for both parties.
But some bands have decided that nobody should cover their songs but themselves - Led Zeppelin is in this category. They cause YouTube to mute the audio.
And there is a tiny number of douchebags who not only don’t allow people to cover their songs, they issue DMCA copyright violation notices, removing the entire video. If you have a YouTube channel, you get three DMCA violation “strikes”. On the third, you lose your entire channel.
I have nearly 300 videos up of kids performing songs, and in one night, Prince issued two DMCA takedown notices against me. I pulled all my Prince covers down, but I am one strike away from losing all my videos, and worse, all the comments. The kids did an amazing version of the song “The Undertaker”, an unreleased Prince track, it got nearly 10,000 views and some amazing comments. And it is not as if the availability of this cover had the slightest impact on sales of an unreleased track. Yes, it’s his song…but issuing a DMCA takedown notice is, as Frank Zappa told the US Senate “the equivalent of treating dandruff with decapitation”.
I’ve mentioned this before, but the loudest single noise I have never heard at a concert was Shawn Cassidy at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City. I was selling t-shirts at the time, and when he came on stage, bursting through a big paper circle, the screaming pre-teens made a noise that had to be louder than a jet engine at take off. And I worked the notorious Ted Nugent concert at Arrowhead that got noise complaints from several miles away (and where I learned that the vast majority of Ted’s stage guitar amps were fakes.)
That reminds me of the Jan & Dean concert I attended many, many, many years ago — 1985 or so. I’d completely forgotten about that one.
It wasn’t a bad show, per se. The music was well done and they played all their hits. But Jan wasn’t really all there, what with the brain damage from his 1966 car wreck. For most of the show, he’d start out singing each song, and then sort of just wander away from the mic, and the group’s guitarist would step up to the mic and finish singing Jan’s part. Like I said, it wasn’t a bad show, it was just kind of sad to watch.
FOH, concert sound for those who don’t know. I am that guy dressed in black twisting knobs. Tonight is Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk they have their own guy so I am babysitting. Gotta run the opener is on.
Capt
ZOMG, when I was a tween, he was my first “love”. Unfortunately, he has not aged well.
The Jets in the 80’s at Knott’s Berry Farm. We went for my sister’s birthday and waited for several hours in line. When the doors opened, there was a mad rush for seats. People were being shoved against the doors, seeing other parents trying to navigate their kids in while someone shoves their child , etc. :eek:
By the way, gaffa, this stinks and I’m sorry to hear it. Prince is obsessed with controlling his music, apparently to the point of being a jerk. He’s still Prince.
A couple stinkers come to mind - the first was Jorma Kaukonen at some cabaret in NJ in the early '80s. The opening act was a comedian, then Jorma came on, went off, came on, went off, like he was running off stage to do lines or something. Just disjointed and rushed and not much to enjoy about it.
The other was Laurie Anderson at the Orpheum in Boston sometime in the '80s. I think the problem was more unfulfilled expectations than anything else. I had seen her in Denver previously around the time Mr. Heartbreak came out, with a full band like in the Home of the Brave video. That concert was an awesome life-changing event. The show in Boston was just her, a keyboardist, and three backup singers who barely knew the material. One of my concert-mates called it Laurie Anderson and the Pips. I was like ‘okay, the warm-up is over, bring out the rest of the band’. Plus I felt kind of lousy anyway. Big disappointment.
Here’s a story from Prince’s recording engineer about working with him on the Kate Bush collaboration Why Should I Love You.
Yep, he’s an ego-loaded guy. But I read the writer’s disclaimer that Prince was hard to work with because he treated everyone like he was better. But, he’s Prince - he is better. I wish that didn’t give him permission to be a jerk - it doesn’t affect some geniuses that way - but if anyone had a case, Prince would be on the shortest of lists…