Originally Posted by
daddyacey
About Prince and the TIME name issue. I've always had the opinion that because the TIME was a creation of Prince and in actuality ,performed all of the album tracks from the first and second albums and most of the third. I believe that Prince was aware of the fact that although the albums were hits and the group, on the strength of those albums, were very popular. That popularity however was really based on the LIVE performance of those tracks performed by "THE TIME" in person, the visual group for touring??? Only they turned out to be a group of musicians that would make the Prince recordings sound like perfect demos. "THE TIME" ,live , tore the shii out those compositions. The visuals ,the energy ,the FUNK!!!!!!!!
PRINCE , [[now I love and respect the brother ,highly ,enough to not feel guilty about voicing disagreement with his product or actions if I am not in agreement) ,saw this. Yeah , he saw that these MF's is good , and ,as ego is ego , I can't fault the man for that , but I think he had to feel he needed to have some control over how big they was going to get. I mean how would it be to have to compete with one of your own side projects , inadvertantly compeating on the same or surpassing your level. "THE TIME" ,was becoming a force to recon with.............But..........
Like "The Man" ,he,[[Mr. Nelson) pistol whipped N's ,and kept them in line. Which followed with disbanding them , but they didn't die ,they ...multiplied. The energy would survive , TIME would ,in it's many individual incarnations, continue as it was destined and would tick on..............dispite the Biatch/Ego fueled jealous tantrums of a genius ,[[Two tears in a bucket ,Fuxk It , it's HIS CRY in this case ,the truth lies deep in his mind ) ,who would rather stifle them than enable. True , there is no reason why at this time he could not let them use the name. He could have leased or licensed the right to it ,if it was a matter of money. But no...he chose to be a BIATCH about it and even though he did , I'm gonna still watch for his new projects and enjoy what I like from his past work, but on this , he was just being a BIATCH .
On the other hand , we are dealing with a conglomerate of talented musicians ,both historically responsable and musically responsible for a segment in time ,[[no pun intended) ,of the evolution of the R&B/SouL genre. Comprised of the elements of the late 60's R&B /Soul as passed up through at least 3 generations , of which are still many around because of the growth of the population ,the culture of the period. Thers still a lot of people out there that remember good music. Real instruments. Lucky that there are still those that still can perform in this almost forgotten area. These guy's came up together , the retro ? movement is big business ,so who knows ,this all maybe a big game for pub. Just as long as the FUNK keeps comin......WTF???
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