That’s one of the things that was striking about Prince.
Was Ellington able to play all the instruments in the way that Prince was? All of the jazz from him was influenced by what he did with those bands in a way that Mozart influenced everything that came after him. He was able to pull out so much cool textural stuff. He writes sophisticated for what was when he started looking at it as a primal art. We are talking like an eighteen-piece orchestra. He was highlighting them, which is the opposite of what Prince did, but he highlighted all of his band members. He was incredible at expressing the individuality of each of his band members. Duke is getting sounds out of individuals that sounds like an animal, but it’s within this musical context. There is no electric keyboard and production on things. He was born in 1900-ish and died in the ‘70s. He was interesting in that he is an analog. When I went to college, I wanted to be a jazz ranger in the style of Duke Ellington. I had no idea Duke Ellington was such a maestro. We’re going to get into that because the other thing that the book does even better than documenting the studio sessions where you get a sense of the musical relationships that he has, their tensions, and, in some ways, how fraught those relationships ended up being because of the type of person Prince is. At the time, Sheila E, all of their albums were completely him in the studio and with different singers on the task. What people don’t realize about Prince and it’s come out more now that he is passed, but he was the guiding hand behind so much music. It’s amazing how much he accomplishes in a day. What a typical creative person’s day, whether it be Jane Austen, Voltaire, or Hemingway, and none of the stories in his book compared to what Prince does. In the book he documents, he puts together based on letters, biographies, autobiographies, and so on. I had the author on the show as part of the solitude series. I often give a book as a gift called Daily Rituals. I know a lot of creative people, and none of them spend the amount of time on the mechanics of creating that Prince does. Prince spent thirteen hours in the studio, played basketball with Sheila E for an hour, did a two-hour concert, and he was back out the next day. It’s like, “What?” The most fascinating part is look at the time because they have the times when the studio is booked and when he was there. What was done? Sometimes he came in and added a new mix to a song. Who was present, who was the engineer, where it was, what the hours were? This is like a book that details how he put together that album track by track and session by session. Purple Rain was when he became the biggest thing on the planet. This is the album that put him on the map. The book shows Prince’s two years of studio sessions while compiling Purple Rain in all of Around The World In A Day. Talk about what Duke Ellington was and how Prince is a contemporary Duke Ellington. When you look at the granular details like, “Wow.” If you read it quickly as a diary, it’s still overwhelming. I would have doubted that had I not read this home. He was the closest we have to a Mozart-like figure that could do anything in the realm of whatever contemporary music is as well or better than any of his peers. Prince is the closest our generation has, and by generation, going back, the person before him would be Duke Ellington. Who is Prince? Help someone who only knows three of his songs, which is the average listener, to understand who this person is. Every box, you were like, “He could also be.” Is he soul, R&B, funk, new wave, or jazz? It’s interesting because he is, and he isn’t right. I think he was, but since you know more about Prince than anyone, here we are. While tripping, I spent some time thinking about and crying about Prince and questioning whether he was a solo. I was reading it the morning before a mushroom trip. You gave me a dog-eared copy of a book sitting right in front of us called Prince and The Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions: 1983 in 1984 by Duane Tudahl. We discussed his remarkable abilities and how they made him feel alone in the world. Whether or not he was, as a musician, Prince brought joy to the world through his music. I invite Brandon Patrick, a comedian, and musician, into the Solo studio to talk about whether a remarkable character, Prince, was a solo. On occasion, I get an idea and rush to record an episode. Brandon and Peter discuss his remarkable abilities and how they led him to feel alone in the world. Whether or not he was, Prince brought joy to the world through his music. Peter McGraw invites Brandon Patrick, a comedian and musician, into the solo studio to talk about whether a remarkable character, Prince, was a Solo.
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