Prince

As I mentioned in Part 2, my involvement with the Prince project started ramping up during the production of Graffiti Bridge, both the album and the movie. In those days (1989) we mixed to 1/2" 2-track tape. Prince would assemble all the master mixes for the record into two big…

Six Word Photo Story Challenge: Freestyle — Prince rises again in his hometown. Recently, my wife and I watched the Houston Astros whip our Minnesota Twins at Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Two weeks later, we returned with our son for more punishment as we watched the Detroit Tigers take down the Twins. Both days featured near-perfect baseball weather. The Twins have performed…

Can We Tell the Difference in This Superficial World? — Diana C. founding editor of Know Thyself — Heal Thyself provided a list of 20 prompts. 20 Self-Discovery & Reflection Writing Prompts For those who like to dig deep.medium.com ’I challenged myself to respond to each prompt! Additional KTHT editors and talented writers in their own right are jules Ravyne Hawke Spyder George Blue Kelly Prompt 13 — How can you distinguish between…

Femi Jiya was Prince’s engineer when I joined Paisley Park in 1988. I was eventually put on the Prince project as an assistant engineer. See Part 1 for more of the run up. My fellow engineers, Tom Garneau and David Friedlander, also worked on the Prince project. When Femi disappeared…

“No.” “Is that what you want me to tell him?” “Yes.” When I hung up the phone I did not realize this would be the last conversation I had as Prince’s engineer. It had been almost 3 years since I had called Paisley Park, naively asking if I could get…

The kind of beauty that comes from inside — Dear Daughter, You are beloved to God, your family, and many others. Sometimes we call you “Bug”, but it’s a term of endearment. You are our Bug and we wouldn’t want you any other way than exactly as you are. Did you know your Daddy tells everyone at work that…

IX-a Operation_LOL, Scene 1 Dedicated to London Breed. IX. Operation_LOL Scene 1 [Exterior, mid-morning. TR Hoody, with Dewey in tow, and the Man in Grey Hoody pull into the front of the Ferry Building riding at top speed on a matching pair of Purple Vyrus Alyen 1000 e-supercycles, powered by…

Six Word Photo Story Challenge: Freestyle — The brightest stars will shine forever. In April 2022, Mary Chang Story Writer challenged writers to publish a photo and story in the category “Graffiti and Street Art.” I accepted the challenge, and wrote Bob Dylan in Living Color, about a mural in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Knowing that the artist Prince was from Minneapolis, Vidya Sury…