Hello people! It's June 7 - Prince's 52nd birthday. I've been a huge Prince fan since I was a little girl. I remember seeing a concert of his in the mid-eighties, and I saw Prince & the Revolution playing their hearts out. Then suddenly, Prince got on the drums and started playing like he didn't have any sense - in a good way. I knew that he played the piano and guitar. I fell in love when I saw him on the drum set. This was a real musician playing real music! As I got older, I started playing music myself. Because of Prince, I graduated form high school playing eight instruments - piano, violin, trumpet, flugel horn, percussion, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, and voice (you know that our voices are instruments, right).
I hate that I can't play all those instruments now, but I still have an appreciation for the musicality that is used - sparsely - by the real musicians that are still out there. This new 'cRAP' music that's out now is not real music. They find a beat, add a stupid dance to it, and make it music. I wish that kids today had idols like Prince, Mint Condition, Babyface, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Marvin Gaye, and other 'real' musicians. Thank God I born when real music was still being played.
Monday, June 7, 2010
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