It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Celebrating the #Legacy and #Genius of #Prince 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: #FAIRLIGHT #NewSounds • Love this? #SupportArt and become a #Patreon member 👉 #ClubLPP 👉 patreon.com/clublpp • From Duane Tudahl's 'Prince and the Parade and Sign o' the Times Era Studio Sessions 1985 and 1986': "Prince got a FAIRLIGHT! This was the coolest sampler keyboard monster ever! We loved it and it inspired a lot of unique ideas. The type of songs that used sound effects and flutes and orchestral samples, etc. It was a brand-new box of crayons in a preschool with no grown-ups around to tell us not to color on the walls...Because we were also really high on the popularity of Purple Rain, we had all of this momentum, so as musicians we were really bold and brave. I think other musicians can feel that when they listen [to Parade]. There's an irreverence to it, and it's all over the place. It's the kind of stuff that record companies hate, but musicians love." ~Lisa Coleman • Prince had been using the Fairlight keyboard but sometimes struggled with how to stretch its potential and decided to bring in an expert to help, according to Todd Herreman. "I got a call from Alan Leeds saying 'We got this Fairlight from you guys, but Prince needs somebody to run it, could you recommend a programmer?' and I just said, 'Well, that would be me.' So they flew me up for an interview and I got the gig." "My first session with him blew my freaking mind. I get called at five or six in the morning and it's Susan and she said that Prince wants to record. So this is like being thrown into the deep end, I mean it was my first week there, I had no idea what I was in for and I really didn't know Prince as a musician at that point and I really had no idea what this man was capable of. And he was making the extended mix of "Mountains" for the 12-inch. And I just sat there the whole time with my mouth open and my jaw hitting the floor. I can't believe I'm seeing him do this." • #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt • 💜👉 https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince https://www.instagram.com/p/CRt1N57leGgP_no7jK1ikjYJmkYn2bRH9mdQ2w0/?utm_medium=tumblr
