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[iamjessemartinz]

It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Celebrating the #Legacy and #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: #PaisleyPark . From Goldie's Parade: Paisley Park: Prince commissioned Bret Thoeny, 23-year-old architect at the firm of BOTO Design Inc of Santa Monica, California, to draw up blueprints to accommodate a fully operational studio complex. Construction got underway in January 1986, building at 7801 Audubon Road in Chanhassen, a vast 65,000sq ft recording, rehearsal space and filming facility. During this time, Prince continued to rent another warehouse until April 1987 when the construction of Paisley Park was finally complete, built by local construction firm Bossardt-Christenson. . From Billboard, The Inside Story on Designing Prince's Paisley Park: Exclusive Interview with Bret Thoeny, by Shira Karsen: Q: What was the building process like? A: We built it from scratch. All white aluminum, metal panels on the outside to compliment the simplicity of the landscape. Very few windows because recording studios don’t have windows, but also because it was his place, and he wanted privacy. We constructed a large sound stage like the Hollywood Sound Stage, two recording studios, a dance rehearsal hall, costume spaces, offices, and his office. He would do films there and tour rehearsals, all his costumes, all his clothes remained there. And he was very involved in the collaboration process. He’d come check out the construction site when he was on tour, climb up on the roof to see the space, all sorts of things. Q: What was so special about Paisley Park for you? A: I continue to do this for entertainment clients and producers and different people creating their own complex, a whole center where they can work, but back then, 25 years ago, this wasn’t done. Artist’s weren’t building their own compounds, only large companies and record labels were. But Prince, Prince had this vision to have everything under one roof. And this was decades before it was common for any individual to do that. . #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #PopArt https://www.instagram.com/p/CUz8Uuxlayf/?utm_medium=tumblr

[iamjessemartinz]

It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Celebrating the #Legacy and #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: #Madhouse • Love this? #SupportArt and become a #Patreon member at #ClubLPP 💜👉  patreon.com/clublpp • From princevault.com: Madhouse was originally a 'faux' jazz rock group conjured up by Prince in late 1986 in Minneapolis to be an outlet for some jazz material he had recorded with Eric Leeds. A live version of the band was made up when Madhouse was slated as a support act on the Sign O’ The Times Tour. The line up of the band comprised Eric Leeds (baritone saxophone), Dr. Fink (keyboards), Levi Seacer, Jr. (bass), and Dale Alexander (drums). • From the Current's 'Prince: The Story of Sign O' The Times, Episode 7': From June 19 to 22, 1987, Prince took over a soccer stadium in Utrecht, Holland, setting up chairs to host nearly 15,000 fans each night. I've gotten the chance to connect with a handful of Dutch fans who were actually at the show on June 20, 1987, which was recorded and has been remastered and included in the Super Deluxe reissue of Sign O' The Times. The opening act for the Sign O' The Times Tour was Madhouse, Prince's experimental jazz side project. The original live lineup of Madhouse included Eric Leeds, Dr. Fink, Levi Seacer, and drummer Dale Alexander. . [Dutch fan] Patrick Jordens: ‘I was watching Madhouse like my life depended on it because I loved it. I lot of people were not paying attention, but when I was looking at Madhouse, I looked to the side of the stage, and I see Prince, and he's watching Madhouse from the side of the stage, and he's hanging on some kind of bar. He's swinging, and then he jumps off and he stands there a little bit, and no one sees him but me, I think. So I tap Roald, and I say, you know, "Hey! Look over there it's Prince." And he sees me getting Roald and pointing at him, and then he waves at us — never forget it! It was beautiful!’ • #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt 💜👉 https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince https://www.instagram.com/p/CWyKVTIlNDZBzR-YlvDVWkiRVsO1h-TMiNGxZM0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[iamjessemartinz]

It's an #LPPSaturday ✌️4☝️ (swipe for both) and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Let's celebrate the #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: the #Excitement and #LOUDNESS of the #PurpleRain Tour . Love this? Join the club - literally! 👉 #ClubLPP 👉  patreon.com/clublpp • From Rolling Stone: Prince’s Epic ‘Purple Rain’ Tour: An Oral History by David Browne, June 22, 2017: . Lisa Coleman: It was one of the loudest things I’ve ever heard. It’s like when sports teams come out onto the field. We were hitting the stage and it’s as if we were coming out from the locker room, you know? People were screaming and hanging over the rails and reaching for us. They knew our names, more than ever because of the film. We all kind of glanced at each other like, “Holy shit!” . Wendy Melvoin: When they turned the lights off and you’d stand by the side of the stage and hear, “Ladies and gentlemen …,” it was deafening. To this day, I have never heard anything like that. It was so loud that my ears became distorted at one point. . Mark Brown: It was hard to hear yourself onstage. The audience would settle down after the first couple songs, but still … I had a huge bass rig. And even with all of that equipment, I would only hear it if I walked back by the bass amp. You’d feel the beat, but there were moments where you could get lost. . Matt Fink: The loudest white noise possible. . Bobby Z: Then Prince would rile them back up. He’d shake his ass or do a costume change or something, and people would go nuts again. . LeRoy Bennett: The hair stood up on my arms. It still does thinking about it. It was just insane because none of us had experienced anything like that before. Suddenly we were elevated to a much higher level than we ever anticipated and it was a bit overwhelming. You had to really fight hard to concentrate on what you were supposed to do during the show, because you couldn’t believe what was going on. • #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt @therevolution @leleroybennett • 💜♾ 👉  https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince 🌹🙏🏼☮️💜♊😎 https://www.instagram.com/p/CLPOa6ilVQB/?igshid=shhjxe0qtxk5

[iamjessemartinz]

It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Let's celebrate the #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: Inspiring #UnderTheCherryMoon • #SupportArt 👉  patreon.com/clublpp • From the webinar series @thepurpleparadigm | Ep. 6 | feat. Susannah Melvoin, St. Paul Peterson, Eric Leeds & Jerome Benton ~ Susannah, in response to Dr. Mauri's comparison of #UTCM to Billy Wilder's Some Like it Hot: "No, I have to say, I know first hand what that was about - 'The Philadelphia Story' is what influenced him." • From 'Banana Skirts and Cherry Moons: Utopic French Myths in Prince's Under the Cherry Moon', by Karen Turman in Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men Vol. 7, No. 2 (Spring 2020), Published By: Indiana University Press Partial Abstract: Paisley Park is in your heart, or perhaps in France? The cinematic aesthetics and themes of [Prince’s second] film reveal a more acute transcription of a Paisley Park utopia defined by freedom of oppression based on class, race, and gender. The film's visuals echo jazz age entertainment reminiscent of performances by the Nicholas Brothers, the Berry Brothers, and Josephine Baker from the 1920s through the 1940s. The French locale adds yet another layer to the equation: during the interwar years, Paris became a haven for Black entertainers, artists, and intellectuals who discovered an almost utopian experience in comparison to the violent racism in the US. This essay examines class, race, and gender in Under the Cherry Moon through comparative analysis of Black writers and entertainers during the Harlem Renaissance and the French fetishization of Black American expatriates. In addition to Josephine Baker's performances and legacy, this study will consider Claude McKay's Banjo (1929), a narrative reevaluating Blackness and contextualizing the ideals of the Harlem Renaissance in the south of France. • #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt • 💜👉   https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince https://www.instagram.com/p/COVe2PblOTD/?igshid=1cx3o3oisjd0u

[iamjessemartinz]

It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Let's celebrate the #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: #JoniMitchell • Love this? Join the club - literally! 👉 #ClubLPP 👉  patreon.com/clublpp • From the official @prince Facebook page, April 19, 2019: . “I love all Joni’s music. Joni’s music should be taught in school." — Prince, 2004 . The threads of Joni Mitchell’s influence are woven throughout Prince’s life and career. He first discovered her as a teenager by listening to the Twin Cities rock radio station KQRS in the mid-1970s, when her single “Help Me” became a radio hit, and when she toured behind her album The Hissing of Summer Lawns — an album Prince would hail as one of his favorites a decade later in an interview with Rolling Stone — he went to see her perform in Minneapolis. . “I saw him in an audience at that time,” Joni Mitchell recalled in an interview with the British rock artist Morrissey in 1996. “I believe it was him. Front row to the left. Quite conspicuous because he's got those eyes like a puffin, those Egyptian eyes, those big, exotic eyes.” . References to Joni’s music would appear again and again in Prince’s work. The album artwork for Prince’s 1981 release Controversy contains a small nod to his hero, with her name printed between stars on one of the newspaper headlines in the collage. The title of the 1984 album he wrote for the Time, Ice Cream Castle, was borrowed from her song “Both Sides Now.” On the 1987 album Sign o’ the Times, he quotes her song “Help Me” in the lyrics for “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker.” . And in 2001, he recorded a cover of her song “A Case of You” for his album One Nite Alone…, and would continue performing a rendition of that song throughout his career, [beginning in 1983 and] including at the Piano & A Microphone Tour kick-off at Paisley Park in January 2016 and at his final concert in Atlanta on April 14, 2016. • #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #StagedPhotography #Miniatures #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt  • 💜♾ 👉  https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince 🌹🙏🏼☮️💜♊😎 https://www.instagram.com/p/CKHR6avl6BW/?igshid=njd3hwc4todg

[iamjessemartinz]

It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Let's celebrate the #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua 'til the world stops spinning. Inspiration: Studio Life . Love this? Join the club - literally! #ClubLPP 👉 patreon.com/clublpp . From 'Prince: The Story of 1999 bonus feature: The sound of Prince and Peggy McCreary' by Andrea Swensson: Peggy McCreary: 'I was just exhausted working with him because he never stopped. Which is why I taught him to record his own vocals, and everybody appreciated that. In Minneapolis when I did that panel with a lot of his engineers, I told them that I was just so tired and losing focus, and would miss a punch and he would get upset with me. And I said, "You know what, you can do this." I said, "I can set you up in here and you can punch yourself." And he said, "Really?" And I said, "Yeah." So that's what we would do, and I would hang the mic over and pull it down, and the engineers all leaned on the table and said, "That was you? Oh my god, thank you. That was the only time we got a break." I was talking to Susan Rogers in New York when we were walking down the street, and she said, "I remember one of the last things you told me, is that coffee loses its caffeine about a half an hour after you make it. So don't make him a fresh pot of coffee if you wanna go home.”’ . From Alan Light's 'Let's Go Crazy': "Prince had to make it happen, he had no choice," says Susannah Melvoin. "He was compelled, and he knew how to make everyone else feel that compulsion, too...He would call at 4am and say, "I'm cutting hits, what are you doing?' 'I'm sleeping.' 'Wrong answer' - and he'd hang up. You knew to get to the studio. Nobody was doing anything like that, and it moved us to believe in it. We got to do great things." . #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #StagedPhotography #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt @SunsetSound .  💜∞ ➡️  https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince 🌹🙏🏼☮️💜♊😎 https://www.instagram.com/p/CIJCFUIFC5y/?igshid=1bzb5wkz2ebzb

[iamjessemartinz]

It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Let's celebrate the #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: Yamaha CP-70 • Here's the debut of Le Petit Yamaha CP-70 I recently made! You can get behind the scenes and watch me make it AND help power the project (AND GET COOL STUFF!) by joining #ClubLPP ➡️ patreon.com/clublpp • The 4 Horse Crystal Ball is a mini-recreation of a statuette @jilljonesmusic posted a pic of recently -  she gave one like it to Prince in 1982. • From @rollingstone, Inside Prince’s Brilliant ‘Piano & a Microphone 1983’ Album, by Kory Grow, September 21, 2018: “I was always hoping that these recordings were still around because of the feeling that’s in them,” Don Batts, Prince’s personal recording engineer in the early Eighties, tells Rolling Stone. He’s reflecting on a demo cassette he made with the artist released Friday as Piano & a Microphone 1983, 34 minutes of Prince sketching out song ideas by himself. “It’s just him pounding this idea out so he could come back later and fill in the blanks. These were his little grooves.” • From Yamaha: The CP-70 was an electric grand piano developed to deliver the depth of expression of an acoustic instrument while holding its own when performing on stage with electric guitars played at full volume through an amplifier and speakers. Very similar to a cut-down acoustic grand piano, the CP-70 features the same frame action and frame construction as an acoustic piano, but can be split into two cases for storage, and utilizes an electric guitar-style pickup system to pick up the sound for amplification via an amplifier. Its characteristic bright, edgy sound swept the music scene, with the CP-70 seeing extensive use in both live performance and recording scenarios. • #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #StagedPhotography #OneSixthScale #Miniatures #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt @yamahamusicusa • 💜 x ∞ • ➡️  https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince https://www.instagram.com/p/CCyaz1NFx3o/?igshid=bjkw4tdc52yv

[iamjessemartinz]

It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Let's celebrate the #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: Louis & Vaughn • Love this? Join the club - literally! Help power the project (AND GET BEHIND THE SCENES ACCESS and COOL STUFF!) by joining #ClubLPP  patreon.com/clublpp • From wwd.com, ‘Prince ‘Purple Rain’ Costume Designer Louis Wells, 61, Dies’, By Rosemary Feitelberg on August 8, 2018: . Taking over from a local seamstress — the sister of André Cymone — Wells and Vaughn Terry were at that time transitioning from groups with “very cartoony imagery” to more stylish statements, Terry said. Their six-year run with Prince helped to define his international influence. “I would say we influenced the world of fashion with Prince. You would characterize Prince’s influence with the ruffle shirt, the purple trench coat, the fitted pants with the shearing up the side, the diagonal fly with the big, 20-mm. buttons, certainly the leather jacket with the scarf with the tassels and the motorcycle,” Terry said. “Even now, we’re still using it. I do storyboard references at Coach [where he freelances] pulling out Prince pictures. It’s still influencing fashion tremendously.” • Reflective of Wells’ humility and his effect on people, Terry described how Prince and Prince’s giant bodyguard “Chick” and Wells, a former high school wrestler, were roughhousing. “They were playing around and Prince jumped into it on Louis’ back. Louis went into his wrestling mode, flipped Prince over and tossed him on the sofa. He didn’t hurt him. Everybody was working out. Prince wasn’t fragile. He was an athlete.” Terry said. “But the point of that was for the next few days that’s all that Prince could talk about. Louis brought this guy down to humanity and Prince enjoyed being a real person. Prince jumped into a wrestling match, got tossed around, and that was more important to talk about than him getting ready to go to the Grammys. That was indicative of what Louis’ influence on people really was. You can go back to being Prince and I’ll go back to being your employee. Right now we’re just guys kicking it.” 💜♾ #Prince4ever #louisandvaughn https://www.instagram.com/p/CCgXqevlAC5/?igshid=1m77sna8kniaz