Prince : the miles'connection

j'aime l'anecdote où Prince se pointe ds la loge de Miles après un concert et davis se balade à poil devt Roger...roger lui balance, un pas de ça avec Moi, on se reparle qud tu te seras r-habillé!!!......Davis aime déstabiliser...et jouer...Prince et Davis se ressemblent étrangement et plus qu'on ne pourrait le soupçonner...Alan Leeds a balancé des tonnes d'anecdotes à ce sujet ds la biographie qu'il consacre à Miles...comment ils étaient fascinés l'un par l'autre.....en attendant de retrouver les liens ad'hoc...foncez et infusez vous le "miles 2 nowhere 87", live au Park ou davis joue avec Roger..ça dure genre 10 minutes mais c'est aussi fameux que les 3 minutes avec MJ, JB et Prince partageant la même scène (circa 83')....

Miles talks about Prince...bio segue
Humeur actuelle : " the war occurs in my mind"

Dans son auto/biographie (1989), Miles Davis consacre deux
trois pages à Prince. Comme son point de vue (technique le
plus souvent) est aussi original qu'intelligent, je vous
en retranscrit qq morceaux choisis. C'est en anglais,
désolé, mais relativement simple à comprendre.



People have been hearing such great music for the last 20
years : Coltrane, myself, Herbie Hancock, James Brown, Sly,
Jimi Hendrix, Prince, Stravinsky, Bernstein.


STYLE
Bird [Charlie Parker] had about 5 or 6 styles, all
different. He had one like Lester Young ; one like Ben
Webster ; one Sonny Rrollins used to call « pecking », when
a horn player uses real short phrases (today Prince uses
that style) ….


BASS
But today, Prince might be bringing that low electric sound
back, because he has that double bass. You don't hear a
bass line in Prince's music because he takes keyboard bass
and doubles it with regular bass just like Marcus Miller
does.

One day I asked Prince, « Where's the bass line in that
composition ? » He said « Miles, I don't write one, and if
you ever hear one, I'm gonna fire the bass player because a
bass line gets in my way ». He told me he wouldn't tell
that to nobody else, but he knew that I understood that
because he had heard that same kind of concept in some of
my music.


TUTU
Prince wanted to put a song on Tutu, even wrote a song for
it, but when we sent him the tape and he heard what was on
there, he didn't think his tune fit. Prince has high
musical standards, like me. So, he just pulled his song
meant for the album until we can do something else at a
later date. Prince also records for Warner Bros. And it was
through people over there that I first found out that he
loved my music and considered me one of his musical heroes.
I was happy and honoured that he looked at me in that way.


THE CHURCH THING
In 1987 I was really getting into the music of Prince, and
the music of Cameo and the Carribean group called Kassav. I
love things they're doing. But I really love Prince, and
after I heard him, I wanted to play with him sometime.
Prince is from the school of James Brown, and I love James
Brown because of all the great rythms he plays. Prince
reminds me of him and Cameo reminds me of Sly Stone. But
Prince got some Marvin Gaye and Jimi Hendrix and Sly in
him, also, even Little Richard. He's a mixture of all those
guys and Duke Ellington. He reminds me, in a way, of
Charlie Chaplin.
Prince does so many things, it's almost like he can do it
all ; write and sing and produce and play music, act in
films, produce and direct them, and he can really dance too.
Prince and Michael Jackson are both motherfuckers [ils sont
trop bons, ces enfoirés], but I like Prince a little better
as an all-around musical force. Plus he plays his ass off
as well as sings and writes. He got that church thing up in
what he does. He plays guitar and piano and plays them very
well. But it's the church thing that I hear in his music
that makes him special, and that organ thing. It's a black
thing and not a white thing. Prince is like the church to
gay people. He is the music of the people who go out after
ten or eleven at night. He comes in on the beat and plays
on top of the beat. I think when Prince makes love he hears
drums instead of Ravel. So he's not a white guy. His music
is new, is rooted, reflects and comes out of 1988 and '89
and '90. For me, he can be the new Duke Ellington of our
time if he just keeps at it.
When Prince asked me to come to Minneapolis to bring in the
new year of 1988 and maybe we could play a song or two
together, I went. In order to become a great musician the
musician has to have the ability to stretch [étendre = la
capacité de produire un large éventail de choses
différentes] and Prince can certainly stretch. Man, Prince
has got a hell of a complex out there. Record and movie
equipment, plus he had an apartment for me to stay in. The
whole thing seems like it's about half the block. He's got
sound stages and everything. Prince put on a concert to aid
the homeless of Minneapolis and charge people $200 per
person to get in. The concert was held in his new Paisley
Park Studios. The place was packed. At midnight, Prince
sang « Auld Lang Syne » [ ? ] and asked me to come up and
play something with the band and I did, and they tapped it
[« It's gonna be a beautiful night » ?].
Prince is very nice, a shy kind of person, a little genius,
too. He knows what he can and cannot do in music and in
everything else. He gets over with everyone because he
fulfills everyone illusions. He's got that raunchy thing,
almost like a pimp and a bitch all wrapped up in one image,
that transvestite thing. But when he's singing that funky X-
rated shit that he does about sex and women, he's doing it
in a high-pitched, in almost agirl's voice. If I said «
Fuck You » to somebody they would be ready to call the
police. But if Prince says it in that girl-like voice he
uses, then everyone says he's cute. And he isn't out in the
public eye all the time ; he's a mystery to a lot of
people. Me and Michael Jackson are the same way. But he's
really like his name, man, a prince of a person when you
get to know him.
But he shocked me when he said he wanted to do an entire
album with me. He also wants our two groups to tour
together. That would be very interesting. I don't know when
or if it will happen, but it certainly is an interesting

idea for a tour.

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Prince Miles 2 Nowhere (Paisley Park 12/31/87)

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Prince
Miles 2 Nowhere 2 CD
Label : Thunderball
Catalogue : #TB 091-092
Disc Length : 52:50 / 44:10
Source : Soundboard Recording
Sound Quality : EX
Year Of Release : 1999

New Years Eve Benefit Concert
Paisley Park
31st December 1987

Disc 1
1. SHEILA E DRUM SOLO 2. HOT THING 3. IF I WAS YOUR GIRLFRIEND 4. LET'S GO CRAZY - LAND OF 1,000 DANCES 5. WHEN DOVES CRY 6. AULD LANG SYNE - PURPLE RAIN 7. 1999 8. U GOT THE LOOK

Disc 2
1. IT'S GONNA BE A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT 2. SIX 3. MILES DAVIS INSTRUMENTAL 4. HOUSEQUAKE 5. CHAIN OF FOOLS 6. COLD SWEAT - MOTHER POPCORN 7. INTERLUDE 8. TAKE THE A-TRAIN 9. HOUSEQUAKE 10. FUNKY MAN - LAND OF 1,000 DANCES 11. PIANO JAM 12. ALPHABET ST. - COLD SWEAT - FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY, STING LIKE A BEE - HOUSEQUAKE 13. IT'S GONNA BE A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT