There’s definitely a lot of respect for Prince in the younger artist community, and they’ve taken a lot of influence from Prince. When you’re hearing up and coming musicians today, do you still hear echoes of the music you guys made?Īll the time. It’s pop! Poppy, fun, upbeat, positive lyrics – dancey stuff, some darker, more emotional moods. She’s an up and coming young gal, just turned nineteen. It’ll probably be late July when we get underway with that. In fact we’re going to be shooting a video for one of the songs, probably the first single. But she started working with me several months ago, I’m co-writing most of this material, producing it and I’d like to say, it’s turning out really well. She has a couple of things posted on Youtube with some other producers. Right now I’m working with a new artist based in Minneapolis, female singer named Michelle Berg. What other music are you working on where your fans might be able to find you? There’s definitely going to be input from the group. I was curious about that, whether you and the group are approached by the estate or by Warner Brothers to have in put into any of the things that are going to come out.ĭefinitely. And we’re also planning on doing some new original material in the near future, as well. Either remix what’s in there, do more updated versions of the mixes, or that kind of stuff. Yeah, we hope to have some meetings with the people in charge of the vault, who are overseeing the material that’s sitting in there, and see what we can perform out of that, stuff that’s never been heard before, and also hopefully release some records. Yeah, those were songs that we were debuting for the first time, to sort of test them out to the audience.Īre you looking into playing any more of that material? I remember that song from a recording of you guys playing Prince’s birthday party at First Avenue where almost the entire set is songs that nobody had heard at that point. Songs that weren’t hits but are deep cuts off of records. And we’re doing a couple more album tracks off of Around The World In A Day, you know, a few other things. We’re doing a song called “All Day All Night”, which was released on the Purple Rain special edition, that came out last year but (prior to that) unreleased, never really been out before. What are some of the things you get into that we didn’t get to hear today, in case we have a chance to see you down the road? So you have to create a new set list for it. You know, we usually play for 90 minutes, maybe an hour-forty, and today was a fifty minute set. We don’t really approach it differently, but normally the sets are a bit shorter. I know you play a variety of different situations, do you approach a festival gig like this any different from the way you approach a headlining show where the whole crowd is there to see you? And there’s still a lot of life in that music, at witnessed by the band’s ability to transform a huge crowd into a single, boogieing mass.įollowing a powerful and emotional performance on the Arroyo Seco’s Sycamore stage, keyboardist “Dr.” Matt Fink of the Revolution took a few minutes to talk with the LA Beat about what he’s been doing lately, who he’s been doing it with, and the pleasures of playing Prince music to young festival crowds. The band is now back in action, paying tribute to its creator and giving new life to its old material on stage. The music Prince made with the Revolution from roughly 1982 to 1987 is some of the most innovative, beloved and popular music ever produced. Prince made the concert, but not with the federally protected emergency bullhorn.Dr. Once at the jail, Prince signed autographs and posed for photographs. Prince volunteered to be arrested with him. Sky Marshals then searched passengers and found the emergency bullhorn in Fink’s carry on and arrested him. “The next thing we know, the pilot comes out and announces, ‘It has come to our attention someone has removed some emergency equipment from the airplane, which is a federal offense ,” said Fink. A passenger, alarmed by the thieving she witnessed, alerted the flight attendant of the crime. Prince, lacking a carry on, convinced Fink to stash the bullhorn in his bag. Fortunately, Prince and Fink boarded a plane the next day that had an emergency bullhorn.įink pointed out that the plane had a perfectly acceptable “emergency bullhorn” they could acquire for a stage prop. Fink suggested that prince have a megaphone as a stage prop. While on tour opening for Rick James in March of 1980, Dr. Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() )
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