Comments on: Prince covers Radiohead – blocks web clip

By: Angel H. Wong

Angel H. Wong — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:45:15 +0000

#16

Do I smell a Prince fan?

By: pedro

pedro — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:19:14 +0000

#15 he’s not affeminate, he just invented metrosexualism…and is very frail

By: Angel H. Wong

Angel H. Wong — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:56:24 +0000

What were you expecting from an effeminate hetero guy in high heels?

By: solak

solak — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:40:48 +0000

You mean to tell me that Prince, the Purple One, he who will not give “Weird Al” Yankovic permission to do a cover of his songs, did a cover? And then claimed copyright over it?

By: Spork

Spork — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:41:26 +0000

To get a better idea what “Prince world” is like- check out “An Evening with Kevin Smith” DVD for his experience with the Purple One.

By: pedro

pedro — Sat, 31 May 2008 23:51:32 +0000

What happens is that Prince used to work at a mac store

By: eyeofthetiger

eyeofthetiger — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:52:01 +0000

I was think I can’t even remember a song by Prince. So I search videos and what did I find Purple Rain. A song about showering a lover. After watching the video, indeed it seems he like to make it rain on Sheena Easten. Water sports were so taboo in the 80′s.

By: Sarah Worsham

Sarah Worsham — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:32:44 +0000

So did the video get taken down because Prince’s record company was trying to protect their copyright or because they were trying to protect themselves from getting sued from the real copyright holder?

By: JPV

JPV — Sat, 31 May 2008 19:59:49 +0000

Who cares anyway? Both Prince and Radiohead suck ass.

By: The Pirate

The Pirate — Sat, 31 May 2008 19:41:39 +0000

Prince, formerly known as Squiggly T Dot, is locked to the ‘past’ mentality. Only total control of distribution will satisfy his purple reign. Once an innovator, now a litigious courthouse groupie, he remains married to 1999.

By: Erwin Blonk

Erwin Blonk — Sat, 31 May 2008 19:38:17 +0000

#5
Ron, I believe you, he can play some serious guitar.
Yet, that RIAA etc nonsense, it makes me sick. I seriously believe that if they could get away with charging you for every time you hum a song to yourself, they would. That’s why I haven’t bought (or downloaded) anything that has the RIAA virus. Which means at least from one artist that’s in my top 5 list I haven’t bought his last few albums. Mind you, he’s at the level where every album sold counts. But I just can’t get myself to indirectly funding the copyright mob.

By: Gary, the dangerous infidel

Gary, the dangerous infidel — Sat, 31 May 2008 19:25:49 +0000

Except for his consistently top-notch guitar solos, Prince’s performances tend to be hit-or-miss, with this one being quite a miss.

I seriously doubt that Radiohead will ever hear cries from their audience to “do it like Prince”

By: Ron Larson

Ron Larson — Sat, 31 May 2008 19:00:48 +0000

Actually he did a good job. Some damn fine guitar work that night by Prince with that song.

By: Jess Hurchist

Jess Hurchist — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:56:23 +0000

Wasn’t there a time when Prince was thought strange compared with Michael Jackson?

By: Raster

Raster — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:36:20 +0000

On the one hand, ‘commercial’ artist’s lawyers have to deal with our disaster of a copyright law, and lay claim to everything to keep anything.

On the other, who listens to Prince anymore?