#lppisart

[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

[justifiedmadness]

Regrann from @troygua - Wanna go 4 a ride? It's #LPPSaturday ~ Let's celebrate the #Genius of #Prince until the end of all time ~ ∞ #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Prince4ever #PrinceIsInfinite ∞ 💜 x ∞ ∞ ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ http://troygua.com/work/lppisart/ - #regrann

[leboudoirdeliyii]

#follow @troygua 💜 ・・・ It's #LPPSaturday! Let's celebrate the #Genius of #Prince until the end of all time, shall we? #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Prince4ever 💜 #Paris #France🇫🇷 #LeGrandPalais #EyeAmHere #WhereRU ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ http://troygua.com/work/lppisart/ #PrinceUntilTheEndOfTimes 💜

[realmusicluver]

@troygua, thank U 4 ur contributions 2 the Prince fam base! Ur art is unparalleled. 💜😊💜 . . . "It's #LPPSaturday! Let's celebrate the #Genius of #Prince until the sun refuses to shine! Oui? #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Prince4ever 💜 #Sun2AShadow #Rose2AThorn ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ http://troygua.com/work/lppisart/" (via #InstaRepost @AppsKottage)

[troygua]

It's #LPPSaturday! Let's celebrate the #Genius of #Prince until the sun refuses to shine! This week's image is dedicated to @kimbonset2 #KimBerry, whose years of artful hair work with Mr. Nelson is an inspiration. #LPPisART #NaturalHair #Afro #BabyFro #BlackHistoryMonth #TroyGuaArt #Prince4ever 💜 x ∞ ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ http://ift.tt/25oKzlD

[paisleyparkinyourheart]

@on_the_one: Another classic from Troy https://t.co/xF2LDCID0W #lppisart #prince4ever #paisleypark https://t.co/1fxF3wUnbr

[iamjessemartinz]

Heeee's Back! It's #LPPSaturday, #BlackHistoryMonth and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Celebrating the #Legacy and #Genius of #Prince 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: #NewPowerGeneration • #SupportArt @patreon 💜👉  patreon.com/clublpp • From diffuser.fm: 'New Power Generation: the Song Begets the Band', by Rob Smith, October 29, 2017: To trace the origins of Prince's "New Power Generation" (song and band), we must direct our collective attention to "Eye No," the first song on 1988's Lovesexy. In the preamble to the song proper, he announces "Welcome 2 the New Power Generation," shortly before introducing the listener to the word "Hundalasiliah" (which is Nelsonian variant of "hallelujah," or "praise be" or "check out this funky jam I'm about to lay on you"). This was Prince casting himself as reverent Prince, if not Reverend Prince—remember, he had pulled The Black Album at the last minute because he thought it was evil, and replaced it with the more buoyantly spiritual Lovesexy. Perhaps he envisioned his listeners as his flock, a generation he could lead into light, rather than darkness pistils and nakedness, rather than aberrant carnality New Power, rather than malevolent energy. . From Alex Hahn's 'Possessed: The Rise and Fall of Prince': Having shelved The Black Album, Prince immediately threw himself into the recording of his next LP, Lovesexy, which he conceived as a document of his epiphany. While the tension between carnality and spirituality had always been a feature of Prince's music, his new lyrics presented these two forces as working in tandem and harmony. Lust and religious rapture were described, in essence, as identical the title track describes a feeling of mystical enlightenment and also contains lines about sexual emissions. Prince worked mostly by himself, although Sheila E. played drums on several tracks. During breaks from the Lovesexy sessions he worked on songs for a planned solo release by Ingrid Chavez, whom he continued to view as a muse and spiritual guide. • #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt 💜👉 https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince https://www.instagram.com/p/CZmk5XWlt0hNg2-wzj9WoxUNoW6p9ojpGn5uU00/?utm_medium=tumblr

[leboudoirdeliyii]

#follow @troygua 💜 ・・・ It's #LPPSaturday! Let's celebrate the #Genius of #Prince until the end of all time, shall we? #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Prince4ever 💜 #Paris #France🇫🇷 #LeGrandPalais #EyeAmHere #WhereRU ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ http://troygua.com/work/lppisart/ #PrinceUntilTheEndOfTimes 💜

[itsaverycolorfulworld]

#LPPIsArt By @troygua #Prince #PurpleSky

[troygua]

It's #LPPSaturday! Let's celebrate the #Genius of #Prince until the sun refuses to shine! #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Prince4ever 💜 x ∞ ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ http://ift.tt/25oKzlD

[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 Christmas Day, It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Celebrating the #Legacy and #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: #DETROIT • Love this? #SupportArt and become a #Patreon member at #ClubLPP 💜👉  patreon.com/clublpp • This piece is essentially a love letter to Prince's love affair with Detroit, capturing him onstage in the midst of doing the 'Detroit Crawl', with the city's glittering skyline in the background. • From The Current's 'How Prince's love affair with Detroit helped fuel the birth of techno', by Bobby Kahn, April 19, 2017: The demographics of the Motor City, as well as the infrastructure in place (radio, clubs, and retail) made Detroit a top market for a black artist. Motown had moved to Los Angeles in 1972, leaving a prime opportunity for someone like Prince to come into Detroit and become a star. That’s exactly what he did — but he had some help. “The Electrifying Mojo was the torch bearer for Prince,” Alan Freed says of a radio DJ colleague. “He’s a big reason Detroit played the role it did.” The enigmatic radio DJ known on air as the Electrifying Mojo (real name: Charles Johnson) had complete control over his show, since he paid directly for his own FM air-time. He was very forward-thinking when it came to music programming. He's perhaps most often remembered as being the man who first broke techno music to the world in the mid-80s, but he was also a very early adopter of Prince. By the time Mark Brown, aka Brownmark, joined Prince’s band in the summer of 1981, Mojo had whipped Detroit into a purple frenzy. “Detroit was crazy, I couldn’t believe the energy,” says Brown. “I don’t know what it was about the demographics and the sound, but they were Prince fanatics.” Minneapolis was starting to catch on by then, but not with the fervor of Detroit. “They would come to concerts wearing trench coats and have their hair thrown to the side,” says Brown. “There was something special about that place. They were Prince crazy.” • #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt 💜👉 https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince https://www.instagram.com/p/CX6ezCelyyFdno2j7SsA7NZAh3jUC_3Lni3KN40/?utm_medium=tumblr

[iamjessemartinz]

It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Celebrating the #Legacy and #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: #Europe . Love this? #SupportArt and become a #Patreon member at #ClubLPP 💜👉  patreon.com/clublpp . From The Current's 'Prince: The Story of Sign O' The Times, Episode 7': . Sign O' The Times was released on March 30, 1987, in the U.K., and March 31 in the U.S., and the Sign O' The Times Tour kicked off in Stockholm, Sweden, on May 8. The tour routed Prince and his new band through many of the same cities he'd just played the previous year with The Revolution on the Parade Tour. . LeRoy Bennett: 'Parade, based off of the movie, that opened Prince's eyes to Europe a lot. The European audiences in general are way more musically educated. There is a lot more sophistication than there is here in America. And because his musical mind was in another stratosphere, universe, they could relate to it they understood it they followed him, and he just loved that. He felt at home. He felt he didn't have to be commercial he could play what he loved, do what he loved, feel the freedom of being able to do all that stuff. They suddenly became his friends they became his people.' . In the U.S., mainstream audiences were introduced to Prince through Purple Rain concert experience his Purple Rain Tour sold over 1.7 million tickets. But in Europe, the entry point for many Prince fans were the Parade and Sign O' The Times tours, which would often set up camp in each city for three or four night runs. . #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt . 💜👉 https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince https://www.instagram.com/p/CWgTUF0FPkXn9NWXvRxaMr_RyebzJwWZGYExjQ0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[iamjessemartinz]

It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Celebrating the #Legacy and #Genius of #Prince and #TroyGua 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: #WhatDoUThinkOfThis . Love this? #SupportArt and become a #Patreon member at #ClubLPP 💜👉 patreon.com/clublpp [LINK IN BIO] . From Duane Tudahl's 'Prince and the Parade and Sign O' The Times Era Studio Sessions 1985-1986': Alan Leeds: "Prince would casually ask people, be it me, a girlfriend, be it [his manager, Steven] Fargnoli, be it a bodyguard, depending on where he was, what his mood was, "What do you think of this?" He loved playing music for people, and he would have their undivided attention. You would get in his car, he would ride around, maybe go to a Dairy Queen and get ice cream or a shake or something to sip on, sit in the car and listen to the proposed sequence of his next album, whatever that was. Then he would ask opinions, as to the flow and so on. It was only in an advisory capacity. You'd tell him what you think and he dropped you back off. Nine out of ten times it was gonna change 50 times, despite anything you said, so it was kind of an exercise. It was him surveying the people whose opinions mattered somewhat, and I'm sure I was hardly the only one." . #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt . 💜👉 https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince https://www.instagram.com/p/CVX-QVllXTY/?utm_medium=tumblr

[iamjessemartinz]

It's #LPPSaturday and #BlackLivesMatter ~ Celebrating the #Legacy and #Genius of #Prince 'til the world stops spinning ~ Inspiration: #MeetingCat . Love this? #SupportArt and become a #Patreon member at #ClubLPP 💜👉  patreon.com/clublpp . From 'Dyes Got the Answers 2 Ur ?s': Sexy Dancer: Cat Glover Talks 2 Beautiful Nights, by K. Nicola Dyes: 'The formal introduction to Prince was at his house in Beverly Hills. I was invited by Devin DeVasquez, a Playboy Playmate who was also on Star Search. She was dating Prince at the time. Prince's father and DeVasquez were good friends. She invited me to Prince's house for dinner and I met him when he walked in with a tape, and it was "Housequake." He wanted Fargnoli (Prince's then manager) to come upstairs and hear it. He saw me sitting at the table wearing all purple—suspenders, high-waisted pants—and I had on that chauffeur's hat that I gave him for his birthday. After dinner we all went to a club. We took different cars and we ended up at a club called Voila in Beverly Hills, a private club, downstairs in a mall. I was sitting there with Fargnoli, DeVasquez, Prince and a couple of other people. Prince said (speaking in a low, raspy voice) "Cat, when a good song comes on will you dance with me?" I said "Sure!" The first song came on and he didn't ask to me to dance. The second song came on he didn't ask me to dance. On the third song, "Simply Irresistible" by Robert Palmer, he asked me to dance.   He started doing dance steps and I started doing them whatever he did, I did. I think he noticed that, so, he started doing them more and I started doing them more. I think we stayed on the dance floor for two songs. After that, the DJ played some kind of uptempo house music, which I love, being from Chicago. I remember I walked toward the DJ and there was a wall. I put my hands on the wall and started jackin' (a dance move closely associated with house music that originated in Chicago). That's the night it all started. . #Prince4ever #LePetitPrince #LPPisART #TroyGuaArt #Surrealism #Photography #Sculpture #PopArt #ArtImitatingLifeImitatingArt 💜👉 https://troygua.com/le-petit-prince https://www.instagram.com/p/CVGCmvWl42d/?utm_medium=tumblr

[iamjessemartinz]

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