RIP Prince

[Raisor]

Ha!

it was a trick question!

Elvis didn't die, he just went home

[redsmetz]

McCartney, Mick, Clapton (in order)

Dylan would be in there somewhere too. You reach a point, sort of the same with the "greatest living ballplayer" question that you really sort of look at the current pantheon, don't you?

[redsmetz]

Someone shared this clip on Twitter of Prince with James Brown & Michael Jackson - there's some serious soul going on there!

https://youtu.be/Yy9L4ft7EGk

[dabvu2498]

So with Bowie and Prince out of the running, who is the Greatest Living Rockstar?

Has to be McCartney, right? Robert Plant? Mick? Jimmy Page? Whatever soulless demon that replaced Keith Richards back in the 70s?

Pete Townshend would be at the top of my list.

[westofyou]

Paul
Dylan
Jagger/Richards
Chuck Berry
Clapton
Townstead
Elton
Neil Young
Brian Wilson
Ringo
Paul Simon
Westerberg
Joni Mitchell
Bob Pollard

[Rojo]

Paul
Dylan
Jagger/Richards
Chuck Berry
Clapton
Townstead
Elton
Neil Young
Brian Wilson
Ringo
Paul Simon
Westerberg
Joni Mitchell
Bob Pollard

I had no idea Chuck Berry was still alive. I guess you could add Little Richard.

Pollard and Westerberg? You're Gen-X outing yourself.

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[bucksfan2]

I wasn't exactly a Prince fan, his biggest stuff was before me. I do however find that I know more of his stuff than I ever though.

Honest question, was he sick? Prince always came off as a strange dude, more in an artistic manner, but he always seemed frail. Frail in a near Michael Jackson manner. You would see this imposing musician put a performance, then you would look at the guy and he looked so skinny, in a sickly manner. With MJ you knew he was a troubled guy, with Prince you never really heard much.

[goreds2]

Sirius XM 50 is having a tribute to him:

The Prince Tribute Channel
Fri Apr 22 6:00 am - Sat Apr 23 12:00 am
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Featuring music from the vast body of artistry from Prince’s entire career, including his earliest recordings through his most recent release HITnRUN Phase One.
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On another note, I met my girlfriend the old fashion way, at a bar. The band started playing Purple Rain and I asked her to dance. We will always remember this song.

[Sea Ray]

I wasn't exactly a Prince fan, his biggest stuff was before me. I do however find that I know more of his stuff than I ever though.

Honest question, was he sick? Prince always came off as a strange dude, more in an artistic manner, but he always seemed frail. Frail in a near Michael Jackson manner. You would see this imposing musician put a performance, then you would look at the guy and he looked so skinny, in a sickly manner. With MJ you knew he was a troubled guy, with Prince you never really heard much.

He was very private so it's pretty hard to tell. I read that he needed both of his hips replaced but he was avoiding it due to his religious beliefs that didn't allow blood transfusions. TMZ is reporting that he suffered an opiate drug overdose w/i the past week. Perhaps that was due to chronic pain. It's very rare for healthy 57 yr olds to drop dead from pneumonia or the flu. Something wasn't right with his health

[RedTeamGo!]

Hard for me to put Townsend and Clapton up there with Townsend being a pedofile and Clapton being a racist a-hole.

I have to go Jagger, Wilson, McCartney as the biggest rock stars still going. I am seeing Brian Wilson at the Fox Theater in Detroit next fall. I am pumped!

[Dom Heffner]

I wasn't exactly a Prince fan, his biggest stuff was before me. I do however find that I know more of his stuff than I ever though.

Honest question, was he sick? Prince always came off as a strange dude, more in an artistic manner, but he always seemed frail. Frail in a near Michael Jackson manner. You would see this imposing musician put a performance, then you would look at the guy and he looked so skinny, in a sickly manner. With MJ you knew he was a troubled guy, with Prince you never really heard much.

I'll bet anything it was drugs.

57 year old people don't die from the flu.

I think your odds of death at 57 are something like 3%.

[westofyou]

Hard for me to put Townsend and Clapton up there with Townsend being a pedofile and Clapton being a racist a-hole.

I have to go Jagger, Wilson, McCartney as the biggest rock stars still going. I am seeing Brian Wilson at the Fox Theater in Detroit next fall. I am pumped!

I saw Muddy Waters open for Clapton, I've read his drunken rants from the 70's

As for Pete, I can't speak to any facts but these

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documen...-porn-treatise
http://archive.azcentral.com/ent/cel...a-scandal.html

Art is often something that is separate from the artist and is also something that is hard to do for most

[dabvu2498]

Hard for me to put Townsend and Clapton up there with Townsend being a pedofile and Clapton being a racist a-hole.

There go Chick Berry and Little Richard, as well.

[marcshoe]

I'm going to admit something, and I promise this is not a tasteless joke. About an hour before I heard this news I watched a report on Queen Elizabeth's 90th birthday, and when I read that Prince had died my first thought was "Charles or Philip?" I"m sorry.