Love... Thy Will B Done (the song & appreciation thereof)

So this is gonna be about the song Martika first took to radio.

I don't remember the year just now. I know at the time I bought the cassette single of the song and played it everywhere. It's such a powerful expression of deity-free spiritual bliss that spun its new power magick inside me.

I still have that tape. I know the song like a long lost lover. I know the song in my head and my heart.

For most of the common folk Prince peaked in the 1980s with that atrocious "new romantic" pastels and lace look so common on the Revolution in the Purple Rain era.

For me, it was the 1990s. From the shadows of Batman, the majesty of D&P, the beginning of the crumbling of the majesty we were promised with 0(+>.

The fade from the popular scene that followed. I could go on all night about that and all the turncoats and fakers that were exposed among the fans in that era.

The point is that Love...Thy Will B Done is an epic song, impressive and awesome. It is a part of me. It is quite possibly the perfect collab, the top of the very impressive heap of songs he didn't just write himself.

I chanced to read a scrap of a story about P on my cellphone during a horrific blur of 'the world's longest bad day' that I recently endured.

Baz Luhrman said something brief about how LTWBD was meant to be a part of one of his film projects. But the rights couldn't be secured in time, or without extraordinary effort. So it never happened.

This is another track that may very well await us in some future release from the legendary Vault.

I was a regular at Paisley Park "rehearsals" between 1994 and 1996. During this period, before Gold Experience and Come were released...our symbol-named fellow played Love...Thy Will with a searing prominent guitar solo, in epic fashion. He did it several times.

I think this is one of the defining moments of my life. I cried. I felt the music thundering through me and the room was so loud I sung along at the top of my lungs to every single word. I shouted and cheered like a crazy person as the band faded to silence at the end.

If you have the bootlegs maybe you can hear me going fanboy insane.

If there are any studio versions of those searing, angelic, anthemic gold-symbol guitar solos he played on that song...I hope we're offered some way to hear that someday.

All respect and patience to the men entrusted with the Vault. We trust you will do him proud, and we're willing to wait for you to get it right on the first try.

a little bit mo' (speculating on the Vault)

Yeah, I bit a Jamie Lidell song for a subject/title. He's clearly inspired by P and he's funky.

It's a holiday. A holiday made to disturb pets and nerves by mixing booze and gunpowder with idiots.

(I won't go off on the contradictions, failures and lies that make it dubious to celebrate America at all for anybody with a couple of brain cells to rub together. We're not nearly as great as we think we are!)

But let's just say: July 4th is an American holiday.

Turns out it was ALSO the grand opening of the Prince Online Museum.

According to the press release, this museum is constructed with the people who helped Prince create the websites that originally housed the content. So all the people who were paid to develop the sites have been brought back in to help re-create them for the museum. Sounds like a great way to do this.

http://princeonlinemuseum.com/

Check it out.

Also, I made a brief scribble in my notebook the other day taking down projects we still want to see, hear, or otherwise learn more about from the Paisley Park vault.

What does it say? Here, I'll just type it in from my notebook.

20ten Deluxe (although Rich Friends makes me retch)
Moonbeam Levels
Pangaea
Shades of Umber

maybe it's a stand-alone album, maybe it's a "phase" of the HnR project but it's called
black is the new black

hit n run phase three? four? more?

Glam Slam Ulysses (this one's a personal grail/albatross)

Madhouse 24

New Power Madhouse (the NPG version of 24)

the "techno" record one assumes he yanked "The Human Body" from

the song from Lotusflow3r that he said was "too good to release"

the 20 minute version of Courtin' Time

songs:
And That Says What?
Bloody Mouth
Finest Whiskey
Funk Radio ("if Ur radio ain't on the funk, Ur radio ain't on!" brief sample to NPGMC)
Laurianne
Dream
Big House
Come Elektra Tuesday
What Should B Souled?

albums/project titles:
Heart
Sacred Fire
The Dawn
The Tora Tora Experience
Crystal Ball II
NPG Sampling Series
Madrid 2 Chicago
The Chocolate Invasion (the 7 CD set may include C-Note, Xpectation, Slaughterhouse, etc)

autobiography/memoir

Piano & A Microphone Australia live album allegedly mixed before April 2016.

That's the current want-list in my head. I kept remembering more so I started writing them down.

Also see DJ Brother Jules' Remix Experience and Love Experience CDs coming soon on NPG Records!

http://remixexperience.com/