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INTRO

2mins - The Dirty Mind era, the Prince persona begins to form, riding the New Wave...and that Trench Coat!

3mins - The 1979 period and working with costume designers...

7mins30s - The second punk period: Slave and the 1990s

10mins - Veils and Masking - the Exodus Has Begun...

11mins30s - Count The Days, style signifiers and finely tuned 'unconventional tailoring' in the new millennium

15mins30s - Art Official Age, moving away from tailored garments with age...and softer fabrics, kinder to the body

18mins - Memories of Lovesexy posters in Virgin Megastore in Edinburgh

20mins - Casci's sartorial take Lovesexy...and Prince's working wardrobe department at Paisley Park

21mins30s - "Prince in Polka Dots is just perfection..."

23mins - Working with very well known designers?

25mins - First concert costing £31.21 pence... getting the Mega Bus down from Galashiels to the O2 and 'getting my first tattoo in Camden'

31mins - Legacy as a fashion icon, 'his influence is all encompassing', and Prince's passing...crying with Mum and blaring his music on the double-decker bus.

33mins - Prince's influence on other artists and fans around the world.

34mins - Thank You 

How Can U Just Leave Me Standing? In Search of Prince... is produced and arranged by Sam J. Bleazard - but couldn't exist without the fabulous contribution from all of our guests!

The show also features significant original music compositions from Gavin Calder.

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Welcome back my friends to Ep. 195 of the InObscuria Podcast! This week your rock n’ roll grave robbers once again explore all things FUNKY! Let your body move and your asses groove as we get down with some badass funk rock! So cut your lava lamps on, slip into some velvet and your highest platform boots, and let the “Purple-One” guide your groovy ’80s trip!

What is it that we do here at InObscuria? Besides eating pop-tarts, we exhume obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal in one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. In this episode, we take a listen to all 3, as we move n’ groove our way through funk-infused rock n’ roll. This genre has a special meaning to the hosts, as they themselves have dabbled in this funkdafied landscape throughout their musical journeys. 

Songs this week include:

1. Roachford – “Give It Up” from Roachford(1988)
2. Dan Reed Network – “Baby Don’t Fade” from Dan Reed Network (1988) 
3. Mazarati – “Stroke” from Mazarati(1986)
4. Bad Brains – “Secret 77” from I Against I (1986)
5. TACK>>HEAD – “Mind And Movement” from Friendly As A Hand Grenade (1989)
6. Terence Trent D’Arby – “You Will Pay Tomorrow” from Neither Fish Nor Flesh(1989)
7. The Family – “High Fashion” from The Family (1985)

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Intro

1mins30s - Wishing he could have spoken to Prince during the making of his Cloud guitar, the instrument specs, and making something great instinctually.

3mins30s - Guitar specific questions for Dave on the Cloud guitar and how it was made - how much was stock, and what was bespoke?

5mins - Prince and his heavy strings, and Takumi the guitar tech.

6mins20s - One month and a half to come up with a world famous guitar!  

9mins30s - Wendy Melvoin's clear body guitar...and the story behind it.

12mins - Sam asks Dave how he felt when he first saw Prince play the guitar in the movie...and also when he first saw Prince playing the cloud guitar live.

13mins - sitting in on the Purple Rain rehearsals with Prince 'every day was exciting'

15mins - going to Paisley Park, and taking part in 'the Celebrations'

18mins - How did Dave feel when Prince passed away? "I couldn't say anything, I was just speechless..."

21mins - The Prince Estate asking Dave to give up the trademark on his guitar design.

25mins - Which Minneapolis musicians did you get to know along the way?

26mins30s - Still making the signature White Cloud guitar, and taking orders from around the world.

30mins - Meeting other Prince guitar makers, and knowing a network of musicians.

33mins - What happened to the original cloud guitars that Dave made?

How Can U Just Leave Me Standing? In Search of Prince... is produced and arranged by Sam J. Bleazard - but couldn't exist without the fabulous contribution from all of our guests!

The show also features significant original music compositions from Gavin Calder.

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Author Neal Karlen, in conversation with Sam Bleazard.

Introduction - New York Times, Rolling Stone magazine, author...friend?

1-3mins: "Please don't let my scoop go away!" - Memories from another lifetime...and the BBC Omnibus documentary

4mins ...time to stop writing - and talking about - Prince, wanting to be a fan again and not a critic...

7mins - MPLS, segregation and the 'Minneapolis Sound'

9mins30s - Prince as an 11-year-old kid, and a story from one of his substitute teachers

11mins30s - Was Prince's life a sad story or a triumphant story of success?

13mins30s - 'This Thing Called Life' - were you worried that by being so candid it would create a backlash on the book?

17mins - the audiobook, the showman and Prince off the record in the 1980s

19mins - small aspects of the real guy being revealed: showing the imperfect human being behind the star.

20mins30s - "I Love U..."? And how it feels...

22mins30s - Humour in the book and 'The Crusher'!

24mins30s - The dilemma of releasing tapes of Prince speaking from the 1980s...'the most compartmentalised person I've ever met'

27mins - "Prince who?" - "The real Prince!"

29mins - The only person still awake at 4am and happy to shoot the breeze...

30mins30s - Different personalities and the blurring between friendship and employment

33mins - Not deifying Prince...and his relationship with his mother and father

49mins - the last conversation with Prince (3 weeks before his passing)

50mins - any things you wished you'd put in the book?

How Can U Just Leave Me Standing? In Search of Prince... is produced and arranged by Sam J. Bleazard - but couldn't exist without the fabulous contribution from all of our guests!

The show also features significant original music compositions from Gavin Calder.

LINKS

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Purple Rain (S3-E10)

The JabberGuys… Ote, Queex, and Cha talk about Purple Rain, the iconic album by Prince.  The integration of the song, the album, and the movie, make Purple Rain a memorable part of music history in the 1980s.

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Prince at the George Harrison Tribute (Video)

Prince and Sheila E come to the theatre (Cha’s story of his encounter with Prince)

Purple Rain the movie (1984)
Purple Rain the album (1984)
Purple Rain the song (1984)

Why did Vanity turn down being in the Purple Rain movie?
Vanity - Denise Matthews from Niagara Falls, Canada
Vanity passes away in 2016 from kidney issues brought on by years of addiction to cocaine.
Vanity and Vanity 6 are replaced by Apollonia and Apollonia 6 for the Purple Rain movie.

Prince writes “When Doves Cry” after losing to Michael Jackson at the Grammys

Duran Duran - “Girls on Film”
Robin Thicke - “Blurred Lines” (unrated version)

Purple Rain Tour - 1984 (Prince and the Revolution, Apollonia 6, Sheila E Band)

Wendy Melvoin a key part of Prince’s backup band the Revolution

Purple Rain song on the album was originally recorded live in Minnesota and over-dubbed for the album.

Rolling Stone rates Purple Rain as #8 on their list of top 500 best albums

Some of the best intros to songs…
Let’s Go Crazy (Prince)
Sweet Child o Mine (Guns and Roses)
We’re an American Band (Grand Funk)

Prince changes his name to a symbol (The artist formerly known as Prince)
Prince’s real name - Prince Rogers Nelson, born June 7, 1958
Prince passes away at 57 years of age on April 21, 2016 from an accidental fentanyl overdose

Prince, the immersive experience, opening in Chicago, June 2022

Rock News (last week of March 2022)
Taylor Hawkins, Foo Fighters drummer dies at 50 years old
The Grammys don’t really get rock and metal
Phil Colins and Genesis does their last live show
Neil Young and Joe Rogan SPOTIFY controversy (update)

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Duane Tudahl has spent his career working on TV series, but also producing numerous documentaries and music videos.  

He is a writer and researcher, who has contributed many articles for Uptown magazine – the key Prince fanzine – for 12 years, from 1991 to 2003.  

In recent years he received praise for his books documenting Prince’s studio sessions in the 1980s, which are extensive in their research, and give further insight into one of the most fascinating periods in popular music.

A big thank you to all of our listeners around the world who've been tuning in and downloading the show from Paris, to Detroit, from Bombay to Brazil, we really appreciate your support.

And our thanks to Gavin Calder for the music on today's show, which features a Quiet Storm remix of True Funk Soldier, from the album Deep Field, by Balveda. Go to the Bandcamp website to hear more.  

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How Can U Just Leave Me Standing? In Search of Prince... is produced and arranged by Sam J. Bleazard - but couldn't exist without the fabulous contribution from all of our guests!

The show also features significant original music compositions from Gavin Calder.

LINKS

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Email me at: bleazas@hotmail.com if you have any ideas for future episodes, or if you'd like to share any feedback on the show. 

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Chapters

1min - Meeting Prince for the first time.

2mins45s - Minneapolis clubs in the late 1970s.

5mins - Sharing the limelight with Prince and being a new face with a fanbase.

8mins - Roller skating at the lake with Prince and Vanity.

10mins45s - Prince's bass playing and musical influences.

15mins30 - Debut gig supporting The Rolling Stones, and Prince regroups.

22mins - Life in the Purple Kingdom, the world of fandom and entertaining the people.

26mins - Staying up late and burning the creative candle at both ends.

How Can U Just Leave Me Standing? In Search of Prince... is produced and arranged by Sam J. Bleazard - but couldn't exist without the fabulous contribution from all of our guests!

The show also features significant original music compositions from Gavin Calder.

LINKS

Please follow me on Instagram and Facebook if you'd like to interact with the show on social media.

Email me at: bleazas@hotmail.com if you have any ideas for future episodes, or if you'd like to share any feedback on the show. 

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On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, for nearly a century, at 8 Rue du Cherche-Midi in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district of the 6th arrondissement, the surname Poilâne has been synonymous with bread and Parisian life since 1932. Pierre (Poilâne) began making his family’s signature 5-pound stone-ground wheat miche in wood-fire basement oven with a red brick facade, and since then, his son, Lionel, and now daughter Apollonia, have kept that flame alight. After decades of service, and guarded secrets, they finally share their recipes with the world in the eponymously named cookbook: Poilâne.

Join Heritage Radio Network on Monday, November 11th, for a raucous feast to toast a decade of food radio. Our tenth anniversary bacchanal is a rare gathering of your favorite chefs, mixologists, storytellers, thought leaders, and culinary masterminds. We’ll salute the inductees of the newly minted HRN Hall of Fame, who embody our mission to further equity, sustainability, and deliciousness. Explore the beautiful Palm House and Yellow Magnolia Café, taste and imbibe to your heart’s content, and bid on once-in-a-lifetime experiences and tasty gifts for any budget at our silent auction. Tickets available now at heritageradionetwork.org/gala.

Courtesy of Poilane / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Are we really inventing better new technologies in food production or is the best tech retro innovation? On this episode of Tech Bites (@techbiteshrn), host Jennifer Leuzzi (@mmesnack) talks with in-studio guest Apollonia Poilâne, the third generation baker from the world-renowned Poilâne bakery in Paris. Her grandfather Pierre opened the bakery 1932, producing the “hug-sized” sourdough loaves - hearty, affordable and made to keep well - that quickly became their signature bread. Apollonia spent long hours under the tutelage of the head baker Felix, and learned to bake without recipes and by using her five senses, eventually becoming adept at recognizing the distinct tastes, smells and sounds Poilâne’s baked goods produced. She has translated her family baking history a cookbook, Poilâne: The Secrets of the World-Famous Bread Bakery. Poilâne now sells more than 5,000 loaves of bread and baked goods daily, including supplying more than 2,000 Parisian restaurants and sending their loaves worldwide to 40 different countries.

Join Heritage Radio Network on Monday, November 11th, for a raucous feast to toast a decade of food radio. Our tenth anniversary bacchanal is a rare gathering of your favorite chefs, mixologists, storytellers, thought leaders, and culinary masterminds. We’ll salute the inductees of the newly minted HRN Hall of Fame, who embody our mission to further equity, sustainability, and deliciousness. Explore the beautiful Palm House and Yellow Magnolia Café, taste and imbibe to your heart’s content, and bid on once-in-a-lifetime experiences and tasty gifts for any budget at our silent auction. Tickets available now at heritageradionetwork.org/gala.

Photo Courtesy of Philippe Vaurès Santamaria.

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Show Notes:

John Homme and Fahi Islam are Co-Founders of Apollonia Studios, an independent fashion brand that also serves as a contemporary design studio to create and produce pieces that are ethically sourced, high quality, long-lasting and slot nicely into the wardrobe of those that desire something a little less ordinary. They started with simple graphic t-shirts printed on high-quality organic cotton, to outerwear and accessories for both men and women. In this episode, we discuss the steps to take when building a fashion brand, why it’s important to extend beyond the product and create a holistic approach to your brand, the process of production, where they find their inspiration and how to keep motivated when doing your side hustle.

Links Mentioned:

• Apollonia Studios website
• Apollonia Studios Instagram

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