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the jurogan experience it's really interesting watching someone's path when you know that they already did it that's there's something about that like reading about kennison like knowing that he already did it yeah just to read the path and how it all went yeah and it's interesting too if you look at like you know prince had a really good book it was actually a collection of things he'd written with somebody just before uh that he passed but you read the book and like it's interesting because you're like you are of course you know he's gonna be prince one of the more talented people that may ever you know walk the planet and so you're reading it and you're hearing him get denied with demo tapes and hearing no one's believing in him that he's a weird kid and all that but you know that he's prince yeah you have like as you read the book you kind of have a secret that like you're unstoppable like this stuff doesn't really matter what you're going through in your high school and you're like basketball and this person denied and that person didn't want to be like none of this it's interesting but what's actually most fascinating is you literally were you were destined to be prince one way or another yeah this stuff is almost inconsequential you're going to be prince someday well it is fascinating knowing that he he did become prince but you kind of feel the anxiety of the journey right like when you're reading about someone even though you know it is inconsequential you are there's no denying he became prince but he didn't know that well while it was all going down no that's what's cool about it but it's fun to read you can read that and you can hear the people who don't believe in them and you can be you know like we all have a i missed that one kind of moment or i didn't see that but like imagine me the guy who's like yeah you know i had prince came into my i didn't hear it yeah i didn't hear it i
remember the exact moment i first listened to prince i was in an audi fox i had an audi fox this is a little shitty front wheel drive car i was driving on the massachusetts turnpike and i had a cassette that i just bought and i just unwrapped it and i popped it in the cassette player and it was uh i listen i'm going to be your lover i want to be your lover that song and it was the one where you know the cassette where him it's like he's got no shirt on and it's like he's just staring at the camera and i remember thinking like holy [ __ ] like who is this guy yeah like this is just different yeah you know it's like he's singing in a falsetto about being in love with a girl and his his voice is incredible oh you could be that outrageous if you're gonna be really good yeah we get a lot of the other which is people who are outrageous and they're compensating for not really having much to sing or say but like right he had he was fully loaded he had all of it well he was that guy i mean that's who he was i mean it was outrageous because he was an honestly eccentric human being i mean that really was who he was an insanely talented eccentric human being you know i met him once actually i met him with dean delray no way yeah at a club out in uh in new york maybe it's early 2000s and i forgot what the club was was very very it was crowded and somebody this is a true story somebody come to me and said tapped me in the shoulder said you know prince is here he wants you to come sit down and uh i seriously i heard i followed and i thought i was gonna go sit with prince william that sounded more believable to me that sounded like i that i believed and then we went over and it was obviously prince roger from nelson yeah but it was a really funny night i'm glad dean was there too um we sat in a booth it was princeton it was his lawyer
bodyguard he had a lawyer slash bodyguard that's what he was and he was a very big guy we sat in a booth and it's hard to imagine now that like you know the guy he wasn't like being swarmed with people in the sprints you know but um it the he it's it's awkward it's like you know you're sitting four of us from the booth just kind of like you know i know what to say and it's kind of loud so if he did if i did want to really have a conversation it'd be difficult but the bodyguard kind of nudges me and he says you know it's been 25 years since uh purple rain and i was like oh that's awesome and then he he's sitting next to me he goes excuse me i said that's awesome he goes what's awesome i go the purple rain is 25 years old what a great record he goes great record i say yeah he goes well tell him he's pointing at prince so now i'm like he's a very large man is like nudging me and i'm thinking that's amazing prince he is he he cannot be insecure that people don't love purple rain but i leaned over and i said you know purple rain like wow 25 years what a great record and he kind of fanned himself he's like oh well you think so and like even prince needed to hear once in a while that he was awesome how weird is it this bodyguard those big giant dude's like nudging you to tell prince that he's awesome i feel like i got set up like he knew prince needed a compliment maybe i'd be nervous that he would go of course it's good [ __ ] yeah i was nervous well it was awkward like what is it it's like the night at the rocks for you just kind of sit in the booth just like you know uh it is him it is prince right it is and then like you know and so you guys aren't really interacting a little bit um not a lot i think he just he invited me just to come sit just but it was also very it was very loud but that wasn't the problem i think he just you know i don't know why i was asked to sit but he was very nice he was you know
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