Originally Posted by KevB:
People with that level of talent live fundamentally different lives, in different worlds than the rest of us. You have to create a bubble for yourself, so it's easy to become wildly eccentric. The fact that he was wildly eccentric yet still somewhat down to earth is a part of what makes him so interesting I suppose.
Fox has been interviewing a lot of people who got to hang with him regularly at the compound in Chanhassen and half of them, including the official compound dj are completely average looking 40-60 year white people... they look like housewives and plumbers
I think he was a lot more down to earth than the public persona lets on [Reply]
Originally Posted by Kiimosabi:
5 #1 hits, 40 top-100 hits. Total and complete musical virtuoso. Michael Jackson may be the king of pop but he didn't play one instrument. Prince played 27.
Originally Posted by Easy 6:
Fox has been interviewing a lot of people who got to hang with him regularly at the compound in Chanhassen and half of them, including the official compound dj are completely average looking 40-60 year white people... they look like housewives and plumbers
I think he was a lot more down to earth than the public persona lets on
Exactly.
I don't even think the dude was eccentric; I think he just got bored and was the world's first apex troll. [Reply]
Took a few minutes and was watching some of the coverage on CNN,I absolutely agree the guy was a very talented musician but they were also talking about him being a poet and one guy said his favorite song was Soft & Wet....maybe it's just me but I don't see it in that song. [Reply]
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Just minutes ago on CNN, host Wolf Blitzer said, “All of us, of course, remember ‘Purple Haze’ and what that did for the world of music.”