Diamonds and Pearls

Man, we worked with this dude like in his prime.

Still, even after Purple Rain, I feel this man was still in his prime with the NPG, with Diamonds and Pearls.

And when all of this stuff came out, this man was still at the top of his game.

And so for us to have been able to work with a dude like at his height, at his level like that, man, it's exciting that we can still go and play this music, man.

What's from the heart should reach the heart.

Awesome.

You know, Tony, Morris had mentioned a little while ago, Diamonds and Pearls.

And last Thursday was the 35th anniversary of the release of Diamonds and Pearls.

And when he goes in, it's all like, it looks like...

Do you remember the cover of Diamonds & Pearls, the Prince album?

Nope.

Okay.

Well, everyone who's listening, conjure the cover of Diamonds & Pearls, the Prince album.

When Billy Baldwin goes in, it's basically that.

It's like butts and boobs and like pearls.

It produced the popular club singles Success and Jump to the Beat.

In 1991, Prince and the New Power Generation released their funk-pop crossover album called Diamonds and Pearls.

Album peaked at number three on the Billboard albums chart, had a bunch of hits on it, including Cream, which went to number one, Get Off, which was relatively controversial, we'll say, and Diamonds and Pearls, which was a big hit for them.

In 1993 the Swedish black metal band Marduk released their second studio album called Those of the Unliked.

It didn't really do anything on the charts but it was a classic because it kind of went with the second wave of black metal you might say.

We know that he went to school for multimedia and he did video production and also audio production and things like that.

His name is attached to the Diamonds and Pearls, a world award-winning Diamonds and Pearls box set.

which a lot of people would say, well, that was mostly done before they even walked in the door.

I don't know.

was

what everything went through i'd see the engineers they'd write out they'd put our names on the contract so on and so forth the amount of time spent it's it was a union thing so yeah not only would i get credit for playing on it but once it goes out you know You know, it's like every quarter or so a check will show up.

And it's like an amalgam of different little, it'll be like diamonds and pearls, $4.58. And then the countries where it was played, you know, like it's that sort of, they send an itemized list and a check every four months or so, every three months.

That's good.

And I think if you look at it, he had his biggest hits with the four female engineers.

You know, Peggy and Susan and Sylvia and Diamonds and Pearls.

You know, she was around then when he had big hits.

And then I think it was at Black Sweat and 3121 he was doing with Lisa Shumbly.

Absolutely.

You know what, Chr- Chris, I wanna stay, I wanna stay on that theme for a minute because, and now I'm gonna move it from Sign o' the Times into Diamonds and Pearls.

You talk about discovering Diamonds and Pearls live in real time off of VH1.

Um-

Right

I mean, the, the Arsenio Hall episode where he, uh-

Yeah

... um, advertised Diamonds and Pearls and took the whole hour was, was a major, you know, cultural event, at least to me.

Yeah.

But it was also part of the collection of outtakes that were from the love symbol album and were to be part of the even more expansive diamonds and love connection compilation that was supposed to be Like a 1991 through 1992 box set, Diamonds and Pearls, Love Symbol, and dozens of unreleased tracks that were literally chopped in half before release.

Yep.

Did you happen to remember our friend Carmen Electra?

I forgot to cancel my Columbia House subscription my freshman year in high school and got dropped in 1991.

Prince, Diamonds and Pearls, and Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blood Sugar Sex Magic.

Dude, you know what's great, too?

I just recently played.

Okay,

Diamonds and Pearls.

Still struggling here.

I know.