Graffiti Bridge

Kurt, what do you think about the version that's on Timeless?

I wish that version were the one that's on Graffiti Bridge, not the one that's on Graffiti.

I

agree with you.

The

slowdown version and the fireworks and everything that's in the Graffiti Bridge movie, I'm like, eh.

Not one of my favorites.

His vocals, however, when he hits that high.

Listening to Timeless, the only conceivable answer seems to be why not.

The best tracks are a pair of throwaway rockers, 2007's The Guilty Ones with its bitchin' guitar squall, and the original jittery new wave version of Tick Tick Bang from 1981, which would show up on Graffiti Bridge in 1990, dressed up with off-kilter synth and drum machine.

Together they sound like the seeds of a thematically coherent collection someone should make.

But even there, you have to concentrate because if you don't, the music largely evaporates.

Timeless's mixing and mastering engineer, Chris James, mixed IMU expertly, driving home the reason why everyone in Teenage Prince's orbit was shocked that his demos were recorded by a single person.

It left me yearning for James's golden touch on the complete For You sessions and mournful that Rivkin is no longer here to share memories of that nascent period of Prince's artistry.

Tick, Tick, Bang is familiar to fans as a track on Graffiti Bridge, and Timeless offers a much earlier, spunkier recording.

The 1981 demo would sound right at home on the 1999 box set, when Prince was dividing himself into three creative identities and simultaneously writing work for Vanity Six at the time and himself.

Mm

... who's in Graffiti Bridge.

She's the Prince-

Oh, wow, okay

Nah, I'm going to say shit.

I will say Graffiti Bridge.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, you know, I picked some songs that have in one way or another something to do with that.

The first one, not directly, but I picked Mavis Staples, who I was first introduced to through Prince because, of course, she was Melody Cool in the Graffiti Bridge movie.

Right.

And then she put out some albums on Paisley Park Records and stuff.

like narrative oh

graffiti bridge that's it

oh oh okay yeah i've heard of that

that's the other one that i i've heard of i haven't seen that jerome betton is also in

love that is he playing tricky

no so this is he should according to imdb uh graffiti bridge is the unofficial sequel to purple rain the kid is now club owner and rival to morris morris day with whom he gets into a fight for the glam slam nightclub should i do this

yeah

do i want to torture myself do you want to do it let's do it