Cringe: Stevie & Prince Story

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

so funny I just saw an article about this last week, it was a link in another article... Dee Snider was a presenter at the AMAs that year and he described the whole Prince thing:

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news...ok_at_him.html

Here's the particular bit:

"But cut to the thing - we're doing the rehearsal, and now Prince is on that, and Prince is so powerful that he had them bring a trailer into the backstage area painted purple.

"So this is the 'Purple Rain' era, so he and The Revolution would be within. But they had their own space.

"Now, I'm backstage with Ray Davies from The Kinks, Stevie Wonder, it's just all the presenters and the staff.

"And now Prince has to come out the soundcheck, there's this craziness around the trailer, this phalanx of security.

"If you remember he had that guy that looked like a pro wrestler, he had the two-tone beard going on, walking out in front.

"And they surround the band, they're so big you can't see anybody, you just see this mass of people moving towards the stage. And the guy out front, the two-toned beard, is pointing people saying, 'Avert your eyes! Look away! Don't look at him!'

"A) Can't see him.
B) Don't care.
They told Stevie Wonder to not look at him! Talking about insensitivity...

"I just walked out, I didn't say around with the soundcheck, who wants this... Anyway, but yeah, that was my close brush with Prince."

What a douche nozzle.