Hot off his wildly entertaining memoir 'On Time,' the funk legend talks unreleased The Time music and Prince's Vaults.to perform his frisky "Lil Mo Funk" alongside Snoop Dogg, the former frontman of The Time is doing what he does best: Keeping it real while playing it cool.
And while some might blanch at speaking for the departed visionary , Day tells Billboard that writing in Prince's voice "was kind of easy." After all, Morris and Prince shared a lot in the studio and on the road, from the messy to the sublime. "I knew what he would say in a given instance because we've been down that road so many times," Day says. "That part was pretty easy.
"His main thing more than anything was control," Day tells Billboard of Prince. "That was over being threatened or anything – he just wanted to be in control. Early on I was getting offers to produce other people and everything was getting squashed. It put us in a situation where [members of the Time] couldn't get out there and make the kind of money we could potentially have made because we were being controlled so much.
TheMorrisDay Prince's 1979 album 'Prince' went platinum. 'I Feel For You' (demo): 'I Wanna Be Your Lover' from the album sold 2+ million copies 'The Time' album- released 1981, Prince produced, wrote the songs, played the instruments. Morris left in 1985 to go solo.
TheMorrisDay Some fans would rather hear the music.
TheMorrisDay Do you know how Prince got his unprecedented record deal? BobbyZ1999, RCKMGR Owen Husney, Chris Moon and David Z were there: from 20:30 - Owen from 11:20 - David (recorded P's demo) from 14:20 - Chris
TheMorrisDay Prince talks about his vault here with Kurt Loder. I think he would be happy for fans to have the music now that he isn't here. The books aren't cutting it...
TheMorrisDay Would Prince appreciate the doubt Morris casts on his Warners contract? Producer David 'Z' Rivkin recorded the demos personally. He talks about it here, including how Prince played all the instruments: from 11:20)
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