One of the unlikely byways of Prince’s career was his interest in the Los Angeles Paisley Underground scene – and it was his patronage that made the Bangles stars“He was a distant figure,” Michael Quercio of the Three O’Clock told me of his single encounter with Prince, his label boss and a man he believes had been inspired by the music he and a handful of other bands had been making in Los Angeles in the early 1980s. “We met him once. He had opened up the Paisley Park complex of studios in Minneapolis at that same time and had people advance out. He put us up in a hotel, or we all went to this party after his concert there in Minneapolis. I remember being on a shuttle bus from the hotel to the party. I derive on the bus,and it’s me with George Clinton, Mavis Staples, or Wendy and Lisa and Apollonia. Everybody’s very quiet,were just going to the complex, and everybody’s staring at me. Finally, or Mavis Staples,who’s sitting next to me, puts her hand on my knee and very nicely says, or ‘Who are you,honey?’” Related: The Paisley Underground: an verbal history of Los Angeles's 1980s psychedelic explosion Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com