Amanda Palmer & Jherek Bischoff – Purple Rain

I admire the fact that he never wavered from his stance against places like YouTube having his music up for free, despite it being an unpopular move with listeners.

It's weird though because I probably never would have bought his LotusFlower album without hearing the songs "Colonized Mind" and "Crimson and Clover" on Youtube first.

On the other hand, NOT having the ability to listen to the song "Fury" on YouTube anytime I wanted compelled me to eventually buy 3121.

Maybe that Rolling Stone photo is something Prince regrets lol.

Amazing it is almost June and the autopsy results still have not been announced.

Reelz (channel 238 on Directv) has a special "The Secret Life of Prince" this Thurs.

Died of an opioid overdose.

Official says Prince died of opioid overdose.

A law-enforcement official tells The Associated Press that tests show Prince died of an opioid overdose.

The 57-year-old singer was found dead April 21 at his Minneapolis-area estate.

The official, who is close to the investigation, spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

The findings confirm suspicions that opioids played a role in the musician’s death. After he died, a law enforcement official told the AP that investigators were examining whether an overdose was to blame and whether a doctor had prescribed him drugs in the preceding weeks.

Prince’s death came less than a week after his plane made an emergency stop in Moline, Illinois, for medical treatment as he was returning from an Atlanta concert. The official said Prince was found unconscious on the plane and that first responders gave him a shot of Narcan, an antidote used in suspected opioid overdoses.

At least two doctors’ names have come up in the death investigation being conducted by the Carver County Sheriff’s Office, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Dr. Michael Todd Schulenberg, a family practitioner, treated Prince twice in the weeks before his death and told investigators he prescribed medications for the singer. The medications were not specified in a search warrant for the Minnesota hospital that employed Schulenberg at the time.

Schulenberg saw Prince April 7 and April 20 -- the day before his death -- according to the warrant. Schulenberg’s attorney has declined to comment on the case.

Dr. Howard Kornfeld, a California addiction specialist, was asked by Prince’s representatives on April 20 to help the singer.

Kornfeld sent his son Andrew on a redeye flight that night, and Andrew was among the people who found Prince’s unresponsive body the next morning, according to Kornfeld’s attorney, William Mauzy.

The younger Kornfeld, who is not a doctor, was carrying buprenorphine, a medication that can be used to treat opioid addiction by easing cravings and withdrawal symptoms, Mauzy said, explaining that Andrew Kornfeld intended to give the medication to a Minnesota doctor who had cleared his schedule to see Prince on April 21. Mauzy has refused to identify that doctor. Schulenberg is not authorized to prescribe buprenorphine.

Prince's death came two weeks after he canceled concerts in Atlanta, saying he wasn't feeling well. He played a pair of makeup shows April 14 in that city, and then came the emergency landing in Moline. Prince was scheduled to perform two shows in St. Louis but canceled them shortly before his death.

The superstar had a reputation for clean living, and some friends said they never saw any sign of drug use. But longtime friend and collaborator Sheila E. has told the AP that Prince had physical issues from performing, citing hip and knee problems that she said came from years of jumping off risers and stage speakers in heels.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/celeb...z&ocid=U305DHP

I wonder where the hell those AIDs articles came from.

I never realized he was doing these super high stage jumps in heels. Can certainly see how that could take a huge toll on your hips and knees.

Well, no one to blame but himself. Want a better chance at living longer? Don't be a junkie.

Meanwhile, now that he's dead youtube is a fucking treasure chest of amazing shit. Acoustic performances. Someone put up a full concert from 1982 shot on black and white video tape. Someone put up the whole Oprah episode that he did, I'd never seen it, VERY in depth. Someone put up a bunch of Arsenio Hall appearances and these Jay Leno appearances where they pranked each other. Somebody put up the opening song from Sign of the Times concert film in full HD and it looks AMAZING. I want the whole movie in that quality.

Fuck off, he was hardly a junky. We really have a problem with opiod abuse in this country. People aren't using it to get high. Doctors prescribe it for pain. But it doesn't cure pain, it just numbs it. So you stay on it and you need more and more just to feel normal. At no point do you feel high. It's not for pleasure.

Question about these images. This is Parade era, correct? There are several clips on Youtube of him doing A Love Bizarre and something else where he's in that costume and playing with that saxophone guy. There's a cool moment where the crowd gives him some flowers and he sticks them in saxxy guy's saxophone.

He was a pill junkie.

Millions of people have more pain than him and don't have the finances to buy drugs to help them through it. I have family in that situation. I also have family who do rely on the pills - but they don't abuse it... they take what they can take and cope. He had the financial ability to deal with it better than most people at least. He didn't have to work, etc. Has finances to better cope with it. But he just abused the drugs.

The media will be giving this news a "poor Prince" spin... but I'm not biting.

Your trolling, but I'll bite. It's been reported he was due to consult with an addiction/recovery doctor the day he died. It appears he knew he had a problem and was addressing it. Saying stuff like, "He didn't have to work," is utterly insulting. Thank God he did work and didn't just spin his wheels and jack off on his royalties like Michael Jackson. His "work" was a gift to the world. When he "worked" everybody else partied their ass off. It's not poor Prince, it's poor US. Gone too soon.

Just because he was a celebrity doesn't mean he should get special exemption.

Sorry, but I'll shed my tears for people who really need it.

http://kstp.com/news/prince-overdose...4157825/?cat=1

Fentanyl is a nasty drug. Its so much more potent than regular morphine. Something like 100x more powerful.

The problem with the increases potency is that people OD more often because they don't realize how much they are taking.

Sad if you ask me. I'm not going to get into the debate of whether or not he was an addict or this was purely an accident. Either way its tragic...but it happens every day in our society.

Handled an OD of liquid oxy once....guy put one or two too many drops under his tongue to get high. The drug was prescribed to someone else suffering from untreatable cancer. People just don't know how much they are taking and a small extra dose just does the body in.

Yup, 100x stronger than morphine and 10x stronger than dilaudid. Has to be administered in micrograms (0.001 milligrams) because of its potency.

When a man screams you must learn to whisper....

http://mediatakeout.com/shock-report...e-full-avkage/

http://blindgossip.com/?p=77843

This blind item came out between the time Prince was rushed to a hospital from his plane and his death. The information in the blind item strongly points to the person with AIDS being Prince, and people were guessing it was him before he died.

If it isn't true it's one hell of a coincidence.

So very well put.

Sheila E said this about it.

Prince's onetime fiancee, Sheila E., talked to ET in April, when she acknowledged the musician had problems with his hip.

"I mean, you think about all the years he was jumping off those risers," the singer recalled. "They were not low -- they were very, very high -- and to jump off that ... First of all, the Purple Rain tour and the way that they were stacked, he had those heels on. We did a year of touring [and] for him to jump off of that -- just an entire year would have messed up his knees."

"He was in pain all the time, but he was a performer," she added.

http://www.etonline.com/news/190152_...topsy_reveals/

How would you know this? You think people who are prescribed this stuff for pain don't get high? Of course they do. I have 2 friends who are prescribed roxiconton (30 mg instant release oxy) and 10 mg percocet for legit pain and they are constantly using up their script weeks early & getting sick & end up buying it off the street. They are not going through so much because it isnt killing whatever pain they have. They are doing it because they need to be high all day every day.
The biggest problem IMO are the doctor's who are writing scripts to people that have health problems that nowhere near require this type of medication.

I noticed someone called Prince a junkie. While this may be true, you really shouldn't criticize or judge unless you have been through this type of thing yourself.

Opioids are actually better at taking away emotional pain than physical pain, and that's probably why it's so heavily abused, on thus a preferred way of getting high. And working in healthcare for the last decade, I can attest that not everyone takes pain pills because they're always in physical pain. You know this country has a problem with opioids when we have opiod-induced constipation ads during the Super Bowl.

I agree with everything you said. It certainly does escalate. I can't say that Prince was at that level of use or not. All I'm saying is it wasn't like he was some perfectly healthy person who just said, "You know what, I'm going to do this thing to get fucked up." It started with a genuine reason and escalated. That's what happens to (nearly) everyone who goes on these medications. It's a problem that should be addressed. And yeah, calling people who have this problem Junkies doesn't help. Junkie carries with it a lot of baggage.

That's exactly it. I'm on scrip opiods, likely for life. It isn't a high, precisely. When you take the Trams, the pain goes away so we feel normal. You guys walking around painfree everyday? That's our "high" - so be glad you have it come to you naturally.

Prince was not Whitney.

I think until all the facts are presented, it isn't fair to call Prince a junkie. He knew he had a problem and was in the process of seeking help for his addiction. If only the doctor's son had arrived a day earlier, Prince might still be alive today.

He sacrificed his body for decades for our entertainment and enjoyment. How many artist with this resume are still performing concerts all across the Country? He could have easily sat at the house living off all the royalties he had earned during his lifetime but he was a performer who loved what he was doing.

Mabuse is right about all the great Prince stuff that's on YouTube right now. For the past month, when everyone else goes to bed, I hop on YouTube and watch all kinds of performances and videos that have been released since his death. If you are a Prince fan, I would check them out before they all get taken down.