Are doctor fink and prince still friends1/14/2024 “And some girl dressed in a police uniform walks up to the holding cell and looks at us through the window and she goes, ‘What’ch’all doing there? How come you guys are in there? Who are you guys?’ Fortunately, R&B radio stations just started playing his first hit R&B classic, “I Wanna Be Your Lover.” “They book us and put us in a holding cell - the kind that’s filthy, smelly, graffiti-ridden - a holding cell that common drunks and criminals are put into.” “The Memphis police show up, handcuff us together and put us in the back of a squad car and drive us downtown to the Memphis jail,” Fink says and laughs. Both Prince and Fink were carted off the plane and held by airport police. “The next thing we know, the pilot comes out and announces, ‘It has come to our attention someone has removed some emergency equipment from the airplane, which is a federal offense,’ ” Fink recalls. But a passenger ratted them out while the plane idled on the tarmac. … We should take this and use it onstage.”įink talked guitarist Dez Dickerson into stashing the bullhorn in his carry-on bag. He pointed it out to Prince, who said, “Really? Well, grab it. And wouldn’t you know it - Fink noticed the plane had an emergency bullhorn in an overhead bin. The next day, the band boarded a plane in Memphis to join James in Huntsville, Ala. So one day, Fink suggested it would be cool if Prince used a police megaphone as a stage prop. “None of us had ever done anything like that before,” Fink tells me by phone from Minneapolis. Now Fink plays in The Purple Xperience, “the world’s premier Prince tribute band.” Someone in Vegas needs to book them.Īnyway, back in the fall of 1979, Prince and the Revolution went on tour for the first time as Rick James’ opening act. This story comes from Matt “Doctor” Fink, Prince’s keyboardist from 1978 to 1990. I give unto thee: the greatest Prince story you have never heard (just in time to see Prince on Friday and Saturday at the Hard Rock Hotel). Former Prince keyboardist Matt "Doctor" Fink, right, now plays in a Prince tribute band, above, called The Purple Xperience.
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