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Because that is something I think Prince would kind of sneer at – you know, like, ‘No, don’t do that!’ If you’re going to do something, just stay cool like you are and be funky. The question is whether or not there are new fans out there, or if, you know … We don’t want to get into a situation where we become just a tribute band. “And the response has been so incredible from the fans. “But this has definitely changed the trajectory for all of us as far as our … of how we want to continue to do this. Because we’re all adults and we have lives and we need to pay the bills and stuff. I think we’re trying to organize now and trying to figure out how we do that.

Only recently have we thought about it, because it’s evolving now, and we do have to decide whether we’re going to do this as a thing, you know, and do a proper tour. That raises an interesting question: So how long do you see it continuing? Or have you thought about that? Or not? And it’s just something that we love doing and that we just came together and tried to deal with that. Um, I mean, we’ve worked through a lot of grief, so we’re feeling stronger as a band, but our motivation is still …you know, there’s no other motivation to be doing this other than to just honor him. It’s like nothing else.”Īnd that’s been the experience so far – that you’ve had fans with that kind of reaction, and the band is still in that mindset where this is something for Prince, not necessarily a tour? The really hard-core fans, they seem to be showing up, and we literally, like, cry together, and it’s rally profound.

And I think we’re just connecting with fans. “I mean, he led a lot of people through a lot of hard stuff and talked about a lot of personal and controversial issues. And also of joy – of tremendous amount of work and just genius stuff that Prince left for us all to enjoy, you know?

“And so really most of the gigs have been more of a rock ‘n’ roll church than anything else, because what we’re doing is trying to, you know, have a catharsis of, you know, of sadness, and anger. We came together because of the loss of Prince.” I guess because it started out of just pure love and sadness. “This has been more of a – I don’t know what to call it.

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