Gold Experience, Jim Walsh
Gold Experience, Jim Walsh
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Gold Experience
Following Prince in the ’90s

Author: Jim Walsh

Narrator: Ron Butler

Unabridged: 5 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/24/2017

Synopsis

Throughout the 1990s, Prince feuded with his record label, Warner Bros., over his rights as an independent recording artist—and made some of the most brilliant music of his career. During that time, Jim Walsh covered Prince for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and wrote about him passionately, thoughtfully, exhaustively. Here, in real-time, is that coverage: a look back at Prince in the '90s. Walsh's newly unearthed interviews, essays, columns, and reviews make Gold Experience an essential slice of history for fans, scholars, and latecomers to the Minneapolis-born musical genius Prince Rogers Nelson.

Join Walsh at the 1994 NBA All-Star game after party and release bash for the single "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World." Accompany him to the after-hours clubs Erotic City, Glam Slam, and, of course, Paisley Park. Meet Prince's wife and bandmate Mayte (and while you're at it, take in the wedding and reception and enjoy a two-hour sit-down interview with Prince). This is Prince as few have seen him, reported as only Jim Wash can: a portrait of the artist from a dizzying array of angles, captured in living color for all time.

About Jim Walsh

Jim Walsh is a Minneapolis-based writer, journalist, columnist, songwriter, and the author of The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History and, with Dennis Pernu, The Replacements: Waxed up Hair and Painted Shoes: The Photographic History. The former music editor at City Pages and pop music columnist at the St. Paul Pioneer Press and current staff columnist at the Southwest Journal and a regular contributor to Minnpost.com and others, Jim has published in Rolling Stone, SPIN, the Village Voice, the L. A. Weekly, the Star Tribune, Melody Maker, Billboard, and the Utne Reader, and has been a recipient of the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford Unviersity.

Reviews

Goodreads review by christa

And then you realize that while you were in college, rollerblading a four-block square over and over and over in the middle of the night, just a few 'burbs away there were Prince parties raging until the sun came up. Um, do over?......more

Goodreads review by Pam

A book about Prince by Minnesota's journalist Jim Walsh. I really wish I had known about the weekly parties at Paisley Park so I could have crashed one. The only time I went there was to see the memorials after he died. :(......more

Goodreads review by Daniel

This review originally published in Looking For a Good Book. Rated 4.5 of 5 I am not the world's biggest Prince fan. I was the 'right' age (early 20's) when Prince released the movie Purple Rain and then his album 1999. And being from Minnesota, this shining musical star from my home state was big ne......more

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