![]() “We’re doing our best to emulate the artist. “The fans have been extremely grateful and appreciative to be able to come out and hear the music performed like it was back in the day, accurately, and having a former member of the Revolution guiding that and making it work in a way that sounds a lot like the records, as close as we can get it,” Fink explains. The group went ahead with a show in Chicago the night after Prince died, and Fink acknowledges that he feels a bit more responsibility now to carry the tour for that particular period of Prince’s career. Not surprisingly, the Purple Xperience has been “inundated” with offers since Prince’s passing. It bothers me to no end that he was possibly alone or that it was possibly drug use and it wasn’t addressed properly.” It’s just not fitting for someone of his stature to have gone the way he did. It’s hard, because you think about how he went, how he passed, and it’s very hard to take. Even though I’m pretty far removed from working with him, I never stopped communicating with him over the years and always respected him as a musician. “We’re all incredibly shocked and saddened by his passing. Until all this transpires, however, the Revolution members have been in close touch, dealing with their former boss’ shocking death. “It’s stuff that was recorded with the group and co-written with the group, just a continuation of what we were doing after the Parade album and before Prince made the decision to disband the group at that point.” Fink adds that the Revolution members have made “an open offer to Prince’s family to put those out as soon as possible.”īillboard Music Awards: Madonna Responds to Critics of Her Prince Tribute “At the end of 1986 there were definitely two albums in the can that never saw the light of day,” he says. Now we feel like it’s more timely than ever to do it.”įans might get the chance to hear the Revolution again on record as well, according to Fink, once Prince’s vaults are opened and explored. It’s something that we’ve tried to do over the years … and he really didn’t want to, so we just put it on hold. “He was considering it at that time, actually,” Fink recalls. But we have offers from various people who are recognizable.”įink adds that Prince had even expressed some interest in reuniting with the Revolution in the fall of 2014, the last time Fink saw Prince. We don’t know who yet - that’s still to be determined. “Wendy will front the band and sing,” Fink says, “and we’ll have guest singers possibly join us onstage. ![]() The group, sans Prince, did reunite in 2012 for an American Heart Association benefit at First Avenue in Minneapolis put together by drummer Bobby Z, which provided a template for how the upcoming Revolution shows will work. Maybe she should’ve done three or four where it’s more medley style and culminating with ‘Purple Rain.'” I thought there should have been more thought put into it as a real tribute, give the fans more than two songs. “My own personal opinion was I wish she’d done more of a medley, maybe, not just ‘Nothing Compares’ and go right into ‘Purple Rain’ with Stevie Wonder. “I’m a huge Madonna fan, always have been, and I know her heart was in, all of it,” Fink tells Billboard. Revolution keyboardist “Doctor” Matt Fink, who continued playing with Prince for five years after Prince dissolved the band in 1986, is threading the needle between critics who loved Madonna‘s performance and fans on social media who have been caustically critical. ![]() But he felt there was room for improvement, too. A key member of Prince‘s Revolution enjoyed Madonna’s Billboard Music Awards tribute on Sunday to the late superstar.
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