Thanks to Ben Johnson at music radar online for this Headline
Lovely to get an insight into the workings of a great musical icon like Prince. On a short tour with Jon Batiste who Prince had met while Batiste was studying in New York and gigging with his own band at night. Prince saw Batiste and his band playing and asked him to do the tour.
Batiste attended an after show jam with a large group of people ( about 100) squashed into a lounge like room with various instruments. The jamming session took place in a corner of the room , with Prince playing the drums on and off and sometimes walking into the crowd and listening to their conversations.
I can imagine Prince doing that, and he would listen and if anything caught his interest ; those around him would know.
In Batiste’s case Batiste said something along the lines of being very grateful to have been invited on the tour, while the person with him thrust a business card into Prince’s hand with Batiste’s contact details on it. Batiste felt the situation was uncomfortable as there was no conversational reply from Prince, but Batiste realised that with one look from Prince, Prince’s eyes showed he was happy with the interaction and then it was over, Prince was gone.
Perhaps that type of communication means more than all the blabbing that we experience in our daily lives and Prince knew it.
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