He didn't want us to be bigger than him, I think was the main concern. I’ve been there. Things always hit me in boomerang fashion. Were there any specific things you never got the chance to say to him and wanted to air out? My mom moved us away to Maryland. I think my ass is exposed through this whole scenario as it goes between Prince and I any damn way so I'm just — he definitely had a Napoleon complex. © 2020 Forbes Media LLC. I'm sitting there, and I'm listening to this conversation. Mentioned in Kid Rock's 2000 hit "Wasting Time", "On the line I got more time than Morris Day". Why is that point so salient? We had a real strong history. When Morris Day first started playing drums in Prince’s high school band, Grand Central, he found the singer extremely standoffish. To be honest, I had basically shut down. Scared he would lose his song idea, Prince wouldn’t leave until he was given access to his friend’s four-track recorder. I hold a master's. Let’s talk about when Prince asked to speak with The Time at Paisley Park. Again, it was about control. Born Morris E. Day, he grew up making music with Prince. That bar mitzvah was one of those gigs. Explore Morris Day's biography, personal life, family and real age. He is best known as the lead singer of The Time. At one point, The Time played a bar mitzvah. What was that period like? You start your book by acknowledging that to tell the story of Morris Day is also to tell the story of Prince. I just wish, because he was such a clean-living individual, I feel like, "Dude, I kind of wish you went through it with me so you could've had that s*** in your rear-view mirror!" Day was a high-school classmate of both Prince and André Cymone and the trio formed an early band called "Grand Central", … His introduction came much later, when he was older and didn't have the stamina to bounce back from it. I lost my family. Why do you think that was? Prince created his own competition when he created your band The Time, but from how you describe it, he would get in the way of your success when he felt “threatened.” Was that hard to navigate? When Day — who was indisposed or sleeping — failed to answer, the guitarist walked along the side of the house and beat on the windows. But I didn't have the luxury of being able to pick up the phone and say, "Dude, you're f***ed up!" Prince attending the premiere of "Purple Rain" on July 26, 1984 at Mann Chinese Theater in ... [+] Hollywood, California. (Photo by Steve Parke/Paisley Park Studios via Getty Images). But I'm looking around me, and I'm in this freaking Paisley Park, which looks like a shopping mall, and I'm like: "Dude, this is the house that ‘Head’ built. Eventually he stopped us from being popular overseas. It ended up with he and I in a room with his security guard. Do you really think it was about controlling his public persona and narrative, or is there a chance it wasn’t that deeply motivated? Do you think that Prince ever withheld money from you because he was afraid you’d crash and burn from the drug abuse? I went there at a time when my body was still able to rebound. From what you described, he essentially spent hours preaching about why you should all become Jehovah’s Witnesses. And Day gets deep about the devastating moment Prince gave him a pious ultimatum: become a Jehovah’s Witness or say goodbye to their working relationship. Then, once you were adults, you couldn't even drop by his dressing room to say hello. It was just strange. It was monumental and in a sense hypocritical. You may opt-out by. NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 22: Prince performs onstage at Nassau Coliseum on March 22, 1985 in Uniondale, ... [+] New York. But in retrospect, when we did do something musically, it was significant. Day also appeared on the small screen in 1990 when he portrayed the character Lamarr on ABC's short-lived sitcom New Attitude. When you heard the news, was the pain intensified because you lost a decade of time you could’ve had with him in your life? I went from having my house to sleeping on my sister's living room floor. In 1984, he played Prince's antagonist in the feature film Purple Rain. Singer and actor who gained fame as lead vocalist of The Time, a dance-pop group who appeared with Prince, most notably, in both the film and album for Purple Rain. 2: A Tribute to Lisa Bonet by the hip-hop group Felt. Morris Day and The Time perform during Paisley Park's Celebration 2017 honoring Prince at Paisley ... [+] Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota. What do you remember about that night? Magazine in 1985. No. On a late night in 1974, a teenage Prince pounded his fists on the door of Morris Day’s home. He let me come into private rehearsals, let me go on the road with him and gave me a little bit of money. In 1990, The Time scored released the #1 Dance-funk R&B hit, "Jerk Out," as part of their album Pandemonium. I can't go there with you.". “He'd stand in the doorway after we'd practice, looking at me inquisitively,” Day, now 61, remembers. Then when we did do stuff together, access was very limited. Day says that once the two were acquainted, they quickly became best buddies. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images). To this day I'm not sure why I allowed it to be the way it was. I lost my family. I'm like, "Dude, you're the reason they're half-naked in the first place!" (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images), Hollywood, California. I just had to process that on my own. I think it was just out of his sheer wanting to be in control. You didn’t know how much you were even in the film. At their worst, the duo were inches away from fistfights. Did you feel slighted? Morris Day and Jerome ... [+] Benton, Chicago, April 11, 1983. Morris E. Day (born December 13, 1957) is an American musician, composer, and actor. You make it clear that this really upset you. It's a couple of his band members throwing eggs at us.
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