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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsMy Prince story ....
Picture it. Bakersfield, CA 1981. Recently out young ronnykmarshall get a call from his best friend coming out partner Diane: Get dressed to dance we're going to a cool party. She shows up in her VW Bug and says: Hold on girl, were going to LA!!!
So we drove to LA which is 111 miles from Bako and we go this club The Odydessy which was an under 21 gay/lesbian club. So I'm walking around in a tank top shorts and sandals with my eyes bugging out of my head looking at all these hot guys. Suddenly there is this loud roar from the dance floor, HE (Prince) with a several beautiful ladies with him are making their way through the mass of people. He caught my eye and was looking RIGHT at me. I swear he was cruising me. As he got closer, he stepped right on my foot! I kind of jumped back and he realized what he did and said in that deep sexy voice, "Oh, I am so sorry. Are you ok?" I wish I would have said, "if you make out with me I'll be better" .. but I was so shocked I just said (in pain) ... "Yeah, I'm ok".
My BF said "oh my god, he has the same boots I have on"!
MuseRider
(34,111 posts)Great story!
It is always fun looking back at encounters with future greatness. It is always something like this. I love it!
mackerel
(4,412 posts)Aristus
(66,388 posts)I'm glad you got to experience that.
I sure do miss seeing you around here...
Skinner
(63,645 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)....flashback Friday.....
ronnykmarshall
(35,356 posts)Makes me want to put on my Doc Martins ... oh wait that was the 90's at any club in San Francisco.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,636 posts)I love it!
Cherish that memory!
ronnykmarshall
(35,356 posts)the Sirius/XM Prince tribute station.
I had it on my phone all day at work with my head phones. My next door desk mate kept laughing at me grooving ... "what's song is on now???"
I'm gonna jam to this all week.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,636 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)MuttLikeMe
(279 posts)trailmonkee
(2,681 posts)Ha! I spent many nights at the odyssey with my friends from OC great music and a nice eye opener for a straight kid coming out of a hyper religious church community That's cool that Prince came by if you were looking I was the skinny white kid with crimped hair that was dressed in Japanese designer clothing that made me look like an anemic goth lumberjack - I pretty much invented that look and killed it in the course of a few months
blue neen
(12,322 posts)Love it, ronnykmarshall!