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The Power Trip

HR. 3 - Bobby Z. In Studio - The Power Trip

The Power Trip

Chris Hawkey, Cory Cove, Paul Lambert

Sports

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The Revolution drummer Bobby Z. is in studio to talk about working with Prince, the rest of his music career, a Prince and The Revolution concert film, Dave Chappelle and more!

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, we have literal, literal royalty in the studio with us.

0:07.2

Thanks to our friend, Mark Rosen. Rosie. Well, yeah. Oh, what are we hearing?

0:12.4

Oh, what are we listening to? Yeah. The S we are gathered here to talk to one of the

0:19.5

greats. Bobby Z, a good friend, a original drummer with the Prince of the Revolution

0:24.4

and Bobby texted me a couple of weeks ago. And I'm actually looking at the text

0:27.8

right now and said, Hey, Sony is preparing to do a Prince of the Revolution concert

0:31.7

film. And you're a lot of press leading up to what you sent me a clip. And I think

0:36.3

a Prince of Revolution official film trailer went, what am I watching here? So I will let

0:41.4

you take the story from there because it has to do with a concert zenith at your

0:47.5

career's 1985 Syracuse, New York, which I was not aware of. But I mean, the clip is takes

0:52.6

your breath away. Of course, it brings you back to that time. So welcome to the show,

0:56.3

Bobby, and I'll let you fill in the blanks here, but what this is all about. Good morning,

1:01.5

everybody. That's so crazy. So part of the purple rain tour was a Syracuse show just on

1:14.5

the book. It was in New York. And at the end of the tour, Prince decided that he wasn't

1:20.7

going to continue the tour on to Europe. This was about a month in and to the chagrin

1:27.0

of everybody in his world. They had to come with a compromise. And this show was decided

1:34.0

since it was close to New York City, they could get the equipment out there. This was going

1:38.4

to be a satellite broadcast. Now remember, it's 1985. And pay per view was just kind of

1:45.1

coming into being. And this was a pay per view. And to Europe and a beam this thing all

1:53.0

over through Germany to the rest of Europe. And it was watched by millions and millions

1:58.0

of people taped by Warner Brothers home video. You remember, oh yeah, VHS. And it was released

2:06.4

as a concert. So it was kind of a multi use thing. So all these years later, they discovered

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