So we're out in Chanhasson right now. I come out to Chanhasson a lot to go to Paisley Park, but we're at a place that Prince

had before Paisley Park, before he'd even really done anything of this magnitude of purple rain before he even claimed the color purple.

So this property has been known in the fan community as the

purple house but back in the fall of 81 it was actually brown it was this

boring kind of split-level beige brown house on a cul-de-sac in the

suburbs of the Twin Cities. It was the first house that Prince ever owned, which

was a huge deal for him at that point, know he's in his early 20s and it was one of his first real home

Studios where he could just hole up and work on whatever was kind of going through his mind at that time.

And the reason that I wanted to come here is because it's always been so

odd to me to think about all of these, you know, futuristic sounds on

1999 and Little Red Carvet, all these songs that he made at

this place, it sounds like a city.

They're so busy, they're so full of all these synthesizers and explosions and politics and all these social elements.

But he made them at a place that is, you know, kind of on the surface, like boring.

It's quiet. There's not a lot going on around here. But you know as I'm

standing here now I realize that's probably exactly why he loved it here. You know, thinking about that era of his life and especially

the horrible experience he had opening for the Rolling Stones and all this

pressure that he was under and all these expectations that he had for himself.

Like it was really important for him to be able to come someplace that was safe and quiet and

chill where he could just be alone or have friends over and really just kind of be alone with his thoughts and alone with his music.

You know, I've heard all these stories from his friends about they would hang out here and watch all these movies he was a huge

film buff they would watch the idolmaker or Blade Runner or a racer head which is even

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