Prince was very uncooperative with record labels on his "contracts". This what the symbol thing was all about.
Note there were some premonitions and pre-death references to Prince by other bands involved in the Great Awakening prior to Prince's "death" in 2016 (APR). Creed did an extended version of one their songs that included some 'Purple Rain' riffs at the Legendado performance in 2012? (May 7, i believe) [now scrubbed or hidden by youtube]. This was before Prince's "death". There were also some '17' references in the song/stage timing. Video is gone, cannot verify dates now.
Note that Prince made a reference to Osama Bin Laden at one of his concerts in Amsterdam, Netherlands as well (pre 9-11, 1998 or 1999, i believe).
Prince was very uncooperative with record labels on his "contracts". This what the symbol thing was all about.
Note there were some premonitions and pre-death references to Prince by other bands involved in the Great Awakening prior to Prince's "death" in 2016 (APR). Creed did an extended version of one their songs that included some 'Purple Rain' riffs at the Legendado performance in 2012? (May 7, i believe) [now scrubbed or hidden by youtube]. This was before Prince's "death". There were also some '17' references in the song/stage timing. Video is gone, cannot verify dates now.
Note that Prince made a reference to Osama Bin Laden at one of his concerts in Amsterdam, Netherlands as well (pre 9-11, 1998 or 1999, i believe).