LEWIS CONNECTION Lewis Conection 1979 *PRINCE* MEGA RARE PRIVATE ORIG. SIGNED!

Rare debut PRINCE This is ORIGINAL Pressing 1 of 1,000

Mega Rare debut for Prince  he plays guitar and does background vocals on track (GOT TO BE SOMETHING HERE)

This copy here is signed by Pierre himself the leader of the project he is shown in the photo on cover….

Very Rare Item and possibly your only chance to obtain this extremely limited original pressing (200 known to exist)

and a handfull or less that have actually been signed by one of the artists….

The cover shows some wear and has seam rips top/bottom

Listen to each and every song in it’s entirety to judge the vinyl grade for yourself!!! 

Making the ‘Conection’

As teenagers, the Lewis brothers — Andre, two years younger, played guitar to Pierre’s keyboards — used to take the bus from St. Paul to Minneapolis to rehearse with the musicians who would trademark the Minneapolis Sound a decade later. Jimmy Jam actually replaced Pierre in the band Flyte Tyme (precursor to the Time). Both Lewis siblings also played with Thompson in his mid-’70s band the Family.

It was that group that recorded “Got to Be Something Here” at Minneapolis’ famed Sound 80 Studio, circa 1976. Pierre recalled that Prince had a falling out with his band at the time, Grand Central Station, and was trying to get work.

“We really didn’t need him,” Lewis insisted, laughing at the irony. He remembered that Prince borrowed a guitar for the session, as he would do a year or two later with one of Lewis’ instruments.

“Got to Be Something Here” sat on the shelf for two years until the Lewises decided to bundle it with the other tracks on “The Lewis Connection,” pieced together from sessions that were often helmed by budding studio guru David Rivkin (a?k?a David Z, who was the brother of Prince drummer Bobby Z and later engineered much of Prince’s best work).

“I always thought there was some great stuff on that record,” Rivkin said after one of Prince’s Dakota gigs last month. “I’m glad somebody is finally putting it out.”

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