“He was considering it at that time, actually,” Fink recalls.
But we have offers from various people who are recognizable.”įink adds that Prince had even expressed some interest in reuniting with the Revolution in the fall of 2014, the last time Fink saw Prince. We don’t know who yet - that’s still to be determined. “Wendy will front the band and sing,” Fink says, “and we’ll have guest singers possibly join us on stage. The group, sans Prince, did reunite in 2012 for an American Heart Association benefit at First Avenue in Minneapolis put together by drummer Bobby Z, which provided a template for how the upcoming Revolution shows will work. “Maybe October or November, December we’ll start to do a few shows here in the U.S., and it would slowly ramp up throughout 2017 to possibly go overseas into Europe and Japan, that kind of thing,” Fink says. Fink confirmed that the group plans to start doing shows together later this year, following a large-scale memorial concert that’s expected to take place during mid-August in Minneapolis. The Revolution does plan to ride again, however. I don’t know how that would be perceived. Even if we’d been asked in a proper way I think we may have turned it down because…it’s too soon. “I wish the producers of the show had asked affiliated Prince artists to be involved with it, too,” says Fink, although he quickly adds that, “I don’t know if the Revolution would have done it.
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