So, whatever happened to Wendy and Lisa?

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Now you know (link likely to not exist after a couple of days given the LA Times way of archiving its stories).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 May 2003 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Wendy's lookin' a little beat up in that pic.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 May 2003 20:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Nyyaaagh!

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 5 May 2003 20:29 (twenty-three years ago)

They sorta never went away, tho. That Girl Bros. cd was quite good.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 5 May 2003 20:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the water's ready now...

― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 5 May 2003 20:34 (twenty-three years ago)

What's Crossing Jordan like? And had any viewers here noticed its funky soundtrack? :-)

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 5 May 2003 23:27 (twenty-three years ago)

It's so weird. CSI credits a house "composer," but the only music I ever notice during the show is something relatively hip they crib from the new-release bins--Sigur Ros, most notably. And then Six Feet Under commissions Thomas Newman to write a theme, he turns in some trinkle-tinkle left over from American Beauty, and then whenever they tag the show in bumpers, they use that great Pell Mell song, which fits the show so much better anyway.

Anyway, nice to know L&W aren't starving to death or anything. They certainly helped make the '80s more interesting . . .

― Lee G (Lee G), Monday, 5 May 2003 23:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, but whatever happened to DR. FINK?!

or BOBBY Z??

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 00:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, I figured it out.. Dr. Fink and Mark Mothersbaugh are the same person.. in that Fred Schneider/Jello Biafra kinda way.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 00:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I feel sorry that the only line Fink got in Purple Rain was a rude comment about Wendy's menstrual cycle. I'm sure that's not how he wanted to be remembered.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 00:53 (twenty-three years ago)

This is making me want to watch "Crossing Jordan".

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 00:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Just watch it with the audio on and the video off.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 01:29 (twenty-three years ago)

'Lolly Lolly' = classic

― dave q, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 08:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Bobby Z is a local producer here in the Twin Cities; Dr. Fink still plays, recently recorded with a band called Telephone...

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 12:37 (twenty-three years ago)

So, whatever happened to Morris Day?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 12:41 (twenty-three years ago)

and/or the Time

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 12:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Kevin Smith put them in "Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back".

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 12:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Morris Day lives down here in Atlanta, and shows up to perform every year or so.

Part of the Time (Jimmy Jam/Terry Lewis) got pretty busy producing people like Janet.

Dez Dickerson (who left The Revolution before Purple Rain but appeared in the movie with his very short lived group The Modernaires) produces Christian rock stuff.

What about Mark Brown (a.k.a Brown Mark)? What about Appolonia?

Hey Scholtes, Patrin, et al -- remember where you were in the summer of '83? I think it was June when Prince did one of his famous surprise shows at the First Avenue and kicked out several songs that ended up as the foundation recordings for the Purple Rain album. Can you believe it's been TWENTY YEARS? Bootlegs of that show attest to the legend in the making.

― don weiner, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I was eight in '83, so didn't make that show. Ah well.

It's rather amazing that Wendy and Lisa are still together after all this time; that's a twenty-year-plus relationship, which is astounding considering how young they were when they first got together.

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:07 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.doctorfink.com/

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:10 (twenty-three years ago)

was just about to ask where Chaki was!

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I was 15 back then and didn't make it, either Matos. I probably didn't even know what the First Avenue even was until PR came out. But that's what bootlegs are for, I guess. (It's too bad Prince hasn't taken to selling archival material like that...)

Verymuch looking forward to your book, BTW.

― don weiner, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:29 (twenty-three years ago)

and what is up with my lack of typing/proofreading skills today?

― don weiner, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:30 (twenty-three years ago)

so am I, Don--maybe I ought to get off ILx and start writing it, eh?

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Matos - wots the bk about?

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Sign 'O' the Times. And no, I didn't interview him (or anybody) for it.

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Well... count me among those looking forward!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Matos, have you gone through the motions of trying to interview He Who Will Not Be Interviewed? (not that doing an "interview" with a subject who will not allow notetaking or recording the session is my idea of a good time)

Although, it would fun to interview all the other players from that Paisley Park era. Were Wendy and Lisa fully gone by then or not?

― don weiner, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 20:18 (twenty-three years ago)

yes

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 21:06 (twenty-three years ago)

matos i hope you discuss how annoying and distracting greg brooks and wally safford were during the sott period.

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 21:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I was a 13-year-old punk in Wisconsin in 1983. But I have the bootleg you're talking about Don, classic stuff. You didn't by any chance trade me a copy of it for a D'Angelo glossy a couple years ago did you? Just like the movie, Wendy and Lisa have their song, only it's not Purple Rain.

― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 7 May 2003 04:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I won't be dealing much w/the soft period, Chaki--though wasn't that the period where he was trying to be, you know, "hard" w/the rap and all? ("The rap and all," Jesus H., I sound like a grandmother)

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 05:08 (twenty-three years ago)

sott= sign o' the times

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 05:52 (twenty-three years ago)

what about the much maligned suet period?

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 05:53 (twenty-three years ago)

oh come on, Prince ALWAYS wore suits!

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 05:57 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/1998/backyard/pictures/suet.jpg

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 05:58 (twenty-three years ago)

NO NO, I meant to talk about the much maligned SETI period!

http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/seti.gif

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 06:11 (twenty-three years ago)

what about the much maligned santo period?

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 06:15 (twenty-three years ago)

and don't forget the classic sooty period:

http://www.kids-brands.com/images/sooty.jpg

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 06:21 (twenty-three years ago)

not to mention http://www.fortunecity.com/millennium/hibiscus/121/metoo.gif

― Captain Obvious (M Matos), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 06:22 (twenty-three years ago)

YOU GODDAMNED MOTHERFUCKERS. I love you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 06:28 (twenty-three years ago)

greg brooks and wally safford = prince's security gueards he let into the stage show to be backup singers and dancers

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 06:38 (twenty-three years ago)

OK, question then. How were they distracting? Anything they did that was eventworthy? I'm not really a Prince obsessee, mind you, but I never heard of these guys ever, and I'm very familiar with the Prince releases from around the time...soooo, they couldn't have been *that* distracting.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 18:18 (twenty-three years ago)

it was more about the live show. they dont really appear on albums except on the "party scenes" prince sometimes had around that time. to expierience the full suckiness that im talking about check out the SignO'the Times concert film. prince had them do skits and scenes on stage between songs and do "acts" during. its pretty silly.

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 18:24 (twenty-three years ago)

like theirs are any worse than the ones Prince did alone! well, yeah, they probably are, he has charisma and they don't, but he should never be allowed to "write a script" or "do a sketch" again.

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 18:43 (twenty-three years ago)

amen

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 18:45 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

M'kay, how's the s/t debut? I heard "Waterfalls" – real purty.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

they show up on the Latin Playboys second album (which is great)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

hold on, wendy and lisa arent in the SOTT film!

― ppp, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

their drummer carla azar plays drums for autolux now

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, just saw them and she's *great*. Had no idea of the W&L connection.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah autolux totally upstaged the secret machines when i saw them in nyc

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I was looking for Fruit On the Bottom for almost 4 years, saw it one day for $2 on CD, passed on it for some reason, and never saw it again. Idiot.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

In case anybody was wondering what happened to Vanity of Vanity 6 fame:
http://www.denisematthews.com/

― Hans Veneman (veneman), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Action Jackson will do that to a woman...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

So will Gene Simmons, John Stamos, and Robert Englund.

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

you know i was watching the MOUNTAINS video last night and thinking about the bit where prince goes "and the girls say..." and points behins to them. i was thinking that considering the story goes that they 'left' because they didn't get enough recognition from prince, that it was surprising to see him do that sort of thing. cool moment.

WATERFALL was great.

― pisces (piscesx), Thursday, 17 August 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

My OPO vote for Wendy & Lisa is the B-side, "Stones & Birth," that sounds like they wrote it after a weekend studying Prince's copy of The Hissing of Summer Lawns. After that, it's "Everything But You" from the debut.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 17 August 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

wtf at the very existence of this. dope as hell tho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZkkyLMnnEM

― The Reverend, Saturday, 27 February 2010 19:47 (sixteen years ago)

Their theme from Carnivale was pretty cool.

― Sean Carruthers, Sunday, 28 February 2010 01:09 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

debut gets a reissue. pretty meagre extras to be fair but nice to see it get a little bit more love

http://theseconddisc.com/2013/02/27/chasing-waterfalls-cherry-pop-plans-new-expansion-of-wendy-and-lisa/

― piscesx, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 20:06 (thirteen years ago)

three years pass...

Just learned they did "Closing of the Year" from the Toys soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9geCS0v7w8

― how's life, Thursday, 12 May 2016 13:33 (ten years ago)

yeah they did a couple of tracks. it's a bonkers thing that soundtrack
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Toys-Music-From-The-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/release/341770

― piscesx, Thursday, 12 May 2016 13:54 (ten years ago)

i wonder how this film got made, clearly cost a fortune. Micheal Gambon! LL Cool J!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP-TU0P2Lw4

― piscesx, Thursday, 12 May 2016 13:56 (ten years ago)

spent many moments as a kid looking at wendy in that waterfalls video

― StillAdvance, Thursday, 12 May 2016 14:05 (ten years ago)

they're on a couple songs on one of the Latin Playboys albums iirc

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 May 2016 16:21 (ten years ago)

they've been quiet, strong presences on many records I've liked, from Sheryl Crow to Madonna's and Michael Penn's.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 May 2016 16:24 (ten years ago)

Whoa, the "Toys" soundtrack was one of the first CDs I ever owned!

― goodoldneon, Thursday, 12 May 2016 18:33 (ten years ago)

four years pass...

Song About from their first album is one of the best things on there and is about the revolution breakup. I like that album quite a bit but wish it had less of that 80s rock production, esp the first half.

― candyman, Sunday, 28 February 2021 09:50 (five years ago)

Worth following them on Facebook, they put up loads of interesting stuff; unseen phots, etc.

― piscesx, Sunday, 28 February 2021 12:15 (five years ago)

Apparently there was a joni Mitchell show where she was forgetting her lyrics and w&l were shouting them at her. I think I read that in the new statesman interview with JM

― candyman, Sunday, 28 February 2021 12:41 (five years ago)

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