Since leaving Prince's employ in 1991, Fink has owned and operated the Minneapolis-based Star Vu recording studio, where he produces other artists and creates music for video games and movie soundtracks. Rockets, he began playing with Prince in late 1978. The recording has sold over 18 million copies since its release. Fink won a Grammy Award in 1985 for the album Purple Rain. He is best known as a member of The Revolution, the backing band for pop musician Prince. Attracting attention with the pop/rock band Zachariah and R&B, funk, and disco group B.T. Matthew Robert Fink, better known by the stage name Doctor Fink, is an American keyboardist, record producer, and songwriter. Although he managed to fit high school into his busy schedule, Fink launched a full-time music career following his graduation. Within three years, he was touring the northern Midwest with another cover band, Spiff Cool & the Keeno Jets. Studying classical and jazz piano from the age of ten, Fink performed with a Top 40 cover band, Odella, before his 13th birthday. His imaginative playing and warm vocal harmonies enlivened such albums as Dirty Mind, Controversy, Around the World in a Day, Parade, and Sign o' the Times, and he appeared in the film and soundtrack album Purple Rain. Fink (born Matthew Fink) helped to create some of the funkiest dance music of the 1980s. With the anniversary of the release of the Kid’s greatest commercial triumph on hand, VIBE has recruited Doctor Fink to breakdown the making of Purple Rain track by track.The keyboardist/vocalist for Prince's band the Revolution and later the New Power Generation, Dr. for a partnership to reissue many of those classic LP’s from his acclaimed ’80s run, headlined by a deluxe remaster of Purple Rain, reportedly due out later this year. Prince recently re-upped with longtime estranged record label Warner Bros. Purple Rain is the project that not only propelled the multi-instrumentalist to major stadium act, it gave him the licensed freedom to promptly wild-out artistically on subsequent statements like Around The World In A Day, Parade, and Sign ‘O The Times. And both “When Doves Cry” and “The Beautiful Ones” have also popped up during various dates. For much of this year, a dramatically slowed down, riff-heavy version of “Let’s Go Crazy” has kicked off the setlist for his acclaimed live shows. It’s the reason why the man has revisited the populace fervor of Purple Rain during some of his most recent performances.
And while it’s true that Prince is not much for looking back (it was a pleasant shock to witness the reinvigorated star invite Bobby onstage May of last year during a blazing hometown Minneapolis gig with his bruising female power trio 3RDEYEGIRL), he recognizes the 18 million-selling album’s importance to his storied career. There’s a June 28 gig that’s set for Minneapolis’ First Avenue (the famed club featured in Purple Rain) as part of Bobby Z’s third annual Benefit 2 Celebrate Life, as well as dates in Dayton, Ohio (July 24), Detroit (July 25), and Indianapolis (July 26). Fink - Drum Machine The Purple Apprentice 1.2K subscribers Subscribe 1.4K views 3 years ago To be honest with you, I actually don't know the name of this track. On any given night, the gregarious musician/producer can be seen performing many of the hits he played on record and on tour during his decade run with the Purple One. Today, Doctor Fink, who still rocks his trademark quirky doctor’s scrubs as the frontman of the Prince tribute band the Purple Xperience, preaches the gospel of Prince. But it would be cool if he reached out to the band or even thought about doing a special show to commemorate the release of Purple Rain.” Prince doesn’t have to go on a big reunion tour with the Revolution. “Bruce Springsteen got up there and admitted, ‘Yeah, we had some rough moments and yeah I disbanded the group for a long time.’ But yet Bruce had the balls to put it back together with those guys for one night and give them their recognition. Street Band did at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,” he says of a possible reunion of Prince’s talented outfit that included Fink, drummer Bobby Z, guitarist Wendy Melvoin, fellow keyboardist Lisa Coleman, and bassist Brown Mark. “I just think it would be great for the Revolution to get back together much like how the E. But he’s not looking for a nostalgic payday. Indeed, as you shake your head in disbelief that today (June 25) marks the 30th anniversary of the classic rock-funk soundtrack to the Academy Award-winning film-a ballsy project that transformed Prince Rogers Nelson from platinum rude boy to global superstar-it should be noted that Fink was by the Minneapolis’ genius’ side almost from the beginning of his genre-blurring career. “For me, personally, I feel sad that he has kind of segregated himself from us,” he says of his former boss, the groundbreaking music visionary who shook up (and turned out) the world with his landmark 1984 release Purple Rain.Īs a former member of His Royal Badness’ backing band the Revolution, keyboardist Matthew Robert Fink still marvels at the cultural impact of the bombshell soundtrack. Doctor Fink has a message for Prince: it’s time for another Revolution.
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