Prince and The Three O’Clock

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I was in a band that was part of a scene The Paisley Underground, we were called The Three O’Clock.
We released our first mini-major record on IRS called Arrive Without Traveling whose video for “Her Heads Revolving” was banned by MTV for a girl drinking green liquid and getting woozy. Prince released “Around The World In A Day” at the same time. The records were getting mentioned in many music reviews. Flash forward a second IRS release failed to chart and we were cut loose.
We heard Prince was a fan of the band, we put feelers out to the label and played a local LA show. Paisley Park sent out one of their creatives, she liked what she saw and we were signed to Paisley Park.
It will always blow us away that we had Prince in our corner, we were let down by a bad producer choice. He gave us seven songs to pick from from that were unreleased.
We were invited to the opening of the Love Sexy tour along with all the other artists on the label.As Michael Quercia our songwriter front man said:
HEY WHAT CAN I TELL TELL YA, THIS GUY WAS COOL!
I just heard on the radio that you were not aloud to shake his hand, body guards would stop you. When I met Prince he took my hand and held it during our entire conversation! Because of him I got to sit in a mini bus with George Clinton and Mavis Staples, (Mavis put her hand on my knee and asked in a very kind and motherly voice “who are you honey?”) … pretty good for some silly kid from Carson California. Jeepers Creepers he got Warner Brothers records to put our final album out, and gave us a song for it to boot!!! 

57 years old is way too young to check out but he left us with some of the best Rock-Soul-Pop music ever made … Thank You Prince!
After a long Love Sexy gig,we went back to Paisley Park and he jammed away till 4:00 A.M. one of a few times we got to see after hour special shows..
Thank you thank you thank you!
Danny Benair
The Three O’Clock 
A couple other interesting articles from the last month
The Guardian wrote about Price and The Paisley Underground
File under: I can’t wrap my head around this… The National Review’s article on The Paisley Underground
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