Nick Jonas Photo: Disney.com

Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers will be releasing a side project in 2010 entitled “The Administration” and was recorded in a 2 week span.

The recording took place in Nashville, Tennessee.  The band that Nick recorded with was some of Prince’s New Power Generation band from the 90’s including Michael Bland and Tommy Barberella  and also a favorite of mine, David Ryan Harris, who usually tours with John Mayer.

Unfortunately, David Ryan Harris will not be touring with The Administration and is being replaced by Sonny Thompson, another former member of Prince’s band.  Wow.  First Justin Timberlake and now a Jonas Brother has a Prince backed band.  There has been a Prince connection with the Jonas Brothers for a while however.

Bob Cavallo, who used to manage Prince under the management company Cavallo, Ruffalo, & Fargnoli back in the day, was The Jonas Brothers saving grace.  They released a debut album to dismal sales.  Cavallo gave the record a listen and contacted his friends at Hollywood Records and said they need to sign this group now. They took Bob’s advice and within a year later, were selling out arena’s everywhere and will be playing again with Stevie Wonder later this month.

No word if Nick will be covering any Prince material on the tour but I am dying to hear him try singing P. Control “The Most Beautiful Girl In The World” or something.  Um. Just had a vision of how that sounded and looked so I take it back. 

The band will debut on December 2nd for the Grammy Special on CBS and the CD entitled “Who I Am” will debut on Feb. 2nd.-Dr.FB

This just in from a no-name reporter….

Purple Electricity

Calling all Purpleheadz: ready to get plugged in?

From the 24th on, there will be a slew of NPG-related events happening around electric LAlaland.

We don’t want to give away the details yet, but be prepared to get yo’ groove on, numerous ways for numerous days. 

We know $ is tight but the adventures will be worth your while!

Stay tuned for this outtaspacestation…

Thanks for the the tip.   Will be waiting for more info before I do anything but sounds like fun! Peace.-Dr.FB

777 9311 Chick Hearn Court has been a popular hang out spot for Prince lately.  What? Did you think we were gonna talk about the Miami Sound Machine?

2 Friday’s ago, Prince made an appearance at the Conga Room where he checked out Mike Phillips & Brian Culbertson perform after midnight.  There were rumors that the funk man was going to perform with the  band, but something didn’t smell right, don’t know if it was my buddies cologne or what, but we knew it wouldn’t happen and it didn’t but while Prince was in the VIP section, Mr. Hayes from his band “The NPG” did get up on stage and solo.

Then the purple one was seen rooting for KG & the Gang Green of the Boston Celtics against The Dr’s Lakers.  We may have bounced Kevin Garnett like it was the Wolves in the first….round of the playoffs that is, but something tells me Prince might be celebrating another championship by the former Minnesota player round June.

Last Friday night, Prince returned to the Conga Room to check out the mixings of DJ Rashida & Viktor Duplaix.  The crowd was in for a surprise as his longtime friend Sheila E. guested on stage, belting out “The Glamourous Life” and several other songs in the mix.  The place was packed and jumping, you woulda thought it was 1984 instead of 25 years later.  Truth be told, music n funk that good just doesn’t age, it keeps it’s freshness long after other songs rise and fall off the charts n out of our hearts. Even Earth Wind & Fire’s Philip Bailey got on the stix at one point.

Prince was also seen briefly at Bardot as well over the weekend in Hollywood with Bria Valente who dropped a song on us during that time. 

With all that is going on, it sure looks like 2009 is gonna be mighty fine!-Dr.FB