When the Purple One began making changes to his stage setup - specifically putting the dancers in front of his band - the Revolution knew they had a problem. The raise request added tension between Prince and his group. “It wasn't much, and I'm not even going to get into the price. “The band had not really been making very much money, and I don't know who instigated it, but someone said, ‘Maybe we should ask for a raise?,’" recalled Melvoin. It also didn't help that the Revolution members felt underpaid. The musicians got a sense that Prince was yearning for change, and his relationship with the Revolution over the next few months would only exacerbate the matter. Watch the Music Video for "Kiss" by Prince and the Revolution “So when more and more people started coming onstage and at the end of the night like, ‘Baby, I'm a Star,’ we would call it the Bugs Bunny Revue like, ‘What's going on here? This is turning into like Looney Tunes.’" “We did feel a little bit territorial and possessive of the band,” admitted Coleman. The expanded lineup took a while to get used to, and the change wasn’t welcomed by all members. “All of a sudden everybody that had been in the Revolution besides Prince - there were five of them, and also looking up one day and they're now, what? One, two, three, four, five - there are six more. “There was a Revolution, and now you've got to deal with all of us,” Leeds added. “We couldn't say we were the Revolution because the Revolution is that quintessential band.” “When Eric and I joined, we called ourselves the Counter Revolution,” Bliss revealed. “We were all talking about it at the time, going, ‘I don't know about this, this doesn't feel right the chemistry is changing.’"įor their part, the newcomers understood their place. “We were so used to having this tight little family unit and all of a sudden, he brings in these new people.” The feeling was shared among Fink’s bandmates. “All of us in the Revolution were a little miffed by it,” admitted Fink in the podcast Prince: The Story of Sign O' the Times. Suddenly, the Revolution had doubled in size, a fact that didn’t sit well with the core members. Three dancers were also brought on board: Jerome Benton, Wally Safford and Greg Brooks. In early 1986, the lineup was augmented with the additions of guitarist Miko Weaver, and the horn section of Eric Leeds and Matt “Atlanta Bliss” Blistan.
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