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Gene Hanson, a retiree who lives in Edgeley, N.D., recently created a football field-sized replica of the unpronounceable "love symbol" used by Prince to honor the late pop star. Hanson said he taped a drawing of the symbol to the hood of his tractor and started plowing. Photo by Gene Hanson.
Though he's more of a country fan, ND retiree plows field in tribute to Prince
By Helmut Schmidt on May 2, 2016 at 1:14 p.m.
EDGELEY, N.D. When Gene Hanson decided to plow some art into one of his fields, he went with a sign o' the times.
The 75-year-old retiree recently plowed a football field-sized version of the unpronounceable symbol the late pop star Prince used to represent himself in a field.
Hanson is an artist with a plow and his fields are his canvas. In the wake of Prince's death, he thought: Let's go crazy.
"I thought to myself, maybe I should try something like that," Hanson said Monday, May 2. "I didn't tell anyone I was going do it, I didn't even tell my wife I was going to do it. But it's been fun."
He used a drawing of Prince's "love symbol" that he pulled from the internet as his guide, he said. ... "I don't have a cab on my tractor. I just have a three-point disk in the back," he said. "I taped that little sign on the hood of the tractor and just went by that." ... Hanson then hopped into his airplane and took a photo of the results, which almost made him delirious.
jonno99
(2,620 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)Everybody loves Prince.
longship
(40,416 posts)But I understand what music does for people. So I will gladly R&K this thread.
It is pretty incredible.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)My fave is opera and long hair music, Bach, Mozart, Puccini, Wagner, and Rachmaninoff. (Love Rach music!)
That doesn't mean that I would demean popular music, it just means that I remain ignorant of it. However, music is still music, no matter the genre. I stopped listening to popular music in the 70's, before Prince. That does not mean that I think it is in any way bad -- one exception, Elvis. I am willing to admit that I have a big gap in my cultural education.
My best to you, my friend.
I leave you with the simple advice of a music lover much greater than many.
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899-1974)
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)to create a tribute and accept a challenge
Skittles
(153,174 posts)I did very much like Prince though