earlier i spoke to verdine white, the bassist and co-founder. verdine, thank you for joining us.you lost your brother maurice in february. >> yes, right. >> news of prince's death is so shocking. when you first heard it, what went through your mind? >> almost what i went through with maurice's passing, it hits you. we knew prince well, maurice new prince, it backs you up for a minute, we went to rehearsal today and everybody's real quiet. we're getting condolences and hearing everybody's thoughts on the great artist of prince's caliber. >> i was reading on the background today about prince and i read that cbs actually wanted you to produce his three albums when he was only 19. >> that's right. i had a meeting with him with the cbs executives. i met with him when he was a beginning, beginning artist and then cbs didn't work it out and he went to warner brothers. but we all state close after that. of course he had the same management that we had at the time, bob kaballo, who managed luis and us as well as spriens. we were around each other all the time anyway. >> at 19, he had trem

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