He tells Rolling Stone: "I go to the first show in a party bus with all my friends, boozing it up. I walk into the Forum Club and bump into somebody from a road crew I'd work with before. He says, 'Prince knows you're here and he wants to jam.'

"At the end of the night, I'm standing next to this black curtain. I pull it back and there's Prince with Sheila E. I go, 'Hey, man, great show.' He says, 'When do you want to jam? How about Friday?'