“I put on this Stevie Wonder song — ‘All I Do,’ my favorite — re-pressed on twelve-inch, so you can play it loud in the club. It’s a bootleg. And Prince goes, what’s that? And I’m like, ‘Uh, yeah, it’s a bootleg.’ ‘Cause you know, Prince led that big campaign against bootlegging, and … I don’t use bootlegs a lot.

“And then all of a sudden he’s like” — explosive voice — ” ‘I’m ‘a call Stevie at home right now and tell him you got this!’ And he’s pulling out his Palm Pilot, and there’s like Stevie Wonder’s home number on it all lit up! And I’m like, Oh, shit! And I start fading out the song, and Prince lifts up the needle off the record for me!

“And he says, ‘Gimme that record!’ ” Mark laughs.

” ‘Gimme that record.’ We were hanging out for, like … fifteen minutes!”