I was at the Forum show last night. First time seeing Prince in 29 years (only other time was when he opened up for the Stones at the LA Coliseum in 1981). Stunningly on fire show (NPG bassist and drummer just killing it).
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 15 April 2011 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, the crowd and security were completely cool and into the show. By the third encore we made it onto the floor (not bad for $25 tickets!)
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 15 April 2011 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5190/5622835694_a58c14975a.jpg
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 15 April 2011 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
wow! not bad at all.was the show not sold out?
― tylerw, Friday, 15 April 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not 100% sure this show was sold out because it was announced only on Tuesday of this week. I think next week's shows are sold out though...
Also, when I took the picture we were already 3.5 hours into the set and a lot of people had already left by then - probably thinking that the 15 minute stretch between the first and second encore (when the house lights were on) was the actual end of the show. Folks, you don't leave the building until Prince leaves the building.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 16 April 2011 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
look at all those empty seats....leaving a prince show before he's done--d'oh!
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 16 April 2011 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe they were making sure they'd get to the club for the after-party set before it filled up
― some dude, Saturday, 16 April 2011 01:22 (thirteen years ago) link
i went to one of those...Roseland after the Garden, 1987(?)--he played til 5am. i was in the very front row, catching the sweat off his electric blue body suit. WHOA! best show over
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 16 April 2011 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
best show ever...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erJbpv0ZSb4
― adult music person (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 18:33 (thirteen years ago) link
dope imo
― a Guatemalan gay man who likes to gamble and smokes marijuana (The Reverend), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Tweets from my friend Michael at tonight's show:
Prince has been playing for 17 hours, done 104 encores and played every single song ever. Literally, ever. Best show ever? Has to be.
I think there are no more songs left. Someone needs to write a song quick so Prince can come back out and play it.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 30 April 2011 07:01 (thirteen years ago) link
If Prince ever runs into the problem of an audience just not leaving and demanding encore after encore, he can just come out and do that Vikings song. Guaranteed venue emptier.
― grill 'em bake 'em fry 'em burn 'em (snoball), Saturday, 30 April 2011 07:07 (thirteen years ago) link
that is why prince will never die, and will become a constellation.
― allmypulp, Saturday, 30 April 2011 07:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I've always loved the covers Prince chooses to do live.
― suge knight rider (Neanderthal), Saturday, 30 April 2011 12:33 (thirteen years ago) link
so at Dan's suggestion I got Emancipation and Come cuz both were cheap.
Why is Come so hated on by some? It's definitely one of his more challenging album and it screams of a "fuck you" record, as it isn't as catchy as most of his albums, but by god is it funky and danceable and the title track alone! "Loose!" is great!
― BIG YNGWIE aka the malmsteendriver (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
It's mostly because Prince himself was nasty about it because it was a contract obligation album.
― Dreaded Burrito Gang (DJP), Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I will admit, though, that I had owned it for about 3 weeks and hadn't gotten past the title track (which is so so so so good) until a friend told me his favorite song on the album was "Papa"; after playing that song I think I just put the CD player on endless repeat and cycled through the album for the next month.
― Dreaded Burrito Gang (DJP), Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
yea I remember that was his last album as Prince for a while but while I can tell he purposefully made it cluttered and noisy and not very melodious in places and threw in an 11 minute opening track it still sounds damn good!
― BIG YNGWIE aka the malmsteendriver (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
oh and yes the title track is faaaaaaaaaaaab.
my fave on the album nowadays is probably "Letitgo" but yeah, the whole thing is brilliant
Have you gotten to Emancipation yet?
― Dreaded Burrito Gang (DJP), Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I recorded a version of me singing Letitgo and doing all the harmonies once. thing is an earworm!
yep I've gotten through 1.5 discs of Emancipation. I'm really enjoying how much variety it has. like "Courtin Time" was a fav from disc 1, "One Kiss at a Time" is what I'm back on now and dear god is this shit smooooth.
― BIG YNGWIE aka the malmsteendriver (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
oh dude, there's so much more left for you to hit, disc 3 is a MONSTER IMO
― Dreaded Burrito Gang (DJP), Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
awesome. i'm gonna have to hit the last disc up late to night, damn busy schedule. don't suppose 'listening to 13 year old Prince album' is a good excuse to get out of commitments
― BIG YNGWIE aka the malmsteendriver (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
OH MAN @ "Emale"...........
― BIG YNGWIE aka the malmsteendriver (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
^_^ yeah, that song = hotness
I am also partial to the "Joint 2 Joint"/"The Holy River"/"Let's Have a Baby" sequence coming up
― Dreaded Burrito Gang (DJP), Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Come is drastically underratedSOLO
― Stone Colde Sylke Freek (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 May 2011 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
aw that's gonna be in posts out of context isn't it
i think there's about a great album and a third to be culled from emancipation and a lotta filler but it's well worth the trouble
― Stone Colde Sylke Freek (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 May 2011 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
omg his vesrion of "One of Us" is AWESOME...way better tha the original
― BIG YNGWIE aka the malmsteendriver (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 May 2011 01:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Funniest Prince moment--that WTF Germanic Sigmund Freud-sounding accent he does for a couple of lines in the 12" version of Little Red Corvette....LMAO
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 6 May 2011 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
After last week's discussion, "Let's Have a Baby" promptly went into my iPod. Check out how well he uses space.
― ginny thomas and tonic (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 May 2011 02:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i really liked that one on first listen.
― BIG YNGWIE aka the malmsteendriver (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 May 2011 02:58 (thirteen years ago) link
u know he wrote one of us rite?
― Stone Colde Sylke Freek (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 May 2011 03:51 (thirteen years ago) link
says here some dude from the Hooters wrote it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_of_Us_(song)
― schizophrenics think I'm hilarious (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 6 May 2011 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
hm. I guess i'm wrong! I always thought he wrote that.
― Stone Colde Sylke Freek (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 May 2011 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
playing hop farm fest in kent this year
stoked!
nowhere seems to have sunday tickets available yet tho...
― Crackle Box, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 11:20 (thirteen years ago) link
saw him last night in san jose, it was incredible, well worth the ridiculous ticket price. bonus, leonardo di caprio in the audience caught on the jumbo screen dancing like an idiot
― akm, Sunday, 22 May 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
also, cover-wise, we got COOL (the Time), Wanna Be Starting Something (MJ), and we got Nothing Compares 2 U and Shiela E. doing Glamorous Life
― akm, Sunday, 22 May 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
Just announced two shows here (Montreal) at a ridiculously small venue... and I'll be out of town.
― sofatruck, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
Fuck. They went on sale at noon. I just found out. I think they're soldout.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
I was wrong! And I am seeing Prince! In TEN DAYS!
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA-bQFsRqJI&feature=related
Oh my freakin' god, y'all.
― 51 suggest gang (The Reverend), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
Love it when his stuff makes a fleeting appearance on youtube.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
Hey I recognize that interviewer.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
His management's pre-interview list of guidelines insisted, "Please do not discuss his views on the internet," but perhaps Prince hasn't read them. "I personally can't stand digital music," he says. "You're getting sound in bits. It affects a different place in your brain. When you play it back, you can't feel anything. We're analogue people, not digital." He's warming to his theme. "Ringtones!" he exclaims. "Have you ever been in a room where there's 17 ringtones going off at once?"Does he have a ringtone?"No," he says, looking as offended as if I'd asked him if he drove a clown car. "I don't have a phone."He's equally put out by covers of his songs, Glee's version of Kiss being the latest offender. "There's no other artform where you can do that. You can't go and do your own version of Harry Potter. Do you want to hear somebody else sing Kiss?"
Does he have a ringtone?
"No," he says, looking as offended as if I'd asked him if he drove a clown car. "I don't have a phone."
He's equally put out by covers of his songs, Glee's version of Kiss being the latest offender. "There's no other artform where you can do that. You can't go and do your own version of Harry Potter. Do you want to hear somebody else sing Kiss?"
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
Prince will happily talk about how much he adores Adele ("When she just comes on and sings with a piano player, no gimmicks, it's great") or Janelle MonĂ¡e, but he won't criticise other artists. "The new pushes the old out of the way and retains what it wants to. Don't ask me about popular acts. Ask Janelle. Doesn't matter what I say. We ain't raining on anyone's parade. I ain't mad at anybody. I don't have any enemies."
this dude is just bad-ass
― chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
He keeps playing down his own stardom and doffing his cap to his band or God or Sly and the Family Stone, but does he ever think, perhaps midway through playing When Doves Cry to 30,000 people: "I'm really very good at this"?
"Well I don't think it," he smirks, raising an eyebrow. "I know it."
BAD-ASS
― chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
waht
Sometimes he seems a little too fond of boundaries. "It's fun being in Islamic countries, to know there's only one religion. There's order. You wear a burqa. There's no choice. People are happy with that." But what about women who are unhappy about having to wearing burqas? "There are people who are unhappy with everything," he says shruggingly. "There's a dark side to everything."
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
Agreed with all three previous reactions.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link