prince

fuck that sounds awesome

Not bad from the sound of it:

Prince and the New Power Generation at the Forum, April 14

DMSR
Pop Life
Extraordinary
Uptown
Raspberry Beret
Cream
Cool (Time cover, featuring a sojourn into Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop 'Till You Get Enough")
Let's Work
U Got the Look
Purple Rain
Let's Go Crazy
Delirious
1999
The Beautiful Ones
Little Red Corvette
Kiss
Medley: When Doves Cry / Nasty Girls / Sign of the Times / Darling Nikki / 777-9311 / Single Ladies
If Eye Was Ur Girlfriend
Insatiable
Scandalous
Adore
A Love Bizarre (Sheila E. cover, featuring Sheila E.)
Play That Funky Music (Wild Cherry cover)
Controversy (with Housequake chants)
The Glamorous Life (Sheila E. cover, with Sheila E.)
Peach (with Sheila E.)
Dance (Sylvester cover)
Baby I'm a Star
Stratus (Billy Cobham cover)
Sometimes It Snows in April
Laydown
Endorphinmachine
She's Always in My Hair
Dreamer
Welcome 2 America

wow, I always thought that this was exactly the kind of show he didn't play

he's been doing these kinds of all hits+deep cuts shows for at least a decade

like I'd say that's almost the exact same set I saw him play on the 1 Nite Alone tour almost 10 years ago

Stratus (Billy Cobham cover)

ha

just played drums for another prince tribute show, this time we got the whole thing on video. it was a blast, will post soon.

When P plays 'Uptown' live it means God is pleased with us...

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).

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!)

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5190/5622835694_a58c14975a.jpg

wow! not bad at all.
was the show not sold out?

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.

look at all those empty seats....leaving a prince show before he's done--d'oh!

maybe they were making sure they'd get to the club for the after-party set before it filled up

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

best show ever...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erJbpv0ZSb4

dope imo

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.

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.

that is why prince will never die, and will become a constellation.

I've always loved the covers Prince chooses to do live.

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!

It's mostly because Prince himself was nasty about it because it was a contract obligation album.

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.

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!

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?

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.

oh dude, there's so much more left for you to hit, disc 3 is a MONSTER IMO

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

OH MAN @ "Emale"...........

^_^ yeah, that song = hotness

I am also partial to the "Joint 2 Joint"/"The Holy River"/"Let's Have a Baby" sequence coming up

Come is drastically underrated
SOLO

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

omg his vesrion of "One of Us" is AWESOME...way better tha the original

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

After last week's discussion, "Let's Have a Baby" promptly went into my iPod. Check out how well he uses space.

i really liked that one on first listen.

u know he wrote one of us rite?

says here some dude from the Hooters wrote it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_of_Us_(song)

hm. I guess i'm wrong! I always thought he wrote that.

playing hop farm fest in kent this year

stoked!

nowhere seems to have sunday tickets available yet tho...

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

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

Just announced two shows here (Montreal) at a ridiculously small venue... and I'll be out of town.

Fuck. They went on sale at noon. I just found out. I think they're soldout.

I was wrong! And I am seeing Prince! In TEN DAYS!