Ray Charles is great live, it's a shame you didn't catch him. On the other hand, I need to catch a Prince show now.

Just want to add an amen to the post there smooth. Although he will probably never recapture the form of his late 80's 'golden era', few artists will ever match the scope or ambition or diversity of sign o' the times in their whole careers, let alone in one album-it's just got it all.
I'm just grateful that I heard it when I was at just the right age(15)to get totally overwhelmed by it.
Ps-you have an amazing mother!

will the reunion album with the revolution ever finally happen?

Prince is so great that even SPIN magazine had to rank him the Number One popular frontman/performer of all time. He excels at all levels: musicianship, stage prescence, songbook... when all the hype and hairspray dies down, he will still have his incredible talents and his engaging charisma.

I envy you-- I have yet to see The Purple One live...

can i just say for the record how cool we think your mom is?

let me seventh the assertion that ma smooth is the kewlest there is and clearly received Prince on the multiple levels of the true music listener we should all hope to be.

i caught the july 14th show. i lucked into an invite when my sister's two colleagues from work had to back out of attending so i went along. i've always liked Prince but am by no means very familiar with his very large and prolific catalogue. the main albums i know are from the Purple Rain to the Graffiti Bridge era and after that i feel i sort of lost touch with him.

needless to say... it was a GREAT show... full of surprises. Morris Day and the Time opened and the moment it was clear who it was the audience exploded. The Time definitely got the party started... then prince's show proper started and it didn't take him long to completely knock the audience over. Sheila E. came out in the middle to do Glamorous Life and got a HUGE ovation which she revelled in. i've been dimly aware of this tour and the circumstances behind it and Prince's more devout Jehovah's Witnessing other than a few comments that he made during the show ("Let God Guide You" instead of "Let Me Guide You" and various shouts of "Y'all know what you're singing about" during Purple Rain). I do know that i was surprised that Prince didn't immediately join Sheila onstage and start into Erotic City... but then again, someone would have had to call Homeland Security to let them know that Prince had set something OFF in MSG!!!

the scene was OFF DA HOOK in terms of audience and womyn as has already been noted.. at the Take Me With You ending part where womyn were invited from the audience to dance onstage... there were at least TWO professionals on hand as their moves were a little too silver pole perfect and the plastic surgery a little TOO extensive to be ordinary gals... though i guess if you're sitting in the front row at THIS show which was heavily dominated by industry types having bottles of Kristal and Korbel hand delivered by waiter/ushers at i believe $70 or $90 a bottle.

speaking of industry bigs.. i was surprised by the quality of the seats.. we were spread out over about rows 20 to 23.. just one level above the floor and prince couldn't have been more than 100 or 200 feet from me. just as i'm revelling in this fact and the extremely excited pair of honeys who sat to my right and informed me that "excuse us but we're going to SCREAM all through this show"... which was just FINE by me, both girlies started screaming and pointing and i looked over to see the man of the hour with an air of great power, "Diddy", seating himself in the same section in front of the face of the stage 90 degrees away from where i was. it was bedlam after that... i've never seen so many tall leggy blondes running down from their seats to try to get to the great man. of course his security staff ran quiet but firm interference and he was undisturbed but for five or six fans who had picture phones for which this great got my GATsby posed with grace and aplomb. damned if i wasn't watching the show AND Diddy from then on... sure... i'm not a big Diddy fan... but suddenly having $300,000,000 or more on hand seemed like a REALLY GOOD IDEA that i probably should have put more emphasis on back when i was in school. sigh... i could have retired 3 years ago when i was Jay-Z's age... hmmmm.. what was i doing three years ago... that's right.. sweating on the Pier outside of WBAI during the great milennial conflagration. ok.. ok... enough whining.. i KNEW i SHOULD have been out there with my mind on my money and my money on my mind but i thought there were more IMPORTANT things in life like free speech, people's radio, and ultimate justice. but i digress.

highlight of the show for me... after Sheila E. in her leopard skin leg baring finery was Prince sitting in that little metal chair with the attached microphone doing a selection of tunes in a campfire like singalong style. it was at that moment that i realized that this guy could have been here ALL NIGHT ... that he hadn't even dug into what he'd done. he's taken for granted.. but even a non fan can point to 20 or 30 songs he's done and say.. i liked that one.. i bought that one... and that was the basis of his concert sets. then you think... well he could have pulled out diamonds and pearls or anotherloverholenyohead or the most beautiful girl in the world(which he MIGHT have to add to the MUST PERFORM canon considering how womyn not girls ruling his world IS a serious subtext at this man's shows... you could see it in the silhouettes ringing the stadium and i'll be damned if i wasn't looking around wondering why I didn't have tickets for nassau colisseum and continental arena... needless to say i'm looking into seeing this show again... maybe in salt lake city or san diego... hell i might even see another one or two if i can make that work!). but anyway... he did a song/rant on Warner Brothers "Slave" situation called "Prince & the Band" which was hysterical and true... best line... "(voice getting louder more insistent)EVERYBODY GOT OLDER... EVERYBODY GOT OLDER... EVERYBODY GOT OLDER....(back to smooth low voice) I Look the Same..." (settling back into the chair in his "thinkin' 'bout it pose). the man has a way about him...

anyway.... hey what a bunch of songs.. anything from purple rain was a showstopper ... beautiful ones... i would die 4 u... but dayum... this guy's been out here on tour nonstop for years. i can't even imagine why i missed him during those Larry Graham tours... the man has been through new york several times in the last 5 or 10 years.. oh well.. i'm glad i got to finally see Prince the first time and if THIS is what a "retirement" tour looks like then retirement has changed!!!

final word... i'd heard of him back before 1999 and Purple rain... i first heard him at last when everyone else did. i kept in touch with him in terms of his releases though not fanatically after the big crush of attention. but sign o' the times was a turning point for me too... a great mix of production styles and demos ballad of dorothy parker and never take the place of your man etc. though i didn't hear the album until i saw the long form video which to my mind was as amazing as seeing him in concert. it was like he'd brought together everything under one circus roof and with the time, money, and equipment was able to make the principles of the minneapolis scene depicted in purple rain become real. putting sheila e. on drums in that one he put down definitive versions of housequake, never take the place, if i was your girlfriend, gonna be a beautiful night, etc. i'm amazed that prince got MORE religious... particularly the JW's with the whole no profanity no pork after 3 PM sort of rule book... to my mind... in this post janet's breast era of censorship... there WOULD have been something comforting about having Prince reclaim his name and high profile in unrestricted form... DAMNIT... in election year 2004... 20 years after Purple Rain... shouldn't Karenna Gore have been seated front row and center with Diddy so she could at long last hear "Darling Nikki" on the real WITHOUT her pesky non first lady moms ripping the damned needle off da turntable??? oh well... i ask too much and i've got no right... even with one arm of naughty sexual nastiness tied behind his back Prince put on DA SHOW. oh and those two girls next to me screamed... danced.. jumped... sang.. had me doing the bump with them all night without me even moving a muscle and generally worshipped at the man's feet.. and when the show was over they were gone.

CONFUSION!!! (horns ablazin')

P.S. Candy Dulfer evangelizing about the stage on behalf of the man's music joins a long line of ASTOUNDINGLY HOT womyn this man has gotten to come onboard his funky little purple train... i don't know what's in the water up there in minneapolis but we've known since purple rain that something's STRANGE up there.. but it's GOOD!!!

P.P.S. had himself a CUTE ASSED little bassist up there with him too... u go Prince!

I know I'm gonna draw major heat for even suggesting that someone could enjoy The Time live-show as much, if not more than, the current band backing Prince... but be clear... Prince solo on the acoustic git was untouchable!

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