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Reply #90 posted 10/19/10 12:41am

rafael

Bohemian67 said:

Thanks Inspireof. That made my day cool

The piano in Sometimes it snows gave me goose bumps.

Dig the start up...those lyrics in With the Love we make & the girls' vocals, chilling smile

Sheelagh E as always, rocks lol Norway concert goers must be on a high today.

Ah...but he didn't play Love they will be done at Werchter hmph!

[Edited 10/18/10 23:44pm]

love thy will be done was sung by the girls....sad so nothing special about that..

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Reply #91 posted 10/19/10 1:24am

RumAndRaisin

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http://www.youtube.com/wa...SJOMsfyRVU

little clip of Sometimes it Snows in April

How comes Renato's there? I though he wasnt in the band?

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Reply #92 posted 10/19/10 1:40am

JOYJOY

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TrueFunkSoldier2 said:

LasVegas3121 said:

This was also played: The Love We Make, COOL, Let's Work, Uptown, Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon & Garfunkel), Pearls B4 The Swine, Love... Thy Will B Done.

Prince played bass.

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wow a lot of great songs were performed!

eek wow....

MUST find sound board..typing

One minute they want peace……

Then do everything to make it go away. rolleyes
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Reply #93 posted 10/19/10 2:02am

gerhard12

now seeing Renato back in the band is the biggest ( and best ) surprise biggrin biggrin

was this for the whole concert or just for this one song ?

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Reply #94 posted 10/19/10 2:04am

Drix

A few more I've found:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...7v4TIeqg0I - First part of Kiss. Great version!

http://www.youtube.com/wa...fcjiX10jNo - Part of Purple Rain

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Reply #95 posted 10/19/10 3:21am

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gerhard12 said:

now seeing Renato back in the band is the biggest ( and best ) surprise biggrin biggrin


was this for the whole concert or just for this one song ?



Renato along with John does it 4 me.
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Reply #96 posted 10/19/10 3:25am

Bohemian67

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rafael said:

Bohemian67 said:

Thanks Inspireof. That made my day cool

The piano in Sometimes it snows gave me goose bumps.

Dig the start up...those lyrics in With the Love we make & the girls' vocals, chilling smile

Sheelagh E as always, rocks lol Norway concert goers must be on a high today.

Ah...but he didn't play Love they will be done at Werchter hmph!

[Edited 10/18/10 23:44pm]

love thy will be done was sung by the girls....sad so nothing special about that..

It's a beautiful song, sung better by girls I think. Loved Martika's version too.

"Free URself, B the best that U can B, 3rd Apartment from the Sun, nothing left to fear" Prince Rogers Nelson - Forever in my Life -
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Reply #97 posted 10/19/10 4:17am

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gerhard12 said:

now seeing Renato back in the band is the biggest ( and best ) surprise biggrin biggrin

was this for the whole concert or just for this one song ?

Renato was there the whole time, laughing and having a good time and enjoying Princes dance moves.

Early in the concert Prince were lying on the back on Renatos Piano, looking at renato upside down, like a woman trying so seduce him.. There were so many cool moments during the show!

Aka Mister T at moquake.com
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Reply #98 posted 10/19/10 4:28am

Bootsy16

NO song from Lotusflow3r and NO song form 20Ten!!!

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Reply #99 posted 10/19/10 4:41am

cateto

Could you post the full line up of the band, Mister T?

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Reply #100 posted 10/19/10 4:56am

Drix

Weird that he played no new songs.. I agree.

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Reply #101 posted 10/19/10 5:00am

gerhard12

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Could you post the full line up of the band, Mister T?

according to Prince Vault:John Blackwell, Renato, Cassandra, Liv, Elisa, Shelby,Ida Nielsen, Morris & Sheila cool cool

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Reply #102 posted 10/19/10 5:59am

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Dreamer20ten said:

I like the setlist .. getting so excited for Milan! biggrin

Thanks for the pictures and youtube links posted so far. I'm curious - how many people were at the concert, does anyone know? And how was the crowd - rather quiet or enthusiastic? I'm just interested to know how Prince is "received" (can't think of the correct word) at different places.

He was very well received, I must say - and he had a good time, he said - "I don't wanna go home!" Lots of interaction with the audience, talking/singing/chanting etc. He even gave away two (2) of his guitars to the audience! Approx. 8500 tickets sold, one paper stated.

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Reply #103 posted 10/19/10 6:56am

Justforthelove
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gerhard12 said:

cateto said:

Could you post the full line up of the band, Mister T?

according to Prince Vault:John Blackwell, Renato, Cassandra, Liv, Elisa, Shelby,Ida Nielsen, Morris & Sheila cool cool

Correct!!

Aka Mister T at moquake.com
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Reply #104 posted 10/19/10 7:03am

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bear said:

Dreamer20ten said:

I like the setlist .. getting so excited for Milan! biggrin

Thanks for the pictures and youtube links posted so far. I'm curious - how many people were at the concert, does anyone know? And how was the crowd - rather quiet or enthusiastic? I'm just interested to know how Prince is "received" (can't think of the correct word) at different places.

He was very well received, I must say - and he had a good time, he said - "I don't wanna go home!" Lots of interaction with the audience, talking/singing/chanting etc. He even gave away two (2) of his guitars to the audience! Approx. 8500 tickets sold, one paper stated.

He knows how to tease and flirt with the audience. Say the right things and do the right things (when he's in the mood). And he was in a really good mood!! smile And I overheard several people on their way out yesterday, surprised over how open, joyful and full of humor he was. biggrin

Someone usually come and picks up the guitar and brings it back to the stage when he hands it to the audience... I did not see if that was the case yesterday, but I'm surprised if it wasn't...

Aka Mister T at moquake.com
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Reply #105 posted 10/19/10 8:15am

Merete

I think thats the case in Bergen aswell. I read someone was seen picking up the guitars later... eek)

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Reply #106 posted 10/19/10 10:55am

xenophobia2002

Renato and John back !!!!

GREAT GREAT GREAT

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Reply #107 posted 10/19/10 11:13am

Dreamer20ten

bear said:

Dreamer20ten said:

I like the setlist .. getting so excited for Milan! biggrin

Thanks for the pictures and youtube links posted so far. I'm curious - how many people were at the concert, does anyone know? And how was the crowd - rather quiet or enthusiastic? I'm just interested to know how Prince is "received" (can't think of the correct word) at different places.

He was very well received, I must say - and he had a good time, he said - "I don't wanna go home!" Lots of interaction with the audience, talking/singing/chanting etc. He even gave away two (2) of his guitars to the audience! Approx. 8500 tickets sold, one paper stated.

Thank you very much for the information, I appreciate it. Sounds real great, him and the audience having a good time!!! I'm very happy for all of you who could see Prince yesterday, and I look forward to enjoying him again in two weeks in Milan. biggrin

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Reply #108 posted 10/19/10 11:19am

Dreamer20ten

Justfortheloveofit said:

bear said:

He was very well received, I must say - and he had a good time, he said - "I don't wanna go home!" Lots of interaction with the audience, talking/singing/chanting etc. He even gave away two (2) of his guitars to the audience! Approx. 8500 tickets sold, one paper stated.

He knows how to tease and flirt with the audience. Say the right things and do the right things (when he's in the mood). And he was in a really good mood!! smile And I overheard several people on their way out yesterday, surprised over how open, joyful and full of humor he was. biggrin

I can relate to that because I was just as surprised about it when I saw Prince in Vienna in July, for the first time after 17 years!! He was not like that back in the late 80s and early 90s. It was a very nice surprise to see him so relaxed and full of humor. I did not remember seeing him like this before. biggrin

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Reply #109 posted 10/19/10 1:16pm

CardamomTown

I guess you're never neutral when you're to describe a Prince concert – not on the very next day at least – but only the word sublime truly sums up this experience.

Look at the set list. See the lineup.

Renato seemed in awe of Prince through the whole thing – like he'd never seen anything like this little guy before. (Despite the report from the security person before the concert that they'd been practicing turnarounds for seven full hours before the show). That cracked me up, just watching these two guys interact with each other. I mean, can you imagine a more atypical band member for funk/soul/pop act Prince than this curious looking bossa nova dude – but no, he's the best, so he's with Prince.

Did y’all see that?!!

Prince after John’s drum routine in Shh

At this point (Shh), I literally heard people’s jaws dropping around me. Like "What the fuck just happened behind the drum set!!!" A lot of the people in the audience obviously hadn’t seen Prince since the Lovesexy tour, or the Oslo concert in 1992, or ever before, and had no idea of how good he actually is today. Or the quality of the band he travels with.

The whole evening was just packed with “Wow” moments. Another was his Detroit style dance moves throughout – the dude was just on fire – I don’t know what people thought they expected, some washed up Tina Turner retro routine, maybe. People need to learn that when you go to a Prince concert, he rarely lets you off the hook. I overheard some dude on the way out wondering who was handling the guitar when Prince wasn’t soloing.

All the while 9000 people are queing up in Oslo to see Lady Gaga. Nice planet.

The show was a bit like the Roskilde show, only better. Keyword is Minneapolis sound. Three The Time songs! Uptown! Let’s Work! Tight.

The new bass player was exquisite. Sheila was stunning – as always.

Like most people, I’m not fanatical about the whole Family Stone/Shake Your Body Down To The Ground/Dance (Disco Heat)-thing. But what he did this time was to just take it a little bit easy on these sequences. Get them over with. Move on. Move to Cream. To Forever In My Life (a highlight). To Cool (too cool). And oh, he actually did the bird when he did The Bird. Priceless.

The opening, with The Love We Make, was like heaven. Quite bold. And perfectly presented. I’m guessing that maybe 0,2 % of the people in attendance knew this one. But the mere quality of the song, and the power of the deliverance, truly won us over. God, how I love the fact that he opened with this one, instead of LGC or 1999 or any of the others.

We paid to see you, Prince. Do what you wanna.

And when he came back at the end, after a zillion “encores”, and did Sometimes It Snows In April just for me, I nearly lost it. That was a truly perfect ending. Neto was visibly moved when he did his little solo. My own eyes was all glassy and hurting like hell from all the emotion. Prince himself was all coolness, as usual. Just presenting his beautiful music with his slightly over-sized guitar hanging round his pretty little hips.

Danmark, Italia, Belgia, NYC and the rest of ya: Please be excited.

Be very excited.

He’s loving this now.

[Edited 10/19/10 14:39pm]

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Reply #110 posted 10/19/10 1:29pm

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CardamomTown said:

I guess you're never neutral when you're to describe a Prince concert – not on the very next day at least – but only the word sublime truly sums up this experience.

Look at the set list. See the lineup.

Renato seemed in awe of Prince through the whole thing – like he'd never seen anything like this little guy before. (Despite the report from the security person before the concert that they'd been practicing turnarounds for seven full hours before the show). That cracked me up, just watching these two guys interact with each other. I mean, can you imagine a more atypical band member for funk/soul/pop act Prince than this curious looking bossa nova dude – but no, he's the best, so he's with Prince.

Did y’all see that?!!

Prince after John’s drum routine in Shh

At this point (Shh), I literally heard people’s jaws dropping around me. Like what the fuck just happened behind the drum set!!! A lot of the people in the audience obviously hadn’t seen Prince since the Lovesexy tour, or the Oslo concert in 1992, or ever before, and had no idea of how good he actually is today. And the quality of the band he travels with.

The whole evening was just packed with “Wow” moments. Another was his Detroit style dance moves throughout – the dude was just on fire – I don’t know what people thought they expected, some washed up Tina Turner retro routine, maybe. People need to learn that when you go to a Prince concert, he rarely lets you off the hook. I overheard some dude on the way out wondering who was handling the guitar when Prince wasn’t soloing. All the while 9000 people are in Oslo to see Lady Gaga...

Nice planet.

The show was a bit like the Roskilde show, only better. Keyword is Minneapolis sound. Three The Time songs! Uptown! Let’s Work! Tight.

The new bass player was exquisite. Sheila was stunning – as always.

Like most people, I’m not fanatical about the whole Family Stone/Shake Your Body Down To The Ground/Dance (Disco Heat)-thing. But what he did this time was to just take a little bit easy on these sequences. Get them over with. Move on. Move to Cream. To Forever In My Life (a highlight). To Cool (too cool). And oh, he actually did the bird when he did The Bird. Priceless.

The opening, with The Love We Make, was like heaven. Quite bold. And perfectly presented. I’m guessing that maybe 0,2 % of the people in attendance knew this one. But the mere quality of the song, and the power of the deliverance, truly won us over. God, how I love the fact that he opened with this one, instead of LGC or 1999 or any of the others. We paid to see you, Prince. Do what you wanna.

And when he came back at the end, after a zillion “encores”, and did Sometimes It Snows In April just for me, I nearly lost it. That was a truly perfect ending. Neto was visibly moved when he did his little solo. My own eyes was all glassy and hurting like hell from all the emotion. Prince himself was all coolness, as usual. Just presenting his beautiful music with his slightly over-sized guitar hanging round his pretty little hips.

Danmark, Italia, Belgia, NYC and the rest of ya: Please be excited.

Be very excited.

He’s loving this now.

Thanks i've looked around for the JB and PRN clip, sounds like a great concert! nice report!wink

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Reply #111 posted 10/19/10 2:00pm

CardamomTown

http://www.dagbladet.no/2.../13901506/

"Two hours of pop heaven" (6/6)

http://www.bt.no/bergenpu...76657.html

"Prince - truly king" (5/6)

http://oslopuls.aftenpost...448108.ece

"Party Prince" (6/6)

http://www.vg.no/musikk/a...d=10041747

"Totally Prince" (6/6)

http://www.ba.no/puls/mus...351009.ece

"Walk down memory lane" (5/6)

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Reply #112 posted 10/19/10 2:29pm

geo4you

CardamomTown said:

I guess you're never neutral when you're to describe a Prince concert – not on the very next day at least – but only the word sublime truly sums up this experience.

Look at the set list. See the lineup.

Renato seemed in awe of Prince through the whole thing – like he'd never seen anything like this little guy before. (Despite the report from the security person before the concert that they'd been practicing turnarounds for seven full hours before the show). That cracked me up, just watching these two guys interact with each other. I mean, can you imagine a more atypical band member for funk/soul/pop act Prince than this curious looking bossa nova dude – but no, he's the best, so he's with Prince.

Did y’all see that?!!

Prince after John’s drum routine in Shh

At this point (Shh), I literally heard people’s jaws dropping around me. Like what the fuck just happened behind the drum set!!! A lot of the people in the audience obviously hadn’t seen Prince since the Lovesexy tour, or the Oslo concert in 1992, or ever before, and had no idea of how good he actually is today. And the quality of the band he travels with.

The whole evening was just packed with “Wow” moments. Another was his Detroit style dance moves throughout – the dude was just on fire – I don’t know what people thought they expected, some washed up Tina Turner retro routine, maybe. People need to learn that when you go to a Prince concert, he rarely lets you off the hook. I overheard some dude on the way out wondering who was handling the guitar when Prince wasn’t soloing. All the while 9000 people are in Oslo to see Lady Gaga...

Nice planet.

The show was a bit like the Roskilde show, only better. Keyword is Minneapolis sound. Three The Time songs! Uptown! Let’s Work! Tight.

The new bass player was exquisite. Sheila was stunning – as always.

Like most people, I’m not fanatical about the whole Family Stone/Shake Your Body Down To The Ground/Dance (Disco Heat)-thing. But what he did this time was to just take a little bit easy on these sequences. Get them over with. Move on. Move to Cream. To Forever In My Life (a highlight). To Cool (too cool). And oh, he actually did the bird when he did The Bird. Priceless.

The opening, with The Love We Make, was like heaven. Quite bold. And perfectly presented. I’m guessing that maybe 0,2 % of the people in attendance knew this one. But the mere quality of the song, and the power of the deliverance, truly won us over. God, how I love the fact that he opened with this one, instead of LGC or 1999 or any of the others. We paid to see you, Prince. Do what you wanna.

And when he came back at the end, after a zillion “encores”, and did Sometimes It Snows In April just for me, I nearly lost it. That was a truly perfect ending. Neto was visibly moved when he did his little solo. My own eyes was all glassy and hurting like hell from all the emotion. Prince himself was all coolness, as usual. Just presenting his beautiful music with his slightly over-sized guitar hanging round his pretty little hips.

Danmark, Italia, Belgia, NYC and the rest of ya: Please be excited.

Be very excited.

He’s loving this now.

Awesome report!!! I am very excited.

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Reply #113 posted 10/19/10 3:03pm

famosA

CardamomTown said:

I guess you're never neutral when you're to describe a Prince concert – not on the very next day at least – but only the word sublime truly sums up this experience.

Look at the set list. See the lineup.

Renato seemed in awe of Prince through the whole thing – like he'd never seen anything like this little guy before. (Despite the report from the security person before the concert that they'd been practicing turnarounds for seven full hours before the show). That cracked me up, just watching these two guys interact with each other. I mean, can you imagine a more atypical band member for funk/soul/pop act Prince than this curious looking bossa nova dude – but no, he's the best, so he's with Prince. biggrin

Did y’all see that?!!

Prince after John’s drum routine in Shh

At this point (Shh), I literally heard people’s jaws dropping around me. Like "What the fuck just happened behind the drum set!!!" A lot of the people in the audience obviously hadn’t seen Prince since the Lovesexy tour, or the Oslo concert in 1992, or ever before, and had no idea of how good he actually is today. Or the quality of the band he travels with.

The whole evening was just packed with “Wow” moments. Another was his Detroit style dance moves throughout – the dude was just on fire – I don’t know what people thought they expected, some washed up Tina Turner retro routine, maybe. People need to learn that when you go to a Prince concert, he rarely lets you off the hook. I overheard some dude on the way out wondering who was handling the guitar when Prince wasn’t soloing.

All the while 9000 people are queing up in Oslo to see Lady Gaga. Nice planet.

The show was a bit like the Roskilde show, only better. Keyword is Minneapolis sound. Three The Time songs! Uptown! Let’s Work! Tight.

The new bass player was exquisite. Sheila was stunning – as always.

Like most people, I’m not fanatical about the whole Family Stone/Shake Your Body Down To The Ground/Dance (Disco Heat)-thing. But what he did this time was to just take it a little bit easy on these sequences. Get them over with. Move on. Move to Cream. To Forever In My Life (a highlight). To Cool (too cool). And oh, he actually did the bird when he did The Bird. Priceless.

The opening, with The Love We Make, was like heaven. Quite bold. And perfectly presented. I’m guessing that maybe 0,2 % of the people in attendance knew this one. But the mere quality of the song, and the power of the deliverance, truly won us over. God, how I love the fact that he opened with this one, instead of LGC or 1999 or any of the others.

We paid to see you, Prince. Do what you wanna.

And when he came back at the end, after a zillion “encores”, and did Sometimes It Snows In April just for me, I nearly lost it. That was a truly perfect ending. Neto was visibly moved when he did his little solo. My own eyes was all glassy and hurting like hell from all the emotion. Prince himself was all coolness, as usual. Just presenting his beautiful music with his slightly over-sized guitar hanging round his pretty little hips.

Danmark, Italia, Belgia, NYC and the rest of ya: Please be excited.

Be very excited.

He’s loving this now.

[Edited 10/19/10 14:39pm]

Thanks for your report! Really looking forward to Milan, my 2nd show this year !!!

Hope he keeps The Love We Make, this beautiful song, as an opener !

Bridge Over Troubled Water is kind of a surprise, I wonder how this will sound ?

Renato Neto back in the band is absolutely good news smile

Still nothing from 20ten ?!?!

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Reply #114 posted 10/19/10 3:45pm

bear

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CardamomTown said:

http://www.dagbladet.no/2.../13901506/

"Two hours of pop heaven" (6/6)

http://www.bt.no/bergenpu...76657.html

"Prince - truly king" (5/6)

http://oslopuls.aftenpost...448108.ece

"Party Prince" (6/6)

http://www.vg.no/musikk/a...d=10041747

"Totally Prince" (6/6)

http://www.ba.no/puls/mus...351009.ece

"Walk down memory lane" (5/6)

And the second one (BT) admits that in hindsight it should maybe have been a 6/6:

"Jo, det var en strålende konsert. I ettertid ser jeg at jeg kanskje burde gitt en sekser. Jeg innrømmer det."

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Reply #115 posted 10/19/10 4:18pm

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Justfortheloveofit said:

gerhard12 said:

now seeing Renato back in the band is the biggest ( and best ) surprise biggrin biggrin

was this for the whole concert or just for this one song ?

Renato was there the whole time, laughing and having a good time and enjoying Princes dance moves.

Early in the concert Prince were lying on the back on Renatos Piano, looking at renato upside down, like a woman trying so seduce him.. There were so many cool moments during the show!

biggrin lol...how i would die to c that...haha...silly Prince...

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Reply #116 posted 10/19/10 5:14pm

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CardamomTown said:

I guess you're never neutral when you're to describe a Prince concert – not on the very next day at least – but only the word sublime truly sums up this experience.

Look at the set list. See the lineup.

Renato seemed in awe of Prince through the whole thing – like he'd never seen anything like this little guy before. (Despite the report from the security person before the concert that they'd been practicing turnarounds for seven full hours before the show). That cracked me up, just watching these two guys interact with each other. I mean, can you imagine a more atypical band member for funk/soul/pop act Prince than this curious looking bossa nova dude – but no, he's the best, so he's with Prince.

Did y’all see that?!!

Prince after John’s drum routine in Shh

At this point (Shh), I literally heard people’s jaws dropping around me. Like "What the fuck just happened behind the drum set!!!" A lot of the people in the audience obviously hadn’t seen Prince since the Lovesexy tour, or the Oslo concert in 1992, or ever before, and had no idea of how good he actually is today. Or the quality of the band he travels with.

The whole evening was just packed with “Wow” moments. Another was his Detroit style dance moves throughout – the dude was just on fire – I don’t know what people thought they expected, some washed up Tina Turner retro routine, maybe. People need to learn that when you go to a Prince concert, he rarely lets you off the hook. I overheard some dude on the way out wondering who was handling the guitar when Prince wasn’t soloing.

All the while 9000 people are queing up in Oslo to see Lady Gaga. Nice planet.

The show was a bit like the Roskilde show, only better. Keyword is Minneapolis sound. Three The Time songs! Uptown! Let’s Work! Tight.

The new bass player was exquisite. Sheila was stunning – as always.

Like most people, I’m not fanatical about the whole Family Stone/Shake Your Body Down To The Ground/Dance (Disco Heat)-thing. But what he did this time was to just take it a little bit easy on these sequences. Get them over with. Move on. Move to Cream. To Forever In My Life (a highlight). To Cool (too cool). And oh, he actually did the bird when he did The Bird. Priceless.

The opening, with The Love We Make, was like heaven. Quite bold. And perfectly presented. I’m guessing that maybe 0,2 % of the people in attendance knew this one. But the mere quality of the song, and the power of the deliverance, truly won us over. God, how I love the fact that he opened with this one, instead of LGC or 1999 or any of the others.

We paid to see you, Prince. Do what you wanna.

And when he came back at the end, after a zillion “encores”, and did Sometimes It Snows In April just for me, I nearly lost it. That was a truly perfect ending. Neto was visibly moved when he did his little solo. My own eyes was all glassy and hurting like hell from all the emotion. Prince himself was all coolness, as usual. Just presenting his beautiful music with his slightly over-sized guitar hanging round his pretty little hips.

Danmark, Italia, Belgia, NYC and the rest of ya: Please be excited.

Be very excited.

He’s loving this now.

[Edited 10/19/10 14:39pm]

Thanks 4 the rew. Just got a wind in my eye...! will see him 2morrow smile

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Reply #117 posted 10/19/10 7:48pm

beatz01

Purple Rain HQ :

http://www.youtube.com/wa...6bIaCms20E

Kiss HQ :

http://www.youtube.com/wa...nYl40iok4I

Forever in my life HQ :

http://www.youtube.com/wa...PDvVuF2yek

U got the look HQ :

http://www.youtube.com/wa...PFLSeZqKjg

Sometimes it snows in april HQ :

http://www.youtube.com/wa...5jeRILqQE4

Not mine, just found them and thought their quality was pretty amazing.

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Reply #118 posted 10/19/10 7:51pm

inspireof

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raspberry beret, cream & cool razz razz

http://www.youtube.com/wa...2dzz1HCERM

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Reply #119 posted 10/19/10 10:47pm

CardamomTown

famosA said:

CardamomTown said:

I guess you're never neutral when you're to describe a Prince concert – not on the very next day at least – but only the word sublime truly sums up this experience.

Look at the set list. See the lineup.

Renato seemed in awe of Prince through the whole thing – like he'd never seen anything like this little guy before. (Despite the report from the security person before the concert that they'd been practicing turnarounds for seven full hours before the show). That cracked me up, just watching these two guys interact with each other. I mean, can you imagine a more atypical band member for funk/soul/pop act Prince than this curious looking bossa nova dude – but no, he's the best, so he's with Prince. biggrin

Did y’all see that?!!

Prince after John’s drum routine in Shh

At this point (Shh), I literally heard people’s jaws dropping around me. Like "What the fuck just happened behind the drum set!!!" A lot of the people in the audience obviously hadn’t seen Prince since the Lovesexy tour, or the Oslo concert in 1992, or ever before, and had no idea of how good he actually is today. Or the quality of the band he travels with.

The whole evening was just packed with “Wow” moments. Another was his Detroit style dance moves throughout – the dude was just on fire – I don’t know what people thought they expected, some washed up Tina Turner retro routine, maybe. People need to learn that when you go to a Prince concert, he rarely lets you off the hook. I overheard some dude on the way out wondering who was handling the guitar when Prince wasn’t soloing.

All the while 9000 people are queing up in Oslo to see Lady Gaga. Nice planet.

The show was a bit like the Roskilde show, only better. Keyword is Minneapolis sound. Three The Time songs! Uptown! Let’s Work! Tight.

The new bass player was exquisite. Sheila was stunning – as always.

Like most people, I’m not fanatical about the whole Family Stone/Shake Your Body Down To The Ground/Dance (Disco Heat)-thing. But what he did this time was to just take it a little bit easy on these sequences. Get them over with. Move on. Move to Cream. To Forever In My Life (a highlight). To Cool (too cool). And oh, he actually did the bird when he did The Bird. Priceless.

The opening, with The Love We Make, was like heaven. Quite bold. And perfectly presented. I’m guessing that maybe 0,2 % of the people in attendance knew this one. But the mere quality of the song, and the power of the deliverance, truly won us over. God, how I love the fact that he opened with this one, instead of LGC or 1999 or any of the others.

We paid to see you, Prince. Do what you wanna.

And when he came back at the end, after a zillion “encores”, and did Sometimes It Snows In April just for me, I nearly lost it. That was a truly perfect ending. Neto was visibly moved when he did his little solo. My own eyes was all glassy and hurting like hell from all the emotion. Prince himself was all coolness, as usual. Just presenting his beautiful music with his slightly over-sized guitar hanging round his pretty little hips.

Danmark, Italia, Belgia, NYC and the rest of ya: Please be excited.

Be very excited.

He’s loving this now.

[Edited 10/19/10 14:39pm]

Thanks for your report! Really looking forward to Milan, my 2nd show this year !!!

Hope he keeps The Love We Make, this beautiful song, as an opener !

Bridge Over Troubled Water is kind of a surprise, I wonder how this will sound ?

Renato Neto back in the band is absolutely good news smile

Still nothing from 20ten ?!?!

BOTW was a flawless rendition of the Aretha Franklin version, complete with the "Still water I need"-part (or whatever the hell it is that the choir's singing) at the beginning - only they put it near the end. Before Pearls B4 The Swine. Which was beautiful too. Very good song for a "gospel" style version.

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