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Ridiculous.

6 encores???

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i couldnt wait to get home and read about the show!!

help!!

SOS!

Dying to hear hwat the setlist was. I really hope tomorrow's show will be just as good!

Here's the set as posted by Princevault right now, but a buddy of mine who was updating on Facebook as it went says that Hot Thing and Sign O The Times were part of the sampler set as well, so I guess this will likely be updated:

http://princevault.com/in...mber,_2011

[Edited 11/25/11 21:19pm]

huskerdu said:

Dying to hear hwat the setlist was. I really hope tomorrow's show will be just as good!

We all are but someone keeps deleting it.

G

Any pics?

Gorgonzolo said:

huskerdu said:

Dying to hear hwat the setlist was. I really hope tomorrow's show will be just as good!

We all are but someone keeps deleting it.

G

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What I want to know is what merch was on sale and if anyone can remember prices.

luv4u said:

What I want to know is what merch was on sale and if anyone can remember prices.

That's what I wanna know as well

A Million Days? Nice! Didn't expect that.

Also Let's Go is the best cover he's done in the last few years.

i want to know where prince did most of the concert from. wanna know how my seats in london are going to fare

Wow, setlist looks great.

I really hope he doesn't mess with it too much for tomorrow's show (unless it's play more of classic stuff )

Thanks for the info guys!

Gohi said:

A Million Days? Nice! Didn't expect that.

Also Let's Go is the best cover he's done in the last few years.

A Million Days??? That is AWESOME. Glad to hear Prince is covering some of his non-hit hits. That's one of my favorites.

http://www.680news.com/en...-hour-show

TwiliteKid said:

Here's the set as posted by Princevault right now, but a buddy of mine who was updating on Facebook as it went says that Hot Thing and Sign O The Times were part of the sampler set as well, so I guess this will likely be updated:

http://princevault.com/in...mber,_2011

[Edited 11/25/11 21:19pm]

sampler set

oh Lawd...why?

Gohi said:

A Million Days? Nice! Didn't expect that.

Also Let's Go is the best cover he's done in the last few years.

A Million Days

No...Way

DAMN! tHAt is the BomB right there

lol at that reviwer thinking a sample of When Doves Cry = a "mammoth take."

Also lol at them thinking the MJ cover is "impromptu."

serpan99 said:

http://www.680news.com/en...-hour-show

Prince launches Canadian tour in Toronto with electric, three-hour show

Nick Patch, The Canadian Press Nov 26, 2011 01:16:00 AM

TORONTO - To open the first show of his cross-Canada tour at the Air Canada Centre on Friday, Prince put his nimble band through a nearly 30-minute funk workout while he danced, gyrated and strutted across the stage with the easy grace of a performer half his age.

Finally, he stopped, bathed in green light.

"I gotta bask in Toronto's love," he said to, yes, an adoring crowd.

The break lasted only a moment before he was back at it, but he would have plenty of other opportunities to bask in the audience's warmth. Over the course of a three-hour-plus performance, the 53-year-old pop icon tirelessly took the game crowd on a journey through three decades of his inventive, idiosyncratic catalogue with a joyous, relentlessly entertaining show.

The performance kicked off in appropriately dramatic fashion. With the arena dimmed and the only illumination provided by the neon flashes of the lights lining the stage — pulsing on and off in time with the drums — each member of Prince's band emerged one after the other from beneath. Eventually, Prince poked his head out too, arms crossed over his chest, clad all in loose-fitting black with shades fixed to his face and gold jewelry dangling from his neck.

The stage was shaped in his signature glyph — that symbol Prince was formerly known as — lined with bright lights, with circular high tables set up around its perimeter, allowing a cluster of patrons the opportunity to sit and sip their beverages just a few feet from the action.

Of course, few in the audience were content to sit. From the beginning, the high-energy show inspired loose-limbed workouts in every corner of the arena, even the wilderness of the upper deck. Prince himself, meanwhile, rarely stopped moving, pulling off a flurry of moves that were both slick and seemingly spontaneous.

He elicited perhaps his biggest cheer of the night at the end of his 1986 hit "Kiss," shimmying mute in the spotlight, his hips swivelling furiously from side to side. He wandered every inch of the stage over the course of the show, showing no signs of fatigue — even during his third of six encores, he stood on a piano and hammered out a firecracker cover of Wild Cherry's "Play That Funky Music."

"This used to be my city," he said at one point, referencing the fact that he once owned a home here with his Toronto-born ex-wife. "Let's see if it still is."

Since the late 1970s, Prince has released new records with an almost workmanlike regularity — in total, he's issued more than 30 studio albums (the most recent being 2010's aptly titled "20Ten"), so he was able to order up Friday evening's setlist from a vast menu of material.

But his emphasis this night was on his best-known hits, to the audible delight of an audience that seemed most familiar with his '80s and early '90s output, shrieking at the opening notes of such well-loved tracks as "Raspberry Beret," "Take Me With U," "Cream," "I Would Die 4 U," and a mammoth take on "When Doves Cry."

Certified six times platinum, Prince's 1984 classic "Purple Rain" is his best-selling record in Canada, and a languid performance of the title track was a swaying singalong highlight, with purple confetti bursting in air as Prince launched a virtuoso guitar solo around the epic tune's mid-section.

Though the show came very highly polished, it still retained a sense of unpredictability that arena gigs sometimes lack. During a fiery take on "Cool" — from the Time's 1981 self-titled debut — more than a dozen people joined Prince on stage, surrounding him in a tangle of dancing limbs. And when one of his backup singers launched into an impromptu take on Michael Jackson's dancefloor classic "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough," Prince staggered and covered his mouth as if genuinely, happily surprised.

Prince himself offered plenty of unexpected moments too. The seven-time Grammy winner — proficient at soul, dance, rock, pop, R&B — shifted from song to song and genre to genre, at one point hopping from a cover of the Beatles' "Yesterday" to his "Nothing Compares 2 U." Later, the apocalyptic hedonism of "1999" transitioned mid-song into a gorgeously wrenching take on "Little Red Corvette."

His deft, powerful band was game for these sudden shifts, yet it was Prince's own musical prowess that wrested the spotlight. The Minneapolis native, who routinely plays every instrument on his recordings, seems to command every style and musical tool he dabbles in with a restless mastery.

On Friday, he focused on guitar heroics, tossing off several stunning solos to very different effect. On "A Million Days," culled from 2004's "Musicology," his soloing was anguished and expressive, while 1984's Technicolor wonder "Let's Go Crazy" — a sentiment the audience seemed to take as a direct order — featured downright blistering fretwork at its close.

He rarely addressed the audience between songs, preferring instead to sprinkle his shouted instructions and affirmations over the music. He was all about sustaining the relentless life pulse of the show, never allowing the energy to sag for even a moment.

"Y'all happy?" he questioned in one representative bit of banter. "I'm happy too!"

Prince was set to perform again in Toronto on Saturday before winding across Canada and wrapping his tour in Victoria on Dec. 17.

very positive review. i had a feeling Prince and the NPG were going 2 come out blazing 4 this one, and it seems as if the energy level was high through-out.

I gotta say that I was pretty disapointed in the concert tonight. After seeing him in New York last year my faith in Prince was hightened and hopefull. I found tonights performance for the first 2 hours slow and too much singing by his band. Yes they are good singers but forgetable.... I came to see Prince!!!

This is the first time in years I have been disapointed in Prince's performance but I think it had to do with the poor setlist composition and back-up singers taking over....there was one encore that ROCKED though....he sampled Hot Thing, House Quake, When Doves Cry etc....

Im hopefull tomorrow nights Toronto show will be better...

MadeUpName said:

OMG! 1 of the best shows ever! 3.5 hours with 7 encores, I think. Closing with Let's Work. A 17 minute extended version of Musicology was my highlight! I'm at the Afterjam and P played guitar on Rock Steady. He also did some mic hyping with Rashida, and was taking photos. Shelby sang with Marla Joy too and said the NPG will play til dawn. Merch at show: W2C tourbook, black tees, black beanies. The rest is the W2A merch.

Thx 4 posting!

I'm glad Prince did 'Toronto', i remember when i was working there, I sometimes went to the Purpleelectricity parties, they were cool. He has quite a loyal fanbase there and in the media (I remember the CHUM presenters or MIX presenters always talking about him enthusiastically on the radio).

Can someone please tell me more about the tourbook?

I wrote this in another thread

He rocks onstage and has so much energy and talent. I already knew this of course for years, but seeing it in person is great. My view was very good, not too far from the stage though not on the ground either. I kept thinking it was him coming out of the stage when it was his musicians, but when he did, I was just like, damn that's prince! He was moving around so well and had on his glasses and curly hair and I was so into it for the first 3 songs and on my feet the whole time. He kept introducing his band but I kept cheering in his direction. I love his spins and shuffles and energizer bunny moves

I'm so glad he did older songs, this is exactly what I wanted to see at a Prince tour and it worked.

I was so happy to see the DSTYGE mj tribute and was singing along all emotional, hoping Prince could spot me

Kiss blew me away, I was screaming and nearly emotional during the breakdown at the end with how he danced.

The medley was great, but When Doves Cry needed to be done on it's own, honestly. Little Red Corvette was reworked so well and so sexy, I almost didn't recognize it.

It was amazing to see Jungle Love, Nasty Girl and Play That Funky Music included in the show. The audience was really jamming to the older songs and I was impressed cause most people act like they are into today's music more, but a lot of these people didn't look much older than me....or look good for their age. Excuse me if I sound ageist, but I guess I was happy to see all the support.

And the man is a tease, I kept thinking the show is over and people kept leaving cause he would disappear, but then he would return to do more songs and do the same thing does he do this regularly or was it cause of opening night ?

Want to hear something funnier? I would look at the screen and be like OMG it's Prince, and look at him in person and feel like he's a human being though we know it, duh, but it wasn't occuring to me later on in the show it's the same person though I know it , I guess I was excited.

And who here got confetti...I scored a gold one from the purple ones that were shot up

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Purpleelectricity is amazing!

The tourbook had photos of the tour and a couple of others I think, as well as of the NPG band members and random messages and quotes, but tbh, it wasn`t anything special. It would have been nicer if it was a tourbook highlighting his whole career since this is clearly a hits tour.

alphastreet said:

I wrote this in another thread

He rocks onstage and has so much energy and talent. I already knew this of course for years, but seeing it in person is great. My view was very good, not too far from the stage though not on the ground either. I kept thinking it was him coming out of the stage when it was his musicians, but when he did, I was just like, damn that's prince! He was moving around so well and had on his glasses and curly hair and I was so into it for the first 3 songs and on my feet the whole time. He kept introducing his band but I kept cheering in his direction. I love his spins and shuffles and energizer bunny moves

I'm so glad he did older songs, this is exactly what I wanted to see at a Prince tour and it worked.

I was so happy to see the DSTYGE mj tribute and was singing along all emotional, hoping Prince could spot me

Kiss blew me away, I was screaming and nearly emotional during the breakdown at the end with how he danced.

The medley was great, but When Doves Cry needed to be done on it's own, honestly. Little Red Corvette was reworked so well and so sexy, I almost didn't recognize it.

It was amazing to see Jungle Love, Nasty Girl and Play That Funky Music included in the show. The audience was really jamming to the older songs and I was impressed cause most people act like they are into today's music more, but a lot of these people didn't look much older than me....or look good for their age. Excuse me if I sound ageist, but I guess I was happy to see all the support.

And the man is a tease, I kept thinking the show is over and people kept leaving cause he would disappear, but then he would return to do more songs and do the same thing does he do this regularly or was it cause of opening night ?

Want to hear something funnier? I would look at the screen and be like OMG it's Prince, and look at him in person and feel like he's a human being though we know it, duh, but it wasn't occuring to me later on in the show it's the same person though I know it , I guess I was excited.

And who here got confetti...I scored a gold one from the purple ones that were shot up

[Edited 11/26/11 2:25am]

i guess u had written this 4 the original thread? thanks 4 taking the time to repost, sounds like u had an amazing time! i'm sooooo jealous of u right now!!

how many other reviews & banter have been lost cuz the original thread was deleted.. was that really necessary?

so anyway, where's all the pics?!! did he sing extraloveablee?

SometimesIwonder said:

What on earth happened 2 this thread? It is dead as a dodo. Usually lovevery1's threads r filled with excitement & up 2 the minute account of what's going down, set list, photos etc & I loved that. Made me feel like I was part of the live experience that was happening. Disappointed....
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