Genesia said:

Wish I knew for sure about an aftershow. I'm only a couple hours from Chicago and could zip down there (after a little disco nap).

Aftershow at the City Winery. Bandmembers are tweeting about it.

OldFriends4Sale said:

Is this his new bride? Beautiful woman she is...

Yes, that's her. I saw a wedding photo of the couple, and she looked quite lovely in her gown and veil.

paulludvig said:

Genesia said:

Wish I knew for sure about an aftershow. I'm only a couple hours from Chicago and could zip down there (after a little disco nap).

Aftershow at the City Winery. Bandmembers are tweeting about it.

Wish I was in Chi Town this weekend. I'd certainly go!

Just in case some are interested....just saw this:

www.drfunkenberry.com

Jun
2013

PRINCE & The NPG Live In Chicago City Winery @ Midnight!!!

Prince & NPG will be taking over the City Winery tonight at midnight! Tix will be on sale at the door. All band members have posted about the show. Please LEAVE your cellphones at home!

BUY TICKETS HERE NOW FOR $75.00!!!!!!!! UPDATE Sold Out online!

Tickets will be $100.00 at the door!!!!!

THE VENUE IS 21 AND OVER ONLY!!!!

Have fun Chicago!-DocFB

Diagnosis: Funk is blowing in the Windy City...

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Does anyone else find this odd? Is he hurting for $?

SOLD OUT

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So cool! Wish I was there!

$250.- VIP tickets released...go 2 the site NOW!

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serpan99 said:

Prince (who was recently invited to join the film Academy)

Huh? What's this about? Maybe I should have gone to the "Music and More" forum before coming here?!

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(edit: OK, now I know what that's about!)

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BTW, I'd pay $250 to see him in a truly intimate setting like that!!

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The George Lucas wedding per4mance setlist:

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GoldenParachute said:

Does anyone else find this odd? Is he hurting for $?

He´s played for some Russian millionaires (or billionaires?) in Moscow before and also for some rich folks in Nice, and remember that one off concert he did in an airplane hangar with Kool And The Gang a few years ago.

It´s his profession and I´m perfectly ok with these gigs as long as he doesn´t neglect or exploit his real fans. I´d rather see him make money than end up broke like some other great musicians.

But, to be honest, as a layman I´d have thought that after making 80 million dollars during the Musicology tour, he´d never need to work a single day again in his lifetime.

peri1025 said:

This is cool. Although a bit ironic given that George Lucas famously dated Troy Beyer (Princes ex/girl from Sexy MF video) for a number of years before Melody. I guess time heals all wounds but I know he's known to have a jealous streak.

Seriously? How did Troy Beyer manage to get closer to someone as rich and famous as George Lucas?

And what did she see in him after dating someone like Prince? That is one hell of a change as far as taste or preferrence in men goes.

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Or he could have spent the night playing Glastonbury to a 100,00 music fans and brought the house down

KoolEaze said:

peri1025 said:

This is cool. Although a bit ironic given that George Lucas famously dated Troy Beyer (Princes ex/girl from Sexy MF video) for a number of years before Melody. I guess time heals all wounds but I know he's known to have a jealous streak.

Seriously? How did Troy Beyer manage to get closer to someone as rich and famous as George Lucas?

She is hot

And what did she see in him after dating someone like Prince?

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ecnirp98 said:

Or he could have spent the night playing Glastonbury to a 100,00 music fans and brought the house down

Agreed, he really would steal the whole show!

TheFreakerFantastic said:

ecnirp98 said:

Or he could have spent the night playing Glastonbury to a 100,00 music fans and brought the house down

Agreed, he really would steal the whole show!

And it would have raised his profile massively with the fans at Glastonbury, many of which haven't heard allot of his 80's work, the TV coverage alone would be great for him.

Chic played and the crowd loved them, everyone was talking about their set on TV saying they couldn't believe the songs they had done, imagine Prince on the same set, would have been awesome.

Given that the Rolling Stones played Glastonbury for the first time this year, Prince would not have been the top headliner for the festival. Better for him to play a different year when he would be the biggest star to perform.

electricberet said:

V10LETBLUES said:

electricberet said:

Given that the Rolling Stones played Glastonbury for the first time this year, Prince would not have been the top headliner for the festival. Better for him to play a different year when he would be the biggest star to perform.

Prince surpassed the Stones and most everyone but the Beatles in legendary status long ago. He has nothing to prove. His legendary status only continues to grow, without YouTube, record sales or anything else. His body of work speaks for louder than time when it comes to popular music.

As a prince fan who knows and appericiates his work I agree, but there are allot of younger music fans attending Glastonbury who would not have heard much of his music.

Prince fans think of him as lengendary, which he is for us, but I don't think this is the general public view, Prince was always abit like Marmite, love him or hate him, even in his Peak in the 80's.

V10LETBLUES said:

electricberet said:

Given that the Rolling Stones played Glastonbury for the first time this year, Prince would not have been the top headliner for the festival. Better for him to play a different year when he would be the biggest star to perform.

Prince surpassed the Stones and most everyone but the Beatles in legendary status long ago. He has nothing to prove. His legendary status only continues to grow, without YouTube, record sales or anything else. His body of work speaks for louder than time when it comes to popular music.

I agree with everything you say except the first sentence. The Rolling Stones have sold twice as many records as Prince and three of their tours have been among the highest-grossing of all time. Prince doesn't even make that list.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...ic_artists

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...cert_tours

This has nothing to do with how great a musician or songwriter Prince is. If he played Glastonbury, I'm sure it would go down as one of the greatest Glastonbury performances ever. But the Rolling Stones playing there is a bigger deal in the minds of most music fans and the press.

V10LETBLUES said:

I get where you guys are coming from, and I guess it's about perspective. But I'm still not convinced about The Stones being a bigger draw. Sure, they have a decade in legendary status on Prince, and as the elder statesmen have a little more cache there, but I highly doubt today's "kids" know more Stones songs than Prince ones. And I highly doubt any credible music critic worth his salt could ever possibly believe the Stones are on any level better than Prince or more news-worthy.

And there is a running myopia I see in some who believe that because "today's kids" don't know much about Prince or because he is not on YouTube that it somehow diminishes him. Like saying that Miles Davis or Gershwin were diminished when kids were more into Ace Of Base, or because they weren't on 8 track tapes. Prince is already bigger than today's zeitgeist, regardless if kids are more into One Direction or everyone else the kids today are listening to and soon forgotten.

^ It would be nice to think that but in the public eye (not mine) the Stones are seen as way way better, mainly because they've been around so long and its partly 60s nostalgia, but these guys still have talent too. The public at large don't know much about Prince anymore and for the younger ones most don't even know who the hell he is, it is not helped by the fact he has projected a persona that people either love or hate.

Most people who are not fans think Prince last recorded in the early 90s and that coincides with the last time he had decent marketing and publicity, therefore a Glastonbury performance would be just what he needs if he wants to do a comeback, especially as it is watched by the movers and shakers and millions of TV viewers.

The reason he doesn't do it is probably due to the lack of control plus the low fees they pay, however he would more than recoup that through increased coverage he would receive, especially if he capitalises on it through a DVD etc...that is how the Stones will be making their money from it.

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Not to take anything away from The Stones, who I love or your opinions, I think you all are missing the big picture. What I am saying is "today's kids" don't matter. It's myopic to believe that. And here is the thing about Prince, despite, being a character that is so easy to dislike, unlike the "good ol' boys" in The Stones that have the cache of being the white males with a "persona" bigger than their music, Prince still trumps them in the eyes of serious music lovers. And that's where it's at. People tend to look at things through the pinhole of TODAY, and TODAY'S KIDS, which ultimately the next day is the past and today's kids are soon old farts. The only thing that remains is a body of work and not just a persona that continues to live with generations to come.

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^ Disagree, I can see you are obviously a hardcore P fan, but look at it in the public's way, ie the non fans.

The average music critic would rate the Stones over Princce anyday (although I don't agree - although I live in the UK so perhaps if you're in the States they aren't viewed as highly). Today's kids do matter as they are the the target market for most record companies and the ones who buy 'pop' music, so to think they aren't important is more short sighted I would think.

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TheFreakerFantastic said:

TheFreakerFantastic said:

^ Disagree, I can see you are obviously a hardcore P fan, but look at it in the public's way, ie the non fans.

The average music critic would rate the Stones over Princce anyday (although I don't agree - although I live in the UK so perhaps if you're in the States they aren't viewed as highly). Today's kids do matter as they are the the target market for most record companies and the ones who buy 'pop' music, so to think they aren't important is more short sighted I would think.

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If Prince was a new artist I would agree you. (except with the part of any serious critic thinking more highly of the Stones than Prince) But I think all of that is irrelevant with Prince today.

I will say this, and I think we can all agree, Prince has always been his worst enemy when it came to mass appeal by the general population.

Stymie said:

TheFreakerFantastic said:

^ Disagree, I can see you are obviously a hardcore P fan, but look at it in the public's way, ie the non fans.

The average music critic would rate the Stones over Princce anyday (although I don't agree - although I live in the UK so perhaps if you're in the States they aren't viewed as highly). Today's kids do matter as they are the the target market for most record companies and the ones who buy 'pop' music, so to think they aren't important is more short sighted I would think.

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i agree with this and the younger crowd is the one Prince is catering to. T

..and here is why I think prince has failed so miserably. Pandering. The Stones would be disowned by their fans, (as many Prince fans did) if they chased trends and pandered to the level Prince did in the 90's

It would have been interesting seeing the stones with Flock Of Seagulls hairstyles and robot dance moves though..

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