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Main stream media picked it up... article on Dutch news site... http://www.nu.nl/muziek/3...erten.html

according to lennon :

U got the look
screwdriver
endorphin machine
take me with u
raspberry beret..

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3RDEYEGIRL ‏@3RDEYEGIRL 2 min

itaintover @itaintoverorg 1st gig over, "time to let the rest of the family in", Prince said. Short, but personal and great experience. Thx!

No more wristbands are given away, seems to be two gigs instead of three @itaintover

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Show 1 is over.

Show 2 has started.

Show 3?

And a new song was played over PA "We Came 2 Shut This Down"

Show 3

Someone just tweeted that he staged dived Is this true?!?!

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beatz01 said:

Diggin the outfit! Looks cool as hell

purplethunder3121 said:

it's actually the same show as antwerp but cut in three parts and for the same price.

so that's a bit of a cheat I'm afraid

tomds said:

This shows you how weak 3EG are: these three intimate "aftershows" are basically excerpts from a regular show.

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And yet the famz will still defend this, even though they claim that P plays the hits "because otherwise the big halls won't fill, but the aftershows will contain the deep cuts". Oops, didn't count on the band still sucking the big one after 18+ months.

funkyhead said:

errr, so your complaint is he played an amazing setlist

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Yes, how amazing it is to hear Purple Rain and a sampler set. <snore> The rest of it -- intimate venue and three shows in one night -- are cheap attention grabbing ploys, to show what a special snowflake he is. Musical value? ZERO.

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Now go listen to the 1988 Trojan Horse aftershow, which took place mere hours after a full Lovesexy show (i.e. one where the band didn't just perform an astonishingly varied setlist, but also danced on a huge stage): listen how the IMPROVISE on the spot, playing fresh, new music. It's so good that it means the recording from that night still is a highlight.

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These three gigs? Bleh. Throwaways.

What's more amazing is i have been a member here since like 15 years or whatnot, sometimes with the occasional break of a year or two from the forum but apparently one thing has never changed: Bart's negative obession with Prince.I mean, during all this time people have married, babies have been born, presidents have come and go, wars have been fought but it's amazing to see Bart hasn't changed a bit.

It really makes me feel nostalgic as if this were the days of the npgmusicclub or earlier.

Thanks Bart !

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Ppenguin said:

He looks so much more healthy with a hat on....that scraggly fro really makes him look old

+1

Let the fro go.

funkyhead said:

tomds said:

it's actually the same show as antwerp but cut in three parts and for the same price.

so that's a bit of a cheat I'm afraid

errr, so your complaint is he played an amazing setlist in an intimate venue for a few hundred fans!!.& ends up playing 3 shows in 1 night!... u sir are an ass!

I was in antwerp and it was an amazing setlist then. i was eager to go to Brussels also and hoping he would do something different, but i couldn't go and when i see the setlists of the three shows i can only comment that it was the same show but cut in three parts. that's all i was saying and it's true. it was propably a good show with good songs but nothing spectacular. we are used to have different songs in aftershows.

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beatz01 said:

Ppenguin said:

He looks so much more healthy with a hat on....that scraggly fro really makes him look old

+1

Let the fro go.

Stop hating on the 'fro.

I don't want to be negative, but in a way i agree with Bart. I went to Prince in Antwerp this week and thought he was great that night : played allmost 3 hours, and was in a very good mood. In other words, he gave it all that night

Now....back to the shows yesterday ... it is not possible to give yourself 100 % in 3 shows in 5 hours... so in that way i agree with Bart. It seems to be an easy way to get some extra money for the band.

I feel the same about the Paris concerts this week...why 2 shows in one night ?? The shows in Paris cannot be as good as he played Antwerp last week, as he cannot perform 2 100 % shows....

Nevertheless..... to all you people who are going to Paris, Berlin of Vienna : have fun and enjoy !

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jagoda said:

BartVanHemelen said:

funkyhead said:

errr, so your complaint is he played an amazing setlist

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Yes, how amazing it is to hear Purple Rain and a sampler set. <snore> The rest of it -- intimate venue and three shows in one night -- are cheap attention grabbing ploys, to show what a special snowflake he is. Musical value? ZERO.

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Now go listen to the 1988 Trojan Horse aftershow, which took place mere hours after a full Lovesexy show (i.e. one where the band didn't just perform an astonishingly varied setlist, but also danced on a huge stage): listen how the IMPROVISE on the spot, playing fresh, new music. It's so good that it means the recording from that night still is a highlight.

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These three gigs? Bleh. Throwaways.

For once...I agree with you...the reason that 3EG don't do anything else is because they simply aren't dynamic..they are nothing but Prince's backing band.

jagoda said:

beatz01 said:

+1

Let the fro go.

Stop hating on the 'fro.

people are hating on his hair, unbelievable. something more to worry about i guess.

I love the afro personaly, but if i didn't it wouldn't bother me at all.

Don't think he looks really old with the hair, and i also don't think he looks unhealthy.

He looks natural with it! so really real with his real hair. what he used to do with his hair is not good for his hair at all, just saying.

ANYWAYS/

Yes, setlists are bit standard, guess it has a reason, i don't know, i wasn't there. i only heard people being happy to be there, so i guess it was great. 3 shows is bit too much though. one show from 2,5 hours would be enough i guess.