The big show 1 night away at Kemper, and I hope all you KCNPG fans are ready to boogie, dance and party!!! Last time P and crew were here was April 2002 at the Midland for the ONA tour, and they really tore the place up.

Most of you had no idea who Candy Dulfer was back then, so hopefully by now you'll recognize her immense talent and beauty, and be grateful that the Prince tour stops here with Ms. Candy and the phenomenal NPG band!!!

This will be the biggest and baddest show to hit this town all year long, so stand up and shout out your support for the man and his incredible band, and be thankful to witness another miraculous evening of freeform funkafide tunez in KC!!!

Prince is to funk what Miles is to jazz, and Prince influenced Miles in a big way. In the Autobiography of Miles Davis, Miles is quoted many times about how much he admired and respected Prince and his music. I'll rap it up below with several quotes from the book, and believe me, to be loved by Miles is as good as it gets in my book, and thankUPrince for stopping in KC again!!!

"He's the music of the people who go out after ten or eleven at night. He comes in on the beat and plays on top of the beat. I think when Prince makes love he hears drums instead of Ravel."

"His music is new, is rooted, reflects and comes out of 1988 and '89 and '90. For me, he can be the new Duke Ellington of our time if he just keeps at it."

He's definitely keeping at it!!! Real music by real musicians people, get ready4it and seeUall at the show!!!

Peace and Love2All,

S2Doggy

s2doggydog said:

Boy I'll say! Wan't that show great? And the soundcheck... that was a special night.

This will be good, too and I'm pumped about it. But honestly I don't know if it can top ONA at the Midland. That was incredible.

I've seen this tour twice already and its very, very good. But its not ONA.

My quick KC review. I have now seen three shows: Omaha, Ames and KC. So inevitably I will compare the three.

KC was the shortest. It started out top notch, though. Prince was rested and dancing like a MUG during the first 3-4 numbers. Lots of cool new additions to the show and new performance bits. He "froze" the band twice during MUSICOLOGY, for instance. Very cool.

Also there were some new theatrical additions. A hydrolic platform in the middle of the stage that raised and lowered him most notably. Also some "purple rain" streamer/curtain things that where white and came down for the finale. Lots of smoke machine, too. This was all new since Ames for sure.

Musically- playing-wise- this was the best show of the three. The band TORE IT UP. Maceo was a welcome return and Blackwell and Rhonda killed. DMSR was awesome and lasted forever as he directed solo after solo. They were tight and fonky and kicked major ass.

Now the bad things.

The show was SHORT SHORT SHORT. Lots of stuff missing. No NOTHING COMPARES 2 U, THE RIDE, THE ONE, QUESTION OF U, NO BEAUTIFUL ONES!! There were more things missing... it will come to me.

That's right he did NOT do TBO w/ the pearl curtain!! They lowered it for the encore and then lifted it up when he came onstage. WTF?!

And he did not do the acoustic bit for the encore. It was after Renato's solo, in the middle of the set. It was really cool as he played for a long time and did lots of songs I hadn't seen him do before acoustic like CREAM and GLAMOROUS LIFE. Even a bit of JAILHOUSE ROCK (yes by Elvis) just to mess with us. He was clearly having a blast.

So getting what is usually the "encore" in the middle of the show combined w/ the new stage elements and theatricality really whet my appetite for the new encore! I was ready to be amazed. I was very disappointed when he game out and just did PR. I couldn't believe it when he said "good night". It was sooo premature. Both the Ames and Omaha shows were much longer and there was lots of material he had not yet played.

My seats were good again. 7 rows back and behind Blackwell. Whom I met after the show!! He was just in the arena talking to some people (he must have had friends there). No one was round him so I walked up and as quickly and unobstrusively as I could got his autograph. It will go on my Prince wall w/ Bobby Z's signature (I met him last summer). I guess I'm collecting Prince's drummers' autographs!!

Thanks to all the orger's that I met. If I didn't run into you- sorry! I tried and I gave out all the CDs I had. If any of you are still interested in one org note me and we'll work something out.

Oh and super congrats to the girl in the black and white dress who sang KISS this time. She did great! It was cool to watch someone else do it and watch Prince and his reactions. That must be something like it was when it was me. I really enjoyed it and if anyone knows her tell her to orgnote me so we can swap stories!!

Peace and B Wild,
Richard/krebsne