2elijah said:

fusk said:

I really don't think so. Why would it be special that Prince showed up? Because he'd be playing with the Revolution! Wowzers! He could go on stage and spend 15 minutes introducing the band, giving them spotlight solos or whatever, and people would love it, because they'd be genuinely thrilled to see the Revolution on stage. Nobody would say, 'Prince, I don't care about these guys, just play a guitar solo already...'

How much you want to bet, many who attended that charity, had the hopes of Prince showing up at that charity event, even some of the Revolution members? I do think much of the attention would have been taken off the reason for the event, based on the excitement of fans seeing him show up, if he did. But you're entitled to your opinion.

Exactly. I mean who are we fooling here.

KeithyT said:

What rd is describing is empathy people. There is no way we can ever know what goes on in Prince's mind, but I would place money on it being sooooo close to what rd just posted. The few of you over-reacting and being "sickened" by Prince's non performance need to grow up. He's not some evil genius, He is just "this one guy", yes he is an amazing performer and it might be hard to imagine him as lacking confidence due to his cocky stage persona but he ain't perfect. He has similar foibles, clumsiness, shyness, weird sense of humour, kindness, selfishness, self-doubt, cock-sureness, and perfect imperfections that we all have. Honestly, sometimes Prince disappoints me and even makes me cringe a little but his "no-show" last night was not one of those times. We are all too old for this Prince let us down nonsense.

Agree, he is still a human and you went to see the revolution, but it seems he has been awhile but saw to much camera's and recording equipment because he was attending to play at the end at purple rain, I only got this from somebody he has been there.

But still it was a revolution reunion.

wonder505 said:

fusk said:

I really don't think so. Why would it be special that Prince showed up? Because he'd be playing with the Revolution! Wowzers! He could go on stage and spend 15 minutes introducing the band, giving them spotlight solos or whatever, and people would love it, because they'd be genuinely thrilled to see the Revolution on stage. Nobody would say, 'Prince, I don't care about these guys, just play a guitar solo already...'

People can downplay it and pretend all they want, but if Prince were to jump on stage last night the place would've went wild. Its not to say the Revolution did not hold their own, but with PRince yes I do believe he would have been the focus. I just honestly believe that.

Totally agree. Not only that, if he did show up and performed with them, you would see comments like "See, this is the band he should play with, because all his current lineups post-Revolution band members "insert here". I do think some are still upset that he didn't show up. Some have already started to comment on how the Revolution members performed last night, in comparison to Prince's current band lineup- post Revolution era. That may be a good reason why he has chosen not to reunite with the original band members and tour with them, because he probably is aware that whomever is in his current/future lineup, will always be compared to the Revolution band members, as well as, some claiming Prince himself, wouldn't be able to/or can't succeed as a musician without them (former Revolution members), but he has.

He's invited W&L on stage to perform with him in the past (Brit Awards) and Wendy was on stage at his 7/07/07 concert, so it's not like he's hasn't collaborated with them post-Revolution era. We've seen many 'eras' of Prince, and the Revolution era, is just one of many, and he never projected the idea that he liked being pigeon-holed into one, specific genre of music or era.

You know that poster with Prince standing in front of the 'Controversy' album pic, that was sold during the W2A tour? When I saw that poster it spoke volumes. It basically sent the message "That was me (Prince) "Then"...This is me "Now", and his expression in that pic, looks very content in the "Now". I'm sure one day some fans will get over that the 1984/85 era is not coming back. He does perform songs from that era, with his current lineup, but that's pretty much expected from a well-known artist, to play some of his classics, even if that doesn't include the original band members, especially when performing in an arena. Many groups from back-in-the-day,still performing today, have changed band members and play their classics. I don't see why it has to be an issue, that Prince has moved on and changed/toured with various band members.

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rdhull said:

Maybe it IS a power and control thing. See I relate it to Van Halen reunion (the grandaddy of them all for reasons Ill tell ya why). See when Van Halen were in tact (not that Van Hagar bullshit), you had Roth being the driving force so to speak and his in concert control of song set up, song intermissions for his stage banter etc was part n parcel of a Van Halen concert. Now when they split up, Edward grew, got sober, and had success on his own terms. I always thought a reunion would never happen because they Van Halen brothers would not let Dave exactly be 'Dave' in song makeup, concert presence, and control. Ed had that himself after 1984. I said it will never work. But it did. They did a tour in 2007. Dave tamed it down a bit (I mean he had too..he's 70) but they still had the concert magic by letting Dave hold some concert frontman reigns and Ed letting him riff. These recent preview shows with Van Halen showed Dave in full Roth regalia of old. Not doing the splits or drum riser/karate kicks, but taking reign of the sound of the new record, and the most important factor: the live show. He is telling his stories, stopping the band etc...and the band stops and lets him be Dave ..again! Just like old times but with more comraderie and appreciation for THEIR CLASSIC FORMULA. I mean, who exactly wants a neutered David Lee Roth anyways?

Now how this pertains to the Revolution? I see all of the members have grown in successes and personality. Saw it at The Family Jamm and through the years prior and after. Im not sure he (Prince) is in a proper place to attempt to be their bandleader again. Sure he doesn't exactly have to be the authoritarian, but thats the thing I meant in maybe it being a power and control factor. Is it he is only comfortable in the 'authoritarian' role, where the others cant be a bit aggressive in their stage presence etc? Not that they even would be because Im sure they have let band mishaps from old be bygones...but he cant get to that point? I mean I dont think he could be kicking any members into the drum risers or yelling for folks to put their damn "cigarette down and play your part! gawd!' But it doesnt even have to be like that anymore and nobody is tripping on that. It could be just a reuniting of good friends and playing. Yes he maybe didnt want to take anything away from them..thats a given ..its just getting up stage with old important friends. Word is he was getting ready to get onstage but "he saw they didnt need him (his help etc)"..but it wasn't isnt about that..at least not to "me".

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I really think I know what u are getting at. Reminds me of Bowie talking about being in Tin Machine. Bowie was so use to running everything. When he goined Tin Machine he had to take a step back and let go of some of the control. I think from the interviews I've seen he felt like in the end he grew more as a musician/person. Prince changed over the years but so have the members of the Revolution. I would also speculate that P may have been reluctant because if he did jam with the Revolution every news outlet in the world would have reported it. Fans would have demanded reunion, world tour, album etc. If P really doesn't care to do that why have that shadow over what you will do next. Fans reaction would be ho-hum this isn't the reunion to the next project. I'm doubting a reunion will happen but if VH reunion can happen anything can happen. With all the work in the vault would be cool if he pharmed out stuff like Roadhouse Garden to W/L. Maybe someday? Right.

2elijah said:

How much you want to bet, many who attended that charity, had the hopes of Prince showing up at that charity event, even some of the Revolution members? I do think much of the attention would have been taken off the reason for the event, based on the excitement of fans seeing him show up, if he did. But you're entitled to your opinion.

Goes beyond the event. For years people would be talking reunion, album, tour of the Revolution. If you think the reaction is ho-hum to his current releases if he would had stepped foot on stage last night he would have been asked the reunion question from here till the end of time.

2elijah said:

fusk said:

I really don't think so. Why would it be special that Prince showed up? Because he'd be playing with the Revolution! Wowzers! He could go on stage and spend 15 minutes introducing the band, giving them spotlight solos or whatever, and people would love it, because they'd be genuinely thrilled to see the Revolution on stage. Nobody would say, 'Prince, I don't care about these guys, just play a guitar solo already...'

How much you want to bet, many who attended that charity, had the hopes of Prince showing up at that charity event, even some of the Revolution members? I do think much of the attention would have been taken off the reason for the event, based on the excitement of fans seeing him show up, if he did. But you're entitled to your opinion.

it was a rhetorical question - of course it would be VERY special if Prince was there. My point is that it would be MUCH MORE special than just a regular Prince show. Why? Because the Revolution is there! The Revolution would still be the important component that is completely necessary to make the night exceptional.

I guess I'm just not sure what people mean when they say that Prince would take all the focus... He'd be the frontman, sure, but do you think people would just forget that they're watching Wendy, Lisa, Brownmark, Dr Fink, Dez, Bobby, Eric (and g-sharp!) play? Do you think people would forget that it's a charity gig? I don't see why they would...

2elijah said:

if he did show up and performed with them, you would see comments like "See, this is the band he should play with, because all his current lineups post-Revolution band members "insert here". I do think some are still upset that he didn't show up. Some have already started o compare how the Revolution performed last night with Prince's current lineup, post Revolution era. That may be a good reason why he has chosen not to reunite with the original band members and tour with them, because he probably is aware that whomever is in his current/future lineup, will always be compared to the Revolution band members, as well as, some claiming Prince himself, wouldn't be able to/or can't succeed as a musician without them (former Revolution members), but he has.

Right, this rings much more true to me than anything else. I think it's a totally legit reason, too.

fusk said:

2elijah said:

How much you want to bet, many who attended that charity, had the hopes of Prince showing up at that charity event, even some of the Revolution members? I do think much of the attention would have been taken off the reason for the event, based on the excitement of fans seeing him show up, if he did. But you're entitled to your opinion.

it was a rhetorical question - of course it would be VERY special if Prince was there. My point is that it would be MUCH MORE special than just a regular Prince show. Why? Because the Revolution is there! The Revolution would still be the important component that is completely necessary to make the night exceptional.

I guess I'm just not sure what people mean when they say that Prince would take all the focus... He'd be the frontman, sure, but do you think people would just forget that they're watching Wendy, Lisa, Brownmark, Dr Fink, Dez, Bobby, Eric (and g-sharp!) play? Do you think people would forget that it's a charity gig? I don't see why they would...

My point was, those who 'were hoping Prince showed up', and l there would have been a strong possibility the attention would have been taken off the reason for the chairty, and the talk would be more about Prince showing up, and the Revolution and Prince reuniting together.

By the way....who is G-Sharp? Now that's a name that's not familiar with the Revolution.

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fusk said:

2elijah said:

if he did show up and performed with them, you would see comments like "See, this is the band he should play with, because all his current lineups post-Revolution band members "insert here". I do think some are still upset that he didn't show up. Some have already started to comment on how the Revolution members performed last night, in comparison to Prince's current band lineup- post Revolution era. That may be a good reason why he has chosen not to reunite with the original band members and tour with them, because he probably is aware that whomever is in his current/future lineup, will always be compared to the Revolution band members, as well as, some claiming Prince himself, wouldn't be able to/or can't succeed as a musician without them (former Revolution members), but he has.

Right, this rings much more true to me than anything else. I think it's a totally legit reason, too.

Oops, had to make a correction in the bolded part of my post. Yes, I think that could be a possible reason why he chose not to perform.

2elijah said:

My point was, those who 'were hoping Prince showed', well there would have been a strong possibility the attention would have been taken off the reason for the chairty, and the talk would be more about Prince showing up and the Revolution and Prince reuniting together.

Yeah, I guess you're right. Without Prince it goes down like:

'The Revolution is playing a one-off show'
'Oh, that's really neat!'

'Yeah it's for charity!'
'Cool! What's the cause?'

With Prince it would be:

'Prince and The Revolution is playing a one-off show'

'holy shit!'

'Yeah it's for charity!'

'Fuck one-off shows, I hope they tour!!!!!'

.... yeah, I'm slow, but I see your point now.

2elijah said:

By the way....who is G-Sharp? Now that's a name that's not familiar with the Revolution.

Click "LIKE" To Find Out!

[URLG]http://www.facebook.com/whoisgsharp[/URL]

fusk said:

2elijah said:

My point was, those who 'were hoping Prince showed', well there would have been a strong possibility the attention would have been taken off the reason for the chairty, and the talk would be more about Prince showing up and the Revolution and Prince reuniting together.

Yeah, I guess you're right. Without Prince it goes down like:

'The Revolution is playing a one-off show'
'Oh, that's really neat!'

'Yeah it's for charity!'
'Cool! What's the cause?'

With Prince it would be:

'Prince and The Revolution is playing a one-off show'

'holy shit!'

'Yeah it's for charity!'

'Fuck one-off shows, I hope they tour!!!!!'

.... yeah, I'm slow, but I see your point now.

2elijah said:

By the way....who is G-Sharp? Now that's a name that's not familiar with the Revolution.

Click "LIKE" To Find Out!

http://www.facebook.com/whoisgsharp

Without mentioning a charity in the first line, I don't think anyone would ask 'why' or 'what charity' and they would still say 'Holy Shit' and then still ask "is Prince going to be there'

wonder505 said:

2elijah said:

How much you want to bet, many who attended that charity, had the hopes of Prince showing up at that charity event, even some of the Revolution members? I do think much of the attention would have been taken off the reason for the event, based on the excitement of fans seeing him show up, if he did. But you're entitled to your opinion.

Exactly. I mean who are we fooling here.

Everyone including Bobby Z had hopes Prince would show up, of course they would.

The money paid to get in was for the charity and then the intermission talk of the charity, Prince being there or not would not have stopped that.

I don't think Prince being there 'would take the attention off the charity. If this was a 'talk with booths' charity, yeah that would be distracting. But it's a charity built around the music and band. So Prince being there could only possibly make the charity awareness better. But they still got the 'charity' money they needed cause they were sold out and any other donations that followed.

Even without Prince being there, there were still people who didn't focus on the charity, they focused on the band and music.

fusk said:

2elijah said:

My point was, those who 'were hoping Prince showed', well there would have been a strong possibility the attention would have been taken off the reason for the chairty, and the talk would be more about Prince showing up and the Revolution and Prince reuniting together.

Yeah, I guess you're right. Without Prince it goes down like:

'The Revolution is playing a one-off show'
'Oh, that's really neat!'

'Yeah it's for charity!'
'Cool! What's the cause?'

With Prince it would be:

'Prince and The Revolution is playing a one-off show'

'holy shit!'

'Yeah it's for charity!'

'Fuck one-off shows, I hope they tour!!!!!'

.... yeah, I'm slow, but I see your point now.

2elijah said:

By the way....who is G-Sharp? Now that's a name that's not familiar with the Revolution.

Click "LIKE" To Find Out!

http://www.facebook.com/whoisgsharp

Ok, didn't check out fb, but read the article on this thread, further down, as to who he is. Thanks.

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Give Prince credit, he did Bobby Z the clearance to use the Revolution brand-name that he does own. We should thank him for that.

I mean considering somebody who sullied his name by suing his own fans, I don't exactly have that high expectations you know?

Setlist:
-- Controversy
-- Do It All Night
-- Party Up
-- Let's Work
-- Pop Life
-- America
-- 1999
-- Life Can Be So Nice
-- Mountains
-- anotherloverholenyohead
-- Baby, I'm a Star
-- Let's Go Crazy
Encore
-- Purple Rain
-- Uptown (G Sharp on lead vocals)

V1OLETBLUES THANK YOU so much for posting those pictures! Made my day!

Dez w/ the headband and black Les Paul standing next to Wendy is priceless. Please forgive me for asking this but was Dr. Fink there? I didn't see him in the pix.

..never mind! OldFriends just posted a pic while I was typing.

Maybe we longtime Minnesotans are a little blase about Prince performing in his hometown.

Maybe we didn’t appreciate what it meant for out-of-towners and younger-than-baby-boomer Minnesotans to witness the Revolution reunion Sunday at First Avenue.

For them and for this longtime Prince follower, it was a treat to hear those 1980s songs in First Avenue played by that band on that splendid sound system, mixed by Rob "Cubby" Colby (Prince’s longtime soundman and one of the best in the business).

Factor in that Prince hasn’t played many proper gigs at First Ave in decades. There was the final of three shows on 7/7/07 (remember: first, Macy's, then Target Center and finally First Ave) but it was cut short by the police because it was after-bar hours. So the one full show before that was in 1987 prior to the Sign o the Times Tour.

In other words, this Revolution reunion was a big deal for Prince fans who came from all over the States and Europe — and even New Zealand.

"This was the Holy Grail," proclaimed Chris Garcia, 41, of Los Angeles, in his Wendy & Lisa T-shirt, afterward. He has seen more than 30 Prince shows, even worked at Paisley Park as a video editor for two weeks and also saw the Revolution reunion cameo in 2003 at a Sheila E-organized benefit in Los Angeles. "Since ‘1999,’ Prince has been the soundtrack of my life," Garcia says, but he'd never witnessed the Revolution, his favorite backup band, at First Ave.

Some younger First Avenue employees asked me how this gig compared to the Prince shows at the club back in the day.

Aside from the obvious fact that Prince didn’t perform, the big difference was that most of 1980s shows had no advertising or even much advance notice. Prince would decide that day (or the day before) that he’d like to play at First Avenue. There was no social networking or even Internet back then. It was pick up your land line and call all your friends. The gigs were totally word of mouth. At most, KMOJ radio might announce the show. Moreover, the crowd back then was hipsters in their 20s and 30s; Sunday's show drew mostly people older than 40 seeking nostalgia.

Seeing the Revolution without Prince demonstrated how integral — and good — these particular players were in his pre-New Power Generation days. Each brought different elements to the melting pot of Prince’s music. That the expanded Revolution — Bobby Z, Dr. Fink, Wendy & Lisa, Brownmark plus Dez Dickerson and Eric Leeds (and two backup singers) — sounded so good after only a day-and-a-half of rehearsals was impressive.

To be sure, this performance lacked the kinetic energy and unstoppable excitement of a front-person dancing around like a dynamo wielding a guitar. But Wendy Melvoin acquitted herself admirably as a frontwoman, and Greg "G Sharp" Sain, a Twin Cities club singer who specializes in Prince songs, did a fine job stepping front and center on "Uptown."

(As explained in the newspaper report, the Revolution was prepared for Prince to show up -- they had gear for him -- but they weren't certain that he would appear even though his close pal Larry Graham sat by Colby at the mixing console.)

Z organized the sold-out reunion as a benefit to help create awareness about heart health because he had a near-fatal heart attack in February 2011. The American Heart Association was pleased with the response from the more than 1,500 fans.

"This is so different from whatever we’ve done," said Barb Ducharme, the senior director of community health for the association. "This has now made the American Heart Association cool."

What added immensely to the evening was after-party DJ Questlove of the Roots. He introduced himself as the world’s No. 2 fanatic of Prince and the Revolution because he’s knows there’s got to be someone out there crazier than he.

Then, for three hours, he displayed his encyclopedic knowledge of the Minneapolis Sound by spinning Prince obscurities, Time and Sheila E favorites and even Stevie Nicks’ "Stand Back" (which featured Prince). And how ‘bout mixing in "Starfish and Coffee" in a dance set and that closing instrumental theme from the "Parade" album featuring trombone and perhaps tuba?

Only a guy who would make his own Time T-shirt featuring the first names of all seven original members would be dedicated enough to come up with three compelling hours of Purple music that kept the dance floor full.

By the by, many clubgoers who stuck around for the Questlove set got a chance to mingle with the Revolution members late in the evening.

Here is the set list played by Wendy & the Revolution:

Controversy/ Do It All Night/ Party Up/ Let’s Work/ Pop Life/ America/ 2 heart-health videos were shown and Bobby Z and his wife, Vicki Rivkin, gave brief speeches ("I want to thank Prince from the bottom of my repaired heart"); he presented the members of the Revolution with certificates for "Purple Rain" being inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame/ "Revolution Theater," with each member reciting a line or two from "Purple Rain"/ 1999/ Life Can Be So Nice/ Mountains/ anotherloverholenyohead/ Baby, I’m a Star/ Let’s Go Crazy ENCORE Purple Rain/ Uptown (G Sharp on lead vocals)

OldFriends4Sale said:

wonder505 said:

Exactly. I mean who are we fooling here.

Everyone including Bobby Z had hopes Prince would show up, of course they would.

The money paid to get in was for the charity and then the intermission talk of the charity, Prince being there or not would not have stopped that.

I don't think Prince being there 'would take the attention off the charity. If this was a 'talk with booths' charity, yeah that would be distracting. But it's a charity built around the music and band. So Prince being there could only possibly make the charity awareness better. But they still got the 'charity' money they needed cause they were sold out and any other donations that followed.

Even without Prince being there, there were still people who didn't focus on the charity, they focused on the band and music.

Hey, it's okay that you disagree with both of us on this.

2elijah said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Everyone including Bobby Z had hopes Prince would show up, of course they would.

The money paid to get in was for the charity and then the intermission talk of the charity, Prince being there or not would not have stopped that.

I don't think Prince being there 'would take the attention off the charity. If this was a 'talk with booths' charity, yeah that would be distracting. But it's a charity built around the music and band. So Prince being there could only possibly make the charity awareness better. But they still got the 'charity' money they needed cause they were sold out and any other donations that followed.

Even without Prince being there, there were still people who didn't focus on the charity, they focused on the band and music.

Hey, it's okay that you disagree with both of us on this.

I don't think it was really a disagreement, just a different take on that kind of scene

Think about the Dance Company Benefit show Prince & the Revolution did in 1983. It was a benefit 2 raise money for the Dance Company, it was also the night Prince previewed and recorded 4 the album Let's Go Crazy I Would Die 4 U Baby I'm a Star & Purple Rain along with Computer Blue

It got the job done, people came 4 both.

Lovely pics. If it's a go next year I'm temped to go if I can.

skywalker said:

Reposting my thoughts/review from the associated artist forum:

-Overall: Show was hugely fun. Like old friends that you just pick up with as if no time has passed.

- Non musical highlight: the band giving a dramatic reading of their lines from Purple Rain. Revolution theater, I believe.

-Musical highlight: the Parade era material. I am not as in love with this era as some, but the band really poured it on for these songs.

-The white cloud guitar DEFINITELY was seen onstage being handled by tech people before the show. It was not Wendy's guitar. It was THE guitar. Personally, this did not raise my hopes of Prince showing up because he has not played THAT guitar style/color in years.

-Nostalgia aside, The Revolution is not as tight as any of Prince's touring bands. I love them forever, but they were a bit rusty. Don't get me wrong, they are fucking fierce still...just not in Prince shape. Forgotten lyrics and miscues abound. Anyone who tells you that they could whip Prince's current group are mistaken. They have more personality and character...which is what I went to the show for. That said...all that did was add charm and warmth. You could tell these people love each other, and they knew that we love them too.

-Lastly, the crowd skewed older than they typical Prince crowd. It seemed as if those who actually LIVED the pre and immediately post Purple Rain era were out in full force. Which makes sense. All in all, it was worth the price. Glad Bobby Z. is feeling fine.

ps. To the blondie that fainted during "Uptown", are you okay?

I think that was ultimately why I decided not to go. I knew Prince would not show. I honestly can't imagine him joining The Revolution on stage again, especially when his name is not on the advertisement. He hasn't been rehearsing with them and they are not as tight as the musicians he's worked with since then. He's too much of a perfectionist to go down that road.

I had to keep it real. The ONLY reason I would travel to MPLS for such a show would be for the nostalgia of seeing Prince and The Revolution reunited. Once I rationalized that this just would not happen in the normal Prince world, I realized that seeing The Revolution alone was not enough of a draw for me.

But I hear that the Purple Politicians had a blast. That's great. It sounds like a fun weekend went down in Funkytown.

PurpleChi said:

skywalker said:

Reposting my thoughts/review from the associated artist forum:

-Overall: Show was hugely fun. Like old friends that you just pick up with as if no time has passed.

- Non musical highlight: the band giving a dramatic reading of their lines from Purple Rain. Revolution theater, I believe.

-Musical highlight: the Parade era material. I am not as in love with this era as some, but the band really poured it on for these songs.

-The white cloud guitar DEFINITELY was seen onstage being handled by tech people before the show. It was not Wendy's guitar. It was THE guitar. Personally, this did not raise my hopes of Prince showing up because he has not played THAT guitar style/color in years.

-Nostalgia aside, The Revolution is not as tight as any of Prince's touring bands. I love them forever, but they were a bit rusty. Don't get me wrong, they are fucking fierce still...just not in Prince shape. Forgotten lyrics and miscues abound. Anyone who tells you that they could whip Prince's current group are mistaken. They have more personality and character...which is what I went to the show for. That said...all that did was add charm and warmth. You could tell these people love each other, and they knew that we love them too.

-Lastly, the crowd skewed older than they typical Prince crowd. It seemed as if those who actually LIVED the pre and immediately post Purple Rain era were out in full force. Which makes sense. All in all, it was worth the price. Glad Bobby Z. is feeling fine.

ps. To the blondie that fainted during "Uptown", are you okay?

I think that was ultimately why I decided not to go. I knew Prince would not show. I honestly can't imagine him joining The Revolution on stage again, especially when his name is not on the advertisement. He hasn't been rehearsing with them and they are not as tight as the musicians he's worked with since then. He's too much of a perfectionist to go down that road.

I had to keep it real. The ONLY reason I would travel to MPLS for such a show would be for the nostalgia of seeing Prince and The Revolution reunited. Once I rationalized that this just would not happen in the normal Prince world, I realized that seeing The Revolution alone was not enough of a draw for me.

But I hear that the Purple Politicians had a blast. That's great. It sounds like a fun weekend went down in Funkytown.

Well said.

missfee said:

PurpleChi said:

I think that was ultimately why I decided not to go. I knew Prince would not show. I honestly can't imagine him joining The Revolution on stage again, especially when his name is not on the advertisement. He hasn't been rehearsing with them and they are not as tight as the musicians he's worked with since then. He's too much of a perfectionist to go down that road.

I had to keep it real. The ONLY reason I would travel to MPLS for such a show would be for the nostalgia of seeing Prince and The Revolution reunited. Once I rationalized that this just would not happen in the normal Prince world, I realized that seeing The Revolution alone was not enough of a draw for me.

But I hear that the Purple Politicians had a blast. That's great. It sounds like a fun weekend went down in Funkytown.

Well said.

U 3 have to remember that they only had 1 1/2 days time to rehearse, and they did a really good job on just that alone

very nice pics.

thanks to U.. OF4S for sharing..

OldFriends4Sale said:

missfee said:

Well said.

U 3 have to remember that they only had 1 1/2 days time to rehearse, and they did a really good job on just that alone

Well that's fine. And it's great that folks want to see The Revolution by themselves to see what they have to offer and enjoy their performance, nothing wrong with that. I'm sure they worked hard and did a wonderful job.

My point is that I'm not going to spend air fare money in addition to a $65 ticket price to see Prince's ex-backing band, especially when I'm used to seeing them playing "tight" as PurpleChi mentioned. But that's just me (and part of what PurpleChi was saying) and it's okay.

dalsh327 said:

This is a great pic.

^ Great shot!