The September 3 issue of local Minneapolis news and arts weekly City Pages features a cover story on First Avenue (the club featured in... Purple Rain).

First Avenue: The whole s...ere there.

Features some discussion of Prince along with the club, with tidbits from Alan Leeds, Jimmy Jam, Sonny Thompson and Kevin Cole, among others. Also includes sidestories on the club, Prince and The Time from Jimmy Jam and ?uestlove.

Man, can't they get the photo caption info right...! I'm not from MPLS and I can date these right!

Let's see...


"Let's play First Avenue tonight": Prince in 1984
No, it's 1981 or early '82, Controversy era.





"First Avenue gave black bands a chance": Jimmy Jam (right) with Terry Lewis
TERRY LEWIS!?!?






The Time in the Mainroom, circa 1984
This ones kind of hard maybe because it's so small, but in '84 Terry and Lewis were out. So I'm thinking this is either an earlier 80's performance or a special 1990 one after Pandemonium...by Jesse's clothes and Morris Hair, I'm more inclined to 1990.





Prince at First Avenue, 1983
'82 - Controversy era




Other than that, this is a great story and feature that reffleccts the diverseness of the music scene and how it was so unique back then.

Very cool... Nice quotes from the people who were there...

Stand up everybody! This is your life! Let me take u to another world, let me take u tonight
U don't need no money, u don't need no clothes
The Second Coming, anything goes

Cool story...

NPG187 said:

co sign

not bad!