ladymisskat said:

He segued into Best of You during All Along the Watchtower.
[Edited 2/6/07 8:27am]

I like the twins

I loved the part in the conference performance when P was doing his solo with one arm around one of them. Hot hot hot.

I swear, he should have pulled a Computer Blue and ripped off his shirt...all that sweat--I mean rain. How's that for shocking? Sexy! No blindfold, though. We don't want him falling off the stage.

AvramsDad said:

What a smartie! I'm glad he did something, because I was worried as hell that he was going to slip, or get electrocuted. Thank God neither of those things happened!

UCantHavaDaMango said:

Yeah, I thought it was rather brilliant too. That Prince, always thinking.

july said:

i saw when he threw his guiotar in the air!! (how cool was that!) Did he throw it into the crowd, or did he jsut toss it up to fall on the stage. I remeber when he did that at the Nokia theater last Feb. He must have 999 guitars to throw them around like that-LOL

LadyDivah said:

Don't worry, someone was there to catch it.

UCantHavaDaMango said:

Thanks for the pic post!!!!
What I gotta do to get THAT job????? Sign me up!

AvramsDad said:

Yeah, there are a lot of tricks you can use to make the floor non-slippery (I am a dancer).

I was thinking about it though, and most likely this floor/surface though was almost certainly that REALLY sticky, rubbery surface that they sometimes use in fashion shows and other events where it's easy to slip in heels. I don't know what it's called, but it's not normal marley. So that helps. But still, it's really hard to turn in heels like that, and if the floor was that special surface, that would actually make it TOO sticky at times. Especially for turning. You can trip over your own feet.

So yeah, I thought they did a good job of keeping it together.

july said:

This one´s my favourite. He´s got such beautiful eyes.
Great pictures. He looks great.

UCantHavaDaMango said:

Look at him checking that the guy catches it.

He loves his guitar,

Someone may have already posted this somewhere here, but a friend just called to tell me that Craig Ferguson said of this moment, that Prince must have been really happy to be there.

july said:

Sorry July On the tele...forgot to quote/credit pic.
[Edited 2/6/07 15:51pm]

Thank you so much for posting these pics!! He is absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

Love the pics! Thanks so much! Monday, everyone was praising Prince for his show, and now they are criticizing him:

Prince's Halftime Imagery Questioned

Prince's acclaimed performance included a guitar solo during the "Purple Rain" segment of his medley in which his shadow was projected onto a large, flowing beige sheet. As the 48-year-old rock star let rip, the silhouette cast by his figure and his guitar (shaped like the singer's symbol) had phallic connotations for some.

A number of bloggers have decried "Malfunction!" - including Sam Anderson at New York magazine's Daily Intelligencer. Daily News television critic David Bianculli called it "a rude-looking shadow show" that "looked embarrassingly rude, crude and unfortunately placed."

CBS spokesman Dana McClintock said Tuesday that the network has received "very few" complaints on Prince's performance. CBS last aired the Super Bowl in 2004 when Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake's "wardrobe malfunction" sparked criticism and a subsequent crackdown on broadcast decency from the Federal Communications Commission.

But this time, it was the NFL that produced the halftime show (MTV had in 2004). Spokesman Greg Aiello said the league has received no complaints.

"We respect other opinions, but it takes quite a leap of the imagination to make a controversy of his performance," Aiello said. "It's a guitar."

The majority of the reaction to Prince's performance has been laudatory, including positive reviews from The Associated Press, the New York Times and USA Today - all of which noted the lack of controversy in this year's halftime show. AP Entertainment Writer Douglas J. Rowe wrote: "He delivered one of the best Super Bowl halftime shows - ever."

For decades, the electric guitar, by nature, has been considered phallic. From Jimi Hendrix's sensual 6-string swagger to Eddie Van Halen's masturbatory soloing, the guitar has often been thought an extension of a male player's sexuality.

Was Prince's pose phallic?

"The short answer is, of course it is," says Rolling Stone magazine contributing editor Gavin Edwards, who points out that on Prince's "Purple Rain" tour in the mid '80s, he performed with a guitar that would ejaculate, squirting water out of its end during the climax of "Let's Go Crazy."

"All that said, it didn't seem like a sniggering little puppet show," adds Edwards. "I think it was one of those things because a guitar at waist level does look like an enormous phallus."

By enlarging his shadow, it's possible Prince intended to accentuate this aspect of his solo, but it's just as likely it was accidental. (You can find videos of the halftime show at YouTube.com.) A message left with Prince's publicist Tuesday wasn't returned.

In recent years, Prince has scaled down his performances, which were once renown for their gymnastics. His mini-concert at the Colts-Bears game in Miami included parts of "Purple Rain,""Let's Go Crazy,""Baby I'm a Star," Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower," the Foo Fighter's "Best of You" and Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Proud Mary."

The Minnesota native has attracted controversy before. Tipper Gore launched a campaign to place a warning sticker on his 1984 album "Purple Rain" because of the lyrics to the song "Darling Nikki." Though his musical style has been expansive, he's best known for funky, sexually charged songs like "I Wanna Be Your Lover" and "Get Off."

But Prince's halftime performance, though celebrated, came in a much different cultural environment, where even the fleeting outline of a man and his guitar could, for some, suggest shaded depravity.

"If people want to be hypersensitive, they can be hypersensitive," says Rolling Stone's Edwards. "Those trombones are phallic, too. What are you going to do?"

thanks so much for the great pics!

i loved the look he had on his face when he finished his show.... it was a look of pure satisfaction... he knew it was good.

UCantHavaDaMango said:

lol I saw that...he was pretty far away when he threw it. I know that guy was scared. And I bet he hurt his wrists

tznekbsbfrvr said:

I'd say, of course it was phallic and he's always used the guitar that way... Nothing new about that. What's so terrible and controversial about it really? And anyway it just shows what the people who notice this have on their minds.

VenusBlingBling said:

yeah...he's been doing that forever! and he didnt do it in a crude manner.
People are gonna study every halftime performance and pick it apart.
It was a classy performance.

ThreadCula said:

Dayum Justin and Janet I personally think people way overreacted about the "wardrobe malfunction" but if they hadn't done it we wouldn't have to hear about it ALL THE TIME and EVERY SB half time show.
[Edited 2/6/07 15:29pm]

minneapolisgenius said:

I'm also a dancer and that is sooo true I've done that a few times!
I remember getting ready for a performance a few years back, dusting down my ballet shoes in the sandbox backstage. The floor was covered in sweat so I practically danced in that damn sandbox to get good coverage.

Pranced out onto the stage looking all profesh and sparkly, launched into a double pirouette.....top half of my body turned but my foot got left behind.....like 180degrees behind!!!!

I stumbled a bit and carried on, but MAN was it sore!

Best SuperBowl ever.

I'm totally not a football fan.

BUT GOD, I LOVE PRINCE.

beautifullandb said:

I actualy broke my toe that way many years ago.

Here are a couple of nice shots from brooklynvegan.com. I like seeing his hair post-headscarf.

minneapolisgenius said:

Ouch!!

UCantHavaDaMango said:

Me2! Oh i LOVE the 1st one thats gonna by my new desktop..... that rain really is PURPLE!!

beautifullandb said:

I know! Cool huh?

beautifullandb said:

This is my desktop at the moment:

Guess what? I found even MORE photos! These are from Popsugar.com. Some of the comments about the performance on their website suck, but I found some cool pics. Sorry if there are any repeats. I didn't recall seeing them on here.

Here are some more "hero" shots:





This one is so dramatic. (And it's almost a booty pic!)




This one is just cute.



Wow, it was really raining HARD!


The rain looks purple in this one:



I LOVE this one. His expression is great, and he's clutching his guitar so tightly. It would make a nice poster.




Enjoy!

kpowers said:

was totally mesmerised by his performance, i love him more now than ever, i got goosebumps. total class.