Glad to see Prince has maintained his pop sensibilities.....even when he sings a song with absolutely no melody or no hook.

WTF

LOL
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emesem said:

Seeing how Prince came on last...he was worth the wait. Band was tiiight too Pretty cool how he ripped the shades off.

I hope the shows stream on the NBC site

babooshleeky said:

There ya go!

utopia7 said:

It's already on the site . The performance starts around the 38:00 minute mark, btw.

watch it
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OMG! I can't believe I missed it last night!

...off to hunt it down online

not bad! I'm not in love with this song, but I do like it

I always get a good laugh when he wears the flip-flops and socks combo

Militant said:

oh my this should be a sticky

Accujack said:

I thought the same thing last night.

on another note. does anyone know if Bria is gonna sing tonight or tomorrow to go along with the 3 days/3 albums ? sorry if I missed it somewhere.

Nissan Rouge

Halle looks hot as always


Frank Caliendo, kinda funny


does every new "fonky" prince song from the last 10 years sound kinda alike?
Embarrassingly bad, just like MPSLSOUND, fittingly.

Maybe he broke a heel.

Ahh, note to Elisa, stay clear of Golden Corral.

The performance was clunky, because he hasn't played live in a while. The restraints of tv made it hard to finish that guitar solo. lol

thekidsgirl said:

I've just got to say, Yeah, What's up with the Flip Flops that look they could fit Jay! Yuck!

The Harp was amazing & The Hohner was roarin'!
I can't wait till Saturday night, 3 shows in 1 nite - See U there!

...Sans Chanclas!!!

I couldn't find a shortened clip, but the whole episode is up on NBC.com:

http://www.nbc.com/The_To...id=1072661

Make sure you manually move the video cursor after the last dash on the video toolbar (those dashes are for online commercials) and you'll get Prince's performance.

728huey said:

Thanks!

my thoughts, for what they're worth...

i thought he looked great, and i especially liked the drag queen eye makeup.

technically speaking, he sounded just fine, but i think it came off as phoned-in. i didn't feel the fire in his belly and he didn't seem to be exuding the personality that has wowed me over the years. it just felt like a competent performance by a seasoned veteran rock star.

i LOVE the disco jellyfish stage props.

and that harmonica player...wow...i'm glad they found a way to put tommy barbarella's old wardrobe to good use.

Same ol' Prince....

shellyann said:

So it WAS Purple Rain that he did at the beginning??

Anxiety said:

I want one of those jellyfish lamp things.

The Harmonimaniac looked like the crazy mutants in Omega Man.

(peep 2:09 in)

how can i get the nbc 25 march tonight show episode from aboard, any idea?, i couldn't be able to see the performance yet!

I was really disappointed in the song-not feeling it, but hoping tonight's performance will be better

RIKZOUL said:

search - leno prince - on you tube. It's up there now and I love it!

the song was nicely different although i prefer the studioversion.

performance was good enough, although yonnet walking around in the
back in that weird long coat, doing nothing until he finally blew
his harmonica really distracted my attention.

i was like "who's that drunk fool walking in and out of the shot?"



could have done without that 1997 revisit "the go-go's" moment a la
marva king. that kind of took the step out of the performance.

he should have blistered it up with some funky hardcore guitar in
that time.

still, i liked it. nice!

Boring. That's the best word to describe that performance. I was just glad "Mr. Hollywood" took those bug-eyed glasses off. I didn't give a shit about the shoes. He and his band needs to start having some kind of CHOREOGRAPHY or something, because his stage shows have become extremely boring to look at these days. You could close your eyes and not miss a damn thing. The audio of them is just all right at that, too.

The song was just meh, though his reworking of it was slightly better than what's on the album.

IstenSzek said:

ditto...yay, what he said.

Dred said:

Thank you.

That was the exact moment I was talking about when the song seemed to come unglued. I liked it though.

alexnvrmnd777 said:

I agree. I didn't like it because of had too many current events / news topics.
I use music to escape reality and I don't know an entertainer throwing it in my ears! I love P, don't get me wrong, but he's as boring and depressing as the evening news. Well, i take that back.....he making the evening new more funky, by adding bass, drums and guitar riffs!

when i first heard the opening PRain melody i was like "Here we go again". Just go into the damn song and leave all that 80s shit behind already. Otherwise it was a cool performance, not outstanding, but cool. I told y'all Bria would not be there

Other than admiring how hot my man looked and how hot Halle always looks, I could not help thinking. "Prince and Halle on the same show and there exes are somewhere do the freakdeaky." How weird is that?