NUDE TOUR HISTORY

Just found this on Wikipedia:

After the stability of the previous two tours with the band line-up remaining virtually unchanged, Prince rearranged the band with the departures of Boni Boyer, Cat, Sheila E. and dropping the horn section. Michael Bland was added on drums, Rosie Gaines took over on keyboards and organ, and a trio of dancers known as the Game Boyz rounded out the new band. With the exception of Fink and Miko, this was the make-up of the original New Power Generation line-up.

The addition of The Game Boyz caused much upheaval in the Prince camp. They first came to Prince's attention in 1983 during the filming of Purple Rain, Mosely, Johnson and Dickson can be seen dancing during various performances at the First Avenue club. The trio continued to associate with Prince over the years, dancing as a group in the music videos for "Glam Slam" and with the band Madhouse. Around the time of Graffiti Bridge, Prince recruited the trio for the film and his touring band.

Many questioned Prince's choice to begin courting the hip hop audience through the addition of The Game Boyz and the increased contribution of Mosely's rapping on future Prince tracks despite the belief that Tony Mosely's rapping ability was sub par. Previously, Prince was negative towards rap music dismissing it as a fad, as noted by the songs "Bob George" and "Dead on It" from The Black Album.

Furthermore, Rosie Gaines complained that she was being mistreated by the dance trio. Tension developed between Gaines and Prince, as instead of disciplining the dancers, he simply removed Gaines from the tour bus and placed her on Mavis Staples' tour bus.[1]

After the tour, the last remaining members from the Revolution, guitarist Miko Weaver and keys Doctor Fink, left the group. Miko's departure was especially dramatic. During pre-tour rehearsals, Prince had a number of conflicts with band members, but particularly with Miko. According to several members of the group, Prince felt threatened by Miko's good looks and popularity with the women. "Prince didn't like the fact that Miko was getting women as much as [Prince] was/On the road, Miko would have five or six women in his room, and some of them would want to go with Miko instead of Prince."[2] The tension boiled over when Prince kept picking on Miko, asking him to turn his guitar down and yelling at him. After back and forth arguing, Prince challenged him "to take this shit outside?" to which Miko retorted, "Yeah like I'm gonna come outside with you and your bodyguards." Miko walked out and briefly quit over the incident, but later rejoined the band at the last minute for the tour.[3]

Mavis Staples went on tour as an opening act.


Is that true ?

Never heard the story 'bout Miko & Rosie... !

Someone knows something else 'bout the genesis of the Nude Tour... ?

Saffir there is a nude tour rehearsal boot and video where you can see Miko Prince incident
was it during rehearsal of Baby i'm a Star?

Old news, really, but I'm curious as to what bootleg the Miko/Prince argument appears on. Does anyone know the title?

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scififilmnerd said:

Old news, really, but I'm curious as to what bootleg the Miko/Prince argument appears on. Does anyone know the title?

Thank you for the info... I gotta watch this !

I guess Miko got the women during the other tours in the 80s because The Nude Tour had not begun..

Plus, that is kind of an opinion from someone who shall remain nameless forever, and will not come forward to stand on his words..

Prince does not seem like he would fool-around with random "Tour Groupies" on his tours anyway. Maybe, earlier..

He never scraped his women from the back stage floors..

They were already models, actresses, or beauties who were already near the inside of the game.

He kept his name clean in that regard..

People love this stuff. When I first read about this incident years ago, I did not believe it then.

Prince was just a tough, arrogant, successful, boss, and you better not play foolishly during rehearsals.. (or something else happened between them that nobody knows about, but those two..)

The same thing happened with John Blackwell, and he returned to The NPG!

With no major "Prince Tour" in a bad economy, I doubt that he's pulling those fat "Musicology checks".

Exaggerations aside, Miko's supposed comments about "you and your bodyguards" is hilarious...lolololol.


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Not to pick holes but what makes you say Prince and John Blackwell had a fall-out?

From what I can tell/read, they've always had a very amicable relationship.

onenitealone said:

Not to pick holes but what makes you say Prince and John Blackwell had a fall-out?

From what I can tell/read, they've always had a very amicable relationship.

regardless of what u say john keeps coming back 2 prince so he must be happy with what prince does and sometimes its not all about money its about the love of music and who u work with

This from thedatabank.org on Nude Tour Rehearsals:

"...The band kicks up Baby I'm A Star, and Prince & Miko get into a conversation about Miko's guitar (although you have to turn the volume up FULL for it to be barely audible as they are away from their mic's). Prince says "Just what I thought, punk!", Miko walks off the stage, and Prince turns and shouts, "What did you say!!??", then goes storming off after him, and you see them underneath the stage and can hear raised voices (especially Prince's), as the Game Boyz (oh lawd) gather round, the rehearsal cuts off...."

onenitealone said:

Not to pick holes but what makes you say Prince and John Blackwell had a fall-out?

From what I can tell/read, they've always had a very amicable relationship.

alexnvrmnd777 said:

onenitealone said:

Not to pick holes but what makes you say Prince and John Blackwell had a fall-out?

From what I can tell/read, they've always had a very amicable relationship.

^^Not only that, but I'm quite sure Justin Timberlake paid Blackwell with the Futuresex/Lovesounds Tour more than Prince did on Musicology. Prince is notorious for not paying his band members top price (those Musicology checks weren't THAT fat). And seeing as how JB was his drummer, I'm sure Timberlake offered a good amount of dough to have him on his tour.

God, who would choose Miko over Prince?
prince is way better looking

and can someone link me in a orgnote to set vid where you can see them arguing?

Don't think u can ask that my freind...gots 2 do the work

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