Warfield Theatre, San Francisco : 8th March 1986 (w/ Sheila E)

The live concert from San Francisco showcases Sheila's skill as a performer, percussionist and singer. The show kicks into high gear showing Sheila rock the stage with "Sister Fate" and "Erotic City". Prince makes a cameo w/the Revolution at the end for a show-stopping performance with Sheila on 'A Love Bizzare). Sheila also jams to "Holly Rock" and "The Glamorous Life".

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Intro
Sister Fate
Erotic City
Toy Box
S CAR Go
Holly Rock
Merci For The Speed Of A Mad Clown In Summer
The Glamorous Life
A Love Bizarre (Live video recording)
- ALL DAY, ALL NIGHT - HOLLY ROCK
KISS

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OldFriends4Sale said:

Kiss just came on the radio @ the job

OldFriends4Sale said:

‘It’s the clearest definition of creative freedom I have ever heard. I was 16 and went to see the film Under The Cherry Moon and fell in love. The soundtrack went from rock to computerized blues to jazz to pop and classical. I grew up listening to jazz and blues, to Ella Fitzgerald and Hendrix and, sure, I loved Bach and Mozart. But prince came along and amalgamated them all. The writing was so descriptive and colourful. I used to stay up and listen to the album over and over again on headphones. When everyone else was outside playing and running on a Saturday afternoon, I’d be locked in my bedroom or sat on my porch listening to the LP, and I’d be immediately transported away from all the problems in my neighbourhood to the French Riviera, where the film was set.

Prince uses so many different vocal tones and that was a real beginning for me. His voice would change to accommodate the story, the lyrics – something I choose to do with my music. Any poet, singer, writer wants to live in the moment of each and every song and this is the method by which to do it. He switches Anotherloverholenyohead to a song like Do U Lie (sings), ‘When I lie awake at night in my boudoir’ and automatically the sun comes out, the rays shine through the window, the room becomes light. The track Christopher Tracey’s Parade taught me a new sense of rhythm. Using a computer he created a different heart rhythm. You don’t listen to that song, you fall inside it and become it. He added car sounds – I mean, who did that in those days? And he sings like he never planned a thing, like they play the music and he’s not sure how it’s going to go he just opens his mouth and starts to sing. It doesn’t feel rehearsed but fresh, full of life.

It’s a classic album and lyrically an inspiration. He’s capable of being a very personal writer but he’s also very skilled. When you listen to the music the picture is always clear, the imagination is provoked – that’s the kind of writer I want to be. Like Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, he makes forever music.

The instrumentation is wonderful. He had a computer create the sound but didn’t falsify it by pretending it’s another instrument. He chose to play a computer as itself! His guitar – how he would go from being rock and out there and strong and immediately change the sound to sensitive and loving and soft – that is brilliance. I don’t know if the music was a genuine reflection of a part of his life or a fictional creation, but quite honestly I don’t care because I feel it regardless. I feel blessed just listening to this record.’ -Jill Scott

Beautiful words, so much love in them.

UncleJam said:

I never get tired of this era! I'm 43 years old now, and bald (by choice)...but oh the memories of 86-88, when I did everything in my power to comb my hair the "Under the Cherry Moon way"! Love your threads, oldfriends...

LOL I did too, and I had trenchs with a long bandana hanging out like Prince

This period is still so deep yeilding lots

AN HONEST MAN

I want 2 be an honest man
I'll be Ur slave, just understand
How much I need U
And if I lie, I'm part of U
This is my crime
I do know laughter, I do know tears
But all is nothing, without U near
We are of 1 soul, and if I die
We'll be together side by side
With U I know that I can stand
With U I can be an honest man

♥

Initial tracking took place on 30 November, 1985 (on the same day as Mountains) at the Washington Avenue Warehouse, Eden Prairie, MN, USA. It is thought that the a capella version was created around the same time, and it may have been intended as a brief opening track for the Parade album, in the same vein as For You on the For You album. The Crystal Ball liner notes state that the song is "inspired by Kristin Scott Thomas' character Mary Sharon in Under The Cherry Moon."

-PrinceVault

One of my fav Prince pics ever!

Guitarhero said:

One of my fav Prince pics ever!

DETROIT FREE PRESS
Published: Sunday, March 30, 1986
Section: FTR
Page: 5C

PRINCE TAKES A CUE FROM HIS PAST
AND GETS BACK TO THE DANCE FLOOR

GARY GRAFF; DONNA OLDENDORF

Parade -- Prince (Paisley Park/Warner Bros.): Prince takes stock of the various directions he has explored during his eight-year recording career and integrates them into an intriguing and, ultimately, entertaining work. He brings his music back to the dance floor of "Dirty Mind" and "1999" without getting trapped by the same old steps. He also retains the psuedo-psychedelic edge -- and makes better use of it -- than he did on last year's album, "Around the World in a Day." And he checks any pretensions by managing to keep his sense of humor and fun throughout the record. The only thing missing is the hard rock guitar pyrotechnics of his breakthrough record, "Purple Rain," but they wouldn't really fit here, anyway.

The gems on "Parade" -- due in stores on Monday -- are unquestionably the foot-movers, stuff like the quirky first single, "Kiss," "New Position," "Girls & Boys," "Mountains" and "Anotherloverholenyohead." But Prince is equally effective when he about-faces on "Venus De Milo," a soft piano-saxophone duet, and "Sometimes It Snows in April," a moody acoustic piece full of religious metaphors. The lulls come when Prince dips too far into psychedelia on the imitative "Wonder U," "Christopher Tracy's Parade" and "Under a Cherry Moon," songs written more as accompaniment for the visuals of Prince's upcoming film, "Under a Cherry Moon," than as listening pieces. Still, the bulk of "Parade" is listenable and enjoyable, a confirmation of Prince's place as a superior melodist, arranger and player as well as a celebration of his creativity.

The sunny, chic, light vibe

The timeless cover

The mix of sounds, sophistication and rawness...cannot express in words how much I love this album.

Telecaster5 said:

The sunny, chic, light vibe

The timeless cover

The mix of sounds, sophistication and rawness...cannot express in words how much I love this album.

Same...

NEW POSITION

Honey, we been 2gether
Honey, 4 2 long
Honey, we got 2 make it better
Honey, ‘fore we go wrong

Got 2 try a new position, yeah
Somethin' that'll make it all right, uh
New position, yeah
Let's go fishin' in the river, the river of life

Honey, we can't last, uh (We can't last)
Without a shot o' new spunk, huh
Honey, forget your past (Forget your past)
U got 2 try my new funk

U got 2 try a new position, yeah
Somethin' that'll make it all right
Oh, a new position, yeah, yeah
Let's go fishin' in the river, the river of life

Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah!
Come on and let me do ya
Come on and let me do ya, do ya
Come on and let me do ya
I wanna, I wanna do ya, do ya
Honey, I can make U happy (I can make U H. A. P. P. Y.)
Ooh, I can make it real good (So good)
Honey, I won't be your pappy (P. U. S. S. Y.)
But I'll do ya, I'll do ya, do ya, do ya, like a...
Do ya, do ya like a good man should
I'll do ya, do ya like a good man should
Honey, let's try a new position

Initial tracking took place in Spring-Summer 1982 at Prince's Kiowa Trail Home Studio, Chanhassen, MN, USA, along with several other tracks that would re-appear over the next several years. This original 1982 recording remains unreleased. The track was re-recorded on 17 April, 1985 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA, with Prince recording the drum track in sequence of Little Girl Wendy's Parade, New Position, I Wonder U and Under The Cherry Moon, all in one take. He then layered other instruments over all four tracks. Clare Fischer arranged and recorded orchestration for the song at some point in mid-late 1985 at Monterey Sound Studios, Glendale, CA, USA, but Prince preferred the track without orchestration, and chose to use the track without orchestration for the final release. -PrinceVault

30 years on I still cannot believe he got to "Parade" within eight years of signing his deal. The kind of creative growth and energy most artists don't manage in a lifetime compressed into less than a decade

It was just astonishing - everything about this period was so unbelievably rich and imaginative.

How was he ever going to top it?

Robbajobba said:

30 years on I still cannot believe he got to "Parade" within eight years of signing his deal. The kind of creative growth and energy most artists don't manage in a lifetime compressed into less than a decade

It was just astonishing - everything about this period was so unbelievably rich and imaginative.

How was he ever going to top it?

Yes!! a magical period to have experienced

Minneapolis Music Awards 5.20.1986

4. Controversy 3:55

5. Mutiny 7:18

6. Kiss 7:01

Thank U

More?

Brownmark do it

Kiss

Mazarati

You don't have 2 be rich

Woman overboard

10 toes going up

10 toes going down

got the gun pointin atcha

Never goinna cut our hair

Come here boy let me cut that hair off

oww pretty momma I wanna ride

Kiss

2 u all good night

Dr Fink

...

Jerome Benton

Wally Safford

Brownmark

Wendy

Lisa

Bobby Z

Mico

Eric

Atlanta Bliss

goodnight

1 more? Everybody make that funky face

7. Love or Money 5:41

Speech

Mazarati opened with Players Ball + 100MPH

1.Raspberry Beret
2.Girls And Boys
3.Life Can Be So Nice
4.All Day, All Night
5.Controversy
6. Mutiny
7.Holly Rock
8.Kiss
9.Love Or Money ·

Initial tracking for Prince's original version took place on 7 August 1982 at Prince's Kiowa Trail Home Studio (on the same day as 1999 and Little Red Corvette).

Prince mixed the song further on 30 January 1986 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA (on the same day as mixing With You, G-Spot and Baby, You're A Trip, and recording It's A Wonderful Day). -PrinceVault

5:25min version with Prince backing Jill Jones on vocals

The song in instrumental form is heard during Mary Sharons Bithday party Night scene

I have only had one lover
Since I was 12 years old
So I don't care how hot U get me
I wouldn't do him cold
But there's somethin' about U, baby
That's got me koo koo
Would U hold it against me
If I said I loved another?
Tu vuole la mia bocca {U want my lips}

CHORUS:
Tu vuole la mia bocca
I love another
Tu vuole la mia bocca
Don't want no other
Something's happenin', I just can't explain it
U're doin' somethin' 2 me
My body's shakin', baby, shake, shake, shakin', baby
Shakin' like a leaf on a tree
I could never be unfaithful
Baby, I could never be
Boy, I got a feelin' that I ain't used 2 feelin'
I gotta do somethin'
Tu vuole la mia bocca
CHORUS
(I love a drama) {repeat in BG)
I'll pretend I'm in a movie
A make believe dream world caprice de la drama {... whimsical drama}
U can be a page in my diary
If U promise not 2 tell my mama
There's somethin' about U, baby
That's got me koo koo
I can't explain what's dancin' in my brain
We gotta do somethin'
Tu vuole la mia bocca
CHORUS
Sono caliente d' amore {I'm hot with love}
Il mio labio sono resbaloso {My lips are boiling hot}
Puoi toccare piano {U can touch softly}
Lo siento ma io voglio un altro {I'm sorry, but I love another one}

I love another! (CHORUS {x3})
I don't want no other! {x2}
Tu vuole la mia bocca
I love another
I'm going koo koo
Sono caliente d' amore
Il mio labio sono resbaloso
Puoi toccare piano
Lo siento ma io voglio un altro
Mia bocca

Kiss single rel 3.8.1986

Parade album released 3.21.1986

(sn-m-tgr-f)

Mountains video shoot in Nice France 4.14.1986

Heaven
...
Heaven will be here on earth
If we just try 2 love

Heaven, heaven
We will find heaven
Heaven, all in time

Other people we are glad 2 meet [another] lost
Soon our hearts are heavy till no man could bear the cross
We can dream of color if we look into the sun
[On a] day of kindness only blind will dig the one

There's only one heaven
Heaven
We will find heaven
All in time

(Heaven) {repeated in BG}

Anybody want 2 go 2 hell?
Hell no!
Don't like hell

When I go
(When U go)
Will I know
(U'll know)
When I go
(When U go)
When will I know
(U gotta bear your soul)

When I go
(When U go)
Will I know
(U will know)
When I go
(When U go)
When will I know
(U gotta bear your soul)

When I go
(When U go)
Will I know
(I don't know)
When I go
(When U go)
When will I know
(U gotta bear your soul)

Heaven {repeated}

Heaven (recorded in France summer '84), this whimsical track was recorded in May of 1985 but was never placed on any configuration of Parade. Prince plays the main "carnivalesque" theme on the organ, alternating with a different figure, played on synth sounding like a harp. The lyrics reflect Prince's belief that heaven can be a place on earth.

Heaven will be here on earth
If we just try 2 love

May 14. 1986
Warfield Theater, San Francisco
Bangles Concert

Manic Monday
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On

electic guitar screaches

We are so excited, we're speachless

electric guitar continues to screach

A little electronic problem...

.

What it is??

Aww you all are awefully nice

we're gonna play a little blues is that cool?

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1 2 3

1 2 123

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5.30.1986 @ Tramps in Beverly Hills California

I Wonder U

I... how U say
I wonder U, I wonder U?
I... how U say
I wonder U, I wonder U?

I dream of U
4 all time, 4 all time
Though U are far
I wonder U, U're on my mind

I... how U say
I wonder U, I wonder U?
I... how U say
I wonder U, I wonder U?

© 1986 Controversy Music - ASCAP

Lead vocals are sung by Wendy Melvoin, marking the first time lead vocals were not sung by Prince on a Prince/Prince and the Revolution album.

Initial tracking of the track took place on 17 April, 1985 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA, with Prince recording the drum track in sequence of Little Girl Wendy's Parade, New Position, I Wonder U and Under The Cherry Moon, all in one take. He then layered other instruments over all four tracks. The song was initially recorded with Prince and Wendy Melvoin both singing lead and Lisa Coleman doing a harmony background vocal.

That version was placed on an early configuration of Parade (before it even had that title), compiled on 1 May, 1985. The song was sent to Clare Fischer in mid-late 1985 for his input. Fischer did two different orchestral arrangements; one with full orchestration, and after a later request of Prince, one with only 'flute family' orchestration, much like the finally released version. These versions had Prince's lead vocal mixed in loudest, mostly obscuring Wendy's vocals. Before release Prince then omitted his own voice, so that Wendy was now singing the lead. Clare Fischer's full orchestration arrangement remains unreleased although Prince did use some of it as incidental music in Under The Cherry Moon.