The below concert review was posted over at HQ by Sbacon1999:


"Hi HQ! Here's my review from last night, typed up in the bathroom so I wouldn't wake my snoozing friend!..

Whew! It’s 8am the morning after and I can’t get back sleep. So excited about tonight’s show. But before I get ahead of myself, let me recap yesterday’s events.

Checked in at the Rio and was handed my room keys – that now have Prince on them! We’ll have to lose our keys a few times this weekend so we can get some extras!!! I got in line around 12:30pm behind Vanessa from Australia and Kim from Houston. As usual, the line was great fun and everyone was in good spirits. I had brought along the new Brian Morton book “Thief in the Temple” so I read that off and on (terrible book IMO and no need to waste $$ on it – more on that in another post maybe). The band showed up on the early side for rehearsals. Around 2pm we saw Renato, Greg and Shelby arrive separately. From about 2:30 to 5 we heard the band rehearsing. Of course my eyeball was glued to the crack in the 3121 door, trying to catch a glimpse of Prince. He was in there, white pants and a fitted turquoise tshirt. Even blurry and indistinct from way back there, he looked fine. LOL.. I saw him jump on the drums at one point, play for about 30 seconds (twirling the sticks as he took the drum stool), and then handed the set back to Cora. Guess he had to show her how he wanted something to sound. Songs I remember him playing during rehearsal were PartyUp, Peach and a new one which was BEAUTIFUL. Slower song with gorgeous vocals. I had my ear glued to the door for that one instead of my eyes. Eventually security put up a promotional poster in front of the door inside the club so our viewing privileges were suspended, but we could still hear! Band rehearsed for a long time, and then we heard them go at it again for another hour or so from 6-7. Working hard!

They let us into the club around 8:30/9 I think. DJ Rashida didn’t come out until about 10:30. She played a lot of old school hip hop last night sprinkled with Prince and MJ. She kicked the set off with DMSR so you know the crowd was moving! We watched the techs get ready, hauling out the 2 crates of lyric sheets and about 5 guitars last night. It’s funny – they bring out each guitar draped and “hidden” in a black cloth and then set it up in the pit. Sacred guitars! It’s fun trying to figure out which guitar it is just by the neck. The acoustic guitar came out as well which was a great sign! I think somebody already mentioned there is a new guitar tech. He seemed nice and had a couple of chuckles listening to us behind him all night acting crazy.

Prince and the band took the stage around midnight. It started out with a slow groove and Prince came walking out from the back of the stage, slowly, taking his time. The crowd gave him a very warm reception, screaming and screaming. He stretched out his arms and soaked it all in, smiling all the while. He stepped to the mic and looked down at his lyric stand, then shot his tech a look like “Uh, wrong song” and then walked off the mic. He sort of meandered around the stage, hands behind his back, checking things out. Groove still going. Down front we knew there was a song problem, but to the rest of the crowd, it probably looked like he was just teasing us to death. He walked off into his VIP section for a bit, back on stage, then sat in the chair in front of Cora’s kit, crossing his legs and leaning back, just relaxing. Meanwhile his tech is thumbing frantically through the lyric crates trying to find the right song; even Trevor came down and whispered in his ear, presumably to tell him the exact name of the song? According to the set list, it was supposed to be a song called “Somewhere Here on Earth” but apparently the guy couldn’t locate the lyrics! So Prince walked around and spoke to the band, called the Twinz out and BOOM – went right into Lolita. It was interesting to see Prince go from extremely mellow with a slow, slow groove right into 60mph with Lolita. It was like a switch was flipped.

Despite not getting to hear this new song (which I think was the beautiful one I heard during rehearsal), Prince and Twinz did a great Lolita. I really love that song live. The Twinz had some new outfits and were their usual fit, high energy selves, smiling all the time. Oh forgot to comment on the fashion theme of the night – suits with a hoodie in the back like he wore on the Grammy’s and at his Oscar party. I have to say, he looked delicious last night. Hair was the bomb and his clothes were gorgeous. First outfit was an orange suit with some fabric flares that hung off the forearms. Nothing dramatic like Shelby’s cape arms that she’s known for, but he had some extra flow off that suit. Later in the night he wore the butter colored suit that we saw in the Oscar party pics.

OK back to the music. He played Black Sweat last night and reached for his bass. “Play that bass” I yelled a couple of times as he strapped it on, so he then started us into a “Come on Prince, play that bass!” fast chant which the crowd gladly picked up on. He visited both sides of the stage with some bass funk and finished up on ours, handing the bass down to us after some wicked thumping. He had a big grin on his face the whole time. We quickly crowd surfed it back to the guitar tech but what a thrill to receive it from him!

Other highlights I remember… He did a GREAT rendition of Satisfied and really took his time. Lemme tell u, Prince got us satisfied!!! I love how different this song if from the album version. He came over to our side at one point, leaned back and growled that we were going to be saying “Prince I think I died!” because he so satisfied us. It was great. He was looking right at my friend when he said it so she got a little chill off that.

The best part of the set – his acoustic section. Like the Musicology shows, it was just Prince with his guitar playing snippets of about 6 songs. He played Little Red Corvette and Raspberry Beret and pretty much gave up and let the crowd take the lyrics on that one. I have to say we sounded way off key but he was smiling anyway! My voice was so shot by that point. He also played “The Rules” and let me tell you, he has a LOT of them for us ladies. Don’t talk unless it’s during commercials, don’t expect sympathy – go get that from your nosy girlfriend, shopping is NOT a sport, and about 6 other rules I can’t recall. Between each rule he would ask “Can I lay down the rules for y’all?” with us screaming back each time, yes, yes, yes! He ended the acoustic portion with Sometimes It Snows in April (gorgeous, gorgeous) and I felt a few tears well up. Such a beautiful song.

Other songs performed last night… Pass the Peas (everyone on stage to dance during that one), U Got the Look, Kiss, Peach, Cream, What a Wonderful World (Mike and Renato only on this one), Purple Rain, Let’s Go Crazy, Gnarl’s Barkley’s Crazy… The darn setlist was right in front of me on the tech’s stand, but as usual, my post-show amnesia has set in and I didn’t think to ask him for it after it ended…

Some other highlights from the night… During one of Mike’s solos, Prince threw one of the black chairs across the stage to make his point. Prince threw two towels out into the crowd last night, one right by my head into the hands of Vanessa who traveled from Australia. Much as I coveted it myself, I was thrilled that she got an extra souvenir for all those miles she traveled (and hours she waited in line starting at 8am!). During one song with the Twinz, the girls were crouched down on each side of him after the song ended, waiting for the next jam. Prince waved his hand in front of their eyes like “Anyone home?”. It was very funny. Shelby performed two songs last night – one called Baby Love and the other that goes “I ain’t never loved a man the way that I, I loved you” which I love screaming out to Prince as he accompanies her on guitar. Shelby has a GREAT voice. She also sang on Barkley’s Crazy and as usual did a great job. I think I was the lucky recipient of the look when Prince sang the “You’ll be screaming like a white lady when I count to 3” during Black Sweat. Yes, I am definitely white but I was like a Mexican jumping bean down front last night. He just transports me every time! At one point, Prince leaned back and pulled up his pants leg on the butter suit to show us his fly boot. He nodded his head and pointed like “Oh yeah” and gave us a good laugh. He knew was looking hot last night. Go ‘head Prince!

The encore was Barkley’s Crazy (Prince did not play guitar on this and was offstage for most of it – what does he do when he walks off stage???) followed by the Superbowl version of Let’s Go Crazy, yip yip weeooooh! That always cracks me up because the song is so NOT that but we all just jump in anyway, getting all country with it. The show ended around 2am.

There was no aftershow last night. We were bummed but the main show was great last night and really fun. Prince was in great spirits despite the rough start and for a Friday, the crowd was very strong. Can’t wait until tonite!

Hey Prince if you’re reading this, throw “Everlasting Now” into the set. Luvvvvv me some Everlasting Now when you’re on stage!!"
[Edited 3/10/07 9:11am]
[Edited 3/10/07 11:54am]

thx for the review - sounded like you had a great time!

But no aftershow??

P - you best get your skinny MF ass out there doing an aftershow this month!

Alot of people are paying alot of money for the show AND expect to attend the aftershow

2020 said:

YOU OWE IT TO US!

2020 said:

I don't know if you're serious or not, but he doesn't owe 'us' any aftershows. If he does one, great, but don't count on it and you won't be disappointed.

This report from A!! and Tigerlilly at HQ - March 9th



"Hi all,

yesterday, it was time 2 eat a dinner at the 3121 Jazz Cuisine.
At 8pm, the restaurant wasn't full, just 20 persons including us.
Everything in black and gold, like we saw on different pictures.
Bad news 4 collectors, they don't have the black 3121 napkins anymore,
just black napkins without a logo, etc.

We ordered one bottle water, one Margarita, one Pepsi,

Salamon Fillet
fresh coriander, Jalapeno+Lime Crust, Chevre Polenta, Baby Zucchini

Risotto with Mushrooms and cheese

Total incl. 15% Tip, $108... The food was delicious, fresh and the
service was great !

We left the Jazz Cuisine at 9:20. Takomi (the No.1 Rowdie of Prince,
the guy with long black hair who is checkin the stage, instruments,...
over years 4 Prince) entered the restaurant. But it was too late, 4
something to eat (remember, the restaurant closed at 10pm Thursday),
so he left the Jazz Cuisine.

At the Club, Latin night was there. The NPG Merchandise Shop was closed
at this time.

I shoot 2 short movies with my (photo-) cam...

The first one, outside the Jazz Cuisine:
http://www.aberlemedia.de/CIMG1931.AVI


The second one, outside the 3121 Club:
http://www.aberlemedia.de/CIMG1932.AVI


2night it's concert time, stay tuned 4 more informations

Axel + Tiggerlily

PS: Coming soon, huge update of http://www.princeworld.net

-----

March 9th Concert Review: Continued from "A!! and Tigerlilly at HQ"


"Hi all,

what a great evening. We entered the line at 6:30pm, the gates
opened at 9:30h. To our surprise, there was no security check,
if u want, u could bring recording equipment, etc. in the club.

We sat down in the first row, left from the center of the stage.
Music starts at 9:30 and DJ Rashida began at 10:30.

At 12:15am, the concert started:

A Jazz Intro was played, Prince came out and asked the audience, if
we are ready 4 him, etc. Prince left the stage, walked to the bar and
came back with a cocktail, sat down on a chair and listened to the Jazz
Intro...

Next came Lolita and the audience woke up

Black sweat was next, with a great bass solo, right in front of me,
just a few cm/inches away! After the Song, he gaves his bass to the
crowd and the audience gave the bass to the Prince crew..

Kiss
Shhhhh
Peach
Never loved a man (sung by Shelby)
Baby love (sung by Shelby)
Musicology
Pass the Peas (around 10 people from the audience was invited 2 dance on the stage)
What a wonderful world (Renato)
Little red corvette (Acoustic)
Raspberry Beret (Acoustic, the audience sung the complete lyrics)
Guitar (Acoustic, sounds much better than the download!!)
The Rules
Sometimes it snows in April
Satisfied
Cream
U got the Look
Purple Rain

Encore:
Crazy
Let's go crazy

1:55h...around 100 minutes, not bad if I compare it with other reports.

There was NO Aftershow at the Jazz Cuisine

What a great start 4 my birthday 2day

Greetings 2 Craig and the couple from Boston.

A!! and Tiggerlily "
[Edited 3/10/07 11:59am]

2elijah said:[quote]The below concert review was posted over at HQ by Sbacon1999:


"Hi HQ! Here's my review from last night, typed up in the bathroom so I wouldn't wake my snoozing friend!..

Whew! It’s 8am the morning after and I can’t get back sleep. So excited about tonight’s show. But before I get ahead of myself, let me recap yesterday’s events.

Checked in at the Rio and was handed my room keys – that now have Prince on them! We’ll have to lose our keys a few times this weekend so we can get some extras!!! I got in line around 12:30pm behind Vanessa from Australia and Kim from Houston. As usual, the line was great fun and everyone was in good spirits. I had brought along the new Brian Morton book “Thief in the Temple” so I read that off and on (terrible book IMO and no need to waste $$ on it – more on that in another post maybe). The band showed up on the early side for rehearsals. Around 2pm we saw Renato, Greg and Shelby arrive separately. From about 2:30 to 5 we heard the band rehearsing. Of course my eyeball was glued to the crack in the 3121 door, trying to catch a glimpse of Prince. He was in there, white pants and a fitted turquoise tshirt. Even blurry and indistinct from way back there, he looked fine. LOL.. I saw him jump on the drums at one point, play for about 30 seconds (twirling the sticks as he took the drum stool), and then handed the set back to Cora. Guess he had to show her how he wanted something to sound. Songs I remember him playing during rehearsal were PartyUp, Peach and a new one which was BEAUTIFUL. Slower song with gorgeous vocals. I had my ear glued to the door for that one instead of my eyes. Eventually security put up a promotional poster in front of the door inside the club so our viewing privileges were suspended, but we could still hear! Band rehearsed for a long time, and then we heard them go at it again for another hour or so from 6-7. Working hard!

They let us into the club around 8:30/9 I think. DJ Rashida didn’t come out until about 10:30. She played a lot of old school hip hop last night sprinkled with Prince and MJ. She kicked the set off with DMSR so you know the crowd was moving! We watched the techs get ready, hauling out the 2 crates of lyric sheets and about 5 guitars last night. It’s funny – they bring out each guitar draped and “hidden” in a black cloth and then set it up in the pit. Sacred guitars! It’s fun trying to figure out which guitar it is just by the neck. The acoustic guitar came out as well which was a great sign! I think somebody already mentioned there is a new guitar tech. He seemed nice and had a couple of chuckles listening to us behind him all night acting crazy.

Prince and the band took the stage around midnight. It started out with a slow groove and Prince came walking out from the back of the stage, slowly, taking his time. The crowd gave him a very warm reception, screaming and screaming. He stretched out his arms and soaked it all in, smiling all the while. He stepped to the mic and looked down at his lyric stand, then shot his tech a look like “Uh, wrong song” and then walked off the mic. He sort of meandered around the stage, hands behind his back, checking things out. Groove still going. Down front we knew there was a song problem, but to the rest of the crowd, it probably looked like he was just teasing us to death. He walked off into his VIP section for a bit, back on stage, then sat in the chair in front of Cora’s kit, crossing his legs and leaning back, just relaxing. Meanwhile his tech is thumbing frantically through the lyric crates trying to find the right song; even Trevor came down and whispered in his ear, presumably to tell him the exact name of the song? According to the set list, it was supposed to be a song called “Somewhere Here on Earth” but apparently the guy couldn’t locate the lyrics! So Prince walked around and spoke to the band, called the Twinz out and BOOM – went right into Lolita. It was interesting to see Prince go from extremely mellow with a slow, slow groove right into 60mph with Lolita. It was like a switch was flipped.

Despite not getting to hear this new song (which I think was the beautiful one I heard during rehearsal), Prince and Twinz did a great Lolita. I really love that song live. The Twinz had some new outfits and were their usual fit, high energy selves, smiling all the time. Oh forgot to comment on the fashion theme of the night – suits with a hoodie in the back like he wore on the Grammy’s and at his Oscar party. I have to say, he looked delicious last night. Hair was the bomb and his clothes were gorgeous. First outfit was an orange suit with some fabric flares that hung off the forearms. Nothing dramatic like Shelby’s cape arms that she’s known for, but he had some extra flow off that suit. Later in the night he wore the butter colored suit that we saw in the Oscar party pics.

OK back to the music. He played Black Sweat last night and reached for his bass. “Play that bass” I yelled a couple of times as he strapped it on, so he then started us into a “Come on Prince, play that bass!” fast chant which the crowd gladly picked up on. He visited both sides of the stage with some bass funk and finished up on ours, handing the bass down to us after some wicked thumping. He had a big grin on his face the whole time. We quickly crowd surfed it back to the guitar tech but what a thrill to receive it from him!

Other highlights I remember… He did a GREAT rendition of Satisfied and really took his time. Lemme tell u, Prince got us satisfied!!! I love how different this song if from the album version. He came over to our side at one point, leaned back and growled that we were going to be saying “Prince I think I died!” because he so satisfied us. It was great. He was looking right at my friend when he said it so she got a little chill off that.

The best part of the set – his acoustic section. Like the Musicology shows, it was just Prince with his guitar playing snippets of about 6 songs. He played Little Red Corvette and Raspberry Beret and pretty much gave up and let the crowd take the lyrics on that one. I have to say we sounded way off key but he was smiling anyway! My voice was so shot by that point. He also played “The Rules” and let me tell you, he has a LOT of them for us ladies. Don’t talk unless it’s during commercials, don’t expect sympathy – go get that from your nosy girlfriend, shopping is NOT a sport, and about 6 other rules I can’t recall. Between each rule he would ask “Can I lay down the rules for y’all?” with us screaming back each time, yes, yes, yes! He ended the acoustic portion with Sometimes It Snows in April (gorgeous, gorgeous) and I felt a few tears well up. Such a beautiful song.

Other songs performed last night… Pass the Peas (everyone on stage to dance during that one), U Got the Look, Kiss, Peach, Cream, What a Wonderful World (Mike and Renato only on this one), Purple Rain, Let’s Go Crazy, Gnarl’s Barkley’s Crazy… The darn setlist was right in front of me on the tech’s stand, but as usual, my post-show amnesia has set in and I didn’t think to ask him for it after it ended…

Some other highlights from the night… During one of Mike’s solos, Prince threw one of the black chairs across the stage to make his point. Prince threw two towels out into the crowd last night, one right by my head into the hands of Vanessa who traveled from Australia. Much as I coveted it myself, I was thrilled that she got an extra souvenir for all those miles she traveled (and hours she waited in line starting at 8am!). During one song with the Twinz, the girls were crouched down on each side of him after the song ended, waiting for the next jam. Prince waved his hand in front of their eyes like “Anyone home?”. It was very funny. Shelby performed two songs last night – one called Baby Love and the other that goes “I ain’t never loved a man the way that I, I loved you” which I love screaming out to Prince as he accompanies her on guitar. Shelby has a GREAT voice. She also sang on Barkley’s Crazy and as usual did a great job. I think I was the lucky recipient of the look when Prince sang the “You’ll be screaming like a white lady when I count to 3” during Black Sweat. Yes, I am definitely white but I was like a Mexican jumping bean down front last night. He just transports me every time! At one point, Prince leaned back and pulled up his pants leg on the butter suit to show us his fly boot. He nodded his head and pointed like “Oh yeah” and gave us a good laugh. He knew was looking hot last night. Go ‘head Prince!

The encore was Barkley’s Crazy (Prince did not play guitar on this and was offstage for most of it – what does he do when he walks off stage???) followed by the Superbowl version of Let’s Go Crazy, yip yip weeooooh! That always cracks me up because the song is so NOT that but we all just jump in anyway, getting all country with it. The show ended around 2am.

There was no aftershow last night. We were bummed but the main show was great last night and really fun. Prince was in great spirits despite the rough start and for a Friday, the crowd was very strong. Can’t wait until tonite!

Wow! Glad you had Fun! but don't get the price incerase! I don't expect-I know it's a Gift but We'll have a Good time anyhow!

Sounds like you had a fantastic time!