Also, this is for the stinky people at the Aftershow, couldn't you of splashed some 3121 on yourself?

I was just telling my driving companions that Prince fans are like Grateful Deads fans, following P. around, but with soap and style.

here's a great blog entry about 7/7/7 including some SWEET pics from the first avenue aftershow:

http://www.morecowbell.ne...enue-7807/

Note: BE NICE AND RESPECT THE BLOGGER'S WISHES. DO *NOT* RE-POST THEIR PHOTOS HERE (or anywhere for that matter).

http://www.startribune.co.../index.php

Here's what Prince was supposed to play before the Police stopped the First Ave. Show:

“We’re at First Avenue,” Prince said as he strummed the beginning of “Controversy’ “We gotta do it.”

Shortly after he sang “wish there were no rules,” Prince caved into the rules. “The authorities say we gotta go,” he said 70 minutes into his late, late set that started at 2:45 a.m. Sunday.”We always listen to the authorities. I promise I’ll be back.”

He was 15 songs into a planned 24-tune set. Here’s what he played — and didn’t get to play.

1. 3121 2. Girls & Boys 3. Feel 4 U 4. Controversy 5. blues song about a cockeyed woman who asks for pepper but looks at the salt 6. Satisfied 7. Down by the Riverside (instrumental featuring horn section) 8. Broken Heart Again 9. Love Is a Losing Game (Amy Winehouse tune sung by Shelby J) 10. Love Changes (Mother’s Finest tune, by Shelby again) 11. Thank You (the Sly Stone classic w/ Larry Graham on bass) 12. Hair (a Chaka Khan/Larry Graham oldie) 13. Sing a Simple Song (more Sly) 14. Everyday People (you know it’s Sly) 15. Alphabet Street

At this point, Prince and the band exited, and everyone expected an encore — except all we got was Prince’s speech about the authorities.

Here’s what was still left on the set list:

16. Baby Love 17. The Dance 18. Let’s Go 19. Anotherloverholeinyourhead 20. The Question of U 21. Peach 22. Lolita 23. Black Sweat 24. Kiss

What did you think of the late, late show? Please post your opinion here:

here's a great blog entry about 7/7/7 including some SWEET pics from the first avenue aftershow:

http://www.morecowbell.ne...enue-7807/

Note: BE NICE AND RESPECT THE BLOGGER'S WISHES. DO *NOT* RE-POST THEIR PHOTOS HERE (or anywhere for that matter).

babynoz said:

that's exactly how i feel.

his voice was ON FIYAH at the aftershow, and what he was wearing...oh my GOD...he looked every bit the badass rock star again.

PicassoFace said:

Who...Bob Dylan?

oh man- the Macy's and First Ave shows sounds awesome!

here's a great blog entry about 7/7/7 including some SWEET pics from the first avenue aftershow:

http://www.morecowbell.ne...enue-7807/

Note: BE NICE AND RESPECT THE BLOGGER'S WISHES. DO *NOT* RE-POST THEIR PHOTOS HERE (or anywhere for that matter).

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mzflash said:

haha, that's not what i heard. what i heard was that the people on Larry's side when he came out were kinda like "oh boy. " and the people that were on the side with Wendy and saw her first were going crazy.

babynoz said:

that's exactly how i feel.

his voice was ON FIYAH at the aftershow, and what he was wearing...oh my GOD...he looked every bit the badass rock star again.

Too bad they just didn't let this slide and let prince finish his show.
There was no harm done. Noone got hurt.

The police should have been spending their time on more important issues like drunk drivers or saving someone from domestic violence.No, they had to shut Prince's show down.Too bad I know there are rules, but that's the thanks Prince gets after this event brought a lot of revenue into the city?

Thank you...

And while it's a lost cause attempting to explain anything to anyone who uses the term "naysayer," no, there's nothing mean or untrue about it. It's now 10 years since Larry Graham first started joining Prince onstage in his silly white suit and most people were as sick of it then as they are now. No new songs (except for the blip on the radar known as the drivel of GCS2000). He's not even performing his own songs - playing "Everyday People" and other Sly tracks makes him little more than a glorified cover band. It's little different than if the sax player from Huey Lewis & the News toured without Huey Lewis and played "The Power of Love." Nobody wants to see that either. If I want to hear the message of "Everyday People," I'll pop in a greatest hits CD...at least until Sly hits the road again.

Graham was a talented bass player. But he's been playing the same notes for far too long and it's tiresome.

I have goosebumps reading all these.

When we walked out of the aftershow, high on the music and life and so forth, I was not prepared for the mounted police and the standing police! There was nary a person on the street, just the police!

I concur with Carrie, his little speech seemed heartfelt, he said it in his 'normal' voice, not deep and sexy, he appeared bummed.

I've started calling Larry Graham, The Larry. We hear and see The Larry quite a bit. It all takes away from the glorious spectacle of Prince. Yes he invented slap bass, where would the entire world including the Amazonians who make clicking noises to speak be without The Larry?

People lost it when Wendy came out. She fits Prince so well, I am grateful they are reconnecting, she adds so much to the experience, its almost as if she has his back and he can relax a bit, I dunno.

Also, this is for the stinky people at the Aftershow, couldn't you of splashed some 3121 on yourself? We saw a grandma at Macy's say she LOVED 3121. Hahaha.

I went back to the hotel after the Target show and took a shower!

Standing in 101 temperatures for 5 hours (or longer) then being in a capacity crowd?

Were we at a Grateful Dead show or a Prince show??

I was just telling my driving companions that Prince fans are like Grateful Deads fans, following P. around, but with soap and style.
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I have goosebumps reading all these.

When we walked out of the aftershow, high on the music and life and so forth, I was not prepared for the mounted police and the standing police! There was nary a person on the street, just the police!

I concur with Carrie, his little speech seemed heartfelt, he said it in his 'normal' voice, not deep and sexy, he appeared bummed.

I've started calling Larry Graham, The Larry. We hear and see The Larry quite a bit. It all takes away from the glorious spectacle of Prince. Yes he invented slap bass, where would the entire world including the Amazonians who make clicking noises to speak be without The Larry?

People lost it when Wendy came out. She fits Prince so well, I am grateful they are reconnecting, she adds so much to the experience, its almost as if she has his back and he can relax a bit, I dunno.

Also, this is for the stinky people at the Aftershow, couldn't you of splashed some 3121 on yourself? We saw a grandma at Macy's say she LOVED 3121. Hahaha.

I went back to the hotel after the Target show and took a shower!

Standing in 101 temperatures for 5 hours (or longer) then being in a capacity crowd?

Were we at a Grateful Dead show or a Prince show??

I was just telling my driving companions that Prince fans are like Grateful Deads fans, following P. around, but with soap and style.
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I don't get why there are so many posts portraying the police as oppressors. I was there, there were many PPL that had been drinking ALL day long. Im sorry, I WANT the police there, to protect me. The FIRST AVENUE staff was excellent, they controlled the cut off time for drinking, and even bounced this beligerent, stumbling, elbow throwing big guy that was directly in front of me. This guy squared shoulders with me for NO reason and told me he was going to leave and come back to "HIS" spot, and warned me to "don't get it twisted big fella". Now I am just over 6 foot, and 330 lbs, mostly muscle, so Im not exactly scared, but I DO just want to enjoy the show, I am not there to knuckle up on anyone. But he got into it it with a nice lady minding her own on his way back to "HIS" spot cursing her up and down, and he got BOUNCED the hell out QUICK! Several people near me were remarking how thankful they were for them bouncing him. that was RIGHT before Prince took the stage. I saw others of this type all over the bar (not the majority BY FAR, but enough to roll my eyes at)I know that MANY of us are clean cut straight and narrow, high on the MUSIC types, but there IN FACT were people there with the potential to cause problems. The police let the show go a full hour later than what is legal, and needed to keep public order. I left the building, headed straight for my car parked in the garage kinda between 1st Ave. and Target Center, and I saw very little police presence, so portraying this as a Rodney King like display of police force is just dead wrong. we would have gotten a full set if Prince and his people had their act together. there are several things that were not handled well.

I WALKED my wife back to the Hyatt Regency after the Target show, about a half hour walk (due to excess foot traffic), changed clothes, got in my car drove around a bit, got back to the area and headed for the parking garage, while I was pulling around the target center, I was stopped for the Hertz rent a truck that was backing out with the equipment for 1st ave FROM TC. then as I was walking in I saw them start to unload it. You coulda ROLLED it across the street faster tan this. This begs several questions.

1) I have seen the instrument room at Paisley, brutha got a cupla xtra of about everything. why you totin the same stuff from show to show? stagger it.

2) WHY set up after the Target center show? especially if you start at 10, have access to 1st ave at LEAST at 11 (when the doors where scheduled to open) send a few guys over to start setting it up...with the equipment mentioned in 1.

This would allow you to start around 1, play your whole set and be out by the allotted time. you wanna keep playing after 3? tell ppl to come to paisley, you had time to set that up too, you knew you were doing this for at least a week. get your ducks in a row ppl! Hell, you are playing 1st Avenue on 07-07-07 for the 1st time in 20 years! OF COURSE you want Wendy there, ask her a week in advance.

...most of all respect your fan(m)s, it was HOT out, let us into the AC, we had been standing ALL day in the heat, it made my wife ill. I was having breathing problems. It was scheduled for 8:30, we should have been seated at 8:00 - 8:15. the doors should have been opened before 9:30!!! Regardless of where you all are in your set up process.

Lastly, an apology for the delay would have been nice, and at least acknowledged our suffering. The show was good... no doubt, but man you'd have won our hearts collectively wuth an explanation and an apology. ...Just a simple sentence.

You need to hire me to organise your events.
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rozilla said:

I would like to respond about the soap and water. I was one of the people that lined up at 7:00 PM FRIDAY in front of the Ave. untill I got my ticket for the after show. I am from out of town and had a hotel but did not get to use it untill after the Macy's show Sat. Many people sleeping on the street did not have time to go home and return. We all did the best we could with the buddy system, but some locals rode a bus etc. from other areas. We slept on the street because of the Macy show we knew unless we were early in the line we would have to choose and we wanted it all. After we got our Ave. ticket we ran 2 blocks for the Macy show and because it started late many people way behind me got to see their show. We showered for the Target show but we had a hotel in town. Macy's was late and not knowing Target would be so late I am sure many did not chance going home. I am sure I did not offend anyone... but at the Macy show I am sure I could not have been real pleasant after sleeping on the street for 20 hours. If you had a smelly fan next to you, that was a fan that had sacrifed a lot to be standing there and like me, saw all three amazing shows, wishing they were refreshed. I was more offended by the clean smelling girl that was so drunk and foul mouthed, humping her boyfriend on me that I would have loved to have those smelly street fans next to me instead. Just do not say they smelled bad because they did not care. Glad you were clean and got to see all 3 shows...

I agree with all you said about the late set ups. One of the people in line with me all night said there was another show earlier at the Ave. Sat. night they were suppose to go to before Prince made his announcement. They said they go often and the time for the previous show was oddly early so they thought something was up. that is probably why they could not set up earlier anyway so just use the same equipment. It would have saved the tear down time after the Target Center and Prince would have to freshen up in between so there would be time for the set up. In theory it sounds right but reality was different. they might have learned something, it isn't often he does 3 shows, different locations with in 6 hours. I know I learned to be prepared for any and all things when it comes to Prince.

I have goosebumps reading all these.

When we walked out of the aftershow, high on the music and life and so forth, I was not prepared for the mounted police and the standing police! There was nary a person on the street, just the police!

I concur with Carrie, his little speech seemed heartfelt, he said it in his 'normal' voice, not deep and sexy, he appeared bummed.

I've started calling Larry Graham, The Larry. We hear and see The Larry quite a bit. It all takes away from the glorious spectacle of Prince. Yes he invented slap bass, where would the entire world including the Amazonians who make clicking noises to speak be without The Larry?

People lost it when Wendy came out. She fits Prince so well, I am grateful they are reconnecting, she adds so much to the experience, its almost as if she has his back and he can relax a bit, I dunno.

Also, this is for the stinky people at the Aftershow, couldn't you of splashed some 3121 on yourself? We saw a grandma at Macy's say she LOVED 3121. Hahaha.

I went back to the hotel after the Target show and took a shower!

Standing in 101 temperatures for 5 hours (or longer) then being in a capacity crowd?

Were we at a Grateful Dead show or a Prince show??

I was just telling my driving companions that Prince fans are like Grateful Deads fans, following P. around, but with soap and style.
[Edited 7/9/07 11:07am]