So, the piano set last night (august 11th) featured very few full songs [unlike the one on the 7th] as Prince decided to tease us endlessly with snippets of songs like when doves cry / sott / erotic city / nasty girl / poplife. What I found peculiar was that many of these snippets were actually sampled with Prince just hitting a few keys on top. I wonder whether his band are prepped for these songs or not? I thought it was a pretty stuttered piano set compared to tuesday.

I'm hoping he's just teasing us with songs to come in future performances.

I thought the piano set was a waste last night. All it did was piss people off. The friends I got tickets for said the show was good, but they got annoyed when prince kept talking about hits, or in this case, giving one line intros, only to stop them. He seems to think its entertaining.

Did you here that crowd when the sample of When Doves Cry and SOTT came on! Wake up Prince! Put them in the set!

SquirrelMeat said:

that's exactly what my friend thought. he just got pissed off at the snippets whereas he could have been blown away by 2 proper full length songs.

I really start to think Prince is spoiling the UK a bit too much and should have done a proper tour across Europe rather than playing in front spoilt drunk f*****s who just want to go and see Prince because it is trendy to dig him all of a sudden.I really regret the ONA days when Prince was more underground.

I really start to think Prince is spoiling the UK a bit too much and should have done a proper tour across Europe rather than playing in front spoilt drunk f*****s who just want to go and see Prince because it is trendy to dig him all of a sudden.
I really regret the ONA days when Prince was more underground.

What were the samples? Instrumental backing? Or samples from the original recordings?

sarkozyiszeman said:

OK, what's that got to do with my original post?

machinegun said:

Complaints, complaints, complaints, blablabla about setlist of my dreams, what he sould have played or not and how, people were drunk, it smells beer, sound was crap, jazz interludes are crap, he sould not do covers, he is teasing us when he plays a few notes only of some of his hits, why he did not play at the aftershow, waiting in the queue was horrible, stage in the center is a bad idea, he was not into it tonight.
Many of you make it sound like a fiasco all over the org and housequake.
If your friends were not happy with the samples, tell these whiny spoilt winghers to f*** o** from me please.

sarkozyiszeman said:

There's has been a lot to praise and a lot to question, but I'd say spending any time pressing buttons playing back recordings of bits of songs from old albums is a poor use of his talent.

machinegun said:

Complaints, complaints, complaints, blablabla about setlist of my dreams, what he sould have played or not and how, people were drunk, it smells beer, sound was crap, jazz interludes are crap, he sould not do covers, he is teasing us when he plays a few notes only of some of his hits, why he did not play at the aftershow, waiting in the queue was horrible, stage in the center is a bad idea, he was not into it tonight.
Many of you make it sound like a fiasco all over the org and housequake.
If your friends were not happy with the samples, tell these whiny spoilt winghers to f*** o** from me please.

machinegun said:

This type of agressive rubbish is something we would expect from some sad fool who puts " sarkozy" in his pseudo. Please, take out your problems on some other forum and leave us alone.
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Maceo plays some great sax solo and they'out to get the liters of lager out of their system. So you call me sad fool. The only sad fools I see are these drunken whiny winghers who fill the arena every night.
[Edited 8/12/07 14:21pm]

i was top tier - and there was an awful lot of people milling around getting beer whilst the show was going, i was quite shocked and could not understand the point on going to see a great artist and getting up to get drinks, just seemed a bit mad

sarkozyiszeman said:

Those "drunken whiny winghers" probably didn't buy a ticket with "Maceo" written on it.

SquirrelMeat said:

How pathetic !

When Prince was more underground, most people at his concerts were the Miles Davis, JB, Sly, Stevie, Zappa, Hendrix, Santana, Funkadelic lovers.
I mean real music lovers who recognize good music whoever plays it.
These prats are lucky enough to listen to a legend like Maceo playing and they still go get a pint of fucking lager. I swear to God I have never seen such a poor attendance in my life and I have attended more than 500 gigs since the age of 14.

At Montreux, Cora was playing a fantastic drum solo only with her hands and you had these fat tourists shouting insults out loud. How sad and frustrating ! She was shocked.

Prince could play the best guitar solo ever at one of his 02 gigs, most of these people would not even notice.
[Edited 8/12/07 15:31pm]

sarkozyiszeman said:

An arena show isn't about musical excellence, its about entertainment for the masses.

And its not pathetic for a casual fan at a Prince concert to expect Prince to perform the songs.