Het was een fantastisch concert, wat een stelletje zeikers zijn jullie zeg.
Het is ook nooit goed!

de "zogenaamde" fans die even denken te beslissen voor prince wat hij wel en niet mag spelen op zo´n avond omdat hij op een vorige concert het zus of zo gedaan heeft?

Zeik toch niet zo en weet ´s een beetje te genieten van zo´n avond als de 15e

Heb de ONA in New York gezien, daar speelde die zo´n beetje dezelfde set, maar hij gooit er bij elk concert ander materiaal tussendoor, prachtig toch.

It was a fantastic concert, what a bunch of (dutch) wankers.
It´s never oke´

The "socalled" fans who think they can decide for prince what he can and cannot play on a night like this because he played it so and so on a other night

Don´t wine so much and enjoy a night like the 15th

Saw the ONA conert in New York,where he played almost the same set, but with every concert he plays some other material in between, is great.

I totally agree with Art. After the fantastic Frankfurt concert, and knowing the great audience in Holland from the Ahoy concert in 98, my expectations were very high. I too felt that Prince wasn't in a good mood, and frankly, so was I - after 3 hours waiting like cattle in a small smokey room without sitting, drinking or eating, i had severe headache. then the whole mess when we were let in and the member areas were still being set up. there were just far too many members there. i mean, i don't need prince's sweat on my shoulders, but i expected a place where i could see the show well and have room to dance, and due to the amount of members, that couldn't be the case for many.

musically the concert itself was very good, and i don't mind hearing purple rain for the 20th time. but although he articulated his love for the dutch fans again and again, i felt it was all just show, not coming from the heart. after thinking about it, i believe he doesn't like them singing along to "sometimes it snows in april" as if it were a beer-drinking song. maybe his die-hard fans even scare him a bit. therefor no walking through the member area at the soundcheck, no dance contest.

well, and then charging guests 20 euros to hear his awful Dj was a total rip-off, especially after virtually announcing an aftershow at the soundcheck and ending the concert apruptly.
he knows everybody wants to see an aftershow, and he's making profit off that. with at least 500 member-guests in the club, he got 10.000 euros for nothing, a nice little tip i think.

btw.: i'm german, not spoiled with too many concert experiences, just a normal fan.

I think some of the dutch fans are the most fanatical.

Just face it, some shows are always going to be better than others. Also, the smaller the venue the better.

Gee, what is wrong with you people!! The man did a *great* show. My friends and I, had a good time in Rotterdam. We enjoyed it and I'm shure a whole lot of other people did too. Though I must say I'm pretty short, so most of the time on concerts I miss the gigs, happening on stage, because of people's back of shoulders in front of me. We all came to hear some good and creative music; well we got that! Be greatfull of what you've been shown. He is a great professional and a good performer and his band ... well, just the funckiest there is!!!
Thank U Girls & Boys!
Love, Peace and stay as Wild as U are.

cyberpit said:

Great laugh about this Cyberpit! A real Duch! Thx ... enne ... verder geen gezeik. Hehe.

I thing Baby Boy needs to come home, and do some concerts where he is appreciated..Denver maybe?

Well this was a ...average gig. I know this may abe a shock to a lot of people but after seeing all 3 nights in London I was looking forward to my Dutch music exchange night in Rotterdam.

The "soundcheck" was my favourite part of the night. He started with an incredible version of Something In the Water Does Not Compute and carried on into an almost instrumental version of Thank You Falletin Me Be Mice Elf Agin. After letting people get into position the band continued with a different version of Muse 2 The Pharoah which included elements of Love Bizarre. Rhonda was sent packing from the stage and then it was clear why once Prince grabbed the bass and started playing 777-9311 and The Stick. I don't think I would have wanted to hang around if my boss was about to show me how the bass "should" be played! To top it off Mr Eric Leeds came on stage to jam with the band!!! I thought I was in funk heaven.

Then the main show started. So far so good with probably my favourite live version of Rainbow Children out of the 4 times I have heard it live. The goodness continued with a great version of Pop Life and Xenophobia...Unfortunatley after around 30 minutes he thought it might be a good idea to play Purple Rain. This was the end of what promissed to be a great night for me. I felt sonically raped! At least in London he had the respect not to subject us to this track again and concentrate on playing music. Ths was the same version of Purple Rain that I have heard on too many occasions to remember...I never want to hear him play it again!!!

Altough he followed this with a fantastic version of Housequake/1+1+1=3 the gig never felt quite right again all night. He even cut out Family Name which in my opinion is a travesty.

Still I don't wish to totally dwell on the negative aspects of the night...I did still have a great time and it was clear that the Dutch are a party crowd. Although the 10,000 strong crowd was no where near as loud as the 3,000 people in attendance at each of the London gigs!!!

Peace

cyberpit said:

Euh Vette show ,sorry maar ik zag geen vette show,hij was wel o.k. maar Prince had deze show nog op deze manier met 2 vingers in zijn neus kunnen spelen!(zelfs de soundcheck was beter!)
Pfff eerst zitten zeggen geen little red corvette te spelen en dan vervolgens in het 4e nummer Purple Rain erin rammen,mag ik effe een teiltje!
Ik ga voor de herkansing op de 2e !
[This message was edited Thu Oct 17 16:41:34 PDT 2002 by Joseppe]