First note heard around ten to five pm... last note heard around ten to five am!


Hello everyone,

This probably will be filled with typos and all sorts of gramaticals, so bare with me. Kinda tired...

Soundcheck Zenith: (about an hour and a half..)

ummm... ok here goes...

TRC
Power Fantastic
Sweet Baby
Xenophobia
C.O.O.L
Automatic
Shake
Santana Medley
Pass the peas

(and other instrumentals in between a Macy Gray impression and a subleme Automatic)

Not much interaction, I welcomed him back and he acknoledged with a "thank you nice to be here". When I asked him to play Empty Room, he curtly answered "This ain't TRL..."

Interesting soundcheck which was about the music and ended something like this;

..."Paris I gotta take a bath, and I'll be right back."

Concert: just under three hours

TRC
Muse
Xenophobia
Purple Rain
The Work
Mellow
Housequake (snippet)
1 n 1 n 1
Gotta broken heart again
Strange Relationship
Rollercoaster
Pass the Peas
Take me with u
Rasberry Beret
Other side of the pillow
Pop Life
Starfish n Coffee
Beautiful Ones
everlasting Now
Sign o the times
Nothing Compares
The Ladder
When you were mine
Days of Wild


Very good show (the members, however, have lost that je ne sais quoi... I don't know, we've been to too many shows I suppose to be surprised)


Bataclan 2h45 long!


setlist went something like this...

?
?
?
Bambi
Whole latta love
Family Name
something in the water
? of U
The One
Fallin
?
Ain't No sunshine
Always in my hair
Peach (snippet)
shake
The work
777 93 11
?
Hair
Brick House
Skin Tight
?
?
Alphabet street
all the critics
dolphin
santana
come on
?

... too many "?" I know, but a lot of improvised jams on different loops were played.


So there you have it. Prince was being more of a musician than showman (in my opinion). He didn't fool around too much, but when he did he was halarious!

I'll leave alot of the rest of the qualitative statements for someone else. For me this was a fucking (excuse my French) incredible experience!

Well a bientot,

Browzer said:

WAIT, did he do the whole song??? :O



LOL! How was the impression??



Damn, MOLD!!!







Again, did he do these in their entirety or just snippets?? I'm wetting myself...

Thanks for the report!! How'd you do in the weather out there??

Alright I'm about to lose it...he played 1.5 hours soundcheck, almost 3 hours show and then another almost 3 hour show with such a set list? That man has some energy...

merci )

calldapplwondery83 said:

YES, he's nuts!!

Macy Gray impression was quite funny... oh wait, he also did a Shakira impression (her song) which was even funnier!

almost half of Brick House was played (very fun).

the others were snippets.

I don't know where Prince gets that kind of energy (its almost suspicious

more tidbits... The Ladder was awsome.

Dolphins I didn't like at all (some strange re-arrangement he's testing which doesn't do it for me)

Prince was VERY impressive on Bass.

voila

So he did do some shakira thang... funny

Browzer said:

Browzer, thanks for filling in my gaps, my review will be posted in the next two days.
I hate my memory not being linear...

Courtesy of Zannalee:

(BATACLAN)

Instrumental improvisation
"Good morning how R U" chant over a heavy guitar riff
Bambi
Whole lotta love (Led Zeppelin)
Family name
Something in the water (does not compute)
The question of U
The one
Fallin' (Alicia Keys)
Take 5 (Dave Brubeck)
Ain't no sunshine (Bill withers)
She's always in my hair
Peach (long funky instrumental)
Shake
I don't want nobody to give me nothing (open up the door I'll get it myself) (Jan de Bruin)
The work
777-93-11
The stick
Hair (GCS)
Brickhouse (Commodores)
Skintight (Ohio players)
Cool
All the critics love U in New York (instrumental, heavy keyboard driven jam)
Alphabet st (inc. Beverly Hillbillies theme)
Blues in G (NPG chants)
All the critics love U in Paris
Dolphin
Santana medley
Come on - Party 'till the sun comes up
Housequake - "It's time to get funky" chant

Browzer said:

Thank you for the details!