okay, first the complete and accurate setlists:


Soundcheck, Falconer Salen, Copenhagen, 17:40 - 18:40
John Blackwell: dr.
Rhonda Smith: bass
Renato Neto: keyb.
Candy Dulfer: alto sax
Eric Leeds: tenor sax
Greg Boyer: trombone
Prince, guitar: keyb., vocal.

Instrumental Funk Jam
Pink Cashmere
Instrumental Jazz Jam
Empty Room
Whole Lotta Love
Calhoun Square
Instrumental Jam (incl. Miles Davis’ "Jean Pierre")

Concert, Falconer Salen, Copenhagen, 20:30 - 23:25
John Blackwell: dr.
Rhonda Smith: bass
Renato Neto: keyb.
Candy Dulfer: alto sax
Eric Leeds: tenor sax
Greg Boyer: trombone
DJ Dudley D, turntables
Prince: guitar, keyb., vocal.

(Prince solo on acc. guitar and voice:)
Elephants and flowers
7
Don’t Play Me
Prince And The Band
The Truth
A Case Of U
Alphabet St. (the band comes in here)
The Rainbow Children
Poplife
Xenophobia
Money Don’t Matter 2nite
The Work
Purple Rain
1+1+1=3/Housequake/Love Rollercoaster
Strollin’
Gotta Broken Heart Again
Strange Relationship
Pass The Peas
When You Were Mine
The Ride
Sign O’ The Times
Take Me With U
Raspberry Beret
The Everlasting Now
(Piano set:)
Adore
Condition Of The Heart
Nothing Compares 2 U
Girld & Boys
Delirious
Diamonds & Pearls
The Beautiful Ones (with the band)
Nothing Compares 2 U (with the band)
The Ladder (with the band)
How Come You Don’t Call Me Anymore?
Starfish And Coffee
Days Of Wild / It Ain't Over (during which Prince played the melody line from America on a bass)


Aftershow, Vega, Copenhagen, 01:40 - 02:45:
John Blackwell, dr.
Rhonda Smith, bass
Renato Neto, keyb.
Candy Dulfer, alto sax
Eric Leeds, tenor sax
Greg Boyer, trombone
DJ Dudley D. turntables
Prince, (loud and dirty) guitar, vocal.

Who Knows (Jimi Hendrix tune)
Bambi
Whole Lotta Love
The Question of U
The One
Falling (a few lines, sung and played on wah-guitar)
Take 5
Skin Tight / 777-9311/ Hair (Prince on bass and vocal)
One Mo' Jam / Peach
Copenhagen Keep On Shakin’ Jam
All The Critics Love U In Denmark
Prince And The Band
Dolphin


THE SOUNDCHECK

The soundcheck was okay, but nothing really special except for Pink Cashmere in a jazzy style with lots of solos and Empty Room which sounded soooo gooood. During the soundcheck Prince also pointed his finger at me and my girlfriend as I put my arm around her and we kissed passionately and said "Hey, they’re making love already" which made people laugh and my girlfriend blush.


THE CONCERT

The concert was a little bit special: Prince had played in Aalborg the night before and had recieved two very negative newspapers reviews in Denmark's two biggest tabloids... to cut a semi-long story short: they were angry and disappointed that he'd charged some 125 $ for a ticket to a show with far too little of his well-known old hits and a lot of jazzy jam things going on. they called him arrogant and claimed that he didn't giva a shit about the fans.

Prince was definately aware of those reviews since he made hints to them several times during the evening, e.g. when he said "I don't care what they papers say, I'm having a party!"

However he also proclaimed early in the concert that he "didn't come to remenice the past but to comtemplate the future" - which would indicate that he WASN'T gonna play hits - but then the concert turned out to be the least Rainbow Children-oriented on the whole tour so far!

Take a look at the setlist and see how may of his old songs there are. Does it look like the past the future? Well, it's definately the past - but in Prince's case that is also just perfect!!!

He played really well, more guitar and less keyboard than the average ONA show, I gues, and the audience in the small and quite intimate venue (only 2100 seats!) were going crazy right from the beginning. Prince had to ask people to sit down couple of times but he seemed to enjoy the fact that the crowd was clapping in a funky manner and singing along at his smallest wink.

Highlights was:

- The whole first 20 minutes of the show, just Prince's voice and a guitar. Wow!

- Xenophobia (smokin' - great horn solos)

- The Work (encredibly funky, Prince foolin' and dancing)

- The Ride (8 minutes of dripping musical sexiness and MEAN guitar soloing)

The only flaw was the DJ who I must have to say really sucked. His scratching skills was very limited but luckily he only participated in a few songs (Strange Relationship, The Everlasting Now, Days of Wild).


THE AFTERSHOW

The aftershow vas played at VEGA, where Prince also played in 1998 (the only known live performance of Violet The Organ Grinder!?). A nice big club known for it's good acoustics and expensive bar prices.

This night Prince andthe band walked on stage in the dark much earlier than people expected and started playing right away. The guitar was LOUD, and Prince was playing the paint off the walls opening with the ultra funky and dirty lines of Jimi Hendrix' Who Knows (from Band of Gypsys/Live at Fillmore east - check it out, it's DA BOMB).

Prince was tearing the shit apart, yelling for the sound board to turn his guitar up even louder, "I want to FEEL the guitar!" he said. The crowd was going nuts.

Bambi and Whole Lotta Love was awesome with really long and dirty solos, Prince obvoiusly letting off some steam as he was sweating good and screaming when he sang.

The Question Of U was sung with passion and the guitar work once again was amazing, Prince really had a good night and he seemed to both concentrate hard and enjoy every second as he played his guitar. He did the "break it down" trick, and then started singing The One over the beat, the band fell in gradually but still keept it way down dynamically - Prince's vocal really stood out naked and clear backed by some delicate organ playing by Renato Neto and created what turned out to be the perhaps most soulful moment of the whole evening in Copenhagen...

Prince then took the guitar (still in the same beat) and played and with the wah pedal a few lines of the Alicia Keyes' "Fallin'" singing the words along the guitar lines. Nice little detail there!

The band then threw in a little bit off jazz flavor to the funk by playing Paul Desmond/Dave Brubecks Take Five which led to Prince (now on Rhonda's Fender Jazz Bass) playing and singing a more than skin tight version of Ohio PLayers' Skin Tight with some funky horn parts, 777-9311 (instrumental, just to show off on the bass a little bit), and Larry Grahams heavy funk classic Hair which he also sang in a nice deep and shaky voice. Quite Larry Graham-like actually.

Prince switched back to the guitar and the band started grooving in a hard rocking way which led to some chants: "One More Jam, For Prince and the Band" - "Copenhagen, we'll be shakin'" etc. The jam emerged into a raunchy 10-minutes Peach with lotsa soloing and chanting.

Prince's goatee-sporting DJ, Dudley D,was trying to do some scratching at this point but he failed big time, people disliked his amateurish scratching, several times the poor guy lost the tempo AND the beat completely!

The mean old school Minneapolis funk groove that the band then hit made the crowd even more estatic and after a lenghty funky jam thing with Prince chating together with the audience, All The Critics Love U In New York was off cause renamed to fit Denmark, where the critics actually absolutely did NOT love Prince. He was joking about it once again but it seemed it had actually provoked him and he was now making a point of proving the ignorant critics wrong.

Anyhow he tore the place apart with ATCLUINY where he once again played the Cloud guitar so loud and dirty that some people might have been scared.

The show ended, and Prince said "We love you, thank you for supporting us". The lights went out and the DJ started spinnin' Return Of The Bomb Squad from the NPG Exodus album. People were still chanting and clapping and stomping their feet, so after a few minutes Prince came out on the stage again in the dark and started rapping Prince And The Band over the record. The band then came on stage, too, and....

a truly great night ended with a full long version of Dolphin with Prince one last time rocking the house and almost blowing our hair off with his wild and loud yet refined at delicate guitar playing.

Prince then said "We are the New Power Generation. Thank you all for listening", and left the building...



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[This message was edited Sun Oct 27 15:56:32 PST 2002 by jalokin]
[This message was edited Mon Oct 28 5:39:17 PST 2002 by jalokin]

Great report,thanks so much

Much love Pochacco

Thanx for the report! I really, really hope that I can see an aftershow sometime, too. I play guitar too and such a guitar dominated aftershow would certainly blow me away!

...one question: did he play his new Danelectro bass? I must admit that I absolutely cannot the stand the look of those instruments, but I wanna know anyway.

And you're right The Work is just great live! A highlight for me.

excellent show its seems, and excellent review j. thxs. so much, appreciate that (the trandy man u hate) , glad u had so much fun! so i guess it was even more energetic and intimate than berlin? peaceNbWild

No matter what the critics say. I had a great time at the concert and the aftershow and it definately was worth driving up there from Holland.
Fantastic!!
And he did even Bambi at the aftershow what more could i wish

Wow. Sounds great. I'm jealous.

Great review!!!

calldapplwondery83 said:

At the concert he played a bass I don't know the type name of, at the aftershow he played a classic Fender Jazz Bass.

He played the Hohner guitar most of the time at the concert, only Habibi (the symbol guitar) in one song and the Cloud guitar ("Blue Angel") in a song or two.

At the aftershow however he played the Cloud guitar most of the time, the Hohner also a bit, and not the Symbol guitar at all...

purplefab said:

...actually I think I liked the Berlin show better, I think it was a bit too much 'greatest hits' in Copenhagen. The aftershow however was another thing.
I have seen prince quite a few times now (also aftershow) but never like this. He was really getting something out that he needed to let go. He was freakin' dynamite - sweating and screaming and playing that guitar like there was no tomorrow...

(And btw what makes you think I hate you. I only said that I couldn't see the point in using the soundchecks for personal business and making prince recieve presents he didn't want.)

HOLD DA OP !!!

sikken en masse du ved.

I´m deeply impressed by this rewiew; U must have heard a lot of bootlegs ??

And u know your music history (ref. to jimi record)

great thanks a lot.

Henrik.

he began the show with an acoustic set!!! AWESOME!

play that guitar in Rotterdam, in Rotterdam


thanx 4 the report!

WOW! Great report! Thank you so much!

Man, I neeed to hear that aftershow...

rumour has it that all the shows in denmark have been recorded. but don't tell anyone...

ps. i DON'T have any recordings.

jalokin said:

It was...just got the word today, soundcheck/concert and aftershow.

DAT's en route.

p.s. don't email me either.

Thanks for the great review and listing of the songs.
I believe he also played "Brick House" at Vega.

Damn I've had a hard time remembering all the songs played during that evening/night.

steenberg said:

He sure did play Brick House that nite

bambi said:

Jep. B4 Skin Thigt.

Is the file that NPGMC uploaded last night the final jam from the soundcheck, with Jean-Pierre? Or one of the earlier ones?
I'm starting to get into Miles, and this sounds like Miles Davis' work, but I don't hear Jean-Pierre.

booyah said:

Yep it's the final jam from the soundcheck.
In the beginning of this jam you can hear the horns playing the main line from Jean Pierre.

Is there new music to download on the NPGMC site? Should I check? Duh?