Below is the setlist for tonight.
I think Prince was in good mood.
He gave us a fantastic concert.

Please note that Prince didn't play
during the soundcheck, but he showed up
and did "mike test (check one-two thing)"
last 5 min or so.

Tokyo, Kokusai Forum - November 15th 2002:


***Soundcheck (5:40pm - 6:15pm)***

1. Last December [Instrumental]
2. Instrumental Jam [Incl. a part of "Let's Work"]
3. Last December [with Prince, but just played guitar]

Prince showed up to test mike, came on stage
and played "Last December", but he only played the guitar.

He didn't sing at all, he said he was sleepy when he
showed up during soundcheck.

I heard he just arrived in Tokyo today, so he might
have been sleepy because of jet lag.


***Concert (7:15pm - 9:50pm)***
1. Drum Intro
2. The Rainbow Children
3. Pop Life
4. Purple Rain
5. The Work Pt.1
6. Mellow
7. 1+1+1=3
8. The Other Side Of The Pillow
9. Strange Relationship
10. Pass The Peas
11. When You Were Mine
12. Sign Of The Times
13. Take Me With U
14. Raspberry Beret
15. The Everlasting Now
16. Adore
17. Starfish And Coffee
18. Girls & Boys
19. Condition of The Heart
20. Sometimes It Snows In April
21. Nothing Compares 2 U
22. The Ladder [Incl. Speech]
23. How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?
24. Empty Room
25. Anna Stesia
[This message was edited Fri Nov 15 9:09:27 PST 2002 by liberation]
[This message was edited Fri Nov 15 9:23:38 PST 2002 by liberation]

Thanks Lib!!!

LIB

dodnt know U were in Japan

Sahar said:

I'm not...sitting at home in Limerick, friends of Lib reported in from Japan.



Sahar

I LOVE "LAST DEC". thats right y'all, japan is either way ahead or behind us? have 2 go check my world clock site! always confuses me. good luck in japan prince and the awesome npg! hope that impersonator didnt follow u! (from london)

Ummm, how many hours ahead is Tokyo from california? Cuz it's friday morning here..

anemone said:

It's 2a.m. on Saturday now in Japan, so i'm told.

Japan is +9 hours from the UK...don't u remember the World Cup? ..oh probably not!

Dan said:

Brazil.

anemone said:

I believe Tokyo is 17 hours ahead of Cali.

I want to know if Prince really said he was...sleepy. I never thought he would say such a word!

how many ppl were watching the show?
sold out?

timur said:

that venue holds about 5,500 if im not mistaken .
i dont know if it was sold out

damn i was hoping he would change the set list a bit though

oh well

liberation said:

Thats... like... the cutest thing I've ever read! Why do I think that's so cute??

Thanks Liberation Can you elaborate on a few things: how was the crowd? Were they insane b/c he hadn't been there in a while? Did they know the new songs? Gimme details!

He got PR out of the way EARLY that's usually one folks are waiting for. My guess - the crowd went NUTS. Am I right???

Great,great show last night in tokyo at the"kokusai forum"!
2hours+half of funky jaM!!
Confirm the set list(P just added empty room)...and an extra-beautiful version of "the ladder"!
Can't wait the"budokan show" on monday 18th!
Peace!

Just wondering: who were in the Horn section?

And what about the Tokyo-oo-oo, chant? He still make this one when he is in Tokyo?

would be cool to hear him do this thingy today too...

LeRoy said:

Greg and Maceo, it was a really cool show. I thought it was very different from the London show. Prince came on and said he was tired, they had all just flown in the night before, but you couldn't see that when he started playing, he was in such a good mood, laughing and talking 2 everyone. He got up a guy called Tuna from the audience, Prince found this highly amusing

shunchan said:

Yeah, he did this a lot too. The crowd were really into him and were dancing like they were at the Beatles It was really nice to see everyone enjoyed themselves so much

Don't believe it folks, Liberation has no friends--or none that I know of.

2freaky4church1 said:

Yes Freaky...it's true, i'm a sad loser with no life who eats chicken all day.