When my son was born in 2003 (13 years after my youngest daughter) I refused to subject myself to Brahams Lullaby again and picked out musicians that I felt would be soothing for him and enjoyable for me. Alicia Keys, Jil Scott, Fourplay, and of course Prince. Though Prince has a vast music catalog, I decided to stick with the instrumental work...N.E.W.S., Kamasutra, both Madhouse albums...and my son loved it. As he got older I broadened the selection of songs and my son's appreciation of Prince grew. Add in performances at the Grammy's, RRHOF, SNL, BET Awards/Chaka Khan Tribute, Happy Feet, the Super Bowl, Jay Leno, Ellen DeGeneres, and Montreux and his fandom was solidified.

So I should not have been surprised when my 7-year-old son placed on the top of his Christmas Wish List...tickets to see Prince. Of course I got him tickets for the December 29th show(delivered from Santa of course), but to add to it I got him a t-shirt when I attended on the 17th with friends.

Below is a picture of my son after receiving him t-shirt. The picture of him with the ticket was lost when I dropped my camera while he tackled me. While our seats may be in the nose bleed section (I couldn't afford better seats at the time of sale) I have a great feeling that we are going to have a great time and that i will probably enjoy myself more on the 29th than on the 17th because of how he is going to react.

cute kid... i hope he has a blast on Wed... I'm hoping we get a show like the 17th cause so far that has been the best night imo

He will love it. I took my 7 year old to Izod and he loved it so much I took him again to MSG.

What a cute pic. I'm sure he'll enjoy the second show as well.

Warning: Years from now, he'll be justifiably disillusioned and bitter when he realizes that your projection of your Prince obsession onto him deprived him of his opportunity to share in his peer group's experience of the full measure of Bieber Fever.

That's so cute!! I'm sure he'll enjoy the show!

OneMoJam said:

Warning: Years from now, he'll be justifiably disillusioned and bitter when he realizes that your projection of your Prince obsession onto him deprived him of his opportunity to share in his peer group's experience of the full measure of Bieber Fever.

My son has a deep love of music of all sorts, and don't stop him from enjoying any of it, but Bieber Fever has not infected him.

That's so cute, you are most certainly giving him a gift that he will never forget! This is my first Prince concert too, I'm 28 and have been a fan since I was 5. I'm from Australia so going to a Prince show is not really common place (he toured once in 1992). I'm sure I will be as excited as your little guy is! What a smile he has!

i went to my first prince concert in 1985 (purple rain) @ nassau colliseum... i was 4 years old, i still love prince ( i actually got the prince symbol tattooed on my left wrist, its my profile picture) your son is gonna love it!!!!

OneMoJam said:

Warning: Years from now, he'll be justifiably disillusioned and bitter when he realizes that your projection of your Prince obsession onto him deprived him of his opportunity to share in his peer group's experience of the full measure of Bieber Fever.

My son has a deep love of music of all sorts, and don't stop him from enjoying any of it, but Bieber Fever has not infected him.

My son had a fabulous time, from receiving the tickets to get readying to the meet-up to the show. I want to thank everyone at the meet-up for being so nice to my son and me. We had a great time, and he's already looking forward to seeing Prince again. Pray that I hit the lottery tickets so I can tickets for January 18th.

Here are some pics of us from the night...

Me and my Lil Prince @ Home before we headed to the meetup

Christopher's ready to get funky

On NJ Transit ready for Prince

Christopher with L40ATheOriginal (a.k.a. Uncle Freddy)

Some of the meet-up group

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More of the meet-up group

Awww man! I have to wait how long until Prince goes on? Seriously

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I see Prince!

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I see Mommy!

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On the train home...all funked out. Sweet Funky Dreams My Lil Prince.

Have more pictures of just Prince that I will add to the review thread.

It was great getting the chance to meet you Vysyons and your son. The orgers I've meet this month have done a lot to restore my faith in this site as a positive thing. I've met such wonderful people on the 18th and again yesterday night.

HonestMan13 said:

It was great getting the chance to meet you Vysyons and your son. The orgers I've meet this month have done a lot to restore my faith in this site as a positive thing. I've met such wonderful people on the 18th and again yesterday night.

HonestMan13 it was great meeting you too. It was definitely a highlight in both our evening. My son is talking about meeting you almost as much as he is talking about the show itself.

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where is the pic of the snowball fight? lol

L4OATheOriginal said:

where is the pic of the snowball fight? lol

No pics of the snowball fight were taken...besides Christopher says you lost big time.

Great pix, Kel!

I'm glad Christopher had such a good time!

Soo glad he enjoyed himself. Thanks for introducing him to great music btw. Hope ya'll have a great New Year.

He's so cute. Look at him grin.

Glad he enjoyed himself.

Wow...didn't know the back story. That's just 360 degrees of cool

Show and tell should be something else after that! (do they still DO show and tell?? )