JoeBala said:

Leighton Meester:

http://justjared.buzznet....oncert-03/

Leighton Meester was absolutley charming and adorable on stage. I was very pleasantly impressed by her.

Last night was easily the best concert of the entire W2A series. I think you could make a strong case that it was the best stadium show he's done in the 21st century. It was beyond excellent.

purplecam said:

2elijah said:

Yes you do. Oh and I will be at the 2/7 show.

vandeluca said:

One other thing I noticed I don't know if anyone else did..on the sides, like section 49, etc right next to the circles (the great seats)...Those seats were unoccupied right up till the time of the start. I kept worrying these were wasted seats as these were what I wanted....

ANyway..I at first thougt this was not going to be a 'great show'.I just was not feeling it from some in the crowd..I thought people may have been mellow too much and for P to not 'feel it'....However, he wanted to bring that house down...You can see he just loved playing with those musicians and had a great time doing it..His energy brought people out to just want him to NOT STOP....What a perfomer man....He is a classic..

Yes my section (Section 106 the piano side) noticed how empty the other side was and we were concerned as well but it did not stop us from partying!

plchaos said:

delirious26 said:

Peach, ANotherlover, Insatiable, ... man he did some of My Faves tonight!

Did anyone else think the audience was sort of dead for the first half of the show?? Or was that just m section... I was going crazy but for the first half of the show I didn't think the audience was very excited... Then they got excited towards the end...??

yea, my section in 412 was dead-city. they didnt get up for the entire show. many in the front of the section didnt even seem into the show at all until the end. what a shame cause it was a great one. night and day compared to last month at the garden when he only did Kiss as an encore and then ran off. he pulled out all the stops on this one- i was so glad he really changed it up. can Feb. 7th even top this???-would be really hard to.

holy shit u were in my section!! i had 2 sit down only cause the people behind me couldn't see cause of my height but i surely was jamming out!! i was in row F

alexnvrmnd777 said:

PurplePupil said:

Its like dude was reading our Posts and knew where to fix tha complaints from direhards.

Hey I'm gonna be glad just to see him on tha 7th we al don't know how long we have on this earth.

[Edited 1/18/11 23:01pm]

Please. Do you really think that playing samples or 10 seconds of several songs in a row, the dreaded medley, satisfies us "die-hards"? If anything, it makes me SMH even more. If you're not going to bother to play the damn song, why even bother! Just to tell people, "Remember? I did this song too!"? He's doing his own DAT intro now? Reminds me of the 2007 London shows.

The Twinz again? Yeah. I rest my case on that one. A lot of the same ol' celebrities dancing on stage again? Wow. Great. and, his band STILL sounds like a cover band doing Prince tunes, with no flair or style. They're definitely "capable players", but they're only a smidge better than the group with the Dunhams in it, and that's not saying much. No "sound". No personality or oomph.

"You dont know my music"...and from the sounds of it, you don't know or remember too much of it yourself, Prince. *Morris Day laugh*

i feel u trust me, i would have loved 2 have heard wdc, hot thing, black sweat in full than the snippets but also when he asked, do u know my music set the tone for the evening 4 me cause 4 him 2 break out seldom heard songs was what i needed.

2elijah said:

p4life said:

someone said madonna was there ? also Ed Westwick, Madonna, Jimmy Fallon Casey Affleck, Questlove, Spike Lee, Mos Def, Brian McKnight, Donald and Melania Trump.

Read more: http://justjared.buzznet.com/2011/01/19/prince-leighton-meester-concert/#ixzz1BVK6zh9d

Awesome. I love Jimmy Fallon. He is such a big music fan..

Wish Prince would come on his show..

Look at Jimmy.

[Edited 1/19/11 9:56am]

L4OATheOriginal said:

plchaos said:

yea, my section in 412 was dead-city. they didnt get up for the entire show. many in the front of the section didnt even seem into the show at all until the end. what a shame cause it was a great one. night and day compared to last month at the garden when he only did Kiss as an encore and then ran off. he pulled out all the stops on this one- i was so glad he really changed it up. can Feb. 7th even top this???-would be really hard to.

holy shit u were in my section!! i had 2 sit down only cause the people behind me couldn't see cause of my height but i surely was jamming out!! i was in row F

I was on the freakin FLOOR section! Right behund the band! And they were all completely dead up until he started Cream. And then as soon as that was over, it was like all the energy from the crowd just came to a crashing hault again... Then everyone got excited again and jumped to their feet for Purple Rain. THAT's where the energy went through the roof.

I thought at least my Floor section would have been going crazy like I was, but it seemed like everyone was just into hanging out... The concert was unreal for those of us who knew the music, but I would have enjoyed it more if the energy had been as solid as it was at the Dec 29th show...

purplethunder3121 said:

DoffieParker said:

iamazing as always! the energy fantastic. he looked GREAT. he wore a welcome 2 america turtle neck top similar to the lotusflower one he was wearing little while back, gold flatties with light up heels.

then a purple satin ruffle shirt number with jangly neckpiece & finally in2 purple glitter.

LOTS of dancing. at one point he does a mic trick, bounces it off his chest & very almost went in2 the split but thought better of it i think.

the twins appeared in 'heelies' during disco heat, like roller boot thingys.

of course maceo was there being brilliant

it was a fun show, but the most risque he got was doing medley on the keys at the beginning.. he did that guitar move with the twin during anotherlover as he went in2 the solo. so bold, big smile all over his face

he did dreamer & went in2 'welcome2 america' song. all the time his hair looked GREAT.

course i got pics

I keep hearing about the Twins--the ballerina wasn't there, this time? That was one of my favorite parts!

misty copeland was there and did hop on the stage at one point, she just wasn't highlighted as previous nights

Wow sounds like a great show! I sow 12/18 and 12/29 MSG.

Regarding the "Snippets" intro...... were these DAT/samples or did the band actually play these 10 second sound bites?

plchaos said:

purplethunder3121 said:

^^^ You are not alone! Many of us who have seen him lately feel the same way... Not disappointed or jaded at all! I was delighted when I saw him at the Izod performing songs that I didn't expect...and my son got to see him for the first time! What a thrill for both of us! Wish I coulda been there tonight!

you are not alone- i actually could do without hearing Purple Rain from him. am i crazy for thinking this? do you think P gets bored by now doing this one? could he actually do a show and NOT play it? thoughts please....

i've been hoping 4 that since 1990!! and the only time i have seen prince do a show without him doing that fucking song is at the palladium in 94

i would so love never 2 hear this song again live and the same with let's go crazy, 1999 as welll

plchaos said:

pfunkpilot said:

Best part of tonight is that Prince looked really happy, relaxed, healthy. His guitar and waa waa pedal were in good form. Adore alone was worth the ticket. It was like he took the feeling he created with Gingerbread Man and stretched it out for an entire show.

yes, he looked very happy and he looked good. i wonder if he still would have kept playing had the garden not had the 11pm curfew??(show was 8:45-11pm). he was really into the show tonight. no one can come close to him when he is "in the zone".

when i looked at my clock and say the bell ring 11 but the lights on the stage were still on, i swore that he was gonna pay that fine last night lol

Dreamer2 said:

I'm Glad the Twins are back on stage .....Hi Girls .....

Also on the set list Which Way is Up is listed .....did he or the band play this....

Oh and of course how good was ~Dreamer ...

I' would sell somebodys mother to hear this!

yes which was is up was played and shelby, elisa and liv sang it

dreamer was off the hook!!

delirious26 said:

L4OATheOriginal said:

holy shit u were in my section!! i had 2 sit down only cause the people behind me couldn't see cause of my height but i surely was jamming out!! i was in row F

I was on the freakin FLOOR section! Right behund the band! And they were all completely dead up until he started Cream. And then as soon as that was over, it was like all the energy from the crowd just came to a crashing hault again... Then everyone got excited again and jumped to their feet for Purple Rain. THAT's where the energy went through the roof.

I thought at least my Floor section would have been going crazy like I was, but it seemed like everyone was just into hanging out... The concert was unreal for those of us who knew the music, but I would have enjoyed it more if the energy had been as solid as it was at the Dec 29th show...

Oh yeah, the energy on 12/29 was phenomenal. The entire arena basically stood up during Prince's entire performance on 12/29, especially after that "Gingerbread Man" trance he had us in.

ME TOO! I thought it was a tease..Actually I think maybve he was thinking to do it but then it just did not work out (curfew).....

Strange though some people just gave up so easily..as soon as lights went on up and out..Others were sticking around clapping in case. I truly believe if he heard us, he would have really come out....lights on or off.

L4OATheOriginal said:

plchaos said:

yes, he looked very happy and he looked good. i wonder if he still would have kept playing had the garden not had the 11pm curfew??(show was 8:45-11pm). he was really into the show tonight. no one can come close to him when he is "in the zone".

when i looked at my clock and say the bell ring 11 but the lights on the stage were still on, i swore that he was gonna pay that fine last night lol

Efan said:

Last night was easily the best concert of the entire W2A series. I think you could make a strong case that it was the best stadium show he's done in the 21st century. It was beyond excellent.

I agree with you, totally. It was good seeing you again Efan! U gotta come back for the 7th!!!!

purplecam said:

2elijah said:

Yes you do. Oh and I will be at the 2/7 show.

: Whew:..just got a ticket for section 93 on 2/7.

delirious26 said:

L4OATheOriginal said:

holy shit u were in my section!! i had 2 sit down only cause the people behind me couldn't see cause of my height but i surely was jamming out!! i was in row F

I was on the freakin FLOOR section! Right behund the band! And they were all completely dead up until he started Cream. And then as soon as that was over, it was like all the energy from the crowd just came to a crashing hault again... Then everyone got excited again and jumped to their feet for Purple Rain. THAT's where the energy went through the roof.

I thought at least my Floor section would have been going crazy like I was, but it seemed like everyone was just into hanging out... The concert was unreal for those of us who knew the music, but I would have enjoyed it more if the energy had been as solid as it was at the Dec 29th show...

i am seriously starting 2 consider or hope that when u purchase a ticket, it should be asked if ur a fairweather fan or a true fan of his music thus those that don't know his music can be all lumped 2gether and the PARTY PEOPLE THAT KNOW HIS MUSIC PAST THE RADIO CAN PARTY HARDY AND BOOGIE WOOGIE!!

2elijah said:

purplecam said:

: Whew:..just got a ticket for section 93 on 2/7.

Oh hell yeah! That's great news!

L4OATheOriginal said:

plchaos said:

you are not alone- i actually could do without hearing Purple Rain from him. am i crazy for thinking this? do you think P gets bored by now doing this one? could he actually do a show and NOT play it? thoughts please....

i've been hoping 4 that since 1990!! and the only time i have seen prince do a show without him doing that fucking song is at the palladium in 94

i would so love never 2 hear this song again live and the same with let's go crazy, 1999 as welll

i do understand that for sentimental reasons, he will probably always play Purple rain, 1999, etc. for me, it was probably just more refreshing to hear some different stuff last night. it is like such a treat when u cant predict or know what he is gonna play. that was the prince i wanted to see !!! and judging by the crowd reaction to the opening snippets, i would say that Doves and SOTT have to go into the set!!!!

let me start my review by saying thank u 2 those that posted links or shared information about sharon jones and the dap tones. THEY ROCKED!! i totally enjoyed their set and when sharon took off her heels and worked it out!! YOU GO GIRL!! u just made a new fan out of me of your music.

after their set and the roadies taking down their equipment, different parts of the stax concert was shown and when i saw the staple singers, i thought maybe prince might do when will be paid later in the show. as the incense around the stage was released, i figured it was just a matter of moments b4 prince hoped up on stage but damn 10 mins turned into 30. i got worrred it that prince wouldn't get onstage until 9pm and then the complaints about the msg curfew would be uttered. well dude get on stage earlier then!! lol

the lights went down and then it began..from the moment he uttered "don't u have enough pics!" and the open of WDC was played i stood right up!!! this is what his true fans have wanted even tho it was snippets it's just the acknowledgement that he has more music than the ones u always hear whether live or on radio. i would love 2 hear these songs fully of course instead of disco heat, lgc, and purple rain. maybe if he keeps reading he will lol

the show was simply amazing and the best of the whole run from europe to nyc for me. last night was the prince i haven't seen since 2002 imo!! glad 2 see u again friend don't be a stranger!!

highlights 4 me where anotherloverholenyohead, Shoe, eye love u but eye don't trust u anymore, dreamer, and 4 those that bitch about shelby singing ..SHE FUCKING SUNG HER ASS OFF as did ELISA AND LIVE DURING ANGEL!! it felt like church up in there!! when prince started going into insatiable and scandalous that man did it!!

still hoping that he will pull out the love we make soon!!

2elijah said:

purplecam said:

: Whew:..just got a ticket for section 93 on 2/7.

so u finally gonna give me a teddy bear hug?

Celebrating Prince With Prince at Madison Square Garden

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Prince serenades Leighton Meester.Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage

A quick breakdown of Prince’s two-hour, fifteen-minute show at Madison Square Garden last night.

Level of excitement for Prince’s series of MSG shows, as measured by Twitter: Incredibly high.

Level of excitement for Prince’s series of MSG shows, as measured solely by Questlove’s Twitter: Even higher.

Entertainment-newsiest moment: Leighton Meester is brought to the stage, made comfortable on a settee, and serenaded by Prince and sax legend Maceo Parker.

Odd mental thing that happens at shows like this: Every time you think you spot someone famous — Mos Def and Jimmy Fallon dancing onstage, Ed Westwick on the exit stairs — you turn out to be right. Later, you have to remind yourself that the guy you walked past on the way home was probably not actually the RZA.

Opening gambit: Prince teases audience by playing sampled snippets of his biggest hits, which if you’ll pardon the obvious metaphor is clearly a seduction/sexual-control thing. And if you think of this show as the arc of a sexual encounter, which I will bet you anything Prince at some point has, it would basically go like: Prince teases you with his hits but winds up only giving you an opening “Kiss.” Then he comes on strong and bombastic, complete with plenty of showy guitar-stroking. Then he settles gradually into something slow and sensual. Then things get weird for a second and Jimmy Fallon’s involved. Then Prince tries to bring you bursting back up to climax after climax after climax, but a lot of these involve playing one or two songs and then ducking back beneath the stage for a minute — which feels less like a series of encores and more like just playing very slowly, with lots of breaks.

An impressive thing about Prince’s “love symbol”: Right, it’s iconic: It combines astrology, male and female, cross and ankh, and a touch of psychedelic flair — it’s like Prince in five strokes of a pen. It makes a workable shape for a guitar and a pretty terrific arena stage, all long lanes and runways. But back when everyone was rolling their eyes about Prince changing his name to it, they probably weren’t thinking about the prime VIP cocktail seating it creates along the stem.

Unoriginal idea on why androgyny is an important aspect of Prince: Because it meant he could sing all kinds of dirty/sexy/lovey songs, and write others for women to sing, and sometimes sing the ones for women himself, and never have any of it seem to be connected to a person or an agenda — the songs would always just be about sensuality and sex and love itself. They contained the idea of men being sexy and women being sexy and life being sexy, and Prince always seemed both curious and in thrall to the whole thing — an attitude that stands out more and more, given that songs about romance and human sexuality these days tend to be incredibly gendered and agenda-driven, like: Here are things I want and here is how I will get them, from someone or other. Prince, while singing “Cream,” says, “I wrote this song while looking in the mirror” — which is a joke, but also a good example of how the subject or object of this stuff isn’t as important as the stuff itself.

How long it takes married people to start making out at a Prince concert: A little over an hour. This is rapidly followed by the part where Prince breaks out the falsetto slow jams. Midway through them, he informs the crowd that “somebody’s gonna get pregnant tonight,” which creates this hilarious awkward pause between the couple making out in front of me.

Olfactory surprise: Amazingly, the smell of stale beer fits the Prince vibe slightly better than the smell of weed.

What people who aren’t Prince look like when they wear a lot of velvet and ruffles: Austin Powers.

What I would suggest is the slight problem with seeing a Prince show at this point: It is, by necessity, a very showbiz and stagey thing. Not like “Purple Rain” stagey but like Super Bowl Halftime stagey, awards-ceremony stagey. That’s Prince’s job, obviously. The show feels mostly like a lavish celebration of the fact that you’re at a Prince show; if you cease to be amazed by that fact for too long, you might start regretting that a lot of lithe, precise songs come off in this context as really broad and bombastic.

Point at which the preceding problem might happen: When Prince’s way of talking about America begins with saying “9/11 … Hurricane Katrina … the election of Barack Obama,” vaguely reminding Americans where they’ve lived for the past decade or so. Especially considering the highlight of the opening set from Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, which had Jones taking off her heels, doing African and Native-American dances, and singing about dance as a circle of peace for beleaguered people — which possibly had more to say about America, really.

How high Sharon Jones can jump with the heels on: Like a good several inches more than I’d think.

Burning question: If you are “the Twinz” — two actual twins who sing, dance, cartwheel, roller-boogie, bump, grind, have the kind of look people call “exotic,” are small enough that they don’t make Prince look too tiny when dancing near him, and just generally seem like something a person would make up for the purposes of performing with Prince — do you just write him a letter at some point, to let him know you exist?

What I would do if I were a man Prince’s age (52) and got home after seeing this concert: Sit-ups.

Biggest applause line: “Dearly beloved … ”

Would Vulture recommend seeing Prince, if you can see Prince: See Prince. Part of why that whole “celebration of the fact of seeing Prince” thing works is that this guy is possibly the biggest old-school massive, hypercharismatic, everyone’s-amazed-by-him pop star still going, and he carries with him this whole legacy of funk and soul that you’re unlikely to find embodied anywhere else quite so spectacularly. Which is to say: It’s Prince, of course you’ll want to see that.

irinact said:

Prince sang "ILBIDTYA" to the actress Leighton Meester onstage. I looked at her photo, and she is very-very pretty girl, but she reminds me of Mayte, or I'm wrong?

Dreamer2 said:

The Twins looked Xtra Sexy last night.....like they have grown into superfemale Prince Dancers since the last time I saw them in Europe ....

Prince must get a kick of that energy from the two girls ..... they add to Prince show .... I think he needs to use them abit more for large concert shows .....

Not Stage shows but Concert shows....

Could Some One Post Some Pictures Please ....

I was thinking "when did The Twinz get so hot?" I was in the third row on the floor and stared at them in their orange short-shorts a little too long I think. It was cool seeing them rollerskate around the stage during "Dance (Disco Heat)".

Oh yeah, Prince wasn't bad last night either.

okay, first and foremost

Prince needs to wear friggin' underwear because his bouncing jiggly bits are a MAJOR distraction.

Like....uhhh... he's squatting but his hips are pointing upwards and you can see his whole friggin' unit from an upshot.... like his penis was pointing straight out and you could see it in detail.... I wish he wouldn't do that. I was so close to the stage and I ended up missing his damn face for half the friggin' concert... what the hell

second

he played dreamer... yay

nhersey1 said:

okay, first and foremost

Prince needs to wear friggin' underwear because his bouncing jiggly bits are a MAJOR distraction.

Like....uhhh... he's squatting but his hips are pointing upwards and you can see his whole friggin' unit from an upshot.... like his penis was pointing straight out and you could see it in detail.... I wish he wouldn't do that. I was so close to the stage and I ended up missing his damn face for half the friggin' concert... what the hell

second

he played dreamer... yay

nhersey1 said:

okay, first and foremost

Prince needs to wear friggin' underwear because his bouncing jiggly bits are a MAJOR distraction.

Like....uhhh... he's squatting but his hips are pointing upwards and you can see his whole friggin' unit from an upshot.... like his penis was pointing straight out and you could see it in detail.... I wish he wouldn't do that. I was so close to the stage and I ended up missing his damn face for half the friggin' concert... what the hell

second

he played dreamer... yay

Don't deny Prince the freedom of going commando just because you have tunnel vision.

LOL..so where are the pics? LOL.

nhersey1 said:

okay, first and foremost

Prince needs to wear friggin' underwear because his bouncing jiggly bits are a MAJOR distraction.

Like....uhhh... he's squatting but his hips are pointing upwards and you can see his whole friggin' unit from an upshot.... like his penis was pointing straight out and you could see it in detail.... I wish he wouldn't do that. I was so close to the stage and I ended up missing his damn face for half the friggin' concert... what the hell

second

he played dreamer... yay

Nothinbutjoy said:

nhersey1 said:

okay, first and foremost

Prince needs to wear friggin' underwear because his bouncing jiggly bits are a MAJOR distraction.

Like....uhhh... he's squatting but his hips are pointing upwards and you can see his whole friggin' unit from an upshot.... like his penis was pointing straight out and you could see it in detail.... I wish he wouldn't do that. I was so close to the stage and I ended up missing his damn face for half the friggin' concert... what the hell

second

he played dreamer... yay

Don't deny Prince the freedom of going commando just because you have tunnel vision.

i WAS going to post something like 'hey! that sounds like an excellent concert' but NOW all i can see in my head is ... you guesssed it ... ..