SCNDLS said:

Ohhhhh, so rooty poot, punk ass Chris Arnold is behind the River Alexander Group. Now this shit's starting to make some sense.

Who exactly was behind the failed Prince Super Bowl concert?

by Teresa Gubbins

Cancellation news came straight from the lips of Dallas Mavericks commentator Chris Arnold.

Prince pass

DALLAS — The ballyhooed on-again/off-again Super Bowl show starring Prince on Friday ended up being a bust, as attendees found out when they showed up at Hotel InterContinental and were told the event was canceled.

The show was advertised as "an all-inclusive soiree the includes music, art, food, spirits, and more" that featured a "rare performance by Prince" and opening act Erykah Badu, plus Goss-Michael Foundation scholarship winners, DJs, and "additional special guests."

An attendee at the show who asked not to be identified described a confusing scene in which approximately 100 ticket-holders waited in the lobby hotel to be allowed up to the second level where a deluxe gourmet food spread was purportedly laid out.

As the hour drew closer, Dallas Mavericks commentator Chris Arnold -- who'd been tweeting up the event since December 31, including sharing a password to buy tickets -- emerged and announced that although Prince's band had made it, Prince himself had not, and the whole thing was called off. He also told ticket-holders that their money would be refunded.

The mystery is, who were the organizers of the event? A promised "one on one" with the organizer fell through for Unfair Park, and none of the memos or releases issued throughout this debacle make it clear who was behind it all.

On the PrinceDallas website -- whose ticking clock is mistakenly set a day late, and which still had tickets for sale on Friday night at 10 p.m. -- three parties are listed: 1. The Goss-Michael Foundation, 2. River Alexander Group, and 3. Elevate.

It surely isn't Goss-Michael; they'd already started to back-pedal by 1:30 p.m. when they sent out a press release distancing themselves from the event. And Elevate is a ticketing company.

Our attention turns to River Alexander Group, a newly formed organization that filed its incorporation pages on December 27, 2010. According to a Secretary of State Business Organizations inquiry (photo above), River Alexander's registered agent is listed as William C. Arnold, with a second manager listed as Eric Dunn.

River Alexander Group's address is listed as 2230 Kessler Parkway, Dallas, which has previously housed an organization called D Minor & Associates, as well as a company called Nia's Enchanted Hair Boutique. Drevelyn Minor owned the property at 2230 Kessler Parkway in 2003, but according to DCAD, the current owner is Chris Arnold.

Chris Arnold did not return emails or calls.

Hotel InterContinental confirmed that the event had been canceled at 8:30 p.m. A call center for the event, set up by organizers at the hotel, was already dismantled by 9:30 p.m.

Attendees felt burned by the experience. The Hotel InterContinental staffer said that some had come by the front desk to register their complaints, and were frustrated that the call center had disappeared.

"It seemed fishy that they weren't letting us upstairs," said our anonymous attendee. "There's no way they didn't know sooner, or they would have had to have the food and drink out. After Chris came down to say the event was canceled, they had a bunch of hotel staff standing in front of the escalators, with their arms folded to make sure no one went up."

can someone hook me up with that laminate...a poster would also be o.k.

paperposter said:

here's how the bussiness works .an atrist gets a gaurentee fee .his agent is sent a deposite prior to the show then he gets the rest at show time.so was paid the intial deposite the problem was he didn't get the rest.prince wants a million plus a nite .except for nyc he can't sell tickets.he wants more than he's worth.

Bullshit. Folks have been paying his fee for YEARS. So quite a few people believe he's worth a million or more and are eager to pay it.

Hell, if I was a billionaire I'd have him play in my living room on a weekly basis for a year.

SCNDLS said:

For those of you who bought tix, please keep us updated on your ability to obtain refunds. Knowing what I know, I REALLY hope you don't have difficulties getting your money back.

I just received word from someone at Elevate who ran the on-line ticket sales that refunds are going to be processed first thing Monday morning and will be applied to the credit card used to purchase the tickets.

SCNDLS said:

2elijah said:

You were right Scndls, of course the artist would be the one to get the blame because people don't take time to find out the facts behind what caused the cancellation. According to that article, it seems The River Goup should have just cancelled it altogether, a couple of days before the event, because they had to know at least 2 days prior, how ticket sales were going. It could have saved everyone travel time, as well as the customers who paid for the event.

And I've been hearing for WEEKS that the show was not selling, as I mentioned on Page 1 of this thread. It was no secret among event planners that the show was in trouble from the get go. Just the fact that they waited so late to announce the show, late December IIRC, was a bad sign. They coulda been promoting this event and selling tix for it over the past year and they woulda been fine. Everything seemed thrown together.

Good point. They could have done a much better job of promoting/advertising the event early in the year.

electricberet said:

2elijah said:

You were right Scndls, of course the artist would be the one to get the blame because people don't take time to find out the facts behind what caused the cancellation. According to that article, it seems The River Goup should have just cancelled it altogether, a couple of days before the event, because they had to know at least 2 days prior, how ticket sales were going. It could have saved everyone travel time, as well as the customers who paid for the event.

It was completely irresponsible of the organizers to continue to mislead people right up until the event happened. If they had announced a couple of days ago that the show was being cancelled due to the weather, and refunded the tickets then, I doubt there would have been a huge blowback. After all, school districts and universities have been closed in DFW all week. Instead, they held out hope that they would be able to sell some last minute tickets OR that Prince would agree to perform for free.

I agree that people have been too harsh on Prince, and I say that as someone who actually had tickets to the concert. However, it's worth pointing out that he did agree to this high-dollar shindig in the first place. He couldn't have predicted the huge storm that we got, but someone should have been suspicious about how the whole thing was being put together.

I hear you, but we don't know what the event organizers were discussing with Prince's people behind the scenes as it got closer to the date/time of the event, assuring them that the business agreement they made would follow through and it was a go. Like you said, he agreed to perform, but that had to be under the agreement he and his band would get paid for the performance and other expenses taken care of, by what was agreed to by the event organizer and Prince. Sometimes it's best to get all or most of the money upfront in case part of the deal falls through. Had he been paid upfront, then I could see the artist being at fault for not showing up, but obviously it doesn't look like that was the case, since it seems he made the effort to get into Dallas with his band, with the intention of performing. This situation could have happened to any artist who agreed to do a show.

[Edited 2/5/11 12:13pm]

paperposter said:

here's how the bussiness works .an atrist gets a gaurentee fee .his agent is sent a deposite prior to the show then he gets the rest at show time.so was paid the intial deposite the problem was he didn't get the rest.prince wants a million plus a nite .except for nyc he can't sell tickets.he wants more than he's worth.

A business deal is a business deal. If an artist was promised the remainder of the money just before the performance, and the artist made an effort to show up, which obviously he did, and the event organizers pulled a bs move with the money, just before the artist arrived with his band, then they should have expected that the artist would not perform. If they couldn't afford to pay him, and whatever else they agreed to pay, then they should have cancelled the show. By the way, he did pretty darnn good with the shows in NYC.

SCNDLS said:

Ohhhhh, so rooty poot, punk ass Chris Arnold is behind the River Alexander Group. Now this shit's starting to make some sense.

Who exactly was behind the failed Prince Super Bowl concert?

by Teresa Gubbins

Cancellation news came straight from the lips of Dallas Mavericks commentator Chris Arnold.

Prince pass

DALLAS — The ballyhooed on-again/off-again Super Bowl show starring Prince on Friday ended up being a bust, as attendees found out when they showed up at Hotel InterContinental and were told the event was canceled.

The show was advertised as "an all-inclusive soiree the includes music, art, food, spirits, and more" that featured a "rare performance by Prince" and opening act Erykah Badu, plus Goss-Michael Foundation scholarship winners, DJs, and "additional special guests."

An attendee at the show who asked not to be identified described a confusing scene in which approximately 100 ticket-holders waited in the lobby hotel to be allowed up to the second level where a deluxe gourmet food spread was purportedly laid out.

As the hour drew closer, Dallas Mavericks commentator Chris Arnold -- who'd been tweeting up the event since December 31, including sharing a password to buy tickets -- emerged and announced that although Prince's band had made it, Prince himself had not, and the whole thing was called off. He also told ticket-holders that their money would be refunded.

The mystery is, who were the organizers of the event? A promised "one on one" with the organizer fell through for Unfair Park, and none of the memos or releases issued throughout this debacle make it clear who was behind it all.

On the PrinceDallas website -- whose ticking clock is mistakenly set a day late, and which still had tickets for sale on Friday night at 10 p.m. -- three parties are listed: 1. The Goss-Michael Foundation, 2. River Alexander Group, and 3. Elevate.

It surely isn't Goss-Michael; they'd already started to back-pedal by 1:30 p.m. when they sent out a press release distancing themselves from the event. And Elevate is a ticketing company.

Our attention turns to River Alexander Group, a newly formed organization that filed its incorporation pages on December 27, 2010. According to a Secretary of State Business Organizations inquiry (photo above), River Alexander's registered agent is listed as William C. Arnold, with a second manager listed as Eric Dunn.

River Alexander Group's address is listed as 2230 Kessler Parkway, Dallas, which has previously housed an organization called D Minor & Associates, as well as a company called Nia's Enchanted Hair Boutique. Drevelyn Minor owned the property at 2230 Kessler Parkway in 2003, but according to DCAD, the current owner is Chris Arnold.

Chris Arnold did not return emails or calls.

Hotel InterContinental confirmed that the event had been canceled at 8:30 p.m. A call center for the event, set up by organizers at the hotel, was already dismantled by 9:30 p.m.

Attendees felt burned by the experience. The Hotel InterContinental staffer said that some had come by the front desk to register their complaints, and were frustrated that the call center had disappeared.

"It seemed fishy that they weren't letting us upstairs," said our anonymous attendee. "There's no way they didn't know sooner, or they would have had to have the food and drink out. After Chris came down to say the event was canceled, they had a bunch of hotel staff standing in front of the escalators, with their arms folded to make sure no one went up."

Interesting. So now Chris Arnold is doing an M.I.A., punking out by not taking calls questioning the cancellation of the event and how his group handled this event. He needs to apologize to the people who purchased tickets and compensate them with something. It was a sloppy way he and his River Group handled this event. They need to get more experience in handling these types of functions.

[Edited 2/5/11 12:30pm]

Does anyone have a Photo of this Chris Arnold guy???

Exactly--who works for free? No one.

2elijah said:

paperposter said:

here's how the bussiness works .an atrist gets a gaurentee fee .his agent is sent a deposite prior to the show then he gets the rest at show time.so was paid the intial deposite the problem was he didn't get the rest.prince wants a million plus a nite .except for nyc he can't sell tickets.he wants more than he's worth.

A business deal is a business deal. If an artist was promised the remainder of the money just before the performance, and the artist made an effort to show up, which obviously he did, and the event organizers pulled a bs move with the money, just before the artist arrived with his band, then they should have expected that the artist would not perform. If they couldn't afford to pay him, and whatever else they agreed to pay, then they should have cancelled the show. By the way, he did pretty darnn good with the shows in NYC.

Astasheiks said:

Does anyone have a Photo of this Chris Arnold guy???

Is this him?

http://www.chrisarnold.com/

SCNDLS said:

Prince and Erykah Badu's ...? And Why?

There was a whirlwind of press releases in the past few weeks leading up to tonight's scheduled benefit featuring Prince and Erykah Badu. First, it was happening in a tent at the old Reunion Arena location. Then, it had been moved to the InterContinental Hotel. And then, just this afternoon, it was canceled due to lack of funding. Then, suddenly, it was back on again.

Turns out the final announcement was still to come. And it was given as guests were arriving at the event: The concert was off. No e...ouncement. And there was only vague discussion of refunds for tickets ("Head to the point of purchase," patrons were told) that, till they went half-off late today, cost $1,500 a person -- with proceeds going to a foundation for kids. People arriving at TheEvent, as this benefit concert was being called, were met at the escalator by the bearer of bad news, a seemingly odd source. Or, turns out, maybe not.

The job was left to Mavs sideline man and longtime radio fixture Chris Arnold, who referred to himself as "one of the event's organizers" and who was scheduled to emcee the event. He greeted these patrons, all dolled up for a swanky and expensive event, with a handshake, a sad frown and a litany of apologies. Arnold stood alone in these efforts. We could find no one representing Kenny Goss and George Michael's foundation, for whom the event was being thrown.

"Don't blame Prince," Arnold told a small gathering of fans, many visibly and audibly upset at the last-second news. "He really wanted to be here. His band was here. I will take the blame. Blame me for the event not happening."

When asked what he should be blamed for, Arnold smiled sheepishly. He wasn't sure. Money, he said, was not the issue -- despite the press release sent out this afternoon claiming the organizer, River Alexander Group, couldn't cough up the dough to make this happening happen. River Alexander Group, Teresa Gubbins notes on P... to Arnold, turns out.

"We had the funds," Arnold said. "Did we need more? Well, we got more. We got over that hurdle."

When pressed for more details, Arnold offered none. He said he didn't know if Prince was in town. He said didn't know if Prince had made it out to the venue. All he knew was that refunds were going to be available at the point of purchase, and that Badu, at one point, had offered to perform on her own.

Nonetheless, the event was canceled.

Other than to say that he and his fellow organizers had been "that close" to pulling off their event, Arnold couldn't offer much else.

"I can't even think of the right words," he said, shrugging.

Paul Levatino, who works closely with Badu as part of her Badu World team, couldn't offer much more insight, either -- other than to say that the Dallas native tried her best to keep the event going.

"Even when they were saying, 'We're sorry, we're canceling,' Erykah was talking to me, trying to figure out how we could make something happen," Levatino said, indicating that Badu spent a good portion of her own money on the event. He hinted that she may also have contacted a few of her other famous friends in town for Super Bowl weekend, trying to find someone to replace Prince.

"There wasn't really too much opportunity for that, though," Levatino said. "But people were talking. There were a lot of things going on."

A different member of Badu's camp, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed that much, indeed, was going on behind the scenes -- albeit on another front. According to the source, Prince and his handlers arrived on the site this afternoon, and that the handlers had scoped the venue out only to find that it wasn't up to their standards.

"Prince never even stepped inside the hotel," the source said.

And that, the source added, was just one of the issues. Sound and lighting engineers hadn't been paid and were refusing to set up their equipment until they got their money. And when they finally did, the hotel -- which, our source says, was also claiming it wasn't paid -- apparently made the final decision to pull the plug and move on.

"We heard the news, like, right at 8 o'clock," Levatino added. "Literally, right when everybody got there. Erykah just wanted to perform with her friend and for the foundation. And she was going to do it. She didn't really know the Goss-Michael Foundation until recently, but she respects what they do."

Calls to the Goss-Michael Foundation have not been returned.

Levatino, meanwhile, said he'd prefer not to say more -- he too will be awaiting The Official Word from the Goss-Michael Foundation before speaking further.

"Hopefully," Levatino added, "we'll get another chance."

[Edited 2/5/11 9:53am]

I'm glad they mentioned this about Erykah still trying to keep the show going. We heard that while we were there last night...that Erykah still wanted to give the people a show.

electricberet said:

electricberet said:

Adore2the9s said:

SCNDLS said:

For those of you who bought tix, please keep us updated on your ability to obtain refunds. Knowing what I know, I REALLY hope you don't have difficulties getting your money back.

I just received word from someone at Elevate who ran the on-line ticket sales that refunds are going to be processed first thing Monday morning and will be applied to the credit card used to purchase the tickets.

electricberet said:

Astasheiks said:

Does anyone have a Photo of this Chris Arnold guy???

Is this him?

http://www.chrisarnold.com/

I made the link clickable for you:

http://www.chrisarnold.com

2elijah said:

SCNDLS said:

Ohhhhh, so rooty poot, punk ass Chris Arnold is behind the River Alexander Group. Now this shit's starting to make some sense.

Who exactly was behind the failed Prince Super Bowl concert?

by Teresa Gubbins

Cancellation news came straight from the lips of Dallas Mavericks commentator Chris Arnold.

Prince pass

DALLAS — The ballyhooed on-again/off-again Super Bowl show starring Prince on Friday ended up being a bust, as attendees found out when they showed up at Hotel InterContinental and were told the event was canceled.

The show was advertised as "an all-inclusive soiree the includes music, art, food, spirits, and more" that featured a "rare performance by Prince" and opening act Erykah Badu, plus Goss-Michael Foundation scholarship winners, DJs, and "additional special guests."

An attendee at the show who asked not to be identified described a confusing scene in which approximately 100 ticket-holders waited in the lobby hotel to be allowed up to the second level where a deluxe gourmet food spread was purportedly laid out.

As the hour drew closer, Dallas Mavericks commentator Chris Arnold -- who'd been tweeting up the event since December 31, including sharing a password to buy tickets -- emerged and announced that although Prince's band had made it, Prince himself had not, and the whole thing was called off. He also told ticket-holders that their money would be refunded.

The mystery is, who were the organizers of the event? A promised "one on one" with the organizer fell through for Unfair Park, and none of the memos or releases issued throughout this debacle make it clear who was behind it all.

On the PrinceDallas website -- whose ticking clock is mistakenly set a day late, and which still had tickets for sale on Friday night at 10 p.m. -- three parties are listed: 1. The Goss-Michael Foundation, 2. River Alexander Group, and 3. Elevate.

It surely isn't Goss-Michael; they'd already started to back-pedal by 1:30 p.m. when they sent out a press release distancing themselves from the event. And Elevate is a ticketing company.

Our attention turns to River Alexander Group, a newly formed organization that filed its incorporation pages on December 27, 2010. According to a Secretary of State Business Organizations inquiry (photo above), River Alexander's registered agent is listed as William C. Arnold, with a second manager listed as Eric Dunn.

River Alexander Group's address is listed as 2230 Kessler Parkway, Dallas, which has previously housed an organization called D Minor & Associates, as well as a company called Nia's Enchanted Hair Boutique. Drevelyn Minor owned the property at 2230 Kessler Parkway in 2003, but according to DCAD, the current owner is Chris Arnold.

Chris Arnold did not return emails or calls.

Hotel InterContinental confirmed that the event had been canceled at 8:30 p.m. A call center for the event, set up by organizers at the hotel, was already dismantled by 9:30 p.m.

Attendees felt burned by the experience. The Hotel InterContinental staffer said that some had come by the front desk to register their complaints, and were frustrated that the call center had disappeared.

"It seemed fishy that they weren't letting us upstairs," said our anonymous attendee. "There's no way they didn't know sooner, or they would have had to have the food and drink out. After Chris came down to say the event was canceled, they had a bunch of hotel staff standing in front of the escalators, with their arms folded to make sure no one went up."

Interesting. So now Chris Arnold is doing an M.I.A., punking out by not taking calls questioning the cancellation of the event and how his group handled this event. He needs to apologize to the people who purchased tickets and compensate them with something. It was a sloppy way he and his River Group handled this event. They need to get more experience in handling these types of functions.

[Edited 2/5/11 12:30pm]

The fact that he incorporated this company a few days AFTER announcing this event shows you they didn't know what the hell they were doing.

Did ya'll see this story on Yahoo's main page?

2elijah said:

electricberet said:

Is this him?

http://www.chrisarnold.com/

I made the link clickable for you:

http://www.chrisarnold.com

Kang of the Rooty Poots.

And he's a HUGE Prince fan too. I've seen him at every show in Dallas over the last 15 years. But he needs to leave the concert promoting/event planning to the professionals and stick to sideline reporting at the Mavs games. And even that he don't do well.

PurpleRok said:

electricberet said:

Is this him?

http://www.chrisarnold.com/

Yes that IS him. He's been a big ole "wanna be" for some time here in Dallas. Sounds like he's still not there.....

And looks like this dork used his home address for the LLC registration of the "company"

SCNDLS said:

2elijah said:

I made the link clickable for you:

http://www.chrisarnold.com

Kang of the Rooty Poots.

And he's a HUGE Prince fan too. I've seen him at every show in Dallas over the last 15 years. But he needs to leave the concert promoting/event planning to the professionals and stick to sideline reporting at the Mavs games. And even that he don't do well.

http://www.chrisarnold.com/

Okay so he covered what's posted on his page, but couldn't handle this recent event right? Lawd I agree, Scndls, Chris needs to stick to sideline reporting.

http://www.chrisarnold.com/

Chris has covered every major sporting event in the world. 20 SuperBowls, 19 NBA Finals, 2 Olympics, 13 Final Fours, 8 World Series, 26 Championship Boxing Title Fights, 18 NBA All Star Games, 8 Baseball All Star Games, 5 Pro Bowls, 15 College Football Bowl Games and even the World Cup.

Chris is also a very popular speaker and host. He’s spoken At major corporate seminars, civic groups, schools, charities, Churches, sports banquets and more. From hosting events to providing career guidance to our youth, he truly enjoys reaching out and changing

[Edited 2/5/11 20:14pm]

squirrelgrease said:

I blame Larry.

Thank God somebody's stepped forward and assumed responsibility for preserving a critically important org tradition. I applaud you, sir.

OneMoJam said:

squirrelgrease said:

I blame Larry.

Thank God somebody's stepped forward and assumed responsibility for preserving a critically important org tradition. I applaud you, sir.

SCNDLS said:

2elijah said:

Interesting. So now Chris Arnold is doing an M.I.A., punking out by not taking calls questioning the cancellation of the event and how his group handled this event. He needs to apologize to the people who purchased tickets and compensate them with something. It was a sloppy way he and his River Group handled this event. They need to get more experience in handling these types of functions.

[Edited 2/5/11 12:30pm]

The fact that he incorporated this company a few days AFTER announcing this event shows you they didn't know what the hell they were doing.

Did ya'll see this story on Yahoo's main page?

Those of us that have read pretty much what went down, doesn't still effect Prince because the average person see this crap and the first thing seems to come to their mind is Negative publicity for Prince regardless if its the organizer fault or not.

So seem like P would be better off having somebody in placed to check out shady characters like these organizers than to take all this negative publicity or do you all think it doesn't matter?

Furthermore, as SCNDLS said, it made the Yahoo home page, its in the Concert Forum and on the Main Home page at this site and seems like several nationwide newspaper websites, so seems like that couldn't be too good?

[Edited 2/5/11 23:57pm]

Astasheiks said:

Those of us that have read pretty much what went down, doesn't still effect Prince because the average person see this crap and the first thing seems to come to their mind is Negative publicity for Prince regardless if its the organizer fault or not.

So seem like P would be better off having somebody in placed to check out shady characters like these organizers than to take all this negative publicity or do you all think it doesn't matter?

Furthermore, as SCNDLS said, it made the Yahoo home page, its in the Concert Forum and on the Main Home page at this site and seems like several nationwide newspaper websites, so seems like that couldn't be too good?

[Edited 2/5/11 23:57pm]

Nope didn't see anything on the main Yahoo page referencing it. As far as it being on the home page of this site, I'm not surprised. There is a thread "Prince 2 Give Back" which talks about Prince giving donations to 3 organizations, yet that didn't make the Org home page as a sticky or a featured article. I guess some folks need to feed off negativity to have their daily orgasm. What else is new?

[Edited 2/6/11 9:00am]

2elijah said:

Astasheiks said:

Those of us that have read pretty much what went down, doesn't still effect Prince because the average person see this crap and the first thing seems to come to their mind is Negative publicity for Prince regardless if its the organizer fault or not.

So seem like P would be better off having somebody in placed to check out shady characters like these organizers than to take all this negative publicity or do you all think it doesn't matter?

Furthermore, as SCNDLS said, it made the Yahoo home page, its in the Concert Forum and on the Main Home page at this site and seems like several nationwide newspaper websites, so seems like that couldn't be too good?

[Edited 2/5/11 23:57pm]

Nope didn't see anything on the main Yahoo page referencing it. As far as it being on the home page of this site, I'm not surprised. There is a thread "Prince 2 Give Back" which talks about Prince giving donations to 3 organizations, yet that didn't make the Org home page as a sticky or a featured article. I guess some folks need to feed off negativity to have their daily orgasm. What else is new?

[Edited 2/6/11 9:00am]

It was on the Yahoo main page for a while and then got bumped by other stories.

electricberet said:

2elijah said:

Nope didn't see anything on the main Yahoo page referencing it. As far as it being on the home page of this site, I'm not surprised. There is a thread "Prince 2 Give Back" which talks about Prince giving donations to 3 organizations, yet that didn't make the Org home page as a sticky or a featured article. I guess some folks need to feed off negativity to have their daily orgasm. What else is new?

[Edited 2/6/11 9:00am]

It was on the Yahoo main page for a while and then got bumped by other stories.

It has been the main story on all European news channels for the past two days.

SCNDLS said:

OnlyNDaUsa said:

Ok I am Going to call it. Prince will cOme back to Dallas for several shows to make up for this. And was his equipment here? At one point it was said to have been stuck?

And I'll ask again: To make up for what???

He upheld his part of the bargain: He showed up during an ice/snow storm no less to play as agreed. The organizer, however, did NOT uphold their end of the bargain to pay him his fee. Anyone who is seriously blaming P for somebody ELSE not having HIS money is deluded or just trynna blame everything on P for no reason. This event was a FOR PROFIT venture that was going to give a PORTION to a charity. As such, there's NO reason to expect P to work for free after everyone involved knew/agreed that he was getting PAID for his performance.

And what about Erykah? She bounced too when they ain't have her check. Why come ain't nobody mentioning her? Ya'll ain't asking HER to play for free.

But whatever, I'll see ya in Cali Princey!

THANK U. I said the same thing. People r trying 2 blame P for something, but didn't say anything about Erykah. If the organizers would have had her money, she would have performed if Prince made it or not.

daPrettyman said:

SCNDLS said:

And I'll ask again: To make up for what???

He upheld his part of the bargain: He showed up during an ice/snow storm no less to play as agreed. The organizer, however, did NOT uphold their end of the bargain to pay him his fee. Anyone who is seriously blaming P for somebody ELSE not having HIS money is deluded or just trynna blame everything on P for no reason. This event was a FOR PROFIT venture that was going to give a PORTION to a charity. As such, there's NO reason to expect P to work for free after everyone involved knew/agreed that he was getting PAID for his performance.

And what about Erykah? She bounced too when they ain't have her check. Why come ain't nobody mentioning her? Ya'll ain't asking HER to play for free.

But whatever, I'll see ya in Cali Princey!

THANK U. I said the same thing. People r trying 2 blame P for something, but didn't say anything about Erykah. If the organizers would have had her money, she would have performed if Prince made it or not.

Well we live in a microwave society, and controversy sells. I'm not surprised this story hit many websites/press without getting the facts behind what caused the cancellation. All they saw was "Prince's" name scheduled to perform at an event that was cancelled at the last minute and trumped up the story as though it was all Prince's fault, and I agree with you all that Erykah's name was hardly mentioned or fingers pointed at her for the failure of this event, but yet the press, as usual, ran without obtaining all the details behind the cancellation.

2elijah said:

daPrettyman said:

THANK U. I said the same thing. People r trying 2 blame P for something, but didn't say anything about Erykah. If the organizers would have had her money, she would have performed if Prince made it or not.

Well we live in a microwave society, and controversy sells. I'm not surprised this story hit many websites/press without getting the facts behind what caused the cancellation. All they saw was "Prince's" name scheduled to perform at an event that was cancelled at the last minute and trumped up the story as though it was all Prince's fault, and I agree with you all that Erykah's name was hardly mentioned or fingers pointed at her for the failure of this event, but yet the press, as usual, ran without obtaining all the details behind the cancellation.