PRINCE DOES READ THE REVIEWS AND ARTICLES ABOUT HIM. HE KNOW'S WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT LAST NIGHT.

Long ago I was interviewed for the upcoming Musicology tour before the Minnesota shows. The article is a bit archived nowadays, but if you want to make sure I am telling the story correct you can dig. (

Anyway, I don't think anyone should be suprised at how the show went down Monday night. Prince has been and always will be about himself. I will admit for a brief time in 2004 he was helping us true fans with GREAT seats. I look back on that and figure it was all to promote NPGMC in the long run. Remember him always mentioning us folks in the good seats and how they should sign up if they wanted to sit where we were? I love this mans music for the most part. I do not drink the purple kool-aid and believe everything he has done over the years is always grand. This brings me back to 2004. I ended up going to 4 of the concerts in Chicago @ Allstate arena. I had great seats (thanks to him and the NPGMC). I was in the front row and was called up onstage with 1 other guy and a bunch of women for one of the songs. Those that were there may remember he was handing out pizza. He handed out the slices to most of the people and handed me the empty box and said " you ain from Chicago anyway" and laughed. I have no offense to that. I was happy to be onstage and have great seats. My point being that HE HAD TO HAVE READ THE ARTICLE I WAS IN and was not pleased with what I said. There is no way he could have known it was me. There was my picture on the front page of the Pioneer Press and me saying "sometimes I think he mails it in" so to speak.

My long winded diatribe is this: I hope the concerts in Chicago get better quick. By the time this is even posted I am sure night 2 will be a wrap. I do get dumbfounded when some folks on the forums or message boards act as though he is such a sweetheart. He is not. His whole career he has mainly acted like his audience is below him. It must be the lighting people's fault, it must be the sound guys, it must be the arena. NO, it is an arrogant musician whom most of us fawn over to see him live. Night 1 of the Musicology shows in St Paul he had the place locked up because his soundcheck didn't go right. He had 18,000 people waiting at the doors. He has done this countless times in different arenas I have seen him at. I don't blame him for the Paisley Park shows, we know what we are getting into. I remember during the Rainbow Children shows (2) in St Paul, he cut the 2nd show short by an hour because he was pissed the place was half empty. Well promote something Prince. This rant could go on and on...

I read all the reviews all over everywhere today and was very glad I did not spend $2500 to get to Chicago, hotel, airfare & tickets and everything else to see the mess I have heard about today. Remember when he wanted his "true" fams up close? Now it will cost you $750.00 a seat to be that "true fam".. Don't even get me started on the lotusflow3r waste of money...

Sorry, Had to get it out of my system. He does not care about his fans, fams or whatever bs he is calling it these days.

PS: Yes I will be buying the VIP tickets if he ever comes back to Minnesota. I told you I am a sucker...

I'm wondering if this is the reason he killed the "new look" with the afro...

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steelersguy said:

PS: Yes I will be buying the VIP tickets if he ever comes back to Minnesota.

and there it is

rdhull said:

steelersguy said:

PS: Yes I will be buying the VIP tickets if he ever comes back to Minnesota.

and there it is

yep

(sings in falsetto) I hate u ...cos you're all that's ever on my mind.

Hey Steelersguy! I remember those good days when Prince listeners were the best appreciated fans in the world. It was amazing!! I guess that philosophy has changed. I was at Monday's show and words cannot describe my disappointment. True, he apologized to the crowd on Tuesday. Nevertheless, there were at least 20k fans from Monday's show that never got to hear it.

I passed on an opportunity to attend the Wednesday show. But I remember a lesson my parents taught me: You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Word will eventually get around that his first night shows are horrible. Then no one will want to purchase tickets for the first night. Maybe then, he will understand the lesson my parents taught me so long ago.

Like you Steelersguy, I probably will attend another show. I've been with him for 33 years. Sometimes, these habits die hard. But the days of trekking all over to see him with no idea of what I am going to get are over.

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COI said:

Hey Steelersguy! I remember those good days when Prince listeners were the best appreciated fans in the world. It was amazing!! I guess that philosophy has changed. I was at Monday's show and words cannot describe my disappointment. True, he apologized to the crowd on Tuesday. Nevertheless, there were at least 20k fans from Monday's show that never got to hear it.

I passed on an opportunity to attend the Wednesday show. But I remember a lesston my parents taught me: You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Word will eventually get around that his first night shows are horrible. Then no one will want to purchase tickets for the first night. Maybe then, he will understand the lesson my parents taught me so long ago.

Like you Steelersguy, I probably will attend another show. I've been with him for 33 years. Sometimes, these habits die hard. But the days of trekking all over to see him with no idea of what I am going to get are over.

This is key.

Once upon a time, I would have (at least) flirted with the idea of traveling anywhere in the world to see Prince. But that was back in the NPGMC days, when "membership had its privileges." When I knew I had first dibs on the "good seats" - possibly at a discount - I was a lot more likely to jump.

My radius has gotten smaller since 2007. I really can't see any circumstances under which I will travel farther than Chicago or Minneapolis to see him. (I live in Madison, so both are within driving distance.) It'd take something special, indeed, for me to buy a plane ticket for a Prince show. It's just too risky.

" I remember during the Rainbow Children shows (2) in St Paul, he cut the 2nd show short by an hour because he was pissed the place was half empty."

There were no rainbow children shows in St Paul. so you lost me there.

friend2001 said:

" I remember during the Rainbow Children shows (2) in St Paul, he cut the 2nd show short by an hour because he was pissed the place was half empty."

There were no rainbow children shows in St Paul. so you lost me there.

He must have cut it real, realllll, short.

rdhull said:

friend2001 said:

" I remember during the Rainbow Children shows (2) in St Paul, he cut the 2nd show short by an hour because he was pissed the place was half empty."

There were no rainbow children shows in St Paul. so you lost me there.

He must have cut it real, realllll, short.

Well, really - how else could Prince cut it?

Genesia said:

rdhull said:

He must have cut it real, realllll, short.

Well, really - how else could Prince cut it?

ciold..blooded ...lol