jimbobcoo34 said:

Anybody have advise for getting tickets tommarow?

Start digging.

You dig?

Looks like the pixie's having some laughs. Good stuff. Red boots and Sheila anyone?

only in prince world does his new all girl backing band promote his gigs

whilst prince uses a completely different band for said shows.

i guess the girls will be playing with him tonight?

kind of excited to hear possible reports on 'unreleased tracks' that are

being premiered by dj rashida. wondering if there will be outtakes we

know, or just completely new and unknown tracks. screwdriver will be

among them, surely.

nice to see that he performed both xpectation and muse 2 the pharaoh.

switching things up a bit more. always good.

now let's hear them jam on "xpedition"

but my guess is that tonight will be completely different. probably he'll

sing and play more hits/deep album cuts. you know he likes to switch

things up on these kind of occasions so people will come out and yell

they're done being a fan because they only got the funk jazz workout

and the others got to hear a 23 minute version of computer blue

never a dull moment.

Were there any scalpers or tickets avaible at the door? I NEED TO GO TO THIS.

IstenSzek said:

Cindeecee said:

IstenSzek said:

only in prince world does his new all girl backing band promote his gigs

whilst prince uses a completely different band for said shows.

i guess the girls will be playing with him tonight?

kind of excited to hear possible reports on 'unreleased tracks' that are

being premiered by dj rashida. wondering if there will be outtakes we

know, or just completely new and unknown tracks. screwdriver will be

among them, surely.

nice to see that he performed both xpectation and muse 2 the pharaoh.

switching things up a bit more. always good.

now let's hear them jam on "xpedition"

but my guess is that tonight will be completely different. probably he'll

sing and play more hits/deep album cuts. you know he likes to switch

things up on these kind of occasions so people will come out and yell

they're done being a fan because they only got the funk jazz workout

and the others got to hear a 23 minute version of computer blue

never a dull moment.

23 minute version of Computer Blue! Lawdddd they would have to carry me out on a stretcher!!

you and me both

It sounds like Prince and fams are having a really great time... I'm glad to hear it!

inspireof said:

from twitter:Omg you guys. So good. He started the show by declaring, "Dancing is allowed." So it wasSet included Let's Work, Satisfied, Housequake, Cool, Something in the Water and a bunch of covers

Something in the Water was AWESOME. I hadn't heard it like that before. Just him singing with a lady keyboard player accompanying.

He also played Northside. For reals.

Found another video report on the Dakota events:

http://www.kare11.com/vid...9790597001

Wow sounds grand have great time all !!! .........I will have to wait til he does Atl, Ga if he ever does.

Hopes ~X X~

inspireof said:

from twitter:Omg you guys. So good. He started the show by declaring, "Dancing is allowed." So it wasSet included Let's Work, Satisfied, Housequake, Cool, Something in the Water and a bunch of covers

My Kind of Party!!!!!

Prince turns on the mics and heat at the Dakota

• Article by: CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER , Star Tribune

http://www.startribune.co...88021.html

[Edited 1/17/13 23:42pm]

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He reached way back into his catalog later in the show with “Something in the Water Does Not Compute” (from the “1999” album) and “Let’s See You Work” (from “Controversy”). “What year is it?” he quipped before the latter song. The most golden nugget of the night, however, was the show’s sassy finale, “Cool,” one of his collaborations with the Time.

He reached way back into his catalog later in the show with “Something in the Water Does Not Compute” (from the “1999” album) and “Let’s See You Work” (from “Controversy”). “What year is it?” he quipped before the latter song. The most golden nugget of the night, however, was the show’s sassy finale, “Cool,” one of his collaborations with the Time.

See a recap of Thursday’s late set at startribune.com/artcetera

chrisr@startribune.com • 612-673-4658 • Twitter: @ChrisRstrib

I love it when Prince plays “Let’s See You Work” and sometimes I really get a kick out of "This Is What It Sounds Like When Doves Cry." Perhaps he will play "Tonight I'm Gonna Party Like It's 1999." or maybe even a lesser known song like "Shut Up Already Damn Housequake!"

stillwaiting said:

Same old tired songs.

oh bullshit!

"act of god"? rearrangement of "something in the water"?

swanny said:

Same old tired songs.

[Edited 1/18/13 0:14am]

Prince at the Dakota: Night 2, Show 2 -- funking in the dark

Posted by: Jon Bream

http://www.startribune.co...18021.html

With all due respect to Bruce Springsteen and his “Dancing in the Dark,” there ain’t nothin’ like Prince funking in the dark.

That’s what happened at Night 2, Show 2 on Thursday at the Dakota Jazz Club. While he used modest stage lights for the evening's opening set (read review here), there were no lights shining on the stage during the nightcap – just a table lamp with probably a 25-watt bulb (behind his keyboards) and about a dozen lit candles scattered about. Prince, wearing sunglasses of course, and his band performed in the dark.

And the Purple One (who was dressed in all black) has never been in a nastier funk groove in his hometown than in Thurday’s second show. The six-man horn section (stationed off to the side of the stage) started in an old-school jazz groove with a Middle Eastern vibe before the rest of the players broke into Chaka Khan’s “Ain’t Nobody” before traveling through Prince’s own “Days of the Wild” and the Time's “Wild and Loose” all the while the horn section continued on its jazz caravan.

During this 21-minute jam, Prince asked if the clubgoers approved of new drummer Ronald Bruner Jr. (RBJ to Prince). They cheered enthusiastically and the bandleader said, “I think so, too.” Prince also brought a female fan onstage to groove with him, high-fived a different clubgoer and danced in the dark to the delight of all 275 Dakota denizens.

The rest of the 70-minute set included an incomparable duet of “Nothing Compares to U” with roof-raising backup singer Shelby J (somebody give Shelby her own gig at the Dakota, please), as well as some selections repeated from Thursday’s earlier set -- the gospel-funk “Act of God,” Lianne La Havas’ “Lost & Found” (sung by the three female backup vocalists) and a medley of Janet Jackson’s “What Have You Done for Me Lately” and Stargard’s “Which Way is Up,” which was way funkier in the late show.

The chatty Prince was tossing off funny lines throughout the set. He sang “Sherlock Holmes and his smarter brother Puffy told me more money will bring you problems.” After calling this "the Medicine Show, “ he said: “If you hear something you never heard before – lyrically or otherwise –don’t worry about it. Once it gets down in your system, it’ll be alright.”

He was feeling so good that, between songs, he commented, “it’s windy outside. It’s Windy and Lisa outside.”

Late in the set, Prince asked his horn section to do some New Orleans Second Line music, and the players paraded through the crowd, after which he played a portion of “When the Saints Go Marching In” on bluesy guitar. In the first set, he strapped on his Telecaster once but never played it. At least the late-night crowd heard a couple of guitar workouts. They also heard an encore of “Controversy”—during which Prince asked for the houselights to be turned up so he could watch the crowd dance. But he was still funking in the dark.

Among the clubgoers were former Prince associates Bobby Z (drummer), David Z (producer/engineer), Kirk Johnson (drummer) and Paul Peterson (of the Family). Famous bass man Victor Wooten, who plays with Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, and Mint Condition’s Stokley Williams and Rick Kinchen were in the house, as well.

Two more shows are set for Friday at 8 and 11 p.m., with Prince expected to unveil his new female backup band.

[Edited 1/18/13 1:13am]

serpan99 said:

He was feeling so good that, between songs, he commented, “it’s windy outside....It’s Windy and Lisa outside.”

Hmmm...perhaps Prince read this tweet by a friend of mine yesterday?

@sexydancer77

@3rdeyeboy is that windy and lisa

serpan99 said:

Found another video report on the Dakota events:

http://www.kare11.com/vid...9790597001

thank you! but witch performance is this on the screen in the back ??? did someone can clear this up for me... havent seen this before...

Prince’s second night at the Dakota Jazz Club heavy on jokes, hits

http://blog.thecurrent.or...b-night-2/

For this second of three consecutive nights at the Dakota, Prince delivered a crowd-pleasing set that included a few lengthy, funky medleys of covers and some satisfying hits. The show was so electrifying, in fact, that after several years of purple-hued gossip, sightings, and speculation cluttering up the Prince dialog in the Twin Cities, it almost felt too good to be true.

The 11 p.m. show began with his six-piece horn section marching out NOLA-style and cycling through a funky, complex melody, and they were quickly followed by a drummer, bassist, guitarist, and three back-up singers who launched into the night’s first groove. Prince himself emerged on the dark stage soon after and leaned into a microphone set up at a pair of keyboards.

“I dare you to sit down,” he teased, egging on the crowd and demanding that everyone get up and dance, and then launched the band into a blazing, bopping cover of Chaka Khan’s “Ain’t Nobody” that got the entire room springing dutifully to its feet.

“You better call the baby-sitter,” he joked, leaving most of the vocal melody to his trio of back-up singers and half-scatting, half-rapping his way through the first tune. He switched to all-the-way rapping on the second song, 1994 single “Days of Wild,” and kept the jokes coming, at one point pausing to admire Cassandra O’Neal’s tempestuous piano playing and remarking, “It’s windy outside… It’s windy and Lisa outside!”

Prince kept the lights low for the first part of the show, with only a few candles lighting up the overflowing stage. As with the previous night, he paired his all-black wardrobe with a pair of gold-and-lucite platform shoes that blinked red lights on and off every time he moved, and the dark stage only accentuated his one-of-a-kind footwear.

At the start of new song, “Chapters and Verse,” he proclaimed it “medicine time,”strapping on his guitar for the first time. “This is the medicine show.” Thursday’s late show would mark the first time in his Dakota residency that the gifted axe man actually played his guitar, and the 275-person crowd clearly relished the opportunity to see him solo from such a close vantage point.

At the end of that jam Prince startled the crowd with his first of two psych-outs, waving and saying “Thank you, good night” despite only being about 25 minutes into his set. Many in the crowd tentatively took their seats and eyed each other quizzically as the band followed him off stage, and though the three back-up vocalists sizzled on their cover of Lianne La Havas’s “Lost and Found,” it was hard to ignore the sinking feeling that Prince’s time on stage might already be through.

But lo and behold, it turned out to be Prince’s way of giving the audience a chance to catch its breath before pulling out the highlight of his 70-minute set.

Prince jogged excitedly back out on stage and sat down behind his keyboard once again, and the audience responded immediately as he began playing the opening strains of “Nothing Compares 2 U.” Prince and backing vocalist Shelby J traded verses and performed an absolutely stunning rendition of the tune, and at one point Prince got so swept up in the moment that he lept up from his piano bench and bounded across the stage to share the mic with Shelby J. Whereas most of the other songs of the night were drawn out into improvisational jams, Prince played this one straight, and Shelby J’s contributions to the song were flat-out incendiary.

The rest of the band returned to power through a medley that started with his recent “Act of God” and wound through snippets of songs by Janet Jackson (“What Have You Done for Me Lately”) and funk group Stargard (“Which Way is Up?”). At one point, he sent the horn players on a parade through the venue and then launched into a rockabilly guitar solo that sounded straight out of a country-western tune, a testament to just how playful Prince was feeling at this “Jam” show. He also brought the house lights up and peered through his round sunglasses out at the crowd, then looked down and softly said, “I got shy, turn the lights off again.”

At the end of that final extended jam the house lights came up and Prince’s DJ Rashida fired up her turntables, but the Purple One wasn’t done quite yet. After a pause, the band reemerged and Prince led his crew through an extra-funky, extra-danceable rendition of “Controversy.”

Could the set have been longer? Sure; 70 minutes isn’t long for the $100-$150 cost of tickets. But as fans in the audience learned on Thursday night, a chance to see Prince in this good of a mood and in this small of a space is priceless.

Set list:

Ain’t Nobody
Days of Wild
Chapters and Verse
Somebody Else (back-up vocalists only)
Nothing Compares 2 U
Act of God/What Have You Done For Me Lately/Which Way is Up?
Controversy (encore)

thanks to serpan for all the news..

but this project isn't anything without a few nice visuals of prince being a boss!! 3rdeyegirl needs to organise the sexy pics & quick b4 i lose interest