TheFreakerFantastic said:

^ Disagree, I can see you are obviously a hardcore P fan, but look at it in the public's way, ie the non fans.

And it's not about being a hardcore P fan, it's about being a hardcore music fan. Music of all types. And the general public opinion of one day is never the standard. If so we would all still be listening to ragtime piano jams.

^ I'm just being realistic, I think you are doing a bit of wishful thinking!!!

Sadly, the general opinion of the masses taking precedence over others is pretty much a fact and why we have such diluted and bland music in the mainstream now to try to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Hell, even P is being swept up in this by self censoring his songs and playing it safe musically in many ways now.

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TheFreakerFantastic said:

^ I'm just being realistic, I think you are doing a bit of wishful thinking!!!

Sadly, the general opinion of the masses is why we have such diluted and bland music in the mainstream now to try to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

We'll follow up on this in ten years. People tend to believe the here-and-now is the be all and end all and the last word.

We'll see, I could be wrong...stranger things have happened.

Wow, Bill Moyers performed the ceremony...I had forgotten that he was a minister. Congrats to George and his pretty wife.

This is a great gig for Princey.

lwr001 said:

Btw. Reviews are in from the stones performance. It's being called night of the living dead. Prince would have headlined. No doubt or he wouldn't accept the gig. I think the Rolling Stones weren't the first choice

yeah I know we are jacking the thread a bit, but.. so much for young folks and the general public's so important opinions lol

..and to be fair, by contrast a very drunk looking "music critic" from the Telegraph, Neil McCormick said this "It was one of the greatest rock and roll sets I've ever seen in my life and I think one of the greatest rock and roll sets Glastonbury has ever seen." He said before he tipped over.

Yeah, Neil knows best..lol

http://www.telegraph.co.u...mance.html

TV viewers mock Rolling Stones performance

The Rolling Stones received rave reviews from music critics at Glastonbury but fans at home had decidedly mixed reactions.

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looks like i did not have to wait ten years.

KoolEaze said:

GoldenParachute said:

Does anyone else find this odd? Is he hurting for $?

He´s played for some Russian millionaires (or billionaires?) in Moscow before and also for some rich folks in Nice, and remember that one off concert he did in an airplane hangar with Kool And The Gang a few years ago.

It´s his profession and I´m perfectly ok with these gigs as long as he doesn´t neglect or exploit his real fans. I´d rather see him make money than end up broke like some other great musicians.

But, to be honest, as a layman I´d have thought that after making 80 million dollars during the Musicology tour, he´d never need to work a single day again in his lifetime.

rafael said:

KoolEaze said: peri1025 said: This is cool. Although a bit ironic given that George Lucas famously dated Troy Beyer (Princes ex/girl from Sexy MF video) for a number of years before Melody. I guess time heals all wounds but I know he's known to have a jealous streak. Seriously? How did Troy Beyer manage to get closer to someone as rich and famous as George Lucas? And what did she see in him after dating someone like Prince? That is one hell of a change as far as taste or preferrence in men goes. perhaps money has something to do with it

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peri1025 said:

This is cool. Although a bit ironic given that George Lucas famously dated Troy Beyer (Princes ex/girl from Sexy MF video) for a number of years before Melody. I guess time heals all wounds but I know he's known to have a jealous streak.

Well, considering he did an SNL episode with Alec Bawldin as the host, I think he's mature enough to hang with peeps who r banging or were banging peeps he used to bang.

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luv2tha99s said:

peri1025 said:

This is cool. Although a bit ironic given that George Lucas famously dated Troy Beyer (Princes ex/girl from Sexy MF video) for a number of years before Melody. I guess time heals all wounds but I know he's known to have a jealous streak.

Well, considering he did an SNL episode with Alec Bawldin as the host, I think he's mature enough to hang with peeps who r banging or were banging peeps he used to bang.

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Prince didn't date Troy. She was in one of his videos.

Stymie said:

luv2tha99s said:

Well, considering he did an SNL episode with Alec Bawldin as the host, I think he's mature enough to hang with peeps who r banging or were banging peeps he used to bang.

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Prince didn't date Troy. She was in one of his videos.

In more than one. Watch the 3 chains'o'gold video collection, the Gett Off remix videos and the ryde divine tv special.

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ludwig said:

Stymie said:

Prince didn't date Troy. She was in one of his videos.

In more than one. Watch the 3 chains'o'gold video collection, the Gett Off remix videos and the ryde divine tv special.

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Thanks ludwig.

Stymie said:

luv2tha99s said:

Well, considering he did an SNL episode with Alec Bawldin as the host, I think he's mature enough to hang with peeps who r banging or were banging peeps he used to bang.

[Edited 7/1/13 10:38am]

Prince didn't date Troy. She was in one of his videos.

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Prince and Troy dated. Cat said so in her recent Dyes interview. Troy lived in her building. The link to the interview is posted over in the Assoc. Artists forum.

MadamGoodnight said:

MadamGoodnight said:

Prince and Troy dated. Cat said so in her recent Dyes interview. Troy lived in her building. The link to the interview is posted over in the Assoc. Artists forum.

EYe forgot about that! Cat sure did confirm it in her revealing innerview. Eye guess an apology is out of the question huh?...

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

When Prince Says No Photos Allowed, Prince Means NO PHOTOS ALLOWED

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http://chicagoist.com/201...ince_m.php

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Prince was in Chicago to play George Lucas' wedding reception Saturday so the city was abuzz with speculation on a possible surprise set somewhere else in town. Sure enough, late in the afternoon City Winery announced he would be playing a late night set. Tickets ranged between $75 and $250 and sold out almost instantly. I arrived at the venue to find a line stretched down the block as people waited for the doors to open at 11:30 p.m. As that time came and went I began to wonder just what kind of Prince show to expect. Would it be a let down along the lines of his first performance at the United Center or botched House Of Blues performance late last year?

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Shortly before 1 a.m. the doors opened and the crowd flooded in. As the room filled, the lights dimmed and His Purple Majesty bounded onto the stage. The room felt electric and I immediately realized I need not have doubted the mood of Prince—this was going to be a good show. As he launched into "Little Red Corvette" the room was all dancing and the long wait outside was a distant memory that was well worth it for this payoff. The stage at City Winery is low, and Prince is famously diminutive, so as he kept running to the front of the stage, he often appeared to be almost disappearing into the audience. This was the definition of an intimate show. So how could I resist trying to snap a picture or two to document it?

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There were signs all over the room prohibiting photography, but these appear at every venue and, in the era of the smartphone, it's generally assumed that professional cameras are banned without prior approval, but cell phones are tolerated. While I'm no fan of anyone holding their phone aloft for full songs, I have no problem with someone snapping a quick photo, so imagine my surprise as I took out my phone to suddenly find a huge security guard suddenly in front of me waving his finger no. I was at the very front of the stage so I moved to the back of the room, figuring that if I was behind everyone and obscuring no one's view then maybe the camera would be tolerated. So just as I snapped a single picture our phone disappeared inside a huge hand the suddenly appeared from beside me. Another security guard gave me that look no patron wants to see and I followed him out of the room. As he deleted the photo off my phone he handed it back to me and sent me outside.

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This is the point where you might expect this writer to whine and complain and bemoan getting tossed out of a Prince show but let's be honest, despite changing societal expectations, an artist is certainly within his or her rights to ban all photos, so while I was surprised to see it actually enforced I don't really have any room to complain. And the staff was polite: I've seen security guards act far more poorly with much less reason in the past. I learned later that Prince had several guards throughout the crowd whose sole role was to catch people taking photos and, had I known that going in, I certainly wouldn't have ever taken out my phone (though I see at least one person got away with snapping a shot without being ejected).

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And, in the end, who has any room to complain when the story is centered around being a few feet away from Prince in a room of about 500 people as he ripped through classics from his past for even only a few songs? Not this guy.

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http://www.vogue.com/part...ing-party/

serpan99 said:

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http://www.vogue.com/part...ing-party/

Oh, thanks for posting that link. Very interesting photos!

Why has the trumpet player in pic #14 no name?

Luke Skywalker needs a new diet.

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