KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Eye like the brilliant, sneaky, way ask everyone to take their phones out during "Controversy". it's only a trap 4 the" Purple Police", 2 c & identify who has a phone, in the venue. Peeps are so clueless these days.

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there is absolutely no way kcool is a real account... shouldn't trolls be banned?

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Prince Kafka and his Purple Police issue contradictory orders in a mass entrapment scheme to eject every concert goer from the venue. KCOOL loves the idea!

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there were signs EVERYWHERE i saw a few people get tossed but yeah they knew theres more there not saying

it's not a new thing at all.. the difference is now, practically everyone has a phone that also takes pictures. Other artists don't like it either, and it's so fun for people in the audience to stand behind 500 cellphones and ipads blocking their view. Just enjoy the show!

deepabove said:

Se7en said:

I was at the concert, but I didn't see anyone ejected. Everyone was warned, multiple times. I was warned at the parking structure. Again verbally outside the doors. Again with signs inside the door. Again from the usher who showed us our seats. And finally by 3EG themselves who greeted the crowd and politely asked everyone to not bring their phones out. My wife also said it was noted online when you bought the tickets, but I can't confirm that. I feel bad for this couple, but I call BS on them "not knowing".

typo

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don't a lot of acts do both the "no cell phones!" and the "let's light this place up with cell phones!" routines? I'm sure Prince wasn't the first to do either...

If I was there, I would had obeyed the no picture clause, the same way I did the other time when I took this. I wouldn't had gave a shit. (I didn't have a cellphone during the Musicology tour).

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KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Eye like the brilliant, sneaky, way ask everyone to take their phones out during "Controversy". it's only a trap 4 the" Purple Police", 2 c & identify who has a phone, in the venue. Peeps are so clueless these days.

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WTF? That sounds like something a cynic like me would suggest: that P told people to take pics with the intention of getting them kicked out.

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BTW, everyone carries a phone everywhere these days. And every phone can take still photos and videos. There's no reason I or anyone should have to leave the phone in the car or at home just to make P happy.

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If he wants to have a "no photos" policy, fine, as long as it's clearly stated to everyone. But don't play bullshit games like telling people to go ahead and take pics, just to trap them.

Reading that Prince played "Hot Thing" and "She's Always In My Hair" put a smile on my face. I am geeked to see him perform live in 2015.

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

lezama said:

Glad that Cassy's still performing with them. She's so needed to fill out the sound in a lot of those tracks. Liv's backup singers are good additions too, although I miss Elisa. I need to hear that version of Green Garden with P & Judith.

What happen to the beautiful, POWERHOUSE vocalist Shelby J.?

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Please Prince, leave her at home. She is overbaring most of the time. Her hype woman schtick is lame. Prince is the last person that needs that nonsense.

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datdude said:

lovepotion said:

Yeah your probably right. He needs to have two separate concerts one for casual fans and one for the hardcore afficiandos.

RespectYourPrivacy - Please tell me how you arrived at such a bold presumption in the highlighted quote above. Detroit, although majority African American by far was an "early adapter" to Prince. So much so, he has spoiled us over the years in numerous ways (launching the PR tour here to 7 sold out shows at Joe Louis). We have ALWAYS loved and embraced his rock stuff, I live here and PE is STILL in heavy rotation with me. Yes, I'm a hardcore fan, but there are LOTS of us here and we STILL devour everything he puts out, REGARDLESS of airplay.

Some people on here say some of the most absurd things. Not sure wher they get this nonsense from. And any "hardcore afficiando" would not want to hear any of that mostly embarrasing album PE when he has hundreds of great songs to choose from. PE has some of the absolute worst material he has ever put out. None of the 3EGirls can sing at all. He should have just produced their album but not sang or played on it. Let 3EG go out and tour on their own if they are so great. I doubt anyone in their right mind would pay to see them without Prince.

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Eye like the brilliant, sneaky, way ask everyone to take their phones out during "Controversy". it's only a trap 4 the" Purple Police", 2 c & identify who has a phone, in the venue. Peeps are so clueless these days.

2 c & identify who has a phone, in the venue?

1) Why can't you write like a normal person?

2) Do you really think that is what Prince and his security are up to?

3) If I had to guess, I would say that just about EVERYONE had a cellphone on them.

If you can't keep it put away for 2 hours after being warned repeatadly, you deserve to be thrown out!

4) KCOOLMUZIQ, No one that posts on this site is more clueless than you!

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CandaceS said:

jjazznola said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Eye like the brilliant, sneaky, way ask everyone to take their phones out during "Controversy". it's only a trap 4 the" Purple Police", 2 c & identify who has a phone, in the venue. Peeps are so clueless these days.

2 c & identify who has a phone, in the venue?

1) Why can't you write like a normal person?

2) Do you really think that is what Prince and his security are up to?

3) If I had to guess, I would say that just about EVERYONE had a cellphone on them.

If you can't keep it put away for 2 hours after being warned repeatadly, you deserve to be thrown out!

4) KCOOLMUZIQ, No one that posts on this site is more clueless than you!

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Everyone has a cellphone, and it's unreasonable to ask everyone to leave their cellphones in their car or at home.

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Having said that, a NO CELLPHONE USE policy is absolutely acceptable.

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I'll say this: having the audience dark for half the show (no cellphone screens or camera flashes) was very refreshing.

jjazznola said:

datdude said:

RespectYourPrivacy - Please tell me how you arrived at such a bold presumption in the highlighted quote above. Detroit, although majority African American by far was an "early adapter" to Prince. So much so, he has spoiled us over the years in numerous ways (launching the PR tour here to 7 sold out shows at Joe Louis). We have ALWAYS loved and embraced his rock stuff, I live here and PE is STILL in heavy rotation with me. Yes, I'm a hardcore fan, but there are LOTS of us here and we STILL devour everything he puts out, REGARDLESS of airplay.

Some people on here say some of the most absurd things. Not sure wher they get this nonsense from. And any "hardcore afficiando" would not want to hear any of that mostly embarrasing album PE when he has hundreds of great songs to choose from. PE has some of the absolute worst material he has ever put out. None of the 3EGirls can sing at all. He should have just produced their album but not sang or played on it. Let 3EG go out and tour on their own if they are so great. I doubt anyone in their right mind would pay to see them without Prince.

I really like Wow, Marz, Fixyourlifeup, Pretzelbodylogic, Screwdriver, another Love and Funknroll. I was hoping we would get some or even better all of these. These kick ass live also!! I guess I fall in the "absurd things" category because I actally like his music and would love to hear it live. To me these would have been great in the new shows. I was hoping we would get Chaos and Disorder and I Like it There also. If you heard those UK shows they were among the greatest shows of his career and it was primarily newer material with some older ones mixed in also. Those shows just absolutely rocked hard and the band sounded great. Granted, the USA is not as accepting of newer music as overseas is but he can still work it in the setlist if he layered right. It doesn't have to be SO MUCH hits and NO new stuff in the USA. I miss the days where Prince didnt care and played it whether you liked it or not.

trax said:

Prince Delivers towering, funked-up Fox Theatre show

Adam Graham, The Detroit News 2:47 p.m. EDT April 10, 2015

Prince performs Thursday night at the Fox Theatre in Detroit.(Photo: Chelsea Lauren/ NPG Records)

Thursday night at a sweaty, sold-out Fox Theatre, Prince took 5,000 fans to funk school and added another chapter to his storied Detroit legacy.

For two-and-a-half hours, his Purple Highness laid down jam after jam, hit after hit, and lesson after lesson in how to own a concert stage. His swagger levels were off the charts as he defiantly asked the crowd "what's my name?" and counted off the number of hits he was tearing through like a teacher taking attendance. He was backed by his electrifying band, an amalgam of his 3RDEYEGIRL and New Power Generation outfits that grew to as many as 12 strong.

After 11 years, it was a triumphant return to the town Prince once considered a second home. Prince has a long history with the city that dates back 35 years, and Thursday's show – his first visit to the Fox since playing two shows there in April 1993 –marked his 35^th concert in Metro Detroit.

That's quite a legacy, and Prince acknowledged it at the very top of the show, a date on his impromptu Hit N Run outing which was announced only a scant six days prior. "Detroit!" he belted, raising one fist in the air. "It seems like only yesterday. They told me it's been 11 years! Well, if that's true, we're gonna play 17 hits in a row, until I see tears!"

He and his all-female backing band 3RDEYEGIRL then tore into a slowed down, funked-up "Let's Go Crazy" that kicked off a hit parade that passed the 17 marker and kept right on going. By the end of the night, which included three encores and callbacks to everyone from Sly and the Family Stone to the Jackson Five to Wild Cherry to Janet Jackson, the funk was hanging in the air like a dense fog, and Prince kept making it thicker.

Because it was a Prince show, whispers of an after-party were heard throughout the Fox lobby prior to the start of the concert, which fittingly fell on a day where a daylong rain – a purple rain, if you will – soaked the city. But Prince treated the entire concert like it was an after-party, with a loose, improvisational feel to the proceedings and a festive, whatever-happens-happens atmosphere on stage.

He invited a dozen or so members of the crowd up to dance with him during the show's first section, a seamless 45-minute barnburner that ripped through "Raspberry Beret," "You Got the Look," "Musicology," "When Doves Cry," "Sign o' the Times," "Nasty Girl," "I Would Die 4 U" and "Cool," with nods to his own "Cindy C." and Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" mixed in. "I'm the DJ now! I play what I want!" Prince said, treating the Fox Theatre like his own personal house party. "Old school! We going back to the '80s!"

Prince performs Thursday at the Fox Theatre in Detroit. (Photo: Chelsea Lauren/ NPG Records)

He spent a lot of time digging through his 1980s material, later cutting into "Controversy" and lifting the night's strict ban on cellphone usage during a celebratory "1999." That led right into the single's B-side, "How Come U Don't Call," and later into "Little Red Corvette," which was transformed into a sexy slow jam. A playful call-and-response at the end of the song led into a reclaimed "Nothing Compares 2 U."

"You've got a beautiful city and beautiful people, please take care of it for me so I can come back," he told the crowd, teasing a return to the Palace of Auburn Hills and shouting out the Palace's other Prince, Detroit Piston Tayshaun Prince. He then razzed the audience by telling them he'd "run out of hits" and faked like he was leaving before kicking off another set of bangers starting off with "Kiss" (which included a reference to "Preachers of Detroit" in place of the original song's hat tip to "Dynasty").

An epic "Purple Rain" that found Prince bathed in purple lighting, roaring through its monumental guitar solo, seemed to signal the end of the show, but after eight full minutes of applause Prince and his band mates returned for two more encores that stretched another 30 minutes. A jam that wound through his "Act of God," "Partyman," Janet Jackson's "What Have You Done for Me Lately?" and Jackson Five's "Dancing Machine" ended with Prince rhetorically asking "don't you love funky music?" He then went on another jag and tore through a huge swath of his catalog like he was shuffling through a greatest hits playlist, winking at "Diamonds and Pearls," "Darling Nikki," "Forever in My Life," "Alphabet St.," "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," "Pop Life" and more. "How many hits I got?" he asked, metaphorically beating his chest. It was just one of those kinds of nights.

Things weren't so hot at the beginning of the night when the venue's paperless ticketing system – put in place in an effort to thwart scalpers – ran into a mess of technical problems. The Fox's doors opened at 7 p.m. sharp but credit card scanners were offline for 25 minutes, causing a bottleneck in the Fox lobby and a line that stretched outside the building for several city blocks. That backed off the start of the concert, and opener Judith Hill's spirited set, by 40 minutes, and forced fans to wait outside in the wind and rain.

But all's well that ends well. Prince closed the night with "The Love We Make," a track from "Emancipation," an unpredictable end to a wild evening that served to remind fans with a catalog as deep and as vast as Prince's, you never know where he's going to turn next.

The 56-year-old icon, dressed in gold lamé and with his hair puffed out, looked and sounded in prime shape. Even when barking orders to his tech team in the thick of a jam ("We gotta do soundcheck all over – sound man knows it!") he was in time and on message. "We the best!" he boasted at one point. And on this night – a towering evening of music, fun and communal joy – there was no arguing with him.

jjazznola said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Eye like the brilliant, sneaky, way ask everyone to take their phones out during "Controversy". it's only a trap 4 the" Purple Police", 2 c & identify who has a phone, in the venue. Peeps are so clueless these days.

2 c & identify who has a phone, in the venue?

1) Why can't you write like a normal person?

2) Do you really think that is what Prince and his security are up to?

3) If I had to guess, I would say that just about EVERYONE had a cellphone on them.

If you can't keep it put away for 2 hours after being warned repeatadly, you deserve to be thrown out!

4) KCOOLMUZIQ, No one that posts on this site is more clueless than you!

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Says who?

As others have said, it was a fun and a fantastic crowd. The whole place was in a collective great mood, Prince included. I am curious what he's doing with this tour given that he's not promoting the new stuff at all. Clouds didn't play well in a hits review type show - Another Love would have drawn in the crowd. That said it was a great funk/dance party.

Per phone drama: If people don't know by now that Prince is anti-camera at his shows, well, they're trying not to know. If it's too hard not to check it during the show don't bring it.

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KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Empress said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Says who?

Says all of us. Your posts are full of shit. You may think you know it all, but we know better. Your posts are laughable.

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Empress said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Says who?

Says all of us. Your posts are full of shit. You may think you know it all, but we know better. Your posts are laughable.

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One thing I noticed, when he invited people on stage somebody slapped his butt. I saw him immediately whip his head back and just shoot the most evil stare. I thought he might just walk off the stage in anger he looked so mad. Luckily he kept playing but it felt a little ackward.

slide064 said:

One thing I noticed, when he invited people on stage somebody slapped his butt. I saw him immediately whip his head back and just shoot the most evil stare. I thought he might just walk off the stage in anger he looked so mad. Luckily he kept playing but it felt a little ackward.

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Wow the nerves of some people, so uncool or anyone to do that!!

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