Hopefully this will shut up the usual obsessively bitching Prince fans....

The set lists were insane! There were a few songs that were played at both, but the majority were different. I was pleasanlty surprised with the amount of new songs, like Baltimore, Rocknroll Loveaffair, Look At Me, Look At you, Free Urself, and 1000 Hugs and Kisses. No snippets of songs, full versions. The Ladder was on the top of my list for songs I wanted to hear, and he played it during the second show. Purple Rain was great on piano. He played that at the second show. I'll leave it to someone else to post complete set lists.

murph said:

Hopefully this will shut up the usual obsessively bitching Prince fans....

haha, the "wendy and lisa were useless" brigade are gonna have a fit that he's giving Lisa some credit for Raspberry Beret!

Gig sounds incredible! This is what I would have been at in Paris!

Prince talked about Lisa coming to Minneapolis to audition and how she wouldn't look him in the eyes. He said he told his manager he didn't think it was going to work out. Then he heard her downstairs playing piano and the rest is history. He said Lisa didn't write Rasberry Beret, but she wrote the hook. Nice to hear him give her some props.

jaawwnn said:

murph said:

Hopefully this will shut up the usual obsessively bitching Prince fans....

haha, the "wendy and lisa were useless" brigade are gonna have a fit that he's giving Lisa some credit for Raspberry Beret!

Gig sounds incredible! This is what I would have been at in Paris!

There's no such brigrade. That's just pushback from the trolls who claim Prince was only good around Wendy & Lisa...Most people dig the contributions they made to Prince's music....It's the constant trolling that people take offense to...

murph said:

jaawwnn said:

haha, the "wendy and lisa were useless" brigade are gonna have a fit that he's giving Lisa some credit for Raspberry Beret!

Gig sounds incredible! This is what I would have been at in Paris!

There's no such brigrade. That's just pushback from the trolls who claim Prince was only good around Wendy & Lisa...Most people dig the contributions they made to Prince's music....It's the constant trolling that people take offense to...

I jest, I jest! Lets stick to the gig

motherfunka said:

Prince talked about Lisa coming to Minneapolis to audition and how she wouldn't look him in the eyes. He said he told his manager he didn't think it was going to work out. Then he heard her downstairs playing piano and the rest is history. He said Lisa didn't write Rasberry Beret, but she wrote the hook. Nice to hear him give her some props.

That's so cool! she's told the same story from her perspective:

When I first went to Minneapolis to meet prince and stay for what I thought would be just a few months, Prince picked me up at the airport. I walked off the plane... it was June. It was warm and a little humid. Prince was waiting for me. I could see him talking on a payphone... remember those? They were all over the place in the 80's... in fact i think it was 1980. I found out later that he was on the phone with his girlfriend, Kim, telling her what I looked like and what I was wearing... anyway... he picked me up and drove me in his little FIAT to his house in WAYZATA. He took the back roads and showed me the countryside. It was really beautiful, train tracks and long views. This was Minnesota alright!

I lit a cigarette, which I can't believe now when I think of it because he hates smoking! But he let me smoke in his car. He was very polite. We were both VERY QUIET and shy. It was pretty sweet actually. Lots of nervous smiles back and forth. We got to his house and he pointed to the piano at the bottom of the stairs. I went and played while he went to make us some tea. I knew he would hear me so I tried to act like I was casually playing the hardest Mozart piece I knew. Kim told me later that he was standing at the top of the stairs wide eyed and excited. "She's better than I thought!"... ok so... that was my first day meeting him.

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jaawwnn said:

murph said:

There's no such brigrade. That's just pushback from the trolls who claim Prince was only good around Wendy & Lisa...Most people dig the contributions they made to Prince's music....It's the constant trolling that people take offense to...

I jest, I jest! Lets stick to the gig

Indeed.....

murph said:

Hopefully this will shut up the usual obsessively bitching Prince fans....

Nah!!! Not after Prince said Lisa wrote the melody to Raspberry Beret and you claim they told you they didn't do squat!

funksterr said:

murph said:

Hopefully this will shut up the usual obsessively bitching Prince fans....

Nah!!! Not after Prince said Lisa wrote the melody to Raspberry Beret and you claim they told you they didn't do squat!

This ^^^ is what I'm talking about. Prince says Lisa wrote the hook for Raspberry Beret and then it turns into she wrote the melody...lol

Don't BAMMA up this thread, funk...Let's give it a rest for minute....Dude just put on one of the best shows of his career. Give it a rest...Let folks enjoy this moment....

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This format sounds like the best idea in the world for him.

With his last four albums he had an unusual dose of his usual strategy of displaying his stylistic reach through multiple types of arrangements but the world has come to expect no less and much more of him.

Pushing aside all the wares to go back to his original instrument, opening up in a personal way and getting intimate all of a sudden in a completely stripped down setting is an excellent way to show just how great his music is and will remain.

Take it on the road please!

jaawwnn said:

Sounds amazing. Please come to London soon with this, Prince!

NorthC said:

jaawwnn said:

haha, the "wendy and lisa were useless" brigade are gonna have a fit that he's giving Lisa some credit for Raspberry Beret!

Gig sounds incredible! This is what I would have been at in Paris!

The pro-Wendy & Lisa brigade will do the same. "See? He can't write a good song without them!" I'm not going to join that debate. I just enjoy reading the reports & hope he'll take this to Europe as promised. Looks like a welcome change from the greatest hits concerts.

Murph started it!


Anyway, dying to see the full setlist

this may seem like a dumb question. did he walk through the crowd to get to the stage and leaving. i ask because the door he usually uses is way on the other side of the soundstage.........

http://blog.thecurrent.or...f-freedom/

from the above article.

2nd show:

The Unexpected
The Love We Make
Look at Me, Look at U
1000 X’s and O’s
Call My Name
Purple Rain
The Dance
Te Amo Corazon / A Million Days
Nothing Compares 2 U
How Come You Don’t Call Me Anymore?
The Ladder
I Wanna Be Your Lover
Raspberry Beret
Starfish and Coffee
Sometimes it Snows in April
Dear Mr. Man
A Case of You (Joni Mitchell)

Encore

Kiss / Black Sweat
Free Urself

friend2001 said:

jjam said:

Sounds amazing. Please come to London soon with this, Prince!

Original venues from the tour that he pulled would be good (likely difficulty getting tickets notwithstanding).

Aerogram said:

friend2001 said:

from the above article.

2nd show:

The Unexpected
The Love We Make
Look at Me, Look at U
1000 X’s and O’s
Call My Name
Purple Rain
The Dance
Te Amo Corazon / A Million Days
Nothing Compares 2 U
How Come You Don’t Call Me Anymore?
The Ladder
I Wanna Be Your Lover
Raspberry Beret
Starfish and Coffee
Sometimes it Snows in April
Dear Mr. Man
A Case of You (Joni Mitchell)

Encore

Kiss / Black Sweat
Free Urself

So much for "Prince never plays anything post 1995". Great set list!

What a set-list that is. If only he'd sell a soundboard of this show. The hard-core fans would happily buy it and it would be critically acclaimed for the uniqueness of it. Lets also hope he tours with this..

I'd sign up again for tidal in a second if they make this available (the whole thing).

1st Show set list (unverified)

1.Solo
2.Batman
3.Free
4.Who's Lovin' You
5.What Are We Gonna Do?
6.Wanna Be Your Lover
7.Dirty Mind
8.Do Me Baby
9.Something In the Water
10 Free
11.Case Of You
12. Motherless Child
13.The Beautiful Ones
14. U're Gonna C Me
15. How Come Your Don't Call Me
16. Condition Of The Heart
17. Venus de Milo

18.Raspberry Beret
19. Sometimes It Snows in April
20. Eye Love U But I Don't Trust You Anymore
21. Unchain My Heart

22. Baltimore

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delirious said:

Just came from both shows...very different shows and themes as everyone said 1st show was a chronology of his life and evolution as a musician...the very beginning of the first show was hard to interpret sound effects etc simulating his early consciousness...he spoke of being then 3 years old and everything seeming big especially the piano He then went on to talk about his father leaving at age 7 and he went into batman the first song he ever learned...it went on from there...too much to post right now exhausted! He gave props to David Bowie and Lisa and Wendy and told the story of Lisa composing the melody of raspberry beret on a harpsichord First show was by far more introspective more anecdotes etc second show was higher energy and more about fun...combine them both as some of us were lucky enough to do and it was an incredible night More later...need some sleep! [Edited 1/22/16 1:50am]