NinaB said:

purplethunder3121 said:

Thats...eerie as hell... Did you know that Mark Chapman had a list of people to kill and at the top of the list were David Bowie and John Lennon? Chapman staked out Bowie but couldn't get near him...and sought out Lennon instead. Prince stated that John Lennon's death was partially responsible as the inspiration for Annie Christian:

"She killed John Lennon, shot him down cold"

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"Annie Christian, Annie Christ
Until u're crucified I'll live my life in taxicabs
Annie Christian, Annie Christ
Until u're crucified I'll live my life in taxicabs..."

I did not know that! Shiiit! fucked up! Bowie & Lennon! Beautiful men. That Dakota has some creepy stuff about it too. P played the roxy that night, weird.

Another question that entered my mind just now (especially to all nay-sayers who state that The Revolution should not continue or Wendy shouldn't touch Prince's guitar--even a replica): how does one keep music as vital as Prince's ALIVE? Just by playing his albums? No! By playing his music LIVE in hot steamy clubs and doing JUSTICE to it! Especially by his original band members like these concerts at First Avenue. Even when I listened to Prince before he passed, my favorite listening experiences were from his live concerts. He DESERVES to have his music performed LIVE from now on... From people who care and will do justice to his LIVE LEGACY. The last time I saw Prince live was in a small hot and sweaty club. One of the best experiences of my life. May that tradition continue. My end rant of the night.

Okay, WHAT were those two songs Questlove played right around 9:00 PM? One sounded very much like an 87-88 outtake, with references to various danes like the Kangaroo and the Detroit Crawl, like in The Line. The only lyric I remember was "turn those houselights up." It was immediately followed by a guitar-heavy funk track that sounded like it was from the mid-90s. Those were AMAZING.

TONIGHT WAS F*CKING AMAZING!

Dauphin said:

terrig said:

TONIGHT WAS F*CKING AMAZING!

Agreed. Watching the shows via FB stream was amazing

luv4u said:

terrig said:

TONIGHT WAS F*CKING AMAZING!

Agreed. Watching the shows via FB stream was amazing

I will post my thoughts more tomorrow - there were some sound issues but man they dug deep into early Prince and that was just golden.

I gotta get to sleep - I can imaine the painmy body is going to be in - imma need a 30 min warmup just to wake up lololol

Facebook:

Part 1 - https://www.facebook.com/...672798332/

Part 2 - https://www.facebook.com/...mp;theater

I found that link after Andre posted on his facebook if everyone has tickets! i said noooo I"m sitting here in Nashville in my home. Can you or one of the guys PLEEEAASSSEE Facebook Live it for us? Next thing I know that link I posted last night showed up in my feed and it was front row spot near Dez's side of the stage! Better my comment about being in Nashville got some dialouge going between myself and one of Andre's facebook friends who lives about 15 miles from me! It was so cool to watch that live...

So I have a VIP ticket to tonight's show, but my buddy going with me has a general admission. Since boht tickets are under my name at will call, getting us both in is going to be a huge headache since I'll have to go back up to the front door when he comes in with the regular crowd.

I'm wondering if going to the VIP is even worth it; I haven't really seen much talk about what actually goes on during that extra hour. Is it just the food upstairs and the advantage of getting in an hour early to stake out a good spot, or is there more? Have band members been around during that time?

dplatt said:

So I have a VIP ticket to tonight's show, but my buddy going with me has a general admission. Since boht tickets are under my name at will call, getting us both in is going to be a huge headache since I'll have to go back up to the front door when he comes in with the regular crowd.

I'm wondering if going to the VIP is even worth it; I haven't really seen much talk about what actually goes on during that extra hour. Is it just the food upstairs and the advantage of getting in an hour early to stake out a good spot, or is there more? Have band members been around during that time?

I have not personally been in to VIP, but from friends who have been the last 2 nights, the main advantage is just what you stated, early entry, the laminate and some free snacks. I have not heard that any band members have been around. We were at the Depot last night grabbing food and drinks before and watched a few people walk by on their way in, though no bandmembers (Questlove, Maya Rudolh and her husband PT Anderson).

Apparently Questlove set up right away for the VIP and was playing some super fun stuff. It was GREAT once we GA folks got inside too.

Oh, and staff offered a friend of mine to sit on the Purple Rain motorcycle for a picture. No one got to do that the first night during VIP as far as I'm aware.

I am doing VIP tonight and am looking forward to Questlove's set most of all. That, and wearing more confortable shoes tonight. I took off right after the show last night as my dogs were barking. Looking forward to dancing to the end tonight.

dplatt said:

Okay, WHAT were those two songs Questlove played right around 9:00 PM? One sounded very much like an 87-88 outtake, with references to various danes like the Kangaroo and the Detroit Crawl, like in The Line. The only lyric I remember was "turn those houselights up." It was immediately followed by a guitar-heavy funk track that sounded like it was from the mid-90s. Those were AMAZING.

This is really interesting, I remember Questlove tweeting some time after Prince's death that he had heard Wally so maybe he's been allowed access to some other stuff from the vault. And if he's playing stuff that we haven't heard before in bootlegs in a DJ set I guess that potentially bodes well for official releases of unheard material.

dplatt said:

purplethunder3121 said:

Like a lot of us have mentioned the first night was going to heavily them releasing the sorrow. And that was respectful. To pretend they weren't would have been disingenuous.

But like a lot of us have also said, the energy would be different for the next 2 nights. I'm glad they added the 3rd date.

U can feel them syncing together now.
I love both nights 4 what they naturally had to be.

Brenda & Apollonia there this night.

purplethunder3121 said:

deangela said:

purplethunder3121 said:

So someone tweeted some of Questlove's set from last nite & a song called "LIFE" was played. It sounded like it was from the 87-88 period. Anyone have any info about this track?

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Farfunknugin said:

paulludvig said:

Farfunknugin said:

paulludvig said:

I would love to hear more about the songs he played in his dj set.

Sorry song was called Emotional Pump, pretty cool track & a studio version of Take This Beat..

Emotional Pump is the song he offered to Joni Mitchell, this is pretty fucking cool.

Thought it was Emotional Dump, not Pump?

Iamtheorg said:

Thought it was Emotional Dump, not Pump?

I've only ever heard it as the latter, here's the Princevault page: http://www.princevault.co...ional_Pump

There's a recording of some of Questlove's DJ set out there, including at least a portion of Emotional Pump, just had a listen, even with mediocre quality and hearing it through my shitty phone speaker (I've been having trouble with my ears lately so can't listen on headphones) this is a pretty fucking exciting occasion!