Gustavo!

I've been a fan of your posts. A little off-topic, for this thread anyway but what do you think of the new album?

Always enjoyed your input,

DavidEye said:

Rupert is a cabbage head

diamond99 said:

Have you been reading this thread? In earlier posts, I said that a handful of cities are favored by Prince and they usually receive the extras and perks. I said that NY, Atlanta, Washington, DC, and LA are among his favored cities. And I have posted this tour list from Prince's last tour to prove what I'm saying is correct. The same cities that got the extras and perks on the last tour are also getting the extras on the latest tour.

Hello.
I was at the Glendale show and I agree with DIAMOND99. I asked the guy next to me during the show if he could hear everything that Prince was singing during the middle segment and he could not. I was sitting 6 rows back from the stage on the left side. My sister-in-law was sitting center stage about 20 rows back and during "Insatiable" she said he had a disgusted look on his face and abruptly left the stage. I thought he left the stage rather fast and I saw him throw his mic, but thought it was part of the show. During the part with the audience dancing he had two females sing into the mic and I could not hear them, but I heard him say sing louder. Therefore, I believe he was upset at the sound of the show.
This was the fourth time I have seen him, all in Phoenix. Again I agree with DIAMOND99 that the ONA show was the best I have seen. Even though I thought this show was right there for a long while. My whole section was expecting a longer encore, but it did not make the show any less amazing. I thought the crowd was very into the show the whole time, except during the change over when the saxophone player, not Candy, was playing a spectacular solo and had to encourage the crowd, center stage on the back side, with his free hand then the crowd went crazy. Other than that, the crowd was giving great energy. I brought my 58-year-old mother and she thought he was amazing with his guitar and how he could hold the audience in the palm of his hand. I was not the least bit disappointed with the show and the tickets were just like NPGMC promised. I did not witness any misses during this show.
Everyone will be in for a royal treat!

Hey did anybody see him when he played the Electric Ballroom in Tempe a while back? I was like a couple feet away from him while he jammed on the ride and the santana medley. It was supersweet. Anybody? Anyone?

VDubblin said:

Yeah, I was there. I think that was after his Jam of the Year show at America West Arena. Man that was a crazy line to get into that show- ( the arena).

diamond99 said:

So was I. , just feet away on the left hand side of the stage. ~incredible...

Sueme said:

Of course I have been reading this thread. I would never post without knowing what I am talking about. Earlier you stated that "He gives his ALL to LA, NY, DC, Atlanta, London and a couple of other larger cities." You also stated that "LA, NY, DC, Atanta ALWAYS get FULL PRINCE. While most everybody else has to happy with HALF PRINCE." Now your statements imply that LA, NY, DC, Atlanta ALWAYS get FULL shows, while other cities get lesser shows or as you state it "HALF PRINCE". So then you post his tour list from ONA to try and prove your point. However, DC got NO aftershows and Atlanta only got one after show, so apparently they don't "ALWAYS get FULL PRINCE".

Also, according to you Ottawa, Winnepeg, Buffalo, Indianapolis, Dallas, and Portland all had aftershows. While Chicago, Detroit, DC, Oakland, and Toronto got no aftershows. Now I am not sure what planet you are from, but most people would agree that Chicago, Detroit, DC, Oakland, and Toronto are far bigger or more important cities than Ottawa, Winnepeg, Buffalo, Indianapolis, Dallas, and Portland.

Prince did not play an aftershow in Phoenix during ONA because Lisa "Left Eye" Lopez died the night before the show. John Blackwell told me that Prince was feeling a little down because of this and did not feel like going out after the show. I would say that is a very reasonable excuse. The soundcheck for the Phoenix ONA show was at least an hour long and the show was around 3 hours long. If you call that "HALF PRINCE", I will call that 3 times what anyone else is willing to do. And Prince did play and aftershow in Phoenix during the "Jam of the Year" tour. I just don't think you proved your point at all. But if you are still upset about no after show in Phoenix during ONA, take it up with Lisa "Left Eye" Lopez, if you can find her.

diamond99 said:

I damn sure did prove my point. I said that there are certain cities that Prince favors, and those favored cities are LA, Washington, NY etc....LA has already been receiving their customary perks and extras....and Washington, NY and the usual cities will certainly get their usual perks....you believe what you want to believe...because I KNOW for a fact that my city has NOT had an extended show or aftershow since 1998, while NY, LA, Washington et. al get 3 or 4 shows every tour...

nakedpianoplayer said:

Sueme said:

That's what you said. You can backpeddle all you want, but you said some nonsense and you were called on it.

This is not the 1st time prince has decided to skip the encores. He had diarhea that night

isn't he scheduled to play like, one show a night for the next severalmonths? i mean how on earth will he have the energy to do that? i'd need more of a break between shows or something. he does seem to have amazing energy but let's hope he doesn't burn out or anything along the way. .. i don't think he means to diss anyone with a shorter set. maybe he just doesn't feel up for it or something

you know, fuck it. Does Phoenix deserve anything extra? Hell no. Why? Because Phoenix sux. And before anybody tries and derails my shit i can say i grew up here, moved away, came back, moving away again, but my point is, whatever. Two hours in this shitty town is more than i could ask from a guy who knows what's up. Anyone living here knows the deal. People come here to die. Period.

People come here to die.

The show kicked ass even with the technical difficulties and we're lucky. Tonto, if you're listening, fuck you. Sell you cloud and leave this thread and org post-haste. It was a great show and personally i believe he does dish out special shows, like Amsterdam but I don't hate them for it.

Right,

This whole topic reminds me of when I used to work at Arby's. Sure you can go there and get a chicken sandwich, or a sub, or whatever. Most people go for the roast beef tho. So one day we ran out of beef. Sure there were mad people like tonto here, accually most everyone was mad ,but oh well. I guess what my rambling is trying to say is that somtimes things do not go the way YOU (tonto) want them to go. Its just a part of life.

RupertZ said:

You are insane! I've haven't backpeddled at all!

RIGHT.

who's drunkf?

Besides me, c'mon.

Arby's sounds good. Their whole market samiches are the bomb. I go now. I take on "Pook's" delivery. Too bad "Pook" doesn't deliver. "Pook", I would like 2 turkey and swiss and chee and a super size curly fry. Thank yee, Pook.

VDubblin said:

I don't agree with everything you say, but I have lived in Arizona all of my life. And you are right, Phoenix does suck. Phoenix has absolutely no culture to speak of. We are lucky that Prince even grants us the opportunity to see him in AZ. And I am being completely serious. Even without the acoustic set, the show was amazing.

Sueme said:

So are you saying that when Prince did not give Phoenix an aftershow during the ONA tour, it had nothing to do with the fact that Lisa "Left Eye" Lopez had died the night before. Are you honestly trying to state that Prince did not give us an after show because Phoenix is not one of his "favored" cities. And about the fact that NY, LA, DC get around 3-4 shows every tour, sorry but Prince could never sell out an arena in Phoenix for 3-4 nights. Live in fantasy land all you want, but this would never happen.

Wow there is a hell of a lot of psychics on here! He didn't even play NY or DC yet and here we already have people PREDICTING he will make the shows longer or give extras. WTF? the past is not always an indicator of the future.
[This message was edited Sat Apr 3 6:45:24 2004 by adorable2]

adorable2 said:

Exactly...as has been pointed out by various people, in the past he has cut shows short in NY, LA, DC etc...he doesn't favor the big cities in this way. And the dummies aren't "predicting" he will play longer shows in big cities...they are guaranteeing it...they are so sure of something that will happen in the future. Oh well, let them live in their fantasyworld...it is the only way they can deal with life.

Man, there are some crazy ass posts on this thread.

I was at the show and here is my take if anyone cares.

The show kicked ass. Prince put on a great show.
The show was cut short because the sound was bad, bordering on awful near the end. The acoustic set is where any flaws in sound would have been magnified and Prince most likely just said forget it after what happened during Insatiable.

It had nothing to do with the crowd not being into it or Phoneinx as a city. The crowd was way into it. The idea that Prince cut it short becuase some people sat down during lesser known ballads or instrumentals when Prince was not on stage is silly. He is a professional.

There is nothing wrong with being dissapointed. His piano/accoustic medley's are some of my favourite parts of his shows and I really wanted to hear Little Red Corvette. I have been to many Prince shows and to have a one song encore bringing the concert to an hour and fifty minutes is highly unusual.

Asking for your money back however is crazy..the show was killer and worth every dime.

dealodelandron said:

I would second that - I remember being at the 2 Birmingham NIA shows in 1993 that kicked off the Act II tour, and the 1st nite was good, some techy problems, but the crowd were still having fun, and he seemed 2 pick up on that, and gave a fantastic encore, playing over the curfew, recieving a fine in the process.

Next nite, by the time the encore came around, he slowed the whole thing down, started chatting 2 the audience as if it was some small club gig, all really off-the-cuff, informal, and commented that he'd been fined the previous nite 4 'breaking the curfew..' (cue much hissing and booing from crowd) 2 which Prince laughed and said: 'I think Im gonna take that fine 2nite!' before launching in2 quite possibly the best encore set Ive ever seen him do - the energy coming off that stage and the audience response was nothing less than rabid. Was an awesome show - there's a couple of videos floating around of it too...

2freaky4church1 said:

ah hem..... where i was no one was sitting.... everyone was jammin..... P was feelin the vibe of the crowd..... i been to alot of shows all ova..... the crowd was on their feet jammin all nite..... so i am not sure where they seen peeps sittin.... it was a full house and they were loud and havin a blast.....so to say we didn't deserve one is wrong.....we all paid for the same show..... he tore it up in a small town called Bakersfield the nite before..... simply the man was mad bout the sound..... he is a perfectionist.....i even noticed sound probs.....and i never do lol..... all i know is i hate being on the first part of a tour... to may bugs to work out.....

Prince gave a wonderful, energetic performance, I have no regrets. For you guys that were not satisfied, you have to also remember that the show started almost 45 minutes late due to the unorganization of the Glendale Arena.

All P shows start late....his 7:30 show in LA on 3/29 started at 8:10.....no surprise! I don't think I've ever been to one show when he took the stage at the time printed on the ticket.

[color=indigo]I was at the Glendale, AZ concert - Prince sang a song I had never heard part of the lyrics was 'if you want a man....I aint the one.' Does anyone know the name of that song? I thought it was the best one he sang. I loved the concert. He's just a fantastic entertainer.[/color]

mchotsie said:

He used to always be late, but the last few times I've seen him, he came out almost exactly on time. This was on the ONA tour and the tour before that.

TeresaInArizona said:

That song is called "The One". It is from the New Power Soul album.

So far Phoenix/Glendale is the only show without the acoustic set. Who wants to take a road trip. I'm afraid to go to another show and spend a lot of money and miss out again.
What would be a good show to go to ????
The shows are very similiar and he says the same comments night after night.

He should fly everyone from Phoenix that wants to go to another show so we can hear the acoustic set.