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In this months issue the 100 greatest gigs of all time...

Prince in at #46, Wembley Arena, london 2nd August 1988

Q. What would you say is the best Prince gig you've been to?

Cafe De Paris '98
or any 1 of 7 from celebration 2002. Probably the Saturday night (22nd June) cos of going to see Minority Report and the missus getting my Rainbow Children brochure signed by Sheila E in the Cinema toilets. The final night 27th was also rockin cos it was my birthday and we got John Blackwell to sign the Days Of Wild CD that was handed out.

smoo said:

In the bathroom? Dude! That's what Prince was talking about when he talked about fanatics.

Vienna Stadthalle 30.5.1987 ( my 1st one

purplefrank said:

The Fillmore aftershow (San Francisco) -- April 2001
then Lovesexy (Oakland) -- October 1988
[This message was edited Fri Apr 30 5:22:41 2004 by Jasziah]

I was having a look at Q magazine today. Boy, has that mag gone down the drain. That article on 'greatest gigs' has to be the laziest piece of writing i've read in a long time!

bananacologne said:

The Forum? was this an aftershow or summat?

Celtic Park...obviously!

Sly said:

as i said on another thread sly...

Q Magazine - What a joke!!!
When I was a younger man i used to put some stock in what that magazine had to say, but the basic fact is that they are a crowd of tossers trying to write things that make thamselves sound clever. They appear to know fuck all about music, they never comment on musicianship or technical merits of the tunes and usually spend most of any album review writing rubbish that is unrelated to the album itself. Classic english music mag stuff.
It has been fun to watch these clowns trip themselves up over the years (e.g. their 5-star review of oasis 'be here now', a bloated pile of shit that noel gallagher later admitted was a load of ass). They are not a shit mag cos they gave 'gold' by prince a bad review (it was fun but no great shakes) but because they do not review music in their music reviews.
Musicianship frightens these people, they are only interested in trends, hype or the certainties determined already by time and consensus.
Every decent prince album of the last 13 years has been referred as the best album he has made in years - these morons cant even remember to check that they loved 'emancipation' and 'the rainbow children' without claiming that 'musicology' is some sort of return to fucking form. These cocksuckers probably only reviewed it cos sony told them to because they sure as fuck didnt seem to have any interest in telling the general public what is going on on the record itself.
Cocksuckers.
ak

I think Q magazine is one of the better music journals. I frequently purchase the magazine. However, I wasted my money on this month's issue. What a pile of crap - the greatest gigs of all time. I for one was at the Madonna gig in Berlin - maybe the UK one was better? I went with a friend expecting a good show or at the very least to have a good dance etc. What a disappointment. How anyone can call that a rock/pop concert is beyond me, theatre yes but one of the top 10 greatest gigs ever? By the way before anybody mention that I am bias, one of my favourite gigs of all time was Underworld in London, why because it was organic and transported me to another world. But to place Prince at number 46 on what criteria?

poetbear68 said:

nah she didnt recognise Sheila E, it was cos everyone else in the ladies toilets were doing it that she asked for the signature also

Sorry re-madonna I should have written bad theatre. The personality subsumes the music.

bananacologne said:

i'm with nana, no question !!!

I can't believe that none of the Lovesexy dates did'nt make the top 10. That was an incredible show! Again another subjective but biased list in my opinion!

ELBOOGY said:

I attended a suprise gig at Bogarts in Cincinnati dubbed the Red,Hot,and Blue concert/Purple Rain Ball featuring Appollonia 6 and it was the first time a vinyl version(12inch) was played of Erotic City. Prince & the Revolution turnt the mutha out 21/2 hrs of pure bliss! That was the best show 4 me cuz the club only holds 1,500 peeps and the sound was incredible that night and Prince was on top of his game!

Musicology April 17th,2004 Gund Arena/Cleveland,Ohio!



Blackwell even told me personally that this show was AWESOME!!!

The Emancipation release party in Chicago...No question about it!

My first Prince concert was, as it happens, August 2nd 1988 at Wembley Arena. I think it was probably the best I've been to. No encore, which prompted what I felt was unjustified boo-ing from the crowd, but an incredible concert nonetheless.

I was at the show at Bagley's in London (snippets of which were released on video), and the concert preceding that is a close second.