I've indicated places where there are songs missing by an ellipsis (...). Either I can't remember or I wasn't paying attention at the time.

Xcel Center (June 17)

The Time [7:30-8:25pm]
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COOL
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777-9311
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The Bird
Jungle Love

*****

Prince & The Band [9:00-11:25pm]

Musicology
Let's Go Crazy
I Would Die 4 U
When Doves Cry
1999 Intro - Baby I'm A Star
Renato interlude
Shhh
D.M.S.R.

Prince attempts to pull a rather hefty woman onstage to dance (no offense, but her size was an obvious point). He fails, makes a comedic moment out of it, and once she climbs onto the stage they dance together for a moment. She could move, to the delight of the audience and Prince.

The Way You Move [Outkast] / Mike Phillips Sax Vocoder
A Love Bizarre / I Feel 4 You
Controversy
A Love Bizarre

As in previous shows, Prince lounges around in a chair that's part of the set. Chance brings over a blanket and a magazine -- the recent RollingStone featuring Prince on the cover. After paging through a few articles, Prince flips to the feature article on himself, and points to the highschool yearbook photo printed in the article and looks for an audience reaction. Cheers, jeers and a few funny faces later, the show continues.

God Instrumental (played by Renato Neto, while Prince changed for the acoustic set)
Georgia On My Mind [Ray Charles] (featuring Maceo Parker on vox)

Acoustic Set (featuring Mike Scott on rhythm guitar)
Little Red Corvette
Cream
Alphabet St.
12:01
Raspberry Beret
Sometimes It Snows In April
7 (band returns to the stage)

Full Band
Sign O' The Times
The Question Of U / The One / Fallin' [Alicia Keys] (featuring Candy Dulfer on vox)
Let's Work
U Got The Look
Life O' The Party
Soul Man [Sam & Dave] (featuring Chance Howard on vox)
Kiss
Take Me With U

Encore
Beautiful Ones
Nothing Compares 2 U
Purple Rain

*****

Paisley Park (June 18 A.M.)

When I arrived at about 1:30am, the night's concert was playing on the projection screens in the NPGMC room while the DJ spun records for the soundstage. When A Love Bizarre was playing, they cut the concert audio and the band started to play in the soundstage. After tweaking the audio at the soundboard, Prince joined the band in the middle of the first song.

The Band
Prince (cowbell, vox, bass guitar, Hohner guitar)
Mike Scott (guitar)
Rhonda Smith (bass)
John Blackwell (drums)
Renato Neto (keys)
Chance Howard (keys)
Maceo Parker (alto sax)
Candy Dulfer (alto sax)
Mike Phillips (alto sax, vocoder sax)
Greg Boyer (trombone)

The Aftershow [2:15-3:50am]

Footprints [Wayne Shorter / Miles Davis] (Prince tweaked the audio, and then joined the band on cowbell)
Dear Mr. Man (featuring an extended sax intro by Maceo Parker)
I Know You Got Soul [Charles A. Bobbit, Bobby Byrd, James Brown] (feautring Prince on bass guitar)
Skin Tight [The Ohio Players] (featuring Prince on bass guitar, and a vocalist from the TC Jammers on vox)
D.M.S.R. (featuring Prince on guitar for the rest of the show)
House Party [Fred Wesley]
Sexy Dancer
Peach (blistering guitar and great vox by Prince)
Prince And The Band
Beautiful Strange (awesome guitar and vox by Prince)

While the whole set was amazing, the end of the show was really quite astonishing, playing the new arrangement of Peach and Beautiful Strange like I'd never heard before. He worked the Hohner guitar till it was blazing, and then ended the show, leaving us all wanting more.
[This message was edited Fri Jun 18 15:34:33 2004 by ExDeus]

very nice, man! and he did "sd" last night? hope he does it tonight....

Actually, it was Maceo who sung "Georgia on my mind" while Renato played.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

With the feathered hair? Or with leg warmers?

Somebody's got to help me on this...
at the end of Shhhh, when Prince was tearing it up, did he not play
about 30 seconds of ERUPTION, from Van Halen 1?
It was crazy.

June19 said:

lawd, he better not have...

Yea, I was gonna mention too that maceo did a nice Ray Charles tribute with Georgia On My Mind. Last night Prince did the tribute in his acoustic set but this was nice. Maceo even had on the shades!

holy fucking shit. how awesome

ExDeus said:

An interesting detail to this, she didn't actually "climb" onto the stage. After the antics of trying to pull her up she disappeared and a minute or so later reappeared right in the middle of the stage from the elevated platform that Prince comes through. A mighty cool touch, and what an experience for the girl. I thought it was damn cute.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

have you ever seen Sexy Dancer live? How exciting would that be for you????

Sexy Dancer=Jughead

Sorry...I gotta ask...how many people at Paisley? I'm hoping to get in tonight...but I'm not a member of NPGMC...trying to see if there is a chance I'll get in or not? Thanks in advance!

Wheels said:

Interestingly, about 10 minutes before showtime they announced over the PA system
at Xcel that there would be an afterparty at PAisley, and tickets would be available at the door.
I knew THURS didn't sell out, but I'm surprised they announced it.
Still, they didn't say it would be $50!

Anyway, Friday night anyone could have walked up, paid $50 and gotten in.
Same as last night.
Tonight, if you get there early enough, I'm sure it will be the same deal.

CarrieMpls said:

Hey Carrie, not to be a picky prick, but right in front of the Drums, there's a stairwell leading to the stage. Prince went down these stairs when he first left the stage during the show. The same stairs his Guitar tech was standing and coming up a few times to hand Prince a different guitar. If you notice, when Prince threw his mic a few times, he actally was throwing it down to his tech at the bottom of the stairs. I say that to say is those were the steps the girl came up on, not on the hydraulic lift like you suggested.

these shows!!!!
maaaaan you lucky s!!!