One Night Alone

(Let me know if any aftershows are missing)

3-01 Saginaw, Mich.
3-02 Chicago
3-03 Chicago
3-05 Columbus, Oh.
3-06 Detroit, Mich.
3-07 Buffalo, NY -- aftershow
3-09 Louisville, KY
3-10 Cleveland, Oh.
3-11 Indianapolis, In. -- aftershow
3-29 Washington, DC
3-30 Washington, DC
3-31 Washington, DC
4-03 Atlanta
4-04 Atlanta -- aftershow
4-06 Lakeland, Fl.
4-09 New York City -- aftershow
4-12 Kansas City
4-14 Houston
4-15 New Orleans
4-16 Dallas -- aftershow
4-19 Los Angeles -- aftershow
4-20 Los Angeles -- aftershow
4-24 Oakland, Ca.
4-26 Phoenix
4-29 Seattle
4-30 Portland, Or. -- aftershow

Eye think that's all of them so far.

Look at the list. The first 9 shows were tune ups and rehearshals for the main part of the tour.

Notice the big break in between March 11 and March 29 when the show hit Washington with a better setlist. The band had come together as a group and was firing on all cylinders by then.

The lesson is it's better to catch a Prince show mid or late in the tour after the early bugs and kinks have been worked out.

I posted the show list so that everyone can see that there really weren't that many aftershows on this tour.

What puzzles me is that so much importance is placed on aftershows. I saw a post in alt.music.prince from a guy who said that the Prince concert experience is not complete unless there is an aftershow.

I saw a post here on Prince.org from someone who said she left Prince's main theater show in LA an HOUR early so that she could get a good place in line for the aftershow at House of Blues.

Why would someone want to miss an HOUR of the regular show in order to be first in line for the aftershow? Is it really not possible to have a "complete" Prince concert experience without an aftershow?

Gold Nigga Said:



I totally agree with your observation!! I was at both shows he played in Chicago then picked him up again in DC. Even though I enjoyed myself immensely in Chicago, I thought Prince played a much tighter show with an enhanced setlist in DC. Even the soundchecks got better later on during the tour!

I've always said I wish he'd play Chicago on the tail end of his tour rather than at the beginning. Start the tour out West, take a break, then hit the East and work his way back to the Midwest, then head home!

I have to agree on this. Prince gets better with every concert of the tour.

I've seen him opening his European tour in 1992 in Ghent, Belgium. Well, you couldn't compare that concert to the final shows in Paris, which were too