I am watching The Time's performance at the Met Centre Minneapolis opening for Prince 1983 and they are incredible. What a funky band! I now understand why Prince had issues with them stealing his thunder. Morris is cool, no question and the other guys are all stars too -Jimmy Jam is way cool in this show. Jesse in his pink suit, Terry Lewis in that hat ,Morris bringing the female fan onstage for a glass of wine. Can anyone say Proposition #17!

Anyway the question I have is were The Time better live or on record? Did Prince make or break one of the great bands of the 90?

What do y'all think?

I mean "80's. What a typo!

that is a good question.....

in a nutshell, Dr. Frankenstein

The Time LIVE was and is still the best bang 4 ur ticket buck...

Sydney said:

I've seen The Time with it's o.g. lineup twice. Both times opening up for P. Once in Feb 82 and again in April 83. Both thimes, they kicked the shit out of Prince's set. They had great chemistry together, and were superb musicians. So yeah, they were much better live. The 3 albums were basically P along with Dez with Morris on vocals. Now if The Time wrote all of their own material on those 3 albums, would they have been as good? We'll never know that. But live, the original lineup was killin'.

blackguitaristz said:

Once again BG Baby, you've made a valid point.

blackguitaristz said:

Co-signed. They were better live and sometimes I wished that they wrote their own material too.

Sydney said:

I think they are better live. With the possibile exception of What time is it?
I never really appreciated the stuff off the first album until I saw them do it live in concert

Sydney said:

The time "on record" doesn't exist, except 4 the 5 Pandemonium tracks that have no involvement by Prince. The rest is Prince with some Time members playing here & there on some tracks.

I have that same show on dvd. It is very clear they put time into their rehearsals. They flowed through their set w/ease. Not to mention they has V6 sounding funky. But they were good at excuting material that Prince did. Even the material they did when they reunited sounded like egos battling. I would love to come across some rehearsal tapes....I sure they had some tight jam sessions b4 they all got famous....

shaomi said:

GOOD POINT!!!!