For BVH who asked me to post this...
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From: Christian (rushmann@marcus-online.net)
Newsgroups: alt.music.prince
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 11:06 AM
Subject: More Mill City Reviews


I took the 90 minute drive to MPLS and had a great time. Saw the Time, CGS
and Prince on a scalped ticket I got for $12 from a guy outside Glueck's.
Here's a quick review.

The Time: Show was funky, but the sound sucked from where I was
standing. MD has aged very well and the band was tight, but there was way
too
much feedback. I was also hoping the Jam and Lewis (who were both
backstage) would have come out and played. I wanted more than I got from
this show... Set list included (in no particular order) Jerk Out, Ice Cream
Castles, Gigolo's get Lonely too, 777-9311, If the Kid Can't Make you come,
Blondie
(my favorite), The Bird...I'm forgeting a bunch. We stayed to watch them
for an hour and then trekked over to the NW Stage. Highlight of the set -
getting to meet Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum. He and the drummer (forget his
name at the moment) stould next to us in the street and watched most of the
show. Lowlight, almost getting trampled by KG and his posse in the street.
Man that dude is HUGE and his commercials are funny as hell, but does he of
all people need to get closer to the stage?! He's what, 7 feet tall. Jeez!
Score: 7/10

Larry Graham and CGS 2000 (basically Larry, Cynthia, Jerry, Rose, The
Hornheadz, Mike Scott, Kirk, Estelle, Kip, Morris Hayes and a few others)
Missed the first couple songs in the trek over. Let me be honest, up until
this point I had never seen Larry live. I've heard a couple of the
bootlegs
of his show but this did not prepare me for the show. WOW. This man can
bring the funk. For me his 12 minute bass and drum solo was worth the
price
of admission. Damn, he even did some of it in the crowd. And Kirky J
played his ass off... the lessons are certainly paying off for him. It was
pretty much his standard set. Prince came out for Free and Everyday People.
The sound quality of this stage was 10 times better than the Times show.
I know it might be blasphemy saying this, especially since I consider
myself
firmly in the naysayer fold when it comes to the Prince/ and Larry
debates, but for me GCS kicked Prince's ass last night. I went in expecting
nothing from
this show and was thoroughly stunned. Highlight - Larry's
re-enactment of Sly and the Family Stone's triumph at Woodstock with a kick
ass funky version of I want to take you Higher. Lowlight - rambling about
free people. 10/10

Prince played for a little over 2 hours. Piepie got all the songs so
I
won't rehash it here. I was kind of disappointed. I was really hoping for
him to show case some of the new stuff and was a little disapointed that the
surprise
was Mayte and Maceo. Don't get me wrong, I love Maceo. I was hoping the
surprise might
have been... Sheryl Crow, Lenny Kravitz, The Time, Sheila E, any member of
the Revolution.
I also figured for sure he was going to play The Greatest Romance ever Sold
when he intro'd it. Instead we got
Everyday is a Winding Road (where's the payback Sheryl?). Fine. I like the
song and I hope it's on Rave.
(BTW, this is also my guess for the song he's going to play on MTV.) I
guess what got me the most was he had a great bluesy vibe going
thru Sign of the Times and ICNTTPOYM and then when into his whole Larry
speak sermon (did it 3 times in the show if I'm not mistaken) and completely
drained the show of any energy he had going. After that I admit he played
a blistering version of the C(hrist)ross. It just took me a while to get
back in the groove. Is it safe to assume that the second verse of Kiss will
from now on be the audience participation portion of the show simply so the
man
doesn't have to say "shit" anymore? All in all, not bad. His guitar
playing was AWESOME and his dancing was almost that good too. Highlight -
tie between the FULL version of Purple Rain and She's always in my Hair.
Lowlight - "It's 1999 y'all. We ain't got much time left blah blah blah"
9/10

As it has been said. Prince did Kick Ass last night, I just wish he would
have
kicked more of mine.
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