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He's Alive The daily news in NYC had prince on the cover of its sunday edition with a story on the inside regarding his live album. | |
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Invigorated & Animated
Prince offers a brilliant & baffling live set; 'Thornberrys' is pop gone deep Prince Prince "One Nite Alone...Live!" (NPG Records) Is it possible that, until now, Prince had never put out an official live CD? That would be like the Grateful Dead never having cut a concert record — or, for that matter, the Allmans or Miles Davis. It would be a crime if Prince, one of the few modern performers with the chops, charisma and changeability to create something wholly worthy on the fly, had never immortalized a show on CD. Thankfully, he recently released a whopper, cut during his tour early last year with his band New Power Generation. In fact, "One Nite Alone…Live!" gives us three concert CDs in a boxed set so big it also contains a bonus 10-song studio disk. It's so much music that it deserves to be advertised like one of those Ginsu knife campaigns on television in which they promise to throw in a potato peeler, juicer and — if you call in the next five minutes — a meat thermometer, too. Of course, this being Prince, we hardly get four CDs of nonstop bliss. It simply wouldn't be him if the set didn't run the gamut from the inspired to the infuriating. Fortunately, there's far more of the former than the latter. The first disk, mainly consisting of material from the "Rainbow Children" studio CD Prince released last year, is the most problematic. Although the studio CD featured some of his freest, longest and most involving playing, the concert versions lack such purpose and cohesion. There's too much vamping and audience-baiting. You feel like you really had to be there. Disk 2, however, nails the vibe and reach of the best Prince shows I've witnessed in the past 20 years. It's a kind of best-of rundown — from "Raspberry Beret" to "Do Me, Baby" to "Diamonds & Pearls." They're refigured into a monster jam that keeps building. The elaborated form makes the songs seem fluid, free and new. Prince has a great band to help bring this off, highlighted by saxists Maceo Parker, Candy Dulfer and Najee. They're boosted by Rhonda Smith's gargantuan bass lines, Renato Neto's funky piano and glistening guitar solos from the star himself. It's every bit as rollicking as the live Prince we saw in the "Purple Rain" movie or in his 1988 concert film "Sign 'o' the Times." The spirit continues in "It Ain't Over," which captures an "after-party" show. Stars George Clinton and Musiq join the jam, but even the loose ambiance of this late-night gig doesn't dilute a sense of purpose. B-level songs "Joy in Repetition" and "Dorothy Parker" move up to "A" status. The fourth CD mines the opposite groove from the live disks, but for Prince fans, it may be the most interesting of the entire set. The star sits alone at the piano, singing original ballads in earnest — an all-too-rare occurrence. Given the breadth of his catalogue, and the range of his ambition, it's frustrating that Prince has so infrequently crafted songs of introspection. Here it's his sole purpose. Careful listeners will recognize Joni Mitchell as his role model long before they hear his cover of her "A Case of You." Lyrically, Prince may be the anti-Joni — he's as ham-fisted as she is fleet— but vocally, he opens a channel to his soul. Now that he finally has this fun live album out of his system, let's hope the sensitive pieces point this party-hearty star toward a more nuanced future. http://www.nydailynews.co...5836c.html P/S Thanks Jill (From ChicagoNPG)... FloridaNPG Ya'LL!!! http://groups.yahoo.com/g...loridaNPG/ Peace & always keep in mind: Love4oneanother Peace ... & Stay Funky ...
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PurpleLove7 said: Invigorated & Animated
Prince offers a brilliant & baffling live set; 'Thornberrys' is pop gone deep Prince Prince "One Nite Alone...Live!" (NPG Records) Is it possible that, until now, Prince had never put out an official live CD? That would be like the Grateful Dead never having cut a concert record — or, for that matter, the Allmans or Miles Davis. It would be a crime if Prince, one of the few modern performers with the chops, charisma and changeability to create something wholly worthy on the fly, had never immortalized a show on CD. Thankfully, he recently released a whopper, cut during his tour early last year with his band New Power Generation. In fact, "One Nite Alone…Live!" gives us three concert CDs in a boxed set so big it also contains a bonus 10-song studio disk. It's so much music that it deserves to be advertised like one of those Ginsu knife campaigns on television in which they promise to throw in a potato peeler, juicer and — if you call in the next five minutes — a meat thermometer, too. Of course, this being Prince, we hardly get four CDs of nonstop bliss. It simply wouldn't be him if the set didn't run the gamut from the inspired to the infuriating. Fortunately, there's far more of the former than the latter. The first disk, mainly consisting of material from the "Rainbow Children" studio CD Prince released last year, is the most problematic. Although the studio CD featured some of his freest, longest and most involving playing, the concert versions lack such purpose and cohesion. There's too much vamping and audience-baiting. You feel like you really had to be there. Disk 2, however, nails the vibe and reach of the best Prince shows I've witnessed in the past 20 years. It's a kind of best-of rundown — from "Raspberry Beret" to "Do Me, Baby" to "Diamonds & Pearls." They're refigured into a monster jam that keeps building. The elaborated form makes the songs seem fluid, free and new. Prince has a great band to help bring this off, highlighted by saxists Maceo Parker, Candy Dulfer and Najee. They're boosted by Rhonda Smith's gargantuan bass lines, Renato Neto's funky piano and glistening guitar solos from the star himself. It's every bit as rollicking as the live Prince we saw in the "Purple Rain" movie or in his 1988 concert film "Sign 'o' the Times." The spirit continues in "It Ain't Over," which captures an "after-party" show. Stars George Clinton and Musiq join the jam, but even the loose ambiance of this late-night gig doesn't dilute a sense of purpose. B-level songs "Joy in Repetition" and "Dorothy Parker" move up to "A" status. The fourth CD mines the opposite groove from the live disks, but for Prince fans, it may be the most interesting of the entire set. The star sits alone at the piano, singing original ballads in earnest — an all-too-rare occurrence. Given the breadth of his catalogue, and the range of his ambition, it's frustrating that Prince has so infrequently crafted songs of introspection. Here it's his sole purpose. Careful listeners will recognize Joni Mitchell as his role model long before they hear his cover of her "A Case of You." Lyrically, Prince may be the anti-Joni — he's as ham-fisted as she is fleet— but vocally, he opens a channel to his soul. Now that he finally has this fun live album out of his system, let's hope the sensitive pieces point this party-hearty star toward a more nuanced future. http://www.nydailynews.co...5836c.html Ahhh, yet another mention of the piano CD. If people are buying expecting it, many people will be very upset. "Knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring faith. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal" - Carl Sagan | |
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Good review...I mostly agree with it. TRC stuff just doesn't come across as well live.
And I really wish there was a little more of the "songs" in the aftershow stuff. | |
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