man.....my legs are killin me still....never again will i wear high heels 2 the park.....learned my lesson well...*lol*



ennywayz, last nite/this mornin wuz my very first trip 2 the park, and it wuz pretty damn smooth. bits and pieces of my memory are kinna scattered, due 2 me not knowin about a few of the folks who played there last nite and the fact that i just woke up, basically...*lol* first of all, i would like 2 thank misciara 4 takin me 2 the park---thank u, thank u, A THOUSAND TIMES, THANK U!!! thanx 4 errything, i really appreciated it!!



so, here's how it went down 4 me:



misc came and picked me up @ about 12:30-ish in the a.m.--sometime around 1, i believe (ain't 2 sure, since i waited outside 4 a bit & wasn't near a clock & i don't have a watch). hopped in her car, introduced ourselves and all that, and we were off 2 chanhassen. on our way there misc played a lil demo-ruff copy of the sons of almighty's new cd (heard it before all ya'll--it's off the clouds, folks, better find yourself a copy once it's out!), and we were just talkin about music and just a lotta, lotta stuff.



i'd be here all day typin what we talked about, but i know ya'll are mo' interested in what went down @ the park, so lemme shut up. *lol* on with the story:



we arrived at the park sometime about 1-ish or so--there wuz a few ppl lined up @ the door, huddled together 4 warmth and all. one thing: 4 u women who were waitin outside wearin halter tops and other skin-bearin clothing, ya'll were super-bold! lawd... misc and me went 2 the superamerica up the street 2 get refreshments and such, then came back--wasn't even 5 minutes later and the line wuz a bit bigger (ya'll be travelin fast as hell). misc's friend, andrea, had came out as well--matter of fact, i don't think misc knew she wuz there till we both got outta her car & seen andrea pop outta her car (parked right behind us!). she tagged along with us 4 the rest of the nite.



the door opened @ around 2:30. by that time i had 2 pee so freakin bad..the cold wasn't helpin, either, cuz it made me wanna go even worse. after about 5-10 minutes of waitin @ the door, we got into the lobby, paid our lil "donations"--the brotha at the door wuz gettin kinna snotty with us cuz misc wuz payin 4 me and her 2 get in (thank u, misc!!) but ol' boy wuz buggin and talkin about, "it costs $7.77 2 get in!" and basically wantin 16 bux instead of the 14 misc thought it wuz. got that straightened out, got t-shirts (wearin mine right now as i type this, btw )--i finally went 2 the ladies' room and relieved myself, but it wuz hard 2 do so cuz the stall door wouldn't close and i had 2 kinna struggle with it as i sat on the potty. full bladders and raggedy stall doors don't mix, ya'll....*lmbao* handled my biz, so me, misc and andrea all stepped into the lil stage-room thing next door 2 the soundstage, just as the fonky baldheads started playin their first number. dvs wuz up there, gettin his flow on 4 a few--me and misc started crumbin on him cuz he wuz doin this one number with a chorus that went, "all your songs sound the same!" and what-not. next song he played wuz called "sex in my bones" (almost thought he said somethin else--misc, u know what it wuz, *lol*!), and it DID sound the same as the first number so misc wuz mockin him like, "all your shit sounds the same!!" funny as hell. then he did another number that sounded similar 2 the first two things he did. "here's some baby-makin music right here," he said. uhhhhh.....yeah, and it SOUNDED THE SAME, 2....x-cept it wuz slower that time. i guess dvs had 2 cut his performance short cuz he must've come down with sumfin and he felt like he wuz gonna throw up or sumfin, so he had 2 bow down 4 the night. kip blackshire wuz there 2, but he had a sore throat....poor brotha's speakin voice sounded terrible (mo' on that later)!



during the rest of the baldheads' set, we headed over 2 the soundstage in the adjacent room and watched them finish up their thing and all--they did a lil cover of "anotherloverholeinyohead", which wuz awright, and i think they busted out with a short instrumental of "i'm yours" as well (ain't 2 sure, couldn't tell). we watched 'em on the big-ass projector screen in there, and i must've been lookin around or sumfin--wasn't payin attention--and all the sudden andrea goes, "he's here!" and i'm like, "who, who's here?" so she's all like, "prince is here, c'mon!" so the three of us hopped back in the other room 2 go see him.



awright, 4 those of u who ain't seen him in person, the basic shit is true: he short, skinny, and got a big-ass cranium. *lol* he wuz wearin an outfit similar 2 the one he wore in the "u make my sun shine" video, except it wasn't velvet (don't think so, ennyway--my eyesight ain't the greatest but it's good enuff). the brotha looked scrumpdiddlyupmtious, ladies--and no, klhk, u couldn't see the booty (damn flowin suit!)! tried my damndest 2 see, but 2 no avail.



larry "watchtower man" graham wuz up on stage, gettin slap-happy with his bass and all, as wuz mr. hayes (loved his hair, man) and a couple other folks were up there (forgot who they wuz, i'm sleepie & i ain't familiar with folks quite yet). the brotha on the drums wuz just tearin it UP, ya'll.....lawd, those drum solos.....lil man did a cover of sly & the family stone's "if you want me to stay", which wuz kinna creepie cuz earlier in the day that very same song came on the radio.....cool cover, nonetheless. then they got into some instrumental-jam-type stuff which wuz pretty bad-assed. i couldn't see lil man all that well, cuz i wasn't that close 2 the stage. i coulda gotten closer, but these two preppie-lookin chix wouldn't let me pass 'em.....ketchup-heads. but i got 2 see the man live, and that wuz all that mattered. cool beenz.



another thing: why the hell wuz there somebody nearby me who smelled like they'd been smokin chronic before they got in?? fucked-up shit, man.....plain fucked-up, on the real.



ennywayz, i dunno how long the set wuz, exactly, but at the end prince invited us over 2 the soundstage where they had 5 computers set up (the brotha mostly works in sevens, but 5 pooters? c'mon....!)with free access 2 the npg music club. he did this lil beckonin hand-wave 2 have us come in as he walked off stage. most of the ppl went on the computers and toyed with 'em....i didn't get a chance 2 (really didn't feel like it--felt like sittin my ass down someplace, *lol*). me, misc and andrea were standin by the door and talkin and wonderin what would happen if we stole one of the npg music club balloons that were hung up errywhere....we didn't take none, btw. i happened 2 meet a couple more of my peeps from the chatroom (ya'll know who ya'll is--and hi!), and i saw mayho but i didn't introduce myself 2 her (shoulda, but i'm kinna short on words 4 folks i just meet). lil man wuz somewhere in the far middle of the soundstage talkin 2 a guy who helps with the npg music club site, and wuz talkin rather animatedly with him as well--bouncin around a bit and stuff. kinna cute. last i saw of the man 4 the night wuz him leavin with these two chix who were standin over by him. dunno who they wuz, but 4 some reason i had missy elliot's voice runnin in my head--"is them yo chix??" *lol* me, misc and andrea left not 2 soon after he did--there wuz a sheriff's car pullin out from the parking lot as we stepped out. thought someone had been arrested or sumfin, but they had stopped over cuz they were gettin noise complaints from the neighbors nearby (two of 'em, i heard).



neighbors?? shit, paisley park is pretty far away from houses and stuff--i think the folks around there were just hatin on him, that's all. *lol*



we headed back 2 st. paul & i got back at about 5:30. i didn't go 2 bed till like 6 this morning, so i'm still drowsy and my ears are still ringin, but not as bad as they were when my head hit my pillow so i could go 2 sleep (take a nap, is mo' like it--*lol*).



all in all, the paisley party wuz the shiznit.



hmmmm, is that it.....? i guess 4 now, since i've been typin 4 about an hour or so. my wrists are killin me and i'm hungry, so lemme cut this short.



mo' later,



The Dancerholic (aka Ex-"Paisley Virgin", ha-ha)



p.s. phew!....my keyboard's smokin.....*lol*....*j/k*