that was a great performance!!! Prince looked HOT!!

how many songs they performed???

Prince was Beyonce's back-up singer?!!! WTF!!!

yeah...i was wondering that too...what did he say at the end?

they performed - Purple Rain, Baby I'm a Star, a little of Crazy in Love (no vocals) and Let's Go Crazy

astanger said:

- Ahhh, only the Hits??? The guitar playing was at least nice? She did sing all songs?

WOW!!!

That was a A+++ Performance!! Sure Beyonce was a little off in a few places in the begining.. BUT for someone who isn't used to the true real engery of playing with the best musican ever...she did great!

as soon as they went to the second set (after purple rain) WOW!! Prince did everything.. he sang great, through in great guitar licks!!! & made her song sound hot!! I love the horns going with the "Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh"In Beyonce's Song... and Prince throwing in a few more sick guitar rips!

then that end Lets Go Crazy Prince just ripped up that last guitar solo!!!

Prince looked amazing too.. the dude looks about 33 years old. His clothes looked cool & his hair had a nice "influence" towards his hair from Purple Rain..but new!

Damn Manni is hot She looks like Vanity actually.

GREAT NIGHT for Prince, NPG & Beyonce. I'd love to hear her do a song with them !

Category 10

Best Pop Instrumental Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.)

Mambo Sinuendo
Ry Cooder & Manuel Galbán
[Nonesuch/Perro Verde]
... maybe next time

So, here's what I thought about the Grammy performance, and pardon me if my comments are a bit scrambled.

Well, once again, we get a hits medley. Same ol', same ol', right?

WRONG.

For me, anyway.

I looked at the performance through a different filter - maybe other people did, too.

Check it out:

Let's leave the usual suspects at the door for one moment.
Tonight it wasn't about the usual complaints and controversies.
It wasn't about "fams" vs. "fans". It wasn't about club vs. org.
It wasn't about religious interpretations and bodyguards and cease and desist orders.
It wasn't about releasing more music or this, that, or the other.

Tonight, for a few minutes, at least under my roof, I was transported back to the first time I saw Prince & the Revolution play the Grammys and the AMAs, waaay back in the day, when nothing mattered for those few blissful moments except for a man whose talent and charisma and sheer sense of presence are unparalleled.

Someone turned his star sign on extra hot tonight, and I'm still blinded by it.

Tonight was about showing the world why Prince is an icon - a timeless classic genius - an entertainer who does things nobody else can come near - and tonight, I am beyond proud of the man, and proud to be a longtime fan.

The people in the world who don't log on to clubs and orgs every day have been reminded of someone they better never have forgotten. In those few short moments and with those tired old songs, the man delivered on so many levels - as an entertainer, as a musician, as an icon. His chemistry with Beyonce was delicious, and really - for the first time in a live television broadcast performance - he came off like a true elder statesman of popular music.

And "Purple Rain" with full orchestra accompaniment? Dang.

Listen - we can bicker over vaults and chocolate invasions and cease and desist orders and all that tomorrow - I might agree with some of ya, and then again, maybe I won't. For tonight, I just gotta say - if just for a few minutes - The Kid Came Back.

Go figure, but for me it was AMAs/Grammys 1985 again. It was MTV debuting the live "I Would Die 4 U/Baby I'm A Star" video again. It was the live video of "America" for the first time, all over again. It was seeing the words PRINCE SPEAKS on the cover of Rolling Stone all over again. There was no weirdness, no bitterness, no "agenda", none of the usual Prince nonsense of the past ten or so years.

It was exciting and enthusiastic and JOYOUS and FUN.

It was the feeling of remembering why I've bothered all these years.

And to me, that feeling is all that will ever matter.

Bravo.

PrimordialOoze said:

PrimordialOooze, you crack me up (and I mean that in a good way).
[This message was edited Sun Feb 8 22:02:51 PST 2004 by psychodelicide]

I didn't see any of the show

Does anyone if CBS will sell copies of it, or if it will be broadcast on a cable channel??? I'm dyin here!!! Pleeeaz tell me!!!

Anxiety said:

Ditto!

It was FUN and that's all it tried to be and that's all that matters!

(Going from Prince dancing and getting off guitar blasts , Maceo honking away and then they cut to Timberlake in the audience...makes you realize how downhill the music industry gotten since "Purple Rain")

it was billed as a TRIBUTE to the movie purple rain to celebrate 20yrs. that's why those songs

what did he say at the end? did anyone catch it?

4nowneway said:

I didn't catch that either.

Anxiety said:

co-sign

Seemed to me that the end was supposed to parody the Timberlake / Jackson "moment" from last Sunday? And perhaps that's also why they cut to Timberlake at the end? Some of y'all should give Timberlake a break -- the kid can sing his butt off -- his only fault being that he was in a boy band? -- whatever -- maybe if he were of a different color he'd get more respect from some of y'all -- sorry to say, but i fear, true.
[This message was edited Sun Feb 8 22:38:53 PST 2004 by Jasziah]

i dug this performance.
i dug the Funk expo (where was Buckethead-he was on the pre-show w/Bootsy)
i dug 'Hey Ya'
not a fan of Christina...but even she sounded good.


but, ShitGawdDamnGetOffYerAss&Jam...the white stripes done run away with best performance.
raw
real
a stripped-down-electric-ride

they hit with a medley too, but hammered down a raw-loose-real performance, as only these 2 D-Troit cats can do.

how they can make a voice/guitar/drum sound more forward thinking than the most complex stage show with 20-30 various peeps on stage is f'n amazing!!!

jacks solo is where P needs to go if he is ever gonna get the props he deserves as a guitarist.

i truly love P's guitar-

but i am rarely taken aback/SURPRISED by his guitar as of late.

on the otherhand, Jack White kills it anew everytime i see him rip into his instrument.

i am lucky enough to live in detroit, and have seen him perform since his early days, and he still blows me away with how he reinvents what the guitar can do.

he never leaves you feeling that his licks have been rehearsed 1001 times. he truly takes a journey with each performance and especially each solo.

i love his idea in this interview about new artists only being able to record with 4 tracks. think how that would truly seperate the real artists from the Brittneys. how cool would this be? what a newly exciting music industry it could be. not just a few artists---but a whole new raw-real top 40 it could be.

Great pictures...!

4nowneway said:

---
He said " dont hate me cuzz im fabulous!!! "

dianne34 said:

I couldn't agree more.

diamond99 said:

I'm still in awe with the performance. It was a great night tonight. Go Prince and Beyonce'!

4nowneway said:

"Don't hate cause we're fabulous"

Tis is my first post to the org and I do believe my last...I was sitting here trying to put down my disappointment in words but like Prince's new music I drew a blank.

psychodelicide said:

Anxiety said:

Wow.

Anxiety...what an eloquent desceiption of your emotions during tonites fantastic Grammy performance! I share them utterly and completely.

It's been a long while since he turned it up and did a performance on a show like this and did it right! What timing!

I had friends over. Non Prince fans, not anti-Prince, just indifferent. Young, too, 19-24, and all aware of my excitement and involvement with him. I'm always a little worried about how emabarrasing it's gonna be...Rave Un to 1999, Um, larry graham, um anything...I kinda had a good felling about this one, tho, but I was ready for anything.

He was great! She was great! They were great. Everyone I was with agreed. They were happily surprised, thought he looked amazing...folks, it's ON for 2004!!!

jazzvibrator said:

- I gotta agree with you. I think Prince improved as a guitar player lately but his guitar playing lacks some surprises most of the time. I didnt see WS performance yet, but I heard that Jack is very unique. Prince was very unique in the 80s. His playing on When doves cry was fresh. I hope he brings back that energy someday. But I am happy that he at least played the guitar! ONA tour had some of his best playing in yeears

This is one of his better TV performances. Nothing embarrasing issue to address like slave on his face or a lolipop in his mouth or some crazy unpronounceable symbol as a name. Just hella-fuckin'-good entertainment. I was riveted. My prince hating roommates were even impressed. He's got his word out, now it's time to sell records is what I think is going through his mind. And I think It's gonna happen. He purged all that religious b/s and is kind of dropping out of the theology and jumping back into the ARTS!

Somebody said earlier in this thread that the WS had a batter performance. That shit was tight as phuck and needs props and was just hands down bomb. But alas I am a Prince fan so I have a biased opinion. I have to admit I'm going to admit to using that biased opinion to say that Prince's performance was better. W/O a biased opinion, it goes to the white Srtipes. THose fools tore shit up. I was not impressed by P-Funk at all. I saw them live a while ago and was not impessed then either.

Anxiety said:

Here! Here!!!

btw - Daaayuuummm! Y'all are so quick with the pics & I am speechless, but very grateful!

Does anyone know when this is being shown in the UK? Someone orgnote me... please!!!