mymocha said:

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St. Louis (only a couple of lines)
D.C.- the whole song during the acoustic set.

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Omg. I totally agree. I'm so ready for a tour with music other than hits at a small venue!

FunkMistress said:

Habibi has GOT to go!

Of course here's a set list (in no particular order):

Still Waiting
Last Heart
Gotta Broken Heart Again
Positivity
Just As long As We're Together
Partyman
Emale
The Love We Make
The Marrying Kind
Condition of the Heart
If I was the Man in U're life
The Ride
Question of U
Play in the Sunshine
Everlasting Now
Annie Christian (yeah I know it's a very long shot but still...)
Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)
All the Critics Love U In New York
Anotherloverholenyohead




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[This message was edited Wed Aug 25 19:03:51 2004 by Ifsixwuz9]

I don't ever want to hear POP LIFE again(never liked it) nor Purple Rain. But I will definetly miss The Beautiful Ones. I love when he drops to his knees.

to Ifsixwuz9... i like your set list:nod:

Supernova said:

enjoyniki said:

Thanks. I know there's a b-side or slow jam I'd love to add and I just can't think of it now.

I, personally, wouldn't care if he never played a song from PR ever again live, but I don't flinch when I hear them.

The Musicology tour brought me back to the fold, so to speak. (I was what you'd call a "diehard" back in the day, long before PR and up until Lovesexy, which I loved. When D&P came, I wasn't feeling it and I just lost touch.) I was excited to go to the New Orleans show, wear my purple (as requested), hear some of the "hits" I like ("Let's Work," "DMSR," "Adore," etc. if you can really call them "hits"), as well as "hits" I didn't really need in my life ("Let's Go Crazy," "When Doves Cry," "Rasberry Beret"). As a result of all the recent interest in his old and new hits, this tour came to town and now I am back as a fam. I've even gone and bought all the releases I missed while I was "away." I'm not the only one doing this either. So, look at the hits as bringing in new fans to his "non-hit" work and to his shows, where the musicianship is what's #1 now.

I would kill to hear "1999" again and I'll never get tired of "Kiss." I'm sorry that I would be labeled by some as a "sorry bastard" and "schmuck" because I like these songs. Oh well.

This scenario reminds me of a true story. For years I got to watch a shift of the George Clinton/P-Funk concert audience in various cities; it happened practically overnight. The band were playing more and more of the hard rock-influenced Funkadelic material, which was a big hit with the Grateful Dead-heads who had adopted George as a pseudo-Jerry Garcia. This stuff was not going over well with the older fans who wanted to hear the Parliament-esque hits, "Flashlight," "Mothership Connection," and other dance and horn-based tunes. Soon the audiences shifted to about 90% hippie audience and practically none of the old-school fans. But P-Funk was just the flavor of the moment for the hippies and soon they weren't showing up like they used to. Now the shows are mostly die-hard fans, but the old-schoolers have abandoned them and the hippies have found something else, so attendance is not what it used to be and I hear the shows have suffered. Is that what we want for Prince? (Coincidentally, I like both their funky stuff and the rock stuff.

BTW, my favorite thing Prince and NPG did at the New Orleans show was "Life of the Party." It kicked my ass. That could have been the only song they played all night and I would have been a happy woman.

Ifsixwuz9 said:

if i heard him play these live i would just die from happiness!

People people....

Prince will always do the hits. Sure he'll have the odd mini tour without them, but he'll always comeback to the hits.

1985 - "I've giving up live performamce to look for the ladder"

1990 - Playing Purple Rain, "I'm not gonna play this again for a Looong time!"

1993 - Act II, The "Prince" songs for the last time.

1995 - Gold tour "I don't do those songs no more".

1998 - "Larry pointed out that you don't wanna seem James leave the hits out. Thats what the audience want"

2004 - "The hits for the last time". Again.....

It's hard to say whether or not if I would go to a concert with just the new stuff. A friend burned made me a copy of the "One Night Alone" album. I did not buy this album because I knew it would be live versions of new material which I didn't care too much for anyway. To my surprise, the live versions sounded better than the studio versions. When he did the older songs, I didn't care for them because he did an acoustic medley and I don't like accoustic anyway.

I probably would go just to see if I would like it. If I didn't like it, I probably would say that I wouldn't never go to another Prince concert again, but I have said the same thing about buying the new albums since 1985 and continue to buy them. He surprises me with at least one track on each newer album.

I don't think I'll ever have to make that decision though because Prince knows where his money is....performing the hits. He might do one tour and bomb out and then he would go back to business as usual.

Now if he did a new album like the "old Prince" would have done, I wouldn't want him to perform any of the old songs. I would be too busy enjoying the new ones.

bring back the cloud guitars
and the double kick drums

jeanadams1965 said:

Bringe heare to Rio de Janeiro a show whith the hits and we all go crazy!