wow!!! i can't believe it!! 2day it's the 17th anniversary of the day i saw Prince 4 the 1st time...on TV!!!
what a great night.....AMAZING SHOW!!!.....i still love 2 watch the videotape after all this time....beautiful memories.... i LOOOOOVE THAT CONCERT!!! the band was great,Sheila and Cat...OMG!...and HE....simply perfect!!

....btw i was only 6 yrs old at the time!!!

Happy Aniversary, happy anniversary, happy anniversary... haaaaappy anniversary!

LovesexyIsThe1 said:

Thank You

eklektika7 said:

Did ur parents cover your ears during 'Head' or 'Sister'? What did u make of Bob George?

....there was no problem...we're Italian and my parents couldn't understand the lyrics.......neither did I back then....I simply enjoyed the music ....

Those gigs were fucking amazing...Prince at his peak, the piano medley was brilliant in particular. And the sight of 10,000 mulleted, mustachioe'd German fans clapping out of time was breathtaking

"Snare drum pounds on the 2 and 4!"

Like it was only yesterday.

Thats the best prince show ive seen! So good!

Is it considered a boot since it wasn't released over here but was released?

Also anyone know of any way to come by a copy?

Love2tha9s said:

The videos frequently come up on ebay, probably in PAL but they aren't hard find.

LittleSmedley said:

eklektika7 said:

its so funny - yesterday night i drove home from a party and thougt to myself, it would be nice to see again the lovesexy show - something must have reminded me to do so - but didn't know that the show was exactly 17 years ago - and now i read this thread - what a coinicidense!


I came home and put the video into the vcr and watched it till 4 in the morning - what a concert, what a great show! i like the anastacia-song, the piano-meddley, ....


back in 88 my wife and me has been in frankfurt / germany for lovesexy - we just were 18 and drove my fathers car from innsbruck / austria to frankfurt (~600 km) to attend the show - it was just a great night!

thx for reminding
[Edited 9/11/05 3:53am]

LittleSmedley said:

I don't know about the mustaches, But i am pretty sure most of the people attending were from Holland (hence the shouting, awaiting the encore), As prince had liked them so much he wanted them to bring the righct atmosphere for the live show being broadcasted...

(certainly dont know 'bout the handclapping....)

We will never see that again, huh? Thank god for the bootleg copies and I am sooo glad I can relive the experience again and again. I still say THAT was the best show - EVER!!!! He's yet to top it in my opinion. And WOW - 17 years!!!

(I think I am gonna cry. I'm vaclempt! Talk amongst yourselves....)

purpleunderground said:

lovesexy indeed was a great show, but 4 sure, there have also been many others that can compete:

just a few:
ona in berlin
zürich with lary graham & chaka khan
vienna, technical museum, aftershow
...

netzverwalter

netzverwalter said:

hmm, nothing can compete this show. (maybe because it was the first time I went to Prince-show)

Anyway, thanks Eklektika7 for reminding me (us).Ít's been a while since I last watched this show. Thanks to the thread I took the videotape from under the dust and had a great evening watching this show once more. The breaks between the music are a bit long here an there, but it remains a great show!

eklektika7 said:

I remember it as well! It was great. Long life to our Italian RAI, who co-produced the event
[Edited 10/12/05 14:58pm]

I think that is my FAVORITE Prince show...not that I saw it live but I saw the recorded version.

I just watched my fave parts of this last night:

Superfunkycalifragisexy (I love the faces he makes when Cat "ties" him to the chair)
Lovesexy (love the dance he does)
Eye Wish U Heaven (say Hello to the Blue Angel)

Anybody feel good tonight?
That feeling is.....



...LOVESEXY.

I love how he says that and the look he gives.

jone70 said:

I know what you mean girl! But the opening of Erotic City in that show....OMG...

Not wanting to be morbid or anything but I remember thinking at the time that this would be a good concert to show as a tribute when Prince dies.

I was there back in the day. Great concert, great memories. Thanx for reminding!

ufoclub said:

They weren't german... we were dutch!!!!!

christopheries said:

About 80 % of the people there were dutch, actually. I remember there was some kind action from a tour operator. You could get the tickets plus the bustrip to dortmund for an 'attractive' prize. Most of the tickets of that show were offered in Holland (I don't know why, somebody said this to me) So in the end, there were much more dutch people attending the concert, singing dutch soccer songs. ( )
There has always been a rivalry between the dutch and german soccer teams (even before world war II), so they (the german prince-fans) reponded a little bit angry.
The concert was ok. It is still one the best concerts i have seen, and one of the best experiences ever in my life.

christopheries said:

As i said before, i remeber it being an exrta show with t"he tickets being sold in Holland to thank the fans and to be sure to get a great atmosphere for the boradcast. And it certainly looked like Prince had a great evening. During Purple rain: "One time to remember...