Vashti said:

that IS the reason...logistical problems, my ass...who do they think they're FOOLING? lol

I mainly feel sorry for people who paid $125 for a ticket for the Orpheum and they are now seeing a show at Paisley Park with no where to sit, and no guarantee their spot will be any better than someone who only paid for an $88 ticket. You know damn well the nightly "overflow" passes the rest of the nights of the celebration will not be this price. Living in Mpls and having seen him at the Park for free several times, there's no way in HELL I'd pay $125 to see him at the Park. No way. They better be offering at least partial refunds to those who spent that amount. It's ludicrous.

[color=blue:807a3f0b9c:11104e4e1e]This information should have been emailed to us since most of us hardly ever check the web site because it is never updated or when it is, it is updated with information that has nothing to pertaining to us members.

This was announced too late, too. Why was this "announced" a few hours before everyone is leaving to Minneapolis? (Maybe because he was hoping for more ticket sales , but what about the people who bought tickets for $88 getting in for the same price as the people that paid $125?) I am a person who likes a "plan of attack" and when I don't have one I am not a happy camper. I, as well as a lot of others, want to know what is happening this year. At least last year we had a good idea of what was scheduled each night. Can we honestly say we have any idea on what we have spent tons of money on besides the small-known fact that Prince is supposed to perform? We don't even have any real confirmation that our Celebration passes are there waiting for us and being purchased via PC, mistakes are bound to happen! What time will Prince be onstage? How long will each night last approximately?

Prince is currently creating "last straws" with a lot of his fan/ms (trust me I hear them telling me this all the time) and he better dance and play his off or he is going to end up not being able to sell out anything because they won't want to spend their hard-earned cash on something or someone so unpredictable. I hope Prince reads this, too, because he needs to start correcting things before his fan/m base dwindles to nothing and they become unwilling to give him any second chances. Take it from me Prince, I know because they talk to me about their frustrations with you and wanting to just "give up" on you completely!

Some people are already mad at him for his religious talks at concerts and now they are mad over the way we keep getting tossed around with the Celebration which is starting in HOURS! Prince!! Make your mind up and stick with it at all possible costs! We know you are spoiled and spontaneous but please wake up before you are not able to spoil yourself any longer! Your business decisions are your career!



Once again I state that Prince needs to hire me if he wants to have a successful business which in his case directly correlates with his career. He would have to be willing to listen to me or whomever his business director is, too. Unless Prince decides to go for a degree in business I suggest he let someone (ME) make business-related suggestions and run the NPGMC since he is making the NPGMC the life vest to his career. Don't let it sink Prince, please.

NuPower, I agree completely

-The Orpheum venue site says seats approx 2300 ppl.
-When I bought tix, for $271 mind you, for the Orpheum show, it took me about 20 mins to get them. I got 2 balcny seats for the $125 price(near front)
which means in about an hour, based on the available seats, they would've sold close to 1500 tix or more. That's a low estimate
-I went the 1st year, there's no way pp can hold 1500 or more people.
-Unless he holds the concert outside--"aint no way".

What about the people that paid $125 for the Orpheum concert and expected to sit and be comfortable. I mean $125 for ONE Paisley concert sounds a bit much. If he was a decent honest man, he would refund the $125 or whatever amount was paid for the Orpheum tickets and admit those people into Paisely Park Friday night for $35 each. This is how it breaks down for each of the 7 nights at PP for the purchase of one $250 ticket.

So he scammed the fans that really wanted to go and missed out on purchasing a ticket. Now they paid $125 to go into Paisley? Does this sound right? I don't think so.
[This message was edited Wed Jun 19 20:21:39 PDT 2002 by YoungandBeautiful]

CarrieMpls said:

Just curious why you say this? Paisley is small right? Is it just that there are no seats?

Also, he wants to sell aditional day and evening passes to ANYONE that shows up. So forget the people that might have orginially paid $100 to join the club just to go to the Celebration right?

Is it thát difficult to get your ideas across in a bit of a less hardcore fanatic way and still do some commercial shit in order to reach a broad audience?

Youngandbeautiful, would you please get your fucking facts straight before you start crying that you loved Prince sooo much but now he's nothing but a greedy ass?
The daily passes does not include the concerts and most of the other activities, so people who are members still get more.
And when he moves the show to the Orpheum then of course he does want people to pay...but only the non-members. Members with tickets do not have to pay for this again.

Just a thought...what about that new building he had constructed...does anyone think this may be used for the concerts? Would it be large enough to even do so?