omg, this has to be one of the best guitar solos by Prince
ever. well, there are three solo's really.

the performance is kick ass, Prince's vox are great and he
plays the song over the beat of "Love thy will B Done".

there is so much energy in these solo's, but the second 1
is really absurdly cool. especially when prince breaks it
down *during* the solo and then builds it up in some way,
that is just stellar.

there's nothing but this wall of heavy sound, i think its
larry on the bass making that wall of sound and Prince is
on his guitar cranking out notes so high they could break
glass. Or is it ALL just Prince on guitar??

that would be even more fantastic.

i also love the way the audience SHOUTS the chant, those
people are on fire lol.

here's some info on the performance:


At 11:30 AM the soundcheck for LA2's Septimo program is supposed to
start at Estudio El Alamo. The Artist has an argument with the people
in charge there, reportedly refuses to sing live, but later relents.
He unnerves Pedro Almodovar who has been scheduled to interview the
Artist, but finally cancels and leaves in protest. It's unlikely that
the planned recording of one song for TVE 1's (on rental
gear) have taken placeat the other studio in the same building on the
same day. However, the band eventually play a phenomenal 40 min set
for > in the late afternoon. Unfortunately, the artist is
not content with the sound quality of the recorded music and cancels
the broadcast of this material several times throughout the following
year. Studio representative Miguel Bose insists that nothing's wrong
with the recording and finally manages to air the complete show in
the summer of 2000


Prince was a fickle little bitch back in those days. He also had an
argument in Holland over his performance being not good enough to
go on the air and about his interview. They were both aired later,
but they did indeed both suck lol.

However, septimo rules supreme as far as these short tv shows go.

damn, what a performance.

The complete setlist was:

Intro
baby knows
pretty man
motherless child
the jam
every day people

after reading that bit about how he picked some fights
during the day and stepped on many toes, it's just one
of those pure Prince things to start "Motherless Child"
by saying


there was never any reason 2 argue
there was never any reason 2 fight
from the 1st time adam made love 2 eve
from the 1st time she took the bite
there was never any reason


nice preaching Prince. i bet the producers of the show
could see you were being sincere



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[Edited 12/17/05 8:21am]

listening to it again, that solo must be completely
and solely Prince. it's his guitar that builds that
wall of sound before he hits the high notes.

man that guitar *talks*

What? Pedro Almodovar was going to interview him?

Never knew that.
Never put two artists who believe themselves that they are geniuses together.
(I love both their work though)

Would have loved to see that interview, on the other hand Prince was in a wierd state of mind back then. Remember that interview with the dewaele brothers.

But you are right, that performence of motherless child is out of this world, he's on a cloud there.

Yeah, great stuff! Nice clothes, too. Kinda.

In my opinion, this performance and The War are the ONLY 2 kick ass things Prince has ever done from Emancipation down 2 today!!!!!

The Today Show performance from 1998 was mighty great, too. IMO.

Gold319 said:

How about the RAACP awards? that was kick ass!

Very performance indeed
I started a thread about it too a while back
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GREAT APPEARANCE

Performance was totally priceless

this is very fresh performance! prince just chillin and playing


and thanks to the little birdy who dropped it off.







i own you one! :toosexy:

Christopher said:

~annie christian annie christ~

IstenSzek said:

or



iwannabeyourlova :

Christopher said:

or it's

francis bean cobain come downstairs mommy's got dinner ready

its obviously britney's new album cover taken by her hubby k-fed.

A lot of folks rave about this performance, but it doesn't do it for me.
There's something seriously wrong with Prince during this performance - in hindsight I think it was this period where he "found" his new faith after a few years of spiritual despair. He has that manic look to him of the newly "saved". (Christ I sound like a bloody fam!) Also note how he almost totally ignores Mayte when she joins him on the "stage" - not real surprising that they split soon after.
Plus that sweater is fucking horrendous.

gsh said:

I share a lot of your thoughts. There were a bunch of really great performances. But you can tell that he was in an odd mood.. he seemed frustrated that he couldn't get the sound right and it looks like they didn't rehearse well. He kept shouting orders to the band and he kept going to the keyboards himself to do I don't know what, but he didn't seem pleased. At one point during Everyday People, Prince busts out with, " Larry, I think they need a chant, they don't know what to do." That made me go "ouch."

Regarding that Mayte thing, I'm with you. He WAS totally ignoring her and she wsa trying to be into it and everything. She look horrible... not at all like herself.. like she was trying too hard. Sad to watch. Especially in comparison to the fact that Larry Graham had his crazy wife up on stage and they are so obviously in love after all these years.

All in all, I think that show is a great snapshot of his life and music at that time.

Oh yeah.. IstenSzek... you should cite your source, which I believe is The Vault.

altavista said:

my source is the inlay of the "Sounds & Vision" bootleg.
though I didn't mention it since we're not supposed to
discuss bootleg cd releases, are we?

It's ok to discuss them but not to ask where to buy them, i posted a link to http://thedatabank.org/ a little while ago , which was ok

I was just watching this. My flavour of the moment atm. Fucking killer performance.

EDD said:

- Speaking of Pedro, does somebody know if he admires/likes Prince?

Nobody knows?

GustavoRibas said:

seems like he would