i am moved to tears almost everytime i play his 80´s bootlegs on dvd !

Yes, I was just about to say the Celebration 2002!!! The last nite really did it to me!! It was a combination of things! I really was tripping that nite 6/27/02 I will never forget it!
Rambling Sorry!

Peace & Love!

P.S Happy Prince's Birthday Ya'll !! LOL

Tamar was doing a song....something about love in the lyrics with the twins singing back-up and it almost moved me to tears. But I get chills more than tears watching him live.

Yes, at the onslaught of his guitar solo in the opening number of the Musicology show on June 4 San Jose. I had been waiting a decade to see him, and it all flashed true in that moment.

It was the Nude tour and I was actually stewarding at one of his Wembley Arena gigs. I'd seen him a few nights earlier at the same venue (9th row from the front, best bloody gig ever!!) but for some reason, on this particular night, when he went into "Nothing Compares 2 U", I lost it completely. Bloody great...

npgnicolette said:

No, I never felt like crying but I have to admit that the acoustic night, not the last night during the celebration 2002, was a very touching moment, especially when he thanked us for sticking with him through the thick and the thin or when he mentioned how his father told him that change was a good thing, so he changed ( " How ya like me now ?") that other night...those were truly special moments and I´m still glad I could witness those moments.

I think Prince was much closer to crying that week than some of the people in the audience....there were some seriously sentimental moments, which made me like him even more despite all the stress and all the hassle of getting there.
He´s human, after all.

PurpleCharm said:

KoolEaze said:

Prince was on the verge of crying?

Yeah ok yes once. 1997 @ "The Gorge" in WA. When he sang "One of us" The whole crowd was into it! Quite a sight to see.

GottaLetitgo said:

Me too.

Imago said:

I remember at the Jam of the Year concert I had floor seats and I was
charged that I was so up close and the folks with me had good
seats also. I was so happy for them , but then when the concert started
and everyone started standing and we couldn't see and I started
feeling really bad for the ones that were with me . We kept
wishing people would just sit down but instead it got worse people
started standing on their seats, everyone kept yelling for people to
sit down, it was so frustrating that
we ended up moving up to the nosebleed section... now that brought
me to tears.
[Edited 6/7/06 16:22pm]

PurpleCharm said:

No, that´s not exactly what I said, he looked happy and relaxed most of the time.I´m talking about a few moments that some fans and I talked about back then, like when he did " I love U but I don´t trust U anymore" or the last night or some other moments. You might remember what I mean when you think back.
But yes, he did seem genuinely touched lots of times.

( Well, mabye not the first day when some assholes tried to steal stuff from him.)

KoolEaze said:

Oh, ok. I didn't attend the Celebration. I had been on a 16 year hiatus from P, so I knew nothing about it.

RosesRred said:

the opposite happened to me on that tour! my friend got us and a friend of his tix for my birthday, and he said they were nosebleed seats and one of the tix wasn't even with the other two, and he asked if i minded being the odd man out. so i took the "odd" ticket and was kinda grumbly, since, you know, it WAS my birthday...

...the damn thing was a 7th row seat!

but i do remember what you're talking about with people jumping around and blocking my view and being generally rude. i dealt with it, though...it was my first prince show since the purple rain tour, and just hearing the music live again was amazing to me.

this was also the show where he made his entrance playing guitar standing on the back of a speedboat, which of course kicked my happy ass all over the place.

Anx said:

That sounds too cool that you were able to
sit in the 7th row.

It's hard to have a'deal with it" attitude
when you put your hard working money and time into getting there
and all you want to do is just enjoy yourself like anyone else there.
It is sad that people show up at events being so inconsiderate and rude
with no home training at all!!!



First was Kevin, then came Lucy, third in line was me....

When they were playing Alicia Key's speech (when Prince was inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame) at the opening of the musicology shows, the first show on that tour that I went to had me really welled up with tears. I don't know why, it just did. Only the first time I heard it at a show though.

No, but I've definitely gone through withdrawal symptoms! LOL After my 1st Musicology concert,( I went to a 2nd one) I was just so taken with his performance that I couldn't stop thinkg about going to another conert, even thought I really couldn't afford it!

booyah said:

Love your post! My exact thoughts when I saw him at The Staples Center in LA. Damn that was a great moment!

yes, tears of happiness for being able to see him live

URTHE1 said:

I hear ya, I feel the same way you do. I've always said that going to a Prince concert is like eating potato chips, you can't have just one.

Imago said:

I cried when my daughter got onstage and sang with Prince, danced with Candy and jammed with Maceo. Twice, in fact.

So OK, I'm a pussy.

Yes

the last night of the 2002 celebration, when he sang "God" and then that woman singer, I can't remember her name right now, she came up onstage and sang the song to him! It was SOOO TOUCHING! She ad-libbed "and I'm so glad that God made U!" it was so awesome

I've seen him 29 times. i've (eventually) cried at about 21 of them. the only ones i didn't were the musicology shows/aftershows, the tamar/prince show in chicago, and the purple rain show. every other show has hit a nerve.

sallysassalot said:

I'm about the same. There's a point in nearly every show I've seen that gets me.

hello, I cried when Prince was doing the One Night Alone tour in Atlanta Prince was on Piano, I was sitting on stage far right, I was so happy I got to be a an Usher for the last day of this stay there, I was moved to tears then, and got to sit in the same place the 2nd night of the show, way to awsome, In 2002 the celly really moved me to tears, Prince was getting teary eyed, When Prince Played Purple Rain that last night really blew me away, and hearing Prince"s guitar wail for a really long time even after he let go of the guitar, darn my mind went blank, Can someone Help me, anyway, that just shook me to my foundation, Hearing Sheila E, performance was really great, I had never heard her live. Love, Peace & Always B Wild.

I could not have explained this any better..when I saw him in Miami recently it really was a moving experience. I cried openly and didn't care who knew it..I also saw a couple of people literallly laying on the floor bawling like they were so overwhelmed with emotion they just couldn't control themselves. In this time of society it's nice to be able to let go like that - it cleanses the soul.

booyah said:

KoolEaze said:

First thing that came to my mind.

The whole Celebration was a magical experience but the acoustic night... wow! That was one helluva performance. When I walked into Paisley Park and saw all the chairs laid out, I knew we were in for something special. And to witness his first acoustic set...

Beautiful night.