gam19566 said:

no, they loved it. At least in the shots i remember
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Damn, those delicious twins! And hey, what was that little crawl that they did? It seemed like part of the crowd went nuts when they did it.

He should have closed the show with "ADORE"! Enough said.

OK peeps -

I dont know what performance you were watching but both were GREAT!

C'mon I've been watching this guy forever 4 moments just like this.And trust me I aint no npgmc scribe

With Chaka he made it all that much better. I mean Stevie was bad ass on the Motif (same one I have) and the classic Stevie harmonica was smokin'

Guest vox were excellent and Chaka, though in need of Jenny Craig, was in fact...well...Chaka. The booming voice (yes the early screams were a bit much) and the wonderful smile that all people cant resist (well,except for PFluffy or whatever he goes by now - his son...funny! Conan Obrien will be pulling that one out when this kid is famous)

And then there was P.

Guitar volume problems aside it kicked in and he was off to the races...this guy wasnt playing no rhythm guitar! He was leading and simply brilliant! His few dance moves got a few jeers but I love that shit with this guy - cause when he responds to a beat he is deeeeepppp into it!


3121

WOW! Made me really love this song. Here he is..he's played a different song on all these shows (first time ever!) and he's just killin' it. great set (very professional looking) great costumes, awesome mini-solo and BEP vox at the end it must be his next release. 3121 - The Remix >>>Nice pre-plug Prince!

Bottom line: He must tour...

NOW
peace
3121
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Novabreaker said:

Ummm... did you see his interview on the Today Show in 1998? It was JW fundy Christian jargon just spilling out of his mouth. While I would have agreed with you before the JW conversion, he has fallen into the Christian bubble speak I am all too familiar with.

It seems, though, that since Musicology 2003-04 someone on his PR team told him to drop it b/c it had been estranging all but his diehard fans, which makes for Bad Sales professionally and Bad Points in the JW world (you know, recruit at all costs - don't turn them away). Hopefully, he will indeed slacken the cookie-cutter jargon and find his own path again, or at least begin to show the unique path that he is on.

I've been quite sad lately in thinking that his raw genius and open soul search over the years has culminated into the kind of factory-produced fundamentalist which seems to be before us; generally, I think this is also endemic in our present American culture.

ufoclub said:

Right. That wasn't your usual, nice, modern R&B/HipHop thing they all wanted to hear. That was something different, right in their faces.

Isel said:

They are both Gemeni's too.(Depp and Prince)

luv2luvya said:

Goodness he remindes me so much of Fred Armisen from SNL here. Throughout the whole 3121 preformance I just couldn't stop thinking about Fred! LOL..even the mannerisims matched. Not a comforting thought! I don't want to see Prince as a character. This stuff usually doesn't happen...I don't think of impesonators usually when I see him preform but some of those faces he was making made me think of the Prince show. But also when I see old early eighties preformances of "Do me baby" and "International Lover" I start giggling because it is so classic, campy Prince...he just looks like an impersonator of himself.

I was pretty pleased to see him do 3121 live. It is one of my favorites on the album and I just loved the look on Harry Belafonte's face during the preformance of "I feel for you". I just love to see how music can move other people..bring so much joy to them...cause that is how listening to music affects me.

What happen 2 thos silly "blacks don't like guitar" comments? hell.....Prince did NOT remove the guitar from his hip the whole night.

Alexandernvrmind said:

I'm sure at the very least it was totally planned that Prince would continue after Wayans signalled the end of the show. For a start, you can see Prince and the Twinz standing there with the obvious intention of continuing. Normally after a performance, as we all know, after he's milked the applause he quickly runs off. For seconds, the titles ran over the end performance, if that wasn't planned the titles would have run over an empty stage and no music!

Well, if Will really did a spontaneous rap, he did pretty well.

Graycap23 said:

I think Prince thought #!@! is his "blackest" song cause it's a lot of Pfunk, but the crowd would have loved "the Word" or "black Sweat" I wonder why he didnt do a better song.

What was that little crawl move that the Twins did? It seemed like part of the crowd went absolutely nuts when they did it.

Octavius said:

The Gameboyz used to do a very similar move on I think the D&P tour... works better when there's more than 2, more like a centipede...

anybody know if the shows gonna be/has been televised in the UK?

DAMN this is a big thread!


Oh yeah...I liked the performance! Sing, Yolanda!! That live version of 3121 was great, I'd love to hear the whole thing though I could live without the rapping! It's a good sign he did that song, plus Black Sweat at the aftershow, hopefully I'll get to hear it live, soon...

metalorange said:

Television broadcast are very CONTROLLED environments. No way that was NOT planned. I don't give a damn what Will I am said on the aftershow. I KNOW better.

alicattt said:

Go to BET.com

They have all the performances available for viewing on their BET on Blast broadband feature.

SynthiaRose said:

Thank you for that Miss Rose!

On second thought. Don't watch online. Because I just did ...and it doesn't sound as great.

ALL the pixel look because of the lights hitting the camera was so terrible! So Lame!

The whole show was terrible! Every performance that the pixeling

I have never seen that with a major tv show? Damn talk about half ass

I thought this was a fantastic performance - does anyone know if it will be playing on UK television??

Sorry to barge in on this post but you guys have to watch this video from YouTube. It's a spoof of Black Sweat and its hilarious:


http://youtube.com/watch?...ck%20sweat

I think Prince thought #!@! is his "blackest" song cause it's a lot of Pfunk, but the crowd would have loved "the Word" or "black Sweat" I wonder why he didnt do a better song.[/quote]

Yeah, 3121 is probably the blackest song on the album & probably the most appropriate song for the hip hop/gangsta reputation of the BET awards. I teach a lot of gang bangers in Watts, CA and all they listen to is T.I., 50, and all the gangsta rap that rips today's hip hop stations. So naturally, most of them aren't hip to Prince. They couldn't even relate to the album, 3121 when I played it for them during a class party. HOWEVER, after skipping around and getting their listless reactions to the cuts, I played the song 3121 and they ALL thought it was tight. They was like: "Oh that's tight, G. On EVERYTHING, that's tight."

To me, 3121 is the closest funk to what they're into. Only difference is, 3121 AIN'T NO SORRY ASS SAMPLE! Good closer, Prince!

"Drown baby, drown baby, in your own come on baby can U picture this?" Prince, 80.'

gam19566 said:

Co sign.

Nothinbutjoy said:

Me too! I was cringing thinking he was gonna say it. I just kept thinking "Dont do it P ~ Dont do it!" That was close one.

JimmyDavis said:

Not only irrelevant to the current topic, but it has been posted several times in the past, like here and here:

http://www.prince.org/msg/7/192286

http://www.prince.org/msg/7/192159

Graycap23 said:

I'm simply don't understand how some people can say that the ending was anticlimatic I can't enough of it, I play the Chaka part, then the finale, and it blows me away more with each viewing.

Serena said:

Tilt your head to the right, it is 3121.

Oops, Mr. Wonka already mentioned it.


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I was in L.A. for the BET awards... and believe me the performance with Stevie and Chaka was OFF THE HOOK!!! People in the crowd were loving it...
as I said - that performance made the price of my ticket totally worth it.

Peace-

I was just watching The NAACP Awards from.....2005-03-19
Prince is wearing The 3121 Jacket during the per4mance....
but im sure some 1 pointed this out allready