Hey, stop making me like him again.

Hobbitch said:

SensualMelody said:



And that means?
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Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Damn, it takes me back to right around Musicology time when theblueangel and Anx turned me into a fammy fam, OD'in on the purple stuff. STOP IT !!!

silverandgold said:

Well, I haven't felt this way in a long time either. But even if you check my posts when I was known as Stymie, you'd see I rarely post in this forum. Some of the folks are either too negative or too crazy.

Hobbitch said:

Ohhhh Hi stymie!!!!

Hobbitch said:

...i miss the small venue shows too, especially the paisley parties.

SensualMelody said:

Hey Miss Melody. I miss the Club and I miss you in the KF.

Hobbitch said:

Yeah..but I am glad that it closed before the "news" hit the net.

SensualMelody said:

Me too cuz women woulda been high fivin' and postin' personals....

Hobbitch said:

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

You see how women were acting on the Org, saying good riddance and chit. It was both sand and pathetic.

Hobbitch said:

it woulda been hell for the PPs to deal with if the club was still up n'running when the announcement hit...heffas woulda been posting nudie pix and pink shots, all like "pick me, prince, pick meeeee!!!!!"

so is his deal now that he only performs in restaurants?

So... pampered celebs will get a fabulous dinner and a performance from Prince. Good for them, I guess.

UCantHavaDaMango said:

Seems to be the trend. Forget the fans and just hang out with folks who don't demand anything out of you.

He must really hate his fans or something.

sallysassalot said:

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How is he ignoring people who buy tickets and records. He does small club shows for his fans and even had fans at his house.

WTF do you guys want him to do restrict himself from other celebraties.

Hobbitch said:

I wonder if Madonna fans are mad because they paid over 300 bucks to see her.
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Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Damn, it takes me back to right around Musicology time when theblueangel and Anx turned me into a fammy fam, OD'in on the purple stuff. STOP IT !!!

laurarichardson said:

Please stop playing like Prince did that for free. Please. i was in Vegas at 312 bucks a pop.

Once again, and again and again I am reminded how much I don't really dig this guy lately.

I'm kinda baffled by all of what I've read. While I'm not all that wound up about this party I'm not mad at him for performing at the joint. If he wants to do this then so be it. We'll hear about it on Monday but reading some of these posts, it's as if Prince damn near betrayed some of you and we don't even know the guy . If I read this as a casual fan, I'd think that Prince would NEVER want to perform for his fans again and just wants to deal with the stars and I know that's not true or else why did I see him at Bryant Park in June? If you're not feeling Prince playing around these stars, which he has for years though admittedly not like this, then wait for him to "come back". With all of this, I think we can all agree on one thing: This has been one strange year for us Prince fans.

Hobbitch said:

Just surrender now and come along peacefully, you KNOW you love him.

Vegas was special. Have you forgotten, my dear, how sweet and concerned for our safety he was when he came over to chat with us? C'mon now, drink up and don't resist. It's good for you.

silverandgold said:

okay, madonna fans get pyrotechnics, big ol' hydraulic crosses that light up, a dance troupe juggling chainsaws, 1,000 costume changes and a troupe of basketball playing capuchin monkeys as part of the stage show.

prince fans get larry graham and his lovely wife towellie tina. if we're lucky.

not that i'm complaining (i'd see prince over madonna anytime, no matter how spectacular her stage show is), but the numbers and the value don't really add up, if you really wanna argue that way.

Hobbitch said:

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So you are angry because you decided to pay the 312 bucks to see the show????
Did you forget the big tour P did in 2004?

purplecam said:

AIN'T THAT THE TRUTH!!!

i don't feel 'betrayed' by prince's restaurant gigs or his shows for the rich and famous or his 300/1000 dollar vegas ticket stunt. let the guy do what he wants, and if there's a market for it, rock on. my only thing is, i'm not feeling the set lists or the bits and pieces of live stuff i've heard from him this year, so i'm not gonna go broke for a phase of prince (and there have been/are/will be MANY phases to this man) that i'm not crazy about. it's not like i'm boycotting him and i don't think he's screwing his fans. i'm just not into his direction (or seeming lack thereof) right now, so i'm digging on other stuff and, as always, keeping an ear to the ground for future purple rumblings.

when i "go all out" for a prince show, it's all about last minute aftershow alerts and standing in front of a stage for a kajillion hours and "will he show up or won't he?" and that kind of craziness. i love that stuff. but i don't see the sense in paying three hundred bucks for a souped-up tamar show, when they can't even get the poor lamb's album out on wrecka stow shelves. come on, now! you're in vegas and you've got one of the most stellar back catalogs of any pop icon ever and you cannot deliver THE party of the year? i wanted to deeply regret missing those shows and when i heard about the sets, i was glad i didn't fork out the dough. i only regret not taking what sounds like a super fun trip with some friends who actually DID go.

anyway. old rants, old issues, whatever. i hope prince gets this whole award show/celebrities/playing in restaurants thing out of his system and goes back to playing decent venues with decent material and leaving the golden oldies and noodling around for the aftershow gigs. or not. whatevs. i just wanna see him get inspired and ranty again.

Anx said:

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Who the hell wants to see any of this crap.

"okay, madonna fans get pyrotechnics, big ol' hydraulic crosses that light up, a dance troupe juggling chainsaws, 1,000 costume changes and a troupe of basketball playing capuchin monkeys as part of the stage show."

I go see Prince because I want to hear some kick ass music and jam.

Anx said:

Apparently so!

silverandgold said:

let us not forget that i too know the taste of purple kool-aid....all too well, in fact.

you probably thought you done scorched my madonna-loving, prince-haterparadin' booty with your famtrocious rantology, no?

PEEP THIS, RIGHTEOUS ONE: i wouldn't pay three hundred bucks to see madonna OR prince. i was posing an argument for the sake of argument.

if i WERE a madonna fan, first of all i would have made peace a long time ago with the fact that i'm not gonna get musical virtuosity at a madonna concert. it's pure entertainment. it's the madonna circus. and for three hundred bucks, if i get grade A eye candy while my pop music diva is doing her little yoga dances in the middle of it all, then boy howdy!

personally, that's not my thing. YES, i realize all the flash and production is to compensate for the fact that madge isn't a talented live musician. that's not exactly an industry secret, people.

and even though i think she's a great ENTERTAINER, i wouldn't drop three hundred bucks on her dainty pootypuss. i know a lot of people who WOULD pay it, and who HAVE, and god bless them.

now, would i pay $300 to watch prince noodling with larry and for a show that's over halfway comprised of tamar stuff? no.

or, more specifically, HELL NO.

i've seen the man many times. just because prince is doing a show doesn't mean i gotta be there. and this hasn't exactly been a year of inspired live performance for prince. he's always great on stage, don't get me wrong, but for $300 i want at LEAST a musicology tour-quality show. i want a hot set list and i want an assigned seat. none of this general admission stuff (unless of course i pay the BIG BIG bucks to schmooze with the velvet ropers, that is).

you can pour it in a platinum grail if you want, or you can pour it in a paper cup. either way, purple kool-aid is purple kool-aid.

silverandgold said:

I was so glad to be in Vegas, on the sexond night, I would have gladly sat down without a view of Prince. I was at a BB King concert Saturday and couldn't even see the stage but I was seated and BB was playing the hell out of Lucille.

And I do feel you on the small venue thing. I definately dug how he seemed to feel comfortable just walking around or talking to the fans and cracking jokes.

Hey, stop making me like him again.


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