Agreed

how should it have looked?
i mean the name of the song was GETT OFF.

1 of my fave performances.Gotta love that outfit!

prince was great, the dancers, Tony M and tommy barbarella werent

I agree this performance was BAD. The first mis-step was the microphone swinging away and ruining the opening momentarily, then his embarresing attempt to recover by miming some mic stand adjusting.....

I always felt like he never recovered from the chill of this slight accident.

The entire spectacle was sluggish, and not exciting. And him getting pinned under the other dancers and miming the scream seemed bad, how we wanted to see him do the scream live! (of course, it's not even him on the recording according to three of the bandmembers)

Daddy Pop, and Let's Go Crazy/Kiss on Arsenio were so much better!

his sleeve got caught on the mic

Patrick1985 said:

It never looked like that, it looked like it just swung over to his left, or was his sleeve catching lower on the stand?

Right or wrong, I just remember from those days, holding my breath and hoping he did not do something overtly rediculous that would distract from the music.

I think Prince is back becuase he has toned down the stunts, and allowed people to just listen.

It was an awesome performance considering his "image" at the time.
...and you have to admit it...those assless pants DID get him some attention.

just went and watched this performance....wow...terrible.....did not age well at all. Tony M. was so annoying, he ruined so many songs, especially "love 2 the 9's". Anyway, not a good showing, especially when compared to the "Sign O the times/Play in the sunshine" classic performance a few years earlier..

It was the single most rememberable performance that evening.


I thought he recovered great from the mic incident i the beginning, and the stage was insane. I can't recall any other musical performance that evening, but boy do I remember the Prince performance.

It wasn't his best instrumentally, and it wasn't his best as far as movement and theatrics are concerned (Lovesexy Era Prince would have blown that away), but it was a terrific way for him to reintroduce himself into the mainstream media. Diamonds and Pearls produced several top 10 singles, and the Get Off Performance (Assless pants) was the talk of TV and radio for weeks to come.

My only complaint about the performance is that it seemed stiff.

If you want to complain about a performance, then how's about the one where he blinded the audience with a burst of bright, white light and you could barely make him out past the glare? (Does anyone remember what event that was on?)

gyro34 said:

Um...no. That number borrowed heavily from Take Off With Us from All That Jazz. (The concept -- not the song.)

PurpleKnight said:

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I guess you are to young to understand what was going on with P at the time.
He needed o do something to re-cover from GB and D and P did go on to sell about 5 million copies. If you don't sell records at all you will be canned by any record company.

Even now P can sell at least a million copies which is good for his age.

ufoclub said:

No one of his sleeves did get caught. Remember the jacket he had on had those big net like holes on it. The mic snagged on one of them.

laurarichardson said:

I understand why he did it, Laura, but I still think it was tacky and awful.

I can just picture a record label executive behind the curtain going, "Do you think it's sexy enough yet? Do people get it yet that Prince is sexy, and Gett Off is a cool sex song? Maybe we need more people in thongs, or maybe some dancers in cages simulating blowjobs on bananas".

laurarichardson said:

That's right. And at that point, he still needed to get one more contract extension before deciding he was a "slave."

Imago said:

I like stiff!

Back then Prince wanted to shock everybody, he's kind of grown out of that now

didn't mind mayte dancing around half naked

Imago said:

I think that was the result of the mic incident making him fall out of the mindset... maybe not, but I feel that when I watch it. His energy did not seem charged.

Genesia said:

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Well he has admitted that was a mistake and you may know but the story goes that no one at WB even liked Gett Off.

Genesia said:

I don't care if he borrowed or what he borrowed. I find it really seductive.

Omg guys you really have to keep this performance in perspective. This was X rated back in the day. I remember when I had to wait untill 10:30 at night to even HOPE to hear this jam on the radio on KDWB back in the day. I know it might not look like much now but when it aired...omg "GETT OFF" was like THE song!!!!

where can I wacthed this

forget about the performance.

that song was GREAT.
raw, dark, deep,funk.

when i first heard it, it wasnt anything like i had ever heard.
too bad prince is not very innovative like he used to.

I remember the British press lying by saying he stopped midway
and asked,no told, the audience to stop ogling his body.

the wankers.

I really don't like those assless pants