Oh yeah, a lot of folks here on the org look back at the Lovesexy tour as being the best of all his tours. And who can argue? Prince and his "Counter-Revolution" put on such an amazing show and blew us away with every tune. It seemed like they worked really hard to put on a spectacular show like that, but it totally paid off.

My mother saw his show in NYC in the fall of '88. She had the option of seeing either him or MJ, who happened to be in town the same night. Being the bigger Prince fan, she chose our purple hero and was amazed herself. She came back home with the tour programme. You should've seen the look on my 6-year old eyes. Kinda like this emoticon here:

I was too young to go but I did catch the live in Holland show on VHS years later. Still as good today as it was 20 years ago.

This is the one tour I am sorry to have missed. But it was an election year and I just couldn't get away to a show in August.

Went to the Cincinati Show, Sold my water bed so I could go. Worth it!

BoySimon said:

yep - thats ecaxtly what I meant - have been 2 frankfurt and have de dortmund-show on dvd ....

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I remember the first time I saw this on TV all those years ago... WOW!! I saw it again recently - it's one of my many tearful "I wish I had been there" Prince moments (unlike my many IndigO2 2007 visits which are my "OMG I'm so glad I WAS there" Prince moments!! )

BoySimon said:

BoySimon - I find your comments interesting, because I've had similar thoughts in the past. I could never understand why he changes his mind about things so much, especially when at the time he seems so certain about his thoughts. So you think it's all 'performance' and 'showmanship', and you don't think he is sincere? He always appears sincere at the time. Maybe it's because he is exposed to many different ideas over time, and has an open enough mind to be able to change his opinion.

Maybe you're right, aliuk1, perhaps Prince's life-journey exposed him to ideas he was unaware of at the time and they have had a greater impact on him than the beliefs he held in '88... I do think that there is a great deal of showmanship in Prince's performance, obviously, and this "spiritual-certainty" is one aspect of this. The annoying part is that 'faith' is such a precious commodity, in many people's eyes, and to have it paraded and then trodden on so often, so publically, is a little disconcerting. It sort of draws me to the conclusion that either Prince is having us all on, or he is indescribably easily led.

SoulAlive said:

I saw P twice on this tour out here in L.A. at the Sports Arena. Oddly, I couldn't get into either show. It was an excellent performance, don't get me wrong. It just didn't click with me. At that stage, I was so used to seeing P more than once on his tours that I saw him twice. I had seen him so many times live before Lovesexy that I sed to think that had something to do with it. Overall, although I liked the "wildness" that P evoked, I couldn't connect with the pacing of the show. But I've never been a fan of the Lovesexy album either. So that had a lot to do with it.

That was great concert footage. unfortunately, i can't find it on VHS or DVD in US format. I've been searching for months, but no luck.

Snake said:

SNAKE YOU AINT LYING,I REMEMBER BOOKING MOST OF THESE SHOWS WITH THE PROMOTERS AT THE TIME AND LET ME TELL YOU IT WAS REAL CRAZY BACK THEN.THERE ONE THING YOU GUYS OUT THERE DONT KNOWN AND THAT IS THAT THE LOVESEXY TOUR WAS THE TOUR THAT KILL IT FOR PRINCE IN THE SOUTH CUZ THEY TOLD HIM IF HE EVER BROUGHT HIS ASS OUT THERE AGAIN THEY WER GONNA HURT HIM CUZ THEY CONSIDERED THIS SHOW TO BE BLASPEMUS.

Yes, I finally watched it too. It was super. I think Sign of the times may be better.

glad u got to see it! I was amazed just seeing it 3 years ago for the first time. HOT! I loved Lovesexy and Head...Bob George too..good per4mances