this love has taken it's toll on me....

yael72 said:

Hi Yael. Check on this thread where I first explained what happened. Check through as there are about 4 responses explaining what happened!!

http://prince.org/msg/7/257560

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today,
to get thru this called LIFE.....


this was the nail on the head

It was over 25 years ago, who remembers.

wildgoldenhoney said:

His entire set was about 45 minutes or so of complete mayhem and frenzy!

When you first entered the Coliseum, there was no curtain and everything was setup at the front edge of the stage: mic-stands, keyboards, and very few other props. The drum set was in the middle of the stage placed up on a little riser with an oval-shaped sign over it (which was first covered in canvas) that had "PRINCE" spelled out in lights, as in the logo on his 1979 "Prince" album. Everybody was just standing around, jamming to the pre-concert music that they play over the system, smoking joints, grooving, and basically waiting for Rick James.

No one really knew who Prince was yet. In fact, I thought we were about to see a band called "Prince For You" (the title of his first album). I didn't know yet that Prince was an individual and not just the name of a band. I thought certainly that no one would be actually named "Prince".

Then… BAMM! The lights went out, and you could make out 3 shadowy figures move onto the stage, and then stood with their backs to the audience. The rest of the band took their place, and all you could hear over the sound system was someone speaking in a low, sort of foreboding tone: “Char-lotte! Are you ready for me?”

The drum roll hit, the stage lights came up, and Andre, Prince, and Dez turned and all charged about 4 or 5 steps toward the audience – and everybody freaked the Hell out! These guys looked scary as shit! The one in the middle (who I soon learned was Prince) had this spiky hairdo, full make-up, a pink leather motorcycle jacket, panties, black stockings, and pumps! The audience reaction was pure fright! Then Prince reached around to his back, pulled his guitar around to the front, then the whole band started jamming “Sexy Dancer”, and the crowd quickly got over their fright and started rocking to the music and jamming along - all hands were in the air. By the end of that first song, everybody was like: “Oh shit! This guy AIN’T playing!” The party was ON full blast!

Their play list consisted of songs from his first two albums, but the song they did that most sticks out in my mind is when they played “Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?”, because Prince was ad-libbing a lot. Like:

Why you wanna treat me so bad? Is it the clothes I wear?
Why you wanna treat me so mean? Is it the style of my hair?

But what completely blew people away was when they played their encore: “I Wanna Be Your Lover”.

Prince went mad, threw off that cool ass pink leather jacket, peeled off his stockings, threw them at the audience, and was running around the stage jamming to the beat with nothing but his guitar, bikini underwear, and high-heeled boots (with little stars on the side). And then once he was done jacking-off the microphone (as if he were giving it head - Prince was a real whore on stage back then), tossed his guitar to the side, reached his hand down into his panties to cover his dick, and [I thought he was shy] pulled his panties all the way down to his knees, gyrating toward the audience with only his hand covering his dick! WTF!!! The audience was going crazy! At the end of his set, Prince said “Damn Charlotte, we’re gonna have to come back here again soon!” And that was it! I was a stoned-cold Prince fan! I started telling people about Prince the next day!

At that point, everybody was standing around like they had completely forgot about Rick James. But the roadies came out and moved all of Prince’s stuff off stage, the sign over the drums came apart into two pieces and they removed that. But what really tripped me out was once all of Prince’s equipment was off stage, they removed the backdrop that was behind Prince’s set, and you could see that the stage was actually HUGE and that Prince had only been setup right up at the front. There was a giant curtain hanging behind all of that. After several more moments of getting everything set up, the lights dimmed again, the music started, the curtain opened up, and there you could see that this stage was about a mile wide and a mile deep! This was Rick James’s stage!

Rick came out, and The King of Punk Funk reminded you of what you came here for! His show was awesome, but I’ll save it for another thread. But it was interesting to note that many people in the audience started moving out, because at least initially, Rick was no comparison to what we had all just seen out there! Don’t get me wrong, Rick tore the roof off that sucker, but it was hard to stop thinking about what we had just seen Prince do out there.

Rick’s show was about 2 hours long, and the Stoned City Band succeeded in funking us to death! The show was actually exhausting! I remember thinking “How in the Hell can they do this every night, and from town to town?” Ahh, the memories!

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well i hav a big cd collection(infact i go in hmv so much the staff all know me) and about 2 years ago my mother walked in my room and was looking at my albums.she was a P fan when she was younger(the beautiful ones is her fav song ever) and asked me simply 'why havent you got any Prince albums'i simply stated i only knew 2 of his songs(also thought he was also weird name change etc)so i forgot about are convo till my mum came back from shopping with Musicology and thats where my love 4 P began.i hav 28 albums now and its all thanks 2 my mum,altho the only problem is she keeps taking them out of my room(mostly the earlier stuff)

I became a Prince fan after I got bitten by a radioactive orger. Next thing I knew, I had all the powers of an orger, but proportionate to that of a regular person.

Oh Crikey! Well, would have heard 1999, then When Doves Cry is the next thing I really remember, thought it was great. Then....Purple Rain came out (the song), I bought the 12" and fell in LOVE with it.

I didn't really know much about him, and remember listening to PR and God on the B side, staring at the pic on the front and wondering who this incredible guy was..... (I remember thinking he was really 'brave', if that makes sense, who else could make something like God?!)

He had my heart from that moment on, (although I admit to not being really on it during a lot of the 90's).

When I heard PR live for the first time at the O2 I thought I'd died and gone to heaven!

I enjoyed his music before 1982, then "Purple Rain" came out, and I became more dedicated. With work, raising a family, etc. I dropped off.
Then, I heard a cover he did on the radio,(What if God Were One of Us") found this site, bought all the music I missed, plus movies.....started attending concerts, purchasing Prince products.
Thank god for Prince.org. It's the simplest way to stay abreast of the man's activities.
The man can't maintain a website for the life of him!

'How Did You Become A Fan Of Prince?'

What instance made you a fan?

My story sucks. I had grown up always knowing who he was. I was a kid during the symbol era, I guess, so that was the Prince I knew. I had respect for him, but wasn't a fan. I know of alot of black music entertainers because of my dad, who is kinda a type of fan, I guess. He knows alot of music.
So any way, first real exposure was the grammys in 04. Now, lemmee tell you this, until a week before the grammys, I was a Justin Timberfake fan. DON'T HURT ME, I WAS TWELVE AND STUPID. At the time of the grammys I was pissed at JT for abondoning Janet and selling her up the river like he did.
But
Prince
Totally ripped me away from that phony for good. He blew me away, oh my god, I loved that performance! And my dad taped it and plays it alot. Love you, daddy. And musicology came out that year and was getting heavy air play. I really dug that song and asked my brother who it was.
Any way
So I always wanted to catch him on tv after that. But still not a fan.
Fast forward to 07, I have started collecting music.
Now this is straight up LAME so brace yourself. I saw the goddamn guitar verizon commercial. And thought "Why don't I own none of this cats music?" And that was it. I bought and *gasp* Downloaded some of his shit and fell in love with it.

wildgoldenhoney said:

I think by listening to Prince, you automatically become influenced by the people he listened to growing up. It's had a huge impact on my life. I wouldn't be who I was, if I didn't listen to the music I listen to.

I didn't always listen to the music I love today. Like most kids of my generation, I thought it was just "old music". It wasn't until I was a teenager that I realized that what I was listening to doesn't really have any substance. I think the internet has made it easier for kids to discover great older music. Not from PTP music sites, but from discussions like this one.


BTW Dance, I'm not B.Sing you. I've got pictures to prove it, and if I had a scanner, I'd show you.

I remember in'78-'79, it was jr.hi,school for me. I loved "Why you wanna treat me so bad.", I wanna be your lover" , "Still waiting". I've not known myself to be anything but a Prince "fam", yes with an "m".

My first concert was my first date, Dec.'80. Even though it was in the nosebleed section, even though I was scared as heck, being on a date for the first time, all I could think of was I'm at a Prince concert.

From then on everytime an album came out, I got, a concert close enought, I was there,and from my first date and the nosebleed thing, I've never and vowed to myself to always get my tickets no less than the first 6 rows form the stage.

So now every concert I'm up front. Prince should know me by now just by a visual standpoint. And oh yes, he has winked at me a few times, okay now I'm getting excited, I can't write, my heart is racing. Calm down Dee, calm down.

18th August 2007

thats where it all began!

It was over 25 years ago, who remembers.

mentalist said:

Hi mentlist, I did get to read your post and the above thread. That was cool, I could imagine you spilling your records in front of him!

So do you still have the Lovesexy with autograph, and your sisters one too?

wildgoldenhoney said:

Oh yes, still got both of those. My Sister (Domebaby69) has kept her signed programme and ticket, and the flyer she mentioned, but hopefully they will make there way to me as well! One day!!!

mentalist said:

This one here is for Mentalist, for your memories

It was over 25 years ago, who remembers.

And then once he was done jacking-off the microphone (as if he were giving it head - Prince was a real whore on stage back then), tossed his guitar to the side, reached his hand down into his panties to cover his dick, and pulled his panties all the way down to his knees, gyrating toward the audience with only his hand covering his dick!]

Jeffiner said:

Was that your 1st concert, at the O2?

ToraToraDreams said:

If you weren't mad at JT at that time, do you still think that you would have liked Prince anyway from that performance w/ Beyonce?

PDogz said:

PLEASE tell me you're lying!!!


:::having heart attack:::