Maybe this is general knowledge but I just want to know?

Maybe it just felt like too much of a rush...

Tame said:

Exactly.The 'Purple Rain' tour ended shortly before 'ATWIAD' was released.A new tour so soon would have been overkill.

I thought you were leaving. . .

SCNDLS said:

Does this look like the GD forum to you?

SoulAlive said:

Ahh I see its a shame though I wonder what the tour would have been like really retro if it was anything like the album.

rolling said:

Oh, So you aren't leaving the org JUST GD. I see. Cool!

Tame said:

iirc, the purple rain tour ended soon after the ATWIAD album had been released
when he goes into the part about "this isn't just any kind of temptation, ppl"
i seriously thought he was going to perform "Temptation"
i think a lot of people did
i was surprised he didn't play any ATWIAD songs the whole tour (that i know of, anyway)
he at least could've done "She's Always In My Hair"
[Edited 8/5/08 10:03am]

2 April 1985: Steve Fargnoli announces that "Prince is withdrawing from the live performance scene for an indefinite period of time. Prince's concert on April 7 at Miami's Orange Bowl will be his last performance for an inderterminate number of years. I asked Primce what he planned to do. He told me, "I'm going to look for the ladder". I asked him what this means. All he said was, "Sometimes it snows in April".

7 April: Final performance of the Purple Rain tour at the Orange Bowl.

22 April: Release of 'Around The World In A Day"

Info from Uptown's, 'The Vault'.

langebleu said:

Prince is so fucked up

Alej said:

Mindflux said:

Well, I said that because of his answers

He did quite a few ATWIAD songs at the "Parade" gigs.....Does an artist need to tour every album?

eireboy34 said:

no eire, he doesn't have to. I like Parade better anyway

darlingfloor said:

Nice to see you here daaahling!!

Anyway, ATWIAD is a strange album.....maybe not made for the stage

eireboy34 said:

Maybe. But I like the fact Prince chose to perform songs from both albums (Around the world & Parade) into one tour (Parade Tour). Considering the work he had in his hands in 1986, it's a miracle he's still alive and healthy today!

Snap said:

several shows in 1985 included then new songs like raspberry beret and america were played during the shows and parts of the temptation speech

SO sad to see one go without saying goodbye.

L4OATheOriginal said:

thx -- i remember radio playing quite a few songs ahead of time (raspberry, paisley, america, and around) but didn't know if he had played them live by that time
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eireboy34 said:

The concerts is a little... dull

I always figured that he never toured ATWIAD because it was so soon after the Purple Rain tour and besides, he had already moved on to his next project which was keeping him too busy to tour; ie recording Parade & filming UTCM

Alej said:

Yeah, fucked up all the way to the bank.

Dayclear said:

If only he'd be fucked up all the way to the shrink

A better question would be "Why did he follow Purple Rain with an album like Around The World In A Day?". He could have toured and might have had a pretty decent size crowd since he was still hot from the "Purple Rain" era. However, a lot of folks were pissed at him for making an album like "Around The World In A Day". At least they were here in the United States.

Alej said:

I love his crazy sexy cool persona. I think several folks may have suggested he seek therapy but his music is his therapy as well as his disease.

darlingfloor said:

Does any one remember the ever so 'dull' performance of Head during the Parade Tour. Enough of that tame shit... Who wants some Head...Gimme more of that funky/dull stuff. Not to mention the performances of Anotherloverholenyohead and America.

ejnbmore said:

I don't. He's a bitch

vainandy said:

cause instead of going the way everyone wanted him 2 go, he went and stretched his legs ARTISTICLY which i will 4ever b indebted 2 that brother 4 making such a statement.

It's also easy to suddenly become "artistic" right after you've just made millions on a hit selling album and movie. I wouldn't have been happy with it, but I would have seen it as more daring making an "artistic" album right after "Dirty Mind" or "Controversy".