ThreadBare said:

yes, half the reason I'm playing this tonight is to hear Purple Rain

ThreadBare said:

The part that always gives me chills: the Purple Rain performance, when they show him playing the Hohner -- then the lights go down and pan to Wendy -- and when the lights come back up he's playing the White Cloud.

Where was this concert taped?????

Madison88 said:

Syracuse, NY

I missed the show?? I thought it started at 10:55?

EmeraldSkies said:

awwww bummer, every wednesday 10pm (eastern)

Se7en said:

Not to mention the solo on that Cloud. I miss that guitar tone sooooo much. It was articulate and sweet, and his vibrato back then was amazing. It reminded me a lot of Brian May's.

ThreadBare said:

Is that a Queen reference??

ThreadBare said:

that was awesome .. my favorite was when he did 'Irresistable B' into 'Possessed' .. and "How Come You Don't Call Me"

Thanks for airing this.

I definitely had a good time listening to it. I love hearing all of those songs live.
"The Beautiful Ones" was just incredible

and of course I always love hearing "Computer Blue", live or not.

Then Purple Rain, the guitar solo really was something. He doesn't quite do that anymore, singing the whole song and playing guitar for that amount of time.

A lot of great music and it was cool hearing some of the songs from 1999 sprinkled in as well as "Temptation" which probably premiered during this tour. I heard it was written b4 Purple Rain finished along with a couple other songs, but I didn't know he did it on tour also

DreamyPopRoyalty said:

wasn't that fun!!

i have that video and the promo poster. I hated the camera work for when doves cry, which tried to duplicate the video

JEDINATION said:

So that would be 7pm Pacific?

DreamyPopRoyalty said:

The lyrics for ATWIAD are in the Purple Rain tourbook!

Se7en said:

Thanks for that little tidbit

All I heard was that he had recorded three songs for that album b4 Purple Rain was finished shooting.
Raspberry Beret, Temptation and one other... Paisley Park, but I could be wrong on that

You learn something new everyday

My PC fainted in the middle of it, but it was still rather awesome.
thanks for airing.

Madison88 said:

Yup. One and the same.

ThreadBare said:

I totally dig Queen, I miss Freddie. Bohemian Rhapsody is one of my favorite things to play on my piano.....until you hit those guitar solos....man, you have to have fast fingers for those (really a blast to play actually)....a very emotional song to play even just on a piano...

JEDINATION said:

I was 14...lol...There weren't any video screens, at least not at the concert I went too. I saw it April 1, 1985(after a few songs he said "thank you, good night...April Fools!) I think it was either a day after or a day before they filmed that in Syracuse. He played a little bit of Around the World In A day also. I think that album was released that same month.

motherfunka said:

I didn't think they had video screens at the Orange Bowl .... I would have been paying attention instead of listening to very very distorted music from where I was and watching "ants" on the stage.....

My 2nd concert ever was PR Tour in Buffalo NY. Changed my life. Saw it again in LI in Nassau Colliseum.

I only wish there were video footage of Sheila's opening set!!!

GaryMF said:

wow, that would be great!! Sheila is soooo talented... I love percussion. She totally rocks.... she really impresses me. I would love to have that talent....it seems that sound combinations would be endless... I dig that...