Ok, that sounded like fun, but come on, he has a HUGE catalog of hits and he continues to play "Let's Go", "Play That Funky Music" and "Come Together". I'm not complaining.....I'm just sayin'.

I know it's probably fun for him to play other people's work but damn! If I had paid $100 to go to his party and he played for 2 hours and most of the show was covers, I'd be a little pissed off.

Ok, that sounded like fun, but come on, he has a HUGE catalog of hits and he continues to play "Let's Go", "Play That Funky Music" and "Come Together". I'm not complaining.....I'm just sayin'.

I know it's probably fun for him to play other people's work but damn! If I had paid $100 to go to his party and he played for 2 hours and most of the show was covers, I'd be a little pissed off.

this is why i don't pay to see him anymore. and i find it amusing that he moans and whinges about people covering HIS material but for the past few years, he's made a semi-career out of playing other peoples material.

sassybritches said:

Probably to piss off the whiners on the org...

lezama said:

Good one!!!!

Ok, that sounded like fun, but come on, he has a HUGE catalog of hits and he continues to play "Let's Go", "Play That Funky Music" and "Come Together". I'm not complaining.....I'm just sayin'.

I know it's probably fun for him to play other people's work but damn! If I had paid $100 to go to his party and he played for 2 hours and most of the show was covers, I'd be a little pissed off.

2020 said:

A majority of the songs that he sang last night I had already heard at his house party on 1-31.

But Cream, and SHHH where the BOMB.

He had the crowd really going for SHHH.. He guided the crowd and asked us to sing along or for him.

Then he sang the whole song solo....I love the faces he makes while he is playing his guitar. He total feels the vibe of the guitar in his soul.
He was dressed to perfection as usual and those sneakers, they are fun to look at.

He did have a BANGIN diamond bracelet on. WOW, it was HOT, and it was perfectly placed on his wrist.
[Edited 2/23/09 11:51am]

oh yeah, and he had us all doing "the Bird"



[Edited 2/23/09 11:53am]

Thanks for posting, sounds like everyone had a great time.

daPrettyman said:

2elijah said:

Yup, hopefully we get to see this party on video sooner than later!

Taken from Rolling Stone:

http://www.rollingstone.c...car-party/

Last night in L.A., after all the Oscars were handed out, Prince played host to several hundred diehard fans — and a few famous names — at his all-night afterparty. The stars certainly had their pick of flashy post-show parties Sunday night — the Vanity Fair bash at the Sunset Towers Hotel, Elton John’s annual AIDS Foundation soiree at the Pacific Design Center, Madonna’s get-together at Guy Oseary’s pad, Demi Moore’s house party for her closest A-list friends — but those looking to get their groove on until the wee hours of the morning headed to L.A.’s Avalon Ballroom, where Prince was playing a solid mix of covers and hits.

Unlike Prince’s past awards show after-parties, typically held at his Hollywood Hills home and thrown under a strict by-invitation-only policy, this one was open to the plebes among us. At $100 per person — first come, first serve — the show doubled as a launch-pad for his soon-to-debut website LOTUSFLOW3R.com. A few hundred hopefuls had lined up on Hollywood and Vine hours in advance, knowing full well that it would be a very long wait. After all, the Purple One was still sound-checking at 11:30 p.m. and doors had yet to open. Shortly after midnight (and while Prince and select guests were being entertained by an all-girl jazz band upstairs at the Avalon’s exclusive lounge Bardot), an orderly crowd made its way inside filling only half of the venue’s main floor — not that the post-Oscar folks (some still wearing gowns and tuxedos) were complaining after a full day of elbow rubbing.

Starting close 1:45, the nearly two-hour set kicked off with a tease — the opening progression to “Purple Rain,” which brought out the diminutive Prince, strolling onto the stage carrying a blinged-out baton. He soon traded it in for a guitar and, backed by a three-piece band, two backup singers and one killer harmonica player, Prince launched into a string of covers, beginning with The Cars’ “Let’s Go” and segueing into “Crimson and Clover” mashed with “Wild Thing.” “I’m the DJ tonight,” he boasted from the stage shortly after dedicating the night to Oscar winner Penélope Cruz and giving a nod to celebrities viewing from the VIP area. Among them: Alicia Keys, Queen Latifah, Angie Harmon, Tyler Perry, Maroon 5’s Adam Levine and Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson.

And while the bars had closed twenty minutes into the performance, Prince’s banter kept spirits high. Introducing a bellowing rendition of the Beatles’ “Come Together,” he asked his subjects: “I’m here and you’re here, that’s all we need to start a party, right?” Indeed, as Prince launched into the Rolling Stones’ “Honky Tonk Woman” and then surprised all with a true-to-the-original take on Jimmy Eat World’s “The Middle,” the dance floor had filled considerably. By the time “Jungle Love” and “Play That Funky Music” came around, the place, as they say, was jumping. Prince closed out the set by asking for volunteers to join him on “The Glamorous Life,” the song he wrote for Sheila E., then proceeded to invite audience members to the stage for free-for-all, to which a couple dozen brazen fans eagerly obliged.

“Turn those Blackberries off and dance,” Prince chided just after three in the morning, his guitar hero energy not waning in the slightest. The crowd’s energy, however, was another story. Still, diehards hoping to hear more from the Prince hit list stuck around until the bitter end, and weren’t disappointed to get “I Feel For You” as an encore (at 3:22 in the morning). But he never did come back to “Purple Rain,” and with awards season over, it may be a while before we get another chance.
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lezama said:

Good one!!!!

Taken from Rolling Stone:

http://www.rollingstone.c...car-party/

Last night in L.A., after all the Oscars were handed out, Prince played host to several hundred diehard fans — and a few famous names — at his all-night afterparty. The stars certainly had their pick of flashy post-show parties Sunday night — the Vanity Fair bash at the Sunset Towers Hotel, Elton John’s annual AIDS Foundation soiree at the Pacific Design Center, Madonna’s get-together at Guy Oseary’s pad, Demi Moore’s house party for her closest A-list friends — but those looking to get their groove on until the wee hours of the morning headed to L.A.’s Avalon Ballroom, where Prince was playing a solid mix of covers and hits.

Unlike Prince’s past awards show after-parties, typically held at his Hollywood Hills home and thrown under a strict by-invitation-only policy, this one was open to the plebes among us. At $100 per person — first come, first serve — the show doubled as a launch-pad for his soon-to-debut website LOTUSFLOW3R.com. A few hundred hopefuls had lined up on Hollywood and Vine hours in advance, knowing full well that it would be a very long wait. After all, the Purple One was still sound-checking at 11:30 p.m. and doors had yet to open. Shortly after midnight (and while Prince and select guests were being entertained by an all-girl jazz band upstairs at the Avalon’s exclusive lounge Bardot), an orderly crowd made its way inside filling only half of the venue’s main floor — not that the post-Oscar folks (some still wearing gowns and tuxedos) were complaining after a full day of elbow rubbing.

Starting close 1:45, the nearly two-hour set kicked off with a tease — the opening progression to “Purple Rain,” which brought out the diminutive Prince, strolling onto the stage carrying a blinged-out baton. He soon traded it in for a guitar and, backed by a three-piece band, two backup singers and one killer harmonica player, Prince launched into a string of covers, beginning with The Cars’ “Let’s Go” and segueing into “Crimson and Clover” mashed with “Wild Thing.” “I’m the DJ tonight,” he boasted from the stage shortly after dedicating the night to Oscar winner Penélope Cruz and giving a nod to celebrities viewing from the VIP area. Among them: Alicia Keys, Queen Latifah, Angie Harmon, Tyler Perry, Maroon 5’s Adam Levine and Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson.

And while the bars had closed twenty minutes into the performance, Prince’s banter kept spirits high. Introducing a bellowing rendition of the Beatles’ “Come Together,” he asked his subjects: “I’m here and you’re here, that’s all we need to start a party, right?” Indeed, as Prince launched into the Rolling Stones’ “Honky Tonk Woman” and then surprised all with a true-to-the-original take on Jimmy Eat World’s “The Middle,” the dance floor had filled considerably. By the time “Jungle Love” and “Play That Funky Music” came around, the place, as they say, was jumping. Prince closed out the set by asking for volunteers to join him on “The Glamorous Life,” the song he wrote for Sheila E., then proceeded to invite audience members to the stage for free-for-all, to which a couple dozen brazen fans eagerly obliged.

“Turn those Blackberries off and dance,” Prince chided just after three in the morning, his guitar hero energy not waning in the slightest. The crowd’s energy, however, was another story. Still, diehards hoping to hear more from the Prince hit list stuck around until the bitter end, and weren’t disappointed to get “I Feel For You” as an encore (at 3:22 in the morning). But he never did come back to “Purple Rain,” and with awards season over, it may be a while before we get another chance.
[Edited 2/23/09 10:17am]

daPrettyman said:

Exactly!!

It's not hating. It's the truth!!

2020 said:

A majority of the songs that he sang last night I had already heard at his house party on 1-31.

But Cream, and SHHH where the BOMB.

He had the crowd really going for SHHH.. He guided the crowd and asked us to sing along or for him.

Then he sang the whole song solo....I love the faces he makes while he is playing his guitar. He total feels the vibe of the guitar in his soul.
He was dressed to perfection as usual and those sneakers, they are fun to look at.

He did have a BANGIN diamond bracelet on. WOW, it was HOT, and it was perfectly placed on his wrist.
[Edited 2/23/09 11:51am]

oh yeah, and he had us all doing "the Bird"



[Edited 2/23/09 11:53am]

2020 said:

A majority of the songs that he sang last night I had already heard at his house party on 1-31.

But Cream, and SHHH where the BOMB.

He had the crowd really going for SHHH.. He guided the crowd and asked us to sing along or for him.

Then he sang the whole song solo....I love the faces he makes while he is playing his guitar. He total feels the vibe of the guitar in his soul.
He was dressed to perfection as usual and those sneakers, they are fun to look at.

He did have a BANGIN diamond bracelet on. WOW, it was HOT, and it was perfectly placed on his wrist.
[Edited 2/23/09 11:51am]

oh yeah, and he had us all doing "the Bird"



[Edited 2/23/09 11:53am]

dartluv5 said:

Kind of tired of the same covers/hits mix he has been playing since '03-'04. Can't he pull some obscure tunes that aren't dirty from his vaaaaast repitoir? I'm talking about...
"Rave Into The Joy Fantastic", "Everywhere", "Automatic", "Sexuality" (He could change it to "Sensuality or Spirituality" for all I care, just bring it with that great riff!), "Eye No", "Endorphinemachine", "Wasted Kisses", "New Position", "Peace"...
Ya know? Some'n new! How's that for an encore setlist?

sassybritches said:

Probably to piss off the whiners on the org...

You are hating. Did P play a load of covers on his last full tour. NO because it was an actual tour not a show at his house or aftershow or party. I have boots going back to 80’s with covers so shut the hell up already. If you don’t want to hear covers then do not go to these special shows. Just wait for a tour and then you can bitch about what songs he did not play and how tired you are of the hits.

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