Whatever.....We are not hating.

I know P does covers. I have no problem with him doing a cover here and there at an aftershow, party, etc. It adds something different to the show. However, I prefer him to limit the covers and pull from his backcatalog or play something new.

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.

But that's just the point. I can make my own playlists at HOME. If I go to a a Prince show, I expect to hear PRINCE songs!

"kareoke".

And call me a "hater" all you want for having an opinion different than yours. I don't mind. I've been called worse.

Hey,I was shoveling a foot of snow last night in Maine...I'd rather hear Prince play covers

that's what i'm saying . i've never even seen the man play live

Is anybody else now willing to finally stand up and admit that the emperor has no clothes on?
So it was far from sold out, no A-list celebs, virtually all covers and he looks as healthy as patrick swayze?

Damn, what happened?....

The final insult would be to release a live video of this covers debacle over the once hinted-at/promised coachella concert.

Sad...

If u got the bucks,not a bad way to spend a Sunday night

Aside from the Patrick Swayze mention, I concur 1000 %.

And by the by, why come he has fools to pay $100?

Elton John had a benefit for AIDS that raised 4 million dollars.
What is Prince doing with his loot besides jerking his famns?

(The n is silent.)

$100 for some bullshit?









Pass.

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.

that's what i'm saying . i've never even seen the man play live

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]