If I was at ANY Prince show,the last thing I would give a shit about was the setlist! Stay home and make a mix tape

JAMIESTARR said:

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

JAMIESTARR said:

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

laurarichardson said:

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.

punkofthemonth said:

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

Spanky said:

agreed but, it's cool, be glad he's still playing and doing something.
[Edited 2/23/09 13:52pm]

daPrettyman said:

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.

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.

What happened to the much hyped "$"?
Dr F even japed about showing him your dollar,did he play it?

What an asshole! I get that he hasn't been able to write a hit to save his life in the past 20 years but playing 2 hours of other people's hit to cash paying fans is a fast pass to asshole status. Prince needs a good dose of reality because he is on the moon. People need to make a statement like they did with Disco and publicly destroy all their old Prince records. The dude is whack!

Wow, somehow people are never satisfied.

He plays the hits - I want obscure songs
He plays obscure songs - I want hits
He plays covers - I want Prince songs
He doesn't play covers - I want something original

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.

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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so who here thinks that Prince will release a dvd or any footage from this show- the crowd was, by the report, not 'crowded'...and he sang a lot of covers....I think its already in the vault LOL

I can understand people enjoying the show who were there - 'there is no party like a prince party' - but - show of hands - who would pay to see this show on dvd?....I don't think I would...the last 2 dvds, rave & 'ONA edited' were disappointing to say the least...

this should have been the show to blow people's minds - to raise the stakes and make people go - shit, I wish I was there! noothing like backing up the hype when u have 3 cds to sell LOL...but alas, by most accounts it was just another show - the same he's been playing for the last couple of years if not more....more or less....

nevermind....he can't keep everyone happy I guess

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.