Fox News paleeze.

It was cool of him to host a party for the every day Joe/Jane who would normally sit at home and simply watch the beautiful people. This time they got to "be" the beautiful people.

Recognize and peer beyond the hype.

..the party was an opportunity for the west-coast 2 savory prince..now don't let him come home 2 the mid-west!..
..mzsexybaby'home sweet home'

Genesia said:

I wish I was in L.A.; I would have gone and call in sick Monday

Fox said:

"Trashy Tinseltown types"? Why is that in quotation marks? Only gossip columnists talk like that. Do they think Prince just stepped out of a bad 1950s B-movie?

Efan said:

Maybe he doesn't want Paris Hilton there. I remember seeing her at Club 3121 at Rio Las Vegas a couple of years ago.

This is so STUPID! Do you think this MEANS his Party wasn't FUN or SIGNIFICANT? To those who attended they ENJOYED it IMMMENSELY and DIDN'T SEEM to CARE.

Wall said:

Mayb3 3v3rybody ha$ b33n li$t3ning 2 U'r driv3l?

Wall said:


Really?

Was it in the middle of the main course?

mzkqueen03 said:

I know exactly where that is very close to me

Genesia said:

Well I'm here in L.A. and I found out about half an hour before the Oscars started. So watch, or go get in line . . . .
I stayed home.
I've also been to Prince shows where you wait 3 or 4 hours for him to perform.
I had to go to work today, so that wasn't happening.
I did it when I was younger . . . but if I knew I could have still gotten a ticket at 9 pm I would have gone.

The articles are kinda off base and misleading. I don't think they are intentionally trying to be that way... because I don't see the writers as being Org and/or DR. FB subscribers, thus they had no knowledge that Prince intended for his 'fans' to get the news first. Their facts are flawed.

'We' knew fans would be invited days prior and we knew two days prior that the tix would be $100 and where it would be.

Among 'us'... I do beleive some of the unnecessary negativity around here towards Dr. FB's blog, scared a few people away. With that negativity, they didn't think there would be enough tix for many fans with all the 'celebs' in the house... and it turned out that the majority of the tickets available (500 of 800 capacity) were for fans. Some likely didn't trust the validity of Dr FBs reports due to the over reaction to a previous article by a select but diligently boisterous few... or the general ant-funkenberry sentiment of a that same few in general.

Add to that some just couldn't pop $100 on just a few days notice. I know money has kept me from a few 'from out of know where' Chicago gigs over the years.

Otherwise, I was surprised that Prince didn't publicize sooner via local radio or whatnot. Because... lets face it... besides 'us'.... no one else knew until the very last minute. But I guess his intention was to give 'us' the opportunity to have first dibs on tickets and such in lieu of any announcements made which would have attracted his lesser informed fan base and the 'oh I wanna see a movie star' people.

Most of the Celebs were probably at Madonna's and Demi's ultra exclusive party which I'm sure lasted pretty late. Though Prince's jam had its share

I'm sure the fans here who went had a great time.

I sorry many of you were discouraged to show up for whatever reason.

SUPRMAN said:

Exactly what I'm saying. I'm sure there were a lot of people who approached it the same way you did.

Accujack said:

BigDaddyHQ said:

Right, it's the org's fault that Prince's star is fading.



Here's the Lifetime Achievement Aware for Conjecture and Drama. You win, hands down. Your logical leaps are faulty and you're arriving at your own created conclusions which have no basis in reality or fact. Prince is supposedly a major star, the fact that he couldn't fill up such a small venue tells just how 'major' he currently is. As if he couldn't fill out the place because of some internet drama. And if that's why he couldn't, he's in even bigger trouble than I thought.



This is Prince. A supposed a-list 'legend.' He couldn't be in a more densely populated city or state in America and couldn't pull in under a thousand people. He wasn't playing at Dodgers' stadium he was playing at a small club.



They were obviously somewhere else, that's for sure. Likely eating a chocolate-y desert.



Quit creating phony excuses for why it ended up being such a lame show. People didn't go because they weren't willing to spend a hundred dollars to see Prince play covers. It's that simple. There's no magic purple bullet leading back to the org's grassy knoll.

And where's Funkenberry's review? Gee, funny how such a lame show hasn't gotten reviewed isn't it? He must be between a rock and a hard place since he knows anybody that reads his blog has already read reports of how lame the show was so he can't come out with some "Lawd it was 2 Funky" review yet he also can't criticize it too heavily because otherwise, Prince will find someone else to be his willing internet puppet.
[Edited 2/24/09 5:58am]

Wall said:

So people already knew he would play covers? Even if one wa sprivy to any kin dof setlist, if anyone here on this board had a chance to go beforehand, yall would be lined the funk up lol. Please stop fronting. I know it's your job to hate (just like Katt Williams said) for some net fame, but dont you get a day off? You should join a better union

benni said:

Where's "The Pout Cafe" anyway? It must be on 17.

xlr8r said:

It certainly would have been the safe money. Has he been anything more than a glorified cover/greatest hits act for the past few years?

No doubt seeing Prince live can be a treat but would I have paid 100.00 to see him thump through Play That Funky Music? Not a chance. And there's your reason why he can't even sell out a small club: people have become bored with the repetitive act. Or, for those that aren't too familiar with his music, they just aren't interested in paying 100.00 for a Prince show.

Max capacity: 800 people. One night only. Prince... NOT sold out. Hilarious.

It was announced much too late. Not every Prince fan is a member of the org or reads drfunkenberry's blog. If Prince would have had a full website of his own maybe a little more people would have shown up. But still it was announced much too late. A lot of fans have to make arrangements or have to work the next day so they cannot attend a last minute in the middle of the night concert all of a sudden.

Good communication/PR is still the magic word.

dothejump said:

As if all of his after shows are advertised for days on end. They happen right after a concert and fill up because, like this show, they are played in a small club.

Max capacity: 800 people. NOT sold out.

The Emperor has no clothes.
[Edited 2/24/09 7:05am]

Wall said:

The difference with the aftershows after concerts is that people are 'prepared' for them. They are already a night out, they have hired a babysitter, they have taken the next day off from work etc.

Everything about this party seemed to be rushed and last minute so I'm not shocked that it wasn't sold out.

SUPRMAN said:

No offense but there was stuff on the front page on the org about the possibility of a show happening out there in L.A. for Oscar night for about a week so I don't know how as an orger, you or anyone else wouldn't see what's up in the news section before going to whereever in here. I'm not trying to pick on you, I totally understand that work comes first but it just seemed kinda odd reading that.

dothejump said:

That's a valid point. But no number of excuses can change the fact that Prince was playing to a club of 800 not 8,000 and couldn't sell it out. He was in Hollywood. He was in California. And he still couldn't wrangle enough interest to fill up a small club.

As we've seen from some posters here, the reason is, people just aren't interested. Nobody wants to stand in line and pay 100.00 for a Prince show they've already seen.

And I love the reports of him telling people to sign up at Lotusflower. If he really meant he needs more people to sign up because there hasn't been enough interest to warrant launching the site, he's in deeper trouble than I thought.

A failed, laughable website launch, can't fill up an 800 capacity club, stuck playing hits and cover songs... somebody alert Webster's, we've got the perfect image to go with the definition of Has-Been.

Wall said:

Mmm. I still stand by my point that it has to do with the late notice and bad communication. (so only prince.org members and drf readers knew about it and even they heard different stuff).

Calling him a has-been is too harsh imo. Has something like not selling out a small venue happened before? If it happens more often, I will agree with you but so far I'll stick to the communication.

I honestly believe that Prince celebrating the "Oscars," in Central USA would change that perspective.

Some of us just can't get there to be supportive and enjoy the concert.

Wall said:

you make all these assumptions from ONE after party that supposedly didn't sell out?
[Edited 2/24/09 7:35am]

dothejump said:

Right. And what about the press release that went out to major media outlets about Prince finding out second hand he was having an Oscar party? Saying it was only known about on the org and Funkenberry requires one to ignore that pr debacle. What's more, it was even advertised on television and radio.

And through all of this, what still stands, is that he couldn't sell out a club for 800 people. The string of excuses people are putting forward might be believable if he was playing a stadium or theater, but not a venue for 800.

Wall said:

This wasn't a concert we're talking about here, this was an Oscar Afterparty that became open to the public. Normally they are at Prince's house but I guess at the last minute, they did it in a public spot. If this was a tour, then what you are saying would make sense but for a party type thing, it doesn't really apply. Just my

purplecam said:

Exactly. Some people here are acting as if Prince has a pattern of failing to attract people at his shows. this was one Oscar afterparty.

Wall said:

But the major media never mentioned that the party was open to 500 fans. They just mentioned that Prince was having an Oscar party. And normally the average person cannot not go to these parties. On the night of the Oscars just LA Times and drfunkenberry mentioned the ticket sale. That was very late, just a couple of hours before the party would start, so not much time to arrange all the babysitters, money, work etc.