i was just wondering how many people on here have actually have been on the purple rain tour...if i could have gone to any concert that would of been it!!

i was at the indianapolis show on april 1, 1985.



it was my first concert ever!

me March 1985 Nassau Colisseum

i am soooo jealous!!

i was hoarse for three days afterward.

Anxiety said:

you too?

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Same here.The night he did America with the houselights up.

I hate you all.

Chicago - Indy - NY shows 1985...
By far the best concerts!
Oh the memories...

GMAN

Anxiety said:

I am soooo freakin' jealous. I didn't get to see Prince til I was 29.

December 1984, St.Paul Civic Center

I was 16, I went by myself (had to ride a bus four hours to the Cities) and it was my very first rock concert ever as well as the first time I ever saw Prince in concert. It was fantastic!

Vendetta1 said:

well, after that first time i didn't get to see prince again until i was...ummmm...27?

December '84...Rosemont Horizon.

I wore black leather pants, purple suede and snakeskin boots, and a purple angora sweater. A friend and I drove down from Madison, in driving rain with about a gazillion semis on the road. I was scared to death we wouldn't make it alive.

And we drove back to Madison after the show. Fortunately, the rain had stopped by then.

I barely remember the concert...but I remember everything around it.

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Me and my friend went everynight. She got a job at ticket agency.You had to be creative in those days

Feb.1,1985 New Orleans, La.Superdome. Time of my young life!!(then 17 y.o.)
Was on probation,(for doing something totally stupid) and confined to my room.
Jumped out of my 2nd story bedroom window, Twisted my ankle. Met my friends at the corner and hit the hwy. Had a few drinks and smoked a doobie,(don't do that anymore) Concert was awesome! I was 5TH row center. I got flowers from Wendy. Bought tour book, shirt & still have my ticket stub. Best night of my life. Ended up on Bourbon St. Could'nt find car for 2 hours. Finally made it home. Slept like a baby.
Sorry bout the rambling...those were the days!

23/12/1984 Saint Paul Civic Center Arena - St. Paul, Minnesota

I still have the Tour Book and Ticket Stubs (Not mine pictured, obviously)

squirrelgrease said:

I saved my ticket stub from the St.Paul concert for years but then it got lost.

I hadn't thought of that "WEAR SOMETHING PURPLE" request on the ticket in years! That was a nice memory jog.

I saw the "Purple Rain," Tour, 2 nights in a row...December 5th and 6th, 1984.

StephaniePlum said:

I had forgotten about that too.

Wow..... I went to the Nov 5 1984 ( second Detroit show) when the whole tour started in Detroit. It was crazy but we had nosebleed seating way up. I don't remember much cause I was crazy about this girl and didn't pay much attention to the show. We didn't last and this other girl kept asking me out and asked me to another of the Detroit shows but I wasn't interested in her cause my friend dated her for a month so I passed. Well needless to say we became friends and started dating a few months later in 1985. Got married in 1990.... funny how things work out.

squirrelgrease said:

my purple rain tour ticket has the opening act misspelled as "SHELIA E."

Purple rain was my first Prince tour. There was none to compare with that man! NONE.

March 1985 Worcester Mass. Great time. A girl an I worked our way to about the 5th row. Back in the day when you could that sort of thing
I still have a piece of one his gloves that he threw out to the crowd.
I remember thinking how small he was and how big his hair was. It looked like he would almost tip over

Well, I saw the live via satelite transmission from Syracuse, March 30 1985, on TV. Does that count?

I taped it and saw it many, many times. I had liked some Prince songs before seeing the show, but seeing the show really won me over and made me a Prince fan.

From this tour I still need th efollowing tickets for my collection, so if you can help me out .... will pay or trade :

08 nov 1984 Detroit
16 nov 1984 Greensboro
18 nov 1984 Landover
23 nov 1984 Philadelphia
28 nov 1984 Landover
29 nov 1984 Landover
30 nov 1984 Landover
06 dec 1984 Cleveland
09 dec 1984 Chicago
20 dec 1984 St.Louis
21 dec 1984 St.Louis
03 jan 1985 Atlanta
07 jan 1985 Atlanta
10 jan 1985 Houston
11 jan 1985 Houston
14 jan 1985 Houston
16 jan 1985 Houston
17 jan 1985 Houston
19 jan 1985 Birminghm
23 jan 1985 Cincinnati
25 jan 1985 Memphis
03 feb 1985 Birmingham
04 feb 1985 Memphis
14 feb 1985 Tacoma
19 feb 1985 Los Angeles
27 feb 1985 San Francisco
07 mar 1985 Las Cruces
24 mar 1985 Uniondale
27 mar 1985 Worcester
01 apr 1985 Indianapolis
05 apr 1985 Lakeland

THANKS

I hate that I missed this tour. Too busy with high school football.

Xenophobia2002:
I applaud your enthusiasm but your obigatory ticket stub pleas are cracking me up.
:>)
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jmfd said:

It's a small world

Anxiety said:

It is a small world...I was at that show also.