I think the superbowl performance was stellar... I really liked it the best, maybe you guys need to take a look at it again. Pay up the $77 join lotusflow3r and watch it...

Rock N Roll Hall of Fame bests it but Superbowl comes in second in my opinion.

The reason being is all of the other televised performances were great in their own right. Especially some from the 80's such as The American Music Awards 'Purple Rain' performance.

But the Hall of Fame took me by surprise. Im not talking about his three songs he did, but the solo he did on While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

I thought Prince was kind of over or lets say ordinary by that time. He had done several Leno performances, and I had seen him recently on Hit n Run and ONA's shows.

But watching the Gently Weeps performance threw me off, I was not expecting it. When he fell back onto his guitar tech, it was a great (planned) move,worthy of any splits, of any Darling Nikki speaker hump, any slide under Cat and tear her panny drapes off with his teeth move to me. It was that simple yet that brilliant. And the solo itself. Heaven.

I teared up watching it. I thought the ending of Alicia Key's speech was exciting enough to get me hyped but this one was off the charts. I teard up and wanted to call everyone I know up to state what I had just witnessed. Plus to see him onstage with....Tom Petty and jeff Lynne? 'Whoah'(Neo). I would never have believed it. Of course we can re-run these performances and critique them until the magic of the performance moment is lost, but the very first time this was shown (which is what counts afterall), I had actually been rejuiced for life for this guy. It was that emotional to me.

Now, the The Superbowl....

Every Prince performance is memorable, here are some of my favourites:

Purple Rain @ The American Music Awards 1985:
http://si.dada.net/video/...ards-1985/

Gett Off @ MTV Awards 1991:

BET Awards, Chaka Khan Tribute with Stevie Wonder:
http://video.libero.it/ap...c3555b46d8

Purple Rain/Baby I'm A Star/Crazy In Love (feat Beyonce) @ The Grammy Awards 2004:
http://v.youku.com/v_show...xMTI=.html

Unfortunately, I havent seen that many of his TV appearences. The Superbowl is the best Ive seen by a long chalk. Might be for personal reasons of course, as Im a huge footie fan....and I was praying Prince would rip it up so my footie fan buddies could see how great he is. And he didnt let me down. Best Superbowl halftime in the sports history? By a long chalk!

The fact that he played on through the pouring rain, the extra effect it added to Purple Rain, the little purple lights, the fact he added Best of You to the line-up (one of my fave songs ever) was heart stopping. I could have done without the cheesy marching band, but other than that, perfect. And then he came to London...heaven!!

I think the superbowl performance was stellar... I really liked it the best, maybe you guys need to take a look at it again. Pay up the $77 join lotusflow3r and watch it...

Unfortunately, I havent seen that many of his TV appearences. The Superbowl is the best Ive seen by a long chalk.

DaveT said:

You did not just say "by a long chalk" Silly.

Despite the rain and the off tunes here and there.... I nominate the superbowl 07 as the best TV performance by Prince ... Anyone disagree?

The last Brits performance for me.
[Edited 5/5/09 6:44am]

Rock N Roll Hall of Fame bests it but Superbowl comes in second in my opinion.

The reason being is all of the other televised performances were great in their own right. Especially some from the 80's such as The American Music Awards 'Purple Rain' performance.

But the Hall of Fame took me by surprise. Im not talking about his three songs he did, but the solo he did on While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

I thought Prince was kind of over or lets say ordinary by that time. He had done several Leno performances, and I had seen him recently on Hit n Run and ONA's shows.

But watching the Gently Weeps performance threw me off, I was not expecting it. When he fell back onto his guitar tech, it was a great (planned) move,worthy of any splits, of any Darling Nikki speaker hump, any slide under Cat and tear her panny drapes off with his teeth move to me. It was that simple yet that brilliant. And the solo itself. Heaven.

I teared up watching it. I thought the ending of Alicia Key's speech was exciting enough to get me hyped but this one was off the charts. I teard up and wanted to call everyone I know up to state what I had just witnessed. Plus to see him onstage with....Tom Petty and jeff Lynne? 'Whoah'(Neo). I would never have believed it. Of course we can re-run these performances and critique them until the magic of the performance moment is lost, but the very first time this was shown (which is what counts afterall), I had actually been rejuiced for life for this guy. It was that emotional to me.

Now, the The Superbowl....

Come on guys it's impossible to agree....for me it was the brits in 85.
The camera paned round and there he was!...i couldn't breath...it's him he's there now on my telly and for that moment i was the most chuffed person on the earth...he was so now and rock and roll it was unreal, well i loved it anyway...
PS:
love your avatar Dayclear
[Edited 5/5/09 10:26am]

Damn near every time he takes the stage.