What the fuck has gone wrong with the Prince fan community? I would give all my testicles and some of the testicles of my friends to hear Prince play this song live and all we get is a bunch of 'journalists' who have no clue AND NO response from the ORG - which should be positively orgasmic at the thought of such a song being played live... will it be on the website? is Prince getting more casual about what's in the vault? Can we expect a Crystal Ball II?

What the fucks wrong with this site!? IN A LARGE ROOM WITH NO LIGHT and this place is not off the scale?

Call yourselves fans?

I sharted when I heard that too. I think you can find some reviews somewhere maybe in the concerts forum.....gotta search though.

BoySimon said:

I think its a case of a large change in the fan base.

Prince sueing his fans, coupled with his weaker output has seen an exodus of the long term fans.

In their place is a new majority of fans and fams who have more knowledge of pictures of his ass than his output of music.

Its been very evident post 2004.

Its been very evident on the org since the official forums closed. There was a mass migration of fam worshippers who had no home to go to.


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BoySimon said:

Odd you say this, i saw the setlist yesterday to that show, plus a "wonderful" thread over at concerts called It was awful (describing the actual show) or something. When I saw that he had played this song, I was abit confused, like normally, especially here at the org, at least there would have been an entire sticky thread dedicated to it...oh well, lets just hope this is not a one off

Whitnail said:

I doubt it.

When you have a fan on another thread with over 7000 posts, but has to ask if there was a Camille album, you know the dynamics have changed!

I don't mean that in as an attack on that fan, its just a sign o the times.

SquirrelMeat said:

Majority really you think?

I'm not so sure

I think as a test you should put up a Lovesexy appreciation thread and a princes ass appreciation thread just to test your theory

Either way it would be interesting to see

Hey, you know... I was coming off all angry and aggresive and stuff... but come on... for Prince to play this song live; for Prince to play it live as a way to launch a new album; for Prince to play it live when he's not played misuc like this since... oh, forever....

I cannot place into words my disappointment that this site hasn't errupted with praise, wonder, awe, incredulity, lack of breath... etc...

It's IN A LARGE ROOM WITH NO LIGHT for my wholesome goodness sake.

Come on, Prince.org... be about Prince for once.

The org DID flip out about it! It really whets the appetite for more unreleased gems to be set free. There have been a number of threads speculating that the rumored 10 albums of outtakes through the website may come to fruition. Here's top hoping!

fuck talkin' about it, i wanna hear the shit, ASAP

http://prince.org/msg/7/302811

PEJ said:

http://prince.org/msg/7/303023?&pg=1

like peeps have said, the dynamics and the demographics have changed.
(check your calanders people, the 1980's were a LOOONG TIME AGO !).
some of us DID xpress shock, surprise, joy and xcitement about it, and speculate about future vault goodies, but it ain't a bad thing that there r many fans who haven't been listening to crackly old tape recordings of early '80's out-takes and demo's, that they got 20 years ago ! (many with TOTALLY different 'titles' 2 the ones p gave them !). it will be just as cool 4 them 2 hear these tracks 4 the first time if/when they get put out there.
next stop 'moonbeam levels', 'roadhouse garden'....

That night is one the greatest of my life! The concert was sooo unique. but when he did "in a large room with no light" i just went....





I was right in front of him the whole time. I could see the glitter in his eye shadow lol. I just couldn't believe it. I don't what to say about it other then WOW. I mean he did "In a large room with no light" "When Eye Lay My Hands On U" and then sat a on wooded stool and sang "Journey 2 The Center of Your Heart" You just ended up going. It felt like a personal concert.

I for one am hella amped and excited that he played it. But, because I wasn't there, it sort of doesn't feel.....real.

Wait till the boot comes out and I get to hear it. Then I'll be on some other shit!

That description is just ... marvellous. It's beyond words that he did it, and beyond findin words that we have to record the moment we heard him do it.... The unicorm metaphor is SO apt it's untrue... thank you, thank you, thank you....

.... I need more.

BoySimon said:

... and all i could find so far

the answer could possibly be....those who fronted up with $77 to get in the site, might have expected to hear or maybe even see some of the goings on last weekend..but no, we get a musicology tour clip, which while great, and hopefully is the tip of the iceberg, well....just kinda rubs me the wrong way...why have a site and not really do anything with it...the cds r out, the 'promo' shows have been and gone....and we're still not seeing anything 'new' as such...or even hearing anything 'old' from the vaults.....what is Prince waiting for?

I don't want to hurry them..but a good start would be making the site a lot quicker...it takes me 10 minutes just to enter the damn site after it's buffered in... and then there's the whole 'streaming' issues....this isn't 1995....things have progressed - and I'm the first to admit that my broadband connection isn't the fastest - but if you have to wait to just get in....arrghh..words fail me LOL

sorry thats off topic - back on topic- its great he's pulled that out of the vault to play live - I look forward to the bootleg - cos the way things are going, thats the only way we'll get to hear it....or maybe I should say - that'll be where we hear it first!

When I read this tracklist on the org I first took it for an early April fool's joke..

Shango said:

I read this thread!

well, I've been enjoying 'the ride' for close on 26yrs now and I havent commented yet.... why? Perhaps if i'd witnessed/ heard the prformance I could add a useful comment. Prob has been, imho, that the write ups of Prince's 3 performances seemed to focus on the sound issues and not the actual set lists.

Of course it's amazing Prince is playing 'large Room', and other previously bootlegged,unreleased gems. But unfortunately not many ppl in attendance have reviewed this particular performance.

Tell us how it was...full length? Rearranged/ true to original? Fan response?

Militant said:

Then there's the fact that the number of people with extensive collections of or access to ancient bootleg gems is much smaller than the obsessive members of the Ancient Bootleg Gem Club seem to appreciate. Most bootleg track titles bandied about here in this forum are mysterious obscurities to those of us who don't belong to the ABGC.

Genesia said:

CJBabyDaddy said:

They're not exactly "rare", nor are they anything new... Nor are they that hard to come by.

80spfantwp said:

Check out the concerts forum. We were discussing it there last week. It was a truly historic night. The arrangment was wonderful, Prince handled the vocals and the "la la la's."

Actually, the Conga Room and Club Nokia shows were both fantastic. Seeing him do such random and rare music with some of the best musicians he has ever had was great. Also, the true fans at both shows just seemed to be in ectasy. I will never forget it.

'In a Large Room With No Light' never hear it

I want to hear this

I kind of feel that way today

I lost my mind when I saw this song on the setlist last Sunday. Ask my girlfriend: I think I frightened her a little.

zucris said:

Think of it as " The Revolution doing The 5th Dimension"

cblu said:

Yes they are, actually.. relatively speaking. Some folks are just accustomed to acquiring them on a regular basis *somehow* and forget that most of the ticket buyers don't fiend enough to do the legwork..

to think.. *sniff* I was once like the ABGC...

TwiliteKid said:

Was SO sad when I learned I'd missed this... one of those songs that you wish people who kinda like Prince knew about.

But I feel you a little. The morning of the shows, i'd just introduced my friend to Empty Room...she was like 'what is THAT???' but I'd never seen him play it before. At Conga I bent down to tell her "this is that song" and I could barely get it out, I was so stunned..
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