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Printableunique said: lottielooloo1968 said: thanks unique, but u know what? i'm really creeped out, i've always wondered about this & thought it was odd he'd wear tartan..but obviously not when u consider he was playing scotland
..but that i chose 2 ask today woah!.. so did anyone go 2 this concert & can u remember that far back? any cool memories?.. i was at the show, i have it on video too as i know the guy who filmed it. he didn't do an aftershow. there was a license holders meeting that day and everyone was asking each other who was holding the aftershow when 4 non blondes were playing, prince was lying behinid the drum riser playing air drums and the time frequency turned up 20 mins before they went onstage, without soundchecking, handed over a dat and went onstage and it all went wrong, as a dat played back on a machine other than the one it was recorded on can have alinement problems, not often, but it went as wrong as you can get that nite there was an unnoficial afterparty at the citrus club where i used to do popular prince nites can't believe prince needed the warm up act?!!! WTF? but i remember their song 'what's up', it was pretty cool...can't imagine prince was hitting on the lead singer tho | |
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lottielooloo1968 said: 
yes i agree he looks bloody gawjus, but can't get my head round this scottish connection... for him 2 go 2 this extent of donning tartan & trying out the rough & ready approach, & in high heels no doubt.. obviously he did a show in scotland, but it was only one night..i feel this was rather extreme  Tartan, typhoon & heels...  What a combination. | |
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lottielooloo1968 said: can't believe prince needed the warm up act?!!! WTF? but i remember their song 'what's up', it was pretty cool...can't imagine prince was hitting on the lead singer tho
Everytime I've seen Prince, he's never had an opening act - unless they've been an assocated artist, like Chaka Khan, Nikka Costa, etc.. Not that I remember, anyway. As for Linda Perry: well, I think she was 'out' then but - as she's a lesbian - Prince wouldn't have got very far.
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Funkmaster said: lottielooloo1968 said: thanks unique, but u know what? i'm really creeped out, i've always wondered about this & thought it was odd he'd wear tartan..but obviously not when u consider he was playing scotland
..but that i chose 2 ask today woah!.. so did anyone go 2 this concert & can u remember that far back? any cool memories?.. I was at the Meadowbank gig! I remember his support were 4-Non Blondes who had recently been No 2 in the charts with What's Up. They were having sound problems, so despite their best efforts, they were good but not great. I do remember the singer (Linda Perry?) saying she hoped we all had a great show when Prince comes on, and then she pointed at the huge 0+> light/prop which floated over the stage and said "Isn't that the coolest f**king thing you've ever seen, I wanna climb on board and fly away!!" The other support band was The Time Frequency (also called TTF) who had a couple of dance hits in the UK and Europe. The sound was even worse for them and some of their backing samples didn't work, so they just quit early. This meant the fans had a bit of a wait until Prince came on, but what's new! Unusually, the Sun was out in Scotland, so it was getting warm that afternoon...I think it started to rain after the show, but I don't remember any during the show, Prince had some sound problems during the show too...I think from memory the guitar during The Cross was very quiet or non-existent, but there were some high points...It was the one and only time I saw Prince perform the full bodied version of my favourite song, The Beautiful Ones, with a band and the screaming. Sure, he sang it at the O2 but that was on the piano solo bit usually and he didn't do a full version, just a sample. The full song at Meadowbank was awesome. excellent & she knew style when she saw it.. i never heard of TTF...i can't believe he had these other bands, must've been so frustrating 4 the crowd  the beautiful ones.. u are clearly a person of good taste & this was your 1st post on the org?..
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Anxiety said: Shorty said: it's just a plaid shirt.
it's more than just a plaid shirt. so. much. more.  | |
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thedance said: I
the Morning Papers video. 
if you look carefully you can see he's wearing this shirt under the coat
credits: made by Aaron, housequake.com.... [Edited 7/29/09 16:02pm] oh yeah, cute song. i just watched the video & when launches himself in2 the crowd they ripped his coat clean off..he's wearing this shirt all kinda sloppy & off the shoulder
i love his hair here & just wow, he smells great | |
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scrumptious diddlyumptious 
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onenitealone said: lottielooloo1968 said: can't believe prince needed the warm up act?!!! WTF? but i remember their song 'what's up', it was pretty cool...can't imagine prince was hitting on the lead singer tho
Everytime I've seen Prince, he's never had an opening act - unless they've been an assocated artist, like Chaka Khan, Nikka Costa, etc.. Not that I remember, anyway. As for Linda Perry: well, I think she was 'out' then but - as she's a lesbian - Prince wouldn't have got very far.
. [Edited 7/30/09 5:29am] i didn't know, but kinda guessed
i wondered if it was unusual 4 prince 2 have support acts.. | |
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rod stewart covered peach for his "human" album, i can't remember if it was on the album or not, it might have been pulled at last minute, but i think peach was on a cd single as a bonus track
TTF = the time frequency were a popular scottish rave act that were more used to playing raves like ressurrection or at calton studios. they had one big single called real love or something. they were the epitome of schemie/chav rave music. they didn't play live at gigs, they must performed to a dat, and the dat player didn't like the tape and stopped working mid song and they walked off. it was because they just turned up 20 minutes before and didn't test anything prince played celtic park in glasgow in 1992 and had shakespears sister (one of the girls from bananarama was in the band, and they had a hit single called stay or something), i'm fortunate in not remember what other crap we might have had to endure, but carmen cancelled her tour support after one or two gigs in london, so she wasn't there bands used to pay to be support acts for big gigs like this, so they would get exposure to the public, the money they paid helped cover the costs of putting on big gigs. the bands didn't get paid to play them. the prince related bands that played in later times might have been invited to play and got paid, but i don't suppose MIA, maya, etc got paid at the o2 as no-one knew they were going to play and no-one cared about them. common was good though, but i remember a girl asking me who he was, and said i must know a lot about music if i had heard of him. i suppose i did explain 15 years of history of common to her and tell her i saw him at paisley with prince, you do that at gigs to act cool to the chicks at big outdoor gigs they always have support acts as people are lining up for hours to get in at about 4pm then have to wait till about 8pm to 9pm for the main act to show, so with 15,000 people at meadowbank you need a support act to get people warmed up. and meadowbank is a shit place for gigs, and it's always raining in edinburgh, as it's the devils urinal, so you need plenty of beer and a good warmup band. i saw radiohead play there with beck as support a couple of years ago, and that was a really great show, and it actually stopped raining for a few minutes. a couple of days later i saw muse play a storming set there, but it pissed down like a fucking tropical storm by the end of it. luckily i don't live far from there. i lived just a few mins away when prince played, so i heard him soundcheck before the show
prince then came back to glasgow in 95 and did 2 nites at the SECC for the gold experience tour and did a cracking aftershow at the garage, one of the smallest venues i've ever seen prince, and i've seen him in a few really small places. the american idea of a small club gig is nothing like the uk idea, prince's american aftershows are in clubs i would normally describe as pretty big. the garage was a sweatbox and i swear twice as many people were crammed in than the place was suppose to hold. people were literally standing on chairs and tables just to survive. it was like the garbage disposal unit in star wars, and they played the leftfield album extremely loud over and over again for hours before he came onstage at 2.10am and played till 3am. i had a promo of the album and played it a lot before it came out so i was completely sick of it and have never played it since then after the last glasgow gigs in 95, prince did the remix of the good life with the lyric "good gig, yeah we know, we don't have to boast about the fact we put the O in show, 100 thousand nightly, we just got back from glasgow". that was one of my favourite remixes | |
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onenitealone said: lottielooloo1968 said:
yes i agree he looks bloody gawjus, but can't get my head round this scottish connection... for him 2 go 2 this extent of donning tartan & trying out the rough & ready approach, & in high heels no doubt.. obviously he did a show in scotland, but it was only one night..i feel this was rather extreme Tartan, typhoon & heels... What a combination. i just watched 'the morning papers' vid... yep it's all there in full glory[Edited 7/30/09 5:52am] | |
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lottielooloo1968 said: scrumptious
he doesn't look as good as i do in tartan 
i'm going to wear my tartan underpants at the boat party | |
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muirdo said: I have a Drumstick that was caught by my sister in law from the Edinburgh gig.
I also remember Mayte fell on her arse when she jumped from the swing during the intro to the show thanks muirdo..fantastic memento! the sis in law must've been pretty fiesty to have bundled 4 that!..good on her! but then she was soft enough to give it 2 u, that's really nice of her.. omg, mayte fell over? was she ok? did prince run over 2 rescue her? how awful  ...
actually found this nice link.. http://www.theblindstagge...edinburgh/ (a portion of the text)... After queuing for ages to get in, the first support act, a terrible Scottish dance act called TTF (remember them?) came on around 5pm. They then went off again sometime around 5.03pm due to technical difficulties. I’m not saying that them being shite had anything to do with them going off after three minutes, but something was shining on the audience that day, and it wasn’t just the sun. The other support was the one-hit-wonder-tastic 4 Non Blondes, who performed a bunch of forgettable songs then finished with What’s Up? Linda Perry has written some fantastic songs since then, including a bunch for Christina Aguilera, so I reckon it’s a shame that her own band couldn’t have come up with a few more memorable ones. Then came Prince. Over the years, I’ve kinda built this gig up in my head as an amazing spectacle, full of amazing moments. The first one was his entrance, when Prince was lowered on to the stage on a swing, wearing a black robe, his face shrouded by gold chains, performing My Name is Prince. There was another at the end of that song, as he drops the robe to reveal that it’s not him at all, but it’s actually his 18 year old girlfriend/dancer, who is now wearing just a pink bikini. (I also remember Mark C’s tongue hanging out at that particular moment as well). There was the stunning version of Little Red Corvette on the piano, and the crowd singing along during the 10 minute Purple Rain. I managed to find a bootleg recording of this show a couple of years ago, and gave it another listen recently. There were bits I’d completely forgotten about, like the bizarre Arabian section, and there were bits I remembered, like the funked up version of Kiss, and the amazing Purple Rain. | |
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unique said: muirdo said: I have a Drumstick that was caught by my sister in law from the Edinburgh gig.
I also remember Mayte fell on her arse when she jumped from the swing during the intro to the show i have a wrapper from a mars bar that michael b ate on that night that my mate gave me. it's not been verified by an independent adjudicator or rock n roll auctioneer, but my mate dave who sells the dvds at the car boot sales wouldn't make it up does anyone else have any other special mementos from that night? that's not very scottish tho..they should have been tucking in2 haggis & sipping on irn brus/ scotch on rocks.. do u really have the wrapper? i think you're kidding | |
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you will notice that any time you find a reference to TTF you will see the word "shite", as that last article proves | |
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SPOOKYGAS said: The memories.
[Edited 7/29/09 16:06pm] spill em! | |
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lottielooloo1968 said: unique said: i have a wrapper from a mars bar that michael b ate on that night that my mate gave me. it's not been verified by an independent adjudicator or rock n roll auctioneer, but my mate dave who sells the dvds at the car boot sales wouldn't make it up does anyone else have any other special mementos from that night? that's not very scottish tho..they should have been tucking in2 haggis & sipping on irn brus/ scotch on rocks.. do u really have the wrapper? i think you're kidding the mars bar was deep fried. you don't get any more scottish than that | |
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unique said: lottielooloo1968 said: scrumptious
he doesn't look as good as i do in tartan
i'm going to wear my tartan underpants at the boat party
perhaps we should all wear some tartan & get jimi love to wear a kilt | |
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unique said: you will notice that any time you find a reference to TTF you will see the word "shite", as that last article proves
i guess so! | |
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unique said: lottielooloo1968 said: that's not very scottish tho..they should have been tucking in2 haggis & sipping on irn brus/ scotch on rocks.. do u really have the wrapper? i think you're kidding the mars bar was deep fried. you don't get any more scottish than that i never had one, are they nice?.. | |
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unique said: rod stewart covered peach for his "human" album, i can't remember if it was on the album or not, it might have been pulled at last minute, but i think peach was on a cd single as a bonus track
TTF = the time frequency were a popular scottish rave act that were more used to playing raves like ressurrection or at calton studios. they had one big single called real love or something. they were the epitome of schemie/chav rave music. they didn't play live at gigs, they must performed to a dat, and the dat player didn't like the tape and stopped working mid song and they walked off. it was because they just turned up 20 minutes before and didn't test anything prince played celtic park in glasgow in 1992 and had shakespears sister (one of the girls from bananarama was in the band, and they had a hit single called stay or something), i'm fortunate in not remember what other crap we might have had to endure, but carmen cancelled her tour support after one or two gigs in london, so she wasn't there bands used to pay to be support acts for big gigs like this, so they would get exposure to the public, the money they paid helped cover the costs of putting on big gigs. the bands didn't get paid to play them. the prince related bands that played in later times might have been invited to play and got paid, but i don't suppose MIA, maya, etc got paid at the o2 as no-one knew they were going to play and no-one cared about them. common was good though, but i remember a girl asking me who he was, and said i must know a lot about music if i had heard of him. i suppose i did explain 15 years of history of common to her and tell her i saw him at paisley with prince, you do that at gigs to act cool to the chicks at big outdoor gigs they always have support acts as people are lining up for hours to get in at about 4pm then have to wait till about 8pm to 9pm for the main act to show, so with 15,000 people at meadowbank you need a support act to get people warmed up. and meadowbank is a shit place for gigs, and it's always raining in edinburgh, as it's the devils urinal, so you need plenty of beer and a good warmup band. i saw radiohead play there with beck as support a couple of years ago, and that was a really great show, and it actually stopped raining for a few minutes. a couple of days later i saw muse play a storming set there, but it pissed down like a fucking tropical storm by the end of it. luckily i don't live far from there. i lived just a few mins away when prince played, so i heard him soundcheck before the show
prince then came back to glasgow in 95 and did 2 nites at the SECC for the gold experience tour and did a cracking aftershow at the garage, one of the smallest venues i've ever seen prince, and i've seen him in a few really small places. the american idea of a small club gig is nothing like the uk idea, prince's american aftershows are in clubs i would normally describe as pretty big. the garage was a sweatbox and i swear twice as many people were crammed in than the place was suppose to hold. people were literally standing on chairs and tables just to survive. it was like the garbage disposal unit in star wars, and they played the leftfield album extremely loud over and over again for hours before he came onstage at 2.10am and played till 3am. i had a promo of the album and played it a lot before it came out so i was completely sick of it and have never played it since then after the last glasgow gigs in 95, prince did the remix of the good life with the lyric "good gig, yeah we know, we don't have to boast about the fact we put the O in show, 100 thousand nightly, we just got back from glasgow". that was one of my favourite remixes so apart from sheena easton, there is a link 2 rod stewart..i absolutely love 'peach' btw..damn good song, i'm not suprised rod swiped it..but not sure i'd wanna hear i'm suprised he had support acts, especially the lot u mention..i mean i thought he'd have more scruples & be more concerned about their credentials..keeping his street cred ahhh, this is why we love him love the info about the 'garage' gig.. in GLASGOW 
LMAO..i drove through there once with my car doors locked & windows wound up tight as u can get..shit, cashiers served from behind lock ups wow! maybe that's why prince wore the tartan, so he could look as hard as the locals? the good life remix lyrics very very cool | |
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lottielooloo1968 said: so apart from sheena easton, there is a link 2 rod stewart..i absolutely love 'peach' btw..damn good song, i'm not suprised rod swiped it..but not sure i'd wanna hear
i'm suprised he had support acts, especially the lot u mention..i mean i thought he'd have more scruples & be more concerned about their credentials..keeping his street cred ahhh, this is why we love him love the info about the 'garage' gig.. in GLASGOW
LMAO..i drove through there once with my car doors locked & windows wound up tight as u can get..shit, cashiers served from behind lock ups wow! maybe that's why prince wore the tartan, so he could look as hard as the locals? the good life remix lyrics very very cool that reminds me i have an FM recording i made back in about 1990 of sheena easton live on glasgow green where she was boo'd by the crowd. i think it was her first gig in scotland and probably britain since she left in the 80s to shag prince and appear in miami vice. she originally appeared on an x factor type show called opportunity knocks, which she won and went on to record "9 to 5" which was subtitled "morning train" so as not to get confused with the dolly parton song. there's a video of her recording the track and saying "my voice sounds terrible" floating about i'm not saying glasgow is that hard, but all the dogs carry flickknives there oh, and rod stewart isn't even scottish. he was born in london or something. the guy in charge of the country right now is scottish, and no-one even voted him in. that's typical scottish behavior | |
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I have this show on dvd somewhere Fuck the funk - it's time to ditch the worn-out Vegas horns fills, pick up the geee-tar and finally ROCK THE MUTHA-FUCKER!! He hinted at this on Chaos, now it's time to step up and fully DELIVER!!
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unique said: lottielooloo1968 said: so apart from sheena easton, there is a link 2 rod stewart..i absolutely love 'peach' btw..damn good song, i'm not suprised rod swiped it..but not sure i'd wanna hear
i'm suprised he had support acts, especially the lot u mention..i mean i thought he'd have more scruples & be more concerned about their credentials..keeping his street cred ahhh, this is why we love him love the info about the 'garage' gig.. in GLASGOW
LMAO..i drove through there once with my car doors locked & windows wound up tight as u can get..shit, cashiers served from behind lock ups wow! maybe that's why prince wore the tartan, so he could look as hard as the locals? the good life remix lyrics very very cool that reminds me i have an FM recording i made back in about 1990 of sheena easton live on glasgow green where she was boo'd by the crowd. i think it was her first gig in scotland and probably britain since she left in the 80s to shag prince and appear in miami vice. she originally appeared on an x factor type show called opportunity knocks, which she won and went on to record "9 to 5" which was subtitled "morning train" so as not to get confused with the dolly parton song. there's a video of her recording the track and saying "my voice sounds terrible" floating about i'm not saying glasgow is that hard, but all the dogs carry flickknives there oh, and rod stewart isn't even scottish. he was born in london or something. the guy in charge of the country right now is scottish, and no-one even voted him in. that's typical scottish behavior did she sing sugar walls? | |
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muirdo said: I have this show on dvd somewhere
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Anxiety said: Shorty said: it's just a plaid shirt.
it's more than just a plaid shirt. so. much. more. OK? how so? "not a fan" yeah...ok | |
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lottielooloo1968 said: Shorty said: it's just a plaid shirt.
but plaid is 4 grannies what? I ain't neva seen a grannie in plaid. I'm a sucker for plaid! I love it! I have to resist it or I will buy/wear too much of it. I'm no grannie either.
plaid couches  would love one!
plaid shoes! double
plaid shorts! 
Oh how I love PLAID! Now I must go buy me some plaid something!  "not a fan" yeah...ok | |
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thedance said: tartan tour! Lion -- Go Peter go!! | |
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thedance said: I was at the Tuesday gig with my sister who was heavily pregnant, and when they announced the aftershow at Study Bakers we were so tempted to go but imagine the chaos if her waters broke! lol! | |
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lottielooloo1968 said:
i never heard of TTF...i can't believe he had these other bands, must've been so frustrating 4 the crowd the beautiful ones.. u are clearly a person of good taste & this was your 1st post on the org?..
glad i could entice u out Yup, been here for a loooong time, but finally decided to break my duck! I was at the Parkhead gig the year before as well...Shakespear's Sister were the support. I had tickets to see them at Strathclyde University's Student Union a few weeks earlier but they cancelled due to illness at the last minute, They had been at No1 for a while around that time too, so I thought they were pretty good.They were the only support group. My ticket for the Parkhead gig was complimentary as I got it as compensation for the ticket I bought for the cancelled Blenheim Palace gig...Croke Park ain't the first time! Because it was free I decided to go to another gig on that tour, so I was at Maine Road stadium in Machester on the Friday, then Parkhead on the Sunday. The support at Maine Road was The Pasadenas, a sort of 60s soul revival type group. They had a surprising amount of popularity in the UK at the time. Couldn't understand it myself. The less said the better. I was at the 2 SECC gigs in Glasgow...the first night Mayte was supposed to pull her top off over her head and reveal a bikini...she accidentally whipped the bikini off with it and ran off stage! My girlfriend at the time was a bit shocked to read the review the next day in the Daily record which explained how Prince's dancer Mayte, did a seductive strip tease, peeling her bikini top off. It was no Janet at the Superbowl, as soon as it happened, she sprinted off the stage. There was no repeat the next night
I went to The Garage aftershow too...and it was packed to the rafters. I knew one of the barmen and he said they had all been searched going in and security were coming round regularly checking for recording devices. It was the busiest night he had ever seen.You could hardly breathe. The other thing I remember is the main gig finishing around 10:30-11:00pm and the aftershow being anounced onstage...so people went straight to the garage...no more than 10 minutes away. Althought it was March, it was snowing and it was freezing. We all had to stand queued outside from 11 until 1am in the snow, and most of the outfits people were wearing certainly weren't designed for that weather! Fantastic gig...I wish I had a bootleg of that one, I have all the other Scottish gigs but not that. I don't remember any of the songs too distinctly, but I just remember the bass and the energy thuumping throught he crowd. It was magic. I went to a couple of O2 aftershows and whilst they were great, you couldn't beat the atmosphere in a nightclub about a quarter the size of IndigO2 on a cold Scottish night | |
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