Oh, I LOVE this performance! This is y I wanted 2 b an artist! This is tha best Grammy performance I've seen or at least in my top 3, hands down! GREAT PERFORMANCE!

PatricioRey said:

I feel ya

Gohi said:

Hey I'm a teenager who would give their left arm to live through the 70s and 80s. i have freakin jelousy over "old" people whose been able to enjoy these expierences first hand. The music now IS crap

JesusFreak said:

...and OLD people have a freakin jealousy over YOU being young & immortal, lol. Enjoy being a teenager, you will be "old" soon enough... TRUST!

But I know the feeling you're experiencing. When I was a kid, if ONE MORE ADULT said to my friends and I: "Enjoy it while you're young", I swear - I think our heads would have exploded. We WERE enjoying it, we were just tired of hearing it, lol.

I had a Biology teacher in the 10th grade, Mrs. Bumgarner, that kept a sign over her door that read: "These ARE the good old days", and we used to make fun of that sign everyday and sarcastically smirk... "Yeah Right!". But NOW, decades later when I think back to that sign... GUESS WHAT?!?

To put things in perspective: Music ALWAYS sounds better when you have memories to associate it with. Memories take time to develop. Trust me, there will be a certain number of today's songs that you feel SUCK now, that will bring a nostalgic tear to your eye when you hear them 25 years from now. Oh yeah, it'll happen, lol.

Enjoy your teenage years: Play safe - Live long and prosper!

Great performance!!!

... hits his head on the mic in the beginning... but that doesn't stop Princie!

I didn't think it was perfect. Prince hit himself in the face with the microphone and Wendy f'ed up the choreography.

Mars23 said:

Is it technically a bootleg since it aired on television?
It's not like it was taped without Prince's knowledge.
Clarification please?

Isn't it funny how that great performance didn't make Grammy's all the time top performances list? Conspiracy.

PDogz said:

never heard it put that way, but it all makes sense.. thanks for the insight!

The "Purple Rain," tour was fantastic. The concert was so brilliant and at the top of concert class. 1985 brings a smile to my face.

alexnvrmnd777 said:

Ahhh, another post where someone thinks a 51 year old man should be able to dance like he was 25. If you can't enjoy watching Prince's expressions, guitar playing, keyboards, drums, etc., then stay home and leave your seat for someone who appreciates the talent in whatever form he brings it.
[Edited 8/25/09 18:57pm]

Serena said:

Preach it! Preach!!! I'll take your seats at the next show.

HonestMan13 said:

To clarify.

If the question was "how can I travel back to 1985 and tune into the Grammy Awards on tv to view Prince" that would be OK.

Since it is not available on TV in 2009, not on an official release, youtube Prince vids are not allowed on the org, and requesting unofficial recordings is not allowed, it's really already pretty clear.

depends upon how you interpret the question, i s'pose
cbs may have it in their online archives...

PatricioRey said:

i know me too! please allow us to see all your concerts Prince please??? for PurpleyDiamond??

Not to diss this performance but I much rather watch his more recent tv appearances. Like Leno, SNL, Superbowl, Brits. To me those are so much better....
But than again. I never was a fan because of the dancing.....

L4OATheOriginal said:

I wanted to see if anybody was going to mention that part. Yeah, I saw this when it aired on Feb 26, 1985. Just a few days after I saw him for the second time at The Forum in L.A. on the Purple Rain tour. The Grammys that year were at The Shrine Auditorium, also out here in L.A. It was a great performance, even the part when the mic popped him in the mouth. Hard.... But P being the true pro that he is, didn't miss a beat. He got that ruffled sleeve loose from that gawt damn mic stand and kept on steppin'. I always prefered P at the AMA, almost exactly a month earlier, on Jan 28, 85 when he totally turned it out performing Purple Rain. To me, THAT'S his best television performance ever. But yeah, this one at The Grammys too was good. I also liked when Wendy's father, Mike Melvoin, introduced the band...That cat was besides himself with joy and pride.
[Edited 8/26/09 0:34am]

Mars23 said:

Ok but I just thought a programme is a programme. Nobody is earning money from it now. People post Youtube here all the time. I'm a big respecter of not downloading things for free-never even thought this would be on a banned list. I wish I had other ORG's ability to search the web-I never find anything people talk about on here

Gohi said:

Bitter much?
Seriously we aren't getting any younger and Prince is old (wake up he is 50!). And yet judging by your post (Im guessing you're young by your comment alone) your on a site who the artist is 50 the irony of it all

So in all fairness it would not be fair to say the opposite word of "old" correct?

What some don't understand or don't "get" is that us "old"er ones was there that time when he was big and MTV was a ONLY music channel not this reality BS that is on now. THAT was music AND Prince as the poster stated. Let's see you at 50 60 or 70 jump on top of a speaker and not break YOUR hip.

PDogz said:

Good post. Just think, in a few decades people will sit there and sob over the fact that "it ain't like it used to be, like in the good ol' days when you could still hear artists like Lil' Wayne and Lady Gaga being played... And ohhh, I miss the days when Prince could deliver an album like Planet Earth. His new music sucks! "

VenusBlingBling said:

I strongly believe THAT day will come. And who knows WHAT in the Hell they'll be playing on the radio by that time, if there is even such a thing as radio by then, lol

jcurley said:

The good news is that it seems you now have a good incentive to learn how.

madison said:

I agree with Madison . . and I want to see this really bad.

Hahahaha, I love when people are out of touch. There is plenty of fucking amazing music being made today, you guys just don't know who's making it.

Although popular music is much worse than it used to be thanks to Clear Channel, there are still plenty of great bands out there nowadays. Music is just as "real" now as it was then, you're all just glamorizing a period that either:

a) you were never there for
or
b) reminds you of when you were young and nostalgia clouds your logic.

I am on here because Prince has created some of the best music I have ever heard. I am also on other CURRENT bands' websites for the very same reason. You all are blissfully unaware of what great music is out there right now and that's okay... but don't try to say that music now is somehow "worse" than it was 20 years ago because that is a terribly ignorant generalization and makes you look like a know-it-all.

never seen this

Gohi said:

...also, I'm amazed at how so many people get locked into only one genre, then discount anything that falls outside that genre as worthless. Every day I hear music that I have never heard before, some of which was even made years ago. Then there's tons of great new music that comes out every week. Those glorious Old School Jams from back in the day that we all hold in such high regard make up about 20-30% of what I listen to on any given day.

Respectfully I would suggest; that people who are discontent with the current music that is available today, are in actuality discontent with the current dynamics of their own personal situations (...AND romanticizing the past - which is always very easy to do).

Id say -

1983 First Ave - first time for Purple Rain material - "eletric intercouse"
Super Bowl in the rain!
Rock Hall - WMGGW
1983 Practice footage - green tint. omg omg fucking g.

purplecam said:

Even with the early mistakes with him knocking the mic down and hitting himself in the face was quickly 4gotten. He totally was turned up and on high watt speed during this per4mance all the things he fit in that short little segment was amazing. Kind of like the NAACP 2005 per4mance... U were left scratching ur head saying what did i just c? At the end of it.....

purplecam said:

I saw that Baby/* performance live (on TV) when it happened and loved how he ripped his shirt off and ran up center isle... That was the stuff, and John Denver was so befuddled when they came back from commercial... TOTALLY CLASSIC!

iGene said:

i wondered that as well cause they listed the one with beyotcha