...besides the album cover of course.

thx ernest...

I think that picture of Prince on the "I hate U" single (he's wearing a white outfit wiht music notes on it and he's "hanging" by strings) best sums up TGE.

I'm pretty sure these are all gold experience...

insatiable3 said:

Not sure that picture is Gold, but rather D&P or

ernestsewell said:

lol yeah I wasn't sure just looking for what seemed to be right (I googled Gold experience and thats what came up) It does look like symbol era after you mentioned it and I looked back at it...

insatiable3 said:

Remember, he cut that hair down by the time Come, and The Beautiful Experience, and "Love Sign" had come out. It got shorter over the next couple of years and remained shorter in general until 1999 for Rave. It was still long from SOTT until 1993 or so.

ernestsewell said:

Both of yall are mislead..Neither GE, D&P or Symbol album...It's the Come era 1993

Rinluv said:

That is incorrect. In 1993, he was still on the Act I and Act II tour supporting the album. The tour ended in September 1993, and COME was released in the late summer of 1994 (August), almost a full year later. He was doing Paisley Park concerts after that, which is where The Beautiful Experience was filmed, in February 13, 1994, and his hair was a bit shorter for that.

He didn't tour again until the month of March 1995 for the Ultimate Live Experience. By then his hair was short.

So the picture is from the at the latest, more than likely.

ernestsewell said:

Yea Come was 1994, I meant it was the Come look.. The side burns and hair.

Rinluv said:

It does look like the "come" look it cracks me up I swear they finger waved those damn side burns (stylist lingo) for those who know it...LOL

Rinluv said:

I think the confusion comes (no pun intended) from the fact that on the album art for Come, his hair was this style. Now, it is true that by 1994 his hair was shorter, however, this was Prince in 1993....so were the photos for Come. More The Gold Experience era pics anyone?
[Edited 1/27/10 19:50pm]

insatiable3 said:

I meant to put 1994 in my first statement..scatch the 93...But it does look like 93 0r 94.

skywalker said:

Yea I said it was 1993 in my FIRST POST..with the COME ERA LOOK,

skywalker said:

Right, that hair with the finger waves was also the Love Symbol album, just a bit more wicked on the top, Also the Sacrifice of Victor(song) is from the 0-+> album but this look was more prominent during the 2nd half of the Act tour for the love symbol album.

the Come Album & the Vault album photo were similar/from the love symbol era

clothing style is similar between 0-+> & Come as well

ernestsewell said:

I believe it's the 0-+> era

I'm probably wrong on these pictures, so correct me if so

OldFriends4Sale said:

Actually,THESE are all Gold Experience era pictures.

Rinluv said:

You forget that as of very late 1993 or very early 1994, he was a "slave". There's no "slave" on his face in that one disputed picture. That alone puts the timing of it in 1993 or so on the Act I/Act II tour.

skywalker said:

Blimey that last one's er... Revealing...

insatiable3 said:

This one probably.

He didn't look that attractive during those days to be honest, but some of the photos are certainly interesting. It was basically his freakiest era lookwise. Some of the costumes from the D&P / -might have been wilder, but he just really seened to want to come off like he didn't care a shit about anyone's opinions during '93-'95.

The bigger, puffed up do and the curled sideburns (or what-the-hell-ever they were) he got sometime during the Act II tour, but he had the same thing also in the "Loose! / Papa" -video that was aired along with the rest of the videos / live performances that constituted "The Beautiful Experience" TV-special. He already had the shorter hair in the TMBGITW video.

novabrkr said:

Really? I loved this look alot; moreso than I loved his more-adored looks, like PR era.

well i know 1 thing

you can't have ANY Gold pic without being Mayte in it-it just wouldn't be right

for me



mystery, lovely, dark

polkadotbliss said:

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It's from Emancipation/New power soul era

ernestsewell said:

Ernestsewell is right. That pic is from the 93 tour, not sure if Act I or II since the look was the same. The pics from the Sacrifice of Victor book were taken on the European leg of the tour, which the cover of Come was take from. He cut his hair short in November 93 and got rid of the sideburns.

OldFriends4Sale said:

Sorry to be pedantic but these pics are from the opening night of the Act 2 tour at the Birmingham NIA,UK. 1993

Acrylic said:

He looked just fine to me personally, of course. I absolutely adored that guy at the time and that's one of my favourite periods of his. But I can see in retrospect why people were calling him ugly during that time. That's what I heard other teenagers saying in '94-'95 where I used to live, "Prince is ugly and cannot sing." I used to hear that a lot. Of course, he was simply just out of this world with the TMBGITW video and the single release, and really stood out from the rest of the flock at that time. You should also bear in mind that at least in the European pop charts at that time, falsetto singing was something many people hadn't even really heard. No one dressed up like he did during that time, as young people were still walking around in flannel shirts or whatever.