I finally got my hands on the entire tour, and watched the whole thing. All I've got to say is W.O.W.

Now, after my boyfriend and I went to go see him this past December at MSG, I was completely content. I told myself I didn't have to attend another concert for as long as I lived because I had FINALLY seen Prince. But after watching the LoveSexy tour I almost feel cheated...damn. Why couldn't I have been a young adult in the '80s.

I haven't had a crush on Prince since I was 10 years old (I know, that sounds funny and wrong but what can I say, people...). When I watched this tour I was simply starstruck. The man looked good. Long hair, earrings, ugh. Fire.

Some people say they don't really enjoy the LoveSexy/SOTT tours because they're too "over-produced" and such, which I can get. But I really love all the energy, the dancing, the lights... combined with the music? Forget about it. Hands down, the most amazing tour I've ever watched.

Everyone was great, especially Sheila E. and Cat and Bonnie. I know Bonnie didn't have a lot of big parts but when she sang she really belted it. The ladies were gorgeous and really gave it their all. And Prince, well.... hehe. What else would you expect?

Anyway I really needed to get this off my chest, and where else is a better place to do so? Who else really loved the LoveSexy tour? What were your favourite parts?

I need to get a hold of the SOTT tour, hopefully I'll be able to find it somewhere. I've seen parts of it but I'd like to see the whole thing, as well as Parade and ONA.

stevierae said:

I finally got my hands on the entire tour, and watched the whole thing. All I've got to say is W.O.W.

Now, after my boyfriend and I went to go see him this past December at MSG, I was completely content. I told myself I didn't have to attend another concert for as long as I lived because I had FINALLY seen Prince. But after watching the LoveSexy tour I almost feel cheated...damn. Why couldn't I have been a young adult in the '80s.

I haven't had a crush on Prince since I was 10 years old (I know, that sounds funny and wrong but what can I say, people...). When I watched this tour I was simply starstruck. The man looked good. Long hair, earrings, ugh. Fire.

Some people say they don't really enjoy the LoveSexy/SOTT tours because they're too "over-produced" and such, which I can get. But I really love all the energy, the dancing, the lights... combined with the music? Forget about it. Hands down, the most amazing tour I've ever watched.

Everyone was great, especially Sheila E. and Cat and Bonnie. I know Bonnie didn't have a lot of big parts but when she sang she really belted it. The ladies were gorgeous and really gave it their all. And Prince, well.... hehe. What else would you expect?

Anyway I really needed to get this off my chest, and where else is a better place to do so? Who else really loved the LoveSexy tour? What were your favourite parts?

I need to get a hold of the SOTT tour, hopefully I'll be able to find it somewhere. I've seen parts of it but I'd like to see the whole thing, as well as Parade and ONA.

One of my favorite eras too, magical.

Have you heard any of the shows or aftershows?

SOTT/Lovesexy era will always be a bittersweet one for me

i'd even anything for someone to invent a time machine so i can go back to see the lovesexy tour. i got a dvd of the dortmund show. anna stestia with the piano raising up high floors me everytime

Be glad the footage exists, and you managed to see the man in concert. Prince's career has been documented on camera since the first album, so we're fortunate when we get to see it somehow, and hope that there's more.

I don't think he's ready to mine the vaults and have Ken Burns do his life story just yet, or "American Masters" (maybe with Tavis Smiley's help and narration?) , but that doesn't mean we can't ask them to look into putting something together. It's prob. going to be when he focuses more on legacy and less on creating new music. We might have to wait another 30 years though.

luckly i'm still young and will be hear in 30 yrs to witness that...oh all the greatness and unreleased potential awesomeness...shudders at thought

stevierae said:

I finally got my hands on the entire tour, and watched the whole thing. All I've got to say is W.O.W.

Now, after my boyfriend and I went to go see him this past December at MSG, I was completely content. I told myself I didn't have to attend another concert for as long as I lived because I had FINALLY seen Prince. But after watching the LoveSexy tour I almost feel cheated...damn. Why couldn't I have been a young adult in the '80s.

I haven't had a crush on Prince since I was 10 years old (I know, that sounds funny and wrong but what can I say, people...). When I watched this tour I was simply starstruck. The man looked good. Long hair, earrings, ugh. Fire.

Some people say they don't really enjoy the LoveSexy/SOTT tours because they're too "over-produced" and such, which I can get. But I really love all the energy, the dancing, the lights... combined with the music? Forget about it. Hands down, the most amazing tour I've ever watched.

Everyone was great, especially Sheila E. and Cat and Bonnie. I know Bonnie didn't have a lot of big parts but when she sang she really belted it. The ladies were gorgeous and really gave it their all. And Prince, well.... hehe. What else would you expect?

Anyway I really needed to get this off my chest, and where else is a better place to do so? Who else really loved the LoveSexy tour? What were your favourite parts?

I need to get a hold of the SOTT tour, hopefully I'll be able to find it somewhere. I've seen parts of it but I'd like to see the whole thing, as well as Parade and ONA.

Oddly,that was my first Prince concert....

I have the dortmund show. Love it ,love, it, love it....Love the outfits, love the crew....Cat, Sheila e.tc...My fav parts were the Annastesia performance..I am yet to see a more moving and powerful performance of that song from him and the Piano medley of When 2 r in love, Starfish and Coffee, Raspberry beret, Condition of the Heart and Strange Relationship. How cute was he in that long fitted and flared out embroided coat?

I was in total awe when I first saw it. One of my favourite tours for sure.

lavender1983 said:

I have the dortmund show. Love it ,love, it, love it....Love the outfits, love the crew....Cat, Sheila e.tc...My fav parts were the Annastesia performance..I am yet to see a more moving and powerful performance of that song from him and the Piano medley of When 2 r in love, Starfish and Coffee, Raspberry beret, Condition of the Heart and Strange Relationship. How cute was he in that long fitted and flared out embroided coat?

I was in total awe when I first saw it. One of my favourite tours for sure.

@dalsh: 30 YEARS, lord have mercy. ): I'll be just about my mama's age... and Prince's age, hahah! And still lustin' over him. Him in his younger years, anyway.

The Dortmund show is what I've got too, the 2 hour long footage... is there more from LoveSexy that isn't shown there? If so, any idea where I could find it without pirating it of course?

@NevermindAlexzander: WOW you lucky dog, you... I'm jealous! It must have been one hell of a time that's for sure!

November 11,1988---I saw the Lovesexy Show in Oakland,California It was truly the most amazing concert I ever went to.

stevierae said:

@NevermindAlexzander: WOW you lucky dog, you... I'm jealous! It must have been one hell of a time that's for sure!

Yup...

My girlfriend at the time (now wife) got the tickets as a

You can buy the Sign"O" the times DVD through Amazon Canada. It has the best released version on DVD.

P.S. My favorite Prince tour is Lovesexy.

kewlschool said:

You can buy the Sign"O" the times DVD through Amazon Canada. It has the best released version on DVD.

Here's the link

Worth every penny

http://www.amazon.ca/Prin...amp;sr=1-1

Lovesexy Live =

What gets me everytime is how he ever could have broken up the SOTT band. I don't call them the "Lovesexy" band as they were formed during SOTT, and partly on Parade. If he had kept this band together, and avoided adding Tony M, his career could've gone who knows where...Too bad Prince, you blew it! Instead of firing everybody...he should've brought Wendy and Lisa back and had them be more in the background on stage, but given them major co-writing and co-producing for studio work..or at least some type of creative help.

Whenever I think of this stuff....it's kind of like thinking...now if only that pretty girl in my freshman English class had paid attention to me....lol

Are you talking about the Dortmund show or the entire tour? Because if the entire tour is out there somebody please email me the info!

The piano medley, I wish U heaven,The Cross and the beginning of the second part( :i:know/Lovesexy/Glam Slam)

are among my fav's.

I had the tour on VHS and audio tape, these days I have both on DVD and CD.

The past 20 years I listened more 2 the songs I mentioned than any regular Prince album...the groove and the energy from those songs are great....Loooovesexy......boom!!

NevermindAlexzander said:

stevierae said:

I finally got my hands on the entire tour, and watched the whole thing. All I've got to say is W.O.W.

Now, after my boyfriend and I went to go see him this past December at MSG, I was completely content. I told myself I didn't have to attend another concert for as long as I lived because I had FINALLY seen Prince. But after watching the LoveSexy tour I almost feel cheated...damn. Why couldn't I have been a young adult in the '80s.

I haven't had a crush on Prince since I was 10 years old (I know, that sounds funny and wrong but what can I say, people...). When I watched this tour I was simply starstruck. The man looked good. Long hair, earrings, ugh. Fire.

Some people say they don't really enjoy the LoveSexy/SOTT tours because they're too "over-produced" and such, which I can get. But I really love all the energy, the dancing, the lights... combined with the music? Forget about it. Hands down, the most amazing tour I've ever watched.

Everyone was great, especially Sheila E. and Cat and Bonnie. I know Bonnie didn't have a lot of big parts but when she sang she really belted it. The ladies were gorgeous and really gave it their all. And Prince, well.... hehe. What else would you expect?

Anyway I really needed to get this off my chest, and where else is a better place to do so? Who else really loved the LoveSexy tour? What were your favourite parts?

I need to get a hold of the SOTT tour, hopefully I'll be able to find it somewhere. I've seen parts of it but I'd like to see the whole thing, as well as Parade and ONA.

Oddly,that was my first Prince concert....

Mine too

stillwaiting said:

What gets me everytime is how he ever could have broken up the SOTT band. I don't call them the "Lovesexy" band as they were formed during SOTT, and partly on Parade. If he had kept this band together, and avoided adding Tony M, his career could've gone who knows where...Too bad Prince, you blew it! Instead of firing everybody...he should've brought Wendy and Lisa back and had them be more in the background on stage, but given them major co-writing and co-producing for studio work..or at least some type of creative help.

Whenever I think of this stuff....it's kind of like thinking...now if only that pretty girl in my freshman English class had paid attention to me....lol

I know what you mean...

What happened to Atlanta Bliss & Eric Leeds after Lovesexy?

Sheila E had to have back surgery and at some point a lung collapsed

Cat... left for Europe having Stars in her eyes or maybe the Graffiti Bridge concept was a bit embarrasing...

Brooks & Wally couldn't pay them anymore

Boni... wanted to get her solo career going, and I don't know how her relationship with Prince sped that up, as well as she was there being drafted from Sheila's band

I think as bad as it was, Graffiti Bridge would have been better if the SOTT band was in there

That was truly his best band,imo.I was kinda sad when the Lovesexy tour ended and they all went their own way.

my favorite tour that I attended TWICE.

September 14, 1988 at the Met Center in Minneapolis. AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING show. An unforgettable day for me.

stevierae said:

I finally got my hands on the entire tour, and watched the whole thing.

What do you mean you 'watched the entire tour'?

Apart from Dortmund, there are barely 4 or 5 bootleg DVDs circulating of this tour (vs. more than 100 audio releases).

I don't get it.

vitriol said:

stevierae said:

I finally got my hands on the entire tour, and watched the whole thing.

What do you mean you 'watched the entire tour'?

Apart from Dortmund, there are barely 4 or 5 bootleg DVDs circulating of this tour (vs. more than 100 audio releases).

I don't get it.

They mean a LS tour show. Context clues, babe.

mynameisnotsusan said:

Lovesexy Live =

Lovesexy live =

Spinlight said:

They mean a LS tour show. Context clues, babe.

'Entire tour' is one show?

Well, I still don't get it.

OldFriends4Sale said:

Sheila E had to have back surgery and at some point a lung collapsed

It was about two years after the tour ended (and well after she was away from Prince's camp) that Sheila's lung collapsed.

stillwaiting said:

What gets me everytime is how he ever could have broken up the SOTT band. I don't call them the "Lovesexy" band as they were formed during SOTT, and partly on Parade. If he had kept this band together, and avoided adding Tony M, his career could've gone who knows where...Too bad Prince, you blew it! Instead of firing everybody...he should've brought Wendy and Lisa back and had them be more in the background on stage, but given them major co-writing and co-producing for studio work..or at least some type of creative help.

Whenever I think of this stuff....it's kind of like thinking...now if only that pretty girl in my freshman English class had paid attention to me....lol

Diamonds and Pearls has sold almost more than SOTT and Lovesexy combined. Definitely more than each individually, so Prince would probably beg to differ that point.