My husband said he just read on a regular news site that prince canceled the show because of Respect to Bobby Z?????????????????????????????????

EyeJester7 said:

This is not Prince's fault, it is the organizors who did a terrible job in the set of this. I am sad that this has happen! (In my city! I was right there when they told me it was cancelled! It sucks so badly I am glad the director said that their expenses related to this situation will be fully reimbursed. BUT I also hope Prince and Erkah are able to re-schedule something so those who expected to go to this concert will be given the experince. This event is for a good cause

Eye NO something will be said about this! HOPEFULLY, This controversy can be resolved by a statement from Prince's team. I am sure he is highly disappointed this had to go down like this..I AM TOO! I expected it to be great! But somehow I feel it will be resolved in the near future!

it's time for them to do the work! The Work Pt. Superbowl! lol

One way to soothe some of the hard feelings might be to invite the scholarship recipients to perform at a future show, or maybe jam with him at Paisley Park. If anyone deserves sympathy,the young scholarship winners who thought they would be opening for Prince certainly do:

http://blogs.dallasobserv..._after.php

I don't think Prince is obligated to do anything here, but this fiasco doesn't help his image. I applaud his efforts to recognize various charities in New York at his upcoming show there, assuming he can get back from Dallas in time.

[Edited 2/5/11 19:40pm]

Orionforever said:

My husband said he just read on a regular news site that prince canceled the show because of Respect to Bobby Z?????????????????????????????????

stop playing

EyeJester7 said:

This is not Prince's fault, it is the organizors who did a terrible job in the set of this. I am sad that this has happen! (In my city! I was right there when they told me it was cancelled! It sucks so badly I am glad the director said that their expenses related to this situation will be fully reimbursed. BUT I also hope Prince and Erkah are able to re-schedule something so those who expected to go to this concert will be given the experince. This event is for a good cause

Eye [red]NO[/red] something will be said about this! HOPEFULLY, This controversy can be resolved by a statement from Prince's team. I am sure he is highly disappointed this had to go down like this..I AM TOO! I expected it to be great! But somehow I feel it will be resolved in the near future!

it's time for them to do the work! The Work Pt. Superbowl! lol

c'mon bro...it's "know," not "no."

Orionforever said:

My husband said he just read on a regular news site that prince canceled the show because of Respect to Bobby Z?????????????????????????????????

what kind of sense does that make?

This is almost as bad as missing the we are the world sessions. Another PR nightmare. Don't expect the next album to be any good. Why does he get himself in these situations? Like I understand if he is expecting certain things, but he does not communicate well with the public to give those reasons, thus he looks like an ass.

EyeJester7 said:

This is not Prince's fault, it is the organizors who did a terrible job in the set of this. I am sad that this has happen! (In my city! I was right there when they told me it was cancelled! It sucks so badly I am glad the director said that their expenses related to this situation will be fully reimbursed. BUT I also hope Prince and Erkah are able to re-schedule something so those who expected to go to this concert will be given the experince. This event is for a good cause

Eye [colo=red]NO[/color] something will be said about this! HOPEFULLY, This controversy can be resolved by a statement from Prince's team. I am sure he is highly disappointed this had to go down like this..I AM TOO! I expected it to be great! But somehow I feel it will be resolved in the near future!

it's time for them to do the work! The Work Pt. Superbowl! lol

c'mon bro...it's "know," not "no."

btw...what handle do U usually use on here. I SERIOUSLY doubt that U actually have only one response in these fourms.

Spinlight said:

sweething said:

My comments (speculation) were in response to the original nay-sayers who simply wanted to blame Prince.

However I'd say I was spot on from the article you chose to use as factual information -- the investors pulled out, the orgainzers couldn't pay Prince. All of that should have been past-done long before the day of/before the show. The group didn't have its stuff together, its obvious.

Don't be mad because this time you cant berate Prince.

p.s. I still love and have compassion for you though.

x

[Edited 2/5/11 9:41am]

What is your unhealthy obsession with Prince about? Seriously. I don't understand what you stand to lose by someone on the internet speculating. It's odd to me that people feel the need to defend Prince in his absence.

MY UNHEALTHY OBSESSION, Dude or Dudette, YOU are on EVERY THREAD, EVERY DAY, several times. I'd say YOU have an unhealthy obsession with Prince. You have tried to attack just about everyone woman on this site, each time they express THEIR opionion if it happens to support Prince.

My opinion was based on what was said, reported and my observations over the last month about that event. It just so happens that I wasn't too far off (at least as far as we know know).

If you wish to spend your life on a website devoted to a musician and spew hatred, that's on you. I chose to appreciate the man and his music for what I see, period. When I don't feel like being with this Prince nonsense, you don't see me here.

What is your problem? Get a life.

prince is a brilliant/genius musician,composer,artist and entertainment god;he is not a dam event planner or organizer so,it surely is not his fault.have some respect for a man who changed the music world...freaking broke haters

Don't forget to takes your MEDS. honey!

sweething said:

Spinlight said:

What is your unhealthy obsession with Prince about? Seriously. I don't understand what you stand to lose by someone on the internet speculating. It's odd to me that people feel the need to defend Prince in his absence.

MY UNHEALTHY OBSESSION, Dude or Dudette, YOU are on EVERY THREAD, EVERY DAY, several times. I'd say YOU have an unhealthy obsession with Prince. You have tried to attack just about everyone woman on this site, each time they express THEIR opionion if it happens to support Prince.

My opinion was based on what was said, reported and my observations over the last month about that event. It just so happens that I wasn't too far off (at least as far as we know know).

If you wish to spend your life on a website devoted to a musician and spew hatred, that's on you. I chose to appreciate the man and his music for what I see, period. When I don't feel like being with this Prince nonsense, you don't see me here.

What is your problem? Get a life.

exactly, i completely agree with u! Almost every fight i see on here is caused by him, im sorry he is wasting ur time like this.... definitely not worth it

yes, of course it was.

Orionforever said:

My husband said he just read on a regular news site that prince canceled the show because of Respect to Bobby Z?????????????????????????????????

I would sure hope thats the reason

HonEMan said:

Okay, so maybe this was asked already, but why would someone cancel for not getting paid if it's all about CHARITY??!!

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[Edited 2/5/11 19:29pm]

The exact first thing that came to my mind. This was all supposed to be about charity.

muskiediver said:

This is almost as bad as missing the we are the world sessions. Another PR nightmare. Don't expect the next album to be any good. Why does he get himself in these situations? Like I understand if he is expecting certain things, but he does not communicate well with the public to give those reasons, thus he looks like an ass.

QuasarOfRock said:

murph said:

When the light team for the concert refused to work because they didn't get paid, , it's hard to blame Prince in this instance...I know dude has a rep at times, but i think we are all smart enough to see what happened in this particular case...

Again, if he had business people handling his affairs, it wouldn't have gotten to this point. Someone would have made sure this was handled before the day of the event.

Right On!

QuasarOfRock said:

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

You know you can't expect a superstar of Prince's caliber to be bothered with having business people that would have made sure this stuff was handled properly. What's wrong with you?

Right?

I appreciate his need to work outside of the system or create a new system or whatever, but if he's going to do that he should at least make sure his system works and he's covering all his bases.

More times than not, it does just reflect badly on him.

Again, this may or may not be his fault, but it is yet another fuck up with his name attached.

Ain't that The Truth!

P Monday night at MSG 2/7/11:

Hey yaw, That BS that went down in Texas Friday night, didn't have nothing to do with me, them brothers didn't have their stuff together so I had to Bounce up out of there!!! Now lets Jam! ooooaaaawwwahhh

And look no curse words!

[Edited 2/6/11 0:37am]

errant said:

the words "Prince" and "cluster fuck" go hand in hand. and I don't even think it was his fault this time.

on the other hand, it would be really cool if he could get some decent, official management to nail down these kinds of details, especially his bread and butter of live performance, instead of people showing up to a VERY expensive show, only to be told at the door that it's been cancelled.

again, i don't think it's his fault. but it is his name on the marquee, and it can't be helped that the negative attention in the press and by the concertgoers is going to be in his direction. thankfully it seems he's getting a pass on this one, since it wasn't his fault. however, he really ought to have someone in his employ that can get their hands around this kind of thing and make it work.

It's Prince's fault that he doesn't have proper management.

It's Prince's fault that he let his name be connected to an event that seems to have been a clusterfuck from day one.

It's Prince's fault that he only backed out of it mere hours before it was supposed to happen.

(Oh, and I'm sick of millionaire popstars playing expensive concerts so they can pretend to be generous and charitable. How about you pump some of your own money into it? And no, giving up your fee isn't good enough.)

I wonder does Prince's people have know how to squash articles (webpage malfunction), because it sure seems funny that on Yahoo! web page every other article I pull up loads fine in the browser to read, but if you try to click on "Prince's Dallas Show Canceled" it will not pull up ....hhhhmmmm...

Anybody got a idea on the above paragraph???

[Edited 2/6/11 10:42am]

purplerain14 said:

sweething said:

MY UNHEALTHY OBSESSION, Dude or Dudette, YOU are on EVERY THREAD, EVERY DAY, several times. I'd say YOU have an unhealthy obsession with Prince. You have tried to attack just about everyone woman on this site, each time they express THEIR opionion if it happens to support Prince.

My opinion was based on what was said, reported and my observations over the last month about that event. It just so happens that I wasn't too far off (at least as far as we know know).

If you wish to spend your life on a website devoted to a musician and spew hatred, that's on you. I chose to appreciate the man and his music for what I see, period. When I don't feel like being with this Prince nonsense, you don't see me here.

What is your problem? Get a life.

exactly, i completely agree with u! Almost every fight i see on here is caused by him, im sorry he is wasting ur time like this.... definitely not worth it

You would do well to cut out your piggy back drama, kiddo.

@sweetthing: Are you crushing on me? Why do you know my posting habits? Stop stalking me.

omg what a nightmare! major cock up.. shit 4 everyone involved. i think all things considered, prince could have done some sort of deal since he was right there on the doorstep... he could have done half a concert 4 half the money or sommink set up like a stripped back band with a devil may care attitude, done accoustic, give those fans something

the organisers must have been amateurs & prince's people need a fucking good slap.

sounds a bit dodgy to me if prince wanted to do something hed do it its not like he has no money, he could make anything happen especially seeing as its for charity

Spinlight said:

purplerain14 said:

exactly, i completely agree with u! Almost every fight i see on here is caused by him, im sorry he is wasting ur time like this.... definitely not worth it

You would do well to cut out your piggy back drama, kiddo.

@sweetthing: Are you crushing on me? Why do you know my posting habits? Stop stalking me.

Sweetthing knows about your posting habits like the rest of us do.

Come on Spinlight. Just come out of the closet and admit that you're Ernest.

As for the cancellation. Bummer for those who travelled. I wouldn't work if I wasn't being paid either. It's the same for sound engineers, and Prince. Strange though that this whole thing happens.

QuasarOfRock said:

murph said:

When the light team for the concert refused to work because they didn't get paid, , it's hard to blame Prince in this instance...I know dude has a rep at times, but i think we are all smart enough to see what happened in this particular case...

Again, if he had business people handling his affairs, it wouldn't have gotten to this point. Someone would have made sure this was handled before the day of the event.

What does Prince's business people have to do with an organization that couldn't pay it's employees? Again, taking such a simplistic take on this is silly...In the past, Prince has indeed fucked up in some of these instances (Croake Parks *sp* comes to mind)....But this one aint the case...By a long shot..

What you don't seem to understand is Prince, just like security, Badu, the union workers, and the light people, was hired by the organization to be a part of the show...And when the money became shakey, there was no show....This is business 101...

Some people seem to be going at Prince because of his past issues...I'm sorry...But I don't care about such things...I just look at the facts that are presented to me...

[Edited 2/6/11 7:05am]

Spinlight said:

sweething said:

My comments (speculation) were in response to the original nay-sayers who simply wanted to blame Prince.

However I'd say I was spot on from the article you chose to use as factual information -- the investors pulled out, the orgainzers couldn't pay Prince. All of that should have been past-done long before the day of/before the show. The group didn't have its stuff together, its obvious.

Don't be mad because this time you cant berate Prince.

p.s. I still love and have compassion for you though.

x

[Edited 2/5/11 9:41am]

What is your unhealthy obsession with Prince about? Seriously. I don't understand what you stand to lose by someone on the internet speculating. It's odd to me that people feel the need to defend Prince in his absence.

People defending Prince ON A PRINCE FANSITE.....well i never!!! shocking is'nt it?

Smooth, Princey, real smooth.

Keep the backlash going, it might result in another new track put out on some obscure radio station

It never fails, never. Prince has a flair for creating or being indirectly involved in PR disasters. But whomever is responsible for this fiasco should gain employment as his next webmaster.

http://www.nypost.com/p/p...iUXPdZggjP