Chas said:

irinact said:

as a matter of fact, yes, he does use it that way, so that way is faster to read and fits more text in the screen. He even uses the "eye sign" instead of an "I" in his telepromters.

Here the close-up of one of the photo I took on 2/07, I cropped it so u can see.

Every newscaster in the world uses one, every orchestra in the world has the music in front of them. Would you go up to the musicians at the local philharmonic and say, "What kinda musicians are you? You can't play without the music in front of you?" or ask Tom Brokaw, "why didn't you memorize all your news stories? What kind of journalist are you?"

It has nothing to do with him being old or forgetting the lyrics. It has to do with keeping his place in the song. In addition to being the singer, he's also the guitarist and band leader. While he's remembering dance steps, which notes to play, what city he's in, where the edge of the huge shaped stage is, and what song comes next, he also has to remember the words to about 100 songs, and where he is in that song. Am I on verse one or verse two? Is this the 3rd or the 2nd chorus? And most of those 100 songs are different than the 100 songs he had prepared for the last tour.

Like someone else said, if he did the same setlist every night with the same arrangements, same solos, etc. Then he might not need one, but then people would bitch about that too. He probably wouldn't need a prompter if he did those medleys, since they're just the first verse and the chorus. But everyone bitched about those too. So give the guy a break, he's just trying to make the show run smooth.

I do think it's ridiculous he has the instead of the letter I.

My $0.02

Chas

Um, the news changes every day, Prince's lyrics don't, so you're going to have to use a better analogy and argument than that!!

Everyone does it, but the signs and spelling really crank me up.

Love it !

Eh. Who cares? He's not a robot, he's a human being and human beings lose their place ocassionally, the mind goes blank suddenly, stuff like that. His being up there on the stage is all that matters to me.

That photo is fantastic, btw.

alexnvrmnd777 said:

Chas said:

Every newscaster in the world uses one, every orchestra in the world has the music in front of them. Would you go up to the musicians at the local philharmonic and say, "What kinda musicians are you? You can't play without the music in front of you?" or ask Tom Brokaw, "why didn't you memorize all your news stories? What kind of journalist are you?"

It has nothing to do with him being old or forgetting the lyrics. It has to do with keeping his place in the song. In addition to being the singer, he's also the guitarist and band leader. While he's remembering dance steps, which notes to play, what city he's in, where the edge of the huge shaped stage is, and what song comes next, he also has to remember the words to about 100 songs, and where he is in that song. Am I on verse one or verse two? Is this the 3rd or the 2nd chorus? And most of those 100 songs are different than the 100 songs he had prepared for the last tour.

Like someone else said, if he did the same setlist every night with the same arrangements, same solos, etc. Then he might not need one, but then people would bitch about that too. He probably wouldn't need a prompter if he did those medleys, since they're just the first verse and the chorus. But everyone bitched about those too. So give the guy a break, he's just trying to make the show run smooth.

I do think it's ridiculous he has the instead of the letter I.

My $0.02

Chas

Um, the news changes every day, Prince's lyrics don't, so you're going to have to use a better analogy and argument than that!!

Just counting the stuff that has been officialy released, that's 100's of song lyrics he has to remember. Could you do that without assistance?

In football, both the quarterback and coaches rely on play charts even though they spend hours practicing the plays. No difference here...'cept it's funkier.

A big fat "so what?" here.

Marrk said:

A big fat "so what?" here.

+1

Of all the songs prince needs to know, its ok to forget a word or two every now and then, the prompter is your best buddy in those occasions! As long as he delivers good music, who cares how?