With all the recent California Prince concerts - the excitement of getting tickets, travel, music playing, time and $$$$$. My significant other has had enough. Anyone else in this predicament?

Heh, I was originally going to try to swing all 3 Oakland shows, but my boyfriend was like:

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"Can we just listen to something else? Just for a little while?"

1993 said:

With all the recent California Prince concerts - the excitement of getting tickets, travel, music playing, time and $$$$$. My significant other has had enough. Anyone else in this predicament?

1 was enough. As much as I love looking at him, 1 show was enough. I was out of town for the Oakland shows, but I saw 1 San Jose show. Learn control, I know how much you love looking and hearing, moderation is the key.

usamud said:

1993 said:

With all the recent California Prince concerts - the excitement of getting tickets, travel, music playing, time and $$$$$. My significant other has had enough. Anyone else in this predicament?

1 was enough. As much as I love looking at him, 1 show was enough. I was out of town for the Oakland shows, but I saw 1 San Jose show. Learn control, I know how much you love looking and hearing, moderation is the key.

I hate the feeling of knowing he is performing in the area and not being there to witness it. I mean how much longer will he keep this up?

When he failed to show up for the Dallas concert (which would have been my wife's first Prince concert), that pretty much put the kibosh on my flying to LA to see any of the more recent shows.

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electricberet said:

When he failed to show up for the Dallas concert (which would have been my wife's first Prince concert), that pretty much put the kibosh on my flying to LA to see any of the more recent shows.

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had she attended perhaps she would have realized what the hype was all about and traveled w/ you to LA

1993 said:

electricberet said:

When he failed to show up for the Dallas concert (which would have been my wife's first Prince concert), that pretty much put the kibosh on my flying to LA to see any of the more recent shows.

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had she attended perhaps she would have realized what the hype was all about and traveled w/ you to LA

My wife is coming home early... I was just writing a post about how frugal my Prince-related purchases have been, but I lost my train of thought.

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Spinlight said:

Heh, I was originally going to try to swing all 3 Oakland shows, but my boyfriend was like:

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I'm single at the moment, but in the past, I do distinctly recall not getting laid after treating one S.O. to their first screening of Graffiti Bridge.

Only when he borrows my car and Prince is on Blast oh yeah, when he comes into the bedroom and shakes his head when he glances at a 14x16 framed & matted picture of Prince in his briefs & leg warmers that hangs on the bedroom wall.

Spinlight said:

Heh, I was originally going to try to swing all 3 Oakland shows, but my boyfriend was like:

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my friends have started looking at me like I tried telling them there's a whole website where there are people who have seen more shows than I and some have even come from as far away as Europe...they're not buying it. They're just not into "Prince" like that. Now I'll just consider them and keep any future excursions to myself.

TheEnglishGent said:

I met my wife at a prince show, it's not a problem.

I remember your story

I live in Ms and as much as I love Prince the only way I would travel as far off as LA to see him would be if it was supposed to be like his last show or something. The furthest I'll drive is six hours and that is not set in stone. I have seen him three times and would love to again but I work as a nurse full time and am also taking more college classes so I can't just drop everything to go that far off. Plus I have no interest to go to LA. That being said my partner actually hates P now because of me. He liked him when we first got togeter. All the underground stuff, bootleg concerts, and just all the new music P puts out burnt him out.

My friends have accepted most of my peculiar behaviour by now. Including my P love.

Some even went to a concert, just to understand my love. And after that concert they did understand my love for him.

However, I still have this one person I would love to convert.

She is my neighbour. I lover her deerly. She is a music programmer, so has seen it all the last couple of decades.

The only one she has never seen is Prince. Not even when he performed at the venue she works in Holland. She was in the US with her husband, actually visiting his club to see him perform. However, he was in the club in Holland where she works.

I didn't have the money to buy me tickets for the North Sea Jazz Festival, however, I do believe that I will get to see P perform. And I just would love to go there with her. And have her finally see him perform and appreciate his performance abilties.

She just looks at me "you know it's not my thing". Last week we talked about not North Sea Jazz Festival again, and I told her, it's my mission to get you to attend a concert of him. She just laughed "you want to take me over to the dark side".

That is my mission now. To get her over to the purple side

dJJ said:

My friends have accepted most of my peculiar behaviour by now. Including my P love.

Some even went to a concert, just to understand my love. And after that concert they did understand my love for him.

However, I still have this one person I would love to convert.

She is my neighbour. I lover her deerly. She is a music programmer, so has seen it all the last couple of decades.

The only one she has never seen is Prince. Not even when he performed at the venue she works in Holland. She was in the US with her husband, actually visiting his club to see him perform. However, he was in the club in Holland where she works.

I didn't have the money to buy me tickets for the North Sea Jazz Festival, however, I do believe that I will get to see P perform. And I just would love to go there with her. And have her finally see him perform and appreciate his performance abilties.

She just looks at me "you know it's not my thing". Last week we talked about not North Sea Jazz Festival again, and I told her, it's my mission to get you to attend a concert of him. She just laughed "you want to take me over to the dark side".

That is my mission now. To get her over to the purple side

leave her alonee!!! she'll never be the same

never been in trouble but my bloke has

i can't believe it myself, but he had to bribe me to get me to a london concert in 2007.. i was all tetchy & gave him so much grief cuz it meant spending what we couldn't afford & he bought tix anyway... i didn't even like prince!!... & then had the nerve to suggest an aftershow!!! i said NO WAY JOSE!!...aarrrgghhh!!

veronikka said:

hehe, cool topic!

Well, my significant other has to deal with Prince, but he overall accepts him as the now-other-man in our relationship. At first Prince was my main man, even in our relationship, but now that me and Adrian (the bf) are engaged, Prince has moved to the other-man status. But to me, Prince is still my main man.

One funny story is that while Purple Rain played, I completely stopped our intense foreplay the moment Darling Nicki's opening synths (or whatever instrument the opening notes r ) to watch my then favorite scene.

But my love for Prince has caused arguments in our relationship, such as when new Prince merchadise comes in the mail, I'm all into it and ignoring him. Adrian does gets jealous if I overdo my love for Prince, but he calms, lol. He gets me when he says "Is Prince here now? Is he doing what I'm doing to you now? Who are smiling with? Definitely ain't him. How would that make you feel if I had posters of a woman plastered on my bedroom wall who doesn't even know I exist?" But he's a good one with accepting my obsession and love for Prince with wondering why I'm so into him, asking questions about him and his associates, even watching Prince flicks and listening to his music with me he gets that if he wants to b with me, he has 2 b with Prince 2, so Adrian's a keeper

His respects Prince for him and his music, favors Under the Cherry Moon over Purple Rain cuz he feels that's Prince's real side, and loves & personally relates to the Dirty Mind album.

For all the annoyance my wife has to put up with over Prince, there are certain benefits as well. I don't know the exact night when my son was conceived, but there is a good chance that I was playing Prince music at the time.

electricberet said:

For all the annoyance my wife has to put up with over Prince, there are certain benefits as well. I don't know the exact night when my son was conceived, but there is a good chance that I was playing Prince music at the time.

hehe, awesome

Im so glad someone finally made a thread about this, When my fiance and I first met, he asked me, what my occupation was and I said "Being a fulltime Prince fan." he thought it was cute

but it aint cute to him anymore, he refers to me as "my girlfriend formerly known as Layna." He complains im spending to much money buying concert/shows tickets. Ive also caught him trying to sell my Prince merchandise @ garage sells/online. & worst he makes Prince, the source of all our finacial problems. But i dont think its any different than his love for cars.

TheEnglishGent said:

I met my wife at a prince show, it's not a problem.

I'm hoping to meet my second wife at a Prince show (or here, hellllloooo ladies )

My first definitely had issues with my "fandom" at times. There were times where she destroyed some of my merchandise. Looking back, I was a fool for tolerating that kind of shit. Ah well, live and learn.

Having a partner who loves Prince as much as I do would definitely make things easier.

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Militant said:

I'm hoping to meet my second wife at a Prince show (or here, hellllloooo ladies )

My first definitely had issues with my "fandom" at times. There were times where she destroyed some of my merchandise. Looking back, I was a fool for tolerating that kind of shit. Ah well, live and learn.

Having a partner who loves Prince as much as I do would definitely make things easier.

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Well if my fiance keeps acting so unsupportive over my love for Prince, You just might find your second wife here

& i know what you mean, he has tried to sell my merchandise, and he keeps removing my merch that i have on display @ our house, i love him though, he's just silly, i mean its not like me and Prince r gonna lock eyes, and run off and get married