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October 7, 2011

Suppose you’re a newbie musician with very flamboyant taste, Prince, and the biggest rock band the in world, the Rolling Stones, wants you to open for them. Awesome, right? So long as you can get past the skeptical Stones fans.

During a recent broadcast of Ronnie Wood’s radio show on Absolute Radio, the Rolling Stones guitarist revealed a crazy anecdote that involved Prince having cabbages thrown at him onstage when he was on tour with the Rolling Stones in 1981.

Woods claims the Rolling Stones’ fans were so shocked by Prince’s colorful stage antics that they concurred to throw vegetables at him.

“I remember [Stones drummer] Charlie Watts was the first man to turn me on to Prince, he said 'Have you seen this guy, he's got potential,’” Wood said. “Even though he was dressed slightly wrong at the time I thought - he had a rain mac and stockings and suspenders on at the time - and the audience didn't really know how to take him, so he had a few cabbages thrown at him on the early Stones tours that we took him on, but now he's come on and he is such a great performer.”

Wood also had to chance to jam with Prince at a few of the Purple One's famed after parties. "I've had the pleasure of playing with him at some of the after-show gigs that he does, normally does three in one night when he gets going, and his band is really cool,” he said, adding that, for the most part, Prince is a “quiet and quite a reserved guy. Once you plough through his security team and get through to him he is quite a genial guy and very soft-spoken, but very talented.”

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Who would bring a cabbage to a concert? Some people are strange,lol.

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SoulAlive said:

Who would bring a cabbage to a concert? Some people are strange,lol.

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I know, right?

Security was really lackadaisical back in the day

shit now days you can't bring in a bottles water much less..a cabbage hahaah

SoulAlive said:

Who would bring a cabbage to a concert? Some people are strange,lol.

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There's nothing quite like taking a big bite out of a nice, raw cabbage during one of your favorite jams. Try it sometime.

SoulAlive said:

Who would bring a cabbage to a concert? Some people are strange,lol.

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Used to do real well back in the days to get shitty artists off stage. You know throw them some rotten tomatos, letuce and eggs their face and they'll be gone in no time... and lots of beer of course.

The latter is still possible these days. And with plastic glasses it's even safe too. Thankfully.

Pretty much what's been reported in this thread already: http://prince.org/msg/7/368345

Oops! I completed a thread search and still overlooked that one.