46th Annual Grammy Awards - Show

FEBRUARY 8: Singer Beyonce Knowles performs Purple Rain with musician Prince at the 46th Annual Grammy Awards held at the Staples Center on February 8, 2004 in Los Angeles, California.

Staples Center Los Angeles
TV 46th Annual Grammy Awards
Prince & Beyonce

1.Purple Rain/Baby I'm A Star/Let's Go Crazy

OldFriends4Sale said:

Staples Center Los Angeles
TV 46th Annual Grammy Awards
Prince & Beyonce

1.Purple Rain/Baby I'm A Star/Let's Go Crazy

although i've seen their Grammy performance

i'm really loving these pictures

OldFriends4Sale said:

1984 & 2004 was mega years 4 Princey......

maja2405 said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Staples Center Los Angeles
TV 46th Annual Grammy Awards
Prince & Beyonce

1.Purple Rain/Baby I'm A Star/Let's Go Crazy

although i've seen their Grammy performance

i'm really loving these pictures

Yeah the pix look good, I wish he did another upbeat song instead of Purple Rain

She was channeling Cat

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

1984 & 2004 was mega years 4 Princey......

except that the Music of 1984 was MEGA, not so for 2004

I think about what Prince was doing prior to this period and

a lot of his performances from 1999/2000 till 2002/2003 were

sequestered in Paisley Park, so many people(outside of steady fans)

didn't know what Prince was doing musically

And his Musicology tour playlist mostly consisted of 1981-1992

NEW YORK TIMES
April 19, 2004

Prince Returns, Trading Rebellion for Gentle Jams
By KELEFA SANNEH

When figure skaters turn professional, what they're really doing is retiring: they keep touring, drawing fans to exhibitions around the country, but their days as serious competitors are over. Something similar happened to Prince after he split with his record company, Warner Brothers, almost a decade ago. He kept touring and releasing CD's, but he seemed to withdraw into his own private kingdom; in the cutthroat pop music industry he was no longer a competitor.

Over the last few months he has changed course again, making a series of public appearances to build anticipation for "Musicology," his return to the world of big-money pop. The album will be released tomorrow on Prince's own NPG label, but it is being manufactured and distributed by Columbia Records.

It is Prince's good or bad fortune to be making his comeback at a time when pretenders are everywhere. André 3000, Pharrell Williams and D'Angelo have invented their own versions of the Prince persona; Missy Elliott and Erykah Badu have chased his spirit across different genres and eras; producers like Felix da Housecat, Daft Punk and Brooks have updated his synthetic thwack for the dance floor.

What's most disappointing about "Musicology," then, is the way Prince reacts to all this sincere flattery: he doesn't. The CD is a casual exhibition of Princeliness, stocked with a handful of old tricks but no new ones. As usual, the songs are "produced, arranged, composed and per4med by Prince," with a few exceptions, and it sounds like the work of a formerly insatiable star who has figured out how to satisfy his own musical ambitions.

The album's first song is the title track, a dose of anorexic funk in which Prince adds nostalgic chatter to a gristly bass line. And there's a winsome, wispy ballad, "Call My Name," in which vague political commentary (transcribed, as usual, according to the same orthographical rules that prevail at your local middle school) melts into bedroom talk: "What's the matter with the world 2day? Land of the free? Somebody lied!/They can bug my phone, peep around my home, they'd only c u and me makin' love inside."

Mainly, though, "Musicology" is given over to gentle jams that never really get going. Prince sounds comfortable and contented throughout, which might be part of the problem. In 2001 he released a much better CD, "The Rainbow Children" (NPG), which used expansive and unpredictable jazz-funk tracks to tell the tale of a rebellious (and, not coincidentally, funky) tribe fighting against the bland and oppressive rulers of the Digital Garden. The new album could use a bit of that fighting spirit.

May 6. 2004
Rockettown, Nashville

Musicology Tour Aftershow
1.Pass The Peas
2.Hotpants
3.Xpectation
4.Bambi
5.Whole Lotta Love
6.Dear Mr, Man
7.Footprints
8.Shake Everything You Got
(With Victor Wooten On Bass)

9.The Jam

10.Down By The Riverside
11.Jam (With Larry Graham)
12.I Wanna Take You Higher
(With Larry Graham)

13.Dance To The Music

*

September 7. Salt Lake City

4.28.2004 – New York, New York – Webster Hall

Prince si esibisce dal vivo in un concerto acustico. Lo show sarà trasmesso da MTV con il titolo

“The Art of Musicology”.

OldFriends4Sale said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

1984 & 2004 was mega years 4 Princey......

except that the Music of 1984 was MEGA, not so for 2004

I think about what Prince was doing prior to this period and

a lot of his performances from 1999/2000 till 2002/2003 were

sequestered in Paisley Park, so many people(outside of steady fans)

didn't know what Prince was doing musically

And his Musicology tour playlist mostly consisted of 1981-1992

True! Because I was constantly asked by non Prince followers. What happen to Prince? Why doesn't he make music anymore? Even now & I always have to say he never stopped. U just haven't heard it.Sometimes U have to be a special kind of person to follow Prince.

[Edited 12/1/12 3:09am]

OldFriends4Sale said:

Prince Gives a Special PerformanceTavis: Nice to see you. Up next, a very special acoustic performance. We talked in this conversation appreciate the variety of music, but I've asked him to come on tonight and to do somethabout how he can play just about every instrument. He plays all kinds of music, and his audience and fans ing a little different from what he normally does. I loved that Grammy thing, but what you are about to hear now will blow you away. So stay tuned for a very special acoustic performance by Prince.

Tavis: To close out the show tonight, here's Prince and the very talented Wendy Melvoin performing "Reflection."

2 7's 2gether
Like time, indefinite
Try 2 catch the glass before it falls
Without a frown, can U turn up the stereo?
I wanna play U this old song
It's about love
Huh, can I do that?

Did we remember 2 water the plants 2day?
I forgot 2 look up at the moon because
I was 2 busy, said I was 2 busy
I was 2 busy looking at U, babe

Still it's nice 2 know, that uh
If bodies wear out we can get another
What does that one thing have 2 do with the other one?
I don't know, I was just thinking bout my... mother

U know what?
Turn the stereo back down
Ain't nothing worse than an old worn out love song
Tell me, do U like my hair this way?
Remember all the way back in the day
When we would compare whose afro was the roundest?

Mirrored tiles, huh
Above the bed
Fishin' nets and posters
All over the walls, aw yeah
(Sometimes) Sometimes, I just wanna go sit out on the stoop
And uh, play my guitar
Just watch all the...
All the cars go by