KCOOLMUZIQ said:

PDogz said:

I had just moved to Los Angeles in 1981, when a month or two later I learned that Prince would be performing at Flippers. Being new to the city, I didn't know where Santa Monica Blvd. & La Cienega was (...which is where Flippers was located at the time), nor did I know how to get there by public transportation. I had an older brother who had also just moved to the LA area a few years prior, so I asked him how to get there. I explained to my brother how awesome a performer Prince was, that I had just seen him the year before opening for Rick James on his "Fire It Up" tour, and suggested to my brother that he should even come along with me to Flippers to see Prince perform live. I rarely, if ever, asked my brother for anything, and it was apparent that I really wanted to go see Prince again in concert, as I was practically pleading with my brother to come along and show me the way. My brother's response to me? "I'm not taking you to go see that FAGGOT!"

Nearly 20 years later, my brother finally apologized and admitted to me that he had made a mistake. He said that he should have gone with me to see Prince at Flippers, and that if he had; he would have had the opportunity to have seen a legend in the making.

My only response to him was: "...yeah well, I told you".

Prince's next LA area concert subsequent to his Flippers appearance was at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in 1982. I knew my way around town by that time, the album "Controversy" had just dropped about 3 months prior, and there was no way in Hell I was missing THAT Prince concert!

Great story! But u never explained his per4mance there.

If you're referring to his performance at Flippers, it's because I didn't make it (...despite my best effort to be there). My story of the show at Flippers is about how I didn't know the way there, and why my brother wouldn't take me or show me the way. As it turns out, I was only about 20 minutes away.

Oh! Sorry to hear that...

The Purple Rain tour. I desperately wanted to go to the 1999 tour but couldnt.

rgsince81 said:

Was I the only one at Flippers from the Org?... I find that hard to believe

U need to provide every detail of that show. U are a treasure now...

rgsince81 said:

Was I the only one at Flippers from the Org?... I find that hard to believe

in Hollywood?

Remember Osco's?

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

rdhull said:

I can't compete with the Dirty Mind Tour . My first show was the ACT I Tour in SF in 93. Probably have seen him close to 80 x since.

rgsince81 said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

U need to provide every detail of that show. U are a treasure now...

I'm a treasure, hummm , I will take that as a compliment, That's where i got his Dirty Mind botton and his guitar pic, I was front row center, I watched him warmup for an hour.I can't believe no one else from the org was there, omg! GreatShow!!!!!! [Edited 11/13/12 11:56am]

Hat3 U...

sexton said:

Purple Rain tour, Long Island, NY, March 1985.

It was not just my first Prince concert, but my first concert ever.

Did you go with your mum? I'm gonna ask her about it

He didn't even come down here ONCE until 92

The first concert I ever went to was Pink Floyd in 88

Jam of The Year Miami ... FIRST concert ( blew my mind ) ... Black, White, Puerto Rican everybody just a freakin' comes to mind ...

March 2004 - NYC@Club Black...the night he was inducted into the RRHOF. This concert was the after party. It wasn't even announced on the NPG Fanclub site until the day before. I was an intern in my senior year in college...I remember while I was at work and logged into the NPG site and saw that the tix had just gone on sale. I immediately called my mom at her job and begged her for her credit card number! My mom and I were going to leave for NYC the next day for spring vacation anyway, so this was just the topping on the cake.

I remember the concert was supposed to had started at 11pm, I believe, but I don't think P came on stage until after midnight. Hell, all of us there didn't even care, once he got on stage, it was so magical.

missfee said:

March 2004 - NYC@Club Black...the night he was inducted into the RRHOF. This concert was the after party. It wasn't even announced on the NPG Fanclub site until the day before. I was an intern in my senior year in college...I remember while I was at work and logged into the NPG site and saw that the tix had just gone on sale. I immediately called my mom at her job and begged her for her credit card number! My mom and I were going to leave for NYC the next day for spring vacation anyway, so this was just the topping on the cake.

I remember the concert was supposed to had started at 11pm, I believe, but I don't think P came on stage until after midnight. Hell, all of us there didn't even care, once he got on stage, it was so magical.

I wanted to go soooooo bad!!

At the time, I was engaged to a controlling pain in the ass who said that anything Prince was a "waste of money".

He didn't say I couldn't go, but had this passive-aggressive way about him that led to the demise of our relationship....

#stillsaltyaboutstuffImessed

Parade tour Ahoy Rotterdam 19 august 1986

LOVESEXY LA SPORTS ARENA 1988

ZombieKitten said:

sexton said:

Purple Rain tour, Long Island, NY, March 1985.

It was not just my first Prince concert, but my first concert ever.

Did you go with your mum? I'm gonna ask her about it

He didn't even come down here ONCE until 92

The first concert I ever went to was Pink Floyd in 88

No, my dad took me. He kept going on and on about Sheila E.

Is Pink Floyd considered nerdy?

missfee said:

March 2004 - NYC@Club Black...the night he was inducted into the RRHOF. This concert was the after party. It wasn't even announced on the NPG Fanclub site until the day before. I was an intern in my senior year in college...I remember while I was at work and logged into the NPG site and saw that the tix had just gone on sale. I immediately called my mom at her job and begged her for her credit card number! My mom and I were going to leave for NYC the next day for spring vacation anyway, so this was just the topping on the cake.

I remember the concert was supposed to had started at 11pm, I believe, but I don't think P came on stage until after midnight. Hell, all of us there didn't even care, once he got on stage, it was so magical.

I was at this show. The line for ticketholders went around the corner twice and was super slow. So slow that Prince went on before the people near the end of the line were let inside. This was before the venue was renovated into what is now Terminal 5 so the entrance which let out near the right side of the stage near the front was very narrow and many people just stayed there once they got inside since the view was decent, not letting the people behind them get in which led to a lot of pushing and dangerous overcrowding in that area. I remember it being very scary. And the enocre was dropped from the setlist so not the greatest Prince gig for me.

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Fonkyman said:

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Can you hear the snip-snips?

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Fonkyman said:

My bad. Let me try this again without the incriminating evidence.

1983, 1999 tour. I was 15.

sexton said:

ZombieKitten said:

sexton said:

No, my dad took me. He kept going on and on about Sheila E.

Is Pink Floyd considered nerdy?

Very.

Depressing, I'll grant ya but nerdy? They wrote some... Well, they wrote some.

Fonkyman said:

ZombieKitten said:

sexton said: Very.

Depressing, I'll grant ya but nerdy? They wrote some... Well, they wrote some.

any kids who liked that in the 80s like I did were nerds