KoolEaze said:

Serious said:

I agree that his background singers are usually featured too much IMO, the only one of them I ever really enjoyed was Boni Boyer. I loved the horns in Montreux, their musicianship as well as the fact that at least some of them had great stage personality which is lacking in Prince's current band IMO apart from Shelbey (one of the reasons why I like her more than Rosie who I never really "got") and Hannah, but Hannah's personality only shines when she's not behind the drums IMO. I really enjoyed her on stage for the aftershow after the first show .

I loved the interaction Prince had with the horn section in Montreux, it was great to watch, reminded me a bit of the one he had with Sheila E. at the show I saw in Vienna a few years ago. And some of the horn players were better dancers as his chosen dancer who was not chosen by her dancing abilties but because she is gorgeous IMO.

I did not get the impression that Prince was inspired by 3rdEyeGirl when he was on stage I must say. My favourite of the 3 shows was the first one, followed by the 3rd, the second was like a weaker version of the first one for me. What was most outstanding for me was that there was not one single song he did on day 3 that he had played on day 1 or 2.

Yeah Prince did not choose the Revolution only based on their talent either, but that was a totally different stage of his career. I guess I'd just wish he'd put music first now being older and would practice what he preaches concerning all his real music by real musicians talk.

Boni Boyer was my favorite background singer, too. ( I actually mentioned her in my reply above but then changed the sentence and left her out after having second thoughts but yes, she was great and added a lot to the SOTT/Lovesexy shows without being too dominant...but again, it´s Prince who decides if or how dominant a background singer becomes).

Boni was great!

madison said:

I miss the old prince , lovely ballads , r&b funk , jazzy , cutting edge music , new music , and being on top of the game I wish he would come back. Just him . . . Leave third eye girl and the bald headed chic alone. What's some of the things that you wish prince would get back to...

Calling himself

Shout at the beast...

luvsexy4all said:

maybe he can do that solo tour he mentioned in the early 90's----where he would sample all the instruments and plays totally by himself.

He said that in the 90's?! I think it's a very cool idea. And now 20 years later maybe the fans (some of themat least) would accept this concept.

HonestMan13 said:

Serious said:

Would you rate the 3 3rd eye girls or Andy Allo as "best musicians"? I saw Carlos Santana yesterday and while I definitely enjoyed his concerts in Montreux a lot I got reminded once again how cool it would be if Prince would choose his musicians by talent and not gender, age or looks. That's one of the reasons why I loved the horn section in Montreux so much. And I don't get the hate for Shelbey, she's one of my favourite members of his band.

How do you think we got the Revolution? They weren't the finest musicians on the planet when he found them. He was creating a look and an image. We just got lucky that they sounded good together.

True ... Very true, The Revolution is one of my favorite bands P has worked with next to the Musicology NPG line-up and the SLAVE Era line-up. All in all 3rd EyE Girl 'sounds' good from the 'music' I've heard but, still again, I would love for PRINCE to give us a PRINCE show ...