Great show and performances. One will never be able to capture on a TV show what he can do and extend live (like She's always in my hair) due to time constraints. Everything has to be right on schedule. Only complaint is that he has two great new songs that are palatable to the general public, Pretzelbodylogic and Breakfast Can Wait. He really should have done one of those instead of two "old" songs (as much as I love Mutiny and Hair). It seems like he is only playing all the new material overseas as we heard very little at Mohegun Sun too.

It was awesome!

Great show last night....

NinaB said:

[Snip - luv4u]

Which will be shut down in 5...4...3...

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Much respect to Arsenio Hall. He is hilarious and knows what he is doing.

His guest line-up shows that his purpose moves beyond simply entertainment.

Can't say that I will be watching but his show is an excellent one (based on

the two that I saw yesterday episode 75 and Prince). Arsenio

doesnt miss a beat...Prince toe it up! Always amazing. Always awesome.

Glad to see the history.

Is that the new official youtube-channel by prince? It has the same design like the 3rdeyegirl channel. If so, very cool!

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For the longest time I've been hearing all this hype, talk about "Funknroll"

Really? I was expecting something great
Am i the only one who wasnt digging it

FragileUndertow said:

For the longest time I've been hearing all this hype, talk about "Funknroll"

Really? I was expecting something great
Am i the only one who wasnt digging it

No, you aren't. I found it lacking, as well.

ludwig said:

Is that the new official youtube-channel by prince? It has the same design like the 3rdeyegirl channel. If so, very cool!

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It definately seems like it. Very cool indeed!

Best part--

I had the captions on when I watched the broadcast (we just kind of leave them on most of the time).

When Liv was introduced, the song's title was given in the captions as "Solicited."

Also, glad to see that not having a contract is why he's taking so long to release an album. He has time to get together a group of songs that go together. Interesting... remember when having a contract kept him from releasing music more quickly?

I just don't get it.

As to the performances, they were okay. I'll have to see them again to make a real judgment. I probably would have preferred a straight no keys performance of She's Always in My Hair. I think that the four of them work well; don't see what Josh adds. I had expected more from Funknroll, which I hadn't heard yet (I've got it on some shows, but I haven't listened to them yet). The talk with Arsenio was fine (I liked the whole "we were in somebody's kitchen, right" story). I actually liked the Steven thing, just because it was so weird.

joyinrepetition said:

To tell the truth, the best part of the show was the interview and Liv's performance. Prince was underwhelming. It looks as if he doesn't have the funk in his heart anymore. I'm still a fan, but I'm being real with how I feel about this performance. Whack!

I disagree. To me it was 3rd Eye who was underwhelming. To me he sang well.

Now Liv and the band performance straight FIYA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Big differnce.

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FragileUndertow said:

For the longest time I've been hearing all this hype, talk about "Funknroll"

Really? I was expecting something great
Am i the only one who wasnt digging it

Contrary to the song's claim, it neither "funks" nor "rolls". So far, the songs from the new album are majorly disappointing.

I know this topic has been played out.. But im an 90% certain thats a wig he has on

Gadzooks! The full episode is up on what looks like the "official" Prince YouTube channel, which was born earlier today. [No posting of youtube links. The org does not have the purple seal of approval to post such links snip - luv4u]

bigd74 said:

paolo said:

Has this uploaded on to Torrent yet?

I hope so. It just so happens my downloader on Firefox won't record it, the videos must be in a different format. It recognised the ads before each video.

kenkamken said:

I like this better than Days of Wild, and 3121

It has a similar vibe to those two, but more straightforward than 3121 and not as lyrically awkward as Days of Wild

I look forward to hearing the studio version

I always thought Days of Wild and 3121 were so-so (at least the studio versions). FunknRoll to me is a lot more interesting. But I think with all of these types of song they'll always sound better live than the studio versions.

So I downloaded the TV-show from the supposedly official Prince j00t00b channel.

Great service that should be more in the open.

Zapping past the cheesy jokes, the sound is great. The songs thus far are nice.

ficktyt said:

Great show and performances. One will never be able to capture on a TV show what he can do and extend live (like She's always in my hair) due to time constraints. Everything has to be right on schedule. Only complaint is that he has two great new songs that are palatable to the general public, Pretzelbodylogic and Breakfast Can Wait. He really should have done one of those instead of two "old" songs (as much as I love Mutiny and Hair). It seems like he is only playing all the new material overseas as we heard very little at Mohegun Sun too.

I hear this kind of rationalization a lot lately, but I don't buy it. Back in the 90's, he had the same time constraints, and his Arsenio performances were STELLAR. And even as recent as 10 years ago, he played Musicology on Leno and it was such an energy-filled, fun, funky performance. So I don't buy that he can't translate the energy into a TV performance. I think his bizarre decision recently to not play guitar is ... well, bizarre, and I don't see the point of playing a song like She's Always in my Hair when he is allegedly going to release as new album of original material.

That was a pretty cool way he entered the stage on the Funknroll performance.... how the hell did they do that??

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MattyJam said:

That was a pretty cool way he entered the stage on the Funknroll performance.... how the hell did they do that??

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Prince is magic

FragileUndertow said:

For the longest time I've been hearing all this hype, talk about "Funknroll"

Really? I was expecting something great
Am i the only one who wasnt digging it

All that I have watched so far is the clip of that on Arsenio's site. I was not impressed either. I'll have to watch again though because I was too busy being annoyed by the dancers and bewildered by the fact that we were seeing more of the keyboard player than of 3rd Eye Girl. So, I might need to listen without watching to really know what I think.

Gonna watch the whole show from the youtube link first, though.

80spfantwp said:

Shoot me, but I enjoyed the Funk n Roll performance

Late ti the thread but I did too. Like the other guy said it just needed a little of Prince's guitar work in there. Reminded me little of 3121.

Ville said:

ludwig said:

Is that the new official youtube-channel by prince? It has the same design like the 3rdeyegirl channel. If so, very cool!

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It definately seems like it. Very cool indeed!

It's a verified account. About time! If ever there was a place to put out full concert footage...

djThunderfunk said:

FragileUndertow said:

For the longest time I've been hearing all this hype, talk about "Funknroll"

Am i the only one who wasnt digging it

I was not impressed either.
I might need to listen without watching to really know what I think.

I've listend to it 3 times in a row thinking it would grown on me. nope not yet

TheEnglishGent said:

Ville said:

It definately seems like it. Very cool indeed!

It's a verified account. About time! If ever there was a place to put out full concert footage...

Haha!

Dream on...

1 new song, 1 other song, two old ones?

I love the hornz! To hear Mutiny and She's always in my Hair is always a treat. Those songs are still funky! If he's going to just release more singles as opposed to albums then he needs to get crackin for 2014. I don't do Prince negataivity, but I will say that the New Girl episode and Arsenio would have been great platforms to promote the new album. But I have learned to not expect the norm with Prince. And Liv had another album out before the new project too...don't sleep. NPG 4 Life tattoed on my chest! jk

I feel like he wanted to introduce the song FunkNRoll to the audience without adding too much to it. The performance is probably close to what the studio version will sound like. It's like they played the song as it is. That's the smart way to do it imo when playing a new song live on tv before releasing it that way people will know what to expect from it and won't be disapointed after hearing the studio version for the first time.

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still no specific rlease date?

ficktyt said:

Great show and performances. One will never be able to capture on a TV show what he can do and extend live (like She's always in my hair) due to time constraints. Everything has to be right on schedule. Only complaint is that he has two great new songs that are palatable to the general public, Pretzelbodylogic and Breakfast Can Wait. He really should have done one of those instead of two "old" songs (as much as I love Mutiny and Hair). It seems like he is only playing all the new material overseas as we heard very little at Mohegun Sun too.

If this were a live show, I might agree. But they did two hours of taping for a 40-minute show. And it wasn't like they cut any of the performances off - all of them went on for a good five minutes.

His performance of "Fury" on SNL is a case in point of what he can do even with time constraints. That performance was insane.