So let's say you had the ability to go back in time to witness any one event in history involving Prince. What would you choose? A specific concert? Aftershow? Party? Basketball game & pancakes?

After much thought I would have to say for me it would be the 1st Avenue 83 concert where he played most of the Purple Rain tracks for the first time.

08-19-1988 Small Club comes to mind

1st Avenue 8.3.1983 Benefit Concert

A change to see the Sign Of The timesTour with Madhouse openig act

NinaB said:

I think I would also say the 8-3-83 show and then I'd stay around for everything that followed.

The August 3rd 1983 show gets my vote too, just to see all those songs debuted and of course him doing the living shit out of Electric Intercourse, particularly that scream.

Oh shit! I was just watching this movie like 2 nights ago.

I would defo have to go back to '90 to see him on the nude tour.

Or the Lovesexy one in '88.

NinaB said:

'86 birthday gig.

I was there. In Detroit Joe Louis Arena. I live in Detroit.

I would go back into time to witness the 1984 Birthday rehearsal concert. I still say, musically, that was Prince's best performance ever! I would be on cloud 9, witnessing the 19 minute live version of "Neon Rendezvous".

Scarfo said:

I would first learn to impersonate Larry Graham and then go back to before Prince met larry, leave a message on Prince's answerphone as if from Larry himself stating: "You short, untalented, good-for-nothing! Leave me alone and do not ever try and contact me!".

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I would then skip forward back to the here-and-now and enjoy purchasing all the great new albums that would have miraculously appeared, profanity included.

2funkE said:

So let's say you had the ability to go back in time to witness any one event in history involving Prince. What would you choose? A specific concert? Aftershow? Party? Basketball game & pancakes?

After much thought I would have to say for me it would be the 1st Avenue 83 concert where he played most of the Purple Rain tracks for the first time.

The moment Madonna finishes reading the script to Graffiti Bridge.

10000Degrees said:

2funkE said:

So let's say you had the ability to go back in time to witness any one event in history involving Prince. What would you choose? A specific concert? Aftershow? Party? Basketball game & pancakes?

After much thought I would have to say for me it would be the 1st Avenue 83 concert where he played most of the Purple Rain tracks for the first time.

The moment Madonna finishes reading the script to Graffiti Bridge.

That's funny right there. Be interesting to be a fly on the wall during some of the conversations P must have had with WB when things went bad.

Rebeljuice said:

I would first learn to impersonate Larry Graham and then go back to before Prince met larry, leave a message on Prince's answerphone as if from Larry himself stating: "You short, untalented, good-for-nothing! Leave me alone and do not ever try and contact me!".

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I would then skip forward back to the here-and-now and enjoy purchasing all the great new albums that would have miraculously appeared, profanity included.

Ditto. Love your approach.

August 6, 2004.

I was at the 8-3-83 show!! So glad I got to see that. Of course it would be cool to get in a time machine and go see it again with the full understanding of how historic it was!!

NinaB said:

'86 birthday gig.

First thing that popped into my mind.

If I had to think about it though, it'd be one of the Lovesexy shows in L.A. Can't remeber what day, but I won them thru Power 106. I say, I WON TICKETS ON THE RADIO Y'ALL!!! But my Mom was tripping because of my grades, and pulled the plug on that dream.

CocoRock said:

NinaB said:

CocoRock said:

First thing that popped into my mind.

If I had to think about it though, it'd be one of the Lovesexy shows in L.A. Can't remeber what day, but I won them thru Power 106. I say, I WON TICKETS ON THE RADIO Y'ALL!!! But my Mom was tripping because of my grades, and pulled the plug on that dream.

Ouch!! Painfull! If it makes ya feel any better when Lovesexy reached London I was 15 yrs old, had just left home, didn't have a penny... that first night he played I was feeling very sorry for myself I can laugh now. My Mum bought me tickets for the London SOTT gig, it woulda been my first P gig... it got cancelled. I made up for it tho when Nude came to town - 9 gigs!

Nice!

NinaB said:

Scarfo said:

I was there. In Detroit Joe Louis Arena. I live in Detroit.

I would go back into time to witness the 1984 Birthday rehearsal concert. I still say, musically, that was Prince's best performance ever! I would be on cloud 9, witnessing the 19 minute live version of "Neon Rendezvous".

You were there!

yeah, I was there. I had some crappy seats though, lol. Now the Newpowersoul Fest Concert, is when I had some great seats! I could smack the stage with my hand. I also snuck in the VIP section at the after party. I also snuck a great picture of Prince and Mayte. I got the picture enlarged and lamenated with my ticket and afterparty pass. Here it go:

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Scarfo said:

NinaB said:

Scarfo said: You were there!

yeah, I was there. I had some crappy seats though, lol. Now the Newpowersoul Fest Concert, is when I had some great seats! I could smack the stage with my hand. I also snuck in the VIP section at the after party. I also snuck a great picture of Prince and Mayte. I got the picture enlarged and lamenated with my ticket and afterparty pass. Here it go:

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First post I've made on here in a while just to say

WOW

Scarfo said:

NinaB said:

Scarfo said: You were there!

yeah, I was there. I had some crappy seats though, lol. Now the Newpowersoul Fest Concert, is when I had some great seats! I could smack the stage with my hand. I also snuck in the VIP section at the after party. I also snuck a great picture of Prince and Mayte. I got the picture enlarged and lamenated with my ticket and afterparty pass. Here it go:

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any one of the 1999 "Triple Threat" tour dates

Thanx my fellow Prince orgers 4 the kind words. It was both exciting, and scary. It was exciting to be within hand-shaking feet of Prince, but it was scary, because I could had been thrown out at any moment (since I didn't really belong in the VIP section). It was like one of those old mentos candy commercials. lol, anyway Prince stayed for 3 hours, but did not perform at the afterparty. They showed the whole Cafe de Paris concert, and Doug E Fresh was the only one that performed live. I was ok with that since I already seen Prince in concert earlier that night, but others in attendance was pretty pist off about it. Well since I was lucky enough to not get discovered, I decided to press my lucky further by taking a picture of Prince as he was leaving the club.....as the photo above proves, I lucked out again. It was a beautiful night.

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any 1980 show