Just watched this for the first time in many years. I completely forgot how funky the 2nd half of this show is. Prince is having a great time and seems relaxed. The band are tight! And when Miles comes on and just ambles around the stage, you can see some of the awe the band members had just by his pressence.

I wish Prince and Miles worked together properly and did something substantial. Miles, the elder statesman and master of his craft, Prince, at the peak of his creative powers not afraid to try anything. A marriage made in heaven. I guess egos got in the way in the end. Shame.

What a new years eve party! I dont know where I was for that particular new years eve, but I do know I wasnt there, and my life is all the more unfulfilled because of it. I also forgot how much energy Prince used to have on stage. Im now going to have to watch the Purple Rain and Lovesexy shows. I obviously need reminding of how good the 80's shows were. i havent watched them for so long they are quite distant memories.

Question. What is the tune that plays at the end (over the PA I presume). It sounds like a funky "Jack Your Body" (by Mars????)... Is it a Prince song that never saw the light of day? Pretty cool snippet before it cuts off.

KingSausage said:

iZsaZsa said:

KingSausage said:

Although I wasn't even 10 years old yet, I grew up in Minneapolis and it bugs me to hell to know that this happened in such close proximity to me but I wasn't there.

Me too. I just watched it.

Sadly, can't watch it no more. I have it in some old Quicktime format that won't play. Thank god for the straight CD that came with it.

KingSausage said:

iZsaZsa said:

Me too. I just watched it.

I've only heard it, never seen it.

Never seen it

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FragileUndertow said:

KingSausage said:

FragileUndertow said:

Never seen it :fant:

I've hardly seen any classic Prince videos. I have hundreds of boots, but only audio.

I was lucky at the time to grab these online. Im sure i gatherd 50 or more worth of dvd material
Some stuff is so so.. Some is must have

New Years Eve Party 12.31. 1987 Paisley Park

New Years Eve Party December 31. 1987 "Miles 2 Nowhere"
"Paisley Park" Chanhassen

TLM: On New Year’s Eve 1987, you finally got to play on the same stage as Miles, during a Prince benefit event at Paisley Park studios.

Eric Leeds: I always regret one moment. There was just one moment when I wanted to nudge the trumpet player Matt [Blistan, aka Atlanta Bliss] to go into a melody line in "Agharta" and the moment came and went by so quickly that I wasn’t able to grab it. I always regretted that because I really wanted to see the look on Miles’s face! The whole affair lasted for all of five minutes but it was cool.

TLM: Wasn’t Prince perplexed because the band was forgetting all the cues?

Eric Leeds: He gave us one of his hand cues to hit a riff and as I remember it, no one hit the cue, because they were all grooving on what Miles was doing and Prince was kinda taken aback! He yelled “Hey, I’m still the boss up here!”
TLM: I was saying to Alan that it was strange that the concert was never released, although there is a bootleg audio and Video CD, Miles From The Park.

Eric Leeds: The anticipation was a lot stronger than the actual event. It was a very fast funk groove that we were doing and it wasn’t anything that Miles was going to do anything other than just basically do his stick.

TLM: Miles appears on Prince’s song “Sticky Wicked”, along with Prince Chaka Khan. But I gather the song wasn’t written with Miles in mind.

Eric Leeds: When Prince had the track up and Matt Blistan and I did the horn parts I can’t recall Prince making any mention about Miles, although he did say he’d written it for Chaka. Interestingly enough, the title “Sticky Wicked” had been applied to a different song, which was actually the title song of my first album Times Squared. I heard the track and asked Prince if I could work on it for my album and he said yes. And then a couple of weeks later, we were working on this track for Chaka and I asked what the name of it was and he said “Sticky Wicked!” Later on when we were on the road he said “Listen to this.” It was the finished track and Miles was on it. That was the song that got me officially into the Miles Davis discography! It was a much better track and much better utilisation of his horn than on “Can I Play With U?” It was a cool little song.

TLM: There’s a lot of controversy surrounding whether Miles and Prince ever worked together in the studio. In one interview Prince has suggested that they recorded together, but Alan is convinced that they never did.

Eric Leeds: I have to agree with Alan on that. I don’t know what Prince was thinking or whether it was something that Prince said that was taken out of context. But I find it almost impossible to figure out how that could have happened, because Alan was still around running the record company and I was still around, although not a member of Prince’s band, I was working on my own albums at the time. Unless it was somewhere on the road that Prince and Miles met in the studio, but anything they would have done, Alan would have heard and I probably would have heard it too. It would have had to have gone through Alan’s desk. I know of no one else who has made mention of it. So I don’t know what Prince was talking about [TLM note: if Prince or anyone from his organisation would like to clear this up, we’d happily report your comments on this website!].

1.Sign O The Times
2.Play In The Sunshine
3.Little Red Corvette
4.Housequake
5.Girls And Boys
6.Slow Love
7.I Could Never Take The PlaceOf Your Man
8.Shela Drum solo
9.Hot Thing
10.If I Was Your Girlfriend
11.Let's Go Crazy
12.When Doves Cry
13.Purple Rain/Auld Lang Syne
14.1999
15.U Got The Look
16.It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night/Six
17.Miles Davis solo
18.Chain Of Fools/Cold Sweat
19.Interlude/Take The A-Train
20.Funky Man/Alphabet St
/Cold Sweat
/Float Like A Butterfly. Sting
Like A Life
21.It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night

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KingSausage said:

FragileUndertow said:

Never seen it :fant:

I've hardly seen any classic Prince videos. I have hundreds of boots, but only audio.

They are all online. Most of his stuff on two sites I don't know if I'm allowed to say exactly where but it's a chinese site and a french site...

Sheila E's New Years outfit,