Den Bosch NETHERLANDS - MARCH 24 1995: continued in color

Please I love ur threads, but ur boosting this one up 2 much... Can u start a new thread please with another era and album??

feeluupp said:

Please I love ur threads, but ur boosting this one up 2 much... Can u start a new thread please with another era and album??

I don't know what that means?

Ask the member who asked me to do a Gold era thread if I should stop and do another?

Gold not 1 of your favorites? What new era should I funk with?

feeluupp said:

3.25.1995 @ Brabanthallen Den Bosch
1. Purple Medley

2. Endorphinemachine

3. The Jam

4. Shhh

5. Days of Wild

6. Now

7. Johnny
8. Funky Stuff

9. TMBGITW
10. Pussy Control

11. Letitgo

12. I Love U In Me

13. Peach

14. 7

15. Get Wild

16. Race

17. Billy Jack Bitch

18. I Hate U

19. Gold

Aftershow @ the Paradiso in Amsterdam

1. Funky

2. 18 & Over

3. Now / Feel Good
4. I Believe In You

5. Proud Mary

6. the Ride

7. Glam Slam Boogie

8. Days of Wild

9. Get Wild

10. instrumental Jam

Get Up (I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine)

iZsaZsa said:

feeluupp said:

Please I love ur threads, but ur boosting this one up 2 much... Can u start a new thread please with another era and album??

Kick rocks.

Feeluupp doesn't seem 2 B feeling the Gold Experience

OldFriends4Sale said:

feeluupp said:

Please I love ur threads, but ur boosting this one up 2 much... Can u start a new thread please with another era and album??

You're leaving me no choice
Okay, what are you gonna do?
You just gonna sit there and watch?
Alright
Are you sure you don't wanna close your eyes?
Well, isn't it supposed to take a long time?
I'm not gonna stop until the war is over
Help me!
There okay okay
I'm so cold,

just hold me

feeluupp said:

Please I love ur threads, but ur boosting this one up 2 much... Can u start a new thread please with another era and album??

I never meant to cause you any sorrow
I never meant to cause you any pain
I only wanted one time to see you laughing
I only want to see you laughing in the Golden rain

Golden rain, golden rain
Golden rain, golden rain
Golden rain, golden rain
I only want to see you bathing in the golden rain

the Dolphine video

OldFriends4Sale said:

the Dolphine video

iZsaZsa said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

the Dolphine video

Beautiful death. And sexy!

How beautiful do the words have 2 be
Before they conquer every heart?
How will U know if I’m even in the right key
If U make me stop before I start?
CHORUS:
If I came back as a dolphin
Would U listen 2 me then?
Would U let me be your friend?
Would U let me in?
U can cut off all my fins - But 2 your ways I will not bend
I’ll die before I let U tell me how 2 swim
And I’ll come back again as a dolphin

6 March, 1995

Purple Medley was released on the stand-alone single Purple Medley, released in March, 1995 to coincide with The Ultimate Live Experience tour in Europe.

The track is a medley of many of Prince's best known songs, containing re-recorded clips of, in order, Batdance (sampled), When Doves Cry, Kiss, Erotic City, Darling Nikki, 1999, Baby I'm A Star, Diamonds And Pearls, Purple Rain, Let's Go Crazy, Sexy Dancer, Let's Work, Irresistible Bitch/Sexy M.F., I Wanna Be Your Lover/Kiss (coda), Alphabet St., Thieves In The Temple, 777-9311 (bass line only), A Love Bizarre, If I Was Your Girlfriend, Raspberry Beret, Little Red Corvette, Peach/Cream (lyrics only), It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night (instrumentation). The edit ends with a fade-out during the Let's Go Crazy segment.

OldFriends4Sale said:

Paisley Park Money Woes Won't Sink Prince

Is it the darkness before the dawn at Paisley Park, or just business as usual with the mercurial despot known as Prince?

In a copyrighted story Sunday, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported that Prince's multimillion-dollar empire is in financial disarray; that Paisley Park Enterprises, his Chanhassen-based business entity, has not been paying all its bills on time or at all; that Point of View, a local film production company regularly hired by Prince since 1991, was owed $450,000 and 10 months later, settled for 70 cents on the dollar but was nonetheless forced into bankruptcy.

So what else is new?

The sun is not about to set in Paisley Park. Prince is one of those crazed, creative geniuses with no regard — or sense — about business. It just happens that, since the release of his first album on Warner Bros. in 1978, this mad genius has managed to sell more than 35 million albums in the United States, make four movies, win an Oscar and a handful of Grammys, and generate more than $300 million worth of business.

Prince Roger Nelson, 36, the Minneapolis-born rock and film star, is Elvis without the drugs. He lives in isolation, surrounded by a cadre of functionaries, gofers and yes-men and women who carry such fancy but often meaningless titles as manager or vice president. He may call at 3 a.m. requesting that the wardrobe department make an outfit. If you buy into his vision and want to keep your job, you head to the office and execute the boss' orders.

As a teen, Prince bounced from his mother's house to his father's to the home of a friend whose mother became a de facto step-mom to Prince. But he never starved, he never had to get a job to pay for rent or gasoline, he never even had a checkbook that required his signature until last year. (I wonder if he signed "Prince Roger Nelson: or that glyph that has become his stage name?)

Elvis Presley didn't have a sense of business, but he had Col. Tom Parker, an ex-carny who had a knack for business and promotion. Elvis did have the good sense to turn his business over to Parker — even if it was at an exorbitant commission, reportedly 50 percent. Prince has not had the good sense of turn his business over to the right people since 1989, when he fired the managers, lawyers and accountants who had guided him since 1980.

Back then, the three entities provided a checks-and-balances system. They were the ones who listened to Prince's vision and put together the improbable deal to make a $7 million, quasi-autobiographical movie in Minneapolis with a rookie director and unknown star, and "Purple Rain" grossed more than $70 million, sold 11 million soundtrack albums and catapulted Prince into stardom.

Since '89, Prince would hire a manager and tell that person to hire a lawyer and accountant because the star had neither the time nor inclination to do it himself. The manager would hire his lawyer and accountant, an approach with an inherent conflict of interest. Then Prince would fire the manager and ask the lawyer to find a new manager.

There is no manager now. Gilbert Davidson, who started as Prince's bodyguard in 1984, took over his business affairs in 1990. He announced his intentions to quit at the end of last year, but Prince fired him last summer. The Levi Seacer Jr., Prince's former bassist and guitarist who had been running Prince's NPG Records, took over some of the management responsibilities. He left when his contract expired in November.

Who's minding the shop? A team consisting of Prince's half-brother, Duane Nelson, who started working for Prince 12 years ago mowing his lawn; Therese Stoulil, who has been Prince's personal assistant for nearly 10 years, and Juli Knapp, a former assistant to the vice president of the now-defunct Paisley Park Records. Prince's longtime Los Angeles-based booking agent, Rob Light, who represents Janet Jackson and other stars, has, by default, taken over some of the managerial responsibilities such as meeting with officials at Warner Bros. Records.

A case could be made that in entrepreneurial endeavors such as Prince's —making records, films and videos; running Glam Slam nightclubs in Miami and Los Angeles, and operating a retail store/catalog selling everything from his own perfume to custom guitars — cash flow can be a problem, even if annual revenues are more than $10 million, which is probably what Prince pulls in royalties and fees in a show year like 1994. He spends capriciously with no regard to the balance in a ledger.

For example, in early 1993 he set up an expensive office with 10 or 12 people for Paisley Park Records in Centure City, Calif., at the time when he was feuding with Warner Bros., which distributed Paisley Records. The plush office operated for a year; Prince never set foot in the place and he still is paying off contracts of some of the employees, including the top executive, John Dukakis, who now comanages the hugely successful Boyz II Men. Also in '93, Paisley Park Records spent more than $2 million, at Prince's insistence, on a video and promotional campaign for a record by his friend, dancer Carmen Electra, that generated minimal sales.

If Prince wants a project to get done, he assigns it to a staff member, whether that person is qualified or not. He is demanding and also has a magical way of instilling confidence in his people. But if he meets resistance from an employee, he usually finds another to execute his orders. In the 1980's, manager Steve Fargnoli would challenge Prince's ideas. For instance, Fargnoli and others had to convince Prince that Paisley Park Studios, his $10 million recording complex that opened in 1987, could not be a personal playground, but rather a cash-generating studio open to the public as well as his occasional private romper room. In the early '90s, longtime staff member Alan Leeds, who ran Paisley Park Records, often assumed the role of the business-minded adviser who understood Prince's vision and would challenge him about the reality of trying to fit it into the business world. But since Leeds left in May 1992, Prince has essentially surrounded himself with folks who drink his Kool-Aid, or they're let go.

At Paisley Park Enterprises, some bills get paid, others apparently don't. A catering company for a Prince video shoot was paid three times for the same bill (and returned the checks). The Pioneer Press investigation discovered several unpaid — or underpaid — creditors, including at least two Minnesota video production companies. In 1994, Prince did not undertake a concert tour, abroad or in the United States, for the first time in years. Thus he did not generate the cash flow he had been accustomed to. Not that he probably was paying much attention to the books.

3.21.1995 @ the Wembley Arena in London England

1. Endorphinmachine

2. the Jam

3. Shhh

4. Days f Wild

5. Now

6. Funky Stuff / Sex Machine(w/Eric Leeds)

7. the Most Beautiful Girl in the World
8. Pussy Control

9. Letitgo

10. Pink Cashmere

11. Loose

12. I Love U in Me

13. Peach

14. 7

15 Get Wild

16. Billy Jack Bitch

17. I Hate U

18. 319

19. Gold

3.30.1995 @ Point Depot in Dublin Ireland

SOUNDCHECK

A Count the Days 3:28
B Licking Stick 4:33

C Poor Goo 2:16
D Let's Get It ON 2:54

E Love, They Will Be Done 4:31
F Funky [drum intro] 5:29

Angelsoncrack said:

One of his best albums and it came out the year I was born

Billy Jack Bitch and Endorphinmachine are my favs from the album.

My fav pic of him in this era:

"You complete me"

iZsaZsa said:

If it's not too much trouble - juggle 2 at a time.

lol I could, this one is starting to whine down into early 1996

OldFriends4Sale said:

Had this poster back in the day, too cool

OldFriends4Sale said:

iZsaZsa said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

lol I could, this one is starting to whine down into early 1996

I would love some Rave.

U Got It

Thank you again for this thread. Keep it going as long as you like. I love the Gold Era!!!

this is the best thread EVER and one of the most interesting period in Prince's career!

4.5.1995 @ the Virgin Music Megastore in London

0+> as Tora Tora 4 an autograph signing session w/the NPG