OldFriends4Sale said:

3.17.1995
the Arena Sheffield England

1. Purple Medley

2. Endorphinemachine

3. The Jam

4. Shhh

5. Day Of Wild

6. Now

7. Funky Stuff

8. Sex Machine

9. the Most Beautiful Girl in the World

10. Get Wild

11. Girls & Boys

12. Superhero

13. Outta Space

14. Billy Jack Bitch

15. I Hate U

16. 319

17. Gold

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3.17.1995
the Arena Sheffield England

1. Purple Medley

2. Endorphinemachine

3. The Jam

4. Shhh

5. Day Of Wild

6. Now

7. Funky Stuff

8. Sex Machine

9. the Most Beautiful Girl in the World

10. Pussy Control

11. Let It Go

12. Pink Cashmere

13. Get Loose

14. I Love You In Me

15. Peach

16. 7

17. Get Wild

18. Gold

Drug Raid At Glam Slam

For the second time in a week police raided and shut down a popular Miami Beach nightclub after an undercover investigation revealed drug-related activities.

Glam Slam, the club owned by the Artist Formerly Known As Prince, was raided at 2:15am on Saturday and shut down. The club's liquor licence was temporarily yanked until it's case can be heard in court.

On Dec. 30th, 'Twist' and 'Groove Jet' [two other popular South Beach nightclubs] also were closed by Miami Beach police and the Florida Division of Alcohol, Beverage and Tobacco, and temporarily lost their licences to sell alcohol.

Police say undercover officers were able to make drug buys from patrons at the clubs, some in open areas in view of bartenders and security workers.

At Glam Slam, Miami Beach fire inspectors also found seven fire code violation. Pyrotechnics were used, and three marked emergency exits were blocked and chained.

Guitar Suit Targets Former Prince

The Artist Formerly Known As Prince has some explaining to do. A Chicago man is suing the funk-rock superstar, alleging he stole a custom-made guitar. The instument is shaped like the symbol that the artist now uses to represent his name.

Ferdinand Pickett, 31, a Chicago bike messenger who designs guitars and clothing in his spare time, met the former Prince after the artist's show at the Chicago Theater in April, 1993.

According to a lawsuit filed with the U.S District Court, Pickett presented Prince — who had recently changed his name to an unpronouncable symbol — with the hand-carved guitar. The suit states that the artist kept the guitar to try out after promising to buy it for $10,000 or return it to Pickett.

Pickett says he was never paid and never got his guitar back. His phone calls to the musician's office in Minneapolis were not returned. But the artist appeared in photos a short time later with a guitar shaped like Pickett's.

"We think that Prince just got the guitar from Ferdinand and referred it to his people and said, 'This is what I want,'" said Pickett's lawyer, Paul Weiss of Harvey Wallner and Associates. "He's pretending as if Ferdinand doesn't exist."

The artist's business manager, Michael Kane, said the lawsuit is without merit. He called it one of the dozens of "nuisance" complaints that his client is forced to deal with each year.

At a hearing last Friday, Judge Milton Shadur ordered the artist and his attorneys to comply with the discovery process.

Weiss is anxious to go to trial so that he can call witnesses who were present when Pickett allegedly gave the artist the guitar. Meanwhile, Pickett said he's not going to be giving any more guitars away. While he used to be a huge Prince fan, he said, "Things like this make you feel differently."

Princely Pauper

Last year rock star Prince legally changed his name to an unpronounceable glyph and announced that no one was to call him Prince anymore. The change, he hoped, would break him free of any contracts he signed as his former self.

It was a move any sensible manager would have nixed. But Prince fired the last in a long line of handlers last year and has been managing his own career since then. Making a mess of it, too.

Ten years ago Prince surrounded himself with some of the sharpest minds in show business. Together they sold over 15 million copies of the soundtrack for "Purple Rain", a movie he starred in.

A string of other hits led to his signing a six-album deal with Warner Bros Records three years ago worth potentially $100 million and loaded with perks: advances of $10 million per record, $20 million additional funding for Paisley Park (a recording complex he had built in Minneapolis), a Los Angeles office and his own record label.

But Prince was soon quarreling with Time Warner, accusing its executives of "enslaving" his music when they wanted to stick to the terms of the contract. Warner shuttered his office and stopped putting money into his record label.

Prince has since retreated to Paisley Park, where he has nearly ruined himself with self-indulgent spending, including $6 million a year to keep the studio running.

Last year the flamboyant star spent about $4 million to rehearse his band and build stages for a conert tour he never made and lavished $2 million on nine versions of the single "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World", which he released independently. It sold only about 700,000 copies.

He makes up to 30 videos a year, at a cost of up to $500,000 apeice, and never releases them. His last two albums, released last year, have sold about 500,000 copies combined in the U.S., according to SoundScan.

Warner recently helped keep Prince out of bankruptcy by lending him $10 million, and advance against royalties from his upcoming album, "The Gold Experience". Add this to the bill: The label is still waiting to recoup the millions it advanced the star for his previous records.

Robert Christgau got it:

"

The Gold Experience [Warner Bros./NPG, 1995]
After two or three plays, convinced that "P Control" and "Endorphinmachine" slam harder than any hip hop I've heard in years, I shrugged and recalled that, after all, I already knew he was the most gifted recording artist of the era. But this album documents more than professional genius rampant--all of them do that. This album is a renewal. It's as sex-obsessed as ever, only with more juice--"Shhh" and "319" especially pack the kind of porno jolt sexy music rarely gets near and hard music never does. And you'd best believe "Shhh" and 319" are hard--not for years has the auteur (as opposed to some hired gat) sounded so black, and not for years has the guitarist sounded so rock. As for the ballads, they suffer only by their failure to dominate. One of them has already stormed the radio--and another, good for him, takes too many risks to follow. A"

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OldFriends4Sale said:

the Gold Experience era tour 9.26.1995

Aftershow in London (Emporium)

3.21.2015 @ the Wembley Arena in London

1. Endorphinemachine

2. The Jam

3. Shhh

4. Day Of Wild

5. Now

6. Funky Stuff

7. the Most Beautiful Girl in the World

8. Pussy Control

9. Let It Go

10. Pink Cashmere

11. Loose

12. I Love You In Me

13. Peach

14. 7

15. Get Wild

16. Billy Jack Bitch

17. I Hate U

18. 319

19. Gold

iZsaZsa said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Give me that dress!

OldFriends4Sale said:

CHERRY CHERRY

Rozanda was her real name
But Cherry was her chosen one
Everybody said that she'd soon be dead
But Cherry replied, "At least I had some fun"
(Oh yes)

Her eyes were like a pool of 24 karat diamonds
I was the last in a long line of foolish men who dived in

Cherry, Cherry
I think about you every rising sun
Whoa, Cherry, Cherry
Wherever you are, I hope you're havin' fun
(Oh yes)

Tuesday was my big game
North vs. Central in basketball
Underneath their long coats
Cherry and the girls wore camisoles

Every time North would run the hoop
Cherry would flash 'em and they would fall but not as hard as I fell
When Cherry gave me her number and told me to call
(You should call me)

Using all the money her boyfriend Wilbur gave her
She'd buy anything I wanted
That's why my baby's so fly

Cherry, Cherry
I think about you every rising sun
Whoa, Cherry, Cherry
Wherever you are, I hope you're havin' fun
(Oh yes)

(Do, do, do, do, do)
Me and Cherry got married
And tried our best to keep it on the down low
The down low

I was combing her hair
The day that Wilbur called and cussed her on the phone
He beat her up real bad and figured I was gonna leave her
Instead I bought a 45 and set out to relieve her
(Take him out)

If he was taken out then he could never harm another
No sooner than I got there
I was met by Cherry's mother cryin'

Cherry, Cherry
Every night I ask the Lord why, oh why?
Cherry, Cherry
Another victim of a suicide
(Why, oh why?)
Why?

Cherry, Cherry
I think about you every rising sun
Whoa, Cherry, Cherry
Wherever you are I hope you're havin' fun
I hope you're having fun, baby

Cherry, Cherry
I'd give anything to kiss you
Cherry, Cherry
I guess I just miss you Cherry

3.29.1995 @ Point Depot in Dublin Ireland

1. Endorphinemachine

2. the Jam

3. Shhh

4. Days of Wild

5. Now

6. Funky Stuff

7. Johnny
8. TMBGITW

9. Pussy Control

10. Letitgo

11. Pink Cashmere

12. Loose

13. Orgasm

14. Love U In Me

15. Peach

16. 7

17. Get Wild

18. Billy Jack Bitch

19. I Hate U

20. 319

21. Gold

Aftershow in London

London 3.21.1995
EMPORIUM London
( with Eric Leeds)
1. Big Fun
2. Race /Girls And Boys /The Roof Is On Fire /Controversy
3. Super Hero
4. Dark
5. Sweet Thing
6. I Got My Mind Made Up
7. Skintight
8. Funky Stuff
9. Santana medley
10. Get Wild
11. Get Satisfied
12. Funky Design
13. Feel Good

Now is the tenth track (seventh song) on Prince's 17th album The Gold Experience, the first album to be credited to .

Initial tracking took place on 10 October, 1993 at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA (on the same day as Ripopgodazippa and Shy); the song's lyrics refer to "'94", but this presumably was with the intention it would be released in 1994. Horn overdubs were recorded in late October, 1993, also at Paisley Park Studios (during the same set of sessions as horn overdubs on 319). The studio version of the song was premiered at a party at Glam Slam, Minneapolis, MN, USA on 16 March, 1994 (along with Hate U, Billy Jack Bitch, Days Of Wild and a remix of Pope, hours after recording Letitgo). The track was included as the seventh track on an album configured in 1994 (unnamed, but considered to be an early configuration of The Gold Experience). It was included as the eighth track (fourth song) on March, 1994, and May, 1994, configurations of The Gold Experience, before being included as the third song on a later 1994 configuration. The 13 October, 1994, configuration included Now as the 13th track (eighth song), before the track Days Of Wild was removed from the album for release.

The track begins directly from the previous NPG Operator segue, which states "You have just accessed the Now Experience" and lists other tracks of a similar style, such as Housequake, Irresistible Bitch, and Sexy M.F., and ends "but that was then, this is..." with the track beginning with a cry of "Now!"; the same segue was used prior to most live performances of the track.

Now
Freaks on the floor
Freaks on the floor

One, two, one, two
(Freaks on the floor)
Light up another one, dude
(Freaks on the floor)

Now, one, two, three, four
Come on, come on, freaks on the floor
(Go, go, yeah, now, go, go, yeah)

Now, one, two, three, four
Come on, come on, freaks on the floor
(Go, go, yeah, now, go, go, yeah)

One, two, one, two, ninety-four
I'm on the set, freaks on the floor
Don't worry about my name, it's too long to remember
I could tell you now, but we'd be here 'til next September

Three, it be like that, see?
This ain't about the trippers trippin' like they know they be
This ain't about this, that, what, where, or how
This about the freaks doin' everything they wanna do, now

Now, one, two, three, four
Come on, come on, freaks on the floor
(Go, go, yeah, now, go, go, yeah)

Now, one, two, three, four
Come on, come on, freaks on the floor
(Go, go, yeah, now, go, go, yeah)
What you wantin' to say?

Now, one, two, three, four
Come on, come on, freaks on the floor
(Go, go, yeah, now, go, go, yeah)

Now, one, two, three, four
Come on, come on, freaks on the floor
(Go, go, yeah, now, go, go, yeah)
What you wanna play?

Three, four, three, four, ninety-nine
She the new hero 'cuz she's so divine
Unaffected by the system, she'd rather die
Than write a rap for some big booty heifer gettin' by

On that booty, instead of doin' duty
Aspire to be higher, I admire so I fire
'Cuz it's flyer to be hungry than phat
Take it from this sista, y'all take it from that

It's flyer to be hungry than phat
The ride up front is better
When you've been in the back
That's a fact

This ain't about this y'all, it ain't about that
This ain't about the booty movin' pumpin' the max
This ain't about this, that, what, where, or how
This about the freaks doing everything they wanna do now

Now, one, two, three, four
Come on, come on, freaks on the floor
(Go, go, yeah, now, go, go, yeah)

Now, one, two, three, four
Come on, come on, freaks on the floor
(Go, go, yeah, now, go, go, yeah)
What you wantin' to say?

Now, one, two, three, four
Come on, come on, freaks on the floor
(Go, go, yeah, now, go, go, yeah)

Now, one, two, three, four
Come on, come on, freaks on the floor
(Go, go, yeah, now, go, go, yeah)
What you wanna play?

Forty, forty-five, snake's alive
Say one thing, do another, it's time
We chill on that, nah, I don't need a gat
I'd rather see yourself checkin' ass up to bat for another swing

Anybody can sing
There's more to genius than the word my sister
Anything I would bring
Or would you rather dine alone?

If you change your mind, you can reach me on your video phone
It's a dime, as in dollars and that's my two bloody cents
This ain't about this, that, what, where, or how
This about the freaks doing everything they wanna do now

Now, one, two, three, four
Come on, come on, freaks on the floor
(Go, go, yeah, now, go, go, yeah)

Now, one, two, three, four
Come on, come on, freaks on the floor
(Go, go, yeah, now, go, go, yeah)
What you wantin' to say?

Now, one, two, three, four
Come on, come on, freaks on the floor
(Go, go, yeah, now, go, go, yeah)

Now, one, two, three, four
Come on, come on, freaks on the floor
(Go, go, yeah, now, go, go, yeah)
What you wanna play? Band
(Now)

Sixty-seven, sixty-seven
Freaks dance like they in heaven
DJ don't stop the music, DJ don't stop the music

Fill us with de dope track, lick us, twist us
Roll us in your mouth
Light us up and take a hit
Light us up and take a hit

Suck us 'til we're dry
And when we're lookin' like a roach, hit the lights
Before you say goodnight though
Let's make a toast, yo

This ain't about this, that, what, where, or how
This about the freaks doing everything they wanna do now

Now, one, two, three, four
Come on, come on, freaks on the floor
(Go, go, yeah, now, go, go, yeah)

Now, one, two, three, four
Come on, come on, freaks on the floor
(Go, go, yeah, now, go, go, yeah)

Freaks on the floor, now
Freaks on the floor, now
Freaks on the floor, now

iZsaZsa said:

^ In one of the prints posted Prince said the band works all day and night for a tiny bit of what the suits - who go home at 6pm - gets. That would make me want to cuss.

11.8.1994 18 & Over video shoot

OldFriends4Sale said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

controversy99 said:

Prince 3.28.1995 Brussels, Forest National [Manneken Peace] Aftershow

The Ultimate Live Experience One-Off Show
Forest National, Brussels
28th March 1995

People Get Ready
The Jam
I Believe In You
Days Of Wild
Proud Mary
Jailhouse Rock
Funky
The Ride
Sing A Simple Song
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
The Undertaker
(Lemme See Your Body) Get Loose!
Get Wild
Gold

1. Endorphinmachine
2. The Jam
3. Shhh *
4. Days Of Wild/Hair
5. Now
6. Babies Makin' Babies
7. Sex Machine
8. Funky Stuff
9. Johnny
10.The Most Beautiful Girl InTheWorld
8. Pussy Control
9. Letitgo
10. Pink Cashmere
11. Loose!
12. I Love U In Me
13. Peach
14. 7
15. Get Wild