I don't know what it is, but it makes me sad in a way, because it seems like such a lonely existance, the way Prince lived. It seems that his whole life was about music and not much more, and that makes me feel sad. I really think that although you may gain wealth and fame by living a celeb life, you also lose so much, like your privacy, trust of others, and freedom, not being able to just go any place without worrying about being noticed or bothered.....that has to suck.

1contessa said:

I don't know what it is, but it makes me sad in a way, because it seems like such a lonely existance, the way Prince lived. It seems that his whole life was about music and not much more, and that makes me feel sad. I really think that although you may gain wealth and fame by living a celeb life, you also lose so much, like your privacy, trust of others, and freedom, not being able to just go any place without worrying about being noticed or bothered.....that has to suck.

Yeah, but the benefits were money and unlimited babes. Screaming fans has to feel good too. I remember attending an afterparty after one of the NYC Musicology shows where he let us watch a DVD of that night's performance on a big screen. Sheila E. was with him too. It was only 15 minutes or so of the DVD but it was very cool. And very high quality. Guess he stuck it in the vault.

Bohemian67 said:

Such strange instructions, but thereafter one gets a feeling that Prince wanted to just be normal and sit in the bus like regular folk. Nice reflections... Everyone talks about how kind he was. And thoughtful in his gifts.

Those instructions were given to artists sitting next to Prince at the Grammys. Even Dick Clark was given those instructions. But, Dick Clark didn't care about those instructions, he just cared about helping the artists give great performances.

I'm thinking Prince made his people give those instructions for mystique purposes and when they didn't follow them, he would not react to them not following them. Making it seem like Prince is very kewl and normal (not that he wasn't). I think this was purposeful for Prince to get people to feel at ease with him being "Prince."

3rdeyedude said:

1contessa said:

I don't know what it is, but it makes me sad in a way, because it seems like such a lonely existance, the way Prince lived. It seems that his whole life was about music and not much more, and that makes me feel sad. I really think that although you may gain wealth and fame by living a celeb life, you also lose so much, like your privacy, trust of others, and freedom, not being able to just go any place without worrying about being noticed or bothered.....that has to suck.

Yeah, but the benefits were money and unlimited babes. Screaming fans has to feel good too. I remember attending an afterparty after one of the NYC Musicology shows where he let us watch a DVD of that night's performance on a big screen. Sheila E. was with him too. It was only 15 minutes or so of the DVD but it was very cool. And very high quality. Guess he stuck it in the vault.

But still, I guess that would get old after a while.

TrivialPursuit said:

Marrk said:

Sooo confirmation lots of Musicology tour DVD's in existence then.

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Nice he bought him a Harley!

Well, we know there is a DVD because the concert was filmed & shown in movie theaters, as a special event. I think it was a show filmed in Los Angeles at the Staples center, which was one of the first dates on the tour. It's since been leaked on the internet many times over.

But Prince always recorded his shows. Those stories of him watching the show go back decades. He'd sometimes sit the band down and make them watch certain parts or note certain things (eg: Revolution, early NPG days).

I have no doubt every show was filmed, but I highly doubt Prince was archiving all the live stuff back then. I don't think every tape was FedEx'd back to Paisley. more likely recorded over with the next nights show.

Pure speculation but I don't think he was archiving the live stuff until the mid/late 90's when he took note of bootlegs. IIRC the video-sphere from lotusflow3r.com simply used videos from circulating bootlegs... as in literally ripped from the bootlegs.