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April 1 2014

Close-up of Prince's funky new Cloud guitar as posted on Donna Grantis' Twitter feed last night before being promptly removed

Prince's guitar pick from his first ever show on British soil at The Lyceum in London - June 2nd 1981

Martin Colyer describes the scene:
As Prince plays small gigs in the capital, from front rooms in Leyton to the offices of The Guardian, a look back… I knew of Prince because my friend Mick had given me Prince, the album. I was working in my first job at the Radio Times and went to the Lyceum show with two friends from work, Sue and Ruby.

I remember it being virtually empty as there hadn’t been much publicity. It was the Dirty Mind band of Andre Cymone on bass, Lisa Coleman and Matt Fink on keyboards, Bobby Z on drums and Dez Dickerson on guitar. The keyboardists were disguised (Matt Fink had some kind of radiation suit on) and the frontline wore underwear and trenchcoats. Quite mad.

It was a spectacular show, with Prince’s guitar playing outstanding, and they went down a storm with the few hundred people there (mostly music-biz types, I think). I was right at the front (well, the whole audience were, actually) and close enough to catch Prince’s plectrum. I have a memory of Prince being bad-tempered, not with the audience, but at the empty hall. He stomped off at the end throwing his pick rather petulantly… and cancelled the rest of the tour.

I recently read the brilliant Ian Penman on this gig. He hated it. Really, really hated it. See for yourself in this cut-down excerpt (I know I shouldn’t but it is pretty long:

“For a wolverine habituee of the sharper clubs and bars of our capital such as myself, this tawdry ‘gig’ was something like a step into the horrors of Hieronymous Bosch from the accustomed gilt-edged decadent sumptuousness of Klimt!

The dry ice and fright lights – whose calculated effect is undermined and rendered pretty pathetic by way of the Lyceum’s half-emptiness – turn out to be a good index of the Prince live repertoire’s ancient grasp of sub-cultural subtlety: the plot doesn’t thicken, it keeps its consistency. Heavy, stodgy, overdone, tasteless, lacking in spice or space – you get the picture?

‘Outfront’, Prince prances in unison with his two guitar cohorts – they walk it like they talk it, as the saying goes, every song split down the middle or battered to bed with the tedious exaggeration of third-rate Heavy Metal. Someone remarked to me the next day that oh, you know what these young chaps are like with their Hendrix fixations. Hendrix? It never began to shimmer with a hint of the historical avant-shapelessness or spirited slipstreams or sexual harangues of a Hendrix! This was calculated – Madison Square Garden here we come! – coldly choreographed strut rut muzak, in which context Prince’s thigh flashes and camp come-hither persona is stretched pretty thin.

My two fellow funkateers and I unanimously elected to wander away from the endlessly guitar wrenching spectacle after about half an hour – we didn’t really even ‘walk out’; it was more of an embarrassed shuffle.”

I, on the other hand, was obviously taken in by the dry ice and the third-rate Heavy Metal. I still am...

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Prepping 4 greatness, mid-70's.

Prince and 3RDEYEGIRL - Manchester Academy 22nd February, 2014.

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The look on Prince's face is PRICELESS!!!

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monkeyrose said:

Wow, MonkeyRose and 206, you've been finding some never seen before goodies! Love it!! MMmm, now can you find some semi nude/nude shots? $$$ shot!

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3rdeyeboy said:

Love this thread! I know if it was about a female artist there would be uproar about objectification, but fuck em! Prince was amazing and I'm so glad we can celebrate his looks rather than all 7 of his albums that us true famz love!

Totally agree!

It's a little bit like call and response ... on a special way

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SpinsterSister said:

monkeyrose said:

Wow, MonkeyRose and 206, you've been finding some never seen before goodies! Love it!! MMmm, now can you find some semi nude/nude shots? $$$ shot!

U can go here http://prince.org/msg/7/432345 and there will be some semi nude shots. If I see any with a guitar, I will put it here.