Wow! This is really cool.

I LOVE footage of him dancing - he was pretty damned good at it and barely broke a sweat - AND he carried on singing more or less throughout. Impressive stuff!

Thanks this is amazing, awesome as usual

Wow.

Excellent. Thanks for sharing.

That WAS amazing. Thank you for sharing.

Great footage, he looked so happy I miss him live, he was on fire! Thanks Latin for sharing I love seeing new footage!

All the potential performance videos in the vault.... must be seen!

ufoclub said:

All the potential performance videos in the vault.... must be seen!

Oh , my muscle man Thanks for sharing this awesome clip.

Goddess4Real said:

ufoclub said:

All the potential performance videos in the vault.... must be seen!

Yaaaaasssssss...

Awesomeness, fer sure!

Dibblekins said:

I LOVE footage of him dancing - he was pretty damned good at it and barely broke a sweat - AND he carried on singing more or less throughout. Impressive stuff!

LOL..

IO wrote virtually the same when I saw this Posted on facebook a couple of days ago...

That Floral SHirt and matching tie tho...

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LBrent said:

Goddess4Real said:

Yaaaaasssssss...

Awesomeness, fer sure!

sonshine said:

Missed it

It's still there.

Lovejunky said:

Dibblekins said:

I LOVE footage of him dancing - he was pretty damned good at it and barely broke a sweat - AND he carried on singing more or less throughout. Impressive stuff!

LOL..

IO wrote virtually the same when I saw this Posted on facebook a couple of days ago...

That Floral SHirt and matching tie tho...

Be fair - carrying THAT ensemble off is definitely impressive, lmao!!!

''Whenever you say that you can't, that's when you need to be tryin''. You tell 'em , Daddy Pop.

i wonder who choreographed that, I always assumed Prince did it all but my god, that has to be a shitload of work not only doing his parts but telling the band what to do too.

Lovejunky said:

FUNKNROLL said:

Lovejunky said:

LOL..

IO wrote virtually the same when I saw this Posted on facebook a couple of days ago...

That Floral SHirt and matching tie tho...

That shirt looks like a couch on an episode of "Golden Girls". I cringed at some of those dance moves. Still scratch my head at seeing him with his butt backed up and thrusting through the other dancer's groin, but he wouldn't sing "Bad" with Michael Jackson? Not homophobic - just confounded.

i think everyone wondered about that one, big time. I still remember as clear as day watching that, and you know, Prince had really been sort of off the entire map since Purple Rain and Diamonds and Pearls was his big commercial concession. There were full page ads about the arsenio show and I thought he was simply brilliant throughout but as my man was going through the show I was like "ok, ya, he's doing it, he's showing everyone, ya, right on," then, as soon as he did that I thought "uh oh, he just lost it".

still, barring the bootie humping move, that was a feast for the eyes and just makes me wonder "how did he do it"? Just a superman.

Out of breath just watching that! That is aerobics x100.

leadline said:

Based on the Levi interview, this footage was probably shot for the Diamonds and Pearls: Video Collection because the interviews of Levi in the VHS are shot the same way. I always wondered what didn't make the final edit and if we would ever see any of it. Just affirms what so many have already said; there is so much wonderful stuff left to be seen/heard, especially as it relates to live music as well as interviews. I don't care as much about unreleased studio music, but I hope that more of the live music gets released as audio and video.

Latin said:

That particular dance move was one of the highlights of that era for many that appreciated Prince's bold form of gender binary expression that challenged what was/is considered to be "social norms".

i'm sure it was but for some of us who always rooted for prince, and realizing that many people didn't like him, not just because of the homophobia but also because he was "strange", any of those people who might have been swayed by the rest of the performance, which was brilliant as usual, had to be going "oh goddamn, change the channel". Personally, i didn't care, i just knew it wouldn't help his cause. Didn't seem to hurt his sales though, it was his best selling album since PR i think. Also, i never heard a mention about that move, in those days the internet didn't exist for people to gossip and most people that you ran across really didn't care one way or the other or even watch.