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Thread started 02/18/17 4:24pm

thebanishedone

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When did Prince stop doing splits

What was the last concert Prince did splits? and please dont say

Rave 2000 dvd because its not true.i have seen bootleg videos from 2000/2001 hitnrun tour

where Prince did splits.

So it must have been in 2001 but when and why?

was he injured b4 but he continued doing splits or he got injured during 2001 hitnrun tour?

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Reply #1 posted 02/18/17 4:52pm

jazzvirtuoso

thebanishedone said:

What was the last concert Prince did splits? and please dont say


Rave 2000 dvd because its not true.i have seen bootleg videos from 2000/2001 hitnrun tour


where Prince did splits.


So it must have been in 2001 but when and why?


was he injured b4 but he continued doing splits or he got injured during 2001 hitnrun tour?



Well according to Sassie B:

"well, you know, he fell in atlantic city back in 98/99 while he was touring with chaka and larry. then he fell on the hit n' run tour in 2001. when was the last time he jumped off of a piano? i know how silly that sounds but, really, he used to do stuff like that all the time. and i'm not talking about ten years ago, either. i saw him back in 99 and he was jumping and dancing and doing the splits like crazy. maybe after those two falls he just feels like he's too old to be doing that. better to look great doing what you're doing than to keep falling and have people making suggestive comments about if you can still handle it."

So, indeed it looks like 2001!
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Reply #2 posted 02/18/17 5:54pm

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Prince didnt seem like a type of person who would just stop doing something because he is not as good as he was.he is more a type of person who would stop if a doctor tell him if you do splits one more time you will never walk again

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Reply #3 posted 02/18/17 6:01pm

laytonian

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According to this Washington Post review (A GREAT ONE), he jumped off the speakers in Washington DC at the June 2015 shows.
That's ten months before he was gone.
https://www.google.com/am...-sprint-us
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Welcome to "the org", laytonian… come bathe with me.
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Reply #4 posted 02/18/17 6:10pm

lavie

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laytonian said:

. According to this Washington Post review (A GREAT ONE), he jumped off the speakers in Washington DC at the June 2015 shows. That's ten months before he was gone. https://www.google.com/am...-sprint-us . [Edited 2/18/17 18:05pm]

This is true. I was at both shows in DC June 2015. He did jump off the speakers but no splits were done! I was afraid he was gonna fall but nope! Brillant shows.

Have U had your + today?
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Reply #5 posted 02/18/17 10:34pm

LBrent

I was watching P with Liv Warfeild and 3EG in Paris 2014 and although he was pretty thin and tiny, he was very bouncy...not doing splits, but dancing pretty energetic.

One thing I did notice that might've gone under folk's radar though was while he danced he suddenly stop and look at the band or the audience in mock offense...like he was giving himself a chance to have a break but make it look like the band or audience had offended him in some way. It was cute, but not an obvious way to take a break.

Also, some medications give patients an artificial energy boost and they may not be in their usual agonizing pain cuz they're sorta "high" on adrenaline/endorphins and later when they're alone and crash...the pain rushes back.

confused sad

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Reply #6 posted 02/18/17 11:22pm

dbpdexter

The last time I saw him doing splits was during the hit n run tour in 2000.He did like 10 splits in a row during scandalous if I remember correctly.

AKA PDEXTER
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Reply #7 posted 02/19/17 10:02am

PeteSilas

laytonian said:

. According to this Washington Post review (A GREAT ONE), he jumped off the speakers in Washington DC at the June 2015 shows. That's ten months before he was gone. https://www.google.com/am...-sprint-us . [Edited 2/18/17 18:05pm]

that's just plain fucking stupid, no disrespect but it's plain stupid.

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Reply #8 posted 02/19/17 10:12am

feeluupp

lavie said:

laytonian said:

. According to this Washington Post review (A GREAT ONE), he jumped off the speakers in Washington DC at the June 2015 shows. That's ten months before he was gone. https://www.google.com/am...-sprint-us . [Edited 2/18/17 18:05pm]

This is true. I was at both shows in DC June 2015. He did jump off the speakers but no splits were done! I was afraid he was gonna fall but nope! Brillant shows.

It's true. I was at both shows as well. He got on top of the speakers, and brought out Stevie Wonder on the second show.

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Reply #9 posted 02/19/17 10:18am

leecaldon

I saw him do the splits at Aladdin on 9th Dec 2000.

He jumped off a piano on Lopez Tonight in April 2011.

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Reply #10 posted 02/19/17 10:18am

leecaldon

feeluupp said:

lavie said:

This is true. I was at both shows in DC June 2015. He did jump off the speakers but no splits were done! I was afraid he was gonna fall but nope! Brillant shows.

It's true. I was at both shows as well. He got on top of the speakers, and brought out Stevie Wonder on the second show.

I don't think it's a good idea for Stevie Wonder to be jumping off speakers.

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Reply #11 posted 02/19/17 10:42am

Germanegro

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PeteSilas said:

laytonian said:

. According to this Washington Post review (A GREAT ONE), he jumped off the speakers in Washington DC at the June 2015 shows. That's ten months before he was gone. https://www.google.com/am...-sprint-us . [Edited 2/18/17 18:05pm]

that's just plain fucking stupid, no disrespect but it's plain stupid.

Yah, I was at that late show. I think it was more like a hop off a speaker, not jumping off some large tower, but yeah he really did stop doing that stuff for the most part. I guess we all now know that the painkillers helped keep the man in action.

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Reply #12 posted 02/19/17 5:57pm

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There is no proof he took pain killers.
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Reply #13 posted 02/19/17 10:03pm

teddy

PurpleDiamonds1 said:

There is no proof he took pain killers.

This is denial. He was in pain, he used pain killers. Fentanyl is a pain killer and he died trying to kill pain.

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Reply #14 posted 02/19/17 11:51pm

LBrent

teddy said:

PurpleDiamonds1 said:

There is no proof he took pain killers.

This is denial. He was in pain, he used pain killers. Fentanyl is a pain killer and he died trying to kill pain.

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Reply #15 posted 02/20/17 12:33am

jayseajay

leecaldon said:

I saw him do the splits at Aladdin on 9th Dec 2000.

He jumped off a piano on Lopez Tonight in April 2011.

Yeah he did, and while I was watching it recently and saw he was about to I was like 'nooooooooo'....at least he put his hand on the top as he did it. He always said jumping of pianos was what it was all about....personally, I'd have been happy enough if he just sat in a damn chair a played the guitar confused

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Not like I love my guitar....
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Reply #16 posted 02/20/17 4:39am

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teddy said:



PurpleDiamonds1 said:


There is no proof he took pain killers.

This is denial. He was in pain, he used pain killers. Fentanyl is a pain killer and he died trying to kill pain.


--There is no proof that he was taking pain killers back when he was jumping off these speakers. We know what happened on April 21st.
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