themend said:

databank said:

Tony was indeed credited as "Tone aka Deacon" on the 1994 Hoop Dreams OST, his only non-Prince related and last appearance on a record AFAIK. IDK why the short lived name change or if he tried to launch a solo career after Prince.

He was Deacon on the album. Somebody says at least once "Hold your tracks(?) Deacon!" on The Sacrifice of Victor iirc... Ok, just googled it, "Hold yo text, Deacon" [Edited 3/8/18 4:27am]

Yes, I wondered if the 'hold yo text deacon' line was referring to Tony or just a coincidence as there is also a line throughout 'don't say it preacher' and at the beginning he says 'church if you will...'

motherfunka said:

I attended the show for $100.00 and the night was epic! Much of the lower level of Paisley Park was open to view, most notably the studios. I had been in Paisley Park before for after parties and private concerts, but nothing like this.

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Prior to the actual concert Eric Leeds played in Studio C where they had some tables set up, like a little jazz club. Jacob Armin was in the band.

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They had a "gift shop" set up in the lobby and were selling The Most Beautiful Girl In The World single, as is was yet unreleased.

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A press table was also set up in the lobby, as there were a lot of celebrities in attendance due to the fact that the NBA All Star game was the same weekend.

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Also prior to the concert they did a fashion show to the Come version shown in the Beautiful Experience video. They then introduced the girls who won the Most Beautiful Girl In The World contest and then proceeded to show the video for the first time. Mayte and Jamie King also did their routine to Pheromone.

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After that an announcer introduced Tony Mosley and crew and they came onto the stage and "rapped" a song, don't know what it was or haven't heard it since. Obviously the low point of the evening!

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Lastly, Prince and the NPG came on stage. At the time the band were being billed as 10,000. It ended up being the same line up. Not sure what that was all about. The rest is documented on several boots. After the show was over, so was the event. Michael Bland handed me one of his drumsticks. One of the highlights was Prince playing drums.

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About a month later they showed the clips of The Jam and Shhh at Glam Slam. I was so excited to see myself front and center in the videos. In April they premiered the Beautiful Experience film. I was a little disappointed with that, as a lot of the concert was cut and videos from Come were mixed in. Although, it was nice to have a live document of something I had went to.

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I remember seeing a short clip (1-2 seconds) of Prince playing drums at this performance on VH-1 back in 1994. In the weeks leading up to the Vh-1 honors, Vh-1 aired a special where they did a 10 minute documentary on each of the honorees (an edited version of this was shown the night of the show, right before each honoree performed and recieved their award). A lot of it was unseen footage. They used the Miles Davis portion from Prince:A Musical Portrait where he named all the instruments that Prince plays, and showed a video clip of him playing that instrument. For piano, a short Diamonds and Pearls era video was shown of Prince playing piano, wearing the long white coat from the D&P video. For drums, the video of him playing drums during the Beautiful Experience concert was shown. I rememeber Sonny T laying down a funky groove with him. For bass, it was the Partyman studio footage of him playing the bass solo, and for guitar, it was the guitar solo from the Loose video. Does anyone else remember this airing on VH-1 back in 1994? I used to have it on tape and used to watch it endlessly but I lost it years ago and haven't been able to find it online at all

Mindbells9 said:

motherfunka said:

I attended the show for $100.00 and the night was epic! Much of the lower level of Paisley Park was open to view, most notably the studios. I had been in Paisley Park before for after parties and private concerts, but nothing like this.

.

Prior to the actual concert Eric Leeds played in Studio C where they had some tables set up, like a little jazz club. Jacob Armin was in the band.

.

They had a "gift shop" set up in the lobby and were selling The Most Beautiful Girl In The World single, as is was yet unreleased.

.

A press table was also set up in the lobby, as there were a lot of celebrities in attendance due to the fact that the NBA All Star game was the same weekend.

.

Also prior to the concert they did a fashion show to the Come version shown in the Beautiful Experience video. They then introduced the girls who won the Most Beautiful Girl In The World contest and then proceeded to show the video for the first time. Mayte and Jamie King also did their routine to Pheromone.

.

After that an announcer introduced Tony Mosley and crew and they came onto the stage and "rapped" a song, don't know what it was or haven't heard it since. Obviously the low point of the evening!

.

Lastly, Prince and the NPG came on stage. At the time the band were being billed as 10,000. It ended up being the same line up. Not sure what that was all about. The rest is documented on several boots. After the show was over, so was the event. Michael Bland handed me one of his drumsticks. One of the highlights was Prince playing drums.

.

About a month later they showed the clips of The Jam and Shhh at Glam Slam. I was so excited to see myself front and center in the videos. In April they premiered the Beautiful Experience film. I was a little disappointed with that, as a lot of the concert was cut and videos from Come were mixed in. Although, it was nice to have a live document of something I had went to.

.

.

I remember seeing a short clip (1-2 seconds) of Prince playing drums at this performance on VH-1 back in 1994. In the weeks leading up to the Vh-1 honors, Vh-1 aired a special where they did a 10 minute documentary on each of the honorees (an edited version of this was shown the night of the show, right before each honoree performed and recieved their award). A lot of it was unseen footage. They used the Miles Davis portion from Prince:A Musical Portrait where he named all the instruments that Prince plays, and showed a video clip of him playing that instrument. For piano, a short Diamonds and Pearls era video was shown of Prince playing piano, wearing the long white coat from the D&P video. For drums, the video of him playing drums during the Beautiful Experience concert was shown. I rememeber Sonny T laying down a funky groove with him. For bass, it was the Partyman studio footage of him playing the bass solo, and for guitar, it was the guitar solo from the Loose video. Does anyone else remember this airing on VH-1 back in 1994? I used to have it on tape and used to watch it endlessly but I lost it years ago and haven't been able to find it online at all

Damn. If some of this footage was indeed exclusive, it means I've missed it for my online discog (as I have for many short promo clips for tours and other TV programs that were never rippied to digital no catalogued by anyone). If you ever find them online or digitally please give me a sign and lemme know what's there exactly