SquirrelMeat said:

I particularly liked this show. I went to 26 of them. Favourite night was one in Birmingham (30th I think), where he mixed it up a bit.

I went to a fair few (I think about 15). Happy times! To be honest I can't remember any particular one that stood out from the rest for me.

NorthC said:

I was at the opening night in Rotterdam, my first ever Prince concert in the huge Feyenoord Stadion. It was a soaking wet affair. It was even cut short during the encores because of the rain. But... When he introduced The Question of U, which no one had heard and all the flashlights lighted up on the beat... Boom... Boom boom... Flash... Flash flash... That was a magical moment. The second night was better because at least it didn't rain during the concert, but only ten minutes or so longer than the night before.

I was there too! The second day we were there at like at 9 in the moring...can't imagine myself now waiting for a concert for 12 hours LOL. But we were very close to the stage. Still remember this guy shouting "look at that walk!" as Prince was running by.

The first night we were pretty far away from the stage, couldnt see much because of all the rain.

nextedition said:

I read the tour was a flop in Italy, and he cancelled the second show booked in Italy... It said only 13,000 tickets were sold out of 35,000.

Nude tour Manchester Maine Road

feeluupp said:

luv2tha99s said:

Is it known why Prince chose to do a greatest hits tour, his first ever, instead of a Batman/GB tour?

databank said:

Is it known why Prince chose to do a greatest hits tour, his first ever, instead of a Batman/GB tour?

Is that what it was? Or rather after 12 albums he happened to have a lot of hits?

databank said:

NorthC said:

violetcrush said:

databank said:

Is it known why Prince chose to do a greatest hits tour, his first ever, instead of a Batman/GB tour?

He did perform The Future and I think Partyman on the tour. I look at that tour as sort of a "end of an era" show, with him playing some of his greatest hits of the decade and mixing other songs in too. Starting with the Parade tour up until the mid 90's he always mixed old and new songs in the shows.

And Batdance, Scandalous, and The Question Of U were in.

violetcrush said:

databank said:

Is it known why Prince chose to do a greatest hits tour, his first ever, instead of a Batman/GB tour?

He did perform The Future and I think Partyman on the tour. I look at that tour as sort of a "end of an era" show, with him playing some of his greatest hits of the decade and mixing other songs in too. Starting with the Parade tour up until the mid 90's he always mixed old and new songs in the shows.

I think he did that even prior to the Parade tour. The PR tour included songs from 1999 Controversy Dirty Mind/Prince, but definately not like a 'Hits show'. But of course 1999 featured more songs from previews albums and Dirty Mind featured songs from Prince & For You.

Purple Rain tour: When You Were Mine, Head, With You, I Feel For You, I Wanna Be Your Lover Still Waiting,

were mixed in more into the 85 leg of the tour, which of course began featuring ATWIAD song previews

databank said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

violetcrush said:

databank said: He did perform The Future and I think Partyman on the tour. I look at that tour as sort of a "end of an era" show, with him playing some of his greatest hits of the decade and mixing other songs in too. Starting with the Parade tour up until the mid 90's he always mixed old and new songs in the shows.

I think he did that even prior to the Parade tour. The PR tour included songs from 1999 Controversy Dirty Mind/Prince, but definately not like a 'Hits show'. But of course 1999 featured more songs from previews albums and Dirty Mind featured songs from Prince & For You.

Purple Rain tour: When You Were Mine, Head, With You, I Feel For You, I Wanna Be Your Lover Still Waiting,

were mixed in more into the 85 leg of the tour, which of course began featuring ATWIAD song previews

Yes, true - he was always mixing old, current, and new songs during shows. For Parade he even went all the way back to songs from '79.

violetcrush said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

I think he did that even prior to the Parade tour. The PR tour included songs from 1999 Controversy Dirty Mind/Prince, but definately not like a 'Hits show'. But of course 1999 featured more songs from previews albums and Dirty Mind featured songs from Prince & For You.

Purple Rain tour: When You Were Mine, Head, With You, I Feel For You, I Wanna Be Your Lover, Still Waiting,

were mixed in more into the 85 leg of the tour, which of course began featuring ATWIAD song previews

Yes, true - he was always mixing old, current, and new songs during shows. For Parade he even went all the way back to songs from '79.

Yep, With You and I Wanna Be Your Lover are from the Prince album, I Feel For You Still Waiting from For You

I love Soft & Wet on the Parade tour

dodger said:

databank said:

Is it known why Prince chose to do a greatest hits tour, his first ever, instead of a Batman/GB tour?

Certain people will happily tell you he needed the money etc. It was a stripped down set (hence the name) so not as expensive to run as Lovesexy and SOTT

Ain't nothing going on but the rent

iZsaZsa said:

gandorb said:

iZsaZsa said:

Ain't nothing going on but the rent

He did include three Batman songs.the Batman phenomenon surrounding the movie was such a massive hype that caught fire but burned out rather quickly that I think it would have been a mistake to have a Batman tour. The flame was already dying when Party Man was released and people were surprised it didn't go Top 10.

I really wish that SNL band did shows before morphing into the Nude tour band.

databank said:

iZsaZsa said:

NorthC said:

iZsaZsa said:

NorthC said:

No, Scandalous wasn't part of the set.

It was so in a preview of the tour at the Civic Center. Ask OldFriends4Sale.

Scandelous was done in Minneapolis at Big Chicks Benefit Concert

the My 6th Warm Up gig at the Civic Center

and the June 2nd Rotterdam show

iZsaZsa said:

NorthC said:

No, Scandalous wasn't part of the set.

It was so in a preview of the tour at the Civic Center. Ask OldFriends4Sale.