purplethunder3121 said:

Local PBS finally added it to the lineup for 9:30 pm on June 1!

Don't you all have this on dvd or blueray? I always thought the picture quality on this one was awesome! They certainly appeared to have a blast that night.

Empress said:

Don't you all have this on dvd or blueray? I always thought the picture quality on this one was awesome! They certainly appeared to have a blast that night.

Of course, I do. But it is always a kick when you get to see or hear Prince on regular TV or radio. It's like, "Awesome - now other people get to love him as much as I do."

Genesia said:

Empress said:

Don't you all have this on dvd or blueray? I always thought the picture quality on this one was awesome! They certainly appeared to have a blast that night.

Of course, I do. But it is always a kick when you get to see or hear Prince on regular TV or radio. It's like, "Awesome - now other people get to love him as much as I do."

True!

poppys said:

sexton said:

PBS in NYC will broadcast the concert on Thursday, June 27th, 9pm.

Where did you find that? I'm only seeing Doobie Brothers on Sat night here dammit.

https://www.pbs.org

Enter your zip code, choose your local PBS station and then search for "Prince".

Dirty Ol' Larry.
The smurf outifit.
Face doused in sequins.
The "Christ".
Look, my piano is motorized.


'Nuff said.
Leave this shit in the purple gutter where it belongs.

sexton said:

poppys said:

Where did you find that? I'm only seeing Doobie Brothers on Sat night here dammit.

https://www.pbs.org

Enter your zip code, choose your local PBS station and then search for "Prince".

Thank you sexton. Tried that yesterday and it was glitchy. Today it's working but still nada for NOLA.

bonatoc said:

Dirty Ol' Larry.
The smurf outifit.
Face doused in sequins.
The "Christ".
Look, my piano is motorized.


'Nuff said.
Leave this shit in the purple gutter where it belongs.

I paid for and watched this Dec 31 1999 and I cringed even then. I can't begin to imagine how I'll cover my face when I watch this again.

To this day I still can't get those slow-motion "vignettes" (or whatever they were) out of my head. SO CHEESY. There was still some great music and it was still Prince and it overall looked great, but the overall concept was very unnatural looking. It looked completely staged.

If you are having trouble finding out when it will be on where you live, contact your local PBS station by email. I did, and here in the cultural desert of the Ozarks, channel 21 sees fit to air it 8:30 to 10 pm, on Monday, June 3rd. Well, at least it gives you something to look forward to for a workday!

Genesia said:

Empress said:

Don't you all have this on dvd or blueray? I always thought the picture quality on this one was awesome! They certainly appeared to have a blast that night.

Of course, I do. But it is always a kick when you get to see or hear Prince on regular TV or radio. It's like, "Awesome - now other people get to love him as much as I do."

pdiddy2011 said:

bonatoc said:

Dirty Ol' Larry.
The smurf outifit.
Face doused in sequins.
The "Christ".
Look, my piano is motorized.


'Nuff said.
Leave this shit in the purple gutter where it belongs.

I paid for and watched this Dec 31 1999 and I cringed even then. I can't begin to imagine how I'll cover my face when I watch this again.

To this day I still can't get those slow-motion "vignettes" (or whatever they were) out of my head. SO CHEESY. There was still some great music and it was still Prince and it overall looked great, but the overall concept was very unnatural looking. It looked completely staged.

Well, it was the night folks were all scared that Y2K was supposed to take us all out, maybe Prince just quickly threw it together so that in some way, all of us were spiritually connected, just in case. And in case not, he still made some money.

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

pdiddy2011 said:

I paid for and watched this Dec 31 1999 and I cringed even then. I can't begin to imagine how I'll cover my face when I watch this again.

To this day I still can't get those slow-motion "vignettes" (or whatever they were) out of my head. SO CHEESY. There was still some great music and it was still Prince and it overall looked great, but the overall concept was very unnatural looking. It looked completely staged.

Well, it was the night folks were all scared that Y2K was supposed to take us all out, maybe Prince just quickly threw it together so that in some way, all of us were spiritually connected, just in case. And in case not, he still made some money.

Interesting. Was living in the USVI then so didn't see it in real time.

And as much as pdiddy2011 cries cheesy, they say they will watch it again.

"Y2K, not today." I still got the original DVD of the New Years Eve concert that I can watch whenever I want, so I don't really need to catch it on PBS but I'm glad they are airing it so viewers can experience Prince's version of "Red House" etc.

bonatoc said:

Dirty Ol' Larry.
The smurf outifit.
Face doused in sequins.
The "Christ".
Look, my piano is motorized.


'Nuff said.
Leave this shit in the purple gutter where it belongs.

Why you gotta be so sad?

Prince in the smurf outfit with no undies on PBS is a historical event.


Grandma will be pleased.

.

[Edited 6/1/19 8:41am]

ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

bonatoc said:

Dirty Ol' Larry.
The smurf outifit.
Face doused in sequins.
The "Christ".
Look, my piano is motorized.


'Nuff said.
Leave this shit in the purple gutter where it belongs.

Why you gotta be so sad?

Prince in the smurf outfit with no undies on PBS is a historical event.


Grandma will be pleased.

I'm not sad. This is actually a very decent video, there is no questioning the performance.
It could be a great entry point for a noob.

But... He's not smiling much, is he?
When he does this splits in repetition, it looks like he's going for the Guinness Book.
He's not having fun, he's trying to prove something.

Prince is the one who looks sad in this video, all along.

He's like trying so hard to make a point the world already knew by then.
Yeah, Prince, we get it, you're the best stage performer.

Then there are the bad taste moments. I never dug the ballets.
And this dichotomy I could never get: on one hand, Larry convinces him
to get rid of the curse and nasty words, on the other here he is,
bone unhided in eletric blue glittery spandex. Make up your mind, SKipper.

I hate this period. "Rave" the album is turd for the most part ("So Far, So Pleased", "Undisputed", "Rave", two thirds of the songs are atrocious), save the little miracles you can always expect even in Prince's least interesting albums ("Tangerine", "Strange But True", "Wherever U Go, Whatever U Do").

The only redeemer in the whole story is Prince being always at it, no matter the deep depression he's obviously going through. It fucking shows. The man needs a vacation, but no, he's still battling his traumas with the only method he knows: work, work, work.

Except pop music isn't supposed to be some gym training.
This is what this live looks like.

How can a fan not cringe looking at the splits in repetitions, knowing how this useless display ended up for his wealth?

How can a fan not cringe hearing this piece of shit of Larry, his horrendous barytone voice, his disgusting laughters, knowing what Mayte went through because of this man? A man who convinced Prince he deserved what happened to Amiir? And maybe most of all, his fucking slapped quarter notes? Prince was in desperate need of a father figure, but the only thing he truly needed was to stop working for a few years and get some therapy. This bitter has-been just swooped in and stained the purple underground up until "The Breakdown". Go hide under a rock, Mr. Graham. You pushed your own agenda and like many others, looked the other way when Prince was popping His Little Pill.

Because, ultimately, the whole show reeks drugs. I don't know what kind, and I don't want to know, but someone of the artistic stature of Prince, who paranoically retreats in his xanadu (it's home, it's safe, the crowd is nothing but folks already acquired to the cause, there's no challenge at all), and suddenly goes: "check this out" while bragging about the most ugly piano the earth ever witnessed that is, again, MOTORIZED (even an electric bread knife makes a hundred times better use of electricity), is highly, highly suspicious.

Does he look great? Yes.
Does he play phenomenally? Yes.
"Tell me something I don't know, J.B.".

I'm not the one who's sad.
Prince is, and it shows, and you can see and hear it.
Despite the funk moments (it's like breathing for him, so no big feat here), it's all very morbid, starting with the intro testimonials desperately trying to give an artist no one could care less about in 1999 (oh, the irony, oh, the... "new master") some relevance.
It's all very depressing, and dishonest to himself.

At least the "Motherless Child" TV performance gives us a glimpse of how he truly felt at the time.

[Edited 6/1/19 2:53am]

bonatoc said:

At least the "Motherless Child" TV performance gives us a glimpse of how he truly felt at the time.

[Edited 6/1/19 2:53am]

I remember seeing a show at Paisley not long before this was filmed, and happened to be close enough to the stage to make eye contact with him that night. And I left feeling the same thing. That he was upset or sad. I wrote a review of it at the time, and mentioned him looking depressed, and his website posted it but removed all of the mentions of him being depressed.

bonatoc said:

ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

Why you gotta be so sad?

Prince in the smurf outfit with no undies on PBS is a historical event.


Grandma will be pleased.

I'm not sad. This is actually a very decent video, there is no questioning the performance.
It could be a great entry point for a noob.

But... He's not smiling much, is he?
When he does this splits in repetition, it looks like he's going for the Guinness Book.
He's not having fun, he's trying to prove something.

Prince is the one who looks sad in this video, all along.

He's like trying so hard to make a point the world already knew by then.
Yeah, Prince, we get it, you're the best stage performer.

Then there are the bad taste moments. I never dug the ballets.
And this dichotomy I could never get: on one hand, Larry convinces him
to get rid of the curse and nasty words, on the other here he is,
bone unhided in eletric blue glittery spandex. Make up your mind, SKipper.

I hate this period. "Rave" the album is turd for the most part ("So Far, So Pleased", "Undisputed", "Rave", two thirds of the songs are atrocious), save the little miracles you can always expect even in Prince's least interesting albums ("Tangerine", "Strange But True", "Wherever U Go, Whatever U Do").

The only redeemer in the whole story is Prince being always at it, no matter the deep depression he's obviously going through. It fucking shows. The man needs a vacation, but no, he's still battling his traumas with the only method he knows: work, work, work.

Except pop music isn't supposed to be some gym training.
This is what this live looks like.

How can a fan not cringe looking at the splits in repetitions, knowing how this useless display ended up for his wealth?

How can a fan not cringe hearing this piece of shit of Larry, his horrendous barytone voice, his disgusting laughters, knowing what Mayte went through because of this man? A man who convinced Prince he deserved what happened to Amiir? And maybe most of all, his fucking slapped quarter notes? Prince was in desperate need of a father figure, but the only thing he truly needed was to stop working for a few years and get some therapy. This bitter has-been just swooped in and stained the purple underground up until "The Breakdown". Go hide under a rock, Mr. Graham. You pushed your own agenda and like many others, looked the other way when Prince was popping His Little Pill.

Because, ultimately, the whole show reeks drugs. I don't know what kind, and I don't want to know, but someone of the artistic stature of Prince, who paranoically retreats in his xanadu (it's home, it's safe, the crowd is nothing but folks already acquired to the cause, there's no challenge at all), and suddenly goes: "check this out" while bragging about the most ugly piano the earth ever witnessed that is, again, MOTORIZED (even an electric bread knife makes a hundred times better use of electricity), is highly, highly suspicious.

Does he look great? Yes.
Does he play phenomenally? Yes.
"Tell me something I don't know, J.B.".

I'm not the one who's sad.
Prince is, and it shows, and you can see and hear it.
Despite the funk moments (it's like breathing for him, so no big feat here), it's all very morbid, starting with the intro testimonials desperately trying to give an artist no one could care less about in 1999 (oh, the irony, oh, the... "new master") some relevance.
It's all very depressing, and dishonest to himself.

At least the "Motherless Child" TV performance gives us a glimpse of how he truly felt at the time.

[Edited 6/1/19 2:53am]

You, sir, might be my favourite author on this site. Great reflection.

Like I said in my post. You just need to show this current generation "Purple House" and they'll be blown away of the guitar work. On some levels even more impressed than the Rock and Roll hall of fame performance.

I love bonnie's posts too. But this one is over the top for me. Possibly no performer shared more of himself than Prince. And yet he's expected to lay bare every single moment of his existence. No wonder the man was tired.

I emailed my local PBS station and tried my best to convince them to schedule it.

TheTruth123 said:

Johnytruelove8 said:

TheTruth123 said:

EnDoRpHn said:

TheTruth123 said:

The $240 got you: - the DVD of the entire concert - the 2 CD set - 2 of the PP books (the guitar one and I forget which other one) - the Remastered PR album (vinyl) Pretty generous, I thought. I’m glad PBS AND the estate benefited [Edited 6/1/19 20:16pm]

It’s a fund drive performance for PBS. You do know that the P in PBS stands for “Public”, and not Prince? It’s a membership drive.

And YOU know..

who is selling PBS ALL that memorabilia...

DON'T YOU?

TheTruth123 said:

Wolfie87 said:

TheTruth123 said:

Is no one watching this? [Edited 6/1/19 19:02pm]

I own the dvd but I still watched it. It was on both of our local PBS stations.

It's fun to watch provided you don't project your own baggage and angst into everything Prince does as many so called fammys do.