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Best live versions of Gett Off? The main song, not the Houstyle version.
Cabaret Metro 93 is a good one. Funky intro... | |
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Along with Kiss, Cream, and Peach. This is a song that (for me) has never really worked live. | |
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Peach is fantastic live | |
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antonb said: Peach is fantastic live This | |
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Indeed live this song is a difficult one. I'm thinking about the Earls Court London version of 1992, kind of a lame version, (you can find it on yt), where it sounds like a speed-up reggae version (to me). - But Prince was nevertheless pretty inventive with new arrangements for these kind of studio songs. Think about ''Kiss'' for example. All the different arrangements he invented for ''Kiss'' over the decades are truly amazing (to me). He could not pull that off with ''Cream'' (I believe), and with ''Peach''. Yes sometimes tracks like ''Gett Off'' and ''Kiss'' sounded too light live, and indeed difficult to live up to the studio version, For ''Kiss''', that had more to do with the falsetto funky way of singing imho. Although it always remained a public's live favourite, he kept playing till the end. And true, some songs played live don't have the same live impact as others. - [Edited 10/4/23 9:18am] "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts" (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972) | |
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The synth set was the best thing to happen to Kiss. Likewise for the acoustic set and cream. It's the best that song ever sounded live. I can't think of a single performance of Gett Off where is didn't sound overly sparse. Peach wasn't terrible live. It just never lived up to the record. The Bagley's performance is probably the best. When I think of this live though it's the MTV performance that often comes to mind, and I don't think that was great. | |
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I checked this one and it´s real cool, but I agree with somebody who said it´s one of the songs that didn´t work live. Im the album version, it has such a powerful bass/drums groove that was never reproduced live. | |
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I love what he did with it on the D&P tour, an extended intro and combining it with the Houstyle version. . The Cabaret Metro version is great, similar but sparser with it being an aftershow and without Rosie | |
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am I the only one that likes the MTV Awards version the best? | |
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Its too sparse, not enough musical meat on it. Same with kiss and alphabet st too maybe, unless were talking the totally diff hoedown style version. That approach is good for records, bad for live shows. | |
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Wouldn't say the D&P tour version is sparse. Sonny and Michael's full sound, record scratching and sound effects, Rosie & Tony, P's guitar sounds loud and good, live horns [Edited 10/6/23 0:48am] | |
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