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YES! and one of the Love 4 One Another shows! "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" |
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TheBigBang said: Unfortunately, this was my last Prince concert. Oct.12, 1997, Irvine CA. The only time that a Prince concert was actually close to where I was living at the time. I loved it. I guess one thing that makes this tour special is that it's the last time he was cussin' live. Face Down was definitely a stand-out. Also it was bootlegged as "Partymix" by Optimum, which is cool; a document of a concert I attended. Really good sound, too. I saw this show too! Yes, I remember face down being a highlight and was so happy that he played it as I thought it represented his rude boy personality pretty well. It's funny because I had broken up with the girl who got us tickets to see the show. I had just started dating someone new and the old girlfriend caught wind of it. The old girlfriend asked me if I wanted to go with the new girlfriend and she would give me the tickets but I felt guilty and went with the ex instead. As soon as we found our seats and sat down before the show started, she asked me if I was serious about the new girl and I said yes. She immediately got up and walked away about a hundred yards and came back with a few tears in her eyes. Needless to say that kind of colored the show for me. As the show went on though I forgot about the ex and just enjoyed the music. At one point during the latter part of the show, he stopped everything and said I want everyone to turn around. We all did and he pointed up at the moon and said this is why I love doing shows outside, or something to that effect. The moon was full and bright and directly in the middle point of his view so how could he not acknowledge it? It was a great moment and brought us all together. Very much like the one night alone soundchecks. All in all a memorable night. |
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Nice to see the site back up again |
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mantaray31 said: Nice to see the site back up again Yes! |
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databank said:
While it's possible that his family tragedy made Prince uneasy with playing some of the material, I don't think the decision had much to do with the material itself. Anything could always have been rearranged accordingly: that's what musicians do. . I think the greatest hits setlist is very much the consequence of what I just wrote above, which seems confirmed by the fact that, except for the occasional smaller venue show (such as Montreux) and the ONA and LOL tours (which, I guess, happened because Prince was getting absolutely fed-up with playing the hits over and over, something he most likely didn't like to do), each and every tour from that point onwards had a greatest hits setlist with very few songs from whichever the latest album was. It's a tragedy because as a result, most of his post-1995 catalogue was never performed live: hundreds of songs, literally . Sadly, Prince became a legacy artist and the natural trend of most musicians' careers (lower sales past their peak commercial point) coincided with the Internet ruining records sales, making it nearly impossible for him to maintain his expensive lifestyle with any other source of income than live shows. And sadly, in order to fill arenas, he felt he had to play the hits (and if the 1995 experience showed anything, he was probably right). . Under different circumstances (a more humble lifestyle or the Internet not killing record sales), he probably could have mostly toured smaller venues (which he did in 2002 and 2013) and played whatever the fuck he wanted, keeping the greatest hits setlists for a few occasional arena dates or tours. Similarly, he may have been inclined to release more "experimental" (I hate this term) records in the vein of The War or NEWS. . I said it often, but past a certain point in his career, Prince's huge financial needs and his desire to maintain his superstar status sometimes went in the way of his creative freedom. [Edited 2/23/26 20:00pm] Absolutely, back then he had no choice but to play the hits to sell out arenas and keep people from leaving disappointed about not hearing Purple Rain. I think in his final years, though, he would have sold out arenas no matter what he played (look at the Piano & A Microphone tour). Too bad we didn't get to see what came next. It surely would have been great. "We are the New Power Generation,and so are U!" |
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