What's gonna happen this year? What new ways will Londell and Charles find to piss off the fanbase? Will the attendees' lives be changed forever by the experience of playing purple carnival games together in the Paisley Parking Lot?

Neversin's identity will finally be revealed as Londell invites him on stage to join-in telling fans how fucking horrible and ungrateful we all are.

bluegangsta said:

Neversin's identity will finally be revealed as Londell invites him on stage to join-in telling fans how fucking horrible and ungrateful we all are.

Could Neversin be one of his engineers?

Like Michael Koppelman?

It sounds like his attitude from time to time.

I remember his stories from years ago... would love to hear these back.

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One of his favorite acronym is LMBAO. So no, that's not him

Gotta love that the Instagram stories of the official Paisley Park account on Instagram are mostly focused on selling Celebration merch.

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https://streamable.com/bpjpxh

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https://streamable.com/whx4ea

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https://streamable.com/m8ku89

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Remember how the first itinerary of this year's Celebration included a drone show? See https://prince.org/msg/7/471920 . I just checked and that now appears to be gone.

My guess is that it is part of tomorrow's "Prince Night at the Twins Game" (additional ticket required).

ElGorillos said:

One of his favorite acronym is LMBAO. So no, that's not him

Questlove?

LOVE the bingo lmao

it would be nice if someone could record the "londell talks about the vault" panel with their apple watch or something so we can actually hear what the fucker says instead of 50 people leaving the room and reporting different things

bozojones said:

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This is a masterpiece!! Well done

Vannormal said:

ElGorillos said:

One of his favorite acronym is LMBAO. So no, that's not him

Questlove?

lol.. Good guess again, but no. I have been told that he is a bald, lighter skinned black man these days.

neversin is more like prince's adopted son, i say stop trying to unmask him. let the guy be the Exorcist demon to you and nothing more.

ElGorillos said:

lustmealways said:

What do we know so far?

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1. Merch. A lot of merch available everywhere you look.

2. A Vegas Rio show shown on a big screen

3. Chaka Khan show dissapointing. Her singing (or mostly backing singers singing) along to a prerecorded backing track.

happyshopper said:

happyshopper said:

3. Chaka Khan show dissapointing. Her singing (or mostly backing singers singing) along to a prerecorded backing track.

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Going by reports that seemed to be a kind of album launch thing? But I haven't seen any reports on that album reafuring any Prince input, so... this had nothing to do with celebrating Prince?

bizzie said:

LMAO.

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Londell McMillan, a co-manager of the Prince estate, took the stage and hyped up the already fired-up crowd. But his heartfelt introduction of Khan became so long-winded that — surprise — she just strode onstage before he could finish talking. It was an awkward omen for a night that turned out to be, well, awkward and disappointing.

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Source: https://app.startribune.c...ntent.html

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Jon Bream doesn't take prisoners.

bizzie said:

LMAO.

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Londell McMillan, a co-manager of the Prince estate, took the stage and hyped up the already fired-up crowd. But his heartfelt introduction of Khan became so long-winded that — surprise — she just strode onstage before he could finish talking. It was an awkward omen for a night that turned out to be, well, awkward and disappointing.

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Source: https://app.startribune.c...ntent.html

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Jon Bream doesn't take prisoners.

Oh, you know Londell is gonna be fuming and taking shots at Bream at one of the upcoming panels

So that UTCM screening? That was in a warehouse-like place with atrocious sound and people sitting on folding chairs. Real special.

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Later on that was also the place where the party was held with a live performance by Tamar. Again: atrocious sound.

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Just a reminder: this is what the clown show has been working on for months. This is what they're oh so proud of.

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And can anyone explain to me how you never see any reporting about what is said in these panels? I've seen clips of the Bootsy one and the "Prince's women" one from the clown show's Instagram, but no one ever seems to repeat stories or anecdotes that get told at these panels.

in the reddit interview, londell clearly says parade isnt the next box set, but he doesnt say what the next one will be. so maybe they will announce another one.

bizzie said:

LMAO.

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Londell McMillan, a co-manager of the Prince estate, took the stage and hyped up the already fired-up crowd. But his heartfelt introduction of Khan became so long-winded that — surprise — she just strode onstage before he could finish talking. It was an awkward omen for a night that turned out to be, well, awkward and disappointing.

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Source: https://app.startribune.c...ntent.html

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Jon Bream doesn't take prisoners.

Londell McMillan, a co-manager of the Prince estate, took the stage and hyped up the already fired-up crowd. But his heartfelt introduction of Khan became so long-winded that — surprise — she just strode onstage before he could finish talking.

bizzie said:

So that UTCM screening? That was in a warehouse-like place with atrocious sound and people sitting on folding chairs. Real special.

https://x.com/donnyenglis...9544556721

The Armory concert was lame. Kat Graham and Sounds of Blackness, the whole audience were in there seats pretty much the whole time. Tevin Campbell only sang Round and Round and Can We Talk from what I remember, but I did enjoy that. Capacity at Armory is around 8,000 and it was about 1/2 filled if that. Morris Day was the highlight of the show and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis guested. Kris Kollins was a joke. The Estate should be ashamed to bring a poor Prince impersonater on stage to celebrate Prince. Also disappointed in Lisa, Bobby, Morris, etc to even support this.

motherfunka said:

The Armory concert was lame. Kat Graham and Sounds of Blackness, the whole audience were in there seats pretty much the whole time. Tevin Campbell only sang Round and Round and Can We Talk from what I remember, but I did enjoy that. Capacity at Armory is around 8,000 and it was about 1/2 filled if that. Morris Day was the highlight of the show and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis guested. Kris Kollins was a joke. The Estate should be ashamed to bring a poor Prince impersonater on stage to celebrate Prince. Also disappointed in Lisa, Bobby, Morris, etc to even support this.

while I could have done without Kat Graham and SOB, i thought the 3 and half hour gig was pretty decent - pretty reminscent of the Sheila E BET Tribute to Prince in the way it involved different artists from different eras - but agree on Morris, JJ and TL as my personal highlight.

Venue was good and I'd also say the venue was more than half filled.