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Printablesummerdawn said: danielboon said: he just cant win can he ?
he plays the hits = gets slaughtered he doesn't play the hits = gets slaughtered he should reform the revoution ! he should stick 2 his new band ! he shouldn;t release chocolate invasion ! he should release chocolate invasion , as individual albums ! he shouldn't release chocolate invasion, as npgmc fans already have most of it ! what chance does he have 2 pls peeps , no f**kin chance !!! relax, davey crockett! nobody said we weren't pleased. hell, we weren't even there! some of us are just saying that it looks a bit forced. ? | |
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danielboon said: he just cant win can he ?
he plays the hits = gets slaughtered he doesn't play the hits = gets slaughtered he should reform the revoution ! he should stick 2 his new band ! he shouldn;t release chocolate invasion ! he should release chocolate invasion , as individual albums ! he shouldn't release chocolate invasion, as npgmc fans already have most of it ! what chance does he have 2 pls peeps , no f**kin chance !!! So true. The people here (GOD knows it has been said before) are mostly hippocrites. These guys bitch and moan about a Revolution Reunion (which was mostly Prince himself) couple a months ago and now where I assume they would probably perform all pre-SOTT songs and then Prince (the Originator of said songs) does it and there is a f-cking problem. LAWDY LAWDY u people suck | |
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Answer to the question...NO. If you saw this band play, you wouldn't care that they were playing old songs cuz they play the fuck out of em  2010: Healing the Wounds of the Past.... http://prince.org/msg/8/325740 | |
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Marrk said:
First time i've looked at him and remotely thought "has-been".
For me this happened when I saw the Jam of the Year tour in Aug. '97. Yowsa. ec No Sonny T?
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Romance1600 said: I was just watching the Baby I'm A Star footage from the latest show, and it occured to me that it was slightly 'tacky' - somehow it felt like a bit of a naff thing to do, perform your old hits with this new band.
Sure he's always done it, I've been there, many times - but as I watched the clip, I just thought it was a bit tacky - you know like when Larry Graham performs the Sly hits. Maybe it's that drum sample sound that sounds a bit odd to me live, but with all those great players on stage who can do the more musically interesting "jazz" stuff of Xpectation and TRC - it seems a bit of a sell-out to be having them do Baby I'm A Star. Hmmm Yup, it sounds so flat. None of the intensity he used to have with Baby I'm a Star was there. It was a bit slower. He didn't look like he was really having fun. That song used to bring the house down in the past when done live. Now it just sounds like he was just trying to please fans by playing it but didn't really want to. | |
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thebige said: Marrk said:
First time i've looked at him and remotely thought "has-been".
For me this happened when I saw the Jam of the Year tour in Aug. '97. Yowsa. ec I caught (what I think was the tail-end of) that tour in Tampa. He closed with a version of 1999 that sounded like it was the very last song at the very last show of a very long tour. It was pretty sad and I would have thought has-been if it wasn't for this one instrumental guitar track he played midway through his set. It wasn't Alexa De Paris but it was just as if not more beautiful. Never heard it before and will probably never hear it again. Can't remember how it goes but after 5 years, the feeling I got from that song is still with me. A has-been couldn't do that. [This message was edited Wed Oct 22 13:45:27 PDT 2003 by marcdeondotcom] | |
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How very sad.
A fan posts a point of view, and only that, a point of view, and he is shot down in flames. All you so called "fams" who are knocking the opinion should take a good long look at yourselves. You knock their view, because they have only seen a 10 second clip, yet you dismiss the view even though YOU have only seen a 10 second clip. Double standards. Prince is great, but he does not walk on water. You should remember that before you dismiss any "negative" comments. . | |
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Prince's tunes are like Stevie Wonder's tunes or Sting's tunes, they are so versatile that you could play them in a jazzy vein or a funky vein or a rock vein, and they would work. And like tunes by Prince and the above said artists, there is enough meat to them that a jazz musician could play them and not get bored. I'm a jazz musician myself and I really enjoy playing tunes by these guys. One of the things I love so much about Prince is that he doesn't play the songs exactly as they appear on the album, it gives you incentive to check out his live stuff as well. And this new band is hot! He wrote the tunes, he sang them, he's the name people identify with them. PLaying them with a new band brings a new light to them which is nice especially in the case of the older tunes (cuz God, how many times can you listen to "When Doves Cry" played the same way?) | |
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All i can say is that I was there and he is no has been and the songs were not tacky.
It's just the quality of the streaming that's ordinary. Go to my concert reviews and see what really happened. Sheesh  When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. | |
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