Handclapsfingasnapz said:

That's a lie. Once I was telling some friends about how great Prince is and my throat exploded.

EWM - I'm new to this deal, but your negative in general, so any positive out ways the negative, dig. An better than average Prince after party in a small club out does most show at all. Blessed we are.

Evil,
I dont agree with 80% of your topics but you are right about the horns.I sometimes wish he would go back to the full MPLS keyboard sound of the 80's.

Peace to the Evil One !

muleFunk said:

The 80's sound can't be matched, seems not even by him.

He performed more traditional arrangements in the last ten years and he (and most serious fans) were bored. I think the new arrangements are to deal with how fast he gets bored of doing songs the same way. If he's bored, he sleepwalks through the sets and the results are not better than ONA and what seems to be shaping up with the Musicology tour.

well gatdamn A naive New Yorker such as I missed it...even though it was lukewarm.

It's always cute to see a naysayer get caught up in a Prince performance. Don't worry, EWM -- it happened to half of AMP during the ONA tour and they all recovered.

Okay, I'm gonna break this one down into a positive and negative review. But first I must say that I, EvilWhiteMale, actually thought the show was pretty fuckin hot. I know that may be hard to believe, but I really did enjoy (most) of the show. So here's the word:

POSITIVE:

I stepped inside the club as DMSR was already playing. I couldn't see shit cuz the place was so packed that I couldn't even see the stage. I could hear it though. And when I heard Prince play that guitar, I was like, "Oh damn, that shit sounds hot." After the song was done, my friend and I finally got onto the floor and got a descent view of the stage. Luckily we got in there cuz Prince was killin it on Controversy, Let's Work, Sign O The Times, Insatiable, The Question of U, and The Beautiful Ones, which was fuckin DOPE!! At the end of Controversy, he even had everyone chanting "People call me rude, I wish we all were nude, I wish there was no black and white, I wish there wer no rules." And on top of that his voice was as good as it ever was. He can still hit those notes and scream as well as he did 20 years ago. I was like "Damn Prince, where the fuck you been? You can still do this." He had a little "Chloreen Bacon Skin" moment as well, doing that raspy voice thing during a cool jam. And the guy was pretty funny also. During a slow groove, he was singing about some girl he's with who has bad breath cuz she ate the wrong kind of potato chips. Silly shit, but it was funny. So overall, I thought the show was very good. It was the best Prince show I've seen since around '96.

NEGATIVE:

Okay, now to be my normal critical self. I never thought I would be pissed about Prince starting early, but damn. Prince was on stage and there were still loads of people trying to get into the place. And at no fault to him, the place was totally disorganized and was probably a fire hazard with the way people were packed in there. But anyways, the first blunder of the show was letting Candy get moments to sing. She plays a hell of a sax, but she just doesn't work well on the mic. Not that she can't sing, but something was off. And speaking of solos, there were way too many. I have no problem with giving band members a moment to shine on stage, but when it's a small gig, it can be overdone very easily. Seriously, what the fuck was that Rubin Studdard looking dude doing in the front of the stage getting a singing solo? That was so wrong. And as I've said before, "too many horns." They worked okay throughout much of the show, but they were a bit much at times. Now what was fucked up was the way the show just declined in quality as it went on. After a bunch of good songs, Prince just had to go into some jazzy jam bullshit. Good Lord!!! It was getting boring very quickly, and even the crowd wasn't really feeling it. Then to make everything go to hell, the stage became full of people and the band started playing a very "Vegas" styled Soul Man. YUCK!!! That was just plain terrible. And then he finished it off with a lame version of Kiss. The same one he performed on Ellen. After that, he left the stage. The lights were still low and there was a pulsing tone still playing through the speakers. So we all figured it was a typical break before the encore. Everyone was chanting "We want Prince, We want Prince.." And then....motherfuckers started wrapping cables and gear on stage, and soon after, the house lights are on. Oohhhh, we got jerked!!! It was almost as if they broke our necks on purpose. Even for Prince, that was odd. I mean, that was the most anticlimactic moment ever. If he had just come out to do Bambi or something of equal power, the show would have been the bomb diggs, but no, it ended on a lame note.

So overall, the show was good, I'm not gonna front. I just wish he ended it things better than he did.
[This message was edited Tue Mar 16 12:36:05 2004 by EvilWhiteMale]

EvilWhiteMale said:

ALRIGHT, WHO IS USING EVILWHITEMALE'S NAME IN HERE ????? SURELY THAT CANT BE YOU really, see him 'on the big show' ? that must have been a hell of a performance, seems even evilwhitemale has caught the prince fever welcome aboard sweetie, glad to have ya, and thanks for the review so good to hear positive things about the man from ya

WELL EVIL WHITE MALE, THERE WERE OTHER ISSUES THAT U MAY NOT HAVE KNOWN OR NOTICED... RHONDA'S MIC DIDN'T WORK FOR AWHILE, PRINCE KEPT TELLING THEM TO TURN ONT HE HOUSE LIGHTS AND THEY WOULDN'T/DIDN'T. AND IF YOU GOT THERE EARLIER, INSTEAD OF BEING ON C.P. TIME YOU WOULD HAVE SEEN HOW PRINCE HAD TO PLUG IN HIS OWN AMP, etc. OVERALL THE CONCERT WAS GOOD(BETTER THAN ONA).

I STILL WANT TO KNOW WHY THE MALE SECURITY GUARDS WERE CHECKING FEMALES AND WHY THE BOUNCES WERE SELLING THE TICKETS OUTSIDE FOR LIKE $200??

I can't believe EWM actually bothered to go to a show

I glad you finally went to a concert to hear what everybody on this board as been trying to tell
you since the ONA tour. I would love to hear Sign of the Times, DMSR and The Beautiful Ones live.

SexyBeautifulOne said:

It's all good. But out of curiosity, why EVM and not EWM?

LOL, I was so excited, my finger slipped. I'm sure you fellas can relate.

SexyBeautifulOne said:

Nothing wrong with pleasuring yourself while on the computer.

enjoyniki said:

I don't know about all that. When I got in, the males were checking the males and the females were checking the females. And as far as the scalping goes, unfortunately that's how it happens. I just hope no one bought them.

laurarichardson said:

Other people's opinions mean absolutely nothing to me. Just because I enjoyed this show, doesn't mean I've been missing out all these years. I've been burned several times before, but Prince did well this time around. And just because he was good the other night, that doesn't mean he's been good these past few years.

Evil white male:

this is indeed a great review. I have one question.... I left the concert early because me and girl had to catch th 3:00 am train to DC but is it true that he was boo'd? Someone just told jme that on one of our radio stations they are reporting that he was boo'd.

I didn't hear any boo's, but anything's possible. If the boo's were towards the end of the show, it would make sense cuz that's when everythiung went downhill. I did notice that through parts of the show, the crowd seemed bored or just not excited at all. That jazzy jam bullshit definitely put people to sleep.

I thought the concert was excellent also. Hearing the first jazz cut (no idea what the name is)for the first time. I thought that song was beautiful!!!

Wasn't Musicology the first song played?

I had never heard Musicology and I have to agree with the other fans, i didn't care too much for it. Then he played some cut called "house party" which actually was dragging. And you are also right when you said too many horns.. What the *&%$!!!

Yeah, major horn overload.

He changed the words to DMSR and that was AWFUL!!!!!

I missed that part. What words were changed?

I WOULD RATHER HIM NOT SING HIS OLD STUFF IF HE IS GOING TO BUTCHER IT BY CHANGING THE WORDS. JUST DON'T SING IT!!! LAWD JESUS!!!

The man's a freak. We have to expect this madness from him.

ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS IS ALL JACKED UP NOW!!!

It does suck. But luckily he can't change what you have on CD right now. But I'm sure he would if he could.

SAME HERE. I WAS CHECKED BY A GIRL. WHO NICELY GAVE BACK MY THROW AWAY CAMERA AND GAVE ME SOME GUM!

The show was good, but that damn club was the worst.
too many damn people were in there and i am not a big guy so i got thrown around and pushed like a rag doll.

Shit, if that happens to me, I'll part that crowd like the Red Sea. I've been in mosh pits for Slipknot, Hatebreed, Kittie, Korn, etc. Once the pushing starts, I make it known that I'll push back without fucking around.

i swear i could not find a decent spot to see the stage until half way through the show.
the side of the stage on the 2nd and 3rd levels were reserved for "VIP's". what a joke.

I know. The VIP's weren't even that much into the show. Meanwhile, the rest of us had to get crushed.

the fire marshalls and police were in the building at one point and i thought that they were going to shut the place down. at one point i was trapped in a crowd of people and could not breathe or move. i finally was about to get me and my friend out of that area and move on, but i tell you it was not pleasant at all.

The FDNY walked right through the crowd in front of us. I was sure there was gonna be an issue with the overcrowding. I guess they were satisfied.

the one good thing i can say is that i am glad i am a member of the npgmc because when i got there the line was wrapped around the block. finally i heard one of the jerk off bouncers yell out "NP3 members" and i was like he must mean "NPG members" so he directed us to the very front of the line.

The highligh of the show for me was the beautiful ones. i mean that arrangment and prince's vocals on that was amazing!! then that damn prince went into insatiable and killed it!! rhonda even had that low ass bass drop just like on the record and when she hit that note you could feel the entire club vibrate from straight up bass!!

Yeah, The Beautiful Ones was awesome. I'm glad he did it justice.

You have been missing out and I don't care if you don't believe me. Sorry you feel burned because he does'nt do the same songs or play them the same why they were originally recorded. Maybe it is all that Slipknot you have been listening to.