Sometimes I think Prince has lost his marbles or something. The first time I saw him in 93 was amazing. He is the best live performer I have ever seen. But the way the did the concert was the best.

He did 2 sets of almost 1 hour each with a short intermission between the first set was all songs from Diamonds and Pearls and the Symbol album. The second set was all his older tunes picked from every album almost.


So the plan is simple and judging by his setlist for this tour it makes no sense really. He should do it the same and play one set with songs from Musicology and TRC then in the second set some classic hits. This way he is promoting his new stuff (which you really appreciate more live anyway) and give the fans some older classics to boot. From what I see he is only doing what 3 or 4 new tunes in the tour. It makes no sense to me from a marketing standpoint. He has all these people at the concerts which he has not had for years expose them to some of your new stuff. They still go home happy with the classics in the second set to round it out. Then who knows you might get more sales of TRC ..... I would love to see The Work live for instance .... JEEZ he could go with this mindset in the Future and be the King of Rock for a long time coming not having to promise the fans an all Hits final tour to get them to come out. Just do it for every tour broken into 2 sets ..... 1st all new stuff and 2nd all old . Wake UP

At least he's singing some new songs from Musicology...when I saw him a few years ago for the Hit N' Run tour, he didnt' even sing one song from the Rave album which came out around that time...of course, you already know the fate of that album...

Most of the audience are interested in the classics. So he pleases them with a lot of old tracks and throws in three or four new tracks into the set, creating curiosity without boring an audience with too much unknown music. Then after the audience gets home they play their new Musicology CD, get familiar with a whole new album and reflect back on those three or four songs he played at the concert. That seems a pretty sensible way to market his new stuff without alienating the casual fan.