the very 1st time you saw Prince what was your reaction? i remember i think it was in 1980 i turned on a pay cable channel called Spectrum they had a Prince concert and i was like 11 years old at the time and couldnt beleieve my eyes i thought he was so outragous and who knew i would become a big fan of his a few years later and continue into 2004

the first time i saw prince was the "1999" video. at first i thought he was a debarge or something, then when the video ended i saw his name and it intrigued me for some reason. but after seeing the "u got the look" video i was HOOKED on him!! and i've been a fan ever since.

I don't recall when I first saw Prince, but I do recall the first time I saw him in concert. I was in the 5th grade, so it had to be 1980....ooohhh weeee....when I saw him in that trench coat, thigh highs, high-heeled boots and twirling around with that guitar...it was like love at first sight... ....it was all she wrote after that...I was addicted...like a crackhead's first hit of crack ..I secretly wanted to have his baby....
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First time I saw Prince was the video for "When Doves Cry" and that was it, I was in lust

I saw him on Don Kirshener's my Girlfriend slept over. I was like Wow. I heard about him and Wow he's so Cool. I think it was Why Ya Wanna Treat Me So Bad all I know is I was like this guy is Gonna be a Star. I loved the Performance and thought Cute. Cute.Cute!
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I didn't think he was so cute, I'm not sure what I thought...but I saw something in him, I think his sexual appeal but couldn't quite understand because I was about 7 years old during PR and it was on the album cover that I first saw how Prince looked. My sister had the album and used to play his songs and I remember pulling out and reading some of the lyrics and wondered about how 'different' his lyrics were compared to other artists I knew about, and although I didn't keep up too much afterwards, I always kept that in mind, which is the reason why for my music class I did a presentation on Prince because I also saw how really talented he was in a lot of ways compared to other artists & I guess I saw that from before. At that time the 'Emancipation' album was coming out.

When I show my nieces and nephews today, some of Prince's videos like, 'I wanna be your lover' they ask me, is that a girl??? Is that a boy???? I tell them he's a man and they continue to ask why he looks like a girl, but I don't recall myself thinking that at all, looking back.
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Mazerati said:

first time was 1983..lil red corvette video..I was like" whoa who the fok is this??" his stage presence was amazing!

first time i saw or heard of prince:


first song i heard:i wanna be your lover.

first song i played to death:.17 days.

first album:parade(1986)

very first concert:summer .1997 .....chicago.good seats.....i'm standing outside the gate waiting to get in...all kinds of people are dressed good an some were dressed casual...i don't think nothing of it until i saw two bodygaurds walk past me....and then i saw this guy.he was wearing a cropped black jacket,a blue-purple colored bodysuit,shades and his hair was a little messed up...he put his fingers to his mouth in a "shhh" mode....IT WAS PRINCE!.WHAT GAVE IT AWAY THAT IT WAS HIM?....remember the boots he wore in the "face down"video?.i got a glance of the boots and sure enough,there he was...walking in the united center,late for the soundcheck!...WOW!...he was that close to me.

Scandalous.

The very first time I saw Prince I didn't even know who he was. I was about 15 and at a BX at Hahn Air Force Base in "West" Germany.

I picked up the album "Prince" My dad looked over my shoulder and said "Don't even think about it".

Later that year, I started hearing "1999" "LRC" and "Delirious" on the base's bowling alley juke box.

I almost wore out my sister's copy of the tape when I got back to the states that summer.

I've been hooked ever since.

I can't remember that far back...now what I first saw him LIVE? That's a different question!

speculator3m said:

Yep, something like that with me too: Watching the "1999" and "Little Red Corvette" videos and seeing something very powerful about him, in addition to really digging the music.

I heard these songs on the radio before I saw the videos, and also heard "I Wanna Be Your Lover" and "Controversy" -- but it was seeing him that got me interested in knowing more. Just something about his look and "presence."

The year was 1981 or 1982 and I was like 11 years old and I saw Prince on a TV show called Solid Gold doing Little Red Corvette or 1999 or both . Can't quite remember. I was absolutely stunned and . . . truth be told , a little bit let down. I had heard a few Prince songs by that point and was becoming a fan but at first , his look turned me off. Think it was a combination of the fact that I grew up in a semi-tough neighborhood in Brooklyn , NY and this guy's look definitly did NOT go over very well out there. Plus , I was too young to understand the point he was trying to make with his look and what he was singing about. Luckily. the music was so great that I stuck with Prince until I was old enough to really get what he was all about.

On recommendation from a friend, I reluctantly bought Purple Rain on vinyl (for two dollars, with the poster intact).

Pouring over the artwork, I thought to myself "Here is the tackiest man who ever lived".

This was two years ago. I now own 65 Prince recordings.

I heard Prince before I actually saw him, around '78, the radio was playing "Soft and Wet" but I always thought it was a girl, or a girl group. I remember the girls at my school talked about this guy named Prince , but I never saw who they were talking about until '79 when the album "Prince" came out... and I immediately had problems with his appearance. Dude's sportin' a Farah Fawcett hairdo on the front cover, and naked on a horse on the back. I laughed my ass off, thinkin' "man, "he" has issues!! the next year, the song "Uptown" hit the radio, and I was like, Yeah, Now that's cool! But then the Dirty Mind album came out...and that cover scared the Hell Outta me! especially the back... I backed away slowly, like "I don't know... this cat is out there!"...but by the next year, when I heard "Let's Work", and "Sexuality", I finally said "OK, AT this point, F**K it! I don't care if dude shows up naked with balloons on his head! I'm A Fan!!"
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I remember, I think it was that picture, when I saw Prince for the first time. I was a young girl.....

sataninas said:

And that one also.....

The first time I saw Prince was 1981 on the Controversy album cover. I couldn't stop looking at it. He looked so interesting. I had to listen. I was hooked.

the first time I saw Prince I was suprised, , because I walked in on him in the bathroom at the Record Plant. Back then it was a unisex bathroom and there was only one toilet. the brother 4got 2 lock the door. I was embarassed.

I saw him 1995 ~96
he dressed a red suit in the concert(song of TMBGITW)

fantastic,litmusless fashion

so great,out of I can hold.....

The first time I saw him was probably on American Bandstand when he sang "I Wanna Be Your Lover". But the first time I saw and felt him was seeing "Purple Rain" for the first time. Like most girls at that time, it did something for me. I was a fan of the music but I really didn't appreciate it as I should have. I have more than made up for that now! HA!

I've got a kinda long nostalgic story about my first experience. I was only a few years old, barely old enough to remember. My parents could finally afford cable TV and they were flipping through the channels showing me for the first time what TV was like. They passed by the video for Cream playing and I saw a quick glimpse as they turned it off. However unfortunately brief my experience was, the image and the sound of his voice seemed to awaken something in my head. My parents yelled at me for even looking at the TV; they had nothing nice to say about him. They had all the wrong ideas. I was too young to even remember, but somehow I couldn't forget him.

Years later when I was 12, Gold came on the radio for the first time. I recognized the voice, finally found out his name and saved every penny I could get ahold of until I bought the album. It was the first CD I ever bought. I had to borrow my mom's CD player to listen to it, and I memorized every word of it that night. My parents tried to take it away from me. They tried repeatedly to destroy it; they honestly were convinced Prince was a devil-worshipping drug addict who wanted to corrupt everyone on Earth. I knew they were wrong and I fought to keep my CD. I'm 20 now, almost 21, and that same CD is sitting right here on the desk next to me. My parents have given up their battle. They didn't even say anything when I told them I was going to the Musicology concert. I've known Prince my whole life; I have tons of memories and they all start with The Gold Experience.

hIsMiRRoR said:

GOOD 4 U ,MIRROR!....NO DISRESPECT 2 YOUR PARENTS,BUT PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO FUNK OF THEIR OWN WILL TRY TO SQUASH YOURS.

I remember seeing him either in an ad or on television around 1980, I was 10 years old. I thought he was strange, but when I heard Controversy, I was hooked by his sound. I really began to appreciate his genius when I was 13 and Purple Rain took over. Ever since then he's been my favorite artist.....

The first time I saw Prince I was about 14 years old and I was at a friend's house and her parents had his "Prince" album and I took one look at that flowing hair and those eyes and I was hooked. That was 25 years ago and still going strong.

In 1983 I first saw him in the "Little Red Corvette" video. He didn't look like anyone else around and the time and it was amazing. While Dez was doing the solo and Prince dances across the floor does the splits, spins out of it and swiftly moves back across to the mic in what seemed like 5 seconds. Plus the way he kept looking into the camera with some kind of intensity after the guitar solo was interesting too.
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[b]the first time i saw prince was in a jet magazine in 1978 i was about 12 yrs old he had this nice afro and a leather jacket on that was showing his chest .i was in love with his eyes ..i did not even know who he was at the time all i know is that ever time i saw a jet magazine or ebony i would look for that picture of that guy ...which turned out to be prince....

At his Concert I screamed my head off and threw a Purple Bra onstage that was 1985. I was a 12 year old Pre-pubescent girl and I was Madly,MADLY in Love with him Ever since... He was my Fantasy Lover who lived on my wall and Drove me Crazy every night...

the first time i saw prince was when purple rain came out and i had to be about 2 or 3 years old so i have faint memories of it, all i know is when i got to be about 5 or 6 years old i always felt that it was a no-no movie for me to see, because my mom and dad always made me put my hands over my eyes during certain scenes that were "too adult" for me.

the first time i saw him in concert was this year at club black. it was the most liberating experience i had in my life, to see him in front of me, finally, i couldn't believe it, the thing i had waited most of my young life for. i wanted to scream, shout, and cry all at the same time when i finally saw him b4 my eyez, the way his voice sounded, the way he sung from his heart, oh my gosh it floored me...now that i'm going to see him again in d.c. in august, i can't wait, its really something to look forward to.