November 6, 1988, Los Angeles...

...LOVESEXY.

I bought four tickets, knowing that I could easily get some people to go with me. No one wanted to go, y'all. I ended up forcing my best friend to go, and put the other two tickets on consignment. They didn't sell, even though some fools tried to sit in my seats. I ended up going back to the ticket outlet and getting the actual tickets back. I still have them.

My first will be tommorrow night in St. Paul...

I'm 20 and I've been a Prince fan since I was like 5 (I think the Batdance got me hooked. haha.) even though I couldn't understand his...well, "dirty" lyrics.

I had older sisters that loved him as well. So there was always a steady flow of Prince tapes for me to steal from them...

It's been a long time coming...but I finally get to see the man that got me excited about music for the first time in my life.

anyway, I'm very, very excited.

Purple Rain Tour, St. Paul. I had begged and pleaded with the 'rents to let me go to the 1999 tour, but that didn't work.

danielboon said:

Me too! August 3rd 1988...Wembley Arena, London.

Sign O' The Times
May 30th1987 Vienna, Austria

That will be the Parade-tour in 1986 Ahoy Rotterdam. I know I was very impressed by everything that happened on stage. Never say anything like that before. Ofcourse it happened again 1 year later in Utrecht in Galgenwaard during Sign O'the Times. "Wear peach or black", was printed on every ticket, and almost everybody did!

ReneRotterdam said:

Same here!! Still remember the opening of the curtain and being in awe the whole concert. ....First time I saw a concert from prince (but then not attended) was the Purple Rain tour in Syracuse during Rock Palast (german tv), sitting up all night...

Parade Tour, Frankfurt, Germany, August 1986 and many have followed ever since

Symbol tour, 1993 Gothenburg, Sweden.

Ahoy said:

co-sign ... the parade-tour is still the best tour I attended ...

and, boy ... what a stupid peach shirt I was wearing in 1987 .... wouldn't do that again ... wear the clothes somebody else wants me to wear.

Taped the Syracuse show in 1985 ... too bad I didn't have a video .... When Dovs Cry without the mirror-image.
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Serious said:

how many ?
wie oft war er eigentlich schon in Wien ?
ich weiß nur von 3x

funkadelic11 said:

Including the 1st one 50 (incl. Aftershows)
In Wien war er für 3 Konzerte und 2 Nachtclubgigs:
1987: 2 mal Stadthalle, 1 mal U4
1993: 1 mal Donauinsel, 1 mal Technisches Museum

Aaaah Wembley Stadium '93

This brings back great memories! 'twas my first ever Prince gig and I didn't have a ticket, so me and a fellow friend took a gamble and went up to the stadium to try and get a couple of tickets from touts (that's scalpers to our American friends .)
On the tube platform on the way to the stadium, the station announcer got on the microphone and repeated these imortal words... "Dearly beloved. We are gathered here today to go to Wembley to go and see Prince and The New Power Generation! Electric word Prince it means "small!" Needless to say we (everyone on the platform) cracked up no end!

When we got to Wembley, we found a guy who had a pair of tickets that were going for £7;50 each because his daughter couldn't make it cuz of some kind of hospital drama. Needless to say we took these tickets that were worth approx £25 and made our way up to the stadium! After paying nearly the same price that we had paid for the tickets for a hot dog and Coke, we went inside the stadium.
Having been there several times that year as an Arsenal fan (FA Cup semi final, Coca Cola cup final, FA Cup final and FA Cup final replay and I think an England game against the USA) I was very familiar with the place!

Unlike at the football matches, the pitch area was completely covered up with a surface for all the fans to party on! We got a real kick from standing on the hallowed turf and knew that where we were standing was a place full of memories, both sporting and musical. I believe that U2 had either just done their Zoo TV tour at the stadium or were just about to. But the real big news on that July 31st afternoon was that the most prolific live performer of the time was about to perform!

D Influence were the support act and they got the crowd going and littered their performance with comments such as "There's a guy backstage about this high [holds hand up to chest level] and he's itching to get out here and perform for you guys!" The anticipation for seeing the guy that we had spent many a weekend watching on videos such as Lovesexy Live and Purple Rain was rising!

We couldn't see a damn thing from the floor area and so we used cunning tactics that I'm not too proud of now, but at the time it was awesome! Yes, we decided that the people in the wheelchair area had a much better perspective than us and so with camera in hand, we climbed up to that area and was unbothered for the rest of the show! (In our defence, there was room for about 50 wheelchairs there and there were only about 6, so we reasoned that it was OK and we weren't blocking the guys in the wheelchairs view!)

So it gets around to Prince time and The familiar sound of the start of "My name is Prince" blasts out from the HUGE speaker system! the NPG take the stage and there are huge video screens following the action! But no Prince! We start to hear him rapping the first part of the song and then one of the loudest roars I have heard errupts! I couldn't see what they were screaming about until I looked up and there is our man on a swing chair, being lowered from the ceiling with his Gold Chain hat from the My Name Is Prince Video! Then we get into Sexy MF and for a teenage London male, seeing an 80,000 capacity crowd chanting "YOU SEXY MOTHERFUCKER!" was one of the bigest highlights!! I still grin when I look back at that! Purple Rain was an awesome spectacle, with huge Purple Floodlights sweeping over the Wembley skyline as the guitar solo blasted out! "One time for the sky! We're gonna sing one time for the sky!" Our man yelled! I'm sure it started raining gently at that point too?
The Hornheadz were on top form that night and Prince was lively, jumping on and off his piano and busting out splits left, right and centre!

Some other highlights were She's Always in my hair, Irresistable Bitch, Sometimes It Snows and the guitar in Let's Go Crazy.

He made a couple of encores and a surprise encore, when about 20% of the people had started to make their way out, he comes out to play "Johnny" and then all those who had thought it was all over rushed back in! Amazing show, great atmosphere, very upbeat positive vibe in the air and a day I will never forget!

That was my purple baptism.

Serious said:

wir redn schon von 50 (fünfzig, fifty) ? des is ka Fipptehler ?
i zuck aus !
und i hob docht, i bin a Fan
im Technischn Museum wor i a domois, hob ewig gwort, Freunde hamgfiaht, bin wieder hingfohrn, hob wieder gwort und hob donn aufgebn wia de Musik schlechter word is in dem Lodn und bin hamgfohrn
nächst Tog hob i im Radio gheat, daß i eahm um 1/2 Stund versamt hob
that was one of the saddest days in my life

I have never been to one youm people r lucky

funkadelic11 said:

Ja fünfzig, kein Tipfehler , aber glaube mir, das ist heutzutage bei Prince Konzerten gar nicht mehr sooo viel, da gibt's viele Fans, die auf mehr Konzerten waren (300 teilweise!!!). Übrigens bist du ziemlich sicher mehr Fan als ich, das ist bei mir schon sehr abgeflaut in den letzten Jahren



oh je, da würde ich mich auch ärgern

January 1998 in Knoxville, TN. The "Jam of the Year" tour.

I have been hooked on his live performances ever since. I think I am up to 8 concerts since 98.

zurich 30/10/2002

Serious said:

ja

N.E.W.S Tour - Sydney Entertainment Centre, 24th October 2003. Section 34, Row H, Seat 13.

Jam of the year 2r back on '97 that was my 1st 1 cuz the other 2r's he had always sold out 2 quick 4 me

Purple Rain tour, March(?) 1985, Long Island NY. The ticket said wear something purple so I wore a purple short sleeve jersey I had at the time.

1st concert - Purple Rain, The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA

1st aftershow - Nell's - NYC aftershow of Purple Rain MSG
I had way too much fun that night.

1988 Lovesexy in Antwerp, Belgium
centrestage, playing basketball on stage, Sheila E's drum solo the crowd chanting Sheila Sheila Sheila, that car on rails or something....sooooo coooool [u]cat..wow

1988 LOVESEXY tour in Atlanta. It was something that I will always remember!
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Georgia is definitely in the house!

March 23, 1980 Rick James Tour,Detroit, Cobo Hall
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March 27, 2004 in Reno...even though I've been a fan of his music for years! What a great show, since then I've seen him in SJ June 2 and I have Oakland and SJ tickets for September!

Purple Rain tour baby! I was 12 and it was in Chicago

Paris(France) Bercy july,1992;too hot . I'll never forget his performance of Sexy Mf on stage! Crazy!!!

I thought it was the Purple Rain tour but now I think it was the 1999.
With The Time, and Roger Troutman with Zapp, in TOLEDO OHIO!!! Sports Arena 1983 - 1984
I think that was THE LAST TIME Prince went to Toledo. T-town is small potatoes for Prince now.
Glad I live in Detroit now.