SassyBritches said:

Yeah! Zoo Station Surrender

City Of Blinding Lights
All Because Of You
Miracle Drug
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
Beautiful Day
Pride
Still Haven't Found
Bad
Streets
Zoo Station
Original
Crumbs
11 O'Clock Tick Tock
Surrender
Party Girl
She's A Mystery
Walk On
Yahweh
Love And Peace Or Else
Vertigo

Cool that they save Vertigo for the end. And City of Blinding Lights is would make a great opener.

GangstaFam said:

Agreed. Some of the Prince shows I've seen top everything while other concerts easily top other Prince performances.
That being said, my most favorite shows ever not including Prince would have to be the Basement Jax show I saw YEARS ago at First Ave, seeing Radiohead at the Glatonbury Festival, the Pixies at the Fine Line, and my first "real" Cracker show at First Ave, many moons ago also. I"m sure there's a bazillion more I'm forgetting (I've seen a LOT of shows!) but those are the ones I generally put at the top of my list.

My all time favorite show was NOT a Prince show. Seeing Bjork during the Homogenic tour at a festival in Belgium was my all time favorite musical experience.

A handful of other shows have been close to "Prince Level" for me Including Radiohead, Charlatans, Basement Jaxx and Blur.

For me though, it's like apples and oranges. The feelings I have for P's music and performances are so rooted and personal that the Prince Live experience is totally different from just about any other artist I have seen.

SassyBritches said:

Do you mean the ONA aftershows?

calldapplwondery83 said:

quit that shaking of the head!

no, i was talking about the musicology after shows...specifically, the house of blues in chicago. it was so bad the management even gave me comped tickets to any other HOB show i wanted to go to.

SassyBritches said:

Guess, I'm kinda slow today... but now I get it.


Wait a minute....

endorphin74 said:

Awesome dude.

The concerts I would put on par with the very best Prince shows I've seen would be:

Bjork @ the House of Blues Chicago for the Homogenic tour.

Bjork on the island in Toronto for her Greatest Hits tour.

PJ Harvey/Tricky @ St. Andrew's Hall in '95.

David Bowie @ Roseland Ballroom when he performed all of Low and Heathen.

David Bowie @ The Chance in Poughkeepsie for the Reality warm-up gig.

Tori Amos @ U of M in '94.

Madonna for the Drowned World taping in Detroit.

The Cure for the Dream Tour and last summer for Curiosa.

I dunno if I would compare but I've seen 3 Amazing people in concert

Paul McCarntey
Prince
Radiohead


glad I had the chance to see those 3

funkpill said:

With all that Intergalatic Funk going on you can't lose.


" Ohh, Wee. We're doing it to ya in your ear hole."

David Bowie - 'Heathen' Manchester & 'Reality' Antwerp...
Madonna - 'Drowned World' Paris
PJ Harvey - Werchter
White Stripes - Pukkelpop

SassyBritches said:

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They are after shows. Why can't you figure out that they are jam sessions?
Damm I pray for the youth of today.

SassyBritches said:

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LoL LoL

SassyBritches said:

really? that's awesome - so did you complain to management about getting kicked out of the venue that night, and they comped you?

Anxiety said:

well, sort of...

i told them that the show was scheduled for 1am and by 3am prince still had not come out. they then continued the story for me by saying something along the lines of "yeah, and when he did it wasn't even him," or something to that degree. i told them that as we were leaving we finally heard an actual prince song and went to go back in - we weren't out of the building, mind you, just outside of the mainroom with the stage - but their wonderful security team told us we couldn't go back in. they said there was no re-entry even though we weren't even outside of the building, lol. anyway, cutting to the chase, i told them that the show was horrendous and not as advertised, the staff was awful, and i didn't feel as though i should have paid for that experience. the manager told me that many people complained and that he wasn't giving any refunds or credits but if i kept it between us he would give me two comp tickets to any show i want.

i think i'm going to see iron and wine with the free tickets now.
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oops!

yer too much.

Anxiety said:

well, he never specified if i had to keep it to myself forever

SassyBritches said:

law students.

Anxiety said:

loopholes for everything...

I have to say it's hard to top P... Sometimes it's the whole experience that makes it all better. Musician wise...he takes the cake, the knife and the box...however, I have seen some really really good shows other than P. One thing that P has a hard time with is the set list/intimacy...most often it's hit driven and a huge show...or a really crowded after show. So I have to say other acts have that going a little bit better. Sometimes rarity counts too.

On par with P...

Creatures (first one in 88 and this last one in 04...both amazing) - The live drum Energy, Set list, Intamacy, has made the offerings by Siouxsie Sioux very special indeed.

Nitzer Ebb - Pure energy. These guys start the show and never let you go. Set lists are always good too.

Pink Floyd - For an arena tour (outdoors) this one was great. It was their last time they toured. Music and singing were great. Was with al my friends too.

Erasure Wild Tour - Snuck up to the 13th row...which is always a good time. That stage changed every 3 songs. Robotic flowers, flying bumble bees and Andy at top form...made this a very enjoyable concert.

Laurie Anderson - Nerve Bible/Bright Red tour. Her last "music" tour. All of it Amazing and intamite

Dead Can Dance - Rarely tour. Amazing.

Pet Shop Boys - Rarely tour. Got to see one of my favorites.

superspaceboy said:

ah, not true! her tour in 2001 was an all-music tour. it was in support of the 'life on a string' album, and it was a kind of 'greatest hits' tour that she performed with a band. there's a really nice two-disc live album from this tour you can find easily on amazon.com or at your local wrecka stow.

i wish i could have seen the tour you saw, though. 'bright red' is a favorite laurie album of mine.

Anxiety said:

Ack! I'm not sure that got up here. Probably did. I saw Moby Dick...that was ok. Yes I have the Live In NY...she was in Chi-town 9/11. I forgot about that one...as an actual tour.

The Bright Red tour whad all the gizmos (tape bow violin, lipstick micro phone, and body suit boombox)...not sure if the one for Life on a string did.

superspaceboy said:

nah. the 2001 tour was very stripped down. no slide show, no body suit boombox, no ski masks - just laurie and her band, with her on violin and keyboards and vocals.

One of my other favorite concerts ever has to be THE B52's at the FILLMORE in San Francisco in 1992? Around there. OH MY GOD. I thought the whole place was going to cave in. INCREDIBLE.

Madonna Re-Invention Tour.

no one does what she does better

ehuffnsd said:

and thank God Prince ain't doing it.....

ehuffnsd said:

Totally. I've only been to one Madonna show and one Prince show, and the Madonna show definatly topped the Prince show for me.
Throught the Madonna show everyone, even in the stands were up and dancing throughout the whole show.
The prince one, the odd person would stand but the atmosphere was less then thrilling. It was the Musicology show, so i assume her past tours must have been better.
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jayaredee said:

I don't know what city you saw him in, but things were live in Detroit.

GangstaFam said:

Toronto.....
Some people stood, but not enough that made me comfortable standing and block the family sitting behind me's view.

The minute Madonna arrived on her platform the whole stadium rose to their feet and stayed there the whole night.

Crowd participation adds to the excitment IMO.

jayaredee said:

the couple behind me at the pond sat down after Hollywood and yelled at my roommate and i to sit down. we figured we shelled out some 700$ between the two of us to be on the floor no way in hell were we going to sit down and not see the Idol herself.