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Post by Merc on Sept 21, 2013 22:44:54 GMT -5
Catch it while u can. We all know what a dick he is about the Internet, was surprised to find this, that someone uploaded. Great show, despite the rain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vieLDP60tl8 |
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Post by solikecandy on Sept 21, 2013 23:04:16 GMT -5
That was a classic. What a pro.
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Post by Merc on Sept 21, 2013 23:32:53 GMT -5
Badass. Like the Honey Badger, Prince doesn't give a shit about no rain. Ps. That goes for his backup dancers too. Loved the lil Tina tribute there.
Or Cee-Lo guesting at his show. It's a cliché to say a dude can make a guitar sing, Prince can make his guitar a choir that sets a mood. He's just amazing.
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Post by DannyA on Sept 21, 2013 23:44:48 GMT -5
A perfect DVD was made of this performance at the time. I have a copy. If anyone needs a clean transfer, PM me.
But yeah, bad-ass.
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Post by DannyA on Sept 21, 2013 23:45:52 GMT -5
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Post by Merc on Sept 22, 2013 0:07:57 GMT -5
I'm just annoyed that he is so brilliant, and hates the Internet so much, that he's making himself invisible not just to us, but to the Youngs, a newer generation as well. I think he's brilliant like Mozart, and a little bit crazy too. But removing all his music from the Internet is so self-defeating. Doesn't he want to leave a legacy, or at least turn young people on to his music?
One annoying thing about this SuperBowl performance- and seriously, enjoy it while you can- is that the camera cuts away from him when he starts to dance. Like, he might do suggestive Elvis hip movements or something! Which is funny, since Prince had a hip replacement a few years ago. He had to, after years on the road, and one of his least -appreciated talents was his dancing, in heels.
Prince was a graceful dancer, his heels only added to the sense he was a kind of pagan satyr, he was Pan. The heels being hooves of a sort, his dancing was lustful, or athletic and meant to attract the ladies. And it would! I love that particular part of Prince, his pagan satyr dancing. The guy is freakishly talented, his dancing is the last of his talents. Songs, guitar, singing, stage presence.. Prince doesn't wear heels or dance much anymore. But I just want to give props to that aspect of him; The Satyr. He really did embody some pagan archetype, those heels were hooves, his persona was the lustful faun.
Interesting complex guy.
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Post by henchman on Sept 22, 2013 0:10:57 GMT -5
Seen him several times live. Always amazing.
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Post by DannyA on Sept 22, 2013 10:49:03 GMT -5
He hates the internet and youtube, yet HE is the one who leaks his own live shows, his own outtakes, etc. There's no figuring out that guy. I think I've seen him 10 times. Once he was mediocre. The other 9 he was amazing. And when I interviewed him, he first let me sit through an hour-long soundcheck, the only audience member in a 20,000-seat amphitheatre. If I get Alzheimers and forget my kids' names I'll still remember that day....
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Post by Billypogo on Sept 22, 2013 12:05:38 GMT -5
woah
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Post by boots on Sept 22, 2013 18:15:31 GMT -5
he's very flamenco in heels and ruffles.
Love.
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Post by Darren on Sept 23, 2013 14:29:09 GMT -5
The sad part of Prince essentially taking himself out of the game one way or another (changing name to a squiggle, refusing to "play the hits" in-concert) is that yet another generation of kids will grow up thinking Kanye, Bruno and Beyonce are examples of "musical genius".
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Post by DannyA on Sept 23, 2013 14:42:33 GMT -5
I'm conflicted. Do I want him to become Elton John and play those same 20 songs over and over with the occasional new song or rarity thrown in? Last time he decided to play the hits he sold out the Musicology tour coast-to-coast. He can do that any time he wants to -- but he chooses not to.
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Post by Darren on Sept 23, 2013 17:48:25 GMT -5
I'm not sure signing on to the nostalgia trip is what I'm talking about. For a time, he blatantly went out of his way to ignore his own past and that the thousands of folks who paid a hundred bucks for a ticket, then paid $20 to park in the Enormodome's parking lot might be a lot more open to his latest stuff if he met them halfway and did "Little Red Corvette".
I have the same quibble with Jeff Tweedy for going out of his way to deny the pop songs he could write in his sleep for the snoozy experimental stuff he's so hung up on as of late.
Or Aimee Mann for refusing to play "Voices Carry" all these years, then having the nerve to recreate the video scene-for-scene (in an ironic hipster-approved way, of course) for some new song of hers that isn't even half the tune Voices Carry is.
Let's face it, it must be a total pain in the ass to travel the world, stay in the nicest hotels, get recognized, have beautiful people want to sleep with you, have every eye in the room turn to you wherever you go and not have to work some shit job for a living.
Maybe the next time Prince goes to see somebody he likes perform (hey, it could happen), they can choose to not play any of the songs he wants to hear and maybe in the middle of his purple shit-snit, he'll stop and go..."Ohhhhhhhh."
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Post by Merc on Sept 23, 2013 22:53:06 GMT -5
Preach, Darren. There's gotta be a balance; play your new shit, but play the hits too, give the people what they want. And Aimee Mann (who I like) really ought to get over it- "Voices Carry" is a great song, and it made her fucking famous. So she could then go do what she wants, as she has.
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Post by DannyA on Sept 23, 2013 23:09:09 GMT -5
Prince never charged 100 bucks for a ticket till this year when it was $250 to see him in tiny clubs...and he played hits along with the shit he wanted to play. The Musicology tour was filled with hits and top price was $75. In arenas. And he out-grossed Madonna that year, who WAS charging $250 a ticket for arenas.
I can't fault the guy for any move he's made, but I do wish he'd play out more. I'd pay $200 for a show where he did nothing but play guitar and no hits.
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