Am I going crazy???? Didn't Prince play a show last night, Jan.31st in Miami at the Hard Rock??? How come there are no reviews here? Just making sure I didn't go insane....somebody hook up a review please.

emilio319 said:

mine is coming.

It will be lukewarm.

Later

liltalkm said:

If yours is lukewarm it will be better than mine. I'm still struggling with it.

really, haven't read a good one yet....

Posted Thu, Feb. 01, 2007

CONCERT REVIEW | PRINCE

THE PURPLE ONE LEAVES FANS WANTING

BY EVELYN McDONNELL

A genius misfit who made hit music out of marginal cultures in the '80s and '90s, then rejected the hit machine and doggedly went his own way, Prince lives in his own world -- and I don't mean Minnesota. He's a notorious recluse, the ultimate mystery man, who comes alive under a spotlight.

Wednesday night, four days before he's to take the world's biggest stage -- halftime at the Super Bowl -- he gave 5,500 fans at Hollywood's Hard Rock Live a tantalizing but frustratingly cursory peek inside his house.

There were possible hints of what he might have in store for Sunday. The show opened with his crack band -- a funky sextet including three horn players, plus the dancing, singing Energizer-Barbie Twins -- playing Down by the Riverside, seemingly a tribute to New Orleans. Later, he saluted Parliament/Funkadelic and James Brown: ''real musicians playing real music.'' The show included a surprising number of covers (the Beatles, Gnarls Barkley), as if Prince didn't have his own prolific past to draw on.

''So many hits, so little time,'' he promised early on. Then he played a medley of songs from '06's 3121: a decent album that sold well, but whose tunes few in the audience seemed to know.

The erstwhile glyph played only a couple catalog favorites until breaking out Purple Rain and Let's Go Crazy after an hour -- at the show's end. Fortunately, Prince came back for two extended encores.

Prince is a dazzling guitarist; a soulful, playful singer, and a sexy, dandified showman, even though the Jehovah's Witness keeps his suit on these days, looking increasingly like his old cohort Morris Day. But the show felt like an afterthought to his planned assaults on America's entertainment goliaths: the Super Bowl and Las Vegas, where he opens a show later this year. If it's a prequel, he's in trouble. It was by no means a bad concert, but worth the $100 to $400 tickets? Someone's gone crazy.

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