my sister texted me while the show was on.....so excited.....she nearly gave birth (due in 4 weeks)
i've haven't seen it yet as only just got in...but recorded it.

Turned off the lights, sat right in front of my widescreen television, had the television output going through to my stereo speakers, and was recording the whole performance straight onto minidisc, and videotape of course.

Massive smile on my face all the way through!

Awesome, awesome, awesome performance. ITV showed the *entire* thing.

And boy, did it sound better than the radio broadcast last night - all those complaining about sound quality, this was perfect, must've been the radio.

Things I absolutely loved:

(1) The cool introduction from UK presenter Chris Evans. All he said was "And now.....Prince." Cool as hell.
(2) Prince did such a tight set. Gone was the Las Vegas feel. No horns, no extended jams. Just tight, tight, tight, numbers - back to the tight pop song style. Maybe limited time worked in his favour here. Unlike the Rave Un2 The Year 2000 concert, there were no Larry Graham-influenced overblown extended-to-death jamming.
(3) Prince - so DAMN cool, SO SO confident - he was incredible, terrific performance. "Fury" was awesome, blew me away. A tight, concise, mindblowing performance from our hero! He just reallly really looked like he was enjoying himself up on that stage tonight, he really did.
(4) Sheila E - damn, she looks *so* beautiful tonight. Seems to get more and more attractive as the years go by. Her look was so different to the Vegas One Night Alone tour, she looked *very* hot playing those drums tonight.
(5) I loved the way Prince surrounded himself with beautiful women on stage. Goodbye JW limitations, I guess. Was that Wendy on keyboards?! Couldn't tell.

Prince kissed Tamar during the performance of Purple Rain.

Oh, hopefully good riddance Larry Graham - Prince is back to being Prince by the looks of this!

Just awesome. Honestly can't get across how terrific this performance was. I'm listening to my Minidisc recording of it again right now, the quality really is 1000 times better than the radio broadcast mp3 last night many have heard.

For all those who haven't seen it yet, you're in for a major treat. If you're in the UK, it's being repeated Saturday afternoon from 15:40.

David

Turned off the lights, sat right in front of my widescreen television, had the television output going through to my stereo speakers, and was recording the whole performance straight onto minidisc, and videotape of course.

Massive smile on my face all the way through!

Awesome, awesome, awesome performance. ITV showed the *entire* thing.

And boy, did it sound better than the radio broadcast last night - all those complaining about sound quality, this was perfect, must've been the radio.

Things I absolutely loved:

(1) The cool introduction from UK presenter Chris Evans. All he said was "And now.....Prince." Cool as hell.
(2) Prince did such a tight set. Gone was the Las Vegas feel. No horns, no extended jams. Just tight, tight, tight, numbers - back to the tight pop song style. Maybe limited time worked in his favour here. Unlike the Rave Un2 The Year 2000 concert, there were no Larry Graham-influenced overblown extended-to-death jamming.
(3) Prince - so DAMN cool, SO SO confident - he was incredible, terrific performance. "Fury" was awesome, blew me away. A tight, concise, mindblowing performance from our hero! He just reallly really looked like he was enjoying himself up on that stage tonight, he really did.
(4) Sheila E - damn, she looks *so* beautiful tonight. Seems to get more and more attractive as the years go by. Her look was so different to the Vegas One Night Alone tour, she looked *very* hot playing those drums tonight.
(5) I loved the way Prince surrounded himself with beautiful women on stage. Goodbye JW limitations, I guess. Was that Wendy on keyboards?! Couldn't tell.

Prince kissed Tamar during the performance of Purple Rain.

Oh, hopefully good riddance Larry Graham - Prince is back to being Prince by the looks of this!

Just awesome. Honestly can't get across how terrific this performance was. I'm listening to my Minidisc recording of it again right now, the quality really is 1000 times better than the radio broadcast mp3 last night many have heard.

For all those who haven't seen it yet, you're in for a major treat. If you're in the UK, it's being repeated Saturday afternoon from 15:40.

David

Turned off the lights, sat right in front of my widescreen television, had the television output going through to my stereo speakers, and was recording the whole performance straight onto minidisc, and videotape of course.

Massive smile on my face all the way through!

Awesome, awesome, awesome performance. ITV showed the *entire* thing.

And boy, did it sound better than the radio broadcast last night - all those complaining about sound quality, this was perfect, must've been the radio.

Things I absolutely loved:

(1) The cool introduction from UK presenter Chris Evans. All he said was "And now.....Prince." Cool as hell.
(2) Prince did such a tight set. Gone was the Las Vegas feel. No horns, no extended jams. Just tight, tight, tight, numbers - back to the tight pop song style. Maybe limited time worked in his favour here. Unlike the Rave Un2 The Year 2000 concert, there were no Larry Graham-influenced overblown extended-to-death jamming.
(3) Prince - so DAMN cool, SO SO confident - he was incredible, terrific performance. "Fury" was awesome, blew me away. A tight, concise, mindblowing performance from our hero! He just reallly really looked like he was enjoying himself up on that stage tonight, he really did.
(4) Sheila E - damn, she looks *so* beautiful tonight. Seems to get more and more attractive as the years go by. Her look was so different to the Vegas One Night Alone tour, she looked *very* hot playing those drums tonight.
(5) I loved the way Prince surrounded himself with beautiful women on stage. Goodbye JW limitations, I guess. Was that Wendy on keyboards?! Couldn't tell.

Prince kissed Tamar during the performance of Purple Rain.

Oh, hopefully good riddance Larry Graham - Prince is back to being Prince by the looks of this!

Just awesome. Honestly can't get across how terrific this performance was. I'm listening to my Minidisc recording of it again right now, the quality really is 1000 times better than the radio broadcast mp3 last night many have heard.

For all those who haven't seen it yet, you're in for a major treat. If you're in the UK, it's being repeated Saturday afternoon from 15:40.

David

msserendipity said:

She'll have to give birth on 21/3 now and call the baby 'Lolita'.

DaveDare79 said:

Man, WTF are you talking about? Larry hasn't played with Prince's band in ages, give the guy a break - the man is funk ROYALTY and a great musician too. No one is to blame for Prince's wacky JW shit in recent years but Prince himself. If you doubt Larry's funk credentials, go listen to some old Sly or GCS records.

Ian
[Edited 2/16/06 13:34pm]

As soon as I see it, I'll commune with y'all in purple ecstasy.

Sure sounds like the Grammies x 10 artistically.

and for the rest of y'all HQ has it up...

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By the way, I've never quite got Chris Evans' Prince thoughts - I know he was really pissed when P didn't turn up for the Radio 1 show years back - did he ever get over it? I wasn't too sure about his intro, was it "cool" or "bored"?

Web-browser crashed mid-post!

machinegun said:

He played on Chris Evans TFI Friday show, so I guess they got over that disagreement.

What I hate, is people and media always seem to make a jibe about Prince's height. It is clearly because they are so intimidated by his talent that is the only way they can bring him down to their level - 'He may be a living legend, but I'm taller than him, so I win' sort of thing.

Incidently, although I thought Prince stole the show, I thought a lot of other performances were quite alright and far from being 'talentless' - the whole show was a lot rawer and better than the Grammies which seems very 'plastic' by comparison. You may not be fans of those other artists, but all they can do is play their songs the way they know how. A lot of them are after all in only their first year of stardom - in comparison, Prince wasn't all that good when he started off performing on TV, remember that awful outfit when he was peforming 'Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad' or whatever it was? Takes time to hone your craft.
[Edited 2/16/06 15:27pm]