Prince playing Oakland next week

[GeezrRckr]

i forgot to mention another highlight:

Prince's extended dancing at the end of Kiss. holy shit, how old is he?! what a fantastic little phreak!

[sbessiso]

So Monday just unequivocally got screwed then.
Yeah, fuck him.

I mean it was still a great show and all, but yeah....

[AlecEiffel]

I think the thing I learned from this is that if Prince is playing multiple nights and you can only go to one show you should not choose the first one.

[dorkfish]

i forgot to mention another highlight:

Prince's extended dancing at the end of Kiss. holy shit, how old is he?! what a fantastic little phreak!

There's no way his hip was 100% healed when he was at Coachella. He jumped up on a piano in Oakland. At Coachella he swayed a lot.

[GeezrRckr]

he did the piano jump last night as well. maybe he did that dance solo during Kiss to show off his new hip.

what a showman!

[Robin]

Dammit!! Now I really wish I went last night as well!

[yeahfontaine]

I'm trying to remind myself how happy I was at Monday's show and how it was totally worth it to...

extend my LA weekend and miss a day of work
pay for 2 more flights--one to Oakland and one home the next day
fly with double ear infections even though the LA ER doctor said not to
be 10 times as sick and hurt as I would've otherwise been

And I probably could've pulled it off if I hadn't starting reading this damn thread yesterday (and now even worse, today) and found out how horribly screwed we got on Monday. Are you fucking kidding having that huge of a chasm between one show and the two others? Jesus. And to top it all off, this show was supposed to make up for missing him at Coachella, something I've deeply regretted for 3 years.

Guess I'm headed to another Prince show as soon as possible?! I don't even know right now... Pretty bummed.

[dorkfish]

To be fair, Monday's show had:

Uptown, Raspberry Beret, Cream, COOL, U Got the Look, The Glamorous Life, Soul Sacrifice w/ Carlos Santana, Rude Boy (Rihanna cover), A Love Bizarre, Controversy, Purple Rain, Kiss, If I Was Your Girlfriend, Scandalous, Bambi as the highlights.

He rarely plays Bambi.

[Rosemont17]

last night was fucking incredible! when everyone started to leave, we sat down only to let the rush go and just take it all in and snap a few more photos. then he came back out! that was so incredible!!

[chiapet]

Yea Monday was pretty great. I think I had more fun on Monday, but Tuesday's set was way more upbeat.

[yeahfontaine]

Yea Monday was pretty great. I think I had more fun on Monday, but Tuesday's set was way more upbeat.

Yeah, it was amazing. Which is why I totally wish I hadn't read subsequent reviews (set lists, mostly).

Oh well. It was a fantastic show and so "that's that, Mattressman".

[AlecEiffel]

Monday was by no means a bad show, I just felt like Thursday was far better.

[HandBanana]

I don't think I'd trade "Let's Go Crazy", "1999", "LRC", and "Corvette" for "Bambi" regardless of rarity.

That's like saying "yeah but he played BATDANCE!"

[dorkfish]

I totally would trade Little Red Corvette for Batdance. Actually "Trust" was the best song off that soundtrack. Fact.

[Thisismyname]

according to Twitter, Prince just played Rock Lobster.

If anyone stumbles across a video, plz post it.

[Vasoline Groove]

I don't think I'd trade "Let's Go Crazy", "1999", "LRC", and "Corvette" for "Bambi" regardless of rarity.

That's like saying "yeah but he played BATDANCE!"

Yeah, seriously we got fucked on Monday. It just sucks when you paying $100 a ticket and felt like you got shortchanged.

But at least we got a nice Santana cameo. That partially makes up for it.

[GeezrRckr]

ha, i love that rationalization.

i've seen him show up for a Lyrics Born show at the Indy. Santana lives here and is a walk-on whore.

(sorry, couldn't help myself)

[GeezrRckr]

but, seriously, where are those Fillmore dates already?!

[dorkfish]

Well, there's no shows booked Feb 26-Mar 2 and Mar 6-Mar 11

[Rosemont17]

i would love to hear days of wild or the ride!!

[Vasoline Groove]

ha, i love that rationalization.

i've seen him show up for a Lyrics Born show at the Indy. Santana lives here and is a walk-on whore.

(sorry, couldn't help myself)

Well as a new bay area resident, it was new for me.

Thanks for ruining the one thing I could feel special about, Drew!

[GeezrRckr]

any of these please:







and Jack U Off (couldn't find a vid for that one)

[dorkfish]

Well as a new bay area resident, it was new for me.

Thanks for ruining the one thing I could feel special about, Drew!

If you go to enough shows, there's a bunch of weird SF-based musicians that you'll run into. I've happened upon Tom Waits, Jello Biafra, Davey Havok (one of these things is not like the other), etc... at shows that made zero sense for them to be there (in my mind, at least).

[GeezrRckr]

Thanks for ruining the one thing I could feel special about, Drew!

i'm sorry, man. i know that came off totally bitchy, but it was more of a slam on Carlos than an attempt to squash your fun. hopefully he will show up at a little gig you are at sometime soon.

EDIT: adding to what Brad said....oddly enough Mike Patton showed up at a Kid Koala show (when he did The Slip stuff) at the Indy a little while back. Les Claypool is another that you'll likely encounter at some point.

[Vasoline Groove]

i'm sorry, man. i know that came off totally bitchy, but it was more of a slam on Carlos than an attempt to squash your fun. hopefully he will show up at a little gig you are at sometime soon.

EDIT: adding to what Brad said....oddly enough Mike Patton showed up at a Kid Koala show (when he did The Slip stuff) at the Indy a little while back. Les Claypool is another that you'll likely encounter at some point.

No worries, I was just kidding.

But these are among the reasons why I love living in the Bay Area so much, even if its going to make me broke!

[chiapet]

I don't think I'd trade "Let's Go Crazy", "1999", "LRC", and "Corvette" for "Bambi" regardless of rarity.

That's like saying "yeah but he played BATDANCE!"

I totally would trade Little Red Corvette for Batdance. Actually "Trust" was the best song off that soundtrack. Fact.

I'd have been way more excited for Batdance than Little Red Corvette. (I love that song but could do without the 5 minutes of clapping "slow down" that he does every time).

[DANCE MAGIC]

I totally would trade Little Red Corvette for Batdance. Actually "Trust" was the best song off that soundtrack. Fact.

Trust is a great song, but I like Lemon Crush.

[DANCE MAGIC]

Also, since it doesn't look like it got posted here, this is from the 24th:

The Love We Make
Take Me With U
Guitar
Anotherloverholenyohead/Rock Lobster
Shhh
#prince is flying solo 2 night & kicking some purple a##!

--> Sheila joins P
Glamorous Life
Controversy
Love Bizzare
Nothing Compare 2 U
She's always in My Hair
Welcome 2 America
Let's Go Crazy
Delirious
1999
Little Red Corvette

--> Larry Graham and P
Everyday People
Alphabet St
Extended Jam - "Family Stone in the house" "It's like a huge house party!"
Thank You For Letting Me Be Mice Elf Again

Purple Rain (looks like the lighting was awesome for this)

Kiss

[I assume these are snippets like last night - not sure of order, reports vary]
Under the Cherry Moon (Instr.) / Do Me Baby / I Wanna Be Your Lover / Nasty Girl / When Doves Cry / TMBGITW / I Would Die 4 U / Darling Nikki

Pop Life
Raspberry Beret
Cream

C O O L

Let's work
U Got The Look

[SoulDischarge]

Tom Waits, Jello Biafra, Davey Havok (one of these things is not like the other)

Three of these things are not like the others.

[dorkfish]

I was going for a theme of "good music".