The purple one, symbol, his royal badness, the artist formerley known as, that funky little short arsed egomaniac...prince.
After years of ignoring doing a tour in the UK Prince did 21 nights in London. I went to the 20th night with boo boo, rosie and fiontan.
Seeing Prince was a big deal to me because i think the man is a fucking genius. Usually i don't like the overly massive egocentric twats but with Prince you get entertainment from it. Ever since the Batman soundtrack i've been hooked on his music. All day i hadn't beed feeling well but there was no way i was going to miss this.
When going to see somebody with a huge back catalogue you know songs you want to hear will be left off. When the man himself came on the stage he owned the arena. The show really got started though when the purple one got hold of a guitar. I've always thought that Prince is the most underrated guitarist in history and he is up there with the best. So when he got the guitar everything went up a level.
The other thing about a prince performance that impresses me is the man is dancing and running around on stage non-stop in some big heels. I don't know how the little guy does it. The personal highlights for me were Let's go crazy - the arena really did go crazy, Rasberry beret - one of my favourite songs which i'm ashamed to say i no longer own and i will soon rectify that, and of course, Purple rain - especially by the fact that during the song he said "i really like this part."
The thing with Prince is, like Hendrix could, he can take somebody else's song and make it sound a lot cooler. He made Gnarls Barkley's massive hit Crazy better, he made the beatles Come together sound better (but to me anybody doing a beatles song has a pretty good chance of being better than the dull original) but he took Whole lotta love and even that sounded a lot more groovy than Led Zep.
As the night ended, i look back and as it was an amazing experience, that nothing was played from 3121(a brilliant and overlooked album) didn't matter, the fact that when doves cry was left of the setlist was nothing to me.
But NO Partyman? NO Scandalous? NO Batdance? That's a little harder for me to forget.
(I know writing this blog in purple is very lame and very sad, but i think the fact i have a blog to write about my life proves i'm already both of those things!)
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