prince @ superbowl

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:57 pm

kb420 wrote:I couldn't believe he did the Foo Fighters song

! I can't believe he did Proud Mary - next to that the Foo Fighters song seemed just as natural as Purple Rain, haha.

bradelectro · Post by **bradelectro** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:00 pm

Ha I just watched this after reading about it on Drudge report. HELL YEAH he rocked it! If you still don't "get" Prince, there's nothng I can do for ya

dj superflat · Post by **dj superflat** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:02 pm

he was great, finally a performer realizes that halftime at the bowl is the ultimate bar band gig (play some covers, tear it up).

(best show i've ever seen: prince late nite at china club in nyc after show at MSG, he played for hours, all sorts of songs, unreal.)

udp · Post by **udp** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:20 pm

I was thinking how happy I was that I wasn't the sound engineer for that show. Oh my God how hard that must've been just to not have shit blow up. Props to Prince for reinstituting my interest in Superbowl half time shows. The last few have been abyssmal.

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:22 pm

yes, he's good at what he does

to bad the half time show was way better then the game (blah...Chicago...)

kennerb · Post by **kennerb** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 12:45 am

Last time I saw him live he had Maceo Parker on board. It was pretty close to the time that Ray Charles passed on and they did Georgia. I had tears in my eyes. I have yet to see someone pull of a show as smoothly and powerfully as Prince. He's been my number one influence since I was about 10.

We had a projector screen set up for the bowl so I got to watch it on a 15' screen. Damn. What a show. BTW was the lightning in the beginning CG or was it real?

stutter · Post by **stutter** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 12:51 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q068IH1K ... ed&search=

first time I realised how good he is on guitar.

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 12:53 am

I'm sure he does this in other towns, but when Prince rolls into Dallas, he does like a super long 3-4 hour show, and then he has an afterparty at some grimy warehouse in South Dallas and he plays another 6 hours. It's sick. Someone remind him he's not 20 anymore

nylarch · Post by **nylarch** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:28 am

People sleep on his guitar playing b/c he's such a great songwriter and singer but if all he did was play guitar he'd be one of the greatest ever.

Teon · Post by **Teon** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:30 am

The way prince enjoyed and leaned into the rain was as an artist realizes a new discovery...he played with eyes closed at times, the rain driving him into a stormy frenzy. There arent many like him, maybe hendrix was there that night.

fsk · Post by **fsk** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:05 am

wow I got all watery eye'd

prince always does that

purple rain + nothing compares 2 u are like the 2 greatest songs ever written

MartinOM28V · Post by **MartinOM28V** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:29 am

I am in total awe. Prince channels the stars and sings their music with complete abandonment. He inhabits a place that most of us are lucky to get a glimpse of on rare occasion, from a great distance, with a thick fog between us and "it." If you can't feel the entire universe in his music well, you must be distracted by the dancers.

prince @ superbowl

purple driving rain