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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:57 pm
by Machinate
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.
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:00 pm
by bradelectro
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

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:02 pm
by dj superflat
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.)
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:20 pm
by udp
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.
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:22 pm
by djadonis206
yes, he's good at what he does
to bad the half time show was way better then the game (blah...Chicago...)
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 12:45 am
by kennerb
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?
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 12:51 am
by stutter
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 12:53 am
by nebulae
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

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:28 am
by nylarch
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.
purple driving rain
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:30 am
by Teon
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.
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:05 am
by fsk
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

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:29 am
by MartinOM28V
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.