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Well, I got home about an hour ago from the 9 hour drive that I made on 4 hours sleep. I made friends at the show and went out for drinks and dinner with them last night after the show, so that was cool. The one guy went to Pittsburgh Filmmakers and lived in my hometown for 6 years. Plus, about 7 songs into the show, sometime during Little Red Corvette I think, the woman in front of me turned to me and said that she paid to hear Prince sing, not me. What a buzzkill! My buddy beside me immediately started belting out as loud as he could, which led to her calling him a jerkstore. People are the worst.
I don't want recency bias to cloud my judgment but the initial reaction is that I loved it more than the Musicology tour (which was my best show experience of all time despite my girlfriend breaking up with me on the way home from the show). My step counter counted 5,000 steps during the show from dancing, that totally counts toward the goal right?
He played for about 1:35 minutes in the first show, and I'd say maybe 10-15 minutes longer in the second. You could tell it was Hannah Welton's hometown because he was giving her props all night, she had about an 8 minute solo at one point that was pretty sick.
He started off with the grinding version of Let's Go Crazy he's been doing for a little (including at the SNL 40 afterparty), and that was what he called 9 hits to lead off the show. One of those hits was Funknroll, which I love but I wouldn't exactly call a hit. Off the top of my head I can remember Crazy, Take Me With U, U Got the Look (one of my anthems), Controversy, 1999, Little Red Corvette, Doves Cry, Kiss, and Nothing Compares 2 U in this lineup. Kiss is the song that originally made me a Prince fan as a 7 year old, so that was a high of highs (and my falsetto was ON POINT). 1999 I'm fairly certain I didn't see on the Musicology tour because it was "retired" and that got one of the biggest crowd reactions. He also did Sign/Times and I Would Die 4 U at some point in there.
He brought a bigger dude in the front row up on stage early in the show and danced with him and gave him a huge hug at the end. At another point it was like a dance club up on the stage with almost 30 fans up there, dancing as Prince sat behind the keyboard. Before this point he went keyboard only (giving the band a break) with a scintillating rendition of How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore. The band came back out and played a few more new songs - I think they did PlectrumElectrum, Wow, maybe Clouds, and Ex's Face which I guess was just released either yesterday or the day before.
When he was behind the keyboard he teased a bunch of hits and kept mentioning that he has too many hits. He teased If I Was Ur Girlfriend, Darling Nikki, and Love (maybe my favorite 21st century Prince song), and it was so disappointing that he didn't follow through on any of those. They covered Don't Stop (Til You Get Enough) near the end.
There were a couple of encores in there (everything is jumbled a bit because, you know, it was Kentucky, so I had a bit of bourbon). Purple Rain was the closer, of course - it's his calling card after all! Many artists get bored with their calling card songs and almost refuse to play them or get bitter toward those songs. I have always thought it was pretty neat that this vibe never comes from Prince; in fact, it seems he loves Purple Rain more and more every time he talks about it or plays it. I really respect that about him. And of course the song is pretty kick ass. The version last night was very guitar heavy in the beginning, never a bad thing in my opinion. The solo at the end rocked, it seemed like he was done, and then he started playing another solo into leading the crowd into the "ooooooooooh, oooooooooooh, oooh-oooh-oooooooooh"s (tried to replicate the impossible there). Then it was over.
I drove 9 hours each way to see this show. I would do it again in a heartbeat.
Oh one last thing, in Kiss he had taken to changing the lyric from "you don't have to watch Dynasty" to "you don't have to watch Desperate Housewives" in the mid-2000s. Last night, it was updated to "you don't have to watch Love and Hip Hop". Prince - he belongs in the Garbage TV thread with me!!!
Post by bansheebeat on Mar 15, 2015 20:40:01 GMT -5
This probably isn't the best place to post this, buttttt
My good friend just released some new music. He's super talented and it'd be cool if you'd give it a listen. Also he's in Nashville so keep an eye out and check out his shows sometime, he has his solo shows and plays in a few bands.
https%3A//soundcloud.com/challtalk/luck
and hearing new music from him has me really inspired. I need a keyboard asap before I go insane.
Post by heyyitskait on Mar 16, 2015 3:44:49 GMT -5
Just sitting in the airport, waiting to be taken to the sunshine. The newsstand is all boarded up for construction and all I want is a big old bottle of overpriced water. Damn you tiny airport!
Post by bansheebeat on Mar 16, 2015 3:59:38 GMT -5
My bank sends me a daily statement of recent charges. Today's statement included "Soi Patpong" from this past weekend. Brought back a lot of memories... some that probably should've stayed buried.
Ok. So this is really weird... You know how Facebook has the "suggested friends" thing when you're scrolling through your feed? Well, a month or so ago I was a little weirded out when a dude I was (am? Not really, but maybe?) talking-ish to that I met on Tinder showed up there. We have no mutual friends and I honestly had never even made an attempt to find him on Facebook. I thought it was weird, but just creeped and kept on scrolling.
Well, today, it happened again. Only this time it was with a guy I had talked to for almost all of last year and I never even found out his last name... Again, no mutual friends, no nothing. This guy I had actually tried to find a couple of times on FB with no luck. I actually liked him a lot too, but things just kinda fizzled out and I haven't talked to him since around Christmas. I'm totally freaked out that this has happened twice now though... Makes me realize that Tinder & FB are actually connected and it's weird and I don't like this.
Tinder is weird and I don't like this odd turn of events.
Ok. So this is really weird... You know how Facebook has the "suggested friends" thing when you're scrolling through your feed? Well, a month or so ago I was a little weirded out when a dude I was (am? Not really, but maybe?) talking-ish to that I met on Tinder showed up there. We have no mutual friends and I honestly had never even made an attempt to find him on Facebook. I thought it was weird, but just creeped and kept on scrolling.
Well, today, it happened again. Only this time it was with a guy I had talked to for almost all of last year and I never even found out his last name... Again, no mutual friends, no nothing. This guy I had actually tried to find a couple of times on FB with no luck. I actually liked him a lot too, but things just kinda fizzled out and I haven't talked to him since around Christmas. I'm totally freaked out that this has happened twice now though... Makes me realize that Tinder & FB are actually connected and it's weird and I don't like this.
Tinder is weird and I don't like this odd turn of events.
Eeeeek, that IS weird. I mean, I know that when you download the app, it asks you for permission to access info but not post to fb... Still didn't realize that it would link connections like that for you, tryna get you to friend tinder luvahs
Considering you've found the need to respond to my threads as if you are threatened by me I offer you some peace my confused counterpart. May you find peace in your restless soul.
Ok. So this is really weird... You know how Facebook has the "suggested friends" thing when you're scrolling through your feed? Well, a month or so ago I was a little weirded out when a dude I was (am? Not really, but maybe?) talking-ish to that I met on Tinder showed up there. We have no mutual friends and I honestly had never even made an attempt to find him on Facebook. I thought it was weird, but just creeped and kept on scrolling.
Well, today, it happened again. Only this time it was with a guy I had talked to for almost all of last year and I never even found out his last name... Again, no mutual friends, no nothing. This guy I had actually tried to find a couple of times on FB with no luck. I actually liked him a lot too, but things just kinda fizzled out and I haven't talked to him since around Christmas. I'm totally freaked out that this has happened twice now though... Makes me realize that Tinder & FB are actually connected and it's weird and I don't like this.
Tinder is weird and I don't like this odd turn of events.
Isn't that the whole point? It finds people based on similar interests listed on facebook and stuff like that. It's always been connected haha. I know I've read that some people have made fake/secondary facebook accounts just for Tinder and other types of things like that.
Anytime anything is connected to facebook I get suspicious of how they interact.
Ok. So this is really weird... You know how Facebook has the "suggested friends" thing when you're scrolling through your feed? Well, a month or so ago I was a little weirded out when a dude I was (am? Not really, but maybe?) talking-ish to that I met on Tinder showed up there. We have no mutual friends and I honestly had never even made an attempt to find him on Facebook. I thought it was weird, but just creeped and kept on scrolling.
Well, today, it happened again. Only this time it was with a guy I had talked to for almost all of last year and I never even found out his last name... Again, no mutual friends, no nothing. This guy I had actually tried to find a couple of times on FB with no luck. I actually liked him a lot too, but things just kinda fizzled out and I haven't talked to him since around Christmas. I'm totally freaked out that this has happened twice now though... Makes me realize that Tinder & FB are actually connected and it's weird and I don't like this.
Tinder is weird and I don't like this odd turn of events.
I wonder if it was pulling info from your contacts?
Either way, I don't like it either. It's too much.
Ok. So this is really weird... You know how Facebook has the "suggested friends" thing when you're scrolling through your feed? Well, a month or so ago I was a little weirded out when a dude I was (am? Not really, but maybe?) talking-ish to that I met on Tinder showed up there. We have no mutual friends and I honestly had never even made an attempt to find him on Facebook. I thought it was weird, but just creeped and kept on scrolling.
Well, today, it happened again. Only this time it was with a guy I had talked to for almost all of last year and I never even found out his last name... Again, no mutual friends, no nothing. This guy I had actually tried to find a couple of times on FB with no luck. I actually liked him a lot too, but things just kinda fizzled out and I haven't talked to him since around Christmas. I'm totally freaked out that this has happened twice now though... Makes me realize that Tinder & FB are actually connected and it's weird and I don't like this.
Tinder is weird and I don't like this odd turn of events.
I wonder if it was pulling info from your contacts?
Either way, I don't like it either. It's too much.
If it's a free service you're the product. They're selling your interactions and data to other people so they can get you to spend $$ or use their system/platform/site.
Well, I got home about an hour ago from the 9 hour drive that I made on 4 hours sleep. I made friends at the show and went out for drinks and dinner with them last night after the show, so that was cool. The one guy went to Pittsburgh Filmmakers and lived in my hometown for 6 years. Plus, about 7 songs into the show, sometime during Little Red Corvette I think, the woman in front of me turned to me and said that she paid to hear Prince sing, not me. What a buzzkill! My buddy beside me immediately started belting out as loud as he could, which led to her calling him a jerkstore. People are the worst.
I don't want recency bias to cloud my judgment but the initial reaction is that I loved it more than the Musicology tour (which was my best show experience of all time despite my girlfriend breaking up with me on the way home from the show). My step counter counted 5,000 steps during the show from dancing, that totally counts toward the goal right?
He played for about 1:35 minutes in the first show, and I'd say maybe 10-15 minutes longer in the second. You could tell it was Hannah Welton's hometown because he was giving her props all night, she had about an 8 minute solo at one point that was pretty sick.
He started off with the grinding version of Let's Go Crazy he's been doing for a little (including at the SNL 40 afterparty), and that was what he called 9 hits to lead off the show. One of those hits was Funknroll, which I love but I wouldn't exactly call a hit. Off the top of my head I can remember Crazy, Take Me With U, U Got the Look (one of my anthems), Controversy, 1999, Little Red Corvette, Doves Cry, Kiss, and Nothing Compares 2 U in this lineup. Kiss is the song that originally made me a Prince fan as a 7 year old, so that was a high of highs (and my falsetto was ON POINT). 1999 I'm fairly certain I didn't see on the Musicology tour because it was "retired" and that got one of the biggest crowd reactions. He also did Sign/Times and I Would Die 4 U at some point in there.
He brought a bigger dude in the front row up on stage early in the show and danced with him and gave him a huge hug at the end. At another point it was like a dance club up on the stage with almost 30 fans up there, dancing as Prince sat behind the keyboard. Before this point he went keyboard only (giving the band a break) with a scintillating rendition of How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore. The band came back out and played a few more new songs - I think they did PlectrumElectrum, Wow, maybe Clouds, and Ex's Face which I guess was just released either yesterday or the day before.
When he was behind the keyboard he teased a bunch of hits and kept mentioning that he has too many hits. He teased If I Was Ur Girlfriend, Darling Nikki, and Love (maybe my favorite 21st century Prince song), and it was so disappointing that he didn't follow through on any of those. They covered Don't Stop (Til You Get Enough) near the end.
There were a couple of encores in there (everything is jumbled a bit because, you know, it was Kentucky, so I had a bit of bourbon). Purple Rain was the closer, of course - it's his calling card after all! Many artists get bored with their calling card songs and almost refuse to play them or get bitter toward those songs. I have always thought it was pretty neat that this vibe never comes from Prince; in fact, it seems he loves Purple Rain more and more every time he talks about it or plays it. I really respect that about him. And of course the song is pretty kick ass. The version last night was very guitar heavy in the beginning, never a bad thing in my opinion. The solo at the end rocked, it seemed like he was done, and then he started playing another solo into leading the crowd into the "ooooooooooh, oooooooooooh, oooh-oooh-oooooooooh"s (tried to replicate the impossible there). Then it was over.
I drove 9 hours each way to see this show. I would do it again in a heartbeat.
Oh one last thing, in Kiss he had taken to changing the lyric from "you don't have to watch Dynasty" to "you don't have to watch Desperate Housewives" in the mid-2000s. Last night, it was updated to "you don't have to watch Love and Hip Hop". Prince - he belongs in the Garbage TV thread with me!!!
so glad you had an amazing time and made it home safely. now I think I speak for everyone when I ask: Did. He. Play. BLUE LIGHT??????
I wonder if it was pulling info from your contacts?
Either way, I don't like it either. It's too much.
If it's a free service you're the product. They're selling your interactions and data to other people so they can get you to spend $$ or use their system/platform/site.
For sure, I get that, it still makes me feel a little icky sometimes though.
Well, I got home about an hour ago from the 9 hour drive that I made on 4 hours sleep. I made friends at the show and went out for drinks and dinner with them last night after the show, so that was cool. The one guy went to Pittsburgh Filmmakers and lived in my hometown for 6 years. Plus, about 7 songs into the show, sometime during Little Red Corvette I think, the woman in front of me turned to me and said that she paid to hear Prince sing, not me. What a buzzkill! My buddy beside me immediately started belting out as loud as he could, which led to her calling him a jerkstore. People are the worst.
I don't want recency bias to cloud my judgment but the initial reaction is that I loved it more than the Musicology tour (which was my best show experience of all time despite my girlfriend breaking up with me on the way home from the show). My step counter counted 5,000 steps during the show from dancing, that totally counts toward the goal right?
He played for about 1:35 minutes in the first show, and I'd say maybe 10-15 minutes longer in the second. You could tell it was Hannah Welton's hometown because he was giving her props all night, she had about an 8 minute solo at one point that was pretty sick.
He started off with the grinding version of Let's Go Crazy he's been doing for a little (including at the SNL 40 afterparty), and that was what he called 9 hits to lead off the show. One of those hits was Funknroll, which I love but I wouldn't exactly call a hit. Off the top of my head I can remember Crazy, Take Me With U, U Got the Look (one of my anthems), Controversy, 1999, Little Red Corvette, Doves Cry, Kiss, and Nothing Compares 2 U in this lineup. Kiss is the song that originally made me a Prince fan as a 7 year old, so that was a high of highs (and my falsetto was ON POINT). 1999 I'm fairly certain I didn't see on the Musicology tour because it was "retired" and that got one of the biggest crowd reactions. He also did Sign/Times and I Would Die 4 U at some point in there.
He brought a bigger dude in the front row up on stage early in the show and danced with him and gave him a huge hug at the end. At another point it was like a dance club up on the stage with almost 30 fans up there, dancing as Prince sat behind the keyboard. Before this point he went keyboard only (giving the band a break) with a scintillating rendition of How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore. The band came back out and played a few more new songs - I think they did PlectrumElectrum, Wow, maybe Clouds, and Ex's Face which I guess was just released either yesterday or the day before.
When he was behind the keyboard he teased a bunch of hits and kept mentioning that he has too many hits. He teased If I Was Ur Girlfriend, Darling Nikki, and Love (maybe my favorite 21st century Prince song), and it was so disappointing that he didn't follow through on any of those. They covered Don't Stop (Til You Get Enough) near the end.
There were a couple of encores in there (everything is jumbled a bit because, you know, it was Kentucky, so I had a bit of bourbon). Purple Rain was the closer, of course - it's his calling card after all! Many artists get bored with their calling card songs and almost refuse to play them or get bitter toward those songs. I have always thought it was pretty neat that this vibe never comes from Prince; in fact, it seems he loves Purple Rain more and more every time he talks about it or plays it. I really respect that about him. And of course the song is pretty kick ass. The version last night was very guitar heavy in the beginning, never a bad thing in my opinion. The solo at the end rocked, it seemed like he was done, and then he started playing another solo into leading the crowd into the "ooooooooooh, oooooooooooh, oooh-oooh-oooooooooh"s (tried to replicate the impossible there). Then it was over.
I drove 9 hours each way to see this show. I would do it again in a heartbeat.
Oh one last thing, in Kiss he had taken to changing the lyric from "you don't have to watch Dynasty" to "you don't have to watch Desperate Housewives" in the mid-2000s. Last night, it was updated to "you don't have to watch Love and Hip Hop". Prince - he belongs in the Garbage TV thread with me!!!
so glad you had an amazing time and made it home safely. now I think I speak for everyone when I ask: Did. He. Play. BLUE LIGHT??????
He did not! See, he's just got too many hits (as he kept pointing out during the show).
Potent- While it may have been a buzzkill for you and your friends, I get where that lady was coming from. I heard myself screaming/singing when I was watching videos a friend took at an Arcade Fire concert in 2011 and it was horrifying and very embarrassing. It must have been so annoying to the people around me. Other than a group sing-a-long like Hey Jude, I haven't crowd sang since. I haven't asked anyone around me to stop signing though there are plenty of times I've wanted to. I get just as much enjoyment out of lip syncing the words as I do singing them and I don't annoy those around me by doing so.
Yeah, if I divorce myself from myself for a minute I get it. And I know I'm loud and my voice carries. But, it was ironic in that she said it as the whole crowd was screaming Little Red Corvette. Just seemed a bit incongruous. Also in my defense, I apologized immediately and sang more quietly. She tried to be nicer at the end. I don't know, I just didn't think people like that either existed or if they did exist went to concerts.
That feeling when you haven't eaten all day and you're feeling numb and sluggish like a cold car running out of gas so you just mope around looking for things to complain about until you finally summon the will to get food and then you eagerly wait for it in anticipation and when it arrives you gorge yourself on pizza and pop making your blood sugar return to a normal level and suddenly you feel like a real human being again capable of producing thoughts and emotions is the best.
For me, it’s exactly the opposite in that scenario. I am a real human all day. Then I eat pizza and I get tired and grumpy.
Welcome back Bonz, but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal.
Isn't that the whole point? It finds people based on similar interests listed on facebook and stuff like that. It's always been connected haha. I know I've read that some people have made fake/secondary facebook accounts just for Tinder and other types of things like that.
Anytime anything is connected to facebook I get suspicious of how they interact.
Like @rummigingforanswers7 said, it pulls FROM your FB but it's not supposed to affect your FB at all. Ei, post to it or do anything like this. The "matches" it finds you are on the app and the app only. The other weird thing about it though is that the two people that showed up are the only two people I talked to for an extended period of time. I met them in April/May-ish and I stopped talking to the one I saw on there today in like December and I still talk to the other guy. But I stopped using the app to talk to then really, really early on. So why THOSE two? It's just odd. It's like FB knows who I'm talking to in my phone...
Potent- While it may have been a buzzkill for you and your friends, I get where that lady was coming from. I heard myself screaming/singing when I was watching videos a friend took at an Arcade Fire concert in 2011 and it was horrifying and very embarrassing. It must have been so annoying to the people around me. Other than a group sing-a-long like Hey Jude, I haven't crowd sang since. I haven't asked anyone around me to stop signing though there are plenty of times I've wanted to. I get just as much enjoyment out of lip syncing the words as I do singing them and I don't annoy those around me by doing so.
I sing all the time at concerts and I've heard myself too, it ain't pretty. But I don't scream-sing. I sing along at like normal talking level, perhaps slightly louder. I don't think that is loud enough to annoy people around me. Sometimes I can hear myself in the back of videos, but only my own videos where I'm right next to the mic.
That feeling when you haven't eaten all day and you're feeling numb and sluggish like a cold car running out of gas so you just mope around looking for things to complain about until you finally summon the will to get food and then you eagerly wait for it in anticipation and when it arrives you gorge yourself on pizza and pop making your blood sugar return to a normal level and suddenly you feel like a real human being again capable of producing thoughts and emotions is the best.
For me, it’s exactly the opposite in that scenario. I am a real human all day. Then I eat pizza and I get tired and grumpy.
And fall asleep & miss drunken tattooing. I am not letting you eat pizza this year at QC.
Potent- While it may have been a buzzkill for you and your friends, I get where that lady was coming from. I heard myself screaming/singing when I was watching videos a friend took at an Arcade Fire concert in 2011 and it was horrifying and very embarrassing. It must have been so annoying to the people around me. Other than a group sing-a-long like Hey Jude, I haven't crowd sang since. I haven't asked anyone around me to stop signing though there are plenty of times I've wanted to. I get just as much enjoyment out of lip syncing the words as I do singing them and I don't annoy those around me by doing so.
Agreed. I am guilty of doing this at times too, but I try to be good about singing softly to myself, more of a whisper, unless it is a big sing-along type song, in which case goooo for it as loudly as you can. At Modest Mouse on Saturday, everyone in the vicinity near me was enthusiastically shouting Dashboard at each other, bouncing up and down, and it was an amazing moment. But if I had tried to scream all of World at Large to my stranger neighbors...probably wouldn't have gone over as well. Though maybe I should have tried it out?
Considering you've found the need to respond to my threads as if you are threatened by me I offer you some peace my confused counterpart. May you find peace in your restless soul.
I sing all the time at concerts and I've heard myself too, it ain't pretty. But I don't scream-sing. I sing along at like normal talking level, perhaps slightly louder. I don't think that is loud enough to annoy people around me. Sometimes I can hear myself in the back of videos, but only my own videos where I'm right next to the mic.
You know what else is about the same height and distance from your mouth as your camera mic? The ears of the people around you.
I get people singing at concerts, I really do. I find one person annoying about every 20 concerts so this isn't really a big issue. I'm not aiming this at you monie, but I've seen plenty of people at concerts who seem to think that by singing really loud they are somehow bigger fans of the band.
You know what else is about the same height and distance from your mouth as your camera mic? The ears of the people around you.
I get people singing at concerts, I really do. I find one person annoying about every 20 concerts so this isn't really a big issue. I'm not aiming this at you monie, but I've seen plenty of people at concerts who seem to think that by singing really loud they are somehow bigger fans of the band.
Considering you've found the need to respond to my threads as if you are threatened by me I offer you some peace my confused counterpart. May you find peace in your restless soul.
For me, it’s exactly the opposite in that scenario. I am a real human all day. Then I eat pizza and I get tired and grumpy.
And fall asleep & miss drunken tattooing. I am not letting you eat pizza this year at QC.
Exactly! haha. This conversation always reminds me of mizvalentine. She always said that Dennis would tell her that he doesn't like her "on pizza" because after eating pizza she would become a different person. She then went on to be diagnosed with Celiac.
Welcome back Bonz, but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal.