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2015.10.24 'Back In Time' ParTY

 Chanhassen, Paisley Park

24th october 2015

Soirée organisée à Paisley Park célébrant la sortie de l'album de Judith Hill, Back In Time

As Trains Go By (by Judith Hill)
   
Cry, Cry, Cry (by Judith Hill)
   
All The Critics Love U In Minneapolis (incl. A Love Bizarre & The Glamorous Life)
Stratus
My People (by Judith Hill)
Use Me
New song
Million $ Show (with Judith Hill)
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (incl. Shut This Down lyrics)
Alphabet St.
Sign "☮" The Times*
777-9311 (Prince on drums)
Hot Thing*

[* Sampler Set]

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2016.10.15, 16 (am) aFtER sHoW dAnCE ParTY

Chanhassen, Paisley Park

15th october 2015 (am)

Léquipe de basketball Minnesota Linx gagne le championnat WNBA alors Prince propose une soirée à Paisley Park. Toutes les raisons sont bonnes pour faire la fête...

Prince - vox, keyboard, guitar
Kirk Johnson - drums
MonoNeon - bass
Donna Grantis - guitar

Joshua Welton - keyboards

Liv Warfield - vox

Ashley Jayy - vox

Purple Rain
Let's Go Crazy (incl. Frankenstein)
Kiss
When Doves Cry*
Sign "☮" The Times*
Hot Thing*
Cool (incl. Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough by Liv Warfield & Ashley Jayy)
Guitar
1000 X's & O's
Stare
Use Me / Yes We Can Can

Shut This Down
X's Face
You Got The Love
Alphabet St.*
The Gold Standard*
If I Was Your Girlfriend*

[* Sampler Set]

Chanhassen, Paisley Park

15th october 2015 (am)

Prévue comme une soirée célébrant l'apparition télévisée de Judith Hill à The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Prince a décidé que ce serait une répétition.

Prince - vox, keyboard, guitar
Kirk Johnson - drums
MonoNeon - bass
Donna Grantis - guitar

Joshua Welton - keyboards

Liv Warfield - vox

Ashley Jayy - vox

You Got The Love vs As Trains Go By (instrumental) (by Liv Warfield)

Paisley Park (with Liv Warfield, Ashley Jayy)

Stratus

My People

Sweet Thing (by Liv Warfield)

Purple Rain

Stare

Let's Go Crazy (incl. Frankenstein)

Guitar

Plectrumelectrum

Instrumental Jam

2015.10.16 Judith Hill on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - Cry, Cry, Cry

And on Night 2 at Paisley Park, Prince invited the public, saluted the WNBA champion Lynx in conversation and declared this last-minute $50-a-ticket performance a rehearsal.

He put the same band he had for Wednesday’s 3-hour Lynx victory party through its paces for 100 minutes late Thursday night running through songs, working out arrangements with instructions and just jamming  -- till 3:05 in the morning.

“Y’all mind if we do a rehearsal right now?” the Purple One told the sparse crowd of about 35 people after Liv Warfield and Ashley Minnieweather sang “You Got the Love,” which was faster than Wednesday’s slow-jam reading but still not as up-tempo as Chaka Khan’s original version. “That way we don’t have to get up at 9 in the morning.”

Indeed, Prince was in a playful mood. At one point, he asked how many people had been at Paisley for the Lynx celebration the night before. Um, about two of us. “Those girls not only play basketball, but they dance,” he declared. “See all those scuff marks onstage.”

They were from Madonna, a fan shouted, referring to Madge’s appearance at Paisley to see Prince the week before.

“We cleaned them up from last week,” the Paisley potentate explained. “These are new scuff marks.”

Thursday was actually an unusual occurrence in Prince’s world in that he invited fans to a rehearsal – an intimate opportunity to see his working process in the NPG Music Club room at Paisley Park.

Wearing a striped yellow, red and black stocking cap with a matching top, Prince was accompanied by a revamped group – guitarist Donna Grantis from 3rdEyeGirl, drummer Kirk Johnson who used to be in the New Power Generation, bassist Mono Neon and the two aforementioned backup singers.

Take their treatment of “Purple Rain,” for example.

Prince started the song on electric piano, with a light churchy touch. After he ran through a verse, a chorus and some whew-whews, he called “background,” meaning the singers should do the whew-whews.

“That’s your part, ready?” They sang and he reacted with a “whoa!” He asked them to do it again. “Don’t start looking at each other,” he urged. “C’mon.”

He liked what they did and declared “yeah. One more time.” Then he played the famous “Purple Rain” guitar solo on piano, with a pronounced gospel tinge.

When he finished, he announced: “We’re going to take an offering right now.”

Sometimes the band just jammed. And Prince explained what they were trying to do in a cryptic way.

“We keep messing around with it till we can yank the guts out of it,” he told the fans. “Till we can find out where the funk is.”

He’d call out for a bass solo, a drum solo or horns (which were synthesized – not like at a true gig where he insists on real instruments played by musicians).

He’d call for a new song. Or ask a singer if it was the right key for her.

At one point, he went over to Grantis and demonstrated a riff on her guitar so she would know how he wanted it.

She didn’t need any tips during their jam on “Guitar,” a strutting rocker that sounded like a mashup of the Stones, the Who and the New York Dolls. It was part of the second half of Thursday’s session, which featured some ferocious guitar fireworks by Prince and Grantis on heavy funk-rock workouts.

At other times, things were subtle. On one jam, Prince on piano playfully traded licks with drummer Johnson, even boiling it down to single-note exchanges.

What was clear from this public rehearsal is that the maestro has strong feelings about arrangements but obviously respects his colleagues enough to let their instincts and artistry surface. Even if the stage was dark (lit only by rope lighting in the bass drum), this was a rare and illuminating peek behind the Purple curtain.

 (source)

2015.10.09 (am) fREE uRSELF pARTY

Free Urself

Madonna est passé au Xcel Energy Center de St. Paul jeudi 8 octobre lors de son Rebel Heart Tour et a dédié La Vie En Rose (Edith Piaff) à Prince... et lui l'a tout simplement invitée à la fREE uRSELF dANCE pARTY organisée le jour même à Paisley Park.

La Vie En Rose

Prince a chanté quelques titres de son dernier album HITnRUN - Phase One et quelques reprises pendant un peu plus d'une heure. Hardrocklover était prévu sur la setlist mais n'a pas été joué. Contenu du concert très intéressant pour ma part...

Prince - vox, keyboard, guitar
Kirk Johnson - drums
MonoNeon - bass
Donna Grantis - guitar

Stare

Shut This Down
Guitar
Use Me

Stratus
Ain’t About To Stop
1000 X’s And O’x
X’s Face

Free Urself

Sign "☮" The Times
Work To Do

 Thirty-three civilians showed up to Paisley Park late last night. I know there were 33 of us because I ended up having plenty of time to count each and every one of us from left to right, then again from right to left and all the way up to the stage, which was littered with dozens of guitar pedals, two keyboard rigs, a drum set, and Prince’s signature glyph microphone.
I had shown up to Paisley Park around 11:30 p.m., having been summoned there only hours earlier with the promise that something “extra-special” might go down. As the 33 of us who were gathered there did our best to stay upright, sway to DJ KISS’s mix of Prince and ’80s pop tunes, and keep our wits about us, and as the clock crept past 1:30 a.m., I was just about to start counting the crowd again and contemplating the strength of that word might when a flurry of security guards with walkie-talkies started buzzing around and a door next to the stage swung open.
A steady stream of people started filing into the venue, and it took me a couple of blinks to realize that the first woman and the head of the pack was Madonna. She is a petite little powerhouse of a figure, and was dressed in a sharp navy trench coat-style cape with her hair neatly woven into a braid that fell down her right shoulder, like a pop star’s rendition of Little Red Riding Hood. Her bright lipstick and dark eyeliner appeared flawless, and as she scanned the strange scene—33 civilians dancing haphazardly, undoubtedly looking tired from all the waiting and the late hour, and her own hits blasting over the sound system—she looked so calm and coiffed that you would have never guessed that she had just finished performing a two-hour show in front of a sold-out crowd at the Xcel Energy Center.
It turns out that injecting Madonna’s entire professional dance troupe into a party is a surefire way to liven it up, and as more and more of the pop icon’s touring crew filtered in, a fully choreographed dance party soon broke out in the middle of the room. It was incredibly surreal standing on the sidelines attempting to groove to the music while what looked like a professional music video shoot sprawled out before us, but all of a sudden the energy in the place had been cranked to 11 and it was all we could do to try to soak up the crew’s ecstatic vibe.
Madonna was ushered into a roped-off section of the room and then disappeared, undoubtedly to have a few private moments with Prince while her team blew off a little steam on the dance floor. By 2:15 a.m. she had returned to the scene and was followed in short order by Prince, who stood near the back of the dance floor draped in a floor-length hooded sweater and smirked at the energetic dancers who were frolicking around the room.
As soon as Prince appeared the small crowd started pressing toward the stage, and even after Madonna’s tour buses had all been unloaded into Paisley Park there were still only roughly 60 people there to take in the impending show. Most of the people in attendance were standing within a couple yards of the band, and Prince seemed a little uncomfortable playing to such an intimate audience.
“You better keep dancing,” he instructed us, sitting at an organ and leading a new configuration of his band through a swampy, funky new song. 3RDEYEGIRL guitarist Donna Grantis was joined by a drummer Kirk Johnson and bassist Dwayne MonoNeon Thomas, Jr., who had more jazz and funk sensibilities than Grantis’s more hard-driving 3RDEYEGIRL bandmates Ida Neilsen and Hannah Ford Welton (who was dancing in the audience with her husband, Josh). The change in musicianship allowed Prince to deconstruct his songs into more complex, moody arrangements, tracing back to his roots in late ’70s jazz and funk.
As if to show off the band’s newly discovered chemistry, Prince followed up a rip-roaring rendition of “Guitar” with a lengthy, solo-filled jam to the Bill Withers song “Use Me Up.” After giving Grantis and his new bassist a turn at soloing, Prince slowed the song down and morphed it into a spacey, dreamy interlude, then tore through an impressive and complex piano solo that sounded like it was inspired in equal measure by Thelonious Monk and Jimi Hendrix.
When Prince launched into the next song, “Ain’t About to Stop,” off his latest album HITNRUN Phase One, I decided to try to discretely scan the room to see where Madonna was taking in the show. I had expected her to hang back a bit, or maybe sitting in her roped-off area, but once I stepped a little closer to the stage I realized that she was not only in the front row, but had perched on the edge of the stage at Prince’s feet, looking up at him adoringly as he sang.
There is a face that people make when they are watching Prince play guitar; it’s a gleeful expression that combines the joy of going down a roller coaster with the realization that you are witnessing a moment that might never be recreated by another being that lives on this beautiful Earth. It turns out Madonna also makes that face when she is watching Prince play. As the band stretched out into another jam and Prince ripped into a soul-levitating guitar solo, her mouth relaxed into an awestruck gape, revealing a shiny gold grill underneath her perfect red lipstick.
Prince, too, seemed a little awestruck by Madge, appearing nervous as he flitted around the stage to different instruments and taking great care to get the lighting, sound, and chord changes just right. It completely shifted the energy at the Park, which usually pulls like a magnet toward Prince’s spot in the room, and it was a rare chance to see two megastars share an intimate moment and a series of knowing smiles.
After the sixth song of the set, Prince leaned down and whispered something back and forth with Madonna, and then hopped back up to his keyboards and simply said, “Cool.” With that, Madonna made her way out of the building and Prince was left alone with his band and small group of adoring fans, and he delivered simmering renditions of “1000 X’s and O’s” and “X’s Face” before hopping off stage and handing things back to the DJ.
Sensing that we were well past 3 a.m. at that point, I started to make my way toward the door, but my friend and #1 Prince fan Heidi Vader later informed me that Prince returned to play two more short sets and even invited some of his fans up on stage to sing and dance along. Or did any of that really happen? On nights like these, it’s hard to tell.

by Andrea Swensson (source) 

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