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From: Jill <prince88@sbcglobal.net>
To: CTG <chitowngeneration@yahoogroups.com>; TPU <thepurpleunderground@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 7:13 AM
Subject: [ChiTownGeneration] Prince turns Calgary into 'funkiest city in Canada'
http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Prince+turns+Calgary+into+funkiest+city+Canada/5862454/story.html?cid=megadrop_storyPrince turns Calgary into 'funkiest city in Canada'0 Prince performs on stage at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, outside Paris, on June 30, Prince and his band performed at the Saddledome in Calgary on Wednesday. Media were not allowed to photograph the show.Photograph by: BERTRAND GUAY, AFP/Getty ImagesIt's about that time, the time to look back. And in the world of music, in the past 12 months of Calgary's concert calendar, we've seen and heard a lot. The good, the meh, the memorable, and the not-so, sure. But we've also had the spectacle. There's been the minimalism. We've been offered the nostalgia act. Shows about the musicianship. There've been concerts that were musical extravaganzas, live-action videos, and casual affairs. There've been parties. There've been singalongs. There've been danceathons. We've had it all. But — and the but be of Kardashian proportions — in the past year, in the past few, hell, for as long as one can remember, we have never had it all at once, never had it provided so perfectly, so remarkably, so unforgettably as it was Wednesday night at the Saddledome during pop funk icon Prince's brilliant set to beat most others. Packed into a tight, taut, dynamite, purple package, the concert, which was part of the regal one's quick hit Welcome 2 Canada Tour, was one of the best a casual goer or professional attendee could ever claim to have seen and heard. Top 10? Definitely. Seriously. It was that good. On almost every level. Kicking things off a mere 20 minutes late, the artist — in every meaning of the word — ascended from below the stage shaped like his Formerly Known As symbol, and proceeded to give a master class on performance, showmanship and unadulterated musicality. Each song he and his remarkable band, which included saxman supreme Maceo Parker, was an exercise in all that live music should be, an exchange between audience and entertainer, the fulfilment of the contract that both get something out of it and are made all the better. In fact, Prince, his voice and his elfin looks seemingly untouched by time, asked early into the two-hour evening, "They tell me this is the funkiest city in Canada — is that right?" and damned if he didn't make that ludicrous statement come true. Here. In one of the most funk-challenged and -starved spots on the map. He didn't even need his many urgings to "dance" and "get up, Calgary" do make that happen. All he needed was those songs, an endless stream of memorable old-school and THE school musical moments, such as Musicology, Let's Work, U Got The Look, 1999, Raspberry Beret, Little Red Corvette and When Doves Cry. All were performed expertly and without any of the weight or expectations anyone might have for them. Even Purple Rain, a track that most in the audience would have heard anywhere approaching 100 times, had the same power and the same feeling it would have on that very first listen. His playing helped, as his comfort with a guitar is one of those things that you can only marvel at, each solo less self-indulgent than self-expression, even when extending a five-minute song into double digits. And that band? Again, wow. He has always surrounded himself with hot players, and those accompanying him on his current tour kept the sound huge, the funk flowing and the mood on the party side of the ledger. Even a medley treatment of hits such as Darling Nikki, I Would Die 4 U and Kiss didn't seem like we were being shortchanged or cheated out of anything, merely being given a different angle, another way into the familiar. It was almost flawless. Literally, almost without a flaw. No, it wasn't as epically long as previous concerts have been and some promises had led us to believe. But rarely has a two-hour evening seemed so effortless and so packed with excellence. And, granted, his use of this city's name in song and in encouragement, bordered on the mocking, but still made it sound so downright sexy and exotic, And the rest of the show, the elements that really mattered, here really aren't enough superlatives to describe them, the energy, the experience, the musicianship, the entertainment, the everything that it was. It wasn't just a concert, it was an event, something that everyone in the building will likely remember, something that everyone who wasn't will regret, and something you'll be lucky to ever be offered again. It had it all. And it was the perfect end to a year that was. Review: Prince performed Wednesday night at the Saddledome. Attendance: 11,000. "It's time 4 a new direction It's time 4 jazz 2 die 4th day of November We need a purple high" ~Prince ,1982~ cTg Homepage! The ChiTownGeneration Yahoo Group The ChiTownGeneration MySpace Page ThePurpleUnderground |
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