The way that Prince controls, commands and captivates an audience is so impressive. And I’m high, so high…ĭon’t need no cymbals, no saxophone, just need to find me a style of my own. “Don’t need no reefer, don’t need cocaine, purple music does the same to my brain. It currently has an afro, likes the color purple and wears light-up shoes on occasion.īeing that these shows consisted of nothing but Prince and his piano, him singing the song Purple Music was so fitting: I know we all know what music sounds like but if you want to know what it looks like, I can tell you. Prince has as much talent – if not more – in his pinky finger, as a Duodecet (no offense to any large group of seasoned musicians, I’m sure you are great too!). Prince’s hands and fingers are excruciatingly beautiful. His music and his delivery of it was intoxicating. I hope everyone is ok! Seeing him do what he does up-close like that is somethin’ else, let me tell you.
People weren’t ready! They may not have known how to handle it! It was overwhelming and I hope no one forgot to breathe. The Jumbotron’s close-ups of his hands and fingers going to work on those keys were flat out dangerous. If his instructions were to ‘clap’ for instance, the entire arena did just that, and promptly. He had the audience under his spell as usual. I was glad 20,000 people were there to hear it. His voice was indescribable so I won’t even try - but the word ‘perfect’ kind of explains it. There’s no way to try and gauge the audience of a Prince show.
I also saw some very young children, couldn’t have been older than 8 or so. My friend and his wife brought his 80 year old Aunt. So did close to 20,000 other people on Friday night. I love how smooth he touches the keys (or guitar strings in other instances) to bring the music to life. I love the veins that run up his hands and into his arms and eventually to his brilliant and mysterious brain. I love his hands and fingers together (that sounded weird…). And yes, people scrambled to get tickets. ” And then three days later he showed up at the arena and blew everyone away.
I’ll be generous and give them ‘almost’ three full days notice to get their tickets to fill the arena.
I guess I’ll go on ahead and share this with 20,000 people now. I imagined him days before the Oracle show just casually mentioning during conversation over breakfast, or maybe while picking out his afro while relaxing and watching TV , “Yeah, so anyway, the Paramount shows the other day were cool, the 3,000 people seemed to really dig it. How can someone pull that off? Well, Prince is not just ‘someone’. Almost as intimate as the previous shows he had just done on a much smaller scale. He managed to somehow make the inside of a huge arena feel extremely intimate. Prince walked out and onto a large empty stage with only a piano and microphone (and a few candles) and for the next few hours, seemingly effortlessly, he blew the minds of roughly 20,000 people.
Ok, so back to review: This last show was also extraordinary. Yet another Warriors win and Prince was in town?! It was all just too good! 3/4/16 Oracle Arena – Purple lights for the evening of Prince’s show Warriors game Gliding into the Warriors game on Thursday. Well said! Of course the Warriors won that night.
I read a tweet that cracked me up: “I’m always excited when I see Prince do regular people sh** like go to a basketball game but still be so Prince about it.” (CBear on Twitter). Hallways were lit up with purple lighting. He received a standing ovation from the Warriors themselves as he strolled over to his courtside seats with his date, Damaris Lewis. Prince also attended the Warriors game at the Oracle the day before his Oracle show. I believe that collectively gave Oakland a good feeling deep inside. Also, the fact that he can go anywhere in this big huge world that he desires, and here he was in Oakland, well that was very heartwarming. Let’s just get down to business shall we? The fact that he can do three shows back to back within a few days, all by himself and have all three shows be completely different is incredible. I wrote a review for the first two shows on February 28th (and also for the Paisley Park shows in January) so thought I should be thorough by writing a review for this show as well. He gave Oakland three shows total (not including the after party/show). Prince was in town recently - my hometown - which always makes it even more special.