I have now seen Prince twice live


21 night at the O2
Hit and Run part 2 tour

....

he remains one of the best live acts that i have seen


he has stage presence, great vocals and musicianship albeit with a modest visual set.... although the lights, smoke and fireworks are fantastic. He is the loudest act that i have ever seen.

Ideal setlist...I wouldn't like to begin, so many songs probably would love to hear them all played live, a few though I would like to hear are:-

Elephants & Flowers
Joy in Repetition
Electric Chair
The Ladder
Mountains
The Cross
Forever In My Life
Strollin
Letitgo
Pheromone
Strange Relationship
If I Was Your Girlfriend
I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
Count The Days
Come On
The One
Baby Knows
I Love You, But I Don't Trust You Anymore
Head
Uptown
When You Were Mine

oh thank your dearmrman

i always liked prince and was heavily inspired by prince musically but i am on catchup over his albums ....and he is difficult to track back....

Look out for Exodus by NPG as well.

You can't really go wrong from his 3rd album Dirty Mind up to Lovesexy, all classics. Though I do like the Come album as one of my favourites.

Do the majority of fans actually want material after 1995?

Bit of a rhetorical question.

I saw Prince in 1992, and he was just fantastic. I wouldn't care what was on his setlist, as he would give each track he performed 100%, as he always seems to do. I would have loved to have seen him in the UK this year, but the distance to the gigs were too far for me to afford to go 😓

Purple Rain
Cream
Come
Pope
Alphabet St
Shake
Sign O The Times
Under The Cherry Moon
1999
When Doves Cry
Controversy
Joy In Repetition
I Wanna Be Your Lover
Lemon Crush

my ideal setlist would be all stuff never played live before or rarely played live. obsure and unreleased material and covers. i've heard him do the hits over a hundred times before

such as...

moonbeam levels
electric intercourse
hallucination rain
i'm yours
crystal ball
in a large room with no light
p control
lady cab driver
annie christian
a million miles
the walk
the stick
high fashion
the ladder
new position
strange relationship
ballad of dorothy parker
anna stesia
vicki waiting
joy in repetition
we can funk
the morning papers
shy
black mf in the house
one of us
holy river
the war
pretty man
te amo corazon
in all my dreams
wednesday
cosmic day
grand procession
17 days
computer blue
strays of the world


that kind of thing

Another ideal for me would be a small venue, with just P and an acoustic guitar, no specific setlist just taking requests from the audience.

the closest to that was kings row in feb for the accoustic q&a or the accoustic night at paisley park in 2002. he didn't really answer any questions in the q&a. it would just end up pandemonium trying to take requests from the audience

I came across this a while ago, recorded for VH1 by the looks of it:

http://www.downvids.net/prince-live-...et-343791.html

^ that was about as close as he got to an unplugged special. it wasn't all acoustic and the acoustic section was only 5 short tracks. kings row was similar, not all acoustic, he did a few acoustic and then went plugged in, and repeated this for the second show which was even shorter. he had an acoustic guitar onstage during the first Manchester show in feb but didn't use it and it was removed from stage part way through. kings row was the only time he used the acoustic in the 2014 shows. so getting an acoustic set is a rare treat. he did a mid show short set during the musicology tour which was cool. now he prefers the sampler set over that. he actually did the sampler set at Ronnie scotts second show. mind the vips preferred that bit as they didn't know most of the stuff in the first show which was excellent