Love will find a way. :-) From VH1.com:
-Julius
NEW YORK - The first rule when you're about to drop $75 to $150 on a concert
ticket should be "Do your research." Anyone who expected a straightforward
greatest-hits retrospective from Prince at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher
Hall Tuesday night [April 9] will have to write their pricey ticket off as a
fine for laziness. After all, any artist who is as unpredictable as Prince
has historically been should warrant no less than a quick Google search for
set lists.
Therein, the scientific fan would find that "Little Red Corvette" and "When
Doves Cry" aren't bloody likely. Rather, much of the One Nite Alone Tour
draws from Prince's most recent public release, The Rainbow Children, an
occasional obscurity, a few less-obvious oldies such as "When You Were
Mine," and some jammed-out covers like the Delfonics' "La La Means I Love
You" and Erykah Badu's "Didn't Cha Know." The result is a show mostly
tailored for current fans of the man's music, not just his legend.
The two-hour set began as the album begins, with a distorted spoken word
leading into the title track, a jazzy battle cry for the new Prince
"concept," a continuation of the New Power Generation idea or the
Controversy-era call, repositioned as the reproduction of the New Breed
Leader ("Stand up, organize!").
>From out of the shadows, Prince emerged to pose the question: "Is it better
to give than to receive?" Teasing an audience member that he should "give up
that front row seat to that brother back there," he began an old-school
guitar solo, rousing fans completely before pushing them into their seats
for a couple of slow numbers. A high-pitched cover of Joni Mitchell's "Case
of You" included an improvised ending that Joni herself wouldn't
recognize...
> Yeah, it may not be Prince's "fault". She also rejected material from
> Charles Mingus for heaven's sake! She rebuffed the Chieftains when they
> repeatedly asked to remake "Magdeline Lauderies" with her vocal.
> (Eventually she accepted.) She chose not to contribute to Karen O'Brien's
> biography. It's her method of operation. Her pattern. Joni is
permenantly
> unavailable.
>
> Lamadoo
>
>
> James in Urbana IL
> asked:
> <<What-ever happened to the collaboration between Prince and Joni?>>
>
> Bob from South Carolina answered:
> > It never materialized...Joni says that Prince approached her with some
> songs,
> but they were too 'out there' for her, Prince being the combiner of the
> profound & the profane that he is.
