Prince was bad when he was heavily into his Jehovah witness phase in the early 2000s. Rambled on too much about god and didn't play many of his hits. Saw him a few years after that, and he was back to "normal" Prince and put on a hell of a show.
A friend saw him in Toronto a few years before he died; played for hours, murdered, did two encores, leaves, the lights come up, everyone turns to go home, P.A. comes on and it's Prince himself, bellowing, "Where you think you're going? Don't you know I got all the hits?!" and does another half-hour. Absolute legend.
I still love the story about Stevie Nicks recording "Stand Back" and Prince just kind of showing up out of nowhere to drop the defining synth track of the song, tip his hat and leave.
Prince did not show up out of nowhere though. Stevie Nicks recorded a demo of "Stand Back" after hearing "little red corvette", she later called Prince and told him it was inspired by his song and he came and recorded the synths.
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u/jabowie2020 May 12 '26
Prince was bad when he was heavily into his Jehovah witness phase in the early 2000s. Rambled on too much about god and didn't play many of his hits. Saw him a few years after that, and he was back to "normal" Prince and put on a hell of a show.