I saw him live a couple of time - I doubt there are more than two other artists who consistently gave a better live performance (and I don't know who those might be).
I don't think his eccentricities were really about ego - he was an idiosyncratic, very sensitive, very artistic person, who was most comfortable under certain conditions, tried hard to maintain those conditions, and found himself with the power and money to often get those conditions. On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > Prince was a guest on Leno sometime around 1997 or 1998. A memo was > distributed building-wide with instructions on what we were NOT allowed to > do if we encountered him on the Burbank lot. We could not call him by his > name, we could not make eye contact, we could not touch him, etc. A special > enclosure was erected between the studio 1/3 hallway and the building > entrance to limit access to who could see him walking backstage. > > I was a page at the time, and I took it upon myself to read the memo to > my tour group, omitting the word NOT before each instruction. As fate would > have it, my tour group was in the Midway (the parking lot where limos and > stars parked) when Prince arrived. As he stepped out of his limo, 20 > tourists looked him in the eye, hugged him, and screamed his name. > > I say this as someone who was never really into Prince, he went on to blow > the roof off the place on The Tonight Show, playing several encores after > the show wrapped, so I suppose he was entitled to a little bit of ego. > > > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
