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Upon returning to Southern California, Prince threw us his LA fans yet another zinger, by booking three shows in one night — Wednesday 5/25 — at an undisclosed club location. When tickets for all three shows went on sale via Ticketmaster on Tuesday 5/24, fans could still only speculate on where they would be going for the performances. Questions and rumors volleyed about as we tried to solve the big mystery. Would there be three separate locations? Would all three take place at one venue? Are there any venues that have three separate areas?
All the chaos was reminiscent of the LA Live Trifecta back in 2009 — Prince did an unprecedented three shows in one night: The first at Nokia Theater, the second at Conga Room, and the third at Club Nokia — all at the LA Live/Staples Center complex. However, knowing that Prince had since severed ties with AEG — the organization that promotes events at LA Live — we assumed a replay of that unbelievable night was not a possibility.
The only real clue we had was that the second show was said to be in a "Jazz Cafe." So of course, most of us scoured the internet for any venue either named "Jazz Cafe" and any venue within reasonable distance nearby where the 1st or 3rd shows may be. All this being said, ONLY PRINCE FANS would purchase tickets for his shows and NOT EVEN KNOW WHERE THEY ARE. LOL!!!
The location was finally revealed at 3pm on the day of the shows --- THE HOUSE OF BLUES.
The first show ($200) would take place in the main room. The second show ($100) would take place in the restaurant redubbed "The Jazz Cafe". And the third show would be a charity event with an auction-only ticket (starting at $500) in the Foundation Room.
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On Monday night, after getting my gameplan settled on buying tickets the next morning, I was all excited. But as the rest of the evening wore on, I started to have second thoughts about spending the money. This is my usual M.O. --- I tend to get "Buyer's Remorse" even before I do any "buying." And what's worse, I'd gotten laid off from my job earlier that day (more on that in a later post)...so I started thinking about how much more limited my funds suddenly were...and did I really want to pay $100 for a jazz set?? Even though it's Prince, and I don't like to second-guess myself, I had to talk myself down off the ledge and make the decision NOT to go to the shows. After paying $25 plus parking for multiple shows at the Forum, and even though I had promised myself after the Troubadour that I'd "treat myself" to another club date if he decided to do another on, and even though I LOVE the House of Blues and have had many a great Prince memory there, I had to be responsible and opt out. Damn, I hate being a grown up sometimes.
Once again, I had to live vicariously through my Prince family. But strangely enough, I haven't been able to get a clear setlist for the first or the third shows. But here's the set list from the 2nd show (via setlist.com):
1. Blues Jam ("Jose Can You See")/Star Spangled Banner (instrumental intro)
2. I Like It There
3. Endorphinmachine (instrumental intro)/Villanova Junction (Jimi Hendrix cover)
4. The Question Of U (instrumental)/The Gingerbread Man/The One
5. Dreamer
6. Welcome 2 America/America (instrumental)
7. She's Always In My Hair
8. Bambi
9. Colonized Mind
10. Brown Skin (Shelby J. on vocals)
11. Little Red Corvette (Montreux Jazz version)
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