The Story of Diamonds And Pearls, Episode 4: U Got the Horn, So Why Don’t U Blow It?

Prince | Official Podcast

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Music Interviews, Music, Arts

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🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Prince’s live show evolved rapidly in the lead-up to the Diamonds And Pearls Tour. NPG members Michael B. Nelson, Mayte Garcia, Damon Dickson, Tony Mosley, Levi Seacer, Sonny Thompson, and Kirk Johnson talk about Prince’s unforgettable live performances. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the story of Diamonds and Pearls, a new season of the Prince podcast produced
0:12.5	in collaboration with NPG Records, Paisley Park Enterprises, Sony Music Entertainment
0:17.5	and Warner Records.
0:20.5	Welcome back to the fourth and final episode of our series about Prince in the early
0:24.9	90s.
0:26.1	We've spent a lot of time over the previous three episodes talking about the formation
0:30.0	of Prince's band, the new power generation and the creation of his Diamonds and Pearls
0:35.0	album.
0:36.0	Today, we're going to focus on the release of the album and the countless ways Prince
0:40.3	kept reinventing his live show and the long lead up to the Diamonds and Pearls tour.
0:46.6	By now you've likely had a chance to check out the expanded reissue of Diamonds and Pearls
0:50.9	and sample at least some of the incredible vault material that's included in the Super
0:55.5	Deluxe edition.
0:57.3	What I want to draw your attention to today are the live performances in this new collection
1:02.0	and the story that they tell about Prince as a band leader in this era.
1:07.0	There are two main live shows that we're going to listen to today and they kind of book
1:11.0	in the period when Prince was getting ready to release Diamonds and Pearls and when he
1:15.3	was about to set sail on the tour.
1:18.7	The first is Prince's appearance at the opening ceremonies of the Special Olympics, which
1:23.3	were held in Minneapolis in the summer of 1991.
1:27.1	In addition to the actual performance, there's also footage of the band's soundcheck at
1:31.3	the Metradome, a cavernous domed arena which typically hosted baseball and football games
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