My name is Prince, and I've come to play with you.

What comes to mind when you hear Syracuse?

I mean, the machine was so well oiled at that point.

We were so fine tuned, and it meant everything to not make a mistake.

We sound like a freight train just coming out of nowhere.

Nothing was going to stop us.

And that was just five people in the band, and it sounded good.

You finish a show like that, and you feel like you survived something.

We have to live.

Hello, welcome back to the official Prince podcast.

I'm your host Andrea Swenson.

I'm a music journalist in Prince's hometown of Minneapolis.

And I'm so excited to share the conversations I've been having lately with the revolution.

Dr. Fink, Wendy Melvoin, Brownmark, Lisa Coleman, and Bobby Z.

In this two-part series, we're going to ride along with the band and some of their friends and colleagues

as they take us on the Purple Rain Tour, the monumental life-changing, red-hot tour

that sold 1.7 million tickets and rolled out at the moment that Prince became a household name.

In addition to hearing stories from the people who were working closely with Prince in this period,

you're also going to hear the newly remixed and remastered audio of their historic Purple Rain Tour performance

at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, New York, which is available on vinyl, CD, and as a Blu-ray video on June 3rd.

It's a show that was beamed to millions across Europe.

In the first satellite broadcast of its kind, yes, in addition to all the other ways Prince was a trailblazing musician,

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