I've just came back from Heineken Open'er festival, the biggest musical fest in Poland... well:
I've seen:
- Coldplay
- Asteroids Galaxy Tour
- Prince

I was wasted as hell on Coldplay but it sucked nevertheless. I don't really like the band,
I mean - "Clocks", "Scientist" and "God Put A Smile Upon My Face" were good, nice to hear, but all in all the show was boring
nobody was moving or dancing, some people were singing and clapping, that was all.

then I attended the Asteroids Galaxy Tour's show... some Danish pop band if I'm not mistaken, not my cup of tea, but what a great band and sexy singer!
I loved that, they played their one and only album in its entirety and I was really surprised I knew most of the lyrics x)
but it was really nothing compared to Prince.

let me say, the best live acts on Earth nowadays are the Stones, Pearl Jam and Prince.
what a show it was! very fast, funky, he played almost without one pause between songs for an hour, most of the songs were snippets but oh well
(felt a little bit like Grateful Dead )
I wasn't very familiar with his material, but one of the first songs was "Let's Go Crazy" and by then we were dancing our souls out ;-) magnificent experience.
"Sign O' the Times", "Purple Rain", and more and more... what a groove, what a style!
but most of all I was amazed how wonderful guitarist Prince is. he was dancing Mick- and Godlike,
but in the meantime he played the meanest Telecaster I've heard in a long time!
the show wasn't anything like post-Jackson pop music;
guitars were very Stonesy and the groove could compete with the best days of Sly & the Family Stone.
genuine black music, my friend said - but for me the show was so varied I find myself unable to put it on any shelf
the best hours of this year for me - Prince show... ;^)

Prince played a very long concert to a very enthusiastic crowd, in the end he played five encores three songs each ;^)

do you recall "Wild Thing" played by one and only Jimi at Monterey?
well, when Prince played "Crimson & Clover", he played it in the same vein, only... well... yeah. better.
what Prince played was the closest thing to Jimi Hendrix I've ever heard.

see him if you can.

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