little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

dear san jose, i’m sorry you had to watch me sing and dance

So, here’s a tip for anyone waiting to see Prince perform live in concert - if you join his fan club, you get access to purchase his concert tickets a week before anyone else does and, more importantly, get those ticketmaster “convenience fees” waived. You also get to sit in the first 20 rows - I lucked out and got tickets for the fourth row.

Of course, sitting so close can have its disadvantages as well. From an instant message cut & paste I had with someone from college:

Friend: yo…..so was that you [at the Prince concert in San Jose last Saturday]?
Ernie: haha… there’s a good chance it might have been, yeah
Ernie: i was in the 4th row
Friend: really? damn…i was in the upper level
Ernie: obviously i didn’t get to see any of the screens… what happened? did they zoom on random people?
Friend: yeah, they were zooming on on random people in the crowd, and seemed they were focused on you since you were singing along

So to the 40 thousand or so people who had to watch me sing “Rasberry Beret” on a giant big screen, I sincerely apologize. But hey, at least Vanity wasn’t there, so you didn’t have to watch me lip sync to “Nasty Girl.” Because that would have been classy.

Do me now.

Talk about getting carried away at Prince’s concerts: in the early nineties, I was at a gig in Barcelona, when I bumped into the guy I’d been after during the whole university term… and stopped him in the middle of a sentence just to rush further up to the front lines!!!
Fortunately, he’s also a musician and a fan, so he understood it

Perhaps you can include this material on the DVD Special Edition of this site.

And the game show scenes too!

THAT WAS YOU!

I KNEW IT.

I heard rumors around town (Minneapolis yo, Prince ‘lives’ here) that he did not play the provocative songs like ‘Rasberry Beret’ anymore now that he is all Jahova’s (sp?) Witness.

The folks I heard it from are big fans, but not very reputable.

I don’t know which would be worse…waking up early on a saturday morning to Prince witnessing to me or having the Jackson family witnessing to me…

Why do the famously confused people always have to love Jehovah??

I bought my tickets off of the NPG fan club for the Prince concert in Los Angeles. It was the best thing I ever did, because I ended up with first row tickets that was right by the isle that Prince walks down to. I got to hug Prince! BTW, he still plays Rasberry Beret and You Sexy Mother F’r, but lets the audience sing the words while he plays it. He doesn’t cuss anymore.

Prince doesn’t /cuss/ anymore? My entire world view has just been altered irrevocably.

Sassy

Another tidbit of info: Denise Matthews, alias Vanity has denounced her former lifestyle altogether. She suffered a serious cocaine addiction which left her hospitalized and clinically dead. Miraculously, she recovered and attributes her healing to Jehova (not a witness, tho). She sings gospel and is apparently an evangelist. I know this because she came to my church and held a special service. I had no idea who she was until then.

We also got 4th row by using the fan club pre-sale here in Columbus - what an awesome show. Don’t think I made it up on the big screen though…