Questioin about Prince (regarding Michaels tours)

Themidwestcowboy

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Did prince ever attend any of Michael tours and concert? Such a shame they never collaborated. Really..

Ps excuse me for the spelling error on thread title, im on the phone.. :p
 
I think he saw the Jackson 5. Don't remember where I read that though.
 
And by the way; according to Will I am, he and MJ attended to a Prince concert in Las Vegas :p

True, I don't know if it was with Will.I.Am but Cee-lo Green said in the BAD25 documentary that he made a guest appearance on Prince's show in Vegas and saw MJ backstage after/during the show.
 
There is a video of chris tucker doin stand up where he is talking about him and michael goin to vegas to see a prince concert. Its pretty funny:d

I never knew he went to see michael on the victory tour let alone bad..
 
It's from a German magazine. Wil i am invited Mj to come watch him perform with Prince on stage and then he watched the rest of the show with Michael and Chris Tucker.


Here is the translation from Prince.org

Quote:
Sp: You've also worked with Prince? The man has shocked the recording industry, by giving away his new CD in Great Britain for free with a newspaper.

Will.i.am: A visionaire. I performed with him. A few months ago, I was with the Black Eyed Peas in Las Vegas. Prince calls me, he played in a Casino and asks ", you want to perform with me tonight?" Sure, I say, of course! On the next day his assistant called me and said: "Prince would like to know if you want to come along this evening too." Want to? What's more cool than to play with Prince? Right, to play with him two days in a row! A few minutes later I get a further call: "Hey, it's Mike, wat are you doing?" Mike? Michael Jackson? Wow! He had changed studios at that time, from Ireland to Las Vegas. I say: "Hey, I'm playing with Prince here tonight." - "Prince? That is great!" - "you should come!" - "really? That would be cool!" - "that would be really cool!" - "Okay, I'll come." Imagine that : I'm playing with Prince, and Michael Jackson sits in the audience! Holy ish! What chance is there to get a call from Prince and then one from Michael Jackson within ten minutes ?


Sp: that chance is zero.

Will.i.am: Right. Okay, I head for the concert in the early evening and - get stuck in traffic! I think by myself, @#$%, this is the worst time to be stuck ! So I jump out of the car and start to run. I make it at the last second into the club. Everything goes smoothly, after three minutes I 'm back from the stage, Prince still yells in the microphone "Give it up for Will.i.am!", I creep into the hall and sit down to the table of - Michael Jackson. So he really came! "What did you think of me?", I ask him. He answers: "I did not know that you rapped." Now I ask you? The man lets me fly to bloody Ireland for a few photographs , and he doesn't even know that I am not only a producer, but also a rapper! I say: "Have you never heard my music, or looked at my videos? I @#$#%' am the main rapper of the Black Eyed Peas!" Anyways. Besides Michael Jackson sits the actor Chris Tucker, and then Prince comes down from the stage to us...


Sp: ... and sees Michael Jackson sitting at the table with you?

Will.i.am: Yo. He had his bass still strapped on and stops at our table. So there we sit : Michael Jackson, Chris Tucker and I. Prince stands directly before Michael Jackson and improvises on the bass: Slap! He does nothing- nothing! - and says nothing! Simply plays . What a scene! When Prince is again back on stage, Michael Jackson says to me: "Prince played his bass in the middle of my face! What's up with that?" Now now, I say: "you are finally incognito here! Imagine that Prince would have said: ', and by the way Michael Jackson sits here.' The people are already excited because of Prince, let alone, they would know that you are also here!" Yep, that was it then, the craziest night of my life.

Sp: And when you tell this story, nobody believes you.

Will.i.am: I would not even believe it! But I have to say: It is true. Each word. The next morning I had breakfast with Michael Jackson, we worked a bit on songs together - and that was the last time that I have seen him.
 
I heard on the interview that Greg said that Prince attended the Bad Tour concert in Wembley.
 
I like how Chris talks about Michael. You can tell he loved him. Was Prince annoyed that Michael came or something? Just the way Will I am and Chris describe it.
 
The way Michael said "Prince played his bass in the middle of my face," made me think he did not like that. I wonder if he thought it was disrespectful? Maybe Prince was trying to acknowledge him. Who knows.....
 
It just doesn't come across as a warm moment you know? Hearing what they are saying about it.
 
Well. I guess one had to be there to see how it went. It's not really told that well by Will. Could be either way. It's a shame that no video footage exists.
 
I think coming up to some one to play your music directly to them is a gift. would be the same if MJ walked up to someone and directly started singing to them. I dont think Prince was being disrespctful but acknowedging Michael was there. Could be MJ wasnt sure... I Sure wish someone had footage of that.
 
Yeah it is Michael's comment that makes you wonder. Maybe it has something to do with how close to Michael's face Prince played. It seems this is really a subjective thing, being based on how Michael perceived it, so maybe we might be delighted by Prince playing a bass in our face, but for Michael something was off.
 
marebear;3749493 said:
I wish there was footage of that too.

Is hard to believe there’s not even a picture of this :D

Come on, there were a lot of people there who probably knew about this encounter.
And not even a single picture! Is not that I don’t believe this happened but a picture of MJ and Prince together is like searching for the Holy Grail lol :)
 
Lucilla;3749726 said:
Is hard to believe there’s not even a picture of this :D

Come on, there were a lot of people there who probably knew about this encounter.
And not even a single picture! Is not that I don’t believe this happened but a picture of MJ and Prince together is like searching for the Holy Grail lol :)
LOL! true and I wonder why on Earth nobody thought of taking their picture when MJ and Prince got together to discuss BAD either..ugh! I guess people there were too starstruck :laugh:
 
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