Though it would seem rare
that people have a close encounter with The Artist aka Prince, this particular
inquiry of 200 Balloons has so far received the most responses.
It was general admission and
I told my girlfriend we would do whatever it takes to get to the very front.
We did. It was amazing seeing him up close. During the first part
of the show he had his glasses on. Once he took them off though I noticed
that when he preforms he pretty much looks out over everyone. This is probably
so he is not distracted. Anyways, during Sexy Mother Fucker he made complete
eye contact with me for like 5 seconds. I got nervous and looked down.
When I looked up he had turned away. It was crazy though because it was
like him saying I "acknowledge u."
Well I've met the man
several times and attended several partys,
but this is my favourite encounter. I was sitting in Levi's hotelroom in
Stockholm, listening 2 the Graffiti Bridge album before it was released.
That was very exciting. But then the phone rang and Levi answered. He spoke
4 a few moments with the person on the phone and then he asked me if i
wanted 2 play basketball. I said "who's gonna play?" and he said "the band
and Prince". So i said yes and a few minutes later we went 2 the lobby
and jumped into 2 taxies. Prince went in his Jaguar. We drove 2 Solnahallen
in Solna which is a suburb from Stockholm, and got out of the cars. We
waited 4 Prince and went inside. There i played baskeball 4 2 hours with
the band, some bodyguards and Prince. Prince was just hilarious, he kept
singing and dribbling between the 2 meter bodyguards legs. 2 cool. After
the match i "hung out" with the boys for about 30 minutes. After we'd played
i took the boll as a souvenier. The whole time i was there i wished i had
a videocamera. But then again, i still got that basketball........
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kick ass show