October 13, 2008
Prince Plays Hotel Gansevoort
That super-secret, impossible-to-get-into Prince show? It went down for four hours (two shows) on the rooftop loft at the Hotel Gansevoort on Friday night. The NY Times reports that audience members paid around $1,000 to get inside the intimate room, with proceeds going to charity (Love 4 One Another Charities and Urban Farming). The Purple One did give a nod to the tough times however, the paper notes that "moments into the early set he joked about the tough day, then he tweaked the lyrics of '1999' to reference the financial crisis." Howard Stern, Spike Lee and Dave Chappelle were all in attendance, and the latter even took over entertaining duties for a bit, saying, “I played tambourine tonight at a Prince show — that’s the good news. The bad news is, I flew coach.”
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$1000?! Prince fans are obviously not cutting back during these "difficult economic times"
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MN in da house! ;)
love Prince,
love how selective he is in his public appearances, 1000 is part of that scheme of "priceless"
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love 4 one another sounds suspiciosuly like the human fund
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What are Morris Day and the Time charging for tickets these days?
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I can't believe there are enough people willing to pay $1,000 to hear him that they were able to fill a room, no matter how small.
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Stern talked about this today. He said he left in disgust after Prince demanded that all light were to be off during his performance.
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"Stern talked about this today. He said he left in disgust after Prince demanded that all light were to be off during his performance."
Poor Howard got his feelings hurt because he's used to hearing that same thing right before sex.
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YAWN
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the gansevoort pours your $8 beer into plastic glasses. classy...
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Prince also performs at polo matches, hollywood Bat Mizvahs, and russian oligarch weddings.
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Lol- The Gansevoort doesn't use plastic glasses to be classy. Ever been hit on Ninth Avenue by some guy throwing his 'beer' glass over the ledge. The pool and the traffic wrapping around the hotel make glass a lawsuit risk. Always the beer drinkers with no class throwing them over too. Also Howard Stern didn't leave that early and Prince didn't demand the lights off.