The Ultimate Live Experience

The Ultimate Live Experience was a European concert tour that was mostly in the United Kingdom that was through the month of March 1995. This tour was to promote the soon-to-be The Gold Experience that was released in September later than year. Much of the setlist was from Gold Experience and there was also Come and Exodus material. However, he did say that he wouldn't not perform his Prince stuff from 1978 to early 1993. However, he did perform "I Love U in Me" and "7" with some covers.[1]

The Ultimate Live Experience
European tour by Prince
Associated albumThe Gold Experience
Start dateMarch 3, 1995
End dateFebruary 19, 1996
Legs2
No. of shows32 (33 scheduled)
Prince concert chronology

An extension of the tour known as the Gold Tour was launched in 1996. The concerts featured mainly songs from the album, but also started adding prior Prince fan favorites.[2]

History

The Ultimate Live Experience was performed during a chaotic period in Prince's life and career. He had much new music written but then record company Warner Brothers refused to release it at the speed that Prince wished, leading to public feuding. Meanwhile, Prince had already released the album Come with no promotion and was trying to get The Gold Experience released as well. During this time, he made many configurations of the album and this tour presents songs that he likely planned for the album (though not all would make the cut), as well as very rarely played cuts from the Prince period, with the exception of "7".

While the previous year's Ultimate Live Experience tour presented Gold Experience prior to its release, the long overdue album had finally hit shelves in late 1995 and this tour was now a "proper" promotion. However, by this time, Prince had been playing some of the material for nearly two years and many of the songs were shortened to brief medleys. Conversely, Prince had formerly said he would not play "Prince" material anymore, but that idea was apparently tossed to the wind with this tour. Several fan-favorites such as "The Cross", "Do Me, Baby" and "Sexy MF" were regulars, along with the Gold material. Also, Prince started performing a cover of Joan Osborne's "One of Us", which he would include on his next album, Emancipation.

Setlists

Setlist of March 3, 1995, at the Wembley Arena, London, England[3]

  1. "Endorphinmachine"
  2. "The Jam" (Includes "The Exodus Has Begun" lyric interpolation)
  3. "Shhh"
  4. "Days of Wild" (Includes snippets of "Hair")
  5. "Now" (Includes snippets of "Babies Makin' Babies")
  6. "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine"
  7. "Johnny"
  8. "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"
  9. "P. Control"
  10. "Letitgo"
  11. "Pink Cashmere"
  12. "(Lemme See Your Body) Get Loose!" (Unreleased remix of "Loose!")
  13. "I Love U in Me"
  14. "Proud Mary" (Includes "I Can't Turn You Loose" interpolation)
  15. Oriental prelude
  16. "7"
  17. "Dolphin"

Encore

  1. "Get Wild"
  2. "Race"
  3. "Super Hero"
  4. Medley
    1. "Billy Jack Bitch"
    2. "Eye Hate U"
    3. "319"
  5. "Gold"

Tour dates
Date City Country Venue
Europe
March 3, 1995LondonEnglandWembley Arena
March 4, 1995
March 5, 1995
March 7, 1995
March 8, 1995
March 10, 1995ManchesterG-Mex Centre
March 11, 1995
March 13, 1995GlasgowScotlandSECC
March 14, 1995
March 16, 1995SheffieldEnglandSheffield Arena
March 17, 1995
March 18, 1995BirminghamNational Exhibition Centre
March 19, 1995
March 21, 1995LondonWembley Arena
March 22, 1995
March 24, 1995Den BoschNetherlandsBrabanthallen
March 25, 1995
March 27, 1995GhentBelgiumFlanders Expo
March 29, 1995DublinIrelandPoint Depot
March 30, 1995
Asia
January 8, 1996TokyoJapanNippon Budokan
January 9, 1996
January 11, 1996OsakaOsaka-jō Hall
January 13, 1996FukuokaFukuoka Kokusai Center
January 16, 1996TokyoNippon Budokan
January 17, 1996
January 20, 1996YokohamaYokohama Arena
North America
February 16, 1996HonoluluUnited StatesEurasia Club
February 17, 1996Blaisdell Arena
February 18, 1996
February 19, 1996

References
  1. http://www.princevault.com/index.php/The_Ultimate_Live_Experience
  2. http://www.goldiesparade.co.uk/on_the_road.htm
  3. http://www.princevault.com/index.php/03_March,_1995
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