I just moved from Minneapolis. I used to pass by First Avenue all the time. It's much dirtier than it is in the movie, but it's got all the power. It's also where the Replacements played many of their best gigs (although many of those stories about them had Bob and Paul beating each other to a bloody pulp) but I remember getting hooked on Purple Rain and listening to it over and over again. And there's also the fact that he wrote music for Miles Davis and Miles Davis found more talent in him than he did in most other contemporary jazz musicians (although I thought that Miles was a bit gratuitous in his Marselis baiting)

I FINALLY saw him in concert for the musicology tour. I only wish that I could have gotten out to the after concert party at Paisley Park - I never made it out to Paisley Park when I lived in Minnesota. It's too far away from Minneapolis. He's really does the Howard Hughes recluse routine well (didn't even know that he moved away) but yeah it was an amazing concert.

And the Time opened up for him that night too.

So yeah fellow Prince fan. Although I never liked The Ballad of Dorothy Parker. It was at the beginning of his slide into Warner Brothers idiotic symboldom.