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The Purple One at the Fillmore!

Prince's newest protege, Tamar, is playing a show at the Fillmore on Monday 1/30/06 at midnight, with PRINCE on the bill as well. Aa-oo-ah! Tix go on sale tomorrow, Friday, at 10am, so don't sleep on it! Update (4:30pm Thursday): Presales are available right now via the members-only website.

Tamar, aka Ashley Ta'Mar Davis, has been all over Prince's email list lately - announcements about shows, her new album, etc. Prince is definitely pushing her hard. A member of Angaza, an all-female group, she's also the newest member of the NPG, will be featured on Prince's next album, "3121," and is slated to open all of the dates on the 3121 tour as a solo act. (Tickets for Monday's show, in typical Princey cleverness, are $31.21).

Here's a review of the Tamar show at the Roxy in L.A. last Tuesday, from the prince.org discussion boards:

the set was very similar to the one they played on thursday night... tamar doing lead vocals, twins mya and mandy on backup, cora on drums, joshua on bass, mr. hayes on keys and of course, prince on guitar...

it started with "beat of my heart", followed with another original (don't know the name) that merged with "no, no, no (you don't love me)"... then "sunday in the park" followed by a really catchy tune called "milk & honey"... i think that was it for tamar's original material...

there was a little break, in which prince handed out four or five cookies... i almost got one but some tall guy snatched it mid-air... bummer... they looked good...

then they did a bunch of covers... i don't remember the names of every one... what stood out from the last show was the mini jam session at the end... the back-up singers brought up two dancers on the stage for their rendition of "what have you done for me lately?"... after they finished, they left the stage, leaving the two dancers up there to groove to the band... the girl then made a B-line straight to prince, trying to grind him from behind while he picked his guitar clean... he was cool about it, smiling and making faces to the crowd...
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when the show ended, the crowd was begging for more... clapping and chanting "it ain't over"... the band stayed on stage, knowing it wouldn't be fair to leave us like this, but prince did... he's such a tease that way...

Hehehe - just like Prince to hand out cookies during a show.

FYI, the Purple One will also be the musical guest on SNL on February 4th, with Steve Martin hosting for the 14th time.

posted by stefbot @ 10:43 AM