Prince’s Welcome 2 America tour continued over the weekend with performances in the New York City area. For Saturday’s show at MSG, Prince welcomed old collaborator Sheila E to the stage to perform U Got The Look and the percussion wiz also threw down on the Love Bizarre encore. The Purple One packed the stage with some of his celebrity friends including ?uestlove, Naomi Campbell and Whoopi Goldberg during Love Bizarre.
Friday’s show at the Izod Center found Prince sitting in with Maceo Parker during the legendary sax player’s opening set. Later that evening, Parker added sax to I Love U, But I Don’t Trust U Anymore during Prince’s set. Rolling Stone has a review of Saturday’s show, while Jambands.com offers a news report focusing on Friday night’s performance.
Here’s a batch of six links to keep you entertained this afternoon…
- Wall Street Journal examines the new rock star paradigm
- Check out this interview with Brad Barr of The Slip/SMMD
- Britpop legends Blur will record a “comeback album” in ’11
- Jackie Greene scares the children w/ Weir, Wasserman & Lane
- Stockholm Syndrome will release Apollo on February 15th
- GD Archive on Senator’s list of Worst Examples of Gov’t Spending
Finally, as mentioned on Friday, Levon Helm returned home from a NYC hospital in time to perform at Saturday’s Ramble. Helm shared drumming duties with Steve Jordan and you can get a taste for the event’s double drum attack from this video originally posted on Levon’s Facebook Page…
