SNL devoting the night to PRINCE

[demtenjeep]

Pretty cool. MAN the man had talent

[Sunlei]

1. Great SNL, yes Prince was really talented.

[Initech]

2. His last performance on SNL was truly legendary.

[OriginalGeek]

7. That lady on guitar rocked it

I remember when that was first aired and was still blown away by the entire set. She was kicking ass at the 40th anniversary set too.

But dat Prince though...I never saw that first one they showed. I'm woefully ignorant of the 4 or 5 albums he put out before 1999. I'll be fixing that real quick.

[demtenjeep]

3. i think his sb performance will be the standard for years to come

such a class performance and no diva like attitude

[oberliner]

10. No diva like attitude?

There was no bigger diva than Prince.

[trumad]

12. Horseshit.

Diva's don't show up out of the blue and all night jam at parties...Diva's don't sit down and talk guitar playing for hours like he did with Billy Gibbons.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/04/22/defying-description-zz-tops-billy-gibbons-on-prince-the-sensational-guitarist/

Me thinks you have no idea what a Diva is.

[oberliner]

15. Prince's hotel demands include no stairs

Prince has issued a list of demands for hotels he stays at which includes "no stairs", paintings of animals or faces and "obstructive rugs".

The 'Purple Rain' hitmaker's list of tour accommodation demands have been revealed and as well as preferring to take the lift in hotels, he has also banned paintings or photographs of faces or animals and "obstructive rugs" in rooms he stays in.

A source told The Sun newspaper: "Prince's list of demands has been going out to all his hotels in the UK before he arrives at them.

"His requests all have to be fulfilled or he won't turn up to play."

...

During his 2007 residency at London's The O2, he wanted to have a five-bedroom house built next to the venue to make it easier for him to get to his gigs.

In 2011, the legendary star also reportedly ordered a limo to take him just 80ft from his dressing room to the stage at the Hop Farm Festival in Kent, South East England.

http://mobile.nation.co.ke/lifestyle/Princes-hotel-demands-include-no-stairs/-/1950774/2338240/-/format/xhtml/-/ponffc/-/index.html

[countingbluecars]

18. He had bad hips according to Sheila e.

That might account for the no stairs, short limo rides and perhaps pain killers.

[WolverineDG]

22. You realize those "diva" requests are put there intentionally

so that the production team has an easy way to know the contract has been read. Those contracts include special instructions for assembling the set safely, so if they walk into a room & there's an obstructive rug, they know automatically the contract was not read.

[oberliner]

24. Hotel demands have nothing to do with instructions for assembling the set safely

You are probably thinking of tour riders which are sent to the venue where the artist is performing.

Those are completely separate documents.

[suffragette]

25. Most of those sound like accessibility requests

Which re perfectly understandable if he had hip issues.

[oberliner]

28. There are lots of other stories out there

Of crew members not being allowed to look directly at him. Of wives not being able to call him on the phone (they had to wait to be called by him). And on and on.

It doesn't take away from his musical accomplishments at all, but there is no need to pretend that he didn't have a lot of diva tendencies.

[Logical]

16. LOL, prince was very talented, but you are clueless on his riders. Do more reading. nt

[trumad]

19. Riders do not make Diva's.

[Logical]

20. LOL, not in the music business I guess. nt

[zappaman]

4. So nothing about climate change?

I guess this proves the nooz doesn't care about Earth.
Fortunately we still have good journos who can get to the bottom of this!
No thanks NBC, I'll be reading informative blogs.

[BuelahWitch]

5. Saturday Night Live is an entertainment program, not a news program

Except for their news satire, Weekend Update. Not really sure why you are berating a comedy entertainment program for not reporting on climate change, unless you've never seen the show, which is hard to believe.

[Bluenorthwest]

8. Frank often thought he was being 'satirical' when he was just being a stooge as well.

Zappa was racist, homophobic and utterly self centered, unconcerned with other people or the world around him. Rich asshole from the Valley.

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. Hmmm that handle

[trumad]

13. You are so fucking cool.

[demtenjeep]

26. i'm told hobby blogs are the way to go

these days

[Brother Buzz]

30. Hobby Blog Journos do get NOOZ scoops fater than the Lamestream Media

"Facts? We don't need no facts. To Hell with fact-checking, we got the scoop first."

[demtenjeep]

29. haha

hobby blogs it is

[Person 2713]

6. Prince fan. SNL I do not catch much of the time . I had not seen most of those performances

and certainly not the private party. Thank you SNL
When he waves and leaves

[malaise]

9. It was really amazing

I hadn't watched SNL in some time but decided to have a peep and was delishted

[ileus]

11. Didn't they realize he was a right-wing Christian trump supporter?

[eShirl]

14. nobody's perfect

[Person 2713]

21. Are you referencing the Donald trump black version song from the 90s?

[PeaceNikki]

31. He was not a Trump supporter and he didn't vote. He was, however,

a strong supporter of BLM and funded solar panels in poverty stricken neighborhoods.

[Holly_Hobby]

17. I found the Prince talk show offensive

I'm sure it was funny when they originally aired it, but in poor taste on the day of his memorial. But I'm old, what do I know?

The performances were awesome, Jimmy Fallon was wonderful as well.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

27. Damned AT&T said they were re-running the Dinklage episode.