PRINCE’s WORST CONCERT - The Crowd Wanted to Kill Him!

The time Prince opened for the Rolling Stones and itw as a total disaster.



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Today, we're diving into one of the most infamous moments in rock history - the time Prince opened for The Rolling Stones, and it went horribly wrong. Buckle up, because this story has it all - rock legends, an up-and-coming superstar, and a crowd that just wasn't having it."
Opening for another artist was nothing new for prince. He had opened for Rick James a year earlier on his Fire It Up Tour.
James recalled seeing Prince for the first time “My manager brought some tapes over and said, ‘Well, there’s this kid who’s got this record, ‘I Want to Be Your Lover,’ and I loved that record. And I saw some videos of him, and he was cool. I felt that he resembled us a lot,” But the two feuded on the road after Prince blew James off stage with James claiming prince was also ripping off his moves. So when it came to the shows opening for the Stones Prince wanted to show up the headliner.
Let's set the scene. It's October 9, 1981, and Prince isn't the megastar we know today. He's just a quirky upstart with one falsetto-sung pop-funk hit under his belt - 'I Wanna Be Your Lover'. This is before 'he became a megasuperstar with hits like 1999,' before 'Purple Rain,' before 'Little Red Corvette.' But he soon caught the ear of Mick Jagger who saw his genius after seeinghim perform at the Ritz in New York City during his Dirty Mind tour.
The Stones Frontman remarked about Prince "Prince was a great artist. He broke a lot of musical modes and invented a lot of styles."
In 1981 the Stones were touring behind their album Tattoo On You. The tour was set to open with two shows at memorial stadium in Los Angeles on October 9 and 11th. An audience of 95,000 people were expected to attend each show. Prince was originally booked to open even more shows for The Stones, including two shows at The Silverdome in Detroit. Having Prince open for the Stones didn’t seem like a bad idea. Black artists including Tina Turner, Stevie Woner and Billy Preston had all opened for the Stones
Prince Keyboardist LisA Coleman remembered the feeling in the run up to the show in the book Prince the Man and HIs Music We were so excited, we’d rehearsed our little booties off, our funky black asses. This is it, we’re gonna make the big time.
Prince opened the show, followed by George Thorogood and J Geils band before the Stones took to the stage in the later part of the day. The first day was unseasonably hot and some members of the audience got there in the morning and had to listen to three support acts before the Stones came on.
"Picture this: It's a sunny afternoon, and Prince struts out on stage in his typical attire - a trench coat and bikini briefs. Yeah, you heard that right. Remember, this is 1981, and Prince's provocative style wasn't yet mainstream." "Now, Prince wasn't completely oblivious to his audience. He tried to bridge the gap by playing some of his rockier material. But it didn't matter. The crowd's reaction was immediate and hostile."
Drummer Bobby Z. recalled how the first moments of the show went in the book A Soldier in Prince’s Revolution
So concert promoter Bill Graham comes out and says, “All right, we’ve got a new act for you today.” Boo. Everybody wants the Stones
We start out with I think “Uptown” and they hear us singing falsetto. They’re not interested, they’re not willing, they’re certainly not tolerant. You’ve got three brothers up there. You’ve got weird-looking white people in the back. It’s New Age weird punky funk rock—all the stuff they don’t want to know about or be interested in. They just want the blues or rock and roll. They don’t want to listen to anything new—let alone from the guy who looks like a chick but he’s not a chick and the chicks like him.
The crowd shouted racist and ****phobic comments towards Prince and his band in addition to tossing objects like bottles, cans and fried chicken on stage.
Prince bassist Brown Mark who played with Prince for the first time that night recalled: "Next thing I noticed was food starting to fly through the air like a dark thundercloud. Imagine 94,000 people throwing food at each other; it was the craziest thing I had ever seen in my life. I got hit in the shoulder with a bag of fried chicken; then my guitar got knocked out of tune by a large