Prince and the Revolution (August 3 1983)– First Avenue, Minneapolis (Minnesota Dance Theatre Benefit)

Event: August 3 1983 – Minneapolis, MN, USA: First Avenue (Minnesota Dance Theatre benefit).

Wendy Melvoin makes her live debut with Prince and the Revolution at a benefit concert for the Minnesota Dance Theatre at First Avenue in Minneapolis. One-off performance.

Band:

Prince (vox, guitar),

Bobby Z. (drums),

Brown Mark (bass),

Wendy Melvoin (guitar),

Lisa Coleman (keyboards),

Dr. Fink (keyboards).

Setlist

 • Let’s Go Crazy

• When You Were Mine

• A Case Of You

• Computer Blue

• Delirious

• Electric Intercourse

• Automatic

• I Would Die 4 U (basic recording used for Purple Rain)

• Baby I’m A Star (basic recording used for Purple Rain)

• Little Red Corvette

• Purple Rain (basic recording used for Purple Rain)

• D.M.S.R. (incl. band introduction & Loopzilla “We just don’t stop” lyrics)

Chronicle Note:

The concert was a benefit to raise $23,000 for the Minnesota Dance Theatre; the whole amount needed was raised.

This show included the live debuts of Let’s Go Crazy, Computer Blue, Electric Intercourse, I Would Die 4 U, Baby I’m A Star, and Purple Rain.

It also included Prince’s first performance of Joni Mitchell’s A Case Of You.

Three songs from this show — I Would Die 4 U, Baby I’m A Star and Purple Rain — were overdubbed and edited in the studio, with the final versions released on Purple Rain (with the audio also appearing in the Purple Rain movie with new lip-synced footage).

SOURCES Minneapolis, Minnesota · Sunday, August 07, 1983,Discogs, 45 World, Wikipedia. BBC Official Charts Prince Vault, Sleeveographia2

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