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The 1999 Tour (Triple Threat Tour) was a concert tour by American recording artist, Prince in support of his 1999 double album. The tour included Vanity 6, and The Time. as opening acts. The tour ran from November 1982 to April 1983, across the United States. More dates were planned for Europe, but Prince preferred staying to work on other projects, including his upcoming hit film and album of the same name Purple Rain which released in 1984.

Tour by Prince
Associated album 1999
Start date November 11, 1982
End date April 10, 1983
Legs 2
No. of shows 87
Prince concert chronology

Line-up

Vanity 6: Vanity (lead vox), Susan Moonsie (lip-sync), Brenda Bennett (lead/backing vox) *Jill Jones singing offstage for Susan Moonsie, and The Time playing backstage*

The Time: Morris Day (lead vox), Jerome Benton (valet/dancer/backing vox), Jesse Johnson (guitar/backing vox), Jimmy Jam (keyboards/backing vox) Terry Lewis (bass/backing vox) Monte Moir (keyboards/backing vox), Jellybean Johnson (drums)

Prince (band): Prince (lead vox/guitar/piano), Dez Dickerson (backing vox/guitar), Brownmark (bass/backing vox), Jill Jones (backing vox), Lisa Coleman (keyboards/backing vox), Dr. Fink (keyboards/backing vox), Bobby Z. (drums)

History

The tour also served as promotion for both The Time's "What Time Is It?" album, and Vanity 6's debut album, which were all produced by Prince in 1982 through his aliases "Jamie Starr" and "the Starr Company". The tour marked the departure of members from both Prince's band and the Time. Guitarist Dez Dickerson left Prince's band a couple of months after the tour ended, due to the fact that the songs played during the tour were opposed to his religious nature. Dickerson would be replaced in August of 1983 by Wendy Melvoin. At the time, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis have been fired by Prince and Morris (allegedly). This was due to the fact that they couldn't make it to a show in San Antonio during a blizzard storm that happened in Atlanta leaving them stranded there. Due to their absence, Prince was the one who had to play the bass off-stage for Lewis while Jerome Benton had to mimic playing the bass on-stage. Another reason they were fired is due to the fact that they violated their contract which instructed the duo to not to produce for other bands, by producing for the S.O.S. Band The pair would therefore be replaced by St. Paul Peterson and Jerry Hubbard, while Jam and Lewis went on to write and produce for more bands and studio artists. Monte Moir who was also in The Time also took the opportunity to leave as well (being replaced by Mark Cardenas) and ended up collaborating occasionally with Jam and Lewis.

During the tour, tensions escalated as The Time were considered to upstage Prince's band for being considered more "funkier", and a bigger success with the audience. Prince would end up omitting The Time from advertising bills and even from shows for being too good, but nonetheless they remained as a backing band for the first opening act, Vanity 6.

The audience for the tour was approximately 90% African-American during its first leg in 1982, but the audience had an increase in white audience during its second leg in 1983, because Prince had released and videotaped his rock single "Little Red Corvette", according to Monte Moir. The video for Little Red Corvette was played on heavy rotation on the MTV network channel which increased the white audience in the tour from 10 percent to 40 percent.

Within dates of the tour, Prince made two appearances on Solid Gold to promote his singles "1999" and "Little Red Corvette". The Time and Vanity 6 would do the same with their songs before and during the tour by performing on TV shows and in local clubs.

The three groups would also film music videos during rehearsals for the tour using the backdrops they use during the shows.

Setlist

1982 (leg 1)

  1. Controversy
  2. Let's Work
  3. Do Me, Baby
  4. D.M.S.R
  5. interlude (Lisa solo)
  6. piano improv. (Prince)
  7. How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore
  8. Lady Cab Driver
  9. Automatic
  10. International Lover
  11. 1999

(Head, Uptown, and Delirious would sometimes be played at certain shows)

1983 (leg 2)

  1. Controversy
  2. Let's Work
  3. Do Me, Baby
  4. Sexuality/Let's Pretend We're Married
  5. interlude (Lisa solo)
  6. piano improv. (Prince)
  7. How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore
  8. Lady Cab Driver
  9. Little Red Corvette
  10. Dirty Mind
  11. International Lover
  12. 1999

(Some shows would have D.M.S.R in the setlist in place of Sexuality/Let's Pretend We're Married)


Song albums: Controversy, 1999, Dirty Mind

Dates

# Date City Country Venue Audience
1999 Tour (Leg 1 : 1982-83)
1 November 11, 1982 Chattanooga United States Memorial Auditorium 1 700
2 November 12, 1982 Atlanta Fox Theatre 10 543
3 10 543
4 November 13, 1982 10 543
5 November 14, 1982 New-Orleans Sanger Theater 2 636
6 November 15, 1982 2 636
7 November 18, 1982 Columbus Veterans Memorial Auditorium 4 000
8 November 19, 1982 Gary Genesis Convention Center 8 500
9 November 20, 1982 Indianapolis Market Square Arena 16 000
10 November 21, 1982 Cleveland Public Hall 8 000
11 November 24, 1982 Philadelphia Class Of 1964 Skating Rink 2 500
12 November 26, 1982 Greensboro Greensboro Coliseum 12 187
13 November 27, 1982 Hampton Hampton Coliseum 13 800
14 November 28, 1982 Columbia Carolina Coliseum 12 352
15 November 30, 1982 Detroit Masonic Temple Auditorium 4 322
16 December 1, 1982 (am) 4 322
17 4 322
18 December 2, 1982 4 322
19 4 322
20 December 3, 1982 4 322
21 December 4, 1982 Saint-Louis The Checkerdome 16 323
22 December 5, 1982 Louisville Louisville Gardens 6 750
23 December 8, 1982 Saginaw Wendler Arena 7 600
24 December 9, 1982 Chicago Auditorium Theatre 4 000
25 December 10, 1982 4 000
26 December 11, 1982 4 000
27 December 12, 1982 Cincinnati Riverfront Coliseum 7 170
28 December 15, 1982 Memphis Mid-South Coliseum 11 200
29 December 16, 1982 Nashville Municipal Auditorium 9 000
30 December 17, 1982 Little Rock Pine Bluff's Convention Center 9 000
31 December 18, 1982 Bâton-Rouge Riverside Centroplex 8 600
32 December 19, 1982 Birmingham Civic Center Coliseum 19 000
33 December 20, 1982 New Orleans Saenger Performing Arts Center 2 636
34 December 29, 1982 Houston The Summit 16 000
35 December 31, 1982 Dallas Reunion Arena 17 734
36 January 2, 1983 Dallas Reunion Arena 11 426
37 January 3, 1983 Lake Charles Lake Charles Civic Center 5 230
1999 Tour (Leg 2 : 1983)
38 February 1, 1983 Lakeland United States Lakeland Civic Center 9 500
39 February 2, 1983 Savannah Savannah Civic Center 9 600
40 February 3, 1983 Augusta Augusta Coliseum 20 000
41 February 4, 1983 Greensboro Greensboro Coliseum 12 500
42 February 5, 1983 Richmond Richmond Coliseum 20 000
43 February 6, 1983 Roanoke Roanoke Civic Center 10 622
44 February 10, 1983 Providence Providence Civic Center 14 500
45 February 11, 1983 Hartford Hartford Civic Center 7 000
46 February 13, 1983 Washington DC Starplex Armory 10 000
47 February 14, 1983 10 000
48 February 15, 1983 Chapel Hill UONC Auditorium 8 010
49 February 16, 1983 Macon Macon Coliseum 9 252
50 February 18, 1983 Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center 9 975
51 February 19, 1983 Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Coliseum 11 626
52 February 20, 1983 Mobile Municipal Auditorium 10 112
53 February 22, 1983 Greenville Greenville Memorial Auditorium 7 500
54 February 24, 1983 Buffalo War Memorial Auditorium 2 000
55 February 25, 1983 East Lansing MSU Auditorium 3 800
56 February 26, 1983 Toledo Toledo Sports Arena 3 500
57 February 27, 1983 Ann Arbor Chrysler Arena 13 751
58 February 28, 1983 Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Civic Arena 12 860
59 March 2, 1983 Peoria Peoria Civic Center 10 129
60 March 3, 1983 Dayton Hara Arena 5 500
61 March 5, 1983 Baltimore Baltimore Civic Center 14 000
62 March 6, 1983 Salisbury Salisbury Civic Center 6 892
63 March 8, 1983 Norfolk The Scope 6 853
64 March 9, 1983 Columbus Columbus Municipal Auditorium 3 916
65 March 10, 1983 Monroe Monroe Civic Center 7 600
66 March 11, 1983 Huntsville Von Braun Civic Center 10 000
67 March 12, 1983 Knoxville Knoxville Civic Auditorium 2 500
68 March 13, 1983 Kalamazoo Wings Stadium 5 113
69 March 15, 1983 Minneapolis Met Center 13 500
70 March 17, 1983 Rockford Rockford Metro Center 10 000
71 March 18, 1983 Omaha Omaha Civic Auditorium 10 960
72 March 19, 1983 Kansas City Kansas City Municipal Auditorium 7 313
73 March 21, 1983 New York Radio City Music Hall 6 400
74 March 24, 1983 San Antonio HemisFair Arena 16 057
75 March 25, 1983 Norman Lloyd Noble Center 8 519
76 March 28, 1983 Universal City Universal Amphitheater 6 251
77 March 29, 1983 San Diego San Diego Sports Arena 12 800
78 March 30, 1983 Phoenix Phoenix Veterans Coliseum 14 041
79 March 31, 1983 Long Beach Long Beach Arena 13 500
80 April 1, 1983 Oakland Oakland Coliseum 14 200
81 April 2, 1983 Fresno Selland Arena 9 000
82 April 3, 1983 Oakland Oakland Coliseum 14 200
83 April 5, 1983 Denver Auditorium Arena 5 800
84 April 7, 1983 Milwaukee The Mecca 9 532
85 April 8, 1983 Detroit Joe Louis Arena 21 672
86 April 9, 1983 Cleveland Richfield Coliseum 17 500
87 April 10, 1983 Chicago UIC Pavillion 10 650

Dates were planned for the Netherlands, further in the month of April, but were cancelled...

The Time started to get ommitted from shows during the second leg... So they only played backstage on the Vanity 6 set for those shows, instead.

1999 Super Deluxe (disc 4, 5 and 6)

The 1999 Super Deluxe album posthumously released in 2019 includes an audio recording of one of the shows of this tour that happened on December 1, 1982 at the Masonic Hall in Detroit. On the album, it has been labelled as November 30, 1982. The album also includes a video recording of one of the shows that happened in Houston at the Summit on December 29, 1982. The album also includes a tour demo of a mashup/re-recording made by Prince of the songs; Lady Cab Driver, I Wanna Be Your Lover, Head, and Little Red Corvette, to show his band how they should play it next show. The mashup was made in January 1983 in between the legs of the 1999 tour. This re-interpretation however, was only played in the show that happened in Lakeland, Florida.

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