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• Prince, 1999 Tour

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.

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 also 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, which resulted in Prince playing the bass off-stage for Lewis while Jerome Benton (valet/dancer for The Time) had to mimic playing the bass on-stage. Another reason is 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 mostly 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 started to include his rock single "Little Red Corvette" on the setlist, according to Monte Moir. The single which was accompanied by a video was played on heavy rotation on the MTV network channel.

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

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

• 1982 concert tours
• 1983 concert tours
• Prince (musician) concert tours