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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.

Tour by Prince
Associated album 1999
Start date November 11, 1982
End date April 10, 1983
Legs 2
No. of shows 93
Prince concert chronology

Line-up[edit]

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[edit]

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 (valet/dancer for The Time) 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 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.

Within dates of the tour, Prince made two appearances on Solid Gold to promote his singles "1999" and "Little Red Corvette"

Setlist[edit]

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


Song albums: Controversy, 1999, Dirty Mind

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