Prince really knows how to throw a party.
The man, who’s one of the greatest musicians alive, recently threw a house party to celebrate his return to the web and his upcoming three album releases. Guests were treated to a large-screen virtual tour of Prince’s new website: lotusflow3r.com.
The Purple One, who vanished from the Web after shutting down his groundbreaking NPG Music Club in 2006, is ramping up the new membership site in time to deliver MPLSound, Lotusflow3r and Elixir, the debut by protégée Bria Valente. He’s planning a simultaneous late-March release. Site designers unveiled a dizzying interactive universe, including a sphere of photos and performance clips.
After the virtual tour a two-hour basement concert was staged for the likes of Anita Baker and others.
Prince and his band jammed out to covers “including The Cars’ Let’s Go, The Rolling Stones’ Miss You, the Jackson 5’s I Want You Back, and Sly & the Family Stone’s Stand and I Want to Take You Higher.” After a long jam inspired a full-house Electric Slide, Prince quipped: “Y’all done tore up my carpet. I’m never inviting y’all back.”
Til the next party probably.
