Dirty Mind Tour

The Dirty Mind Tour was a concert tour by American recording artist Prince, his second tour in support of his third album Dirty Mind. The tour lasted from late December 1980 until April 1981.

History

The tour focused on material from Prince's second and third albums, and marks the debut of Lisa Coleman on keyboards, replacing Gayle Chapman who left following the previous tour. Prince had begun playing "Head" during the Prince Tour which ultimately caused her to leave the band as she felt the songs lyrics and on stage antics conflicted with her religious beliefs. After the tour, the band would be further depleted by the departure of bassist André Cymone. Cymone would leave over a number of grievances with Prince — a number of which were that his contributions to Prince's music went uncredited, his lack of input in the studio, and most of all he was ready to start his own career- but some feel that his bitter feelings toward Prince stem from he believing he should have been treated better considering how his family offered Prince a home after he left his father's house.^[1] Cymone would later claim that Prince stole many of his ideas that were used for The Time and that he created the bassline for Controversy's "Do Me, Baby".^[1]

Additionally, with this tour Prince updated his look. After being told by his managers he couldn't wear spandex pants without any underwear, Prince began performing in a long trench coat, black high heeled boots and leggings, and just bikini brief trunks.

Opening acts

• Curtiss A

Set list

The Dirty Mind Tour focused heavily on Dirty Mind, along with the fan-favorites from Prince. Typically the concert started with "Do It All Night", followed by "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?" and "Gotta Broken Heart Again". This sometimes led into the unreleased "Broken". "When You Were Mine" was sometimes followed by the unreleased (and later B-side) "Gotta Stop (Messin' About)". "Sexy Dancer" was usually followed by "Sister". The sweet "I Wanna Be Your Lover" segued into "Head" — a tradition which continued into later tours. The ballad "Still Waiting" cooled things down before the audience was urged to "Partyup". "Uptown" and "Dirty Mind" were also regular numbers, completing all of the album tracks.

1. "Do It All Night"
2. "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?"
3. "Gotta Broken Heart Again"
4. "Broken"
5. "When You Were Mine"
6. "Sexy Dancer"
7. "Sister"
8. "I Wanna Be Your Lover"
9. "Head"
10. "Still Waiting"
11. "Partyup"¹
12. "Uptown"
13. "Crazy You"¹
14. "Gotta Stop (Messin' About)"
15. "Dirty Mind"

Encore:

16. "Everybody Dance"¹
17. "Bambi"¹

¹performed on March 9th, at Sam's Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota^[2]

The band

• Music Director,Guitar, Vocals: Prince
• Drums: Bobby Z.
• Guitar: Dez Dickerson
• Piano, Keyboards: Lisa Coleman
• Bass: André Cymone
• Keyboards: Matt Fink

Tour dates

Prior to the Dirty Mind Tour, Prince took his band to Europe for three shows in Amsterdam, London and Paris.

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