The Ultimate Live Experience was a

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that was mostly in the

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that was through the month of March 1995. This tour was to promote the soon-to-be

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that was released in September later than year. Much of the setlist was from Gold Experience and there was also

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and

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material. However, he did say that he wouldn't not perform his Prince stuff from 1978 to early 1993. However, he did perform "I Love U in Me" and " 7" with some covers. An extension of the tour known as the Gold Tour was launched in 1996. The concerts featured mainly songs from the album, but also started adding prior Prince fan favorites.

History

The Ultimate Live Experience was performed during a chaotic period in Prince's life and career. He had much new music written but then record company

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refused to release it at the speed that Prince wished, leading to public feuding. Meanwhile, Prince had already released the album ''

'' with no promotion and was trying to get ''

'' released as well. During this time, he made many configurations of the album and this tour presents songs that he likely planned for the album (though not all would make the cut), as well as very rarely played cuts from the Prince period, with the exception of " 7". While the previous year's Ultimate Live Experience tour presented ''Gold Experience'' prior to its release, the long overdue album had finally hit shelves in late 1995 and this tour was now a "proper" promotion. However, by this time, Prince had been playing some of the material for nearly two years and many of the songs were shortened to brief medleys. Conversely, Prince had formerly said he would not play "Prince" material anymore, but that idea was apparently tossed to the wind with this tour. Several fan-favorites such as "The Cross", "

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", and "

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" were regulars, along with the ''Gold'' material. Also, Prince started performing a cover of

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's " One of Us", which he would include on his next album, ''

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''.

Setlists

Setlist of March 3, 1995, at the

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# "Endorphinmachine" # "

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" (Includes " The Exodus Has Begun" lyric interpolation) # "Shhh" # "

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" (Includes snippets of "

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" # "

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" # " The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" # "P. Control" # "

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" # "

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" # "(Lemme See Your Body) Get Loose!" (Unreleased remix of " Loose!") # "I Love U in Me" # "

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" (Includes "

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" interpolation) # Oriental prelude # " 7" # "Dolphin" Encore #

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" ## "319" #

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Tour dates

References

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