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Prince brings his 55-date Controversy Tour to an end with a show at The Riverfront, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Because of rivalry between Prince's band and support group The Time, a huge food fight develops during The Time's set, after which their guitarist Jesse Johnson is handcuffed to a wall-mounted coat rack.Full article:
Bobby Z (musician, Prince's band) : We had an epic food fight with The Time that could’ve easily been in the movie; it spurred the whole Time-versus-Revolution myth. It went from the show to the hotel and back to the bus to the airport and never stopped for about three days.
Jellybean Johnson (drummer, the Time) : We’re onstage, and all of a sudden, [Time singer] Morris Day’s big bodyguard grabs [Time guitarist] Jesse Johnson and snatches him offstage. And Prince takes his place playing guitar. They take Jesse backstage, chain him to a coat rack or whatever, and proceed to pour syrup, or whatever food was in their dressing room, all over him. Now the band is wondering what the hell’s goin’ on: Prince is still playing guitar, and Jesse’s gone, and then they got Jerome [Benton, dancer and backing vocalist] too.
So when we got done with the last song, we decided, “We’re gonna kick their ass.” We took all our suits off and got into some dirty clothes, and we got eggs and everything, and we made them quite uncomfortable. We wouldn’t do it while the show was going on, ’cause we figured we would’ve got fired, but the minute the show was over, it was on. We got all of them. We didn’t discriminate.
(Source : Spin magazine, July 2009)
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Jellybean Johnson (drummer, the Time) : We’re onstage, and all of a sudden, [Time singer] Morris Day’s big bodyguard grabs [Time guitarist] Jesse Johnson and snatches him offstage. And Prince takes his place playing guitar. They take Jesse backstage, chain him to a coat rack or whatever, and proceed to pour syrup, or whatever food was in their dressing room, all over him. Now the band is wondering what the hell’s goin’ on: Prince is still playing guitar, and Jesse’s gone, and then they got Jerome [Benton, dancer and backing vocalist] too.
So when we got done with the last song, we decided, “We’re gonna kick their ass.” We took all our suits off and got into some dirty clothes, and we got eggs and everything, and we made them quite uncomfortable. We wouldn’t do it while the show was going on, ’cause we figured we would’ve got fired, but the minute the show was over, it was on. We got all of them. We didn’t discriminate.
(Source : Spin magazine, July 2009)