Prince Benefit Show Live At Citi Club Boston1988-10-21 AM

Prince at the Citi Club Boston, 1988.10.21 In 1988, Prince played a special gig at the same club, then known as Citi, after a Worcester Centrum show. It was a benefit set up in the name of Frederick Cameron Weber, a Berklee College of Music freshman saxophonist-pianist who was struck by a car and killed while waiting in line to purchase tickets for the Centrum concerts. The show ran for more than two hours, with Prince declaring from the stage, "So what if the police come and get to us!" It was a stripped-down, almost casual, funk-pop excursion — hotter near the early-morning end, with Duke Ellington's "Take the ‘A’ Train” and "Things Ain't What They Used To Be," and a James Brown/"Wizard of Oz" jam — than it was during the slow-groovin' beginning. It was not a "hits" show; Prince and his band stuck pretty much to covers, grooves, blues and obscurities. (Somewhere along the line, this great bit made its way into the mix: "Rock me baby/Rock me all night long/Can you bend me over backwards baby?/ Like my back ain't got no bones.")"There's never been a Boston public rock concert at this hour," Citi owner Patrick Lyons told me. Much of Prince's set took a gradual climb toward the inevitable. All proceeds (more than $30,000) went to a scholarship trust fund at Berklee College of Music, set up in the name of Weber. Tracks; ▪0:00:00▪Positivity ▪0:08:48▪Wade In The Water ▪0:13:37▪I Wish U Heaven (Pt 3) ▪0:16:40▪Eye No ▪0:20:30▪God Is Alive ▪0:23:46▪Superfunkicalifragisexy ▪0:36:15▪Housequake/ Beautiful Night Jam ▪0:42:46▪Down Home Blues ▪0:46:11▪Blues In C ▪0:50:51▪Cold Sweat ▪0:54:57▪I'll Take You There ▪1:01:12▪Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic