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The Ultimate Live Experience

1993/4

Music should be free like air.

The first tour in history to promote an unreleased album (The Gold Experience) and so the tour was called The Ultimate Live Experience as it was only possible for fans to experience, rather than purchase, Prince‘s latest music. The tour is essentially an evolution of three tours. Beginning in the USA with an unstructured series of concerts under the moniker Interactive Tour, a full tour evolved and moved to Europe billed as The Ultimate Live Experience and in 1996 for the Japan leg became The Gold Tour.

The stage design for the tour was to resemble a human’s endorphin gland, and is pictured behind the CD tray of the album The Gold Experience. Not wishing to promote his Warner Brothers catalogue, the set lists featured only few songs from pre the 1993 era (the year Prince changed his name to Prince love symbol)¹ due to the on-going dispute with his label over the ownership of Prince’s music – when by the time of the Japanese leg the much postponed album the tour was to promote had finally been been released it was renamed The Gold Tour.

Performers

Vocals/Guitar: The Artist Formally Known As Prince
Drums: Michael Bland
Keyboards: Morris Hayes; Tommy Barbarella
Bass Guitar: Sonny Thompson
Dancer: Mayte Garcia

Total dates played

The Ultimate Live Experience (UK, The Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland)
24 shows from 3 to 30 March 1995
The Gold Tour (Japan)
7 shows from 8 to 20 January 1996