1997–1998 concert tour by Prince
The Jam of the Year World Tour was a concert tour which took place from January 1997 to January 1998 visiting cities all across the United States and Canada. This tour took place in support of Prince's 19th studio album, Emancipation released in November 1996.
This is one of Prince's most notable tours and is also Prince's first tour in North America after he changed his name in 1993.
Background
After wrapping up his performances at the Blaisdell Arena on his Gold Tour to promote his 17th studio album, The Gold Experience, Prince was due to embark on a North American Leg of the tour in March 1996 with The Time, D'Angelo and Tony Rich. However, due to the fact that Prince was working on Emancipation and quickly putting out projects to hurry and get out of his 1992 Warner Bros. deal, he cancelled the tour. He fired everyone from the New Power Generation at the time and made a completely new configuration of the band. In July 1996, Prince released his 18th studio album, Chaos and Disorder which marked to be his final album to complete the requirements under his Warner Bros. contract.[1]
In November 1996, Prince released his 19th studio album Emancipation and announced that he was going on a world tour. He said due to the fact that the Warner Bros. contract doesn't end until December 31, 1999, the tour would continue until the year 2000 so that he wouldn't have to return to the studio.[2] He quickly broke that promise with the release of the de facto Prince album, Newpower Soul by the New Power Generation leading him to change the title of the tour in February 1998.
The world tour was planned to start overseas in Sweden in June 1997 however, all those concerts were cancelled due to reasons unknown. Prince was also supposed to start promo for Emancipation with one-off concerts all across the world planning to come to Brazil, Italy, Germany, England, Spain, France & Netherlands but all further plans were cancelled.[3] Rumors that Prince also planned to headline the 1997 Super Bowl XXXI Halftime Show at the Louisiana Superdome however none of those plans fell through either.[4]
However, in December 1996, Prince announced that he was going to do public warm-up shows for his band in support of his charity, Love 4 One Another.[5] It was named the Love 4 One Another Charities Tour, and it started on January 7, 1997, at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania. Tickets went on sale just three days before the first show and sold out almost immediately. All of the proceeds made from the tour went to his charity. In July 1997, almost 2 weeks before the first show of the Jam of the Year World Tour began, tickets were put on sale on July 10 for the first round of shows for the official tour. The first date of the tour started on July 21 in Clarkston, Michigan at the Pine Knob Music Center.
Set list
January to June 1997
This set list on represents the show on January 7, 1997 in Upper Darby, this does not represent the setlist for the remainder of the tour.[6]
July 1997 to January 1998
This set list on represents the show on July 23, 1997 in Wantagh, this does not represent the setlist for the remainder of the tour.[7]
Alterations
- 8 January 1997: "The Ride" was not performed, "Mr. Happy" and "Partyman" were performed during the show's encore.
- 10 January 1997: "Partyman" was performed in the encore.
- 11 January 1997: "The Ride" was not performed.
- 13 January 1997: "The Ride" was not performed, "Somebody's Somebody" and "The Ride" were performed during the show's encore.
- 18 January 1997: "The Ride" was not performed.
- 19 January 1997: "Mr. Happy" and "Johnny" were performed as a first encore, while "Sleep Around" and "Partyman" were performed as a second encore.
- 16 February 1997: "The Ride" and "Johnny" was not performed, "Jungle Strut" / "Batuka" / "Soul Sacrifice" / "Toussaint L'Overture" were performed as the "Santana Medley" in the encore.
- 11 April 1997: "The Ride" was not performed, "The Holy River" was performed in encore.
- 19 April 1997: "The Ride" and "Johnny" was not performed, "Condition of the Heart" was performed on piano before "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?", "The Holy River" & "Girls & Boys" were performed in the show's encore.
- 20 April 1997: "Johnny" was not performed, "Condition of the Heart" & "Diamonds and Pearls" was performed on piano before "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?", "Santana Medley" with Carlos Santana and "Mr. Happy" was performed in the show encore.
- 28 April 1997: "The Ride" and "Johnny" was not performed.
- 29 April 1997: "Johnny" was not performed and "Mr. Happy" was performed in the encore.
- 17 May 1997: "The Ride" and "Mr. Happy" were performed in the show's encore.
- 18 May 1997: "The Ride" and "Mr. Happy" were performed in the show's encore.
- 5 June 1997: "Johnny" was not performed, "The Ride" and "Mr. Happy" were performed in the show's encore.
- 6 June 1997: "The Ride" and "Mr. Happy" were performed in the show's encore.
- 21 June 1997: "The Ride", "Mr. Happy" and "Johnny" were not performed. "Baby I'm a Star" / "1999" was performed as the show's encore after "Sleep Around".
- 22 June 1997: "The Ride", and "Johnny" were not performed. "Baby I'm a Star" / "1999" and "Mr. Happy" was performed as the show's encore after "Sleep Around".
- 27 June 1997: "Mr. Happy" and "Johnny" were not performed. "Little Red Corvette" was performed in placement of "17 Days". "Baby I'm a Star" / "1999" was performed as the show's encore after "Sleep Around".
- 28 June 1997: "Mr. Happy" and "Johnny" were not performed. "Little Red Corvette" was performed in placement of "17 Days". "Baby I'm a Star" / "1999" was performed as the show's encore after "Sleep Around".
- 1 August 1997: A piano medley was played before "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?", the songs included were "Diamonds and Pearls", "Strange Relationship", "Girls & Boys" and "Venus De Milo". "Kiss", "Cream", "Gett Off / Gett Off (Houstyle)", and "When Doves Cry" were performed as a 2nd encore.
- 2 August 1997: A piano medley was played, the songs included were "Diamonds and Pearls", "Venus De Milo", "Condition of the Heart", "Somebody's Somebody" and "Strange Relationship". Following the piano medley, "I'll Take You There" / "I Got the Feelin'" / "The Way You Do Things You Do" / "Shout" were played in place of "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?".
- 3 August 1997: "When You Were Mine" / "The Cross". A piano medley was played before "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?", the songs included were "Diamonds and Pearls", "Girls & Boys", "Condition of the Heart", and "Somebody's Somebody".
- 5 August 1997: A piano medley was played before "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?", the songs included were "Diamonds and Pearls", "Girls & Boys", "Strange Relationship".
- 8 August 1997: "The Ride" was played before "The Cross". A piano medley was played before "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?", the songs included were "Diamonds and Pearls", "Girls & Boys", and "Strange Relationship". "Mr.Happy" was performed after "Raspberry Beret" with Doug E. Fresh.
- 9 August 1997: "When You Were Mine" / "The Cross". A piano medley was played before "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?", the songs included were "Diamonds and Pearls", "Girls & Boys", and "Strange Relationship". "Baby I'm A Star" / "1999" was not performed.
- 10 August 1997: "When You Were Mine" / "The Cross". A piano medley was played before "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?", the songs included were "Diamonds and Pearls", "Venus de Milo", "Strange Relationship", "Girls & Boys", and "Condition of the Heart". "Flash Light", "Stomp" and "Mr. Happy" were performed in the encore with Doug E. Fresh.
- 13 August 1997: "When You Were Mine" / "The Cross". A piano medley was played before "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?", the songs included were "Diamonds and Pearls", "Girls & Boys", "Delirious, and "Venus de Milo". The encore was replaced with "Kiss", "Cream", "Gett Off / Gett Off (Houstyle)", "When Doves Cry", A "Jam of the Year" jam, and "Sleep Around".
- 15 August 1997: "When You Were Mine" / "The Cross". A piano medley was played before "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?", the songs included were "Diamonds and Pearls", "Girls & Boys", "The Beautiful Ones", "Delirious", and "Kamasutra". "Erotic City' was not performed.
Tour dates
Cancelled dates
References
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- ^ "Prince Vault:Selected anniversaries/January 26 - Prince Vault". princevault.com. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
- ^ "Love 4 One Another Charities". Retrieved 2022-06-24.
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- ^ "23 July 1997 - Prince Vault".
- ^ "Love 4 One Another Charities Tour - Prince Vault".
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