The 'Grammy Salute to Prince' concert, which taped Tuesday but airs in April, starred FooFighters, Beck, H.E.R., JohnLegend, more
” — which taped Tuesday night and will air on CBS on April 21 — did not make one’s heart skip a beat. While the show’s musical foundation could not have been stronger — Prince’s longtime collaborators Sheila E., Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis were musical directors of an ace house band, and the Revolution and The Time performed as well — some of the featured singers seemed like less inspired choices.
There were many such complex musical flourishes throughout the night: Sheila E. knows the canon as well as virtually any musician, and as both musical director and featured performer, she sang and played percussion on nearly every song led the band. The arrangements showed a deep knowledge of Prince’s ever-morphing live sets — she was his full-time drummer for three years — and featured deft vamps and licks that will be familiar to fans from bootlegs and concerts.
Sure enough, that led directly into a cover of Prince’s 1985 hit “Pop Life” — and the Foo Fighters absolutely crushed it, with drummer Taylor Hawkins leading them through some tricky start-stop rhythmic tricks in the second verse. After they’d finished, Sheila said they weren’t allowed to leave without performing another song, and they finished with “Darling Nikki.”
Yet the most inspired performer/song match may have come from one of Prince’s great influences: Earth, Wind and Fire performing his gorgeous 1987 soul ballad “Adore” . Phillip Bailey’s still-soaring falsetto almost outmatched Prince’s on the song, and Verdine White’s powerful bass gave it a bottom that the original doesn’t possess. Bailey closed out the song with a sky-scraping falsetto solo that saw him holding the last note for around 30 seconds. Stunning.
Miguel, the performer who most physically resembles Prince, also indisputably won the evening’s award for Artist Trying Hardest to Channel Prince, taking the stage in a “Purple Rain”-inspired gauzey white getup — complete with lace gloves — and did an almost comically over-the-top display of elaborate hand and arm gestures. Unfortunately, he did not apply the same level of care to his mic control and was inaudible for much of “I Would Die 4U,” and had to do a second take.
Finally, after a long pause came the Revolution, who have been touring regularly over the past three years, with guitarist Wendy Melvoin and keyboardist Lisa Coleman handling lead vocals. Here, they were accompanied by Maya Rudoph and Gretchen Lieberum for a bounce through “Delirious,” before Wendy and Lisa took the lead on a towering version of “Mountains.”
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