I’ll see your Prince and raise you a Jimi Hendrix. I had to go back and make sure this was accurate before I posted but back in ‘67 the Monkees took Jimi Hendrix on tour as their opening act. The pre-teen white girls who were there to see the Monkees basically booed Jimi offstage by shouting “we want Davy”, etc. He lasted for 7 shows and that was that.
http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/hendrix.asp
The crowd I was in was there to see the Stones, though I'm not certain that's why they booed Prince. There were many other acts that were all well received. The way I remember it, it had more to do with the song he was singing at the time.
See post 8.
I won a bar trivia contest with that nugget.
I won a pitcher of beer.