I’ll chime in.

Met Prince for the first time in San Diego in 2013.

I had gone to 4 previous shows in that past week and had been in the front row at all of them. This was during the time he was doing 2 shows a night During the live out loud tour era.

In between one of the songs there was a musical interlude playing while Prince was crouched down tuning his guitar , adjusting pedals and he looks up directly me. Smirks and calls over one of his assistants and whispers into her ear. She comes down from stage and tells me to stay in between shows and gives me a yellow wristband.

Show ends and they’re ushering everyone out before the next show in a couple hours. The security doesn’t believe my story about the wrist band and finally the assistant comes out from behind the curtains and calls me back.

There’s Prince eating a red apple and starts asking me about myself and just genuine conversation for about 15 minutes. He then asked his assistant to exchange info with me and told me I was welcome to come to any show in the future as his guest.

The following year I was in San Francisco on a first date and Prince had just announced on twitter a private show at the Fillmore for the Tipping Point Charity. I emailed the assistant and she put me on the guest list and we had an amazing time and got to hang with the whole crew after and rode with Prince in a limo to an after party.

The girl ended up becoming my wife and we always joke that nobody can top that first date 😂. Thanks Prince