The Waterboys -Purple Rain Live At Prince's First Avenue

One evening while Prince was somewhere in the world covering the Waterboy's Whole of the Moon, The Waterboys were covering Purple Rain.
Here's to repaying the compliment...

The Band:
Vocs/Gtr -Mike Scott
Drums -Ralph Salmins
Fiddle -Steve Wickham
Bass -David Hood
Gtr -Zach Ernst
Hammond B3/Keys/Vocs -Bro Paul Brown

Film Editing -Brother Paul Brown

[tomahern]

Everything Mike Scott touches turns to gold.

[dalfog]

The violin instead of lead guitar is pure musical genius. Never knew a violin could sound better than an electric guitar. Absolutely smashed it. 👏

[philipnunn]

I am 55 years old and no matter how many versions of this song I hear it always makes me cry

[danieldoubler]

This is one of the best covers of all time

[Chris-xno]

Thank you Prince!❤
Thank you Waterboys!

[estrategacorporativo]

Purple Rain is a timeless and immortal anthem. You have to have courage to cover this magnum opus. For these geniuses I have been a follower of The Waterboys for more than 30 years.

[janellegard]

HOLY S*&T....NEVER HEARD THIS ...BUT FIGURES THESE TWO MASTERS OF THE MUSIC UNIVERSE HAD RESPECT FOR EACH OTHER....LOVE THEM BOTH!! 🎉🥰

[clashever]

05:33 Playing Prince's most famous lick on a fiddle is simply brilliant, especially when it's played so well.

[classactsexpertiseandinspi]

This is a sincere and passionate performance of respect, sorrow ( Soulful Irish lament element), joy and gratitude that Prince would have understood and loved.

[ViN-mw]

The greatest cover! That fiddle gives Prince's guitar playing a run for his money.

[mikeallen]

incredible version...hard to do justice to such a song, but The Waterboys DID it! An amazing version. Prince must be smiling and nodding his head in approval ! :)

[vodlem]

Mike & The Waterboys did a version 40 years ago, back when Prince was the biggest artist in the world. On 'The Live Adventures Of The Waterboys'. This is still so great!

[sartainja]

You can tell how great a band is by how well they can do a cover of someone’s song.

[donkey]

Absolutely brilliant performance. Violinist is mind blowing.

[James-In-Exile]

This line-up of The Waterboys is incomparable – absolutely stacked with virtuoso talent from Steve Wickham on fiddle through to the amazing Bro Paul Brown on keyboards, David Hood on bass and the list goes on. Simply extraordinary, and a sublime tribute to the genius of Prince.

[niedeutschermeister]

quite sure, prince is smiling and dancing up on his cloud, while he listens to this fantastic tribute. great work.

[LOrealHardly]

I'm sure Prince would have loved this.. .

[deborahcarey]

That was just so amazing. Prince would have been proud. I hope.

[graciemac]

I try to steer away from bags that try to play But the Waterboys NAILED The emotion is all there, well done!!!!
🥰🇺🇲❤️🇨🇮☘️

[shirleyannex]

Absolutely outstanding, the violinist is just a genius with such enthusiasm, my mind is blown !!!