Purple Reign @ Talking Stick Resort

Location Info

Map

Talking Stick Resort

9800 E. Indian Bend Road
Scottsdale, AZ 85256

Category: Hotels/Resorts

Region: South Scottsdale

1 user reviews	Write A Review
Save to foursquare	0

Details

Purple Reign is scheduled to perform on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, January 6 through 8, at Talking Stick Resort in Scottsdale.

Related Content

• Five Songs To Ring In the New Year
  December 28, 2011
• White Rabbits, Gull, and Other Successful Animal Rock Bands
  March 30, 2012
• Morris Day and the Time @ Celebrity Theatre
  August 25, 2011
• Rich Berra, What Are You Listening To?
  January 20, 2012
• Purple Reign at Talking Stick Resort Last Night
  January 9, 2011

More About

• Prince (Musician)
• Jason Tenner
• Paul Shaffer
• Television
• Talk Shows

Like this Story?

Sign up for the Music Newsletter: Keep your thumb on the local music scene with music features, additional online music listings and show picks. We'll also send special ticket offers and music promotions available only to our Music Newsletter subscribers.

Privacy Policy Cancel Continue

If you missed these exquisite Prince and the Revolution impersonators when they swung through town a year ago, well, here's your chance to party like it's 2010. Led by singer-guitarist/Prince doppleganger Jason Tenner, the Reign has shot to the top of America's tribute-band food chain, scoring a gig on Late Night with David Letterman (bandleader/effete sidekick dude Paul Shaffer called them "fabulous") and selling out casinos and mid-size venues almost at will (both their Friday and Saturday shows at Casino Arizona sold out last January). Though talented from top to bottom, the band's bread and butter is clearly Tenner, whose shamelessly sexualized neck slides and limber stage acrobatics (not to mention his Controversy-era pompadour and stiletto boots) uncannily recall the heyday of the artist formerly known as the Artist Formerly Known as Prince. It's an obsessively choreographed spectacle of tribute mimicry that rises to the level of true pop art. Yes, yes, we know — tribute bands are generally odious and best avoided. But these guys aren't your everyday poseurs. In fact, they're world-class poseurs.