Publication: Minneapolis Star Tribune [US]
Date: January 24, 1995
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Title: "Fans Flock To Paisley Park"
Reviewed By: Jim Walsh

Early Sunday morning at Paisley Park Studios, and the New Power Generation turned in a 70 minute set that was much looser, funkier and more rewarding than the benefit for Minneapolis Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton a week ago.

The Paisley doors opened at 1:30a.m. to about 500 hard-core (and frost bitten) fans, who were admitted to the studio free of charge. The band, san singer/dancer Mayte, took the stage at 3:10 and played until 4:20, accompanied by a full-fledged light show [like the wall sized patterns that slowly roll down the hall] and a bevy of dancers plucked from the audience.

High points included a scorching performance of the as-yet-unreleased hip-hop dance number "Now" (during which proclaimed, "Don't worry 'bout the name/It's too long to remember /I could tell you now, but we'd be here 'til next September" and, "The ride in the front is better when you're in the back/And that's a fact");

A wicked opening version of "Loose"; a sultry take on the gospel standard "Mary, Don't You Weep" (buoyed by a piano duet-jam between O(+> and keyboardist Mr. Hayes); and a scintillating [sic] reading of the unreleased dirty blues number "The Ride," during which lost himself in two lengthy hypnotizing, guitar solos.