The Rock the Garden audience went wild for The Revolution, Prince's backing band from the early '80s. Wendy Melvoin (guitar), Lisa Coleman (keys), Dr. Fink (keys), Bobby Z (drums), and Brownmark (bass) were unstoppable, opening with "Computer Blue" and storming through six other Purple Rain hits with vocal assists from Stokley of Mint Condition. They even played "Erotic City" with Bon Iver's Justin Vernon on lead vocals. "These songs belong to you. We're just the band," Melvoin says before the renowned opening chords of "Purple Rain."

Songs performed

Computer Blue
Take Me With U
Let's Work
1999
Kiss
When Doves Cry
Let's Go Crazy
I Would Die 4 U
Baby I'm a Star
Purple Rain

Tune in at 10 a.m. each day the week of August 7 to hear highlights from the main stage acts at Rock the Garden 2017.

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