The Ultimate Live Experience was performed during a chaotic period in Prince's life and career. He had much new music written but then record company
Warner Brothers refused to release it at the speed that Prince wished, leading to public feuding. Meanwhile, Prince had already released the album
Come with no promotion and was trying to get
The Gold Experience released as well. During this time, he made many configurations of the album and this tour presents songs that he likely planned for the album (though not all would make the cut), as well as very rarely played cuts from the Prince period, with the exception of "
7". While the previous year's Ultimate Live Experience tour presented
Gold Experience prior to its release, the long overdue album had finally hit shelves in late 1995 and this tour was now a "proper" promotion. However, by this time, Prince had been playing some of the material for nearly two years and many of the songs were shortened to brief medleys. Conversely, Prince had formerly said he would not play "Prince" material anymore, but that idea was apparently tossed to the wind with this tour due to contractual agreements made in Japan forcing him to include his older material to the setlist. Several fan-favorites such as "The Cross", "
Do Me, Baby", and "
Sexy MF" were regulars, along with the
Gold material. Also, Prince started performing a cover of
Joan Osborne's "
One of Us", which he would include on his next album,
Emancipation. ==Set lists==