A little after midnight, more than three hours after Prince had first taken the stage at the LA Forum, after the house lights had been turned back on for the second time and most of the audience were already on the freeway headed home, about three thousand people stayed in their seats, refusing to call it a night. Throats ravaged from hooting for four encores in a row, they banged on their chairs and stomped their feet until, unbelievably, the lights went back out as the band re-took the stage for the fifth time and burst into a jaw-dropping version of Billy Cobham’s funk-metal-fusion standard “Stratus.” more ›