I'm by no means the hardest of the hardcore but I do enjoy a nice rarity from time to time. Among those who know, what would you say are ten recordings, studio or live, that any fan would find irresistible? They should be great quality and have something musically special about them.

Of the handful I have, my very favorites include:

City Lights set of soundboards from 1982-83

Small Club 87

Birthday show 6-7-84

LA 3-29-04

Dream Factory album

Miles Davis sessions

Fanx!

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As stated on the banner at the top of the Prince forum:

Fanx! - luv4u

Dance Benefit Show 1983 First Avenue

I hate this, why must it only be "talk about". Prince himself said, he didn't mind fans

sharing music in a non-profit fashion...So what gives exactly?!

ColonizedMinds said:

robertgeorgeakabob said:

jstar69 said:

robertgeorgeakabob said:

Not a soundboard but New Morning 87 is essential. You'll never hear any of his various bands play with more feel and groove.

Completely agree - surely this must exist in soundboard quality- all time favorite show!!!!

That would be my holy grail. I keep hoping for some miraculous computer program that can convert bad sound to good with one click too.

What's the general consenus on what the best ONA main show is? Do any soundboards exist apart from the obvious example of the official release? I've got Sabotage's One Nite Alone In Paris and that's really good, but I'd love to hear an even better performance in perfect quality. Still, not hopeful on being able to procure any of this stuff given that the usual channels have gone over the past few months .

Marrk said:

RaspBerryGirlFriend said:

Do any soundboards exist apart from the obvious example of the official release?

"One Nite Alone In Copenhagen" on the Sabotage label is a very nice soundboard of the aftershow at Club Vega on October 26th. IIRC there are a handful of versions of this show, but the Sab one does the job nicely.

There are also various bits of ONA Soundboard recordings from soundchecks/shows etc available on "Continental Drift," also on the Sabotage label.

Sadly no soundboard recordings circulate of a complete main show.

RaspBerryGirlFriend said:

What's the general consenus on what the best ONA main show is? Do any soundboards exist apart from the obvious example of the official release? I've got Sabotage's One Nite Alone In Paris and that's really good, but I'd love to hear an even better performance in perfect quality. Still, not hopeful on being able to procure any of this stuff given that the usual channels have gone over the past few months .

I thought the ONA Chicago boot was the most enjoyable. I really liked that tour when it was in the earlier stages. It changed a lot as time went on and he took it overseas.

I would say other essentials not yet mentioned are R U Experienced, and Montreux '09.

robertgeorgeakabob said:

Marrk said:

That would be my holy grail. I keep hoping for some miraculous computer program that can convert bad sound to good with one click too.

Either that or we take Prince hostage until he releases his copy from the Vault. You up for it? A soundboard quality version of 'Wasn't My Faith' is worth doing some serious jail time for! Man, that performance is mindblowing!

The whole show is great. Just had 'Sex Machine' on. It was one of the very first bootlegs i ever got, it still blows me away, despite the sound quality. I think i would cry tears of joy if a soundboard leaked.

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"so..teach me some French"

[Edited 3/23/14 8:04am]

anyone have a list of ALL soundboards existing?

Here you go luvsexy4all, found this on a previous bootleg thread, thanks to xenon for this:

xenon said:

Found it, I don't know if this list is 100% correct, I think it contains some partial shows and there's definitely a few radio performances on the list but here you go for anyone who's interested.

6th Mar 1980, Atlanta
22nd Mar 1981, New York
4th Jun 1981, Paris
21st Nov 1981, Washington DC
9th Dec 1981, Houston
12th Dec 1981, Columbia
4th Feb 1982, Saginaw
6th Feb 1982, Bloomington
25th Feb 1982, Monroe
28th Feb 1982, New Orleans
7th Mar 1982, Bloomington
30th Nov 1982, Detroit
17th Dec 1982, Little Rock
29th Dec 1982, Houston
1st Feb 1983, Lakeland
10th Feb 1983, Providence
14th Feb 1983, Washington DC
8th Mar 1983, Norfolk
15th Mar 1983, Bloomington
2nd Apr 1983, Fresno
8th Apr 1983, Detroit
3rd Aug 1983, First Ave. Minn.
7th June 1984, First Ave. Minn.
15th Oct 1984, Met Cntr. Minn.
25th Oct 1984, 7th Str Ent. Minn.
4th Jan 1985, Atlanta
10th Mar 1985, Long Beach
30th Mar 1985, Syracuse
7th Apr 1985, Miami
3rd Mar 1986, First Ave. Minn.
3rd Apr 1986, Boston
23rd May 1986, San Fran
7th Jun 1986, Detroit
22nd Aug 1986, Stockholm
25th Aug 1986, Paris
31st Aug 1986, Hamburg
9th Sep 1986, Yokohama
21st Feb 1987, Paisley Park
21st Mar 1987, First Ave. Minn.
2nd Apr 1987, Paisley Park
?? Apr 1987, Birmingham
17th Jun 1987, Paris
22nd Jun 1987, Utrecht
18th Nov 1987, Paisley Park
31st Dec 1987, Paisley Park
8th Apr 1988, Paisley Park
19th Aug 1988, The Hague
31st Aug 1988, Hamburg
9th Sep 1988, Dortmund
1st Feb 1989, Sendai
7th Feb 1989, Nagoya
10th Feb 1989, Fukuoko
12th Feb 1989, Osaka (soundcheck)
12th Feb 1989, Osaka (show)
2nd Jun 1990, Rotterdam
2nd Jul 1990, Madrid
29th July 1990, La Coruna
31st Aug 1990, Tokyo
18th Jan 1991, Rio de Janiro
19th Jul 1991, Metrodome, Minn.
15th Jun 1992, London
24th Jun 1992, London
?? Nov/Dec 1992, Paisley Park
26th Feb 1993, L.A.
11th Mar 1993, Atlanta
25th March 1993, New York
26th March 1993, New York
6th Apr 1993, Chicago
12th Apr 1993, San Fran
17th Apr 1993, L.A.
2nd Aug 1993, Sheffield
28th Aug 1993, Munich
3rd Sep 1993, Luneburg
7th Sep 1993, London
8th Sep 1993, London
13th Feb 1994, Paisley Park
5th May 1994, Paris
8th Jun 1994, Miami
9th Jun 1994, Miami
10th Jun 1994, Miami
5th April 1995, London
7th Jun 1995, Miami
22nd Oct 1995, Paisley Park
28th Oct 1995, Paisley Park
12th Nov 1996, Paisley Park
21st Nov 1996, Chicago
28th Dec 1996, Paisley Park
11th Jan 1997, New York
10th Aug 1997, Houston
27th Aug 1998, London
28th Aug 1998, London
28th Dec 1998, Ghent
23rd Oct 1999, Paisley Park
17th/18th Dec 1999, Paisley Park
15th July 2000, Paisley Park
8th Dec 2000, San Jose
28th April 2001, Oakland
11th Mar 2002, Indianapolis
6th Apr 2002, Lakeland
26th Jun 2002, Paisley Park
25th Oct 2002, Copenhagen
29th Mar 2004, L.A.

^^ That list is tentative at best, with just a quick glace I can say that an awful lot of these are taken from video recordings and not true soundboard.

[Edited 3/24/14 5:33am]

TheDigitalGardener said:

Oh yeah, that's true, should've twigged upon seeing the New York Dirty Mind show listed. Still, it's a start I suppose. Mind attempt to go over the list at some point and label their origins and whatnot. Incidentally, what would be preferable sound quality wise, a video or an FM source?

RaspBerryGirlFriend said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

^^ That list is tentative at best, with just a quick glace I can say that an awful lot of these are taken from video recordings and not true soundboard.

Incidentally, what would be preferable sound quality wise, a video or an FM source?

I don't really know the answer to that. I guess at least some of it depends on how they were recorded and shit. Dunno!

didnt mention the new jersey 82 or msg 86

I'm in the minority, I think but I love DJ Foefur's revamps (everything from 1999 to Batman + Dream Factory.)

Then again, I'm a sucker for speculative albums or reconstructions. I need The Dawn 4.1 but I can't find it anywhere. 'Tis an elusive beast.

Some of my favs

Met Centre - 14 Mar 1982

Beginnings of Rain, Dance benefit show 3 Aug 1983

Birthday show 6 - 7 - 84

Birthday show 6 - 7 - 85

The Dream Factory, July 18 1986 pressing (2cds)

Small Club

Livesexy

New Black Funk (Japan Feb 1989)

Sydney May 12 2012 (Welcome to Australia tour)

Perfect Unreleased Prince volumes 1 and 2

[Edited 3/29/14 4:16am]

RaspBerryGirlFriend said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

^^ That list is tentative at best, with just a quick glace I can say that an awful lot of these are taken from video recordings and not true soundboard.

Might attempt to go over the list at some point and label their origins and whatnot.

First of all, Blimey!! How did you find that!!! Well done

I must have posted that YEARS ago.

But most importantly that list was given to me many moons ago as a printout by another orger and if I remember correctly it did give loads of source/origin details. (I was just too lazy to type them out)

Unfortunately I have no idea who sent it to me originally and although I must still have it (I never throw anything Prince related away! ) I wouldn't have a clue where to look.

On a plus note though someone on here has it, you just need to find them.

xenon said:

I think I just did a search for "soundboards" or "Soundboard list" or something along those lines in an attempt to answer luvsexy4all's query, and just copied and pasted the first list I saw.

Shame about that list you have, would have been helpful, but I imagine some knowledgable person might see this thread and help us out. That's what I'm hoping for anyway, tbh my self-imposed task of attempting to find out the origins of all those might be a little too much for me, fun as it is to play internet detective.

My problem was with shows where a video recording did exist, Paris Dirty Mind for example, but none of the sources I was using indicated explicitly whether the bootlegs took their audio from the video. Would it be logical to assume that to be the case, or is it possible the actual soundboard surfaced independantly of the video?

My other question is whether any other soundboards exist of more recent shows than the ones detailed in the list. I seem to recall reading that the well of soundboards had pretty much dried up over the past few years, but I may be misremembering or thinking of studio leaks. All in all, I think someone with more experience in these matters than me is required.