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Thread started 05/20/17 5:59am

homesquid

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Help! All Those Damn Radio Broadcasts Released On CD

There's so many of them. Do any have great sound quality? I bought the "Nude Live 1990" and it sounded like crap to me. Are there any as good as the "Small Club" gig we all know about.

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Reply #1 posted 05/20/17 8:53am

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IDK how many of those have appeared since Prince passed but you need to understand that those records, despite some of them apparently benefitting from certain legal loopholes in European Union/Bristish laws, are basically bootlegs made from either:

- Radio broadcasts

- TV broadcasts

- Officially released home videos

- And even merely leaked video tapes in some cases (Miami 94 for one, which was never broadcast anywhere)

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All those shows have been circulating for decades and the quality is only as good as their sources.

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While the shows that have been released on LD in the late 80's/early 90's (Syracuse, Lovesexy) may benefit from a decent audio quality, similar to the official release, the rest is made from 20+ years old personal home recordings of either radio broadcasts on audio cassettes (one of the Spanish Nude Tour shows) or TV broadcasts on VHS (the other Spanish Nude Tour show, Parade 86, Tokyo 90). None of those shows come from an original master tape, and therefore all are second gen, possibly even more than second gen, recordings.

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Bottom line is: the Prince estate isn't getting a penny from those records, neither does any label that was righteously involved with P's career in his lifetime, and all those shows are widely available for free on the internet with a similar quality (since from similar sources). Why anyone would want to spend money on those beats me. Just don't. Download bootlegs 4 free and if you wanna spend some dough on records, spend it on legit releases so artists get a share.

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Reply #2 posted 05/21/17 4:57am

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Databank, laying down some facts here.
Keep your headphones on.
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