Prince played this on the ONA Tour in 2002 in London and i had no idea what it was until half way thru it. what i want to know is, is this performance of E.R. the one on C-Note?

I believe it is, yes.

I wish he had played that song here when he performed in San Diego You lucky duck

nope, it was played in the C in C-Note: Copenhagen...

This version was recorded in Copenhagen? I thought it was recorded
on the asian leg of the tour. Can't remember what city. Tokyo??

dennis said:

Copenhagen
Nagoya
Osaka
Tokyo
Empty Room

That's C-NOTE.....

IstenSzek said:

Actually, I don't know whether it is known where it was recorded.....it was not in the Copenhagen-recording of C-NOTE.....

2 me the version of Empty Room on CNOTE sounds like its from a soundcheck. There is little crowd noise so i would think its a soundcheck.

MashedPotatoKid said:

sure it was a soundcheck, but nowhere it says that it was in Copenhagen.

There's different versions of Empty Room. Theres this 1 version where hes just on piano at frist. kewl!

According to Uptown's The Vault book, the live version of Empty Room released as the E on C-NOTE WAS recorded at the Copenhagen soundcheck, October 25th 2002, the same soundcheck as 'Copenhagen' in C-NOTE was recorded.

There are of course other unofficial versions floating around.

"'Empty Room' was orignianlly recorded by Prince in the Washington Avenue warehouse on August 4th 1985 after a row with his then-girlfriend Susannah Melvoin. Several Revolution members participated in the recording. Prince interrupted a party Bobby Z. Rivkin was throwing a few months after he had gotten married. "The night before my huge party, I had a party in my mother's party room at her apartment complex. Prince came to the party. He was having some kind of fight with Susannah and he asked if we could rehearse a song with him. He said we could bring the party over to the warehouse. We recorded the song called 'Empty Room' that I think was about Susannah." According to Suasan Rogers, "It angered a lot of people that he had us work so he could basically sing a song that was making up to Susannah because we knew it wasn't going to go on any album. It was just a song that he could leave a cassette of on her doorstep and say, 'I love you, goodbye.'"

The song was re-recorded by Prince on his own during the I'll Do Anything sessions in 1992 and the original 1985 version was revamped in 1994 (a video was shot).

metalorange said:

that's a very sweet story....
U must have written a lot of songs 4 Mayte

metalorange said:

Does anyone know if the 1994 recording of empty room is available anywhere, it's my fave tune of all thyme

jasontate said:

to quote Gooey:

take a look here:
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www.bootlegsfornewbies.org
www.freeaccesstothevault.com

abierman said:

V funnnny,

I wasn't fishing for the leg on your booty, just info from anyone who new if it was on a P download album


damn, i'm so ugly!!!!