some call it the Roadhouse Garden sessions while others have it labeled as the blue fishy sticker tape but my question is this..... for as hard as the band is practicing some of that material, did they ever even play the best sounding songs on the tour? 17 days, all day all night, erotic city are the main ones that come to mind as possible key songs which would have fit so well on that tour but I don't recall them played at the atlanta or syracuse shows. anybody know if they were played any where else? Boris perhaps...



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I think 17 Days was played at Long Beach,CA.My friend went..he told me so..

I think 17 Days was played maybe only twice on that tour. Once. before Let's Go Crazy(the usual opener)and once or twice during the middle.

Irresistible Bitch and Possessed were played a fair amount of times and I think Erotic City was played several times on non concert tour shows only during that period.

Of course When Doves Cry was played at all of the shows.

Early 1985 Take Me With You was added after Little Red Corvette.
17 Days, irresistible Bitch and Possessed were often included in the later part of the tour.

A few concerts towards the end of the tour the show started with full versions of 17 Days of Controversy behind the closed curtain before the show started off in the usual way.

http://home.quicknet.nl/q...ntour.html

I know the answer is probably no but did they ever play Roadhouse Garden on that tour or at all?

sitruk7 said:

I'm sure they played that at every single PR show.

PEZ said:

Nope

I thought that rehearsal was for a P's 1984 Birthday show at First Avenue and not the Purple Rain tour

Averett said:

If that was the case then they certainly didn't play what they rehearsed.

Averett said:

btw was that a on his birthday at first avenue?

sitruk7 said:

another nice song that hardly saw the light of day...

Averett said:

It was...

Neversin.

The June 7, 1984 birthday concert was at First Avenue in MPLS

Setlist:

17 Days
Roadhouse Garden
All Day All Night
Free
Noon Rendezvous
Erotic City
When Doves Cry
Happy Birthday
Irresistible Bitch
Possessed

PEZ said:

All the song titles you mentioned in your initial post were played that night...

Neversin.

PEZ said:

The track listing for my boot of the June 7th 1984 Birthday show at First Avenue is:

1) 17 Days
2) Our Destiny
3) Roadhouse Garden
4) Prince speaks
5) All Day, All Night
6) Free
7) Noon Rendezvous
8) Erotic City
9) Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)
10) When Doves Cry
11) Irresistible Bitch
12) Possessed

This pretty matches up with the rehearsal set that you are referencing.

Here are a couple of links regarding the birthday rehearsal releases that may help:

http://www.thedatabank.or...arsals.htm

http://www.thedatabank.or...rtying.htm

http://www.thedatabank.or...dhouse.htm

At some point Wendy cleared up the Our Destiny/Roadhouse Garden confusion and said, as far as she knew, the song only had one title: Roadhouse Garden

Jestyr said:

Our Destiny and Roadhouse Garden are two different songs. Our Destiny was orignially called "Love-Our Destiny". When did Wendy talk about that?



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engineer9 said:

earlier this year.....but prince could have blended two songs into one without her or the other bandmates knowledge...heck, only wendy and lisa knew that power fantastic was two songs into one...so who knows.

Averett said:

any video of this b-day show ever seen or just audio?

PEJ said:

AFAIK not more than a 10 minute sample of the video is circulating (pro shot)...

Neversin.

PEZ said:

What?

FunkMistress said:

there's a boot video with a sticker sorta like this on it that some of the fans got....