How did you guys get yours? And how much did it set you back?

I never had the money till now (maybe depending on the price) but I haven't ever seen it in my stores I don't think.

Is it a box set? Maybe i've been looking in the wrong place.

most people got it as part of their npgmc subscription.
i think it was late 2003 or something. not sure anymore

it came with a free copy of the One Nite Alone piano cd
for the clubmembers.

the thing was also available in retail outlets but not
in all of them. but a recent amount of stores seemed 2
be carrying them. i still see it sometimes in stores I
go to.

they usually have it back behind the counter, on display
since the box is rectangular and kinda big to put among
the other regular cds.

NPGMC.com has it in their retail store for $ 50,- but it
only carries the 3 cd version WITHOUT the piano album.

However

The NPGMC.com also has it in their download store where
it will set you back $29.99 for the 3 live discs.

The Piano album is available for $ 9.99

However, the One Nite Alone piano album is not a part
of the package as such, in that the live albums stand
on their own and the piano album was just thrown into
the bargain for npgmc members at the end of the year
when they sent the boxes out.

Because the piano album had been sent out to people a
bit earlier in the year and lots of people never got
their copy so to make sure everyone had one, they did
the easiest thing, which was to just give the entire
club an ONA piano cd with their live boxsets.

IstenSzek said:

Thanks for the info. I wonder if i'll be able to still find it in stores.

Do you like it? Is it pretty good?

So does anyone know when the ONA tours took place? and what were they supposed to be celebrating? Is it just another Prince tour and didn't really have any material to promo and just a set of songs sorta like the nude tour?

Love2tha9s said:

The main focus of the tour was "The Rainbow Children" Lp. Which is
what it should have been called imo. He only played one song from
the One Nite Alone piano album, and even that was just a snippet.

For me personally, it was one of his best tours ever with some of
the most amazing and awsome performances I ever heard him give at
any stage in his career.

The European aftershows in particular were interstellarly cool in
that they were looooong and featured the heaviest guitarplaying
by Prince ever.

The concerts were very cool as well, although in my opinion these
live discs in the One Nite Alone live boxset don't really show it
that much. Prince intentionally recorded them to sounds more like
studiorecordings than live ones, with the audience barely audible
in some places.

Still, it's a good package, although it's kinda thin on absolutely
stellar performances, which is a shame since most of the concerts
were! I believe that the aftershow disc is a cut n paste job of a
couple of American aftershows. It's pretty cool but not nearly as
good as any of the European aftershows and features some weird and
rather dull choices of song imo.

Anywho, there's enough high quality, beautiful material on these 3
discs to make it worth while. A lot of people seemed to be in love
with it at the time of release although it is hardly talked about
on here anymore, I notice.

Personally, I listened to it perhaps 3 times since I got it more
than 2 years ago. I just don't like the sound, it sounds flat and
dull. But that's perhaps my own doing since I already had some of
the bootlegs from the tour and spoiled myself that way.

i got mine at borders for 59.99.so much better live!

i still saw some here in the stores....3 of them.

i like it!..nice pics as well. there's also a pic of the hohner on the back cover of the inside booklet.

Tracklisting:

Disc 1:

Rainbow Children
Muse 2 The Pharaoh
Xenophobia-MY FAVE TRACK
Extraordinary
Mellow
1+1+1 is 3
The Other Side Of The Pillow
Strange Relationship
When U Were Mine
Avalanche


Disc 2:

Family Name
Take Me With U
Raspberry Beret
Everlasting Now
One Nite Alone...
Adore
I Wanna Be Ur Lover
Do Me,Baby
Condition Of The Heart(interlude)
Diamonds And Pearls
The Beautiful Ones
Nothing Compares 2 U
Free
Starfish And Coffee
Sometimes It Snows In April
How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore
Anna Stesia


Disc 3:(the aftershow)-you might want to get this for the 3rd dics alone.

Joy In Repitition(OH MY GOD.THIS VERSION KICKS ASS! 33 SECOND GUITAR RIFF )
We Do This(featuring George Clinton)
Medley:Just friends (Sunny)/If You Want Me To Stay(Performed by Musiq & Prince & The NPG)
2 Nigs United 4 West Compton
Alphabet St.
Peach (extended jam..."what do i hear?.."soundin' good to my ear?
Dorothy Parker
Girls And Boys
Everlasting Now (vamp)


yes.the Raonbow Children sounds much better live to me.

As Avatarfunk said,

Disc 2:

One Nite Alone...
Adore
I Wanna Be Ur Lover
Do Me,Baby
Condition Of The Heart(interlude)
Diamonds And Pearls
The Beautiful Ones
Nothing Compares 2 U
Free
Starfish And Coffee
Sometimes It Snows In April

How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore
Anna Stesia


However, note that for example "Condition of the Heart" only lasts
0:25 seconds or something like that and doesn't even resemble that
song.

Those songs are all part of a rather nice piano medley so they all
segue into one another with some talking and joking by Prince with
most of the songs only lasting for a verse and a chorus.

The band comes back in for How Come You Don't Call Me at the end,
and Anna Stesia is a full band version, and a very good one.

one nite alone live. I got for £35 on Amazon.

mine has a different tracklisting

ONE NITE ALONE LIVE (SOUNDBOARD)


DISC 1:

RAINBOW CHILDREN (11:47)
MUSE 2 THE PHARAOH (4:49)
POP LIFE (3:53)
XENOPHOBIA (10:40)
EXTRAORDINARY (5:02)
MELLOW (4:28)
THE WORK (3:52)
1+1+1 IS 3 / LOVE ROLLERCOASTER / HOUSEQUAKE (12:05)
PUSH & PULL (5:31)
THE RIDE (7:16)

DISC 2:

THE QUESTION OF U / THE ONE / FALLIN / TAKE 5 (15:50)
THE BALLAD OF DOROTHY PARKER (5:48)
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PILLOW (4:40)
STROLLIN / U WANT ME (5:29)
STRANGE RELATIONSHIP (4:14)
BASS MEDLEY: BRICKHOUSE / SKINTIGHT / 777-9311 / HAIR (9:23)
PASS THE PEAS (2:36)
WHEN U WERE MINE (3:48)
BAMBI (3:33)
WHOLE LOTTA LOVE (5:46)
FAMILY NAME (6:10)
TAKE ME WITH U (2:59)
THE EVERLASTING NOW (6:36)

DISC 3:

PEACH (13:06)
ALPHABET STREET (2:53)
ALL THE CRITICS LOVE U... (7:18)
EMPTY ROOM (3:57)
JOY IN REPETITION (10:38)
DAYS OF WILD (10:35)
ANNA STESIA (10:17)

At first I also thought it sounded kinda dull but now..this is
the album I listen 2 most!!
Looove the piano medley

I got mine's at border's also. I love all the old hits redone or done solo on piano, priceless, as for the rest, I skipped over that part, can't say whether it's worth it or not.