I have downloaded 37 Bootleg Concert and 5 Studio Recordings.....I would certainly tell him and hopefully just before his bodyguards whoop my ass I would point out that he is a victim of his own ignorance

The amount of revenue prince is losing purely on Live recordings alone would be phenomenal, think about it, how many people here would have bought a 2 CD Tour Set ??
How many of us would buy Lovesexy / Purple Rain / Sign O the Times live recordings (CD's not DVDS)?? I copied the tracks from the RAVE DVD and burnt it to CD, I do not know if that is totally illegal as I do own the DVD - Probably get 10 years now !!

Then there are the Studio Outtakes, unreleased stuff etc etc.....

Prince really could do with thinking about that !! Best way to beat a bootlegger is give him nothing to boot !!

CandaceS said:

hell, his Princes right hand man of web design etc Sam was a well known boot collector

I would say yes. I own 201 albums that you did not publicly release. But I never paid a dime for one. It was all though trades.

He probably doesnt have what is out there either--the vault my ass. That load up they did of Strange Relationship live from 1987 was no doubt from Sams stash and not some Prince personal tapes.


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Yeah.... why not? it is not as if he could do anything about it...

All I know is that I will kill anyone who takes my PRINCE 1983 BENEFIT AT FIRST AVENUE or my PRINCE 1981 DIRTY MIND TOUR RITZ NEW YORK.


m

I'd say no, because I don't.

I only own about half his studio albumes

yes,,,but i wouldn't give them to him if he ask me to.

In an indirect way, I have told him that I own bootlegs.

At the ONA show at Hammersmith in 2002, I was interviewed by Prince's cameraman. I had to answer his questions while looking directly into the camera. Amongst other things, I was asked whether I agreed with people owning bootlegs. I replied that I was sure I'd read that Prince had once said how he had wanted everything that James Brown ever brought out. As a Prince fan, I wanted to own everything I could of Prince, and, while I knew that bootlegging was, understandably, a big issue for him, I just wanted to hear the music. Bootlegs were a way of doing that. If an offical release then came out, I would still buy it.

The following night, I had a front row seat. My friend kept saying how Prince was looking at me, and then later he invited me on stage, so I do believe he saw the interview. My comments obviously didn't offend him. He understands why we crave bootlegs.


Max

I would say "Unfortunately, yes....I would prefer these shows to be released officially, with good sound quality...but you know how record companies are..."

Igo2DaMax said:

- Exactly!

"Fuck yeah! And thanks for not releasing them legally... I would've had to put a FORTUNE in your pockets over the years!"

I saw P at a club in my city once after a concert, I was wondering what he would do if he heard some of his bootleg shit playing, he would probably have his bodyguards take it like they tried to take our camera

a half truth... "I've heard bootlegs at a friend's." his music is his bread and butter, and the way they came down on small retailers and websites (about bootlegs), it would be ill advised to tell him you have tons of bootlegs, he might get them confiscated!

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