after doing some investigating it is fairly newish, but ive never seen it anywhere before...even when i got outta town and check other CD stores ive never seen it
94 East with Prince - If You Feel Like Dancing 2 CD set....most of it is from One Man Jam, but its still a compilation ive never seen...to a lesser extent a 12 " of When Doves Cry

I just added something to my collection:

I was doing a summer internship at a newspaper in Suburban Illinois that ended last month. At my going away party one of the staff photographers gave my two framed photos of Prince from the Super Bowl that he had personally taken at the press conference and at halftime. (They had sent reporters and photogs down to Miami to cover the event since the Bears were there).

I now have on my work desk at my new newspaper job in California and one at home. This was so amazing, I almost cried.

My four prince tattoos.....i like them anyway....
I was at the o2 last thursday (13th sept) I saw only one other person with a prince tattoo. I caused quite a stir with mine.....

I just have a lot of 80's Prince, The Time, Sheila E., Apples 6 and Vanity, Jesse Johnson vinyl too, plus a lot of 12" vinyl. I think my mom has a Purple Rain tour t-shirt somewhere too.
[Edited 9/19/07 14:31pm]

I had a few of the "limited edition" releases (Batman tin, gold foil , shaped Sexy MF record) but the coolest was the purple paisley-shaped Diamonds & Pearls.

I don't have any of that stuff anymore. All I have are the CDs and VHS/DVDs.

Hmmm, I suppose my shop display of Grafitti Bridge (I've had "Prince" turn up at a few parties at home thanks to the cardboard cutout I have of him).

As for vinyl, got lots of Japanese 7" imports, Mountains 10" white vinyl, Purple Rain picture disc album, among others! Still trying to justify to my wife me buying the last thing I want in my collection, Tales from the Rain!

My signed copy of Lovesexy by Prince, Sheila E and Cat

I've also got about six copies of a fanzine called Controversy (I think, been a while since i got em out) from around the Diamonds & Pearls era before it went out of print.

I also have every tour program for all UK/Europe tours since Parade in 86.
I am looking to complete my collection with a Purple Rain and Musicology tour program ( if anyone has any for sale please orgnote me)

3 unused tickets for the cancelled shows at Blenheim Palace in UK circa 92
and many other wonderfull things.
[Edited 9/25/07 14:05pm]

I used to have a footlocker full of everything "Prince" that I owned; tourbooks, music sheets, albums, tapes, CDs, VHS, DVD, magazines, newspaper clippings, etc.

I had (for myself) a moment of clarity and either sold or gave away most of that stuff. All I have now really is the music and the video stuff. No paper-related items . . .

I do appreciate those who still collect this stuff though! It just wasn't for me anymore.

[Edited 9/24/07 14:56pm]

not sure how rare it is,but I found this while going thru my cassettes.

My Purple Rain purple album.

A vinyl entitled Crucial with Miles Davis. Also, my concert programs from the Purple Rain, Lovesexy,Emancipation, and Musicology tours.

I HAVE A RARE FLAG WITH THE SYMBOL AND EMANCIPATION OVER IT, LIKE THE COVER OF THE EMACIPATION ALBUM BUT A FLAG THAT A STICK CAN GO INTO AND THAN IT CAN BE A FLAG POLE! DEFINITELY THE COOLEST THING, BUT I GOT TOO MUCH MORE, SOME I NEED TO DO SOMETHING WITH!

a framed signed picture of the man himself - priceless.

Graycap23 said:

OMG!!! How/where did you get all that stuff?? *jealous*

SquirrelMeat said:

OMFG that's brilliant.

Imagine how pissed off he was when he realised. I bet it's the same one he was photographed in all that year. He'll read this and be thinking, "Grrrr, that's where my bloody jacket went."

Fantastic story.


*look at my lovely jacket - yummy isn't it*


*Give it back! I'll set Jerome on you.*

i have a signed ticket to a lovesexy show, (wembley '88), an A1 size sheet of original design ideas for all the bandmembers logos for the lovesexy tour, drawn by steve parke and sent to paisley park for comments, and it has princes handwritten comments by the sides of the logos.

but 4 me the best is a screencap photo of prince's documentary footage when i and the 'controversy' crew met him at wembley conference centre one beautiful afternoon...memories u c, cannot have a price put on them and cannot b bought!

DarkSideOfBeauty said:

Your brother went to the future to see Prince?

I have every officially released picture disc bar one (Rico!) plus most of the promo releases on coloured vinyl (again missing a couple). One the more unusual items i still have is the Greek pressing of the Lovesexy LP - its not hugely different to the UK version, its just my big brother bought it back from his summer holidays for me

plumbcrazy said:

Do you have a copy of 'The Rainbow Children' on vinyl?
I want one of those, would be hella cool
Too bad I'd have to pay over 550 bucks for a copy

I have Rave and Rainbow Children on vinyl.
The Undertaker Cd
A whole huge plastic storage container full of mags, comics and Prince calendars
Prince Purple Rain motorcycle cardboard stand up, a Promo NPS poster from Target
Lots of official and bootleg vinyl,& CD's
A miniature toy gold symbol guitar, a symbol tamborine and a boy Bratz doll that looks just like Prince, and all the bits and pieces I picked up this year in Minneywood when I was there on 7-7-07.Oh, and one of my most prized posessions a long black trench coat with a head to toe painting of Prince from the D&P era on the back done by Ricco. Thanks man!

I had to sell most of my stuff to pay bills etc. I sold the following:
Complete set of 12" picture discs
Complete set of shaped picture discs
Gold Nigga 16 track cd
Lots of other rare vinyl including Let's Work 12"
Tamboracca
Loads of magazines, fanzines, concert programmes
Enormous Lovesexy Italian tour poster (now owned by Bananacologne)

The only stuff that remains is:
Grafitti Bridge, limited edition framed print signed by Steve Parke
Glam Slam tee, Limited Edition "Gun Mic" print. I think they only made about 200
Glam Slam Zippo lighter
Various books of matches from Glam Slam
Signed pic of The NPG (91 version), framed with rare tix for Blenhein, Paris & London aftershow. Along with a Love God guitar pick.
Still got a few vinyl singles plus magazines. Nothing mega rare though.
Memories from dozens of gigs 1988-present... Priceless!

FuNkeNsteiN said:

wow...where did you see it for that much?

1999 album on vinyl

I don't own much;

- Unopened vinyl copy of Purple Rain (w/ poster inside)
- ticket stubs to Lovesexy concert
- 12" vinyl 2-disc DJ promo for Ingrid Chavez's "Elephant Box"
- promo poster from Graffiti Bridge with (lifesize?) image of Prince on one side and the album art on the other
- T-shirt from the "Act I" concert
- 45 (single) for " Wish U Heaven" in the clear plastic sleeve
- miscellaneous 12" vinyl singles

tony23k said:

The only place I've actually seen it, GEMM.Com.
There might be copies floating around on ebay but I haven't checked it out.

Oh, here's someone selling it for 385$
http://www1.gemm.com/item...767494087/

Looks like the one I saw there just a couple of days has been sold, it was going for over 550$

BillieSparks said:

That's not exactly very rare

FuNkeNsteiN said:

That's amazing,even at that price.
Actually almost scary,because I would pay the $385

I managed to find a copy at a record show,2 years ago for $75.
Still sealed.
Even then, I thought that was kind of steep.
This one goes in my rare category.

(*only 130,000 copies were made.)

FuNkeNsteiN said:

No i dont have a copy but yes its pretty rare. I dont look for regular stuff on vinyl anymore as you can get it on cd and the vinyl takes up 2 much space! That said I'm in the process of slimming down my prince 'regular' vinyl collection so watch this space

Mine would be my Act II concert programme signed by Mr Hayes, Tommy Barberella, Sonny T and Mayte at the opening of his NPG shop in Camden ,London 1994 and Purple Rain on purple vinyl.