What was your first Prince bootleg purchase?

Being a fan from the 80s, rather predictably, my first bootleg purchase was the Black Album (piss-poor quality and had been copied so that it played at too fast a speed).

But what about other Orgers? Was your first bootleg a live recording or a collection of studio out-takes? And how did you react when you first saw the CD/LP/Tape and looked at the track-listing on the back?
And did you know what you were buying? Were you happy to accept that the product might not have the best sound quality? And even though the sound quality wasn't perfect, did it bother you anyway?

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[This message was edited Sat Nov 23 15:21:13 PST 2002 by Haystack]

No one buys bootlegs here at the Org.

They're "illegal"...

$59.99

'nuff said.

chookalana said:

True dat. I'd rather scrub my groin raw with steel wool than listen to a bootleg.

uglybrowneyes said:

this is a dance cd,black album vinyl,white album cd,charade vinyl

The Black Album was given 2 me so that doesn't count-so the first officially bought boot was called Possessed and had that song plus Purple Music...and the rest was history...Now I got everything...

A single cd I bought my freshman year in college, Crystal Ball, had Cookie Jar and Grand Progession. I paid $35 for it and thought i was the shizite. Oh, young and dumb

The Park Vol I. I was at a record/Cd show at a hotel. I had no idea what it was and I was trippin' cuz it was a 3 CD set and I was like, how come I didn't know anything about this? I think I paid $75. It was so professionally packaged and all I was perplexed and excited. I still have it and am not sorry I bought it. It made me curious and I started discovering the whole bootleg industry and I was awestruck by those Uptown issues that showed just how many there were on Prince alone!

chookalana said:

Oh really?! So you´re the only one who got the "official" dreamfactory-album, that could be seen on your favorite album list.. How did you get that one huh?

I used 2 recieve cassette tapes from this guy in Engalnd, but he mysteriously disappeared, and he has lost his e mail account. The last one he sent me was the High album

We Were very good friends

The first time I saw them was in Dinkytown MPLS. I was just kind of like "Why have I never seen these pictures???" Then I looked on the back, and was just astounded at the names of songs, and booklets, price. Almost thought it was fake!

But otherwise the first one i bought was "Charade" last year for $20 on a vinyl. Cool cardboard cover. lol!

The album, had fake names for the songs on it, I guess covering up for anyone else who suspected it of being a boot (even though it had Prince on the cover)

Here was the tracklisting:

Name of album: Hair Apparent (lol!)
all songs by: Phillip Merchant!!(LOL,LOL,LOL!!!)

Parade Wendy's Little Girl [little girl wendy...]
Try A New Position [new position]
Wonderful [i wonder u]
Can I taste Your Moon? [under the chrry moon, lol!!!]
Careful What You Say! [others here with us, lol!!]
Slice Of Life [life can b so nice]
Aries in The Snow [sometimes it snows in april]
New pals at a Bargain [old friend 4 sale,lOL!LOL!!!]
Strawberry Creams [In All My Dreams]
men & Women [Girls & Boys]
Hate or be Poor [Love Or Money take(?), LOL!LOL!]
Hell [heaven]


Boy that was the most fucked up listing ever!

The first boot I got had no album title just songs on cassette.

Keep in mind this was 1987-88. Those songs were:

Computer Blue 10n9
Computer Blue rehearsal
Extralovable
Let's Go Crazy
Purple Music
G-spot
Baby, You're A Trip
Silly Guitar (instrumental)
Sex Shooter (vanity)
Good God (Sleazy version)
Around the World In A Day (1st extended version)

The second was the Black Album in 1988

Prince

'nuff said.

shunchan said:

Umm, no it is a joke. You know, ?

The Beautiful Experience.

It's "soundboard quality" of Prince playing such great grooves as The Ride, Shhh!! (that put Tevin Campbell to shame), None of Yo Business (Salt n Pepa). Damn, what were the other tracks? I really need to clean my jukeboxes.

Ciao.

Chocolate Box on vinyl. Really, really horrible by today's boot standards.

Mine was a lousy cassette copy of the 'Charade' LP which, I recall, was independently pressed by one Chris Dawson here in the UK. Eileen sent me the tape by post. Back then, it felt like all my christmasses had come all at once when it arrived through my letter box!!!

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The African American Album...I mean the Black album...



calm down!

rdhull said:

Now you brought up 'The Black Album', did you ever hear a version of it played by a band of Prince devotees who aimed to make it sound as close to the original as possible (they did reasonably well up until the second half of 'Cindy C'), presumably because the existing bootleg copies were near-inaudible. The titles of all the songs were also in code i.e. 'Bob George' was titled 'Sir Robert', lol!

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rdhull said:

Mine was a cd with the Black Album + something called The Crystall Ball, with 5 or 6 songs like Wonderful Ass, Witness For The Prosecution, Girl Of My Dreams and some more, but with poor sound quality.

hilton02895 said:

I think there was I Believe In U and What I´d Say

giotto said:

Yes! I heard somenthing like that in a German boot of the Black Album on vinyl. I have even heard one of those songs in the radio, and the announcer said it was Prince!

giotto said:

I vaguely remeber it being mentioned on amp years ago but haven't heard it myself--would love to have had/have it nevertheless... Sir Robert

Paris Affair, a good bootleg to start a bootleg collection.

Started late, but ahead of the gang.

It was Fantasia.. a wonderful start.. great music, crystal clear jams..

One of the original Black Album boots on LP, back in the day.

my first boot was Charade, needless 2 say many more followed

H2O was my first bootleg, which I guess is as good a place to start as anywhere...

The Jewel Box 3 CD set. (Eventually CD 2 was stolen and I've never replaced it.)

It included the original version of OF4S and Other here with us.

Some of the tracks were soundboard others were very hard to hear.

However, worth every penny.

some piece of crap called RUDE BOY...man, was this awful quality...i soon made up for it though with Jewel Box and Small Club.

The Gold Experience - complete with Days Of Wild.

chookalana said:

But the first Bootleg I bought was Charade...It's a classic. Everyone must have it. Even though you can find better quality of these songs on other boots...

'nuff said.

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