Mine was a very clean crisp version of the Black Album on vinyl in '88. Not knowing anything about bootlegs back then I thought it was the real deal because I heard a few slipped out.

My first boot leg(I don't count the black album)was chocolate box. This is the funniest bootleg, because the Italian bootleggers had the nerve to credit themselves as co producers and song writers. They also titled the songs and the name of the album based on what they thought they heard. So we can funk became we can fall, data bank became pretty face(how did they hear pretty face instead of data bank? LOL.) and the album title is from a line taken out of the Prince version of the song all day all night. In that song Prince calls himself the chocolate fox,but the bootleggers thought they heard "chocolate box".

My next were

Icecream castles - with the Prince version of the dance electric (way longer then Andre's album version) Prince should have kept it for himself, instead of replacing it with the stupid America on ATWIAD

Jewel box or royal jewel box - This had prince singing the Family tracks and alot of other unreleased songs

"Jack U Off":
full concert from the Controversy Tour,
recorded live in New Orleans (25-02-1982)

GREAT concert with a smashing live performance
of 'Annie Christian'!!!


What's Your Favorite Bootleg?

VinoDaMusica said:

Oh, was this a BOOT??
I bought a copy at a record store many years ago
at that time some boots were sold in record stores in Germany (also the famous small club gig and DNA loung SF '93)

"Jack U Off" was the only place I could hear the unreleased track "The Second Coming", which is played back at the very beginning of this concert.

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Believe it or not, the Arsenio Hall bootleg. I'm embarassed to say. lol. But my next trip I picked up The Black Album and Small Club!

Small Club.