Why are so many people who weren't there, or who did not get the few facts, raving about the 2nd show?

file sharing is wrong, Prince is right in his fight against copyright infringement and bootleggers because he should be compensated for his work!

nothing more than a thief, stealing his work if I were talking about listening to those shows, right now!

The sound quality on the first show is stellar, anyone know the source?

The show it's self is prbably the most enjoyable I've heard in years.

So many rarely played tracks and new tracks.

Highlights are so many but I'm just loving Empty Room and All this Love.

I just he could have fit in a couple more Lotusflow3r tracks into both shows.

Spanish Castle Magic could have been replaced with Boom and Purple Rain with Dreamer. And I'm dying to hear Wall Of Berlin.

Anyway show one for me is a 10/10. Truly fantastic.

You need a therapist.

The sound quality on the first show is stellar, anyone know the source?

The show it's self is prbably the most enjoyable I've heard in years.

So many rarely played tracks and new tracks.

Highlights are so many but I'm just loving Empty Room and All this Love.

Anyway show one for me is a 10/10. Truly fantastic.

udo said:

Perhaps they are just listening to the shows and deciding for themselves. Just a thought.

As someone mentioned earlier, it's from an FM broadcast. Where or which one, I don't know.

udo said:

are you the pot or the kettle?

udo said:

Perhaps they are just listening to the shows and deciding for themselves. Just a thought.

xenon said:

The fact that the result sounds enjoyable has not everything to do with what REALLY went on. Can't you (multiple!) discern these things?
Maybe also a bit of taste is involved.
So listening does not do anything here. It's about the approach that mr P chose, the choices he made resulting in the way he performed the 2nd show.
Check the songs, check the titles, check the lyrics, check the subjects.

alexnvrmnd777 said:

I was wondering about the good sound quality - 1st show I was standing in the front third to the left, 2cond show front third in the middle - both location the bass was distorted.

2scond show after two songs I walked back where the mixing guy is - sound was better but still had distorted bass.

But on the recordings I cannot hear any distortion - anyone else standing in the middle of the room and heard distorted bass (or am I too picky)?

I was 2/3 to the back and while the bass sound was the weak point in the mix, it wasn't distorted. Renato and Prince sounded best, John was a bit muddy, so was Rhonda. 2nd show was much louder then the 1st show.

Copied from the internets:

^ This version of show #1 is not soundboard - sources say it was taped from the balcony, thus reducing crowd noise, with high quality equipment.The 'announcer' was overdubbed to stop the plain wrong selling to fans of this release before the master is reworked and released (FREE) in Flac.
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Have you actually heard these shows?

You wanna pick apart his setlist and pick apart why he chose to play certain songs and try to glean his motivation playing some songs twice, knock yourself out.

Getting fed up with the whining about the setlists.These shows were NOT billed as two seperate, DIFFERENT shows, It was your own risk this would happen.

Stop whining.

Heard both shows today and they sound great.

The version he's playing of PR these years is far superior to ANY other IMHO.

If there is one song you might complain about I think it is Nothing Compares 2 U, D-U-L-L

ElCapitan said:

I was there.


That's a sign of the apathetic nature that I mentioned before.
Why is it that people just shrug and listen when they do take their time to dig into People magazine? (Or Bild, or Prive in other countries, you know what I mean)