Listening to my library tonight and just blown away by the following live masterpieces not available n other format....

* People Without
* the War
* Just My Imagination

Please add to the list.

Days of Wild

Prince & the band

ludwig said:

Just listened to the studio version of Days of Wild. Numerous AMAZING live versions of this song including the Xenophobia Celebration (which I attended) but there is a studio recording.

hales said:

But the studio version isn't officially available, only on bootlegs.

Xenophobia

Possessed? Actually I don't remember if there's a studio version available...

^ Apart from boots, of course.

"U Want Me" from the Live at the Aladdin Las Vegas DVD.

Electric Intercourse

toe said:

YES!!!!!

That is some relentless shit. If I ever (rarely these days) have a DJ gig - I like to warm it up with Xenophobia Live.

NpgSoldier said:

There are two studio version neither of which received official release. He did perform it live during the Purple Rain Tour albeit briefly.

NpgSoldier said:

^ Yes, I Know; thanks anyway!

I agree with Just My Imagination, but if we're talking remakes he took Creep and pwned it.

For his own work, The War or Mutiny.

ludwig said:

There is a studio version of "Days of Wild", and it's out there.

ernestsewell said:

See my second post in this thread.

ludwig said:

I've argued it before on this board, but a studio version of Days was on limited copies of The Gold Experience cassette. I always assumed it was because of the record companies trying to milk the last money they could out of tapes before they vanished, so they put extra cassette only tracks on many releases. Hell if I know where it is now, but I have the cassette with it on there, non-boot, but without it I have no proof whatsoever.

Just My Imagination...
Electric Intercourse..
The ladder - rehearsal on piano...BBC omnibus.. what a fantastic doc...

ariesdragon said:

kudos for mentioning this, absolutely fantastic!

Our destiny
Roadhouse garden

ludwig said:

And which official release has People Without or Just My Imagination ?

methodcal said:

Only Prince fans think that.

methodcal said:

IT WAS NOT.

Sheesh, the simple fact that NO ONE EVER has managed to dig one of these mythical
tapes should be enough to kill this crap, but nooooo.

a big second on "Our Destiny/Roadhouse Garden"

It boggles my mind that, rehearsals aside, he only ever played this once. I've had my share of ups and downs with P since 1993, but if I knew for sure he was going to play OD/RG at an upcoming show, I'd start schlepping The Watchtower around just to make sure I was there for it.

Also, if they had released this as a 12" B-side, can you say club smash? At that point in the 80s, this could have wrecked dancefloors around the world. What could have been, I suppose...