squirrelgrease said:

You still love me right?

small club, the work, 4 those of u on valium, the 83 first ave show that was pre-rain

Have I mentioned I could have been at the 4 Those Of U On Valium show, but had to work? My wife went.

Make Love Not War

sweething said:

Is that on torrent sites?

squirrelgrease said:

download...

sweething said:

Could you repeat that? I'm not sure I heard it right...

I have the Revelations 2.1 DVD and The Work, but I'm much more into the live boots (especially those from the last 8 years), so I never bothered to get more updated sets. Those pretty much cover the outtakes and demos, though.

Anyway, these are some of my must-have live boots from throughout his career...


City Lights - My first boot. Everyone knows this soundboard set.

Dirty Mind New York - Remaster of the 1981 show from the City Lights set.

The Homecoming - 1999 Tour soundboard including Vanity 6 and The Time opening sets.

Purple Rush Volumes - Encompasses everything from the Purple Rain era.

Birthday Parade - The classic Detroit Hit & Run show.

Miles 2 Nowhere - New Year's Eve show with Miles Davis.

Sign O' The Times Live - Nice set featuring soundboards from the era.

Take The W Train - Funky Lovesexy aftershow.

Thieves In The Temple - Diamonds & Pearls Tour soundboard.

Shoreline '97 - Mainly for "Soul Sacrifice" with Santana.

Xenophobia Vol. I & II - Excellent recordings from Celebration 2002.

My Band's Tight - ONA aftershow soundboard/audience matrix mix.

Melbourne Funk Invasion - For the sole reason that it includes the funkiest version of "All The Critics" that I've ever heard.

Footsteps 2 Fillmore - Pre-Musicology Tour shows, excellent recordings and performances.

London/Indigo aftershows - More varied and inspired than the main shows. The real must-have is the August 28th trio aftershow from Eye Records.

Coachella - Includes my favorite performance of "Little Red Corvette".

C3L.A.bration 2009 - The Conga Room show is another stunning rock-oriented trio show, this time with Michael B. and Sonny T.

Montreux '09 - Highlights for me are "In A Large Room With No Light", "Spanish Castle Magic", and "Little Red Corvette". Both shows are pure class.

Monaco - I had to include this for "Dreamer" alone.


Also, Sabotage's Sound & Vision sets collect all the TV appearances and some other odds and ends.

Finally, 4DaFunk's Playtime is a collection of live performances of unreleased songs for which a studio version isn't circulating or doesn't exist.


I hope I wasn't supposed to name just one boot. I can't do that.

ernestsewell said:

Going to have to dig out the Work now... I designed the cover for volume 9 many, many years ago

Vendetta1 said:

Check your pulse!

psychodelicide said:

Well, those people suck!

MartyMcFly said:

a good, solid case for the defence, well done.

I'll go with Small Club, Work it ( but it feels a bit like cheating) and Camille.

MartyMcFly said:

All these posts and no mention of "R U Experienced?" WTF!? Maybe I'm blind and I missed it.

Vendetta1 said:

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I don't own any (OK, "The Undertaker" video, but does that count?). Great topic and something I'm interested in.

as many as they can find

purplepolitician said:

One can NEVER have too many bootlegs, this is true.

psychodelicide said:

purplepolitician said:

I have the top 20 titles as featured on SmallClub.Org (http://www.smallclub.org/) minus City Lights Stockholm '86 and you can't beat them to be fair.

Aside from what's already been listed including the recent shows in Monaco and France, 'Driving To Midnight Mess' is quite good as far as live stuff is concerned. It's a combination of the Freiheit and London aftershow gigs from '88. The London gig is particularly impressive but is unfortunately incomplete. It does however include the best cover of 'Just My Imagination' in my opinion. The ONA shows are also of an exceptional quality both in terms of sound clarity and performance. The Chicago, Balitimore and Paris shows spring to mind.

If you're after rehearsals, the 1999 Tour Rehearsal boot is pretty good although the set list is nothing special. It does contain an awesome work out of 'DMSR' and 'Lady Cab Driver'.

The birthday show and the rehearsal for it (widely circulated on a boot called Neon Rendezvous from '84 has also recently been given another going over and is now available. I made a thread about it I think. The sound quality has been improved and is thus an essential find. It includes the never before performed, 'Our Destiny' and 'Roadhouse Garden' plus other intense and thrilling performances of '17 Days', 'Erotic City' and 'Neon Rendezvous' dedicated to Sheila E.

There are way too many 'essentials,' mine were The Jewel Box 1 & 2 and Small Club...

Syracuse & the World

DJ Foefur's stuff is pretty incredible. I like Parade the best, I listen to it in my car and it's like having the album wrapped around me.

^^ Foefur's stuff is AWESOME!

Another great bootleg is Conga Room. I'm listening to it now, and this is just too funky.

HobbesLeCute said:

His Purple Rain Expanded is the only version of the album I listen to.

For real GET YOUR HANDS ON ANY AND EVERY FREAKING LOVESEXY AFTER SHOW U CAN !!

OMG Lovesexy aftershow - OakLand is off the fucking chain!!
They were not playing around that nite - SHOUT OUT TO BONI BOYER
lovely statments from her family & friends on this site

http://www.discomusic.com..._0_11_0_C/

also Lovesexy - Iowa, Massachusetts & Aftershow!!
LA

Does anybody know "The Jam"?

It's an 86 studio recording of Prince and Wendy and Lisa. They jam a lot on it, hence the title and Prince tears his guitar to pieces.

How about that Dirty mind era boot with "Billy's sunglasses" and "Vibrator" on it? Awesome.

Haven't listened to those (any boots) in ages but these are great!

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Bloody Hell! Where do I start! I attempted to download Purple Rush last year but I had to abandon it as all the files were mixed up & it was a fucking purple mess!

So this is my list of boots to get thus far:The Revelations,The Work,Small Club,i-vault,The Sign O The Times & Lovesexy rehearsals,Purple Rush,The Work EE,Work It 2.0,Yellow,The Dawn,For Those Of You On Valium.
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