The recent Small Club discussion got me thinking: Are there any good-quality aftershow boots circulating from the Revolution days? And whether there are boots of them or not, what are regarded as the best Revolution aftershows?

One of my favorites is "Burn It Up"!

24 August 1986 at New Morning Club in Paris:

1. I Can't Get Next To You Baby
2. Love or $
3. Red House
4. An Honest Man
5. Strange Relationship
6. Last Heart
7. Head
8. Anotherloverholenyohead
9. Soul Power
10. Controversy
11. A Love Bizarre
12. Jazz Jam
13. Do Me, Baby
14. 17 Days
15. Susannah's Blues

This isn't the greatest sounding boot (not at all), but the song choices and the performance itself is STELLAR!! This is either my favorite or second favorite version of Strange Relationship, especially how Last Heart is incorporated with it.

Anyone else agree?

^^^Thanks. That is an amazing set list.

<--Goes off searching...

alexnvrmnd777 said:

One of my favorites is "Burn It Up"!

24 August 1986 at New Morning Club in Paris:

1. I Can't Get Next To You Baby
2. Love or $
3. Red House
4. An Honest Man
5. Strange Relationship
6. Last Heart
7. Head
8. Anotherloverholenyohead
9. Soul Power
10. Controversy
11. A Love Bizarre
12. Jazz Jam
13. Do Me, Baby
14. 17 Days
15. Susannah's Blues

This isn't the greatest sounding boot (not at all), but the song choices and the performance itself is STELLAR!! This is either my favorite or second favorite version of Strange Relationship, especially how Last Heart is incorporated with it.

Anyone else agree?

like you said the sound quality is so so, performance and vibe most definatly right up there.

alexnvrmnd777 said:

One of my favorites is "Burn It Up"!

24 August 1986 at New Morning Club in Paris:

1. I Can't Get Next To You Baby
2. Love or $
3. Red House
4. An Honest Man
5. Strange Relationship
6. Last Heart
7. Head
8. Anotherloverholenyohead
9. Soul Power
10. Controversy
11. A Love Bizarre
12. Jazz Jam
13. Do Me, Baby
14. 17 Days
15. Susannah's Blues

This isn't the greatest sounding boot (not at all), but the song choices and the performance itself is STELLAR!! This is either my favorite or second favorite version of Strange Relationship, especially how Last Heart is incorporated with it.

Anyone else agree?

JonathanRico said:

alexnvrmnd777 said:

One of my favorites is "Burn It Up"!

24 August 1986 at New Morning Club in Paris:

1. I Can't Get Next To You Baby
2. Love or $
3. Red House
4. An Honest Man
5. Strange Relationship
6. Last Heart
7. Head
8. Anotherloverholenyohead
9. Soul Power
10. Controversy
11. A Love Bizarre
12. Jazz Jam
13. Do Me, Baby
14. 17 Days
15. Susannah's Blues

This isn't the greatest sounding boot (not at all), but the song choices and the performance itself is STELLAR!! This is either my favorite or second favorite version of Strange Relationship, especially how Last Heart is incorporated with it.

Anyone else agree?

alexnvrmnd777 said:

One of my favorites is "Burn It Up"!

24 August 1986 at New Morning Club in Paris:

1. I Can't Get Next To You Baby
2. Love or $
3. Red House
4. An Honest Man
5. Strange Relationship
6. Last Heart
7. Head
8. Anotherloverholenyohead
9. Soul Power
10. Controversy
11. A Love Bizarre
12. Jazz Jam
13. Do Me, Baby
14. 17 Days
15. Susannah's Blues

This isn't the greatest sounding boot (not at all), but the song choices and the performance itself is STELLAR!! This is either my favorite or second favorite version of Strange Relationship, especially how Last Heart is incorporated with it.

Anyone else agree?

Yep, totally agree with you. I've always hoped THIS show someday, somehow, re-surfaces in EX quality. Still waiting...!

alexnvrmnd777 said:

One of my favorites is "Burn It Up"!

24 August 1986 at New Morning Club in Paris:

1. I Can't Get Next To You Baby
2. Love or $
3. Red House
4. An Honest Man
5. Strange Relationship
6. Last Heart
7. Head
8. Anotherloverholenyohead
9. Soul Power
10. Controversy
11. A Love Bizarre
12. Jazz Jam
13. Do Me, Baby
14. 17 Days
15. Susannah's Blues

This isn't the greatest sounding boot (not at all), but the song choices and the performance itself is STELLAR!! This is either my favorite or second favorite version of Strange Relationship, especially how Last Heart is incorporated with it.

Anyone else agree?

Alexnvrmnd777, thank you for bringing this show up. I had been thinking about Revolution aftershows like Efan, and I did not know this existed until I read about it here.

If it was soundboard, I would rank it right next to the 2nd Club boot. I'm amazed.

I agree wholeheartedly about Strange Relationship. I also like the version that's on the Driving to Midnight Mess boot, but this version takes the cake.

AMAZING version of Head too.

I wish there was more of The Revolution like this.

The aftershows never really started till 1986. Two of the first aftershows played were in London. The Paris show on the 24th August was only his third aftershow.

Less than a month later, The Revolution played their last ever gig together in Japan, so Revolution aftershows are very rare, in fact I think that the Paris show is the only one in circulation.

[Edited 4/3/11 1:40am]

What show/aftershow was U Gotta Shake Something featured at?

boscho said:

alexnvrmnd777 said:

One of my favorites is "Burn It Up"!

24 August 1986 at New Morning Club in Paris:

1. I Can't Get Next To You Baby
2. Love or $
3. Red House
4. An Honest Man
5. Strange Relationship
6. Last Heart
7. Head
8. Anotherloverholenyohead
9. Soul Power
10. Controversy
11. A Love Bizarre
12. Jazz Jam
13. Do Me, Baby
14. 17 Days
15. Susannah's Blues

This isn't the greatest sounding boot (not at all), but the song choices and the performance itself is STELLAR!! This is either my favorite or second favorite version of Strange Relationship, especially how Last Heart is incorporated with it.

Anyone else agree?

Yep, totally agree with you. I've always hoped THIS show someday, somehow, re-surfaces in EX quality. Still waiting...!

I'm still amazed that after all of this time, a better copy hasn't come out yet! It doesn't HAVE to be soundboard, but at least EX quality.

As DigitalGardener pointed out, this is a very rare Revolution-involved aftershow. It'd be nice if someone would try to clean it up a bit and give it the Box Of Chocolates treatment!

Le New Morning, Paris,France - Aug 24th 1986

This instrumental was recorded live with The Revolution at a soundcheck in Paris on August 25th 1986 but was premiered the night before at Le New Morning club and, incidentally, is not a blues number. Prince's father, John L. Nelson (RIP), who joined the band onstage for a while at Le New Morning played some piano on this version.

*blue -Prince's words

starts out with a start sound of tuning instruments
and then you hear audience people more clearly women screaming
aaaahhhhhwwwww
"Prince is cute!"
music pics up
"Mico
Mico?!!
sings Micooo
music breaks
chearing
There he is right now
ahhhh do it
(intro)Mico Weaver
chearing
I thought he was going 2 be outside trying 2 talk 2 one of these French girls
laughter
Who's that man with the dark glasses on?
U look important
U look kinda important
Can u play something
I looked on that wall and saw his face
looked over on that wall and saw his face
chearing, bluesy music
Prince starts scatting a bit
B flat right quick
let me see what u got
music picks up
bass drums piano guitar
the band gets in2 a groove
piano soloing
wooooo
That's what I get 4 calling someone up on stage
horn into/Prince vocalizing:
Da da
da da
da da dah dah dah dah da
da da
da da
da da dah dah dah dah da

on the 1 yall
bass
big band song break close out
I don't know who U was, but u was bad


August 24. 1986
"Le New Morning " Paris
Guest-John L. Nelson
1.I Can't Get NextToYou Babe(Al Green)
2.Love Or Money
3.Red House
4.An Honest Man
5.Strange Relationship
6.Last Heart
7.Head
8.Anotherloverholenyohead
9.Soul Power inst (James Brown)
10 Controversy
11 Love Bizarre
12 Do Me Baby
13 17days
14 Piano Jam

alexnvrmnd777 said:

boscho said:

Yep, totally agree with you. I've always hoped THIS show someday, somehow, re-surfaces in EX quality. Still waiting...!

I'm still amazed that after all of this time, a better copy hasn't come out yet! It doesn't HAVE to be soundboard, but at least EX quality.

As DigitalGardener pointed out, this is a very rare Revolution-involved aftershow. It'd be nice if someone would try to clean it up a bit and give it the Box Of Chocolates treatment!

lol man u all are getting me upset lol

I started looking at all the music and what was happening in Paisley Park in 1985/86 and say 2 Prince Damn Damn Damn dude. With all the Dream Factory/Camille/Crystal Ball music + the Flesh recordings plus the side music and touring and videos Damn. We probably haven't even heard half of what was made during this period

OldFriends4Sale said:

alexnvrmnd777 said:

I'm still amazed that after all of this time, a better copy hasn't come out yet! It doesn't HAVE to be soundboard, but at least EX quality.

As DigitalGardener pointed out, this is a very rare Revolution-involved aftershow. It'd be nice if someone would try to clean it up a bit and give it the Box Of Chocolates treatment!

lol man u all are getting me upset lol

I started looking at all the music and what was happening in Paisley Park in 1985/86 and say 2 Prince Damn Damn Damn dude. With all the Dream Factory/Camille/Crystal Ball music + the Flesh recordings plus the side music and touring and videos Damn. We probably haven't even heard half of what was made during this period

We haven't even seen the tip of the iceberg regarding all of the stuff going on back then. From 1981 - 1987, Purple Land was ON FIRE, and I wish the internet was around then like it is now. But then again, we'd probably only be torturing ourselves because we'd learn of some project or show recording that would never see the light of day, and be just as frustrated! lol

alexnvrmnd777 said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

lol man u all are getting me upset lol

I started looking at all the music and what was happening in Paisley Park in 1985/86 and say 2 Prince Damn Damn Damn dude. With all the Dream Factory/Camille/Crystal Ball music + the Flesh recordings plus the side music and touring and videos Damn. We probably haven't even heard half of what was made during this period

We haven't even seen the tip of the iceberg regarding all of the stuff going on back then. From 1981 - 1987, Purple Land was ON FIRE, and I wish the internet was around then like it is now. But then again, we'd probably only be torturing ourselves because we'd learn of some project or show recording that would never see the light of day, and be just as frustrated! lol

lol I know that time period was just crazy It really picked up during the 1999-Purple Rain years and then Blew the hell up durng the Parde-Dream Factory sessions

thanks 2

NouveauDance

28 December 1985
Prince gets together with Eric Leeds, Sheila E. and Levi Seacer Jr. to jam at Sunset Sound.
The quartet recorded a highly spontaneous "Paisley Jam" session. Eric played saxophone, Sheila drums, Levi bass, while Prince alternated between guitar and piano. Eight instrumentals were committed to tape:


"Slaughterhouse"
"U Just Can't Stop"
"Run Amok"
"Mobile"
"Madrid"
"Breathless"
"High Colonic"
"12 Keys"


They were given titles simply to facilitate their identification. Accordingly "Madrid" was named so because it had a kind of Spanish feel, while "Mobile" (referring to Mobile, Alabama) was a bluesy piece. Similarly "12 Keys" featured mmany key changes (the song incorporates a portion of the melody of "The Question Of U"). Eric went into the studio the next day to record saxophone and flute over dubs on some of the "Paisley Jam" tracks.

30 December 1985
Fired up by the results of the "Paisley Jam", Prince is back in the Sunset Sound studio with Eric, Sheila and Levi. They recorded "U Gotta Shake Something", "Voodoo Who" and "Finest Whisky" during another highly relaxed session. By now, Prince was beginning to realise that the music they were creating was highly exciting and perhaps worthy of release.

5 January 1986
Lisa Coleman, Wendy Melvoin and her brother Jonathan, join the line-up of Prince, Eric, Sheila and Levi in the Sunset Sound studio for an exhausting seven-hour session, the so-called "Everybody's Jam". Six of the pieces hat were recorded were given titles:


"Groove in C Minor"
"Slow Groove in G Major"
"Groove in G Flat Minor"
"Junk Music"
"Up From Below"
"Y'all Want Some More?"


During this session, Prince played primarily drums, while Sheila and Jonathan played percussion, Lisa piano and Wendy guitar and bass.

22 January 1986
An album is assembled from the instrumental sessions held in late Dec. 1985 and early Jan. 1986. Around 20 minutes of the 45 minute "Junk Music" was going to make up side one of the LP, while "Up From Below", "Y'all Want Some More?" and "A Couple Of Miles" were planned for side two of the LP. No test pressing of The Flesh LP was ever made, however, and the album was shelved when Under The Cherry Moon and other activities demanded Prince's full attention.

// So the tracklist for the LP was sequenced:

Side A:
1. Junk Music

Side B:
2. Up From Below
3. Y'All Want Some More?
4. A Couple Of Miles [This was recorded as a tribute to Miles Davis in late December]

//

Featuring largely improvisional music, the Flesh sessions allowed Prince to stretch out musically and develop his musical vocabulary. The Flesh can be seen as a forerunner to Prince's later Madhouse project in more wanys than one.
Much like Madhouse, the musical focus of The Flesh was on instrumental music, basically funk jams with a distrinct jazz flavour added by Eric Leeds, who was given the opportunity to contribute more actively to Prince's music. And much like Madhouse the plan was ro release The Flesh album "anonymously" with few details about the participants and certainly no mention of Prince's involvement.

The Flesh instrumentals remain unreleased, although part of the melody for "Madrid" was later re-used by Eric for "Andorra" on his 1991 Times Squared album. Additionally, some 30 seconds of "Junk Music" made it into Under The Cherrymoon as background music (in the scene where Tricky and Christopher are arguing over what type of man Mary Sharon prefers).

Further Sunset Sound sessions in January included work on several tracks for Jill Jones' album. Before leaving for L.A. in late January, Prince taped 2 songs for Dream Factory, "Last Heart" and "It's A Wonderful Day".

alexnvrmnd777 said:

One of my favorites is "Burn It Up"!

24 August 1986 at New Morning Club in Paris:

1. I Can't Get Next To You Baby
2. Love or $
3. Red House
4. An Honest Man
5. Strange Relationship
6. Last Heart
7. Head
8. Anotherloverholenyohead
9. Soul Power
10. Controversy
11. A Love Bizarre
12. Jazz Jam
13. Do Me, Baby
14. 17 Days
15. Susannah's Blues

This isn't the greatest sounding boot (not at all), but the song choices and the performance itself is STELLAR!! This is either my favorite or second favorite version of Strange Relationship, especially how Last Heart is incorporated with it.

Anyone else agree?

Cool show! What was the lineup on this particular evening?

paulludvig said:

alexnvrmnd777 said:

One of my favorites is "Burn It Up"!

24 August 1986 at New Morning Club in Paris:

1. I Can't Get Next To You Baby
2. Love or $
3. Red House
4. An Honest Man
5. Strange Relationship
6. Last Heart
7. Head
8. Anotherloverholenyohead
9. Soul Power
10. Controversy
11. A Love Bizarre
12. Jazz Jam
13. Do Me, Baby
14. 17 Days
15. Susannah's Blues

This isn't the greatest sounding boot (not at all), but the song choices and the performance itself is STELLAR!! This is either my favorite or second favorite version of Strange Relationship, especially how Last Heart is incorporated with it.

Anyone else agree?

Cool show! What was the lineup on this particular evening?

Band lineup is listed here http://www.princevault.co...gust,_1986

TheDigitalGardener said:

paulludvig said:

Cool show! What was the lineup on this particular evening?

Band lineup is listed here http://www.princevault.co...gust,_1986

Thanks!

interesting stuff