Possessed on this is just bloody mental.

jaawwnn said:

Actually having said that the harmonizing and backing vocals on Roadhouse Garden itself are pretty good

whooops

Marrk said:

Possessed on this is just bloody mental.

Yes. All of these tracks are spectacular. I am really digging Borown Mark's heavy, forward bass. Very funky. I just listened to Possessed from the 85 Purple Rain tour and its not nearly as prevalent.

wow, what an unexpected treat - - this is truly awesome

FINALLY!

theonly4ever said:

andykeen said:

O...M....G......17 Days & Something in the water

oh yeah...these two are just

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Agreed I cant get enough of both those songs And erotic city !!!!

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Regarding the ongoing Our Destiny/Roadhouse Garden thang-

I refer to them as OD/RG because that's the only way I've ever heard them. I remember vaguely some article/interview where Lisa said that it was always one song called "Roadhouse Garden," but as has been pointed out in this thread, there's just too much mystery herein. They feel like two separate songs, but the way they share the same tempo and are played as if they are bipartite sections of a single work, it seems likely that they share some sort of musical DNA.

I think this is a case of a Prince mystery (or Princetery, if you prefer) that could have been settled if the songs had ever surfaced in any context other than the '84 birthday show. As it is, their one time only status just makes them all the more intriguing.

I've always dug OD/RG because, even in the oogiest audience recording days, it sounded like a club jam. Not a funk experience, but a real 4/4 dance club record. I could have seen it is the A- or B-side of a smokin' hot 12". Imagine, if for just a moment, there's an alternate universe where somewhere on the Purple Rain tour, before ATWIAD, Prince dropped a 12" with a finished OD/RG on one side and the full Revolution take on The Dance Electric on the other. Swoon.

Anyway, I just want to luxuriate in this recording. Imagine how many other soundboard gems might be lurking out there...

ladylumps said:

theonly4ever said:

oh yeah...these two are just

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Agreed I cant get enough of both those songs And erotic city !!!!

[Edited 5/11/11 18:42pm]

AND all day , all night!!!!!!!!!!!!

shockalaka!

Some people complain that you almost don't hear the audience on the soundboard recording and that's it's detrimental to the overall atmosphere of the show. There's a simple solution: a "matrix" recording made from the soundboard *and* audience recordings. I'm pretty sure somebody would find the time to work on that. IIRC, there's a soundboard/audience "matrix" version of the Vega 2002 show made by Ladybird.

olb99 said:

Some people complain that you almost don't hear the audience on the soundboard recording and that's it's detrimental to the overall atmosphere of the show.

people complain about the stupidest shit you can hear the audience just fine. the people complaining have heard this show for years in one way, in horrible quality and it's a shock to their system that this is something different and better. they really miss that one guy running his mouth?

^ simple solution: make some noise yourself while listening.

No need for a matrix.

errant said:

olb99 said:

Some people complain that you almost don't hear the audience on the soundboard recording and that's it's detrimental to the overall atmosphere of the show. There's a simple solution: a "matrix" recording made from the soundboard *and* audience recordings. I'm pretty sure somebody would find the time to work on that. IIRC, there's a soundboard/audience "matrix" version of the Vega 2002 show made by Ladybird.

I totally understand what you're saying here. Soundboard boots are great but they often
give you the feeling nobody was attending the show. Between each tune it's like people are bored to death.

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I'll never understand people.

When we have an audience recording, everybody says 'I wish we had this soundboard'.

But then when we have a pristine soundboard some long for crowd noise.

What do you want to hear, the music or the crowd?

olb99 said:

Some people complain that you almost don't hear the audience on the soundboard recording and that's it's detrimental to the overall atmosphere of the show. There's a simple solution: a "matrix" recording made from the soundboard *and* audience recordings. I'm pretty sure somebody would find the time to work on that. IIRC, there's a soundboard/audience "matrix" version of the Vega 2002 show made by Ladybird.

I was going to suggest a Matrix mix, then I thought about, remembered how much I dislike Matrix mixes, and refrained from suggesting it....

Thanks!

vitriol said:

I'll never understand people.

When we have an audience recording, everybody says 'I wish we had this soundboard'.

But then when we have a pristine soundboard some long for crowd noise.

What do you want to hear, the music or the crowd?

Both, I guess.

Personally, I think "From The Soundboard" is perfect as it is, but I can understand those who don't.

vitriol said:

I'll never understand people.

When we have an audience recording, everybody says 'I wish we had this soundboard'.

But then when we have a pristine soundboard some long for crowd noise.

What do you want to hear, the music or the crowd?

Same with outtakes, you hear people say

"I like the muddy bootleg version then the clear version"

i guess the bad / muddyness brings back some nostalgia

vitriol said:

I'll never understand people.

When we have an audience recording, everybody says 'I wish we had this soundboard'.

But then when we have a pristine soundboard some long for crowd noise.

What do you want to hear, the music or the crowd?

Where is the queue of people wanting crowd noise!?

This is amazing...I gave up ever hearing a full, crisp version of Roadhouse garden, but here it is.

And leave it to Prince.

Just a couple weeks before releasing what would turn out to be the album that would make him a household name, and riding the wave of the success of recent hits like 1999, Little Red Corvette and Delirious, he performs an amazing set of deep cuts and unreleased material.

Incredible. This is why I loved those late night gigs at Paisley Park in the 90s. You never, ever knew what kind of setlist he would come up with.

ohYeeeeeah said:

olb99 said:

Some people complain that you almost don't hear the audience on the soundboard recording and that's it's detrimental to the overall atmosphere of the show. There's a simple solution: a "matrix" recording made from the soundboard *and* audience recordings. I'm pretty sure somebody would find the time to work on that. IIRC, there's a soundboard/audience "matrix" version of the Vega 2002 show made by Ladybird.

I totally understand what you're saying here. Soundboard boots are great but they often
give you the feeling nobody was attending the show. Between each tune it's like people are bored to death.

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"All Day, All Night" makes me wanna do something primal....damn that bass is STANK.

I want to go to a birthday party. ... This sounds like it's amazing!

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PAPAROBBIE said:

"All Day, All Night" makes me wanna do something primal....damn that bass is STANK.

It really is. That coupled with the keyboard sounds. He really had a knack for making thick/stank "bass" sounds by playing a rumbling beat along with those muttering, low synth/organ sounds.

Spinlight said:

PAPAROBBIE said:

"All Day, All Night" makes me wanna do something primal....damn that bass is STANK.

It really is. That coupled with the keyboard sounds. He really had a knack for making thick/stank "bass" sounds by playing a rumbling beat along with those muttering, low synth/organ sounds.

paisleypark4 said:

Spinlight said:

It really is. That coupled with the keyboard sounds. He really had a knack for making thick/stank "bass" sounds by playing a rumbling beat along with those muttering, low synth/organ sounds.

Yeah especially on 17 Days ..you can really hear it there. Very emotional

Exactly.

Incidentally, 17 Days is an example of why I really love Prince's percussion choices. He used to be so inventive, really stretching the instrument's soundscape out.

Spinlight said:

paisleypark4 said:

Yeah especially on 17 Days ..you can really hear it there. Very emotional

Exactly.

Incidentally, 17 Days is an example of why I really love Prince's percussion choices. He used to be so inventive, really stretching the instrument's soundscape out.

Yeah if Im not misaken alot of the bass is played in G, but with the effects of the synthesizers playing with it...it just takes it to a whole other level I don't expect him to do that now, his creation of the Minneapolis Sound was epic enough....we will never have another funk revolution like that...we can only re-create it

Spinlight said:

Jestyr said:

^ This. Thank you! For years now.

For years you've been wrong?

Apparently, Wendy Melvoin and myself have been wrong all these years!

Just listened to it again for the second time.

This "release" is living proof that When Doves Cry is far too underplayed in Prince's "so many hits so little time" period.

Raspberry beret every year. But not Doves apart form a sample? Criminal.

SquirrelMeat said:

Just listened to it again for the second time.

This "release" is living proof that When Doves Cry is far too underplayed in Prince's "so many hits so little time" period.

Raspberry beret every year. But not Doves apart form a sample? Criminal.

eh, I dunno. I've rarely been a fan of the live versions of it post-PR tour. I really love the version here. the album version is impossible to do live, so it's revamped and it's funky and building to something all the way through. it doesn't really come off as well since this period as he mutates it into arrangements that accomodate the multitude of musicians and background singers that happen to be in that day's line-up.

theonly4ever said:

ladylumps said:

Agreed I cant get enough of both those songs And erotic city !!!!

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AND all day , all night!!!!!!!!!!!!

shockalaka!

OOh Yeah! that too All Day , All Night you can be my baby make you feel alright !!!!!