Someone please give me a list of the 20 Prince bootlegs for both studio and live stuff that you would recommend. I'm hearing a lot of talk about the July 7, 1984 show. I only want to know about the high quality stuff that sounds good. I'm not trying to solicit anyone for bootlegs, so please don't lock this thread. I just want a quick guide because I've been out fo the loop on the bootlegs for a while.

I think you will get a totally different response from individual orgers.

June 7, 1984 is definitely THE bootleg to have,

Small Club is the obvious second one, but

NEON RENDEZVOUS is one of my favorites as well, the long version of Noon Rendezvous is killer.

Le New Morning 1987 is great....just to hear that "Was It My Face?" ( "What Did I Do?") song.

Bataclan ONA tour is great.

Rotterdam Nighttown ( ONA tour) is another must-have.

First Avenue 1987 (warm up for the SOTT tour, also known as For Those Of You On Valium)

Of course all those The Work bootlegs and their follow ups.

Etc etc etc

Box Of Chocolates.

SOTT Tour Rehearsals Vol 1. (4DF version)

Lovesexy Tour Rehearsals Vol 1.

Small club/Trojan Horse.

Nagoya '89.

ONA Paris.

Whole Lotta Love 4 Paris.

Nudity-Nude Tour Rehearsals.

Playtime.

Purple Rain Tour Finale.

1999 Revisited.

Noon Rendevouz.

Paris '87

30 Years Of Unreleased Funk, Vol 1-3.

Work It 2.0

The Ultimate Beautiful Experience.

Xenophobia Vol 1-2.

Parade Era Rehearsals.

Open Sessions.

Madhouse Rehearsals.

Fine Line Cafe.

And on and on and on.................

donnyenglish said:

Someone please give me a list of the 20 Prince bootlegs for both studio and live stuff that you would recommend. I'm hearing a lot of talk about the July 7, 1984 show. I only want to know about the high quality stuff that sounds good. I'm not trying to solicit anyone for bootlegs, so please don't lock this thread. I just want a quick guide because I've been out fo the loop on the bootlegs for a while.

You could do a lot worse than have a look at this site too http://main.thedigitalgarden.org/

It's the most up to date site regarding unofficial recordings.

TheDigitalGardener said:

Box Of Chocolates.

SOTT Tour Rehearsals Vol 1. (4DF version)

Lovesexy Tour Rehearsals Vol 1.

Small club/Trojan Horse.

Nagoya '89.

ONA Paris.

Whole Lotta Love 4 Paris.

Nudity-Nude Tour Rehearsals.

Playtime.

Purple Rain Tour Finale.

1999 Revisited.

Noon Rendevouz.

Paris '87

30 Years Of Unreleased Funk, Vol 1-3.

Work It 2.0

The Ultimate Beautiful Experience.

Xenophobia Vol 1-2.

Parade Era Rehearsals.

Open Sessions.

Madhouse Rehearsals.

Fine Line Cafe.

And on and on and on.................

You don't include "From The Soundboard: 1984 Birthday Show"?

Can I ask why?

the shows i've been to in the last 4yrs, just 4 sentimentals & memories & stuff like that. to me they're the best

I think we are about to see the best video-boot release EVER in a few days, probably even better then the infamous August 3rd 1983 show and 4 Those Of You on Valium.

2nd NSJ show by UCI

eelco said:

I think we are about to see the best video-boot release EVER in a few days,

It's already outthere. (in DVD9 format)

mblevels said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

Box Of Chocolates.

SOTT Tour Rehearsals Vol 1. (4DF version)

Lovesexy Tour Rehearsals Vol 1.

Small club/Trojan Horse.

Nagoya '89.

ONA Paris.

Whole Lotta Love 4 Paris.

Nudity-Nude Tour Rehearsals.

Playtime.

Purple Rain Tour Finale.

1999 Revisited.

Noon Rendevouz.

Paris '87

30 Years Of Unreleased Funk, Vol 1-3.

Work It 2.0

The Ultimate Beautiful Experience.

Xenophobia Vol 1-2.

Parade Era Rehearsals.

Open Sessions.

Madhouse Rehearsals.

Fine Line Cafe.

And on and on and on.................

You don't include "From The Soundboard: 1984 Birthday Show"?

Can I ask why?

I did not include it for any particular reason, I love it.

I just forgot that's all, there are quite a few bootlegs out there.

vc40 said:

eelco said:

I think we are about to see the best video-boot release EVER in a few days,

It's already outthere. (in DVD9 format)

ok, that must have happened today then, found it, thanks

The recording quality isn't the best out there, but I really enjoy the energy & the set list from the "Black Eye Day" release from the 21Nights launch party. Digital Gardener has a pretty spot on list though... Bottom line is, there's a ton of boots out there. It all depends on whether you enjoy audience recordings or simply like soundboards & what type of setlist/band line up you prefer...

TheDigitalGardener said:

mblevels said:

You don't include "From The Soundboard: 1984 Birthday Show"?

Can I ask why?

I did not include it for any particular reason, I love it.

I just forgot that's all, there are quite a few bootlegs out there.

Haha, I was like: am I just completely blind or is it not on that list...

Thanks for the list by the way, I've got about half or so, definitely got some work to do...

mblevels said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

I did not include it for any particular reason, I love it.

I just forgot that's all, there are quite a few bootlegs out there.

Haha, I was like: am I just completely blind or is it not on that list...

Thanks for the list by the way, I've got about half or so, definitely got some work to do...

That list is a very very tiny splash in a huge ocean of unofficial recordings.

The amount of recordings out there is quite breathtaking, then there are the videos.

Happy hunting.

One of my personal faves is "The Dawn 4.1". You can thank the org's BorisFishpaw for that one. Truly shows how great the '93-'95 work really was/is. Fantastic sequencing work on it.

*The Dawn 4.1

*From the Soundboard - 1984 Birthday Show

*Box of Chocolates

*Work It 2.0 (Vol. 1-8)

*City Lights (Soundboards from Prince, Dirty Mind, Controversy, 1999 and Purple Rain tours) -- I'm not one to promote the hacks Sabotage, but I like the completeness of the recently produced City Lights Remastered Vol 1-4. Vol 5 (Parade Tour) should be out soon, if not already released.

*Crystal Ball (Pimpsandwich)

*Dream Factory (Pimpsandwich)

*LoveSexy Live in Dortmund

*T's 12in Archive

*The Virtual U.S. 7-inch Singles Box

*30 Years of Unreleased Funk

and on and on and on...

As a general rule, you usually can't go wrong with anything the boot labels FBG and 4DF put out. DFB isn't bad either. Sabotage pretty much steal others' work and label it as their own, but some of their comps aren't bad. Stay away from crap "reworks" labels like NPGVandals and Maxim.

^^ Nice list. The Dawn 4.1 and T's 12inch Archive are pretty much essential, great stuff.

Pimps Crystal Ball and Dream Factory are great too.

20 is a little too much, I will give my top 10

Palace of Tears

Stars & Bars

Open Session

The Park

Emporium

Aknowledge Me

Estandard

Return of the bump Squad

Dream Factory (Pimpsandwich) <- Fabulous sound !

Small Club

Yeah I know... mostly mid 90, but that was his peak

pzlyprk said:

*City Lights (Soundboards from Prince, Dirty Mind, Controversy, 1999 and Purple Rain tours) -- I'm not one to promote the hacks Sabotage, but I like the completeness of the recently produced City Lights Remastered Vol 1-4. Vol 5 (Parade Tour) should be out soon, if not already released.

Okay, has ANYBODY heard when this is finally getting released???! They're about a month and a half late. I at least wanna see everything they're putting on there! Wouldn't it be FANTASTIC if they have an EX version of the August 24, 1986 show at Le New Morning??!!

alexnvrmnd777 said:

pzlyprk said:

*City Lights (Soundboards from Prince, Dirty Mind, Controversy, 1999 and Purple Rain tours) -- I'm not one to promote the hacks Sabotage, but I like the completeness of the recently produced City Lights Remastered Vol 1-4. Vol 5 (Parade Tour) should be out soon, if not already released.

Okay, has ANYBODY heard when this is finally getting released???! They're about a month and a half late. I at least wanna see everything they're putting on there!

You can see what will be on it on this flyer. Still no news of it's release though. Maybe someone else can give us a hint.

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TheDigitalGardener said:

alexnvrmnd777 said:

Okay, has ANYBODY heard when this is finally getting released???! They're about a month and a half late. I at least wanna see everything they're putting on there!

You can see what will be on it on this flyer. Still no news of it's release though. Maybe someone else can give us a hint.

[img:$uid]http://i757.photobucket.com/albums/xx218/MMikeyBee/Prince%20and%20related/P%20mag%20and%20boot%20covers%20and%20ads/Flyer_CL-R5_with_disc.jpg[/img:$uid]

Wow! The final Revolution show in soundboard! Did I read that right?? Too bad about the Aug 24 aftershow, but now I truly can't wait for this to finally hit!

In no particular order:

1. Foosteps 2 Fillmore- 2004

2. Small Club- 1988

3. Prince, Josh, & Cora- 2007

4. Lovesexy Tour Rehearsals- 1988

5. Prince & Tamar Minnesota- 2006

6. All Day, All Night, All Week- 2009

7. Montreux 1 & 2- 2009

8. C3L.A.bration- 2009

9. Shark Tank 1 & 2- 2004

10. Continental Drift- 2002

11. ONA in Paris- 2002

12. Funkin' Copenhagen- 2002

13. Lovesexy Atlanta 1 & 2- 1988

14. Take the Other "W" Train- 1988

15.Sendai 89'- 1988

16. Osaka- 1988

17. Hollywood Lovesexy- 1988

18. NYC Blues- 1988

19. Earls Court- 1992

20. Rock Over Germany- 1993

I put these down in terms of performance & quality. I'm sure there's more good ones out there but I can't listen to all that I have!!!!

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