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Sabotage Records’ City Lights Remastered Vol. 6 ! (SAB #452-457)

We just mastered this latest volume from our acclaimed concert series. It consists of six extremely diverse club shows from Prince’s 1987 Sign O’ The Times era plus various bonus tracks in clearly improved sound quality. A whole week of mastering studio time has been invested, so what you get here are simply THE BEST REMASTERS EVER AVAILABLE OF ALL SHOWS INCLUDED!

Disc 1 encompasses the earliest documented Sign O’ The Times concert that Prince ever performed in front of an audience. It’s the classic test gig from First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, taped on 21 March 1987. As bonus there are newly enhanced recordings of both songs he presented with live vocals and live guitar over a pre-recorded backing track at the MTV Music Awards on 11 September 1987 and also, for the first time on CD, Sheila E’s live appearance on The Tonight Show (previously hosted by Johnny Carson, here with a freshly installed Jay Leno instead) to perform Charles Parker’s Now‘s The Time and to promote the concert film Sign O’ The Times on 1 December 1987.

Disc 2 features a long gig at Rupert’s Nightclub in Golden Valley, MN, taped on 5 September 1987. The set performed contained several rare choices and cover versions, including The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker, The Sex Of It, Love And Happiness [Al Green], I Want To Take You Higher [Sly Stone], I’ll Take You There [The Staple Singers] and Mother Popcorn [James Brown].

Disc 3 has the only French aftershow from that year, the classic New Morning concert from Paris,
delivered on 15 June 1987 AM. Highlights to mention are the cover versions Purple House [Jimi
Hendrix], I Got My Mind Made Up [Instant Funk] and Prince‘s own What Did I Do?

Disc 4 is a fresh approach at a pretty odd Prince event: an all-instrumental gig from The Fine Line
Music Café in Minneapolis, MN, played on 5 December 1987. Fully remastered from an amateurish
fan release, this includes Eleven, Freddie Freeloader [by Miles Davis], Jack U Off and many more.

Disc 5 brings you a soundboard-recorded Strange Relationship from First Avenue, Mpls, MN, 21
March 1987 plus the longest and best-sounding soundboard recording of Prince’s Paisley Park
concert with special guests Miles Davis and Joe ‘Foley’ McCreary. Auld Lang Syne is performed.

Disc 6 has a benefit gig from club U4, a tiny disco in Vienna, Austria from 29 May 1987 AM plus
additional live rarities from the European leg of the Sign O’ The Times tour 1987. The U4 recording
stands out for its only-ever inclusion of a live take on the outtake The Ball. Prince also presents
Adore and several rather unusual incarnations of well-known compositions.
All material included has carefully been revised according to today’s advanced possibilities and
standards in studio mastering. Here are the most obvious improvements over any previous release:

MTV MUSIC AWARDS, UNIVERSAL CITY, CA, 11 SEPTEMBER 1987 (sndbd.; 9:30 min)
- MTV’s own glitches (mainly in Prince’s lead vocals) fixed
- 30 Hz hum noise removed
In short: This is the longest and best sounding recording of that gig available on any CD release.

FIRST AVENUE, MINNEAPOLIS, MN, 21 MARCH 1987 (64:00 min)
- remastered from an old Moonraker release
- start-IDs corrected
- 60 Hz power supply hum noise filtered
- transients, compression fixed up
- final three songs assimilated (previously too bass-heavy)

THE TONIGHT SHOW, BURBANK, CA, 1 DECEMBER 1987 (soundboard; 6:30 min)
- EQ’ed, dehissed and decrackled
Never available on CD before.

NEW MORNING, PARIS, FRANCE, 15 JUNE 1987 AM (52:20 min)
- remastered from an old Thunderball release
- lower register overmodulations removed
- digital glitches, drop-outs and feedback removed on Purple House, I Got My Mind Made Up,
Just My Imagination and Sexmachine
- minute-long, high-frequency noise and disturbing whistles removed on Sexmachine

RUPERT’S NIGHTCLUB, GOLDEN VALLEY, MN, 5 SEPTEMBER 1987 (92:06 min)
- remastered from an old Thunderball release
- recording speed/ pitch corrected, affecting total playing time (up half a semi-note = +2.93%)
- EQ’ed (lower frequencies boosted between 200 and 500 Hz, also 2.6 kHz range boosted, metallic
sounding 9.4 kHz treble lowered)
- harmonics enhanced by means of a tube effect
- dehissed
- dehummed (60 Hz/ 120 Hz)
- decrackled (Purple Rain in particular)
- alternating treble during first song (Sign O’ The Times) repaired
- digital glitches and feedback removed from Sign O’ The Times and Play In The Sunshine
- dropouts removed from Mother Popcorn, Kiss, Love And Happiness, I Could Never Take The
Place Of Your Man, Girls & Boys-intro
- missing transitions in between songs restalled after I Want To Take You Higher, I Could Never
Take The Place Of Your Man, Slow Love, Four

THE FINE LINE MUSIC CAFÉ, MINNEAPOLIS, MN, 5 DECEMBER 1987 (93:00 min)
- remastered from the longest known recording
- Start-IDs/ song titles corrected
- EQ’ed
- previous, lousy fan-applied filtering repaired (within technical limitations)
- harmonics enhanced
- all missing transitions in between songs restalled

FIRST AVENUE, MINNEAPOLIS, MN, 21 MARCH 1987 (soundboard; 4:40 min)
- mastered from an NPG MC ’Ahdio Show’
Prince had given order to camouflage the word "fuckin" (from the song’s line „Isn’t it a shame,
this ain’t a fuckin’ movie“) by playing it backwards in the NPG MC track. That brief passage has
now been turned around again to represent the live recording in its original form.

PAISLEY PARK, CHANHASSEN, MN, 31 DECEMBER 1987 (soundboard; 85:30 min)
- remastered from the best known audio sources of this show
- Now’s The Time/ drum solo by Sheila E. re-integrated
- stereo image broadened
- denoised and annoying 60/ 120/ 180 Hz hum removed
- massive (!) feedback problems from original source retouched one by one – to fantastic results…
without (!) affecting the total playing time of the recording

CLUB U4, VIENNA, AUSTRIA, 29 MAY 1987 AM (over 60:00 min)
- remastered from the two best audio sources of this show; EQ’ed and dehissed
- lots (!) of annoying comments from the audience retouched without (!) shortening the recording
2 additional bonus tracks are featured on disc 6 of this superb set. (10:00 min)

- TOTAL TRACKS INCLUDED: 71 tracks

- TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 8 hours (80:00; 79:54; 80:00; 77:34; 80:00; 80:00)

- GUESTS FEATURED: Bobby Z. Rivkin, Dale Alexander, Miles Davis, Joe ‘Foley’ McCreary

- LINER NOTES & PHOTOS: 20 pages, printed in full color plus gold; more than 100 pictures included; excellent liner notes provided

- PACKAGING: all-transparent jewel case

COMING IN DECEMBER 2011

This seems great! Thanks for posting.

I'm afraid it's far more interesting than the new Extraloveable.

purplethunder3121 said:

Can't wait for this

Javi said:

This seems great! Thanks for posting.

I'm afraid it's far more interesting than the new Extraloveable.

Yeah, I felt like it was a perfect time to post this so that we could rinse our palettes from that awful version he just shitted out. But anyway, again it looks like the same ol' shit, different day. Though, what else are we to expect from Sabotage these days?

FINE LINE "REMASTERED"??

HMMMMMMMMM

i aint falling for that AGAIN

alexnvrmnd777 said:

Sheila E’s live appearance on The Tonight Show (previously hosted by Johnny Carson, here with a freshly installed Jay Leno instead) to perform Charles Parker’s Now‘s The Time and to promote the concert film Sign O’ The Times on 1 December 1987.

Just a little quibble: Leno didn't take over as host of the Tonight Show until 1992. He was just one of a few regular guest hosts (including Letterman and Joan Rivers) that sat in for Johnny occasionally during the 80s. This was one of those guest shots.

jonylawson said:

FINE LINE "REMASTERED"??

HMMMMMMMMM

i aint falling for that AGAIN

LMAO! I know, right?

alexnvrmnd777 said:

jonylawson said:

FINE LINE "REMASTERED"??

HMMMMMMMMM

i aint falling for that AGAIN

LMAO! I know, right?

i know!

My fave ever boot is le new morning 87

i have had it since 1988 on cassete....then on cd and then on "remastered cd" (with a lovely cover)

i can hear NO diffrence

so....remaster shemaster!

alexnvrmnd777 said:

it looks like the same ol' shit, different day. Though, what else are we to expect from Sabotage these days?

This issue, together with enjoying the Super Deluxe edition of Achtung Baby, one of my favourite albums, makes me think again of the (probably never existing) Prince remasters. Adding the remastered album and two CDs of unreleased studio stuff to the Sabotage CDs, plus the DVD of the film and maybe a book of photos, would make a quite good Sign O' The Times Super Deluxe edition. Don't forget the Cat doll.

[Edited 11/24/11 11:41am]

Javi said:

This issue, together with enjoying the Super Deluxe edition of Achtung Baby, one of my favourite albums, makes me think again of the (probably never existing) Prince remasters. Adding the remastered album and two CDs of unreleased studio stuff to the Sabotage CDs, plus the DVD of the film and maybe a book of photos, would make a quite good Sign O' The Times Super Deluxe edition. Don't forget the Cat doll.

[Edited 11/24/11 11:41am]

Don't tell Prince. I want to save my money for the next round of Paul McCartney deluxe editions. The last thing I need is a bunch of deluxe Prince sets to clean out my wallet.

electricberet said:

Javi said:

This issue, together with enjoying the Super Deluxe edition of Achtung Baby, one of my favourite albums, makes me think again of the (probably never existing) Prince remasters. Adding the remastered album and two CDs of unreleased studio stuff to the Sabotage CDs, plus the DVD of the film and maybe a book of photos, would make a quite good Sign O' The Times Super Deluxe edition. Don't forget the Cat doll.

[Edited 11/24/11 11:41am]

Don't tell Prince. I want to save my money for the next round of Paul McCartney deluxe editions. The last thing I need is a bunch of deluxe Prince sets to clean out my wallet.

YAAAAS FOR THIS HUNNY!!!!

Man, I STILL haven't found Vol. V.

fever said:

Man, I STILL haven't found Vol. V.

You can't be trying very hard, I just googled it and found a result in literally 2 seconds.

TheDigitalGardener said:

fever said:

Man, I STILL haven't found Vol. V.

You can't be trying very hard, I just googled it and found a result in literally 2 seconds.

Ya know!! The shit's everywhere. Dude prolly ain't even really looked for it.

Except none of those links actually work

fever said:

Except none of those links actually work

Yes they do, got it yet?

Talking of pressed stuff, Eye are set to release quite an interesting thing, it's the 2002 soundcheck from Antwerp. It's a 3cd thing with the s/check and part of the main show. Apparently the Antwerp soundcheck was the longest on the tour and has not circulated before now.

Sounds good, but then on the other hand they are also releasing the White Girls and Feline rehearsals which were already released in their glory by FBG a while back. So they have a nice shiny new release uncirculated, and just to balance it out the rehearsal stuff that they ripped from the free releases. Never mind, everyone will "pwefer dat one coz it's a cd with a pwetty pwinted cover"

TheDigitalGardener said:

Talking of pressed stuff, Eye are set to release quite an interesting thing, it's the 2002 soundcheck from Antwerp. It's a 3cd thing with the s/check and part of the main show. Apparently the Antwerp soundcheck was the longest on the tour and has not circulated before now.

Sounds good, but then on the other hand they are also releasing the White Girls and Feline rehearsals which were already released in their glory by FBG a while back. So they have a nice shiny new release uncirculated, and just to balance it out the rehearsal stuff that they ripped from the free releases. Never mind, everyone will "pwefer dat one coz it's a cd with a pwetty pwinted cover"

LOL!

Yeah, I've heard some of the samples, so it should be interesting!

TheDigitalGardener said:

Talking of pressed stuff, Eye are set to release quite an interesting thing, it's the 2002 soundcheck from Antwerp. It's a 3cd thing with the s/check and part of the main show. Apparently the Antwerp soundcheck was the longest on the tour and has not circulated before now.

Sounds good, but then on the other hand they are also releasing the White Girls and Feline rehearsals which were already released in their glory by FBG a while back. So they have a nice shiny new release uncirculated, and just to balance it out the rehearsal stuff that they ripped from the free releases. Never mind, everyone will "pwefer dat one coz it's a cd with a pwetty pwinted cover"

Finally! I have been waiting over 9 years for this to surface. I was there and the soundcheck was even better than the actual concert.