Hey guys.

I won this promo VHS on eBay. There's no run-time but judging by the amount of tape on the reel, it's definitely less than 20 minutes. It's called "Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic - In His Own Words" and appears to be a promo sent out by the label, possibly to stores or TV channels in order to promote the release? I don't currently have a VCR so have no way of playing it, although I'm going to watch it at my cousins house soon.

Anyone else have this? If so can you describe exactly what's on it?

Footage of Prince explaining that godawful outfit and the matching bad hair?

never heard of it but you can probably get a VCR from cash convertors or somewhere for a tenner. i could stick it on dvd for you if it's PAL. i can play NTSC but can't record it as it plays as PAL60

the days o wild is the npgmc online version of the cd with the edited version of the live track, as opposed to the original 1 track version given away at the last day of the last celly that came in a cd single jewel case

EDIT - in that slipcase it looks like it's an NTSC video as you don't normally get PAL videos in that type of packaging apart from the freebies from magazines

[Edited 4/26/12 6:15am]

Yeah, it's from the US so it'll be NTSC. My cousin has a VCR that connects to the computer so if it's a good watch I'll rip it.

The Days Of Wild CD is only in the picture as they both arrived in the mail at the same time

maybe its the innerviews from the official release. i could see that used as a promo.

I wonder if it's the interviews that were shown during the pay-per-view special before the concert aired?

Mindbells9 said:

If Im not mistaken,parts of this video was aired on BET back in 1999 on a show called "BET Out the Box" It shows an interview with Prince,though it doesnt show him being asked questions. He's wearing the Rave blue outfit,with braids and sunglasses. They would show Rave outtake photos with some of the music playing in the background,then they'll show a clip of Prince talking about the Rave album or the NPG. Some of the quotes I remember from this are "50/50 is a partnership...90/10 is employment" and "In this band I have Larry Graham on bass, Maceo Parker on sax, the baddest horn section since Tower of Power,and then there is,of course,Me..." The footage BET showed might have been clips from that VHS. [Edited 4/26/12 8:11am]

I have this vhs, yeah, that's basically what it is.

jpnyc said:

Footage of Prince explaining that godawful outfit and the matching bad hair?

Chas said:

Mindbells9 said:

If Im not mistaken,parts of this video was aired on BET back in 1999 on a show called "BET Out the Box" It shows an interview with Prince,though it doesnt show him being asked questions. He's wearing the Rave blue outfit,with braids and sunglasses. They would show Rave outtake photos with some of the music playing in the background,then they'll show a clip of Prince talking about the Rave album or the NPG. Some of the quotes I remember from this are "50/50 is a partnership...90/10 is employment" and "In this band I have Larry Graham on bass, Maceo Parker on sax, the baddest horn section since Tower of Power,and then there is,of course,Me..." The footage BET showed might have been clips from that VHS. [Edited 4/26/12 8:11am]

I have this vhs, yeah, that's basically what it is.

is this on any bootleg dvd then?

very bad concert..

unique said:

Chas said:

I have this vhs, yeah, that's basically what it is.

is this on any bootleg dvd then?

Yes, it's on "Tv Appearances Vol 10" http://main.thedigitalgar...ol-10.html

Quality is tip top.

TheDigitalGardener said:

unique said:

is this on any bootleg dvd then?

Yes, it's on "Tv Appearances Vol 10" http://main.thedigitalgar...ol-10.html

Quality is tip top.

i've only got vols 4 and 5 and an unnamed volume of that series, i thought i had everything on the royal visions set and other discs. i was at one of the shows on vol10

unique said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

Yes, it's on "Tv Appearances Vol 10" http://main.thedigitalgar...ol-10.html

Quality is tip top.

i've only got vols 4 and 5 and an unnamed volume of that series, i thought i had everything on the royal visions set and other discs. i was at one of the shows on vol10

Yeah, the very first DVD of this series was unnamed, then the second DVD in the series was named Vol.1 and so on...

TheDigitalGardener said:

unique said:

i've only got vols 4 and 5 and an unnamed volume of that series, i thought i had everything on the royal visions set and other discs. i was at one of the shows on vol10

Yeah, the very first DVD of this series was unnamed, then the second DVD in the series was named Vol.1 and so on...

aye, that makes sense

i just checked the first disc and i remember it now as it's fucking brilliant quality for some of the oldest rarest stuff. i must have ignored the rest of the series as it was duplicates of stuff i already had. i have the rave tv broadcast on vhs so maybe the interview is on that. i think the tv broadcast was slightly different to the dvd

unique said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

Yeah, the very first DVD of this series was unnamed, then the second DVD in the series was named Vol.1 and so on...

aye, that makes sense

i just checked the first disc and i remember it now as it's fucking brilliant quality for some of the oldest rarest stuff. i must have ignored the rest of the series as it was duplicates of stuff i already had. i have the rave tv broadcast on vhs so maybe the interview is on that. i think the tv broadcast was slightly different to the dvd

There was a similar interview broadcast on the BBC (some BBC t-time show years ago), it was a 20 odd min interview with Prince, he had on a dark purple jacket with a white furry collar, the hair in braids and huge fly eye sunglasses, Larry was mooching in the background.

It's on one of those TV Appearances DVD's, can't remember which though.

TheDigitalGardener said:

unique said:

aye, that makes sense

i just checked the first disc and i remember it now as it's fucking brilliant quality for some of the oldest rarest stuff. i must have ignored the rest of the series as it was duplicates of stuff i already had. i have the rave tv broadcast on vhs so maybe the interview is on that. i think the tv broadcast was slightly different to the dvd

There was a similar interview broadcast on the BBC (some BBC t-time show years ago), it was a 20 odd min interview with Prince, he had on a dark purple jacket with a white furry collar, the hair in braids and huge fly eye sunglasses, Larry was mooching in the background.

It's on one of those TV Appearances DVD's, can't remember which though.

yeah, i have that. it was shot backstage at brixton academy 98, just before i ended up onstage with prince for the first time. it was some shitty bbc yoof show

^^ That was it.

Before I read the actual title on the VHS. I thought it was the Rave concert.

I thought I was the only one who looked at stuff on VHS still. LMAO.