The Digital Garden

Vict0r said:

The Digital Garden

It is offline for maintenance http://thedigitalgarden.org/

Don't have the 4DF list handy right now, but this is what I got from FBG:

FBG01 Tamar at the Orpheum
FBG02 Is this my hometown?
FBG03 Virginia, Let's get busy
FBG04 DC Sexy vol I&II
FBG05 Hw did I get so funky?
FBG06 Stockholm, are U hip to the funk?
FBG07 Don't it feel good? (Superbowl)
FBG08 Any sexy mf's in the house
FBG09 Baddest band in the universe
FBG10 7-7-7
FBG11 SOTT Live Revamped

FBG12 DoS (Days of Soundboard)

FBG14 Purple Rain at the Omni

FBG15 Toronto, Put It In!

FBG16 This Is a Rehearsal

FBG17 8-3-83

FBG18 Noon Rendezvous Rehearsal

FBG19 LA85

FBG20 Another Lonely EX-Mas

FBG21 St.Paul 12-27-84

FBG22 Minnesota Music Awards- May-20-1986

FBG23 The Leno Files

FBG24 One Night @ The Dinner Table

FBG25 Kansas City, Welcome to 1999

FBG26 More Free Candy 4 U

FBG27 Ex-Mas rehearsal

FBG28 Chicago Goes Crazy

FBG29 Box o’ Chocolates

FBG30 Viage

FBG31 Super Bock

FBG32 LNM

FBG33 The Bird Rehearsal

FBG34 DOS 2

FBG35 Copenhagen 20Ten

FBG36 Rome 20Ten

FGB37 Viage 2

FBG38 Abu Dhabi 20Ten

FBG39 From The Soundboard – 84 Birthday

FBG40 White Girls Jam - 1984 Soundcheck

FBG41 1984 Soundcheck Feline

FBG42 The Bird First Ave

FBG43 NYC86

FBG44 DOS 3, The Facebook Edition

FBG45 10,000 Wallpaper

4 DaFunk releases

001 First Avenue '82
002 Columbia '81
003 Saginaw '82
004b Detroit '82 V2.0
005 Providence '83
006-010 Open Sessions
011-012 Slave
013-014 Glam Slam North
015-016 Glam Slam West
017-018 The Palace Of Tears
019-020 Le Bataclan '94
021-022 Stars & Bars
023-024 Fine Line Cafe
025-026 Acknowledge Me
027-028 La Coruña '90
029 The Sacrifice Of Victor Revisited
030 The Time's Corporate World - A New Approach
031-032 Second Time Around
033 Kaufleuten '93 Revisited
034 Varsity Blues
035-038 SOTT Rehearsals Vol. 1
039-041 SOTT Rehearsals Vol. 2
042 Atlanta '80
043 Take The 'W' Train
044-045 Glam Slam East
046 27 : Mutiny at The Prom
047 Take The Other 'W' Train
048-050 Flanders Expo Rehearsal
051-052 One Nite Alone in Louisville
053 Le New Morning '87
054-057 Redhead Stepchild
058-061 Playtime
062-063 Purple Storm in the Coachella Valley
064-065 Uptown Live
066-067 First Avenue '82 V2.0
068-069 Gotta Lotta Butter To Go
070-073 Montreux Jazz Festival
074-075 Antwerp 2002
076-077 26
078-079 The Ultimate Beautiful Experience
080 27v2

081-082 37/2

083 Paris 17.05.1987 Soundboard

084-085 First Avenue '86

086-087 Wembley Arena 3 3 95

088 From The Soundboard - 1984 Birthday show

089 First Avenue 8.14.1984

090 Parade Demos

And i'm sure it goes without saying that wherever you track these down, they are free releases, and you should never part with any money to obtain them.

Digital Funk Bitch

DFB#001 Act II Wildenrath, Wegberg [dvd]

DFB#002-003 7 Inch In The Computer Vol 1

DFB#004-005 Quality Street

DFB#006 A Beautiful Night

DFB#007 Emancipation Day [dvd]

DFB#008 Come

DFB#009 Prince A Celebration [dvd]

DFB#010-011-012 Black Eye Day

DFB#013-014 Love Me Sexy

DFB#015 I'll Do Anything EP

DFB#018 Emancipation Interviews [dvd]

DFB#019 NPG Sampler EP

DFB#020 The Exodus Has Begun

DFB#021 (I can't find, sorry)

DFB#022 The Undertaker

erik319 said:

And i'm sure it goes without saying that wherever you track these down, they are free releases, and you should never part with any money to obtain them.

This. People still will though.

Looked at digital garden and it seems to be CDR most of it..

Still worth having?

Until now I have been looking for silver pressings only (when it comes to spending money)

sommerjazz said:

Looked at digital garden and it seems to be CDR most of it..

Still worth having?

Until now I have been looking for silver pressings only (when it comes to spending money)

Ther are no Silver pressings for 4DF, FBG or DFB...these are fan made for fans...no money needed...Just a little knowledge

Lately some of the silver/pressed releases have themselves been rips of these FREE releases.

Bottom line do not buy bootlegs....

vc40 said:

FBG45 10,000 Wallpaper

Wha? The artwork for this certainly doesn't indicate that it's an FBG release. Are you sure this is correct?

In all fairness I believe that the boot was been shared a week before the FBG label went on it!!

But you'll have to check with those lads to be sure

[Edited 5/21/12 15:04pm]

Shhh.....don´t let them know what to look for. Most of the Youtube links have already been taken down. I wonder if there´ll ever come a time when most of these recordings will be released officially in one way or the other.

Prince´s team could learn a few things from these "labels". The artwork is often excellent.

I think as much as we like the idea of legit and official live recordings of his shows, like Pearl Jam did, it still wouldn´t work out because Prince is too much of a perfectionist and I just can´t see him releasing unedited material. It is probably much more stressful, too, due to the fact that you can never predict how a concert is going to be.

I´m very grateful to the bootleggers because sometimes I´m worried about Prince´s legacy and the songs that he´s got in the vault. This way, at least some of it will remain saved and protected in some way.

KoolEaze said:

Shhh.....don´t let them know what to look for. Most of the Youtube links have already been taken down. I wonder if there´ll ever come a time when most of these recordings will be released officially in one way or the other.

Prince´s team could learn a few things from these "labels". The artwork is often excellent.

I think as much as we like the idea of legit and official live recordings of his shows, like Pearl Jam did, it still wouldn´t work out because Prince is too much of a perfectionist and I just can´t see him releasing unedited material. It is probably much more stressful, too, due to the fact that you can never predict how a concert is going to be.

I´m very grateful to the bootleggers because sometimes I´m worried about Prince´s legacy and the songs that he´s got in the vault. This way, at least some of it will remain saved and protected in some way.

Personally I don't think he's a perfectionist as much as he's a control freak. If he were a perfectionist a lot of his releases since WB wouldn't have sounded like shit.

jfrost said:

sommerjazz said:

Looked at digital garden and it seems to be CDR most of it..

Still worth having?

Until now I have been looking for silver pressings only (when it comes to spending money)

Ther are no Silver pressings for 4DF, FBG or DFB...these are fan made for fans...no money needed...Just a little knowledge

Lately some of the silver/pressed releases have themselves been rips of these FREE releases.

Bottom line do not buy bootlegs....

When you can't find the download, and your crap computer won't download them, and everybody refuses to burn it for you on cd, you have no choice but to pay the bootleggers money.

What's really funny is that most of the people telling you not to buy bootlegs are pulling this:

What They Say: Don't Buy Bootlegs, they really hurt Prince, etc

What They Really Mean: Don't Even Think of asking me to copy for you, I'd rather you pay EYE for one of their shitty 90 minute discs that are nearly impossible to copy or pay sabotage.

Edit: In no way am I asking for or offering to copy anything.

Further disclaimer: I may have copied over 500 cdr for free, only asking for postage and blank costs, but I am not saying I do or do not do this now. Bootlegging is worse than having Shelby yell "Put Your Hands Up."

[Edited 5/22/12 1:09am]

stillwaiting said:

jfrost said:

Ther are no Silver pressings for 4DF, FBG or DFB...these are fan made for fans...no money needed...Just a little knowledge

Lately some of the silver/pressed releases have themselves been rips of these FREE releases.

Bottom line do not buy bootlegs....

When you can't find the download, and your crap computer won't download them, and everybody refuses to burn it for you on cd, you have no choice but to pay the bootleggers money.

What's really funny is that most of the people telling you not to buy bootlegs are pulling this:

What They Say: Don't Buy Bootlegs, they really hurt Prince, etc

What They Really Mean: Don't Even Think of asking me to copy for you, I'd rather you pay EYE for one of their shitty 90 minute discs that are nearly impossible to copy or pay sabotage.

That's like people offering you free food at the supermarket, and you demanding it be delivered, rather than you picking it up, because you've got a shit car.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Use the money you'd save not buying silver bootlegs to buy yourself a new computer and ask people politely, instead of whining for all the work to be done for you, and I'm sure you'd get a more positive response.

erik319 said:

stillwaiting said:

When you can't find the download, and your crap computer won't download them, and everybody refuses to burn it for you on cd, you have no choice but to pay the bootleggers money.

What's really funny is that most of the people telling you not to buy bootlegs are pulling this:

What They Say: Don't Buy Bootlegs, they really hurt Prince, etc

What They Really Mean: Don't Even Think of asking me to copy for you, I'd rather you pay EYE for one of their shitty 90 minute discs that are nearly impossible to copy or pay sabotage.

That's like people offering you free food at the supermarket, and you demanding it be delivered, rather than you picking it up, because you've got a shit car.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Use the money you'd save not buying silver bootlegs to buy yourself a new computer and ask people politely, instead of whining for all the work to be done for you, and I'm sure you'd get a more positive response.

Uh, without painfully trying to point out that I've copied tons of discs for free of Silvers I bought without anything in return to try to make it too obvious, I may have made closer to 1000 cdrs for people. The few times I have asked for something from those I have copied for has 90% of the time resulted in nothing.

What is my point? I never say no. When I was working 60 hours a week, I would take the time to mail as many as 50 cdr to people in the mail. Let's just say they were all U2 bootlegs for the sake of argument.

Since I never say no, I would like others to at least say yes once in a while.

So I suppose my main point is for those bitching that we should never PAY for a bootleg...need to understand...if you can't get it any other way, you will pay for a bootleg.

Also, in many cases, the mp3 files sound worse than the pressed bootlegs if the pressed bootlegs were sourced from a non-lossless format.

instead of whining for all the work to be done for you, and I'm sure you'd get a more positive response.

I would respond to this by saying I've made at least 800-1000 discs for people and mailed them out. No matter what your point of view, it is ridiculous to suggest burning all these discs, and going to the post office is not doing any work. Sometimes, I have not even been paid for the postage.

stillwaiting said:

erik319 said:

That's like people offering you free food at the supermarket, and you demanding it be delivered, rather than you picking it up, because you've got a shit car.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Use the money you'd save not buying silver bootlegs to buy yourself a new computer and ask people politely, instead of whining for all the work to be done for you, and I'm sure you'd get a more positive response.

Uh, without painfully trying to point out that I've copied tons of discs for free of Silvers I bought without anything in return to try to make it too obvious, I may have made closer to 1000 cdrs for people. The few times I have asked for something from those I have copied for has 90% of the time resulted in nothing.

What is my point? I never say no. When I was working 60 hours a week, I would take the time to mail as many as 50 cdr to people in the mail. Let's just say they were all U2 bootlegs for the sake of argument.

Since I never say no, I would like others to at least say yes once in a while.

So I suppose my main point is for those bitching that we should never PAY for a bootleg...need to understand...if you can't get it any other way, you will pay for a bootleg.

Also, in many cases, the mp3 files sound worse than the pressed bootlegs if the pressed bootlegs were sourced from a non-lossless format.

instead of whining for all the work to be done for you, and I'm sure you'd get a more positive response.

I would respond to this by saying I've made at least 800-1000 discs for people and mailed them out. No matter what your point of view, it is ridiculous to suggest burning all these discs, and going to the post office is not doing any work. Sometimes, I have not even been paid for the postage.

Sorry, still sounds like wining to me. Don't expect other people to do anything, you'll always be disappointed. My advice is to look closely at the serial numbers of those releases and see if you can seek them out.

And update your computer, if that's really necessary.

Oh and none of these releases should be in mp3 format. They're shared lossless, so sound JUST as good as any shiny silver disc

good luck.

Cool topic

on the 4DaFunk Catalog list, dont forget the joint ventures and fixups:

Joint Ventures (No Cat. #):

The Holy Casino (Casino Royale /4DF)
Masquerade (Giotto Records/4DF)
The Fillmore 2006 (Temptation / Jay Cee / 4DF)
Shoreline 97 (Fearless / 4DF)
The 1994 DAT Promo Tape (Enfant Terrible / 4DF)

4DF's Fix-Ups:

AQUA REGIA - CD3 (Sabotage)
Pre·gaps in between tracks have been eliminated. The format has been updated to Enhanced CD.

OSAKA '89 - CD3 (Sabotage) Skip on 'Purple Rain' has been fixed.

ALOHA HAWAII - CD2 (Sabotage) Skip on 'I Feel Alright' has been fixed.

ONE NITE... NOT SO ALONE - CD3 (Premium) Skip on Stevie Wonder's 'Another Star' has been fixed. This track was unlisted and included as part of the 'Santana Medley'. Now a new marker has been added to make it an independent track.

PAISLEY PARK: A CELEBRATION 2001 - CD1 (Sabotage) Skip on track 2 has been fixed.

SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW ( B&C Productions) Overall cleaning

THE ULTIMATE LIVE EXPERIENCE - CDs 1 & 2 (DeFacto) Overall cleaning

[Edited 6/5/12 7:15am]

chelray1 said:

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TheDigitalGardener said:

^ Yes. http://main.thedigitalgar...lmore.html

Thanks DG!