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Reply #60 posted 09/24/12 10:45am

djThunderfunk

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KlyphIsBackAgain said:

The Black Album, from Vinyl Fever in Tallahassee Fl. Mine was the CD version with a few crappy bonus tracks (I believe All My Dreams was one of them). All of my CD boots are history but I still have all the vinyl ones (such classic crap as Crucial, Divinity,etc.)

"classic crap", I love it. Think I'm going to bootleg that line from you and start using it... lol

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Reply #61 posted 09/24/12 2:00pm

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djThunderfunk said:



KlyphIsBackAgain said:


The Black Album, from Vinyl Fever in Tallahassee Fl. Mine was the CD version with a few crappy bonus tracks (I believe All My Dreams was one of them). All of my CD boots are history but I still have all the vinyl ones (such classic crap as Crucial, Divinity,etc.)


"classic crap", I love it. Think I'm going to bootleg that line from you and start using it... lol




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Reply #62 posted 09/24/12 5:19pm

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Stymie said:

electricberet said:



Stymie said:


I've never bought boots and never will but like a lot of folks the first bootleg i ever heard was the black album. I really can't remember te frst one I owned.


If I had known anyone who had it, I wouldn't have bought it either. It's the only Prince bootleg I ever paid money for.


Luckily I had a close friend who was a prince fanatic. She had tons of prince boots and took me to a store on the north side of Chicago that sold all kinds of prince boots and videos. It was through her that I found out people were selling this type of stuff
through the mail as well.

Really? I live on the North Side of Chicago y i think, i hope u r talking of the same record store that was on Morse! If it is, wow! There, my first boot was Dirty Mind, upset cuz it was outtakes y not a concert but i bought more boots from there like Dreams, The Avenue, Miles 2 Nowhere! Lol!
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Reply #63 posted 09/26/12 11:55am

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Charade, in late 1991.



Same here. The start of a great collection cool
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Reply #64 posted 09/26/12 3:09pm

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The Black Album cassette from a guy selling them from a stand on St. Mark's Place in the East Village, NYC. When I played it at home, side two only had one channel working so I went back and the seller gave me another copy. I think it was the sped up version.

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Reply #65 posted 09/26/12 3:40pm

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To the ones complaining about the crappy sound, for some songs it's absolutely part of the charm.

The real "Joy In Repetition" has that distorsion and hiss from the very start the bass tom kicks in, with the delay that fades into this spooky organ sound. When the guitar solo unravels, it has to distort, it sound more better when it's harsh.

Graffiti Bridge came out, not to mention the ridiculous copy-pasted Alphabet St. intro, I was like, what the fuck ?

The only ones "clean" versions that pass the test are "Wonderful Ass" and "All My Dreams". But they're still 24bit .flac from a vinyl source, so technically speaking it ain't a digital master (thank God when you know what the Warner CD masterizers have done to his back catalog).

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Reply #66 posted 09/27/12 4:52am

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The Black Album cassette from a guy selling them from a stand on St. Mark's Place in the East Village, NYC.

Back in 1988,I didn't even know how to find a bootlegger lol I had this crazy idea that I would see a bootlegger on the street,whispering to me "Psst.....come here...you want a copy of the Black Album?".

I was able to find a copy through a Prince fanzine that I was into at the time.I asked a member where I could find it,and she taped me a copy which I paid for.

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Reply #67 posted 09/27/12 6:22am

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The "Parade" boot at Wembley with Ron Wood and Sting, not to mention some ridiculous moron that thought blowing a whistle was something everyone wanted to hear during every song.

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Reply #68 posted 09/27/12 6:24am

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I would love to hear the Extended version of Around the World In A DAY!!! DANG IT!

My first bootleg actually was a cassette The Black Album but it had Good Love, Scarlett Pussy and the extended shockadelica with a weird sample in the middle.

MY SECOND was Crystal Ball it had a different version of Strange Relationship with slightly different verses and a sitar that was TOOOO loud lol.

Are you talking about the alternate version - the one with the awesome bass line kicking off the song? Have you heard that version?

Although that bass line is so very, very simple, it is my favorite bass line in all his catalogue. I hope you get to hear it!

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Reply #69 posted 09/27/12 7:30am

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Reply #70 posted 09/27/12 2:20pm

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Chocolate Box, Charade (both on vinyl), The Black Album (cassette) and Small Club on CD (X-Records)

I actually bought a CD player AFTER i bought Small Club at a record fair.

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