I am discussing this bootleg and its music not soliciting it.

I am wondering if anyone else has heard this unique item. This has a lot of demos I suspect from the Chris Moon and Sound 80 days. The music is mostly recorded in super budget studios. The music is funny, alot of weird instrumentals with bizarre sounding keyboards and falsetto so high it sounds like his balls are on antennas. Has anyone else heard it. Songs include

Instrumentals 8 of them (No 6 Is funny featuring a bizarre sounding gothic keyboard) I think he should rename it, Music to hunt ghosts by.

For You (two mixes)

Leaving for New York (Ok ballad where he mentions a purple lawn)

Nightingale

Soft and Wet (4 mixes, the first is Moonsound)

Sweet Thing (Weird song about SEX, he sings with a really high falsetto)

Do you wanna ride (Not as exciting as it sounds)

Rock me lover

Wouldn't u love 2 love me (His own not the Sue Ann mix)

I spend my time loving you

I am just aamzed he got signed on this stuff, he evolved so far so quickly. What do you all think of it.

Theres a new TESTAMENT album for each year and it has great early mixes of Tick Tick bang (From 1980) and Extra Loveable, Moonbeam Levels and an amazing version of Electric Intercourse from 1983.

But 1976, I have never laughed as hard in all my life

Adorecream said:

I am discussing this bootleg and its music not soliciting it.

I am wondering if anyone else has heard this unique item. This has a lot of demos I suspect from the Chris Moon and Sound 80 days. The music is mostly recorded in super budget studios. The music is funny, alot of weird instrumentals with bizarre sounding keyboards and falsetto so high it sounds like his balls are on antennas. Has anyone else heard it. Songs include

Instrumentals 8 of them (No 6 Is funny featuring a bizarre sounding gothic keyboard) I think he should rename it, Music to hunt ghosts by.

For You (two mixes)

Leaving for New York (Ok ballad where he mentions a purple lawn)

Nightingale

Soft and Wet (4 mixes, the first is Moonsound)

Sweet Thing (Weird song about SEX, he sings with a really high falsetto)

Do you wanna ride (Not as exciting as it sounds)

Rock me lover

Wouldn't u love 2 love me (His own not the Sue Ann mix)

I spend my time loving you

I am just aamzed he got signed on this stuff, he evolved so far so quickly. What do you all think of it.

Theres a new TESTAMENT album for each year and it has great early mixes of Tick Tick bang (From 1980) and Extra Loveable, Moonbeam Levels and an amazing version of Electric Intercourse from 1983.

But 1976, I have never laughed as hard in all my life

He didn't get signed on THAT stuff, he had a much better demo to give to the records companies by 1977, and he had to record a whole song by himself in front of them afterwards to prove his skills. These 1976 were recorded for training and private use only.

These tracks have been out since 1995, originally parts of the Studio Nights/City Lights package.

I take it that the version of Electric Intercourse you are referring to is the live one from First Avenue, is it?

databank said:

Adorecream said:

I am discussing this bootleg and its music not soliciting it.

I am wondering if anyone else has heard this unique item. This has a lot of demos I suspect from the Chris Moon and Sound 80 days. The music is mostly recorded in super budget studios. The music is funny, alot of weird instrumentals with bizarre sounding keyboards and falsetto so high it sounds like his balls are on antennas. Has anyone else heard it. Songs include

Instrumentals 8 of them (No 6 Is funny featuring a bizarre sounding gothic keyboard) I think he should rename it, Music to hunt ghosts by.

For You (two mixes)

Leaving for New York (Ok ballad where he mentions a purple lawn)

Nightingale

Soft and Wet (4 mixes, the first is Moonsound)

Sweet Thing (Weird song about SEX, he sings with a really high falsetto)

Do you wanna ride (Not as exciting as it sounds)

Rock me lover

Wouldn't u love 2 love me (His own not the Sue Ann mix)

I spend my time loving you

I am just aamzed he got signed on this stuff, he evolved so far so quickly. What do you all think of it.

Theres a new TESTAMENT album for each year and it has great early mixes of Tick Tick bang (From 1980) and Extra Loveable, Moonbeam Levels and an amazing version of Electric Intercourse from 1983.

But 1976, I have never laughed as hard in all my life

He didn't get signed on THAT stuff, he had a much better demo to give to the records companies by 1977, and he had to record a whole song by himself in front of them afterwards to prove his skills. These 1976 were recorded for training and private use only.

These tracks have been out since 1995, originally parts of the Studio Nights/City Lights package.

I take it that the version of Electric Intercourse you are referring to is the live one from First Avenue, is it?

Yes I have the video too (Makings of Rain concert) but the version I have on these files omits the long scream in the middle.

And you are right, they are probably the mixes that only got Husney's attention in late 1976, when he said "Not bad, whose the group".

The Testament albums I have are great, and go up from 1976 through to 2000, every year is spearate except 1980/81 and 1999/2000. The 79 for instance has most of the Rebels sessions and 1980/81 has Broken and Lisa amongst others. This thing is like the mother of where all the other ureleased trax bootlegs come from.

Testament was not a multi-album release. It was a 4 volume collection on CD-R of approximately 600 mp3s with an html interface which categorised the releases (some unreleased outtakes and some live versions) by actual / estimated year of recording.

What it attempted to do was collate all circulating unreleased recordings at the time, but the material to which you have referred was already circulating. It was then followed by versions of Revelations on DVD-R and series such as The Work, Anthology and Work It.

As for 'Electric Intercourse' - there are three rehearsal versions together with the live version circulating.

Blast from the past this one. Not sure how the OP deems it to be "bizarre," but there you go.

Thankfully we have this stuff in lossless now.

[Edited 9/23/12 1:17am]

Adorecream said:

I am wondering if anyone else has heard this unique item.

You really need to get yourself one of the updated collections of outtakes like "Work It 2.0."

You will be in heaven.

^Isn't it funny when newbies come across something they didn't know existed and immediately start a thread telling everybody about the 'discovery' and wondering 'if anyboy heard it'?

Newbies but riding on a kinda high horse...

I have done it myself when I used to post here as mikeyb. I once praised the glory of a certain audience recording while I was gently told a few posts later that the recording had been circulating in s/board for quite some time.

databank said:

Adorecream said:

I am discussing this bootleg and its music not soliciting it.

I am wondering if anyone else has heard this unique item. This has a lot of demos I suspect from the Chris Moon and Sound 80 days. The music is mostly recorded in super budget studios. The music is funny, alot of weird instrumentals with bizarre sounding keyboards and falsetto so high it sounds like his balls are on antennas. Has anyone else heard it. Songs include

Instrumentals 8 of them (No 6 Is funny featuring a bizarre sounding gothic keyboard) I think he should rename it, Music to hunt ghosts by.

For You (two mixes)

Leaving for New York (Ok ballad where he mentions a purple lawn)

Nightingale

Soft and Wet (4 mixes, the first is Moonsound)

Sweet Thing (Weird song about SEX, he sings with a really high falsetto)

Do you wanna ride (Not as exciting as it sounds)

Rock me lover

Wouldn't u love 2 love me (His own not the Sue Ann mix)

I spend my time loving you

I am just aamzed he got signed on this stuff, he evolved so far so quickly. What do you all think of it.

Theres a new TESTAMENT album for each year and it has great early mixes of Tick Tick bang (From 1980) and Extra Loveable, Moonbeam Levels and an amazing version of Electric Intercourse from 1983.

But 1976, I have never laughed as hard in all my life

He didn't get signed on THAT stuff, he had a much better demo to give to the records companies by 1977, and he had to record a whole song by himself in front of them afterwards to prove his skills. These 1976 were recorded for training and private use only.

These tracks have been out since 1995, originally parts of the Studio Nights/City Lights package.

I take it that the version of Electric Intercourse you are referring to is the live one from First Avenue, is it?

I thought it was the rehersal version on that set. Where he says "wake up wendy"

vitriol said:

^Isn't it funny when newbies come across something they didn't know existed and immediately start a thread telling everybody about the 'discovery' and wondering 'if anyboy heard it'?

Newbies but riding on a kinda high horse...

I am not a newbie, unless you count a newbie as being someone who has become a fan after Purple Rain was released. I have been a fan since 1991, its just this is the first time I have heard and seen so many wonderful bootlegs in my entire fandom.

This actually happens when you don't live in the states and live in an area where no one even knows who Prince is, let alone have a collection of historic bootlegs. I live in New Zealand (Heard of that vitriol, its not part of Canada or Australia) we are not exactly feeling the steam and syncopation of every beat of Prince's music as it comes out of Minneapolis or LA.

I was fortunate to finally meet someone who ia an amazing fan and he copied a few boots for me, and I am discovering them for the first time.

I forgot in planet Vitriol (Your name suggests your negative and condescending attitude well) everyone must know and posess every beat Prince ever made from the moment of initial fandom.

As far as I am concerned your horse riding is so high, the horse gets altitude sickness and has ice picks attached to its horse shoe.

Oh no we don't want your monocle to fall off.

[Edited 9/23/12 15:09pm]

In my country I can assure you're not continuously bumping into Prince fams on the streets. Not even at rush hours... Many people here keeps on asking if Prince is still making music and no one can resist the observation about him being called a symbol 'now'.

And of course I have heard about NZ: I have a very good friend there who is a Prince fan (in Dunedin).

But none of us had any problem finding bootlegs.

vitriol said:

^Isn't it funny when newbies come across something they didn't know existed and immediately start a thread telling everybody about the 'discovery' and wondering 'if anyboy heard it'?

Newbies but riding on a kinda high horse...

You don't have to be automatically classed as a new fan, just because you have only just discovered materiel that was released years ( or decades even) before!!!! I was introduced to Prince in '84 & have been a fan of him & his music ever since. I have got an awesome collection of memorabilia & you know, up until maybe 2 yrs ago, I didn't have a SINGLE bootleg of anything in my collection. I'd read about some of the 'bootleg' material in books & even on here but didn't have a clue on how to get any of it. Also, I have only had a computer for the last 3 yrs so that made it a little hard for me!!!

Sure the 'bootleg material' that is being discussed here has been around for eons but does that mean that EVERYONE has heard of it? I can tell you that up until a couple of months ago, I hadn't.....

It seems to me that the real distinction on the org is not between old and new fans, but between old fans who stuck with him through the late 90s and 00s and everyone else. I lost interest in Prince around the time he parted ways with WB and never joined the NPGMC. I got interested again a few years ago and that's when I discovered all the bootlegs. So, I am old enough to remember the early days of alt.music.prince, and I bought Parade the day it was released, but for bootleg purposes I might as well be a newbie.

Back in the 80s, bootlegs were much harder to come by unless you lived in a big city. Somewhere I have a mailing list from circa 1988 put together by a woman who apparently made a living copying bootleg Prince tapes. She was charging $50 for dubbed VHS tapes of concerts and audiotapes of then-unreleased Crystal Ball tracks, etc. I didn't have the money for that stuff at the time and I'm glad I didn't buy it, since it's all been released officially or unofficially in better quality since then.

Adorecream said:

I am discussing this bootleg and its music not soliciting it.

I am wondering if anyone else has heard this unique item. This has a lot of demos I suspect from the Chris Moon and Sound 80 days. The music is mostly recorded in super budget studios. The music is funny, alot of weird instrumentals with bizarre sounding keyboards and falsetto so high it sounds like his balls are on antennas. Has anyone else heard it. Songs include

Instrumentals 8 of them (No 6 Is funny featuring a bizarre sounding gothic keyboard) I think he should rename it, Music to hunt ghosts by.

For You (two mixes)

Leaving for New York (Ok ballad where he mentions a purple lawn)

Nightingale

Soft and Wet (4 mixes, the first is Moonsound)

Sweet Thing (Weird song about SEX, he sings with a really high falsetto)

Do you wanna ride (Not as exciting as it sounds)

Rock me lover

Wouldn't u love 2 love me (His own not the Sue Ann mix)

I spend my time loving you

I am just aamzed he got signed on this stuff, he evolved so far so quickly. What do you all think of it.

Theres a new TESTAMENT album for each year and it has great early mixes of Tick Tick bang (From 1980) and Extra Loveable, Moonbeam Levels and an amazing version of Electric Intercourse from 1983.

But 1976, I have never laughed as hard in all my life

Yeah, I this one a few years back...I love "Nightingale"...a must have for collectors.

[Edited 9/23/12 18:17pm]

Adorecream said:

vitriol said:

^Isn't it funny when newbies come across something they didn't know existed and immediately start a thread telling everybody about the 'discovery' and wondering 'if anyboy heard it'?

Newbies but riding on a kinda high horse...

I am not a newbie, unless you count a newbie as being someone who has become a fan after Purple Rain was released. I have been a fan since 1991, its just this is the first time I have heard and seen so many wonderful bootlegs in my entire fandom.

This actually happens when you don't live in the states and live in an area where no one even knows who Prince is, let alone have a collection of historic bootlegs. I live in New Zealand (Heard of that vitriol, its not part of Canada or Australia) we are not exactly feeling the steam and syncopation of every beat of Prince's music as it comes out of Minneapolis or LA.

I was fortunate to finally meet someone who ia an amazing fan and he copied a few boots for me, and I am discovering them for the first time.

I forgot in planet Vitriol (Your name suggests your negative and condescending attitude well) everyone must know and posess every beat Prince ever made from the moment of initial fandom.

As far as I am concerned your horse riding is so high, the horse gets altitude sickness and has ice picks attached to its horse shoe.

Oh no we don't want your monocle to fall off.

[Edited 9/23/12 15:09pm]

If you have been a fan since 1991, then you are a newbie
Just kidding...but it is cool discovering a new boot...

[Edited 9/23/12 18:16pm]

electricberet said:

It seems to me that the real distinction on the org is not between old and new fans, but between old fans who stuck with him through the late 90s and 00s and everyone else. I lost interest in Prince around the time he parted ways with WB and never joined the NPGMC. I got interested again a few years ago and that's when I discovered all the bootlegs. So, I am old enough to remember the early days of alt.music.prince, and I bought Parade the day it was released, but for bootleg purposes I might as well be a newbie.

Back in the 80s, bootlegs were much harder to come by unless you lived in a big city. Somewhere I have a mailing list from circa 1988 put together by a woman who apparently made a living copying bootleg Prince tapes. She was charging $50 for dubbed VHS tapes of concerts and audiotapes of then-unreleased Crystal Ball tracks, etc. I didn't have the money for that stuff at the time and I'm glad I didn't buy it, since it's all been released officially or unofficially in better quality since then.

Lump me into this category as well. I was a fan since Little Red Corvette and then the last thing I really remember keeping close tabs on him was the Emancipation album. After that It was harder to find him and my interest went elsewhere.

Two years ago Purple Rain was on regular television and It stirred something in me. I started looking all over for Prince material. I have been semi-obsessed since. I'm thinking this too will eventually pass. The only place I can find his past music is on Ebay and resale record stores. He makes it so hard to be a fan. I do love his music, but I have a life. It is hard to stay in touch with his output. I wish his product was more accessible. This is the one place I try to visit often so I can stay connected.

This whole bootleg thing is new to me. I think I may have purchased two items off of Ebay not even knowing what they were. Sorry Prince. As a fan, I just look for music or videos that I haven't seen or heard. It kind-of makes me sad to think there may be material out there he doesn't want people to hear. I would be horrified if that happened to me. However.......I'm not a celebrity or musician. It may just come with the territory.

chellemac said:

Lump me into this category as well. I was a fan since Little Red Corvette and then the last thing I really remember keeping close tabs on him was the Emancipation album. After that It was harder to find him and my interest went elsewhere.

Two years ago Purple Rain was on regular television and It stirred something in me. I started looking all over for Prince material. I have been semi-obsessed since. I'm thinking this too will eventually pass. The only place I can find his past music is on Ebay and resale record stores. He makes it so hard to be a fan. I do love his music, but I have a life. It is hard to stay in touch with his output. I wish his product was more accessible. This is the one place I try to visit often so I can stay connected.

This whole bootleg thing is new to me. I think I may have purchased two items off of Ebay not even knowing what they were. Sorry Prince. As a fan, I just look for music or videos that I haven't seen or heard. It kind-of makes me sad to think there may be material out there he doesn't want people to hear. I would be horrified if that happened to me. However.......I'm not a celebrity or musician. It may just come with the territory.

In retrospect, it seems like the best time to be a fan might have been right around the time I lost interest. When I hear stories about the NPGMC soundchecks, Paisley Park celebrations, etc., it makes me wish I had stuck with him through that period. Come and Gold were both fantastic albums and I didn't hear them until a couple of years ago. Back in the late 80s he was so popular that it was impossible to get anywhere near him; now he has a bad relationship with his fans. But there was a time in the middle when you could walk into a nightclub and see him or go to Paisley Park and get called up on stage to sing along. That must have been awesome.

Exactly, finding all these bootlegs was like a whole new level of fandom for me. Having all the official albums and only 1 or 2 bootlegs was not enough for me, having now about 50 bootlegs and 25 Bootleg DVDs of shows has redoubled my fanship I feel.

Honestly in 1991 I would never have dreamed of owning a bootleg, there were no ways of getting them unless you lived near a dozen rare record stores, knew several hardcore fans (I knew none until 2011 on a personal level). No internet, no emails, no itunes and there was no outlet to get this great music.

I got my first boot in 1994, an official copy of the Black Album and 3 dodgy tapes in 1997 which quickly broke, but it was not until last year a friend sent me a copy of Dream factory and a DVD with the Detroit Hit and Run show. Earlier this year another friend sent me small club and just recently a friend sent me a hard drive full of stuff which I took some of.

I mentioned Testament as all of the other albums have gems and nuggets.