Hey! i was wondering what are some really good bootlegs from this period, im really into The Gold Experience, Chaos and Disorder, and Emancipation right now, and i would love to endulge more in the era.

'The Dawn' three disc set.

http://prince.org/msg/7/361168

It's more of the Come/Gold era. Still great to have.

I heard a song called 1,000 hugs and kisses featuring nona gaye, glam slam boogie,funky, and other live renditions of those 1995 emporium shows double cds that my uncle spent a ton of money on and used to have back in the 90's. it also featured Prince doing Graham Central Stations " I believe in you" which him and sonny t doing a bass standoff and songs like Its alright and days of wild. I also remember a bootleg cd called the palace of tears cd which has a brief 777-9311 on bass and the mtv performance of peach back in 1995 that I spent $30 bucks at a shop back in 1998. there is another gold experience live concert that was recorded in japan and it was just ok.

dm3857 said:

Hey! i was wondering what are some really good bootlegs from this period, im really into The Gold Experience, Chaos and Disorder, and Emancipation right now, and i would love to endulge more in the era.

In answer to your question I would recommend a few titles or shows In somewhat chronological.

-The Beautiful Experience concert from Febuary 1994 is excellent and is also around in soundboard quality

-Star and Bars ( a highly enjoyable very good plus audience recording. I enjoy this alot more than Le Bataclan)

-The June 7th,8th and 9th Glam slam Miami shows(the 8th and 9th are extremely enjoyable and in soundboard quality)

-Glam Slam North July 1994 ( an audience recording but enjoyable and also has the debut of Pussy Control)

-Pretty much all of the Gold Experience Aftershows( The 2 nights at the Emporium really stand out in terms of tracklisting and quality), I also enjoy Astoria, Paradiso, and The Pod

-Avoid the Ultimate Live Experience shows from the European leg of the tour. Pretty much all of them are in fair quality. Having one show from that tour is fine. For the most part it's a fixed show show there's not that much drastic difference in the setlists. "I love U in me; is kinda of a standout but I found this tour pretty disappointing.

-Budokhan- japanese Ultimate Live Experience tour. A much different setlist for this tour and better quality than the European leg.

-June 7 1995 Glam Slam Miami-Ultimate Live Experience aka Return of the Bump Squad- a great soundboard recording of that show which is actually taken from a Warner Bros. in-house X-reference cassette that was submitted for possible commercial release

-The Park series volume 1-4 and Open Sessions-All of these shows are from the summer of 95 live from Paisley Park and captured as audience recordings. The quality of the different shows vary but for the most part they are all vg+ to Ex-. Lots of different setlists for the various nights.

Those are pretty much the key shows from that era, so I would recommend starting off with those and then searching for the other bits and pieces from that era.

As for emancipation, there is at least a disc or 2 worth of outtakes and alternate versions of the albums unreleased tracks which are pretty common in outtake comps. As for Live material, The October Paisley Park show is interesting but not the best audience recording and the soundboard Emancipation Day show is also worth having but not really mind blowing( with the exception of Joy in Repetition) the majority of the Love for 1Another charity shows and the Jam of the year tour shows are average and somewhat disappointing. Avoid the aftershows for the majority of them are just tired cover songs from Sly & the Family Stone and Larry Graham material. I hope this helps you out.

Peace

Big Chick

"Security Ensuring Thee"

well this thread has been EXTREMELY helpful! thanks i see i have a lot of things to get

Love the Gold Era!!!

But What to Have Hmmm!!!!!

1. The Dawn 4:1 (esstential.....in my opinion the best album released or unrealeased...and it's Fan -made)

2. 4DF 006-010 Open Sessions

3. 4DF 011-12 Slave

4. 4DF 025-026 Acknowledge Me

5. Sabotage 053-054 R U Experienced

6. Sabotage 147-149 Emporium Remastered

7. LadyBird 022 Boogie 2Nite (Remastered Edition)

8. An near endless list of aftershows..Including "The Pod", "Ghent","Pardiso"..Each have their special moments.

And I haven't started on the Japan leg yet!!!

There are a few DVDs worth checking out to

Ghent Mainshow and Aftershow and great.

The Miami 3DVD set is amust have

Boogie 2Nite (Once again!)

and of course

The Beautiful Experience TV Special

As for the Emancipation era.

I really don't think Prince was in a good place and it came through in some of the performances.

I know he was living a personnel tragedy but also a buisness one and was trying a little too hard to be commercial.

So I can't really offer much in high recommendations.

But Moonrakers 237-238 God Bless America is pretty decent glance at the tone of the tour.

Outtakes

Emancipation The Secret Chapter

10,000

The Exodus Has Begun or Exodus V.02

The Dawn

Live Audio

RU Experienced

Stars & Bars

Emporium (remasterd)

Big Fun

Glam Slam Live

Liberation VolI

Video

Freedom I/II/III

Glam Slam 7/8/9th June (Cammile)

Boogie Tonight Remastered (Ladybird)

The Beautiful Experience (fullasoul)

Love 4 One Another (Brave)

I could go on but those are I think are Essentials

I remember I bought NPG the exodus has begun cd from 1-800-New-funk back in the spring of 1995 when it first came out and my uncle has all the double cd's for the bootlegged emporium shows where he was promoting the exodus cd.

dm3857 said:

Hey! i was wondering what are some really good bootlegs from this period, im really into The Gold Experience, Chaos and Disorder, and Emancipation right now, and i would love to endulge more in the era.

outsideofthebox said: