What are your personal essential audience recording boots? Audience recordings with great sound quality or those shows that are so great you're willing to endure the inferior sound quality recordings. No soundboards, please.

Camden Palace Aftershow - Just for Just My Imagination.
One Nite Alone Oberhaussen - Prince should have released the european shows for the official release...
Dakota V - Just a great rock show.
Paris 2014 - One of Prince's best. Why this wasn't released (despite being filmed) I really don't get.
Somewhere Over In Melbourne - Possibly his best show vocally. Plus, I was there. Honourable mentions to its sister bootleg, A Place In Melbourne of the earlier show.

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Not a big fan of Audience recordings, but I like One Night Alone in Paris a lot. Also, I just listened to the two shows from the Piano and Mic tour on 2/28 in Oakland. Those are really enjoyable to listen to.

I liked the [1983-03-28] A Californina Triple Threat - Los Angeles 1983 with Prince and Vanity 6. It added to the shows.

Le New Morning '87 - please please please can this come out in soundboard

bluegangsta said:

Camden Palace Aftershow - Just for Just My Imagination.
One Nite Alone Oberhaussen - Prince should have released the european shows for the official release...
Dakota V - Just a great rock show.
Paris 2014 - One of Prince's best. Why this wasn't released (despite being filmed) I really don't get.
Somewhere Over In Melbourne - Possibly his best show vocally. Plus, I was there. Honourable mentions to its sister bootleg, A Place In Melbourne of the earlier show.

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Fuckin' A. I think I've heard only one of these -- the awesome Camden Palace Aftershow. I need to look up the others. Dakota V sounds intriguing. I'm from the Twin Cities originally and spent a lot of time at the Dakota back in college.

bluegangsta said:

Camden Palace Aftershow - Just for Just My Imagination.
One Nite Alone Oberhaussen - Prince should have released the european shows for the official release...
Dakota V - Just a great rock show.
Paris 2014 - One of Prince's best. Why this wasn't released (despite being filmed) I really don't get.
Somewhere Over In Melbourne - Possibly his best show vocally. Plus, I was there. Honourable mentions to its sister bootleg, A Place In Melbourne of the earlier show.

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Camden Palace Aftershow-- isn't the Soundboard already out or am I just dreaming?

Emporium Remastered

Conga Room 2009

those are 2 that I like listening to

Emporium

Glam Slam West

Honeymoon Experience

I've Got 2 Sides

Le Bataclan

Live At The Rex

Paradiso

The Park Volumes 1-4

Private Show '87

Stars & Bars

This Is My Night

All of these are must haves.

The Indigo rock aftershow from 29th September am in 2007. The boot called Prince, Josh & Cora.

Dakota V is great with 3rdeyegirl, as is Dakota VI. I think these are the 3rdeyegirl 'rehearsal' sessions which were open to the public.

There's some more good 3rdeyegirl ones DNA lounge in San Fransisco and the Ogden theatre in Denver.

I second the Indigo rock aftershow!

I haven't actually heard the Conga Room one though, will have to go digging at some point.

Look up the entire Gold tour aftershow video online! Excellent sound. Incredible version of Gold.

toshi said:

KingSausage said:

toshi said:

Camden Palace Aftershow-- isn't the Soundboard already out or am I just dreaming?

There's a Camden soundboard?!??

AFAIK, it's only a portion of the entire concert, probably taken out of a circulating video.

I don't think the full soundboard recording has emerged, even if I think it is one of the items we could see with more probability sooner or later.

KingSausage said:

toshi said:

Camden Palace Aftershow-- isn't the Soundboard already out or am I just dreaming?

There's a Camden soundboard?!??

Sadly no.

Probably one of my favourites is the 1986 First Avenue show released by 4DFunk. Fantastic sound and a brilliant energetic and long show.

Many recordings from the ONA tour were really very good indeed. Most of the ONA stuff released by SAB and other labels are worth checking out.

Really, there are too many excellent audience recordings to list here.

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The 1985 birthday show/masquerade ball is one of my favorites. There are a few different versions out there, and I think it's 4DF's that sounds the best to me.

Not a fan of audience recordings, vastly prefer from the soundboard, but I do really like the recording of the Indigo show from 21/22 Sept 2007 which opens with Amy Winehouse.

Lianachan said:

Not a fan of audience recordings, vastly prefer from the soundboard, but I do really like the recording of the Indigo show from 21/22 Sept 2007 which opens with Amy Winehouse.

Seconded! Have a soft spot for it because I was there, but its still amazing. The cuts that Prince put on the CD that came with the 21 Nights book had definitely had some tweaking in the studio...much prefer the real recording.