Saw this on youtube. Is this a fairly new leak? I've never heard this one before.

I searched and only found what sounds like him covering it live during a rehearsal.

ufoclub said:

I searched and only found what sounds like him covering it live during a rehearsal.

That could be it. [Snip - luv4u]

1nonly said:

ufoclub said:

I searched and only found what sounds like him covering it live during a rehearsal.

That could be it. That could be it. [Snip - luv4u]

Yep - that is a rehearsal. Very chill groove, though. I listen to it often.

this whole jam session is spellbinding. i can (and have) listen to Lisa from this for hours on end

This comes from the collection of a well-known former band member. Back in 2016, not long before Prince died, I met this former band member and found out we lived within 3 miles of each other. Of course, I asked if they had any unreleased songs from their time with Prince, and they told me "No."

A month later, Prince dies and this band member starts reaching out to me more and more and we struck up a friendship. They admitted to me that they did in fact have a box of tapes that hadn't been heard, full of rehearsals, demos, soundchecks, etc. They invited me over and played some of these things for me, and of course my jaw dropped. I didn't want to come out and ask if I could have a copy of these things, so I decided not to bring it up unless they did. A couple of days later, I was asked if I would be willing to transfer these tapes to digital files for them, and put them on a flash drive and of course I jumped at the chance. This box contained about 40 tapes, some labeled, but a lot of them weren't. I kept this quiet because I didn't want to betray their trust, but then I found out they were sharing the files with some fans online, so I shared them myself with one of my best friends, and of course we set out to use this stuff to find more uncirculating stuff. And we did! But, we also found out how shitty this trading game is. Because of shady traders, and greedy people selling this stuff to Eye Records, a lot of this stuff has come out on bootlegs or leaked. In fact, these events either directly or indirectly kickstarted the big leak of tracks we got in 2016-2018, after traders started stabbing each other in the back and leaking each others shit out of anger

A lot of those Purple Rain soundchecks and concerts that Eye records put out was from this collection. The leak of "Dear Michelangelo", the "Someone 2 Call" soundcheck, the so called "banjo version" of "U Got The Look",First Avenue 1983 soundboard, and the rehearsal of "The Ladder" that was overdubbed and released on ATWIAD, the recent leak of the extended outro of "Life Can Be So Nice" and tons more were all from this band member's collection. They eventually sold the physical copy of these tapes to a group of private collectors, so what hasn't leaked out yet will eventually, I'm sure of it. Unfortunately there really isn't much more jaw dropping things to leak from this collection, as about 95-98% of it is already out there. One interesting thing I remember is that they had a copy of "Camille" on cassette in this collection...but one of their family members had recorded over it with some house music from a local radio station

Mindbells9 said:

This comes from the collection of a well-known former band member. Back in 2016, not long before Prince died, I met this former band member and found out we lived within 3 miles of each other. Of course, I asked if they had any unreleased songs from their time with Prince, and they told me "No."

A month later, Prince dies and this band member starts reaching out to me more and more and we struck up a friendship. They admitted to me that they did in fact have a box of tapes that hadn't been heard, full of rehearsals, demos, soundchecks, etc. They invited me over and played some of these things for me, and of course my jaw dropped. I didn't want to come out and ask if I could have a copy of these things, so I decided not to bring it up unless they did. A couple of days later, I was asked if I would be willing to transfer these tapes to digital files for them, and put them on a flash drive and of course I jumped at the chance. This box contained about 40 tapes, some labeled, but a lot of them weren't. I kept this quiet because I didn't want to betray their trust, but then I found out they were sharing the files with some fans online, so I shared them myself with one of my best friends, and of course we set out to use this stuff to find more uncirculating stuff. And we did! But, we also found out how shitty this trading game is. Because of shady traders, and greedy people selling this stuff to Eye Records, a lot of this stuff has come out on bootlegs or leaked. In fact, these events either directly or indirectly kickstarted the big leak of tracks we got in 2016-2018, after traders started stabbing each other in the back and leaking each others shit out of anger

A lot of those Purple Rain soundchecks and concerts that Eye records put out was from this collection. The leak of "Dear Michelangelo", the "Someone 2 Call" soundcheck, the so called "banjo version" of "U Got The Look",First Avenue 1983 soundboard, and the rehearsal of "The Ladder" that was overdubbed and released on ATWIAD, the recent leak of the extended outro of "Life Can Be So Nice" and tons more were all from this band member's collection. They eventually sold the physical copy of these tapes to a group of private collectors, so what hasn't leaked out yet will eventually, I'm sure of it. Unfortunately there really isn't much more jaw dropping things to leak from this collection, as about 95-98% of it is already out there. One interesting thing I remember is that they had a copy of "Camille" on cassette in this collection...but one of their family members had recorded over it with some house music from a local radio station

1nonly said:

ufoclub said:

I searched and only found what sounds like him covering it live during a rehearsal.

That could be it. That could be it. [Snip - luv4u]

that demo/rehearsal is fantastic!

Mindbells9 said:

eternally seeking more info on the le zenith soundcheck from august 86' w/ coco boys for the love of god dm me

Marco81 said:

Any idea which of those tapes haven't come out yet? There's a few Purple Rain tour soundchecks with very detailed tracklists on Princevault, but they are not circulating, at least not widely...

A while back when those two PR soundchecks got out I was told there were a few more in the pipeline to come out, and some rehearsals that weren't purple rain era too. also a few things i had never heard about before. no clue as to if that has any relation to this tape collection, but i thought it was interesting.

would be very interested to know exactly what was left from this collection, i have some guesses, but am not certain.

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coldcoffeeandcocacola said:

sulls said:

The leak of "Dear Michelangelo", the "Someone 2 Call" soundcheck, the so called "banjo version" of "U Got The Look",First Avenue 1983 soundboard UGH! I LOVE the banjo version and wish it would have seen release on the SOTT SDE! Is this better quality than what was leaked???

No sir, unfortunately the version on the source tape was shitty as well.

I Fink I know the leaker.

Mindbells9 said:

sulls said:

The leak of "Dear Michelangelo", the "Someone 2 Call" soundcheck, the so called "banjo version" of "U Got The Look",First Avenue 1983 soundboard UGH! I LOVE the banjo version and wish it would have seen release on the SOTT SDE! Is this better quality than what was leaked???

No sir, unfortunately the version on the source tape was shitty as well.