..after watching the sensational new DVD it left me more than happy as a full representation of the W2A tour. Other nights had different sets of course BUT I am cool with that. Likewise if we take 21 nights in London I would be happy with the full opening night [possibly THE best night actually if you include all the encores!]

Purple Rain , Lovesexy & SOTT ? 1 DVD is plenty enough as the sets were very fixed & rigid.

Where do you all sit? - give us multiple discs/video content downloads OR just 1 pro-shot DVD with incredible sound will do?

If they could pick one to release physically, and after that make all the other ones from the tour available for digital purchase on an official website, that'd be a dream...

Marco81 said:

If they could pick one to release physically, and after that make all the other ones from the tour available for digital purchase on an official website, that'd be a dream...

think that's all our dreams !

I want them all. They could make Blu-Ray Box sets with multiple concerts from one tour. I'd pay big money for that.

Nothing keeps Prince fans happy. They're mostly a miserable sack of people.

I'd be good with one live tour dvd (in the best possible quality, blu-ray, 4k, etc.). I'd be better with one live tour dvd and 1 aftershow dvd from the period.

TrivialPursuit said:

Nothing keeps Prince fans happy. They're mostly a miserable sack of people.

#Truth !

By new DVD, do you mean the Blu-Ray?

To be honest, I'd be delighted with one per tour. But the estate has decided not to release that widely, so at the moment, I'm averaging less than one per tour.

Ultimately, I'd like more than one per tour but for now, even one would be nice.

I don´t think one DVD or bluray is enough. We still don´t have a proper SOTT concert, only the movie and the NYE show but no proper tour concert even though Roy Bennet said that there´s decent footage of of it.

The concerts I am interested in are those that we haven´t seen before. If they release better, clearer versions of shows we already have, for example the Parade birthday show concert, then that´s fine and I´d buy it, too, but I´m mostly interested in good quality footage we haven´t seen before.

I´d love a First Ave August 3 pre-Purple Rain show in good quality but the one we know is decent enough so I´d much rather have a bluray or DVD of the 1984 birthday show at First Ave. So that would mean at least two more Purple Rain era shows, and that would be cool even though we already have the Syracuse concert from that tour.

I don´t really need several shows of this greatest hits tours but those would be a good idea for streaming if we could choose the show we want to watch. Many probably would like to watch a show they attended in good quality.

seems like prince would rehearse a couple different sets to keep consecutive nights fresh and throw in an aftershow plus a dvd and that would cover it .. so 5cds plus a dvd for 2 shows an aftershow and a video dvd

As well as more live concert footage of each tour, wish they would also extend it to soundcheck, rehearsal, aftershow and behind the scene footage, now that would be amazing!!

Yes but I would buy them separate from the releases.

yes, no, depends on the tour. some tours had a very solid setlist that didnt deviate much, some tours had very different shows every night.

PURPLEIZED3121 said:

..after watching the sensational new DVD it left me more than happy as a full representation of the W2A tour. Other nights had different sets of course BUT I am cool with that. Likewise if we take 21 nights in London I would be happy with the full opening night [possibly THE best night actually if you include all the encores!]

Purple Rain , Lovesexy & SOTT ? 1 DVD is plenty enough as the sets were very fixed & rigid.

Where do you all sit? - give us multiple discs/video content downloads OR just 1 pro-shot DVD with incredible sound will do?

I think SOTT and Lovesexy were more set and rigid than Purple Rain. He introduced a lot of songs on the tour and they did change things up often on the PR tour.

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But I would love the August 1983 Dance Benefit Show, the June 7th 1984 Birthday show a show he did with Sheila E on the Glamorous Life set, the Red White & Blue band show etc 1983 @ the Met Center in Bloomington(MINNI) 1999 tour, Theatre Du Verdure France Oct 17, 1985

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These are sets that need to be released along with an album tour concert from at least that 1978-1989 period. A lot of important shows that should be released.

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but after that at least 1 concert per album release to start off at least

TrivialPursuit said:

Nothing keeps Prince fans happy. They're mostly a miserable sack of people.

Accurate ! But we were so spoiled in his limetime, we just want so much more.

dm3857 said:

I mean why only one considering he had them all taped? I mean even a tour like purple rain tour which was very structured had several surprises on different dates (especially the Worcester show).

I´ve just looked it up on Princevault, there are two Worcester dates but there is no setlist. Could you please name some examples?

KoolEaze said:

dm3857 said:

I mean why only one considering he had them all taped? I mean even a tour like purple rain tour which was very structured had several surprises on different dates (especially the Worcester show).

I´ve just looked it up on Princevault, there are two Worcester dates but there is no setlist. Could you please name some examples?

The 28th March Worcester date included 4 The Tears In Your Eyes, When You Were Mine, Head, Still Waiting and I Wanna Be Your Lover, as well as B.B King's I Got Some Help I Don't Need.

gsmith5678 said:

KoolEaze said:

I´ve just looked it up on Princevault, there are two Worcester dates but there is no setlist. Could you please name some examples?

The 28th March Worcester date included 4 The Tears In Your Eyes, When You Were Mine, Head, Still Waiting and I Wanna Be Your Lover, as well as B.B King's I Got Some Help I Don't Need.

Wow, that´s interesting. I´d love to hear that, especially because I love his August 3, 1983 rendition of When You Were Mine, so I guess since this is the same band and same era, it might sound similarly strong and energetic. Head and For the Tears in Your Eyes during the Purple Rain era sounds intriguing, too.

Do you know if this one is circulating?

And thanks for the info.

Sure, I'd be okay with this.

Prince's official live releases were a bit wanting for the most part and, to me, is the really rich vein left to be mined by the estate along with the vault stuff. We're almost out of top selling stuff that can be made into SDE's and are closing in on the point where all the buyers are going to be people like us. Die hards.

A DVD release that gave us a top tier version of a particular show/tour along with another disc of aftershow stuff would suit me fine. But that second part is critical. Maybe throw in some videos or a CD of outtakes. I saw Prince nine times but only got to ever see two aftershows and both of those rank 1 and 2 as far as my concert experiences go.

Doesn't have to be one full aftershow - a compilation would be fine - but personally I want to see and hear a lot more of that however it gets made.

Seeing as I haven't watched one single DVD that has been released in recent years, I'd be ok with even less every year

djdaffy1227 said:

Seeing as I haven't watched one single DVD that has been released in recent years, I'd be ok with even less every year

You should probably rectify this situation since the 1999 and SotT DVD's are quite good. Haven't seen the W2A one in full but the little bit I have seems pretty great.

In terms of Next Up on the Estate's TO DO LIST, getting some proper live stuff out there seems like a no brainer to me. Especially....AGAIN...the aftershow stuff, which is almost mythical.

Just watching this man and his band(s) simply jam for 90 minutes was really something to behold and took his artistry to a whole other level for me. Being at one was like Having A Golden Ticket To a Special Secret Place where real magic was made and was a space/place where he did things we never EVER got anywhere else. His regular shows were very scripted, rehearsed and tight - for good reason.

The aftershows were more of a "lets just see what happens, who shows up and see what I feel like doing" sort of thing where SPARKS ignited. You could see and feel him and his band improvising and being all in and on point at the same time. You could see him up close signal time changes and solos with something as subtle as a sideways glance or a head nod. You could SEE those fingers work that incredible sound out of his guitar.

I don't know how to describe it and sorry for all the WORDS but at my very first aftershow he launched into The Ride and I damned near shit myself. It wasn't just me being up close and the small audience, although that was PART of it. His playing was different in those late night/early morning spaces. Just loose, raw, improvisational and free yet TIGHT as fucking hell at the same time. Pure funk and rock and roll.

Magic.

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KoolEaze said:

gsmith5678 said:

The 28th March Worcester date included 4 The Tears In Your Eyes, When You Were Mine, Head, Still Waiting and I Wanna Be Your Lover, as well as B.B King's I Got Some Help I Don't Need.

Wow, that´s interesting. I´d love to hear that, especially because I love his August 3, 1983 rendition of When You Were Mine, so I guess since this is the same band and same era, it might sound similarly strong and energetic. Head and For the Tears in Your Eyes during the Purple Rain era sounds intriguing, too.

Do you know if this one is circulating?

And thanks for the info.

It's out there on bootlegs. Not great quality, but still a soundboard.

To be fair, I think ALL the Montreux sets are all out there, pro shot in glorious quality.

They are glorius !

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No.

We need it all.

Not even close, there is too much diversity from show to show for a single release to be justified. Ultimately though I am grateful for whatever we get. We all want the floodgates to open, perhaps someday it will, but certainly not anytime soon.