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[Edited 11/30/23 4:58am]

Sounds good so far.

Man, I love that guitar sound. "The Question of U" is insane.

The Estate could easily release multiple releases like this (rehearsals, jams, etc.) each year. As is. Take them from audio cassettes. Minimal remastering. Minimal promotion. Preferably online only.

olb99 said:

Man, I love that guitar sound. "The Question of U" is insane.

The Estate could easily release multiple releases like this (rehearsals, jams, etc.) each year. As is. Take them from audio cassettes. Minimal remastering. Minimal promotion. Preferably online only.

having this one in complete form would have been cool, apparenty it's missing alot of People Without.

Nice, and a fly in the ointment.

Thanks to whomever shared this.

[Edited 11/30/23 8:14am]

Thanks! Looking forward to listening to this. I notice the track list is similar to, but slightly different from, the upcoming Purple Underground release (vol. 9, I think?). Does anyone happen to know how the actual content may differ, if at all?

The PU release appears to have 13 tracks (including 9:48 of Prince "joking around"), whereas this leak has 9. ("The Question of U" appears as 3 tracks on the PU release, which may be consolidated here.) But also, the running order for both appears to differ as well.

Just heard 'Mind Made Up' Such clear sound! worth checking out if you are in any doubt!

Details are nice.

01. Guitar Jam - Pick Up The Pieces (Jam).flac (15:58)
02. When You Were Mine (guitar only).flac (3:05)
03. People Without - Computer Blue - Love Bizarre (riffs).flac (1:09)
05. Take The A Train.flac (0:45)
06. I Got My Mind Made Up (You Can Get It Girl) - Jazz Improvisation.flac (8:19)
07. Lean On Me (Instrumental) - Prince on Piano.flac (1:05)
08. Caps & Laughs.flac (14:32)
Q Of U.flac (24:34)

olb99 said:

The estate should release this or just Camden 88 as a simple disc maybe with some extra info about Prince playing late shows////

Hope I can see that kind of live shit before I die...

ps . great to hear Prince laugh and having fun with the Band

[Edited 12/1/23 11:15am]

Hope I can see that kind of live shit before I die...

olb99 said:

Man, I love that guitar sound. "The Question of U" is insane.

The Estate could easily release multiple releases like this (rehearsals, jams, etc.) each year. As is. Take them from audio cassettes. Minimal remastering. Minimal promotion. Preferably online only.

Yes, but: no... what would be the use of a mediocre sounding official streaming/download release? There are enough bootlegs in this quality floating around. I want proper records!!

Mix it, master it, nice artwork, official physical product. It is woth it and it is worth the wait, I guess. I hope the estate can handle one SDE plus 2-3 more releases a year: live albums, rehearsals, Aftershow Gigs etc. which didn't find their way on the SDEs. I missed so much on the SOTT and D+P SDEs...

Thank you to whomever shared this. I am very grateful when anything like this surfaces

Rough said:

olb99 said:

Man, I love that guitar sound. "The Question of U" is insane.

The Estate could easily release multiple releases like this (rehearsals, jams, etc.) each year. As is. Take them from audio cassettes. Minimal remastering. Minimal promotion. Preferably online only.

Yes, but: no... what would be the use of a mediocre sounding official streaming/download release? There are enough bootlegs in this quality floating around. I want proper records!!

Mix it, master it, nice artwork, official physical product. It is woth it and it is worth the wait, I guess. I hope the estate can handle one SDE plus 2-3 more releases a year: live albums, rehearsals, Aftershow Gigs etc. which didn't find their way on the SDEs. I missed so much on the SOTT and D+P SDEs...

I see what you mean, but "properly" mixing (if the multitracks are available), mastering, packaging, etc. costs money. And I'd rather have something than nothing. Bootlegs are often incomplete and subpar sound quality wise. So, yes, absolutely, we need more "proper" releases. But we could have even more releases if we accept that not everything needs to be released on vinyl with 100-page booklets.

olb99 said:

Rough said:

Yes, but: no... what would be the use of a mediocre sounding official streaming/download release? There are enough bootlegs in this quality floating around. I want proper records!!

Mix it, master it, nice artwork, official physical product. It is woth it and it is worth the wait, I guess. I hope the estate can handle one SDE plus 2-3 more releases a year: live albums, rehearsals, Aftershow Gigs etc. which didn't find their way on the SDEs. I missed so much on the SOTT and D+P SDEs...

I see what you mean, but "properly" mixing (if the multitracks are available), mastering, packaging, etc. costs money. And I'd rather have something than nothing. Bootlegs are often incomplete and subpar sound quality wise. So, yes, absolutely, we need more "proper" releases. But we could have even more releases if we accept that not everything needs to be released on vinyl with 100-page booklets.

If you don't want bootlegs with subpar sound quality, you NEED to mix and master the original analog tapes - and yes, this is very complex and very expensive.

Because there is no market for downlaods anymore and you can't earn enough with streaming alone recouping your costs, the only way to make any money out of it is physical products. No problem for me!

Rough said:

If you don't want bootlegs with subpar sound quality, you NEED to mix and master the original analog tapes - and yes, this is very complex and very expensive.

Because there is no market for downlaods anymore and you can't earn enough with streaming alone recouping your costs, the only way to make any money out of it is physical products. No problem for me!

Do you know how much such an mix & master exercise would cost? Let us say remaster 200 tracks (I suppose there is economies of scale, so remastering 10-15 shows would be a good set-up).

Rough figures are sufficient

I wonder if one could get a crowd financing organised for this - so the estate could either raise the money on its own, or some cool entrepreneur could try to license this from the estate...

I managed to track down Pick Up The Pieces and Question Of U which is the bulk of it. It's fantastic, very enjoyable!

dualboot said:

The full two disc release is doing the rounds noo.