The first bootleg that I got was actually from a friend. He got it while he was overseas...he knew I was really into Prince.
He got me "His Royal Badness"...it's a concert from the Controversy tour in New Orleans. It's still one of my favourite boots.

So what was the first one you got?

The original Black Album.

No.

when doves cry it's a sign of the times, on LP!!

The Black Album on cassete tape!!

a collection of boots from a friend in London in 2000.

The first song i heard on it was : "Rebirth of The Flesh"

I WAS HOOKED ON BOOTS FROM THEN ON...

a cd with the 12" version of "sexy dancer" and some stuff from studio nights.

The Black Album in 1988
You Belong To Prince

Open Book

"Unauthorised Live In Europe 1988" which is essentially an edited version of the "Small Club" boot. I didn't even know what a bootleg was! I thought it was legal, like an unauthorised biography is legal, only "unauthorised" by the person it's about

the black album on tape from camden market in london.

i was 14, had just heard sign o the times, about 3 weeks later lovesexy came out and i picked up the black album round about the same time.

obviously there'll never be a year quite like it!

The first one: Purple Rain tour Syracuse on cassette ... taped it myself from TV-broadcast
The second one: Parade tour live in Rotterdam on cassette (I attended that show)

The first "official" one: The Black Album on LP

The greatest ones:
You Belong To Prince
Dance 2 The Beat

Chico319 said:

1989: the original Black Album on vinyl.

Small Club

First Boot on Casette: "The Black Album"

First Boot on CD: "The Jewel Box" [3cd]

First Boot on Vinyl: "Old Friends 4 Sale/All My Dreams" [bootleg 45]

JohnnyTheFox said:

Same here. Cost me an arm and a leg and an ear and a butt cheek, and till this day it's the only bootleg I ever bought (thank god for the royal hub... )

First boot on CD: Possesed

First boot on Vinyl: Can't remember the name, but it was a 12" single that had a couple 'mega mixes' on it and the unreleased extended version of Batdance. I don't really consider it a real LP, since it only had 3 tracks . The first (and only) LP boot I got was The Back Album.

First boot(s) on tape: The Black Album and Camille (both were on one tape)




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I bought two on the same day

Which one I actually paid for first I couldn't tell you ...

Small Club - the original release on X Rekords for A$90

and Extra Lovable on 2LP for I think it was A$45

yay !

I didn't even know bootlegs existed before this ...
and this was back in like 1996 or 7

Now I count my boots at over 600 so its not all bad

The first I had was a collection of outtakes on a single disc called "Yellow".

It had tracks like "I Wonder", "Player", "Martika's Kitchen", "Power From Above", "Carmen On Top", "get Blue", "Open Book", "The Voice", Uh Huh!", etc.

The packaging looked so good, I thought it was an official release. When I got home and listened to the bad quality of some of these tracks, I thought "something's not right..."

Never play it anymore though, because now I have The Work!

The first bootleg I got was a cassette of 'The Black Album' in 1988.The person who taped it for me added a few other unreleased tracks from the 'Camille' project...

"Rebirth Of The Flesh"
"Feel U Up"

So,those were the first Prince boots that I heard.

A TDK clear cassette with Charade on one side and some megamixes on the other. The cover was a smudged photocopy of a photo from the Sign O' The Times tour on flourescent orange paper. Wish I still had it.

it was either this really cheap looking import called chicken grease i got from a shop that sold tons of bootlegs or Dreams 3 CD set. that was sent to me by another fan back in 98-99:hmm2:

A vinyl called "Just Another Nigger Singing", it's a Sott concert in terrible quality. I bought it on a record fair sometimes in 1987.

The first boot I has was given to me called "THE WHITE ALBUM". This was an edited version of Dormund 88' Lovesexy on a single cd.

The first boot I ever bought was Neslon Rogers nightclubbing and a copy of the Black album.

Then I was hooked for life...



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Serious said:

Yeah,I remember that boot.Wassup with that title?

The "White Album" was the very first and thena day or so later I went back and bought "This is a Dance".

A friend made me a tape of The Black Album in the winter of 87/88. I was a senior in high school, and most of my friends HATED Prince but for some reason everyone LOVED that tape. It was played at every party I was at from about March to July in 1988. Bob George was the obvious favorite. The sound quality was horrible but I think the bad quality added to the funkiness of it.

I remember when it was officially released, one of my friends from high school who I still hung out with at the time mentioned he picked it up...but it wasn't as good as the tape I gave him back in 1988. He thought it was touched up in the studio.

Bought my 1st CD bootleg around 1995. Jewel Box II for $75, then Jewel Box I a week later.
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The Black Album on cassette in 1988.

Shortly after I got a tape of a 1999 tour concert and some outtakes, I've forgotten which songs they were.

My first bootleg CD was of the famous 1988 After Show in Holland.

Now, I've got, like, tons of cassettes and CDs of boots.

mine was the Black Album on Vinyl
i paid 6 quid for it.
in 88