Just wondering; as I was a young litle fly when prince was doing that tour, I really want to know what concertfootage is the best of that era. help me pleeease

My first occasion to see him perform was on the ACT II; So I'm snooping around to get to see more of that period; stuff that is really worthwile...

zobilamouche said:

Well there is officially released/aired footage available from his birthday show from Detroit. It was aired in many countries and is pretty easy to find in pristine condition on many boot labels.

lovemachine said:

I go that one throug a friend; but it's a japanese version; some girl going all asian before "mutiny"... Is that the best possible copy? Are there any other stuff that's a must-have?

The Detroit Birthday show from 86 is probably the easiest to come by, and he's obviously in a fantastic mood - I'd go for that one, as it's also the most well filmed, but unfortunately only 60 minutes long.

Failing that - look for the Isstadion,Stockholm 22nd Aug 86.Also professionally filmed AND 105 minutes long!

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zobilamouche said:

There is a Non-Japanese version of "Birthday Parade" and as thebumpsquad said the other must have is Stockholm which is the video companion to the show on the awesome "City Lights" set.

thnx guys!
When it comes to audio - I only heard... detroit, stockholm and Paris... any tips on live material from that era; shows in a good soundquality?

The best soundwise are...
3rd March 86 - First Ave (120 minutes)
3rd April 86 - Boston (135 minutes)
23rd May 86 - San Fransisco (150 minutes)
17th Aug 86 - Rotterdam (110 minutes)
22nd Aug 86 - Stockholm (105 minutes)
25th Aug 86 - Paris (115 minutes)
31 Aug 86 - Hamburg (115 minutes)
9 September 86 - Yokohama (110 minutes)

I'd recommend the Yokohama gig out of all of them, cuz it's the last Revolution show

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thebumpsquad said:

thnx bumpsquadie

zobilamouche said:

The March 6th show is easily the best as far as content but the sound is audience and parts are AWFUL.

thebumpsquad said:

??? What do you mean with soundwise ???
the recording-quality or the concert-quality???

Stockholm and Detroit have the best recording-quality,
First Ave is the greatest concert IMO ...
so I suppose you mean concert-quality???

What's with Boston and San Francisco??
I don't have them ... f*ckin' 150 minutes???
please ... Give me more details

you guys remember that clip from one of the Paris shows (i think it was) when some guy runs on the stage and bundles into the little fella?

letsgocrazy said:

Hell yeah! During 'Life Can be So Nice'.

He literally bowls Prince over by kinda running in2 his legs!

Luckily, security were on him real fast.

Prince played it off cool - but I wonder how cool he was when he got off stage?

thebumpsquad said:

I only have the stockholm show on vid...and paris affair on cd...

i dunno why i remember lots of parade era bootlegs but i never got around to looking for them

Stockholm and Detroit

Yeah Id also recommend the Yokahama show. Also known as 'Septembre' I think. There's a quite a number number of odd tracks played at this show including 'Do U Lie' And
'Automatic'. The version of 'Purple Rain' which closes the show is a really good version.
[This message was edited Sat Nov 8 12:31:50 PST 2003 by JDINTERACTIVE]