Everyone knows that the best thing of being a Prince fan is (aside form all the great studio albums) the plethora of live recordings available on bootleg. Most of these can be in quite poor quality, and my frustration is imense when I find a performance of a song that I dig so much, but that is let down by poor recording quality.

If you could request (to say the NPGMC) a select few songs of back dated live recordings what would they be? My choice of cuts to have in soundboard quality would be:

When U Were Mine (Lovesexy Tour '88, Milan) - Best version of the song ever, and his best song ever too.
Love, Thy Will Be Done (dont know what show it is on the Gold tour, but its his birthday as he's given a cake or something) - Those towering guitar solos.
Do Me Baby / Aint No Way / Nothing Compares 2 U - (Wembley Arena 1990) The best versions of all three songs I've heard. the rest of the concert wasn't so good but these are beautiful.
Purple Rain (Live in Tokyo on the ONA tour) - The guitar solo at the end is jaw droppingly good, best ive heard i reckon.

Not single songs but whole concerts PLEASE.

See my post on this in the NPGMC forum...

http://www.prince.org/msg/13/92541

Now THAT would be way cool

jaypotton said:

Co-Sign. If Pearl Jam and weak bands like that can do it why can't Prince? (Sorry. I'm not a fan. Not trying to start a flame war about Pearl Jam.) Seriously Prince has more cool stuff than most artists could ever DREAM of and an audience that would lap up at least 4 releases a year. He should do it already!! Its free money!!

Jughead.

The Forum, London 1993
(off the hook aftershow I was at, nothing's ever seemed 2 have surfaced

ONA Manchester - Nite 1.
Electric atmosphere, cracking version of Empty Room, and surprise performance of Purple Rain. Again...as above

The Ladder, LA Sports Arena soundcheck - November 1988.
In fact, 4 this one, I'd just be happy 2 have this rehearsal soundboard or not, never seen this around either.

If anyone knows any different then please lemme know!
[This message was edited Fri May 7 9:41:30 2004 by bananacologne]