okay, tell me what this is please.

is it a video of a performance by prince?

or is it a compilation of several performance clips of prince?

it's mostly prince on guitar, right?

what's the tracklist?

anything more you can tell me about the it?

thanks a lot.

purpleone said:

The Undertaker was released in 94 along with The Sacrifice of Victor. It's basically a video of a jam/rehearsal at Paisley Park with just P, Sonny T and Michael Bland.

It's very guitar centered and features some great playing. Got any guitarist friends? This is the video 2 show 'em!

Track list:-

The Ride
Poor Goo
Honky Tonk Woman
Bambi
Zannalee (prelude)
The Undertaker
Dolphin (studio version)

Prince also wanted to release the audio version possibly through a guitar specialist magazine but Warners wouldn't let him. Test pressings exsist and are worth a small fortune.

Try and pick this vid up it rocks!

The video is awesome. i play it all the time (recorded it onto audio and play it in my car too). Honky Tonk Woman going into Bambi is just

There's also a boot of the test pressing mentioned by soulyacolia circulating which i gather (though i don't have it) has a different version of Dolphin.

Great info about the Undertaker project , c&p from chelray1.
The Album
Following Prince's "private" releases of the one-sided singles "Gett Off" in 1991, and "Sexy MF" in 1992, Prince privately manufactured a picture CD in around 1000 copies some time in 1994, containing the 36-minute jam from the summer of 1993 by the "Paisley Park Power Trio". The silk-screened discs were pressed in Canada, as are all of the Paisley Park in-house releases. When the sleeve cover was at the printer's office, Warner Bros. heard of the record and told Prince to destroy the whole edition. The destroying process was to cover the record with a shellac coating layer so it couldn't be playable. However, some resourceful collectors figured out a way to remove the layer and make the CD playable again. Naturally, some copies of the disc (withut sleeve cover) have appeared on the collector's market and is offcourse highly valued. Both playable and non-playable versions can be found in collector's circles today, and they usually sell in the $200 - $300 range... There are three versions on the CD release, that is different than the official released The Undertaker video, "The Ride", "Poor Goo" and "Dolphin". In The Undertaker video, "The Ride" [10:53] stops abruptly at one point during the song and Vanessa Marcil's character throws up, before the music starts again. This break is not on the alternative version. The Undertaker version of "Poor Goo" [4:26] is missing a part at the beginning of the alternate verison (He says "Poor Goo" a few times over a strumming guitar). The video version of "Dolphin" [3:35] was overdubbed with the studio recording of the song, while the alternate take is the actual live recording of the song from The Undertaker sessions.
The Video
On October 8th 1993, the NPG store invited visitors to view a new concert film, directed by Parris Patton. Less than 50 fans got the chance to see the film (presented by "Bootleg Videos") wich features General Hospital (US TV series) actress Vanessa Marcill, "The Paisley Park Power Trio" (Prince, Michael B and Sonny T), and Steve, as the receptionist. After the showing, questionares were given out and the attendants were asked of their opinions and if they would buy it if it was released as a video. Obvious a success, on December 6th, the NPG store began taking orders for Prince's home video The Undertaker,. The video was a limited edition of 1000 copies at $50 each. Word about this spread very quickly with no promotion at all and the videos sold out at once. More and more demands came by the fans, so The Undertaker were officially released by Warner Music Vision in the UK on March 6th 1994 and later in March in the rest of Europe and Japan, on both VHS and Laser Disc, with art direction and design by B, J.C. Munson and C. Hermes. The film starts with Vanessa walking to Paisley Park. After entering the first set of doors, she picks up a security phone. Steve, the receptionist comes out, "Can I help you?" he says. Vanessa says she really needs to use the phone. The receptionist lets her in and tell her to use a phone in the back, "but don't go way back there, because there's a rehearsal going on." She makes her call and says, "Victor, it's me. I missed you. I've changed, now I wan't to be with you, don't hang up Victor." She removes a bottle of pills from her purse and takes them. While playing with a porcelain doll, Vanessa enters the rehearsal area, and then it's time for the entire jam session, with no dialog what so ever. While the last song ("Dolphin") is played, we can see Vanessa running back to the phone and it all ends with jazzy groove from "The Paisley Park Power Trio", later known as the "New Power Trio".
[This message was edited Sat May 29 5:19:37 2004 by gsh]

It's some good shit guitar and band-wise, but Prince isn't really trying in the vocals.