I found the Chocolate Box in a shop in Boston, March 1989 & I freaked out!
my friend & I then decided to split Prince boots so we could afford to get them.

The second one was the new Morning Paris 1987 show on a record called
"He's Got The Look" that had a freaky painting of Prince on the cover.

Anx, i also ended up with the Royal Jewels box & Second Show That Night (Small Club) box
I love my records

The Jewel Box on CD...

that should have been back in 1988:

Black Album
Camille's Crystal Ball
Charade

skilletnomicrowave said:

Yeah, I remember Dream Nation. Basically it was the "Revolution" in the North, "Controversy" in the South and then "Dream Nation" in the Midlands

Later on, it became just Controversy, then Uptown and Interactive covering the UK, until eventually just Uptown after the lawsuits. Now with Uptown going to annual book only, no more mags after about 17 or 18 years

DiminutiveRocker said:

Yea I had that on VHS, fantastic concert.....

DiminutiveRocker said:

it WAS released in Europe (at least), I have an officialy purchased tape of that one

Mine was Camille, a 2 or 3 set of good old vinyl, later morphed into Crystal Ball

lol... all that crappy shit that was on "Blue Lake" records lol

Dancelot said:

It was also released in the US

I picked up 'Small Club' and 'Crucial' at the same time. Awww, the good ol' days.

In 1988,I obtained a cassette tape of "The Black Album".Shortly thereafter,I discovered that there were hundreds of other bootlegs.I think the next one I got was the "Camille" album.

I paid nearly $60 dollars for a bad copy of the Black Album on CD, the guy at the store said it was an 'import'. Stolen two years later.

First boot I heard was 'Small Club' then The Black Album. First pressed boot I had was an LP of the Camden Palace aftershow which my girlfriend at the time bought me it came in a gatefold sleeve with a poster and I still have it. That was back in 88, 89.
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Raijuan said:

That takes me back - 2nd CD boot I owned (with Small club being the first)

I loaned both out to someone years back and I'll be f**ked if I can remember who !!

The Regent of First Avenue
Minneapolis 03/21/87

first was "Prince Tokyo 90" picked it up in a wreka sto in Mystic Conn. about 4 years ago, i was soo happy to have a live version of Bambi, i still put it in on occasion.

Second was a crappy copy of "ONA Chicago"

third was "Secret Garden"

as for all of you who complain about file sharing, i enjoy it, it gives me the opportunity to get music that i couldn't get any other way. I just got "An American In Paris 86" this chit rocks

CHOCOLATE BOX
PAISLEY LIBIDO
CHARADE

Got them all in this little shop in Sydney. Excitement plus evrytime they got a new shipment, then listening to the boots prior to buying them.....mindblowing....

"His Royal Badness" - Controversy Tour

'Black Album' on tape and 'Charade' on vinyl.
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langebleu said:

Ditto! + 'Crucial'

Raijuan said:

oh holy crap, now that i think about it...THIS was my first bootleg! i sent off for it in the mail WAY back in the day! ha!

Raijuan said:

I have this one on vinyl!

DavidEye said:

THE BLACK ALBUM on vinyl

Mine was Platnium. It has quite few Gold Experience songs before the album was released. I got it because I thought it would never be released. It also had some music from I'll do anything sessons. The same day i went back and bought Silver 2 Disk with the Undertaker perfomance on it, plus The beautiful Experience, Small Club 2 CD and Neon Rendevous.
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1999 Tour Rehearsal. I bought it just to hear the intro. to DMSR!

The Black Album - a copy made by a friend.

The first one I purchased was "Yellow"

Probably the worst copy of the black album, then charade, also wembley '86, all on tape

AS IF I have any!







Well, it's on cassette if that's any indication Some guy made me a tape of the Black Album & Small Club. I thought they sounded like shit