*Prince & The NPG at Glam Slam (1992)*

Thank you to the person who uploaded this to the Internet Archive. A wonder it isn't taken down yet. Anyway, watch this shit! The energy, the joy, the music, it's all in there!

https://archive.org/details/prince__the-npg_at_glam_slam_1992

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The last song I like to share is the 2002 live version of …

*Joy In Repetition* (One Nite Alone... The Aftershow: It Ain’t Over)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBUFWnaKom8

 https://open.spotify.com/track/5DJbH0MAjmN8RACGgNqqYk?si=d33c116eaeb342a1

Recorded on April 10, 2002 (a.m.) in The World, New York, NY.

ℹ️ http://www.princevault.com/index.php?title=10_April_2002-am (concert)

ℹ️ http://www.princevault.com/index.php?title=Album:_One_Nite_Alone..._The_Aftershow:_It_Ain%E2%80%99t_Over (album)

#Prince #live #guitar

#Utrecht is a middle sized medieval city in the middle of the Netherlands and capital of the eponymous province. #Prince played here six times. 4x in 1987 and 2x in 1998 (incl 1 aftershow). Welcome to #PrinceFriday, live from Utrecht!

There are two concerts I share with you today. The first one is officially released and was part of the Sign '☮️' the Times Super Deluxe box-set (this one again? yes! best box-set ever!). You find the concert as CD 7 and 8, or LP 11, 12 and 13, or track 75-92. It's from June 20, 1987 in Stadion De Galgenwaard. I was personally there at the 19th and 21st. Those were my first two Prince concerts and yes I was very young. 👶

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jRtKw0LpzY&list=OLAK5uy_nysBR93vc_I48usiCFTnMe6nKTB6YETjo&index=75

 https://open.spotify.com/track/6i20Ehsn9wkxPjq6k0RWv1?si=9c1745ee3d864317

ℹ️ http://www.princevault.com/index.php?title=20_June_1987

#live #music #eighties

1/2

Welcome back on #PrinceFriday! Let's do an odd personal favorite of me this week. 😎 Wally 😎

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOS0uLZfDPQ

 https://open.spotify.com/track/76edqRDFCJh9LS10VgORK6?si=83e455d7ff314a95

This infectious song, that sounds like it walked out of a #musical, can be found on one of the vault discs from the Sign "☮️" The Times Super Deluxe box-set.

According to http://www.princevault.com/index.php?title=Wally:

"… After finishing the song, Prince ordered engineer Susan Rogers to erase all channels on the 24-stem recording, against her pleas not to. A new version for which Eric Leeds and Atlanta Bliss added horns, was then recorded two days afterwards.

The original version was a solo recording dealing with Prince’s break-up with Susannah Melvoin, and thanking Wally Safford for being his friend. Allegedly he felt the song was too personal, however, and kept adding layers of percussion and changing the feel of the track. …"

So this here is the second version and it looks like the original version is indeed gone. According to Susan Rogers (https://soundcloud.com/cateto-catetez/susan-rogers-on-wally) the melody of the original version sounded similar to the released (second) version, but we will never know how it sounded (or Rogers should secretly have made a copy, but that is imo after all this years very unlikely). Anyhow, I think it's epic!

 #Prince #music

#PrinceFriday today is about #bootlegs! #Prince was one of the most bootlegged artists ever. The most famous of them was The Black Album. An unreleased album, that followed the Sign '☮️' The Times double album. The plan was to release it in December 1987, but Prince cancelled the release and gave the order to destroy all copies. But some of those were already distributed, so in a few months it became probably the most bootlegged album ever (well you never know exactly).

There is a lot to say about the album, the reason for cancellation, the fact he still played songs from it on the 1988 LoveSexy Tour, that it had a (limited) release in 1994 after all and that it's the only officially released Prince album not on streaming platforms (except Tidal afaik).

Fortunately there are enough places where the album can be found, incl. Soundcloud and YouTube (for your convenience).

 https://soundcloud.com/oneuphoe/sets/prince-the-black-album

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RNhL9d31ac

For more information see among other things:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Album_%28Prince_album%29

ℹ️ http://www.princevault.com/index.php?title=Album:_The_Black_Album

#FUNK #music #eighties

It was 10:35 on a lonely Friday night, so time for another #PrinceFriday! 💜  

This week we are going back to the #Montreux #Jazz Festival on 18 July 2009. #Prince and the NPG played two shows that night and both are equally legendary! There were plans during Prince' lifetime to release this on DVD, but as happened many times during his career, it was shelved for unknown reasons (probably he lost interest 🤷‍♀️). The Prince Estate can release it, but it seems the Estate is only busy cashing on re-releases. 🙄 Fortunately we have these great video's on YouTube (who will probably taken down when the estate nevertheless decides to release it). So please enjoy these two legendary concerts!

Show 1:

 https://youtu.be/9zTJWCT1tiM

ℹ️ http://www.princevault.com/index.php?title=18_July_2009-1

Show 2:

 https://youtu.be/s-kOM4MU0xo

ℹ️ http://www.princevault.com/index.php?title=18_July_2009-2

#live #music #Switzerland #Schweiz #Suisse

2day NO #PrinceFriday! 😢 I don't have the time. 🤷‍♀️ Hopefully again next week.

… but please go ahead and give us your own #Prince #Friday! 😃