The Purple Bootlegs

The Purple Bootlegs

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The Purple Bootlegs episodes

  • Instatiable / Scandalous / The Beautiful Ones / Nothing Compares 2 U + When The Lights Go Down (Live At Montreux Jazz Festival, 2009)
    00:00 Insatiable / 03:34 Scandalous / 06:45 The Beautiful Ones / 10:35 Nothing Compares 2 U / 14:34 When The Lights Go Down
    Note : this audio is from a YouTube video and I couldn't remove When The Lights Go Down from it. Nothing Compares 2 U was the last song played on that show, consider When The Lights Go Down as a "bonus".
    Hope u'll enjoy anyway :)
    About the show :
    Date : 8 July 2009 (show 1) Venue : Auditorium Stravinski City, Country : Montreux, Switzerland Band : Prince (vox, guitar, cylinder shaker), John Blackwell (drums), Rhonda Smith (bass), Renato Neto (keyboards)
    22 min
  • Day 92: I would like to apply for a loan
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    2 min
  • Rockhard In A Funky Place
    About the track : Rockhard In A Funky Place is the eighth and final song on Prince's sixteenth album, known as "The Black Album" (originally planned for release as his tenth album, albeit with no title or artist credit). In 1987, horn lines from the track were included in the live version of I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man included on the Sign O' The Times movie.
    Basic tracking took place on 28 October 1986 at Sunset Sound in Hollywood, California (the day after a re-recording of Feel U Up, the same day as Rebirth Of The Flesh, two days before Good Love). The track was included as the eighth and final track on the 5 November 1986 configuration of the Camille album (credited to the pseudonym Camille), which was later aborted. A few weeks later, it was included as the third track on the second disc as the album developed into the triple-album Crystal Ball on the 30 November 1986 configuration. The track was removed when the album was eventually pared down and became Sign O' The Times.
    The distinctive horn arrangement/hook was written by Eric Leeds years earlier. It was part of his song called Pacemaker. This Pacemaker part was often played live as a horn interpolation in both I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man and It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night, in the latter cued by Prince shouting 'Kick some ass' and then accumulating in the hook from Duke Ellington's Take The 'A' Train.
    Musicians :
    Prince - all vocals and instruments, except where noted
    Eric Leeds - saxophone - flute
    Atlanta Bliss - trumpet
    Susannah Melvoin - background vocals
    5 min
  • 2 Nigs United 4 West Compton
    About the track : 2 Nigs United 4 West Compton is the seventh song on Prince's sixteenth album "The Black Album" (originally planned for release as his tenth album, albeit with no artist credit).
    In 2002, a live version (almost completely different from the original) was included as the fourth track on the live release One Nite Alone... The Aftershow: It Ain't Over.
    Basic tracking took place on 9 December 1986 at Sunset Sound in Hollywood, California (two days after Bob George and Walkin' In Glory, the day before Le Grind).
    The track, along with Bob George and Le Grind, was recorded for a birthday party Prince was hosting for Sheila E. on 11 December 1986.
    As the song's original recording predates Cat starting to work with Prince, it is assumed that her voice in the intro, as well as the male voices (likely those of Greg Brooks and Wally Safford) were recorded later, likely in an October 1987 session when Prince finished off work on what was to be "The Black Album".
    Other than the similarity in name, this track is unrelated to the unreleased track 3 Nigs Watchin' A Kung Fu Movie.
    Musicians :
    Prince - all vocals and instruments, except where noted
    Sheila E. - drums
    Cat - chant and spoken word
    Unidentified voices (likely Greg Brooks, Wally Safford and others) - chants and spoken word
    8 min
  • Superfunkycalifragisexy
    About the track : Superfunkycalifragisexy is the sixth song on Prince's sixteenth album "The Black Album" (originally planned for release as his tenth album, albeit with no artist credit). In 1989, a live version was included on the Lovesexy Live 2 VHS, taken from the 9 September 1988 live TV broadcast, as part of a medley of Controversy, Dirty Mind, Superfunkycalifragisexy and a Controversy coda. In 2001, an instrumental version of the track was included as part of the NPG Ahdio Show # 3 download.
    While specific recording dates are not known, basic tracking took place in mid-September 1986 at Prince's Galpin Blvd Home Studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota (during the same set of sessions that produced Koo Koo, One Day (I'm Gonna Make You Mine) and When The Dawn Of The Morning Comes), making the earliest-recorded track on "The Black Album". He worked on the track further in January 1987, at the Washington Avenue Warehouse in Edina, Minnesota.
    The title is spoof of the song Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, a song sung by Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in the 1964 movie Mary Poppins.
    Musicians :
    Prince - all vocals and instruments
    6 min
  • Bob George
    About the track : Bob George is the fifth song on Prince's sixteenth album "The Black Album" (originally planned for release as his tenth album, albeit with no artist credit). In 1989, a live version was included on the Lovesexy Live 2 VHS, taken from the 9 September 1988 live TV broadcast.
    Basic tracking took place on 7 December 1986 at Sunset Sound in Hollywood, California (on the same day as the gospel-tinged Walkin' In Glory, which engineer Susan Rogers said may have been "to compensate" for Bob George, two days before 2 Nigs United 4 West Compton).
    The track, along with 2 Nigs United 4 West Compton and Le Grind, were recorded for a birthday party Prince was hosting for Sheila E. on 11 December 1986.
    Although unreleased at the time, Prince played Bob George during every show on the Lovesexy Tour as the penultimate song of the first, darker, half of the show. At the end of the song, the character Prince played was shot, before Prince was 'redeemed', playing Anna Stesia to close the first half.
    The "Bizarre!" sample used in this song is originally from Our Bizarre Relationship by Frank Zappa's band The Mothers of Invention (from Uncle Meat 1969). It was one of the preset samples in the Fairlight CMI sample-synthesizer and Prince took it from there. It was utilized in quite a few songs recorded between 1985 and 1987: All My Dreams, Bob George, Christopher Tracy's Parade, Lovesexy, and Madhouse songs Nine and 6 (The End Of The World Mix) all contain this sample.
    The sampled gunshot sounds in the song are also from the Fairlight CMI. They are the same as used in Thirteen and in the opening sequence of an unreleased version Play In The Sunshine.
    Musicians :
    Prince - all vocals and instruments
    6 min
  • Dead On It
    About the track : Dead On It is the third song on Prince's sixteenth album "The Black Album" (originally planned for release as his tenth album, albeit with no artist credit).
    While specific recording dates are not known, basic tracks were recorded in March 1987 at Prince's Galpin Blvd Home Studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota (during the same set of sessions that produced Cindy C. and Nine).
    The song includes a sampled line by Sheila E. taken directly from Holly Rock ("badder than a wicked witch"). Although unreleased at the time, lyrics (ridiculing rappers) from Dead On It were rapped by Tony M. (over music from Race) as an introduction to Jughead on each date of the Diamonds And Pearls Tour.
    Musicians :
    Prince - all vocals and instruments, except where noted
    Sheila E. - sampled line ("badder than a wicked witch")
    5 min

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