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The Ritz, New York NY   21 March 1981

1. Do It All Night
2. Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
3. Gotta Broken Heart Again
4. Broken
5. When You Were Mine
6. Gotta Stop (Messin About)
7. Sexy Dancer
8. Sister
9. I Wanna Be Your Lover
10. Head
11. Still Waiting

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Masonic Temple Auditorium, Detroit, Michigan 30 November 1982

1. Controversy (5:14)
2. Let's Work (5:31)
3. Little Red Corvette (4:13)
4. Do Me, Baby (7:11)
5. Head (4:15)
6. Uptown (5:01)
7. How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore (7:28)
8. Lady Cab Driver (8:44)
9. International Lover (10:20)
10. 1999 (10:01)
11. D.M.S.R. (7:28)

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First Avenue, Minneapolis   3 Aug 1983

This is Wendy Melvoin's debut with Prince and The Revolution, and a great early version of Prince's Purple Rain show. Quality is pretty good with a few imperfections that sound like tape distortion (speed up/slow down) but well worth having.

1. Let's Go Crazy 4:37
2. When U Were Mine 2:29
3. A Case Of You 2:36
4. Computer Blue 6:36
5. Delirious 4:32
6. Electric Intercourse 5:26
7. Automatic 6:48
8. I Would Die 4 U / Baby I'm A Star 7:03
9. Little Red Corvette 4:55
10. Segue 1:16
11. Purple Rain 16:13
12. DMSR 8:01
Disc Two - The Afternoon Rehearsal
1 Let's Go Crazy
2 When You Were Mine
3 A Case of You
4 Delirious
5 Electric Intercourse
6 Little Red Corvette
7 D.M.S.R.
8 - 14 Jamming

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Charade

Parade outtakes, alternate versions and different mixes. From when the boy was good!
Mastered from vinyl. Clicks filtered out with Cool Edit Pro. The last track is poorer quality.

1. Little Girl Wendy's Parade
2. New Position
3. I Wonder U
4. Under The Cherry Moon
5. There's Others Here With Us
6. Life Can Be So Nice
7. Sometimes It Snows In April
8. Old Friends For Sale
9. In All My Dreams
10. Girls & Boys
11. Love Or Money
12. Heaven (recorded in France summer '84)

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First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN  14 August 1984

Purple Rain Tour Premier Gig. The band is in great form, this being the opening night of a landmark tour. 
While it's an average audience recording, it's worth having for the great performance and the historical content.

1 Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine
2 Let's Go Crazy
3 Delirious
4 1999
5 Little Red Corvette
6 Computer Blue
7 Darling Nikki
8 The Beautiful Ones
9 When Doves Cry
10 Baby I'm A Star
11 Purple Rain

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Isstadion, Stockholm   22 August 1986

A good quality soundboard of a funky style live show.

Disc 1
Around The World In A Day
Christopher Tracy's Parade
New Position
I Wonder U
Raspberry Beret
Delirious
Controversy
A Love Bizarre
Do Me Baby
How Much Is That Doggie In The Window
Automatic
DMSR
When Doves Cry
Under The Cherry Moon,
Anotherloverholenyohead
Disc 2
17 Days
Head (Jam)
Pop Life
Girls And Boys
Life Can Be So Nice
1999
Mountains
Kiss
Purple Rain

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Paisley Park Studios, Minneapolis, Minnesota   21 February1987

Sign O' The Times rehearsal tapes. Excellent.

Disc 1
1. sign o the times
2. play in the sunshine
3. housequake
4. ballad of dorothy parker
5. slow love
6. starfish & coffee
7. hot thing
8. now's the time
9. sheila e drum solo
10. if i was your girlfriend
11. u got the look
12. strange relationship
Disc 2
13. i could never take the place of your man
14. forever in my life
15. kiss
16. the cross
17. it's gonna be a beautiful night
Filler: 18 Nov 1987 Rehearsals from Paisley Park
18. Little Red Corvette
19. Erotic City
20. Adore
21. What's Your Name

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First Avenue, Minneapolis MN  21 March 1987

Soundboard recording from silver bootleg CD entitled "Housequake"

1. Housequake
2. Girls And Boys
3. Slow Love
4. Hot Thing
5. Now's The Time
6. Strange Relationship
7. Forever In My Life
8. Kiss
9. It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night

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Palais Omniport, Paris, France  17 June 1987

01. Sign O The Times
02. Play In The Sunshine
03. Little Red Corvette
04. Housequake
05. Girls And Boys
06. Slow Love
07. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
08. Hot Thing
09. Now's The Time
10. Let's Go Crazy
11. When Doves Cry
12. Purple Rain
13. 1999
14. The Cross

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Roseland Ballroom, New York NY    2 October 1988 (AM)

Positivity
Wade In The Water
Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
Just My Imagination
Jack U Off
I'll Take You There
Down Home Blues
Cold Sweat

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Chocolate Box

Sign of the Times outtakes. Different versions of some of these have later been released.
The source material is not really very good and some of it is poor and distorted.

1. Moviestar
2. Heaven
3. Starfish & Coffee
4. Ballad of Dorothy Parker
5. Joy In Repitition
6. Pretty Face
7. Girl Of My Dreams
8. I Can't Stop
9. We Can Funk
10. All Day All Night

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Crucial (with Miles Davis)

1. Crucial Love (instrumental)
2. Fantastic
3. Crucial (normal version)
4. Break My Heart
5. Sexual Suicide
6. Girl In My Dreams
7. Can't Stop
8. We Can Funk
9. Welcome 2 the Rat Race
10. Witness
11. Red Riding Hood
12. Crucial (extended version)
13. The H Man

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Rainbow Hall, Nagoya, Japan  7 February 1989

Disc 1
Intro
Housequake
Slow Love
Adore
Delirious
Jack U Off
Sister
Do Me, Baby
I Wanna Be Your Lover
Head
Girls & Boys
A Love Bizarre
When U Were Mine
Little Red Corvette
Controversy
U Got The Look
Superfunkycalifragisexy
Bob George
Anna Stesia
Cross The Line
Interlude
Eye No
Lovesexy
Glam Slam
The Cross
I Wish U Heaven
Disc 2
Kiss
Dance On
Sheila E Drum Solo
Interlude
When 2 R In Love
Venus De Milo
Starfish & Coffee
Raspberry Beret
Strange Relationship
With U
Condition Of The Heart
When 2 R In Love
Let's Go Crazy
When Doves Cry
Purple Rain
1999 

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Birthday Show, Miami, FL  7 June 1995

01. Endorphinmachine
02. The Jam
03. Shhhhhh!
04. Days Of Wild
05. Now
06. Funky Stuff
07. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
08. Pussy Control
09. Letitgo
10. Pink Cashmere
11. (Lemme See That Body Get) Loose!
12. Count The Days
13. Return Of The Bump Squad
14. Outro

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