Gangster Grooves (2CD)

Live at Chicago Theatre/Chicago, 4.Apr.93

Tracklist

• Act I tour set

Get on up (2CD)

Live at Radio City Music Hall/New York, 25. Mars 1993

Review

• Japanese 2CD with the O+> concert from New York 3-25-93. The Quality is very good. Act 1 tour set.

Get Stupid (2CD)

Live at Olympiahalle/Munich on 6.Jun.92

Review

• Limited Edition 500, great booklet.

Tracklist

1. Precious Lord
2. Thunder
3. Daddy Pop
4. Diamonds And Pearls
5. Let's Go Crazy
6. Kiss
7. Deat On It
8. Jughead
9. Purple Rain
10. Live 4 Love
11. Lively Up Yourself
12. Willing And Able
13. Nothing Compares 2 U
14. Sexy MF
15. Thieves In The Temple
16. It (+ Controversy)
17. A Night In Tunisia
18. Strollin'
19. Insatiable
20. Gett Off
21. The Flow
22. 1999
23. Baby I'm A Star
24. Push
25. A Love Bizarre
26. My Name Is Prince

Get Wild (2CD)

Live at the Palladium/New York, 14. July 1994

Label

AS 38/2

Review

• DISC LENGTH : disc 1 - 60:48, disc 2 - 62:42
• OVERALL SOUND QUALITY : VG+/EX- audience recording
• SOURCE: 7/14/94 The Palladium, New York City, New York.
• COMMENTS : The man's penchant for playing in NYC is obvious. You can somewhat gauge his mood just by listening to The Jam. Great little extended rap at the opening before beginning the NPG introductions. Wonderful track listing makes for an extremely exciting show, most notably the inclusion of the new anthem Gold, the 14 minute version of Days of Wild, and the thrilling instrumental jam during the second half of Now. Nothing out of the ordinary here really though, just another very nice document from an all too brief tour. Sound quality is very clean, falling somewhere between Le Batalcan & Stars & Bars disc sets. No annoying crowd participation as is the case in Le Bataclan. Packaging in disappointing. Cover looks nice but no booklet & just a single sheet inner sleeve. How spoiled we are these days when we don't get a 46 page fold-out booklet with each new release. The cover features a very attractive collage of the photos in last years 'Q' magazine cover issue.
• RECOMMENDATION : Well, if you already own the Glam Slam 6 CD set or any other other recent Love Experience tour releases you do not need this. This would just be an extension of that because of the very similar sound quality and track listing. If you don't own anything from the Love Experience tour this would be a very suitable choice to start since it's one of the better shows in terms of performance and track listing.
• From flyer: "Recorded at Palladium club, New York, on July 14th, 1994. Nona Gaye, Lenny Kravitz, Vernon Reed and N.P.G. was guests. You have the complete performance on this release. The total playing time is around two hours and a few minutes. The sound quality is excellent."
• I just picked up a copy of Get Wild. Again, the sound could be better but, the concert is outta this world! It's a dbl cd recorded live at The Palladium in New York, 7/14/94, for a charity concert.

Tracklist

• Disc 1
  1. Gold
  2. The Jam
  3. Endorphinemachine
  4. Space
  5. Days Of Wild
  6. Now
  7. The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
• Disc 2
  1. Billy Jack Bitch
  2. Papa
  3. Love Sign
  4. Shhh
  5. Mary Don't You Weep
  6. Get Wild

Glam Slam East (2CD)

Live at Glam Slam/Miami, 8. & 9. June 1994

Label

Raiders of the lost art RCD001

Review

• DISC LENGTH : disc 1 - 76:35, disc 2 - 72:39
• OVERALL SOUND QUALITY : 6/8 show is EX audience. 6/9 is VG+/EX- audience.
• SOURCE: All songs on disc 1 is from 6/8/94 Glam Slam Miami except * = from 6/9/94 & ** = studio recording played after the 6/9 show. All songs on disc 2 are from 6/9/94 Glam Slam Miami. All audience recordings.
• COMMENTS : It's very nice to have two complete shows on this set. The end of disc 1 contains the remaining songs from the 6/9 show that don't fit on disc 2. Kind of confusing but not really annoying. The 6/8 show clocks in at right around 60 mins and it is one of the cleanest audience recordings ever on disc. Once again, I can't imagine an audience recording sounding better than this. This is most notable on the rare live performance of 'Billy Jack Bitch' and the thrilling reworking of Salt N Pepa's 'Shoop' in which O+> confidentally raps the lyrics to 3 of his own songs in place of the original lyrics. Another great, but much too brief show. The 6/9 show is just slightly less quality but still excellent. Completely different show than the 6/8 one thus making this another great CD set featuring at least one live version of nearly all of the new songs. The highlights of the 6/9 show are the live versions of '319' & 'Ripopgodazippa' and a drastically different version of 'Johnny'. A high quality recording of the new song 'I Hate U' is a nice inclusion as well. The bright, colorful packaging here centers around the photos that were featured in the recent issue of 'Q' magazine that had O+> on the cover.
• RECOMMENDATION : Another winner here. Sound quality and the rare live versions of songs like 'Billy Jack Bitch' make this close to a necessity.
• The 8 page booklet includes pictures from Q magazine.
• Glam Slam East, North & West: These bootlegs are (artwork wise) the best ever to come from Sweden. They come in a simple, but very nice looking black paper box. The sound quality is very good on all recordings. It sounds as if they only used mastertapes. The quality of the VH-1 Honors tracks is excellent.

Tracklist

• Disc 1
  1. Billy Jack Bitch [June 8]
  2. The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
  3. Loose!
  4. Shoop [Sexy Mf - Gett Off - Acknowledge Me]
  5. It's Alright
  6. I Believe in U
  7. Maybe Your Baby
  8. Peach
  9. I'm in the Mood
  10. Now (part 2) [*]
  11. Gold [*]
  12. I Hate U [**]
• Disc 2
  1. Intro/Drum solo [June 9]
  2. Soul Sacrifice
  3. 319
  4. Hide the Bone
  5. Ripopgodazippa
  6. Get Wild
  7. Johnny
  8. Interactive
  9. Days Of Wild [Hair - If You Want Me to Stay]
  10. Now (part 1)

Glam Slam North (2CD)

Live at Glam Slam/Minneapolis, 25. & 26 July 1994e

Label

Raiders of the lost art RCD003

Review

• DISC LENGTH : disc 1 - 77:26, disc 2 - 75:35
• OVERALL SOUND QUALITY : VG+/EX- audience recording
• SOURCE: 7/25/94 Glam Slam Mpls, * = studio track played during 7/25 show, ** = from 7/26/94 Glam Slam Mpls, ^ = from 7/14/94 The Palladium, New York.
• COMMENTS : The first in the wonderful trilogy of Glam Slam sets. The packaging here centers around pics from the TV performance of 'Most Beautiful Girl' on England's Top of the Pops this past summer. Sound quality here is outstanding, comparable to that of Stars & Bars. Even though 3 different shows are featured here, the sound quality is consistently high throughout with the only drawback being some noisy audience members & some occasional distortion. The distortion factor here is not nearly as much of a problem as it is on the Stars & Bars CD set. The 7/25 show is here in complete form. Two notable highlights from the show are the rare live duet of 'Love Sign' with Nona Gaye and the remarkably funky studio version of 'Pussy Control'. For those who have not heard 'Pussy Control', pray that it appears on the next album from the man. He's obviously very proud of this song since he played it during this show and then twice the next night (7/26), once during and again immediately after the show. The sound quality of 'Pussy Control' is excellent despite being an audience recording of a studio cut. Very clear vocals and the crowd's enjoyment is obvious towards the new song. From the recording it appears as if O+> was onstage during most of the playing of the song. The 3 songs from 7/26 are 3 of the most inspired and best cuts from the show. The 7/14 exceprts focus around the O+>/Vernon Reid/Lenny Kravitz collaboration on stage. Great choice of excerpts from these 2 shows fill up the 2nd disc of this set quite nicely. The makers of this CD set (along with Glam Slam West & East) obviously attempted to fit as much different material onto these CD's as possible. All of the CD's are well over 70 minutes long.
• RECOMMENDATION : Wow, this about as good as it can get for an audience recorded non-tour gig set. It's worth the trouble to find this one. This one actually lives up to all of the high expectations assigned to it.
• Glam Slam concert this summer incl. bonus tracks from New York 2gether with Lenny Kravits.
• The 8 page booklet includes many stills from the Mustang Mix video.
• Glam Slam East, North & West: These bootlegs are (artwork wise) the best ever to come from Sweden. They come in a simple, but very nice looking black paper box. The sound quality is very good on all recordings. It sounds as if they only used mastertapes. The quality of the VH-1 Honors tracks is excellent.

Tracklist

• Disc 1
  1. The Jam [July 25]
  2. Shhh
  3. The Ride
  4. Endorphinemachine
  5. Space
  6. Days Of Wild - Hair
  7. Now - Babies Making Babies
  8. Love Sign (w/ Nona Gaye)
  9. The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
  10. Pussy Control [* Played over the PA]
• Disc 2
  1. Peach
  2. Race
  3. Dark
  4. Soul Sacrifice
  5. Gold [** July 26]
  6. Papa [**]
  7. I'm In The Mood (Glam Slam Boogie) [**]
  8. New York Friends Jam [^ July 14 - New York City, Palladium]
  9. Mary Don't You Weep [^]
  10. None Of Your Business [^]
  11. Ain't No Party Like a New Power Party [^]

Glam Slam West (2CD)

Live at Glam Slam/Los Angeles, 26. & 27. June 1994

Label

Raiders of the lost art RCD002

Review

• DISC LENGTH : disc 1 - 71:02, disc 2 - 74:15
• OVERALL SOUND QUALITY : 6/26 show is VG/VG+ audience, VH-1 Honor is EX- soundboard, 6/27 is VG audience.
• SOURCE: 6/26/94 Glam Slam L.A., except * = 6/26/94 VH-1 Honor show, ^ = 6/27/94 Glam Slam L.A.
• COMMENTS : If it wasn't for the inclusion of the VH-1 Honor performance this set would be the least appealing of the 3 Glam Slam sets. Sound quality here all around is still very good but not up to par with the recordings of the 6/8 Miami & 7/25 Mpls shows. But we're once again talking about the difference between fudge and chocolate. This is still a great piece. It features the nicest packaging of the 3 with several photos from the recent French magazine 'The Max'. The highlight of disc 1 is the duet with Stevie Wonder on 'Maybe Your Baby' which actually comes through quite clearly. Great performance. Disc 2 highlight would have to be the rendition of 'Endorphinemachine' off the VH-1 jam. Wonderful quality on this. It makes me wish these enterprising bootleggers would put out a single disc comprising of all of the recent TV appearances, including the great speech off the Soul of America award show.
• RECOMMENDATION : Probably the least desirable of the 3 sets, but still just barely recommended. The VH-1 stuff here saves it nicely. Great packaging is a plus too with wonderful photos.
• The 12 page booklet includes pictures from MAX magazine.
• Glam Slam East, North & West: These bootlegs are (artwork wise) the best ever to come from Sweden. They come in a simple, but very nice looking black paper box. The sound quality is very good on all recordings. It sounds as if they only used mastertapes. The quality of the VH-1 Honors tracks is excellent.

Tracklist

• Disc 1
  1. The Jam [June 26]
  2. I Believe In U
  3. Interactive
  4. Days Of Wild [Hair - Soft &Wet]
  5. Now [Babies Making Babies]
  6. Superstition
  7. Mary Don't You Weep
  8. The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (mustang mix)
  9. Maybe Your Baby (w/Stevie Wonder)
  10. I'll Take You There (w/Mavis Staples)
• Disc 2
  1. Dark
  2. Instrumental
  3. Get Wild
  4. Peach
  5. Kirstie Alley speech [* VH-1 Honors]
  6. Interactive [*]
  7. Endorphinemachine [*]
  8. O+> speech [*]
  9. The Star Spangled Banner [^ June 27]
  10. Shhh [^]
  11. Ripopgodazippa [^]
  12. Acknowledge Me [^]
  13. Papa [^]
  14. Race [^]

Globequake (2CD)

Live at Globe Arena/Stockholm on 12.Aug.90 + Batman overdubbs

Review

• One of the best concerts from the Nude tour, that I've heard.
• Great concert and great sound. The Batman remixes are really bad. Terrible job of mixing, terrilbe sound levels, not worth listening to. If someone can get the same concert on another CD that doesn't have the Batman stuff...they should!

Tracklist

1. DAT Intro
2. The Future
3. 1999
4. Housequake
5. Sexy Dancer
6. Kiss
7. I'm In The Mood
8. Blues
9. Purple Rain
10. Take Me With U
11. Bambi
12. Alphabet Street
13. It Takes Two
14. Do Me Baby
15. The Question Of You
16. Electric Man
17. When Doves Cry
18. A Song For You
19. Little Red Corvette
20. Batdance
21. Partyman
22. What Have You Done For Me Lately
23. Baby I'm A Star
24. Whatever I Play It's Got To Be Funky [Sample]
25. Batdance [Batman overdubbs (remixed fakes?)]
26. Electric Chair [Batman overdubbs (remixed fakes?)]
27. Lemon Crush [Batman overdubbs (remixed fakes?)]
28. Sex [Batman overdubbs (remixed fakes?)]
29. Partyman [Batman overdubbs (remixed fakes?)]
30. I Love U In Me [Batman overdubbs (remixed fakes?)]
31. Trust [Batman overdubbs (remixed fakes?)]
32. 200 Ballones [Batman overdubbs (remixed fakes?)]

The Gold Experience

Label   : Not yet known    Cat # : UMCD 001
Released: October 1995     Format: 1 CD
Source  : The Gold Experience Tour 1995
Type    : Audience/Soundboard/TV Recordings

Rating

Sound: The Gold tour tracks: VG+/EX-, The 2/13/94 Paisley Park tracks: EX-, Others: VG+

Tracklist

1. Pussy Control
2. Endorphinmachine
3. Shhh
4. We March
5. Days of Wild
6. The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
7. Dolphin
8. Now
9. 319
10. Shy
11. Billy Jack Bitch
12. Eye Hate U
13. Gold

Total time: 63:57

1,6,11,13: From 1995 Gold tour
2,10: From 5/5/1995 Canal+ rehearsal
3,5,8: From 2/13/94 Paisley Park show
4: From 11/94 Berlin aftershow
7,12: Audience recording of a studio track
9: studio version

Review by Dazeofwild@aol.com

This may not be the worst bootleg released this year but it should rank up there with one of the most worthless. I'm struggling to imagine anyone who would find the need to acquire this disc. A pointless potpourri of live & studio Gold tracks in a wide variety of sources and quality. Packaging is excellent and quite attractive, but that's where the compliments stop. For myself nothing is more annoying than a disc that jumps from one excellent quality to track to a mediocre one and so forth, thus making you adjust your stereo dials during every track. I can think of countless releases of Gold era boots that outperform this release. Spend the extra $15 or $20 it takes to get an entire Gold show in its entirity that will include 90% of these tracks and a lot more, or better yet just put your official copy of The Gold Experience into your system and jam away the way its meant to be.

Recommendation

Avoid. Avoid. Avoid.

The Gold Ex-Prince

Label   :                  Cat # : 
Released: May 1996         Format: 2 CD
Source  : 11th January 1996, Live at Joh How, Osaka, Japan
Type    : Audience Recording

Tracklist

1. Endorphinmachine
2. Shhh!
3. Days Of Wild
4. Now
5. Babies Makin' Babies
6. Sex Machine
7. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
8. P Control
9. Letitgo
10. Starfish And Coffee
11. The Cross
12. The Jam
13. One Of Us
14. Do Me, Baby
15. Sexy MF
16. If I Was Your Girlfriend
17. Vicki Waiting
18. Purple Medley
19. Oriental Intro
20. 7
21. Speech
22. Billy Jack Bitch
23. I Hate U (intro)
24. 319
25. Gold
26. We March*
27. Love... Thy Will Be Done*
28. Funky*
29. The Ride*
30. Mary, Don't You Weep^
31. Johnny^

* 8th January 1996, Live at Budokan, Tokyo (Also on Budokan)
^ 17th January 1996, Live at Budokan, Tokyo (Also on Budokan)

Review by bergerp@kapsch.co.at

Audience recordings with very little noise from the audience. Along with the Budokan 3CD and Tokyo Budokan I've heard now three complete Japan gigs (Jan.11/16/17) plus various songs from other concerts (Jan.8/9/13) and still I can't name a favourite show. Each one has it's highlights but overall they're quite equal. So if you already have Budokan I'd not recommend this release. The package is nice but nothing special. Limited Ed. of 500.

Gold Nigga (1CD)

NPG featuring O(+>

Label

None

Review

• EX quality boot of the original, including all the remixes of 2Gether.
• O(+> vocals are prominant on 7. and 14. Most of the songs have really cool grooves but are spoiled (IMHO) by Tony M's rapping. I'd prefer to listen to most tracks as instrumentals. Sound quality is excellent, a good copy of the original CD. Black MF, Call The Law and Johnny are regularly found on O(+> aftershows and concerts from 1993/94. Cover is close up of woman's legs. Back is the band at a petrol station with track listing printed over it.

Tracklist

[*] 2gether mixes

1. Goldnigga Part 1
2. Guess Who's Knockin'
3. Oilcan
4. Segue
5. Deuce & A Quarter
6. Segue
7. Black MF In The House
8. Goldnigga Part 2
9. Goldie's Parade
10. Segue
11. 2gether
12. Segue
13. Call The Law
14. Johnny
15. Segue
16. Goldnigga Part 3
17. 12 inch mix [*]
18. Interview [*]
19. Enlightenment [*]
20. Jeep Mix [*]
21. Instrumental [*]

Gram Slam (1CD)

Live at Memorial Sports Arena/L.A. on 6.Nov.88

Review

• Incomplete!

Tracklist

1. Erotic City
2. Housequake
3. Slow Love
4. Adore
5. Delirious
6. Jack U Off
7. Sister
8. Do Me Baby
9. Adore
10. Blues In C
11. When U Were Mine
12. Little Red Corvette
13. Controversy
14. U Got The Look
15. Superfunkycalifragisexy
16. ontroversy
17. Bob George
18. Anna Stesia
19. Eye Know
20. Lovesexy
21. Glam Slam
22. The Cross
23. I Wish U Heaven