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Aftershow at the club ' in The Hague, The Netherlands, on August 19, 1988 (am). Most releases don't have the full and integral recording on it - titles are misspelled and the sequence confused - but all releases sourced from the same soundboard recording. These are the correct titles and sequence:. Instrumental In G. D.M.S.R. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me). People Without (including an interpolation of 'Six').
Housequake. Blues In C (including 'Down Home Blues' / 'Kansas City' & the horn motif from 'Billie's Bounce'). Cold Sweat (including the 'Transmississippi Rap'). Forever In My Life. Still Would Stand All Time.
I'll Take You There. Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic (inserted a part of 'It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night').
Finally got my discs from a Japan/Singapore website after a looooong wait. The price was well below what it sells for here, so I didn't mind the wait so much. The discs are solid quality. There is no leaflet and the back and front covers are just good quality 2 side prints so it looks a little cheap in my opinion, same for the artwork on the surface of the discs. That's the only reason I give this release 4 stars instead of the 5 star rating it rightfully deserves. Porky pig that`s all folks mp3.
Like you probably know by now, this is a very very famous bootleg in the world of Prince collectors. It's mostly due to the crystal clear sound quality, superbly mixed, of this after-show gig, recorded at 3 am in front of a 200 or-so crowd. The venue is The Trojan Horse in The Hague, Netherlands, during the 1988 LoveSexy tour. The great musical performance is another reason to buy this boot.
It's a free-jam, like all Prince's after shows. The 10 songs go well into the 8-9 minutes mark. Very recommended recording. This particular version is a safe bet. It's a limited edition of 333 copies. A little on the light side package-wise but a very good record to listen and re-listen to.
Thank you for making this available. I had this on 2 cassettes from over 20 years ago, and was about to make a cd from it. But I knew the quality would not be so good, so I'd been putting it off. This is great quality, and great material. Songs played like on no other recording I've ever heard from him. I love how 'real' he sounds, talking to the audience. He really is a true musician, and a genius in my opinion.
How anyone can listen to this and other stuff I've been able to download from here can say otherwise is beyond my ability to comprehend! Anonymous said. I got this boot in the early 90's via a trade on cassette, incomplete, then on vinyl, but I didn't have a turntable! I moved on to CD then, still have the record box set, its awesome then in the mid to late 90's I got this Bootleg - Small Club, finally I could here the show complete, the taper was lazy, anyway, as a fan of Prince's hardcore for 25+ years, this album blew my mind. The sound quality, stellar. The artwork, period correct and not over the top fan cheese, but the music.
My favorite is the extended heartwrenching solo on Just Imagination, truly, Ive never heard Prince do a better guitar solo. You see, at the time Prince was very inspired spiritually, NOT religiously, he was on some high, so his performances were very, very inpsired.
His band was also a group of his peers, they knew Prince's musical vibe, language and could compliment it so well. The bands name at the time was unnofficially known as 'The Lovesexy Band', which was actually the band that Prince toured with from the Sign O The Times era through Lovesexy. Consisting of of course - Sheila E., Matt 'Dr.
Fink' synths, horn section of Eric Leeds - sax and Atlanta Bliss on trumpet and bass Levi Seacer Jr and Miko Weaver on rhythm guitar. Fans consider this the most coveted recording of Prince's career, one Prince himself, tries all the time after his Warner Brothers years to recapture. And to an extent, Prince uses this as a carrot to lure in fans to setup, purposely, 'aftershows' that are promoted with fans holding on to hope it will be as magical as Small Club.
Hasn't happened since! Nowadays, 2011, Prince's band consists of mostly hired hands, only generally familiar, due to being hired, his music and musical language, thus, competent but unispired performances. Prince is also now a hardcore Jehovah Witness, which stripped him of his creative mojo. So anyone who had a passing interest in Prince, I recommend you take that into regard because Prince for the last 10, 15 or years has nothing on THIS Prince.
There is a clear contrast, he lost the mojo, he's not the genius he once was, what you hear in Small Club was a Prince that THEN was pure magic and genius. The guy was incredible. This was a recording at the time that I and many another fan I'm sure used to say if only the general public would here this! Look up ANY concert from say, Controversy through Act II (93) and you'll see a Prince that was incredible all around.