![prince musicology concert 2004 youtube prince musicology concert 2004 youtube](https://img.apmcdn.org/22b557e5da27aa74e5279bdf7fe588de36429ff3/portrait/926478-20160425-prince-and-3rdeyegirl-crazy-2-cool.jpg)
It amounted to a full-steam blowoff of a show as Prince braced for the release of “Purple Rain.” It also featured a lot of B-sides and deep cuts that he seldom played live after this, including “17 Days,” “Our Destiny” and “Irresistible Bitch.” Best of all, he turned “When Doves Cry” into an 11-minute grind. Of the four or five other high-quality bootlegs of performances at his pre-Paisley Park hometown playground, this set seems the most treasurable both for its context and its content.
![prince musicology concert 2004 youtube prince musicology concert 2004 youtube](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oTK_UR7YzYs/mqdefault.jpg)
Even without that history, it was a great concert with rare performances of “Electric Intercourse” and Joni Mitchell’s “A Case of You.”īirthday party, First Avenue, June 7, 1984. It was also 19-year-old guitarist Wendy Melvoin’s first Revolution gig.
![prince musicology concert 2004 youtube prince musicology concert 2004 youtube](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JrFqX2ECABI/maxresdefault.jpg)
Recorded by a mobile studio, the audio for it and two tunes were used for the 1984 album and film of the same name. It’s the show where the song “Purple Rain” premiered. This is one of rock’s most historic live recordings sitting on a shelf somewhere. Minnesota Dance Theatre benefit, First Avenue, Aug. A final edit of the film was never completed. Prince didn’t acquire rights to the film footage until he paid Statler in this century. The gospelly title song was never released. In mid-tour, the budding star decided to expand the project to include some dramatic scenes, featuring Kim Upsher (his high school girlfriend) and Susan Moonsie (another girlfriend, soon to be in Vanity 6) as well as a certain Minneapolis music critic in a dressing-room interview scene. Prince enlisted Minneapolis-based video pioneer Chuck Statler to film part of the 1982 tour featuring Prince and the Time. Three songs were presented to the label: “We’ll Make It Through the Storm,” (later recorded by Twin Cities singer Sue Ann Carwell in 1981), “Soft and Wet” (it became Prince’s first single) and “Baby” (also on Prince’s debut LP). There he crafted a one-man-band demo tape that landed him a manager, Owen Husney, who helped Prince score a contract with Warner Bros. After graduating from Minneapolis Central High in 1976 and playing with his band Grand Central, Prince Nelson struck a deal for after-hours access to Moon Sound recording studio in south Minneapolis. With perhaps just a tinge of hometown bias, here is a wish list of a dozen things we’d like to see surface from Prince’s legendarily stuffed vault.