Prince And The Revolution – Purple Rush: Rehearsals & Live Shows 1983-85 (2002) 6 CD SET

Prince And The Revolution – Purple Rush: Rehearsals & Live Shows 1983-85 (2002) 6 CD SET

Long Beach 3/10/85
Live Soundboard Recording
Purple Rain Tour – Arena, Long Beach : 10th March 1985

1-01. Intro
1-02. Let’s Go Crazy
1-03. Delirious
1-04. 1999
1-05. Little Red Corvette
1-06. Take Me With U
1-07. Yankee Doodle Dandy
1-08. Prince Speaks
1-09. Do Me, Baby
1-10. Irresistible Bitch
1-11. How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore
1-12. Let’s Pretend We’re Married
1-13. International Lover
1-14. God
1-15. Computer Blue
1-16. Darling Nikki
1-17. Oliver’s House (Bonus Track: Sheila E Opening Act)

Rehearsal For June 7th First Avenue Concert : May / June 1984 (#1)

2-01. Free
2-02. Erotic City
2-03. Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)
2-04. When Doves Cry
2-05. Irresistible Bitch
2-06. Gotta Shake This Feeling
2-07. Noon Rendezvous

Studio Rehearsals From The Summer Of 1984

3-01. Billy / Strange Relationship
3-02. Feline

Purple Rain Tour Rehearsal From Late October 1984 (#2)

4-01. Let’s Go Crazy
4-02. Delirious
4-03. 1999
4-04. Little Red Corvette
4-05. Free
4-06. Father’s Song
4-07. God
4-08. America The Beautiful
4-09. Computer Blue
4-10. Darling Nikki (Intro)
4-11. When Doves Cry (Intro) – The Beautiful Ones
4-12. When Doves Cry

Purple Rain Studio Rehearsal, Summer 1983

5-01. Let’s Go Crazy
5-02. G-Spot
5-03. I Would Die 4 U
5-04. Cruisin’ Down The Highway / Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got
5-05. Electric Intercourse (Take 1)
5-06. Electric Intercourse (Take 2)
5-07. Purple Rain
5-08. The Bird
5-09. I Would Die 4 U (Bonus Track: Rehearsal Outtake)

Studio Rehearsal Nov / Dec 1984 (#3)

6-01. Another Lonely Christmas (Instrumental Try Out)
6-02. Another Lonely Christmas (Keyboard Bassline)
6-03. When The Saints Go Marchin’ In
6-04. Another Lonely Christmas (Keyboard, Bass, Guitar)
6-05. Another Lonely Christmas (All Instruments & Vocals)
6-06. Let’s Go Crazy (Instrumental Try Out 1)
6-07. Instrumental Jam
6-08. Let’s Go Crazy (Instrumental Try Out 2)
6-09. Another Lonely Christmas (7″ Version)
6-10. Another Lonely Christmas (12″ Version)

Notes:
This release includes the previously issued bootleg Prince – Christmas In Uptown (disc 6) which was replaced on the 2008 re-issue Purple Rush 1: Rehearsals & Concerts 1983 – 85 with the ‘Purple Rain Instrumental Movie Score By Michel Colombier’

Tracks 1-17 & 5-9 appear as ‘Bonus’ on the tracklist
Track 1-17 is from the opening act by Sheila E.
Track 5-9 is the unreleased full version of: I Would Die 4 U (Extended Version)