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Hierbij mijn  Sign "O" The Times Tour Megapost!!

Deze post bevat  de volgende cd's

1987-03-21 Minneapolis, First Avenue
1987-04-02 Minneapolis, Paisley Park SOTT Rehearsals
1987-04-15 Birmingham SOTT Rehearsals
1987-05-12 New York, Jazz Dwarz
1987-05-23 Zurich, Hallenstadion
1987-05-23 Munich, Olympiahalle
1987-05-28 Vienna, U4 club
1987-05-29 Vienna, Stadthalle
1987-06-09 Milan
1987-06-14 Paris, Club Gig
1987-06-15 Paris, Le New Morning, He's Got The Look
1987-06-17 Paris, Bercy (MP3)
1987-06-17 Paris, Bercy Wonderboy(FLAC)
1987-06-19 Utrecht, Galgewaard
1987-12-05 Minneapolis, Fine Line Café
1987-12-31 Minneapolis, Paisley Park
1987-xx-xx Paris, Laments 87

Sign "O" The Times Live! (3cd box)

Sign 'O' The Times Live! (FLAC - 3CD Set - Sabotage Records)

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3 CD
Label : Sabotage Records
Catalogue : #SAB 110-111-112
Disc Length : 73:00 / 79:54 / 73:26
Source : Soundboard Recordings
Sound Quality : EX / EX+
Year Of Release : 2004

Disc 1 

Sign O' The Times Tour Warm Up - First Avenue, Minneapolis : 21st March 1987

1. Introduction 2. Housequake 3. Girls And Boys 4. Slow Love 5. Hot Thing 6. Now's The Time 7. Sheila E Drum Solo 8. Strange Relationship (including Superfunkycalifragisexy) 9. Forever In My Life 10. Kiss 11. It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night (including Six)

MTV Music Video Awards - Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles : 11th September 1987

12. Sign O' The Times 13. Play In The Sunshine

Disc 2 

Sign O' The Times Tour - Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris : 17th June 1987

1. Sign O' The Times 2. Play In The Sunshine 3. Little Red Corvette 4. Housequake 5. Girls And Boys 
6. Slow Love 7. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man 8. Hot Thing 9. Now's The Time 
(including Sheila E Drum Solo) 10. Let's Go Crazy 11. When Doves Cry 12. Purple Rain 13. 1999 
14. The Cross

Sign O' The Times Tour - Stadion Galgenwaard, Utrecht : 22nd June 1987

15. It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night (including Cold Sweat - Housequake - Funky Stuff - Two - 
Take The A-Train)

Disc 3 

Sign O' The Times Concert Movie

(Ahoyhal, Rotterdam : 27th & 28th June 1987 / Sportpaleis, Antwerp : 29th June 1987 / Paisley Park : 
July 1987)

1. Intro 2. Sign O' The Times 3. Play In The Sunshine 4. Little Red Corvette 5. Housequake 6. 
Slow Love 7. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man 8. Hot Thing 9. Now's The Time (including 
Sheila E Drum Solo) 10. If I Was Your Girlfriend 11. Forever In My Life 12. Segue 13. It's Gonna Be A 
Beautiful Night (including Take The A-Train) 14. The Cross

COMMENT FROM DB

Surprisingly this is Sabotage's first release documenting the Sign O' The Times tour/period (their 
rehearsals releases aside as they are not technically "tour" material) and whilst it received a fair 
amount of criticism on it's release in 2004, this is actually an impressive release containing some 
of the best material from that period. The criticism heaped on this release was centred around the 
First Avenue show on Disc 1 and the term "treble heavy" was frequently used - rightly or wrongly. 
The First Avenue show featured on Disc 1 has been sourced from the circulating video recording 
(listed HERE amongst others) and as such has a certain "video-feel" to it. The recording was of 
excellent quality already so the improvements done to it are minimal as if you work with high quality 
source material the end result will be excellent. The show itself is one of Prince's finest moments 
and whilst the majority of material previewed at the show made it onto the tour (the show was a week 
before the release of the 'Sign O' The Times' album), 'Strange Relationship' is one of the gems which 
was never given a public airing - unfortunately as the performance is stunning (it was made available 
via the NPG Music Club in heavily edited form in 2005). Disc 1 closes out with Prince's appearance at 
the MTV Music Video Awards in 1987 and I'm shocked this made it onto the release as the 
quality/editing is appalling. Sabotage have used the exact same (terrible) version they used on 
their 'Sound & Vision Volume 1' release, but have badly attempted to correct the flaws on 'Sign O' 
The Times' which has sections looped - thus making it not representative of the original performance 
- naughty, very naughty (and blatantly obvious too). 'Play In The Sunshine' has been taken from a 
completely different source and the sound is very thin, tinny and one of the worst quality sources I 
have ever heard. It's bad - it's very, very bad, and surprising as the MTV performance is easily 
available in vastly superior quality elsewhere. This is the only low point of the entire release, but 
it is a pretty shockingly bad low point for Sabotage. Disc 2 features the beautiful quality Parisian 
soundboard recording from 1987 which has been circulating since the very early days of bootlegs (my 
first recollection of it was 1991). The quality really cannot be faulted and whist it is incomplete, 
it's almost beyond criticism due to the clarity of the recording. The show may not be the most 
adventurous from the tour, but the performance is certainly amongst the best and is a joy to listen 
to. The first couple of minutes of 'I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man' suffer from some slight 
channel switching and is a little subdued - otherwise it is above criticism. Disc 2 concludes with 
one of the best versions of 'It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night' taken from the Utrecht 22nd June 1987 
soundboard which is (in the past) was tagged onto the Paris show and passed off as being from that 
concert. Words don't do this version of 'It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night' justice and the near-13 
minute performance is a highlight of the entire tour. Disc 3 contains the Sign O' The Times' concert 
movie which has been sourced from the officially released Laser Disc - it's a well known performance 
and as such I'll skip over the commentary as it goes without saying the quality is of a very high 
standard. So, what do we say about this release? The only real disappointment is the shocking quality 
of the MTV Video Music Awards 1987 footage on Disc 1. Many of the discs contain very similar material, 
however that is to be expected of bootlegs concentrating on a particular era, and the performances do 
differ from show to show. The artwork is certainly impressive and better than many of Sabotage's 
recent efforts containing some nice text on the Sign O' The Times era and tour.