Purple Rain - the recording

wibble

Don't know if this has been posted before but I found this quite fascinating with the commentary...

citizen68

Wow -cool vid but sack your tech or tune that guitar ffs

DrBob

I have had to award a WOW for that. Massive fan of Prince up to the Lovesexy Album and this was such a big part of my early teen years when i was just getting into playing guitar. Used to have the Sign O The Times poster on my bedroom wall

Danny1969

citizen68 said:

Wow -cool vid but sack your tech or tune that guitar ffs

There's so much chorus on everything it's hard to tell

I always though the end of the song didn't make sense it the way parts popped out of nowehere and now I know why. Had no idea it started out as a live recording

Radioheads Iron Lunge was done in much the same way, recorded live at a gig  and then vocal replaced and a few bits tidyed up to make it sound like a studio recording, kind of opposite to most "Live" recordings

EricTheWeary

Video removed by the user

ChrisMusic

Shame that, I was saving it up for a quiet moment.  Prince fan here too, I would have learnt a bit and enjoyed it at the same time.  Not to be though  

I do hope someone puts it back up on YT, and someone reposts it on here too...

I should have learnt by now that you either watch stuff straight away, or download it, before it vanishes into the ether.

mudslide73

fwiw it was good. I had no idea it was even a live recording.

dafuzz

This it?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152600036419260

richardhomer

He really is incredible, isn't he?

ChrisMusic

Thanks for posting the FB link dafuzz, I presume that is the same footage.

I watched it immediately !

Emp_Fab

Well posted clip, but still amazing... 3:28 for Prince's solo....

DiscoStu

That facebook link is down now too. 

DiscoStu

This is an earlier upload of the same footage, but without the annotated info.

The story is slightly lost but the performance is still fantastic

http://antiquiet.com/music/2010/05/prince-purple-rain-1983-video/

close2u

still doesn't play

bobblehat

Awesome

dafuzz

Yeah I shared the vid on my facebook feed and within 5 minutes it had gone! Prince's lawyers must be shit hot

johnnyurq

Great artist and guitarist but he ain't half fierce about getting his shizzle taken down from any social media and YouTube in particular.

Bordering on rabid he is.

Panama_Jack666

Controversey music strikes again! I disputed it with my terrible Purple Rain cover and it got re-instated on You Tube.