4DaFunk Catalog #
4DF 083 Release
Year 2011 CD Length
79:56 Date/Venue Palais
Omnisportsde Bercy, Paris 17th June 1987 Source
Soundboard Recordings Quality
EX++
Rating
5.0/5.0
Track Listing
Sign O’ The Times Tour
Palais Omnisportsde Bercy, Paris 17th June 1987
1.Sign O’ The Times 2. Play In The Sunshine 3. Little Red Corvette
4.Housequake 5. Girls & Boys 6. Slow Love 7. I Could Never Take The Place Of
Your Man 8. Hot Thing 9. Now’s The Time 10. Sheila E’s Drum Solo 11. Let’s Go
Crazy 12. When Doves Cry 13.Purple Rain 14. 1999 15. The Cross* 16. It’s Gonna
Be A Beautiful Night*
*taken from Utrecht 22.06.87
Comments Fink's Comments(rates this release 5.0/5.0)
I’ll leave it to 4DF themselves to sum this release up: “There are many versions
of this recording circulating, but somehow all of them offer a somewhat
underachieved final result. Because the actual potential of the source was truly
enormous, we decided to give it our try. We considered several sources,
including a raw tape submitted by a fellow fan, and concluded that the best one
to rework was Moonraker's Wonderboy
except for the final cut It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night - which was taken from
the slightly disappointing Sign O The Times Live
by Sabotage.
On the other hand, the source is incomplete. According to the usual and rarely
modified SOTT Tour setlist, If I Was Your Girlfriend, Forever In My Life and
Kiss must have been played. The actual performance of It's Gonna Be a Beautiful
Night from that very night is missing as well. Traditionally, that void was
filled with the superb rendition played in Utrecht later that month (on the
22nd) which is once more the one we used as it matched the sound quality of the
main portion of the show. We tried to bring the best out of the sources used and
we can honestly consider this one as THE soundboard recording of one of the best
and most beloved tours Prince has ever undertaken.”
And I can’t really argue with that. It’s exactly as they say, it sounds
wonderful and is just a brilliant show as well. A must have.