The Complete Hawaii Tapes Vol. 2 : Maui 4CD

The Complete Hawaii Tapes Vol. 2 : Maui 4CD

Sabotage
Catalog # SAB 278-279-280-281
Release Year 2004
4CD Length 74:53 / 61:02 / 75:41 / 76:35
Date/Venue Maui Arts And Cultural Center, Maui & Hapa's Nightclub, Maui, Dec. 19,20, 2003
Source Audience Recording
Quality EX-

Rating 4.75/5.0

Track Listing
Maui Arts And Cultural Center, Maui & Hapa's Nightclub, Maui, Dec. 19,20, 2003(Disc1 and 2)
Aftershow - Hapa's Nightclub, Maui - 20th December 2003(Disc 3)
Open Soundcheck - Neal S. Blaisdell Center, Honolulu - 16th December 2003(Disc 4)
Closed Soundcheck - Maui Arts And Cultural Center, Maui - 19th December 2003(Disc 4)
Open Soundcheck - Maui Arts And Cultural Center, Maui - 19th December 2003(Disc 4)

Disc 1
1. Keyboard Intro 2. Let's Go Crazy 3. I Would Die 4 U 4. When Doves Cry 5. 1999 (intro) - Baby I'm A Star 6. Shhh 7. D.M.S.R. (including [Eye Like] Funky Music - Give Up The Funk - Tricky) 8. A Love Bizarre (intro) - The Glamorous Life (intro) 9. I Feel For You 10. Controversy 11. Interlude 12. The Beautiful Ones 13. Nothing Compares 2 U 14. Insatiable 15. Sign O' The Times 16. The Question Of U - The One - Fallin'

Disc 2
1. Let's Work 2. U Got The Look 3. Life 'O' The Party 4. Soul Man 5. Kiss 6. Take Me With U 7. The Everlasting Now 8. Interlude 9. Band Introductions 10. How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore 11. On The Couch 12. Adore 13. Alphabet St. 14. Purple Rain

Disc 3
Aftershow - Hapa's Nightclub, Maui : 20th December 2003 (am)
1. Mama Feelgood 2. Yes We Can Can 3. Maceo 4. The Everlasting Now 5. Funk Groove 6. No Diggity 7. All The Critics Love U In Maui 8. Hard Rock Guitar Solo

Disc 4
Open Soundcheck - Neal S. Blaisdell Center, Honolulu : 16th December 2003
1. All The Critics Love U In Honalulu - What Is Love? 2. Dance To The Music - M'lady - Sax A Go-Go 3. We're Just Jamming

Closed Soundcheck - Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Maui : 19th December 2003
4. Mama Feelgood 5. Musicology (instrumental) 6. Give It Up Or Turn It Loose 7. I Feel For You 8. Controversy (instrumental) 9. Guitar Solo 10. Controversy (instrumental) 11. Slow Funk Jam - The Ride (guitar intro)

Open Soundcheck - Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Maui : 19th December 2003
12. Head (instrumental) - Uptown Up 13. The Rainbow Children (instrumental) - Jean Pierre

Comments
Fink's Comments(rates this release 4.75/5.0)
Volume 2 of Sabotage's 'The Hawaii Tapes'. The Maui volume comes as a 3cd set, however if you purchased it at the same time as the The Complete Hawaii Tapes Vol.1: Honolulu, (i.e. - if you shell out double the $$) then this volume comes with a bonus 4th disc full of soundcheck material. As with the first volume, this is an excellent audience recording. There really is nothing to separate the two concerts, both set-wise and sound-wise. The only difference being 'Adore' makes a brief appearance here, along with a slightly extended 'Purple Rain'. The Maui aftershow packs slightly less of a punch than the Honolulu (or Honalula, as P says), but it's still a masterclass in tight funk filled extended jams (Yeah, I know Prince fans are spolied brats - give them a concert and an aftershow with excellent sound, and they STILL say "It's good.........but".) The bonus 4th disc contains material from the Maui and Honolulu soundchecks. They are (on the whole) instrumental jams. The standout tracks is obviously 'Head', but there are no filthy lyrics this time around - it's instrumental. As with the Honolulu release, the art-work is superb.