Slave 2CD

4DaFunk Catalog # 4DF 011-012 Release Year  2005 2CD Length 71:38 / 63:41 Date/Venue The Point, Dublin 30th March 1995 Source Audience Recording Quality EX

Rating 4.75/5.0

Track Listing
Gold / Ultimate Live Experience Tour
The Point, Dublin 30th March 1995
Disc 1
1. Purple Medley 2. Endorphinmachine 3. The Jam 4. Shhh 5. Days Of Wild 6. Now 7. Funky Stuff 8. Sex Machine 9. Johnny 10. Funky Stuff 11. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World 12. Pussy Control 13. Letitgo 14. Pink Cashmere 15. (Lemme See Your Body) Get Loose 16. Orgasm 17. I Love U In Me 18. Peach

Disc 2
1. Arabic Intro 2. 7 3. Get Wild 4. Billy Jack Bitch 5. Eye Hate U 6. 319 7. Gold

Gold / Ultimate Live Experience Tour Soundcheck - The Point, Dublin : 30th March 1995
8. Count The Days 9. Licking Stick (listed as Instrumental Jam on packaging) 10. Poor Good (instrumental) (listed as Instrumental Jam on packaging) 11. Let's Get It On 12. Love...Thy Will Be Done 13. Funky (Drum Intro)

Gold / Ultimate Live Experience Tour Soundcheck - The Point, Dublin : 29th March 1995
14. Instrumental Jam - Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey

Comments
Fink's Comments (rates this release 4.75/5.0)
Probably the best audience recording of the entire European leg of the 1995 tour and an excellent show to conclude one of the most inspired tours of the man's career. Sourced from the class 'Slave' release this 4DaFunk 2cd comes under the subtitle "4DF's Remastered Series" and as with other boots from this series there is a fair amount of work gone into this which is immediately obvious.

The recording was already of extremely high quality with barely a murmur from the audience to be heard for large sections of the show. Prince's microphone level is to the fore and very powerful, and whilst this is a major plus, his guitar is very low in the mix and in parts of the show it is sorely missed (Endorphinmachine is a prime example). They balance themselves out though and I really have no complaint about the quality of the recording. One slight bitch I had regarding the previous 'Slave' release was the show faded out prior to '(Lemme See Your Body) Get Loose' before fading back in again, which slightly jarred the flow of the concert - thankfully this has been rectified here and had I not been aware of it from the previous release I would never have picked up on it as 4DaFunk have flawlessly edited it out. The show itself contains nothing out of the ordinary and the addition of 'Orgasm' is perhaps the only slight exception (although this was played at a number of other European shows). It is one of the longer shows of the tour due in part to an extremely lengthy 15 minute version of 'Get Wild' which incorporates various lines lifted from 'The Exodus Has Begun'.

Still, Prince's performance and delivery make this one of the best shows from the tour in my opinion. This release also contains 17 minutes from the 30th March soundcheck and a further 5 minutes from the 29th March soundcheck. The quality is a little lacking in comparison to the main show, however it is vastly superior to the quality on the original release. Overall this is a very impressive release and a major improvement on the best circulating audience recording from the tour.

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