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Take Me with U: 'Prince and The Revolution Live' Gets Remixed, Physical Release

March 30, 2022 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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It looks like a physical reissue of The Gold Experience isn't the only Prince release due from Legacy Recordings in June: the label will also premiere a physical audio release of Prince and The Revolution Live, a 1985 concert feature that offered one of the first glimmers of posthumous archival material from the legendary artist.

As the first official release of a Prince show some 35 years ago, this set, recorded at The Carrier Dome in Syracuse, NY on March 30, 1985 - toward the end of the Purple Rain tour and less than a month before the release of follow-up Around The World In a Day - is an excellent intro to Prince's purple power in concert. Here, he's backed by an expanded version of The Revolution; original members Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman (guitar and keyboards), Dr. Matt Fink (keyboards), Brownmark (bass) and Bobby Z (drums) are joined by guitarist Miko Weaver, saxophonist Eddie Mininfield, percussionists Sheila E. and her brother Juan Escovedo and the members of Apollonia 6 for a hits-packed concert that almost completely draws from Purple Rain and its predecessor 1999 from two years before.

The original concert video was included in the deluxe edition of Purple Rain released by Warner in 2017; during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the concert streamed in full on YouTube to raise money for the World Health Organization and the audio - remastered by Bernie Grundman - was made available digitally. Legacy's reissue, available on two CDs or three colored LPs (purple, red and gold), ups the ante in every way, offering a new mix of the concert done from the original 2" reels by Chris James, the concert's original engineer, and a new master of that mix by Grundman. Included with the CD set is a Blu-ray Disc featuring the concert video in stereo, 5.1 surround and Dolby Atmos options and enhanced picture quality. (While the newly-issued clip of show opener "Let's Go Crazy" embedded above is no higher resolution than 720p, the color bleed that was a staple of the original video is significantly toned down.)

A deluxe edition in a foil box combines CDs, LPs and Blu-ray alongside a 44-page booklet offering never-before-seen photos from the Purple Rain tour and new liner notes drawing from conversations with Wendy, Lisa, Fink, Mark and Bobby, as well as a 24" x 36" poster. (Mathieu Bitton, who designed the 2006 compilation Ultimate Prince and has worked on many of the posthumous projects, designs the collector's set.) Prince and The Revolution will go crazy once more when this set is released on June 3, just four days before what would have been The Artist's 64th birthday. Your links (vinyl listings for Amazon have yet to go live) and the full track list are below.

Prince and The Revolution Live (NPG/Legacy 19439 95716-2, 2022)

2CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2CD/3LP/BD: Official Prince Store

Disc 1

  1. Let's Go Crazy
  2. Delirious
  3. 1999
  4. Little Red Corvette
  5. Take Me with U
  6. Yankee Doodl
  7. Do Me, Baby
  8. Irresistible Bitch
  9. Possessed
  10. How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?
  11. Let's Pretend We're Married
  12. International Lover
  13. God
  14. Computer Blue

Disc 2

  1. Darling Nikki
  2. The Beautiful Ones
  3. When Doves Cry
  4. I Would Die 4 U
  5. Baby I'm a Star
  6. Purple Rain

All tracks recorded live at the Carrier Dome, Syracuse, NY - 3/30/1985. Released on VHS/laserdisc as Paisley Park/Warner Music Video 38102, 1985. Released on DVD in Purple Rain: Deluxe Expanded Edition - NPG/Warner Bros. 547374-2, 2017

Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Prince

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Michael Duquette (Founder) was fascinated with catalog music ever since he discovered there was more than one version of John Williams' soundtrack to E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. A 2009 graduate of Seton Hall University with a B.A. in journalism, Mike paired his profession with his passion through The Second Disc, one of the first sites to focus on all reissue labels great and small. His passion for reissues turned into a career, with bylines on catalog at Discogs, City Pages and Ultimate Prince and credits on titles including the Grammy-winning 'Squeeze Box: The Complete Works of "Weird Al" Yankovic.' Born and raised in New Jersey, Mike lives in Astoria, Queens with an ever-expanding collection of music.

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  1. Mark says

    March 30, 2022 at 9:31 pm

    I'd buy it if the packaging were CD-sized. I always pass on the oversized packaging though.

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