The reasoning some record companies had, was that every form of advertising ultimately brings money to the table.
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At the end of the 1980’s/early 1990’s bootlegs presented an alternative and free way to give attention to artists and their music. The question has to be raised how these recordings were obtained. The remastered and expanded release in 2010 contained no less than 40 (!) cd’s, and was supplemented with the concert tours in 19 and sounded pristine. The set contained recordings from every tour Prince had been on dating from 1980 to 1986. One specific bootleg that cannot remain unnamed is the City Lights box: an 11 cd set released in 1995. The labels had their own catalogs, release schedules and even remaster and re-release campaigns. To meet the demand real labels were founded, oftentimes exclusively targeted at releasing Prince material. This added to the value of those recordings. On top of that, Prince’s live performances were popular, because he tended to change up his regular shows on a sometimes nightly basis by adding or replacing songs, changing up the arrangements, adding solos or making room for (lengthy) improvisation. Before audio formats like mp3 existed, physical bootlegs were expensive and changed hands for enormous amounts of money. These recordings are highly sought after. The so-called soundboard recordings are special, named as such due to the source of the recordings: the central soundboard that passes the sound directly to the speaker(cabinet)s. Most of them are live recordings in varying sound quality, many really good. Hundreds, if not thousands, Prince bootlegs are in circulation. Hundreds of thousands copies of The Black Album bootleg were sold before it was officially released in 1994. The quest for Prince material was serious business. It became clear that Prince recorded more, much more, music than could ever be released. The planned, and subsequently retracted, release of The Black Album played a crucial part in that. In the 1990’s Prince was one of the most bootlegged artists of all time (maybe he still is). In other words: all recordings not officially released by an artist, or a record company the artist is/was signed to, is a so-called bootleg: a recording of a concert, aftershow, rehearsal or studio recording obtained illegally. Bootlegs usually consist of either unreleased studio recordings, live performances or interviews with an unpredictable level of quality.
Recordings may be copied and traded among fans of the artist without financial exchange, but some bootleggers have sold recordings for profit, sometimes by adding professional-quality sound engineering and packaging to the raw material. The process of making and distributing such recordings is known as bootlegging.
What constitutes a bootleg? Wikipedia states:Ī bootleg recording is an audio or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority. This article holds the ultimate top 25, based on 5 different lists. Ample reason to dive into the world of Prince bootlegs and to compile a ‘must have’ list. Prince is one of the most bootlegged artists of all time.
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