Catalog # Release Year CD Length 58:02 Date/Venue Pre Warner Brothers Boom Box Demos/
Fakes Source Audience/Soundboard Quality G/VG
G2P Rating 3.5/5.0
Track Listing 1976-77 Boom Box Demos Sweet Thing,
Wouldn't You Love To Love Me, Spending My Time, Rock Me Baby, Untitled, Do You
Wanna Ride, Nightingale, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Telepphone Conversation,
Untitled, Untitled, For You, For You, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Soft And
Wet, For You, For You, Untitled Likely A Fake Track Leaving For
New York
Comments Deane's
Comments(rates this release 4/5.0) Most of the titles for these tracks are unknown and those that
are listed are most likely wrong. Despite the sound quality, (hey a 1977 boom
box), this is an amazing document of a young artist. Many of the tracks have
familiar sounding lines in them and even a few early versions of some classic
Prince song. An amazing early version of Soft And Wet and a number of work outs
of For You. A Must have. Includes a 12 page booklet that has lyrics for a few of
the tracks.
Dale's
Comments(rates this release 3/5.0) A very good early document of Prince working out new material.
Most of these tracks suffer from very poor sound qaulity, but that is part of
what makes this particular release so special. It was recorded by an
enthusiastic 'kid'. There are supposedly a few different versions of this
release with a couple more untitled tracks on it. (?)
Mike's
Comments(rates this release 3/5.0) These are the earliest circulating Prince recordings. There
are lot of untitled tracks on here and most of those are very short, unfinished
instrumental pieces. More interesting are the finished songs (demos?) which
pre-date the For you album. Prince experiments with rock in 'Do you
wanna ride?', while 'Leaving for New York' sounds very polished, suggesting it
was seriously considered for his first album. The 'Soft and wet' demos are also
good and have different lyrics to the version that was released. The only
drawback is the sound quality which is often below average; quite likely this is
due to many of the songs being recorded on cheap equipment, possibly even a home
cassette recorder.