TV
Appearances 1980 - 1991
1 DVD
Label : New Purple Groovez
Catalogue : #NPG 001
Interactive Menu : Yes
Source : Broadcasts 1980-1991
Quality : EX / EX+
Duration : 99 minutes (including bonus)
Year Of Release : 2006
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Midnight Special : 6th January 1980
I Wanna Be Your Lover / Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
American Bandstand : 26th January 1980
I Wanna Be Your Lover / Interview / Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
Saturday Night Live : 21st February 1981
Partyup
Solid Gold : 14th December 1982
1999
Solid Gold : 4th April 1983
Little Red Corvette
American Music Awards : 28th January 1985
Purple Rain
Grammy Awards : 26th February 1985
Baby I'm A Star
MTV "Under The Cherry Moon Premiere" : 1st July 1986
Intro / Raspberry Beret / Delirious / Controversy / Mutiny
MTV Video Music Awards : 11th September 1987
Sign O' The Times / Play In The Sunshine
Saturday Night Live : 24th September 1989
Electric Chair
Victory & Valor - International Special Olympics : 19th July 1991
Diamonds And Pearls / Let's Go Crazy (intro) / Baby I'm A Star /
Push / Peter Gunn Theme
MTV Video Music Awards : 5th September 1991
Gett Off
Sheila E - Saturday Night Live : 16th November 1985
A Love Bizarre / Holly Rock
The Time - American Bandstand : 5th February 1983
The Walk / Interview / 777-9311
COMMENT
All in all this is a very impressive release . Things start off exceptionally well
with the opening Midnight Special clip from 1980. The quality of this 2 song set
(and the following American Bandstand) is extremely high - I'm floored at the clarity
and excellence of these two broadcasts considering their age. 'Saturday Night Live'
from 1981 is one of the low points of the release as the footage is slightly grainy
and the colour is very drained, however again considering it was originally broadcast
almost a quarter of a century ago, I really shouldn't complain too much.
The two separate Solid Gold appearances have been sourced from a much more recent
re-broadcast and as such the quality is far superior to the original recordings -
hence the new, improved quality versions appearing on here. The remainder of the
Prince footage is pretty much above and real criticism from me and whilst a few have
the occasional flaw, there is nothing serious worthy of bitching about.
The release includes a few related artist bonus clips which are not listed on
the packaging but are listed on the menu's clearly. The menu's are impressive
and very inventive following on the NPG Music Club theme with nice song selection
and sub menu's.
These 2 files need to be joined using the hjsplit program
vts101:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/dlf06l
vts102:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/6fgqs9
These 4 files need to be joined using the hjsplit program
vts111:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/vjlsu5
vts112:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ivi4ja
vts113:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/yd7axb
vts114:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/nw9za5
Also these 4 files
vts121:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/sovons
vts122:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/c40a3c
vts123:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/jggo2v
vts124:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/1419dg
also these
vts131:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/bzw5il
vts132:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/zbz28n
vts133:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/jauhmj
vts134:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/10tywo
finally these 4
vts141:
http://rapidshare.com/files/288419383/vts141.zip
vts142:
http://rapidshare.com/files/288407953/vts142.zip
vts143:
http://rapidshare.com/files/288397734/vts143.zip
vts144:
http://rapidshare.com/files/288386300/vts144.zip
the remaining menu files needed to burn the complete dvd :
vts:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/yn2naw
vts2:
http://rapidshare.com/files/288376778/vts2.zip
Just cut and paste all the newly joined files and along with the individual files from
vts2 put them all into the vts folder , there should be 14 files in all , youre then ready
to burn the DVD .
The artwork for the dvd case is here :
http://www.zshare.net/download/66740210996bbfad/
I'll only do DVD downloads once every few weeks as theyre quite time consuming , my next one
could be either " The Gold Files" or "Mess Wit Yo Mind" , which would you prefer ?