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Serial #.............: 4DaFunk Catalogue 4DF076-77
Artist...............: Prince
Album................: 26
Year.................: 2009
Genre................: Concert
Comment..............: Birthday Concert & Rehearsal, First Avenue, Minneapolis, 7th June 1984
Type.................: Bootleg
Duration.............: 75:44 / 76:35
Cover(s) Included....: Yes
Audio Format.........: Lossless
Bitrate..............: Flac
Source...............: Audience Recording (Quality: EX- / EX)


Traklist

CD1
01 - 17 Days
02 - Our Destiny
03 - Roadhouse Garden
04 - Interlude
05 - All Day, All Night
06 - Free
07 - Noon Rendezvous
08 - Erotic City
09 - Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)
10 - When Doves Cry
11 - Happy Birthday
12 - Irresistible Bitch
13 - Possessed

CD2
01 - 17 Days
02 - When We're Dancing Close And Slow
03 - Free
04 - Erotic City #1
05 - Erotic City #2
06 - Irresistible Bitch #1
07 - Irresistible Bitch #2 (Instrumental)
08 - Irresistible Bitch #3
09 - When Doves Cry
10 - Possesed #1
11 - Possesed #2
12 - All Day, All Night
13 - Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)

Bonus
01 - 17 Days
02 - Our Destiny
03 - Roadhouse Garden
04 - All Day, All Night
05 - Our Destiny
06 - Roadhouse Garden

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Damn, we really are being spoiled this month and this release is no exception. 
It’s hard to be constructive when trying to find fault in a release, all in some 
vain bid to sound neutral or unbiased and I admit that I’m having a hard time 
doing so with this beauty.  This, 4DF’s latest, is simply stunning and I don’t 
use that word lightly. What we have here is the infamous birthday concert from 
1984 which has been around for some time now, featuring on many bootlegs in the 
past and I’ve no doubt a lot of you will be all too familiar with it.  So if 
you’re wondering what’s so special about this version then just take a listen 
and you’ll soon see. The audio quality presented here is without a doubt the 
best I’ve heard so far of this recording and blows all other versions out of the 
water. Don’t get me wrong, we’re not talking soundboard here but there’s no 
doubting this is clear, crisp, clean and loud. 4DF boast in their liner notes 
that you won’t find a better quality recording and I can’t disagree with them. 
For a 25 year old tape to sound this good really is something to shout about.

Anyway, enough fawning and drooling, if you’re not familiar with the content 
here then you should be ashamed of yourself. Where have you been?! Seriously 
though, it’s an absolutely top-notch performance. Prince is on fine form and the 
Revolution have rarely sounded as tight or funky. Erotic City is as good a 
version as you’re likely to ever here and let’s not forget (how could we?) 
Roadhouse Garden and Our Destiny, which get their one and only live airing. 
Something very special indeed. 

Disc 2 covers the rehearsal for the very same birthday show, recorded the 
proceeding month and, again, this has been around for some time with 4DF freely 
admitting to sourcing this version from Sabotage’s Purple Rush series. However, 
they’ve spruced it up somewhat giving a much clearer edge to it and with a fair 
bit of noise reduction going on. On top of that they have also correctly pitched 
the recording so now it plays as it should. That said, the recording is a little 
uneven in places(where the sound quality is concerned) and there are some 
fluctuations here and there but it’s not a huge problem and doesn’t detract too 
much from any overall enjoyment.  It’s a nice little rehearsal but there’s no