In honour of Prince Birthday, I've dusted off some of my old gig photos. 16 year old me took his crappy cheap camera to the front row of all the Revolution Hit n Run gigs. This was Prince covering the Stones 'Miss You'. Ron Wood behind and Sting's headstock on the left.

Another dust off. Prince in full showman mode, finishing off ' When Doves Cry'. Personally I always found WDC a little lacklustre live, but the full band rework on the 1986 tour was an absolute banger.

I Wonder U. I think I took this one in Stockholm. Prince loved Robert Palmer's ' Addicted to Love' video, released a few months earlier, and it clearly influenced Wendy's stage outfit. A year later Prince offered Robert 'Lust U Always'. He recorded, but didn't release it. Shame.

Anyone remember the rumour that the bass line cut from 'When Doves Cry' ended up structuring '17 Days'? Transpires, with a BPM match, it fits exactly with WDC structure, right down to the verse/chorus shifts.

Electric Man. After this picture, @Prince pulled out the Sadowsky Telecaster. I put the camera away, because he was playing three feet in front and looking me in the eye. You can see the licenced photographers angle of this on the front cover of Duane Tudahl's second book.

Controversy. Hamburg I think. With @Prince dropping guitar playing until the encore on this tour, Miko and Wendy had to step up and really delivered.

New America 12" is solid. I don't hear any clipping or early fade. The most common MP3/Flac floating around over the years is 132 BPM (Camelot 8B) , but the new release is 134 BPM (Camelot 5A), which matches the album version, Black Funk, and my own personal rip.

I get it and am looking forward to it. Stage musicals shouldn't be a facsimile of a movie or album, and the lead is playing The Kid, not @Prince. Seems he 'gets' Prince too. His cover of 'God' is not worthy.

Well, another year passes and the Prince estate fails to put any 'new' vault material out to purchase. Looks like I'll be spending my money on a Radiohead ticket tomorrow, which is actually cheaper than the tiny ATWIAD suitcase the Prince estate is offering up.

No more candy 4 U! The 'bonus track' is gone. Can't have any new music out there now can we.

I just had a play of the new Paisley Park (Remix) remaster though my Sennheiser Momentum 4 headphones and my 400w THX 2.1 monitor set up. Is it just me or is the bass too heavy and the high end too low? Got my son to blind listen and he preferred the Foefur mix.

When you secure Radiohead tickets.

A-U-T omatic! The all white look came out 3 times on the tour. I took this on the last night in London. That night, along with the Stockholm, were absolute highlights of the tour and seemed to be the ones Prince and the band enjoyed the most.

If the upcoming release of #killbill The Whole Bloody Affair gets a popcorn bucket, surely there is only one choice of design. Robert Meyer Burnett, Viceroy of Verisimilitude

The lunchtime dog walk reached 10 on the funky scale today. The 1994 configuration goes so hard.

If The Prince estate need evidence that 'young' fans are interested in 1992 'vault' material and not apparel, I submit my sons as exhibit A. How many ways can U work the P? #freethevault

I just did a track by track comparison of Around the World in a Day. The bass is slightly better on the remasters, but the overall sound is muddy in comparison. I prefer the older EQ adjusted version.

I knew something sounded 'off' on the #prince Around The World In A Day remaster. Some BPM and key shifts.

Can't believe its 12 years to the day that Prince kicked off the legendary London Hit n Run shows at Camden Electric Ballroom, the very place I bought my first boot at 15. Here's Prince vs the back of my head. £10 at the door. What a gig.