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"One Nite Alone... The Aftershow: It Ain't Over!" ist das zweite Livealbum von Prince. Es erschien bei seinem eigenen Label NPG Records und konnte ausschließlich von den Mitgliedern seiner damaligen Webseite NPG Music Club vorbestellt werden. Ab dem 24. November 2002 wurde es weltweit ausgeliefert. Die Lieferung bestand aus insgesamt vier Disks. Neben dem Livealbum lag dem Set das erste Livealbum, das Doppelalbum "One Nite Alone... Live!", und das Piano-Akustikalbum "One Nite Alone..." bei. Ab dem 17. Dezember 2002 konnte man das Set auch in Musikgeschäften kaufen, wobei hier das Akustikalbum "One Nite Alone..." fehlte. "One Nite Alone... The Aftershow: It Ain't Over!" enthält neun Songs, und die Laufzeit des Albums beträgt 55 Minuten und 39 Sekunden.
Das Album umfasst Songs von vier der acht Aftershows, die Prince im Jahr 2002 in den USA spielte. Seit dem Jahr 1986 spielt Prince gelegentlich Aftershows nach seinen Hauptkonzerten. Diese Aftershows finden in der Regel in kleineren Clubs vor meist wenigen hunderten Zuschauern statt. Dabei verzichtet Prince häufig auf seine großen Hits, und präsentiert stattdessen Songs, die er sonst nicht oder selten live spielt - manchmal auch in ausgedehnten Jams.
Als Gastmusiker wirken auf "One Nite Alone... The Aftershow: It Ain't Over!" George Clinton und Musiq Soulchild mit. Diese übernehmen den Hauptgesang bei den drei Coverversionen, die auf dem Album zu hören sind.
Prince machte kaum Werbung für das Album - es konnte sich auch nicht in den internationalen Musikcharts platzieren. Weltweit wurde das Album zusammen mit dem Livealbum "One Nite Alone... Live!" ca. 30.000 Mal verkauft.
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Always opposed to releasing a live album, Prince finally give fans what they had been longing for since 1978. An officially released live album. Prince once said if he ever released a live album it would have to be of the definitive show and being that his shows are always so varied, we all knew there was no such a thing as the ‘definitive show’. But then came along the One Nite Alone Tour, which is in my humble view his definitive tour. Worried that he was going to tour the piano album of the same name, the One Nite Alone Tour thankfully turned out to be the stuff fans’ dreams are made of. One Nite Alone… Live! captures the sound which swept fans away in 2002, Prince’s career musical peak. One year since the curtain fell on its last show this double-disk set was released to keep those heady nights alive for those who went to what was really a master class of musicianship and an experience that continues to blow the mind of attendees years later. Being that by 2002 Prince wanted to keep his set list fresh and purged many old stalwarts (Purple Rain being the main casualty) the tour’s set list included long lost fan favourite such as The Question Of U and Joy In Repetition and are sadly omitted from this album. Whilst disk two retains the familiar songs played on tour, disk one is occupied by the newer, livelier tracks performed for the shows’ opening segments. There can be just one gripe with the content of this double album. Disk two dwells too much on the piano portion of the show and slows the whole album down so far it fails to capture the vibrancy experienced by fans who attended the tour and result for non-attendees a flatter experience than the sonic odyssey that defined the tour; missing are Days Of Wild, The Ride and the covers Love Rollercoaster and Whole Lotta Love. Presented in a wonderful piano trimmed box set to make collectors gush, One Nite Alone… Live! contains a bonus CD of a collection of recordings taken from after shows of the US leg; named in honour of the fans’ frequent chant throughout the tour It Ain’t Over! This bonus disk contains the real jam-laden funk of the fabled after shows and restores lost fire to the set, which will and quite justifiably take pride of place in your Prince collection.
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