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BiggerBoat posted:I know you're trying to make fun of me, and maybe deservedly so, but I've heard Prince himself make the distinction between "percussionist" and "drummer". sorry, i thought that comparison was some kind of fart-huffing critique jargon that one might encounter on a place like pitchfork. now i'm actually interested, i wonder what prince meant by it
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BiggerBoat posted:What would a Prince compilation look like post, say, the Love Symbol album? All the compilation stuff seems to stop with TSMBGITW. His consistency admittedly suffered a bit after the name change and all but there's still a lot of great stuff. I put together this playlist and it flows pretty good. 1) New World (Emancipation) 2) 3121 (3121) 3) Jam Of The Year (Emancipation) 4) What Do U Want Me To Do? (Musicology) 5) Tangerine: Extended Mix (Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic) 6) So Far So Pleased (Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic) 7) The Work Pt. 1 (The Rainbow Children) 8) In This Bed I Scream (Emancipation) 9) Family Name (The Rainbow Children) 10) S.S.T. (online single) 11) U're Gonna C Me (MPLSoUND) 12) Sticky Like Glue (20Ten) 13) The Holy River (Emancipation) 14) Last December (The Rainbow Children) 15) Welcome 2 The Dawn: Acoustic Version (The Truth) But there's a ton of great tracks after his Warner career. The biggest problem is that there's a number of them that have this weird plastic production that clashes with his other great tracks.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:sorry, i thought that comparison was some kind of fart-huffing critique jargon that one might encounter on a place like pitchfork. now i'm actually interested, i wonder what prince meant by it Prince was asked about assembling his ultimate band or something from current and former band members and he said "Sheila on drums. No...wait...Sheila on 'percussion'". think he meant the difference between playing behind a full kit as opposed to to a stand up set with congas, bongos, a tom and some snares - like how you usually see her play. Where the "percussion" accentuates the main beat and adds fills and flash. It's a subtle difference (if there even is one) but that was what I took from it. I really hope the estate gets it together and gives us a decent live box set similar to what Page has done with Zeppelin and Rush have offered their fans. I watched some of the Montreaux stuff and it's criminal how little of Prince's live material is so buried and undocumented. Especially the aftershows
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I keep forgetting to post about this: Paisley Park has a kiosk in the Mall of America. I didn't get to check it out up close, but yep definitely saw a kiosk advertising it. There was nobody staffing it that I could see, so I'm not sure if it's just a sad little advertisement or if someone is usually there to talk to people about it.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:I keep forgetting to post about this: Paisley Park has a kiosk in the Mall of America. I didn't get to check it out up close, but yep definitely saw a kiosk advertising it. There was nobody staffing it that I could see, so I'm not sure if it's just a sad little advertisement or if someone is usually there to talk to people about it. Unless it's changed it wasn't a kiosk, it was a pop up museum that doubled as an ad for the Paisley Park tour.
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Maybe the kiosk was an ad directing people to the pop-up museum? Because this was definitely a standard-issue mall kiosk.
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Just noticed a handful of live 'albums' have appeared on Google Music somehow. There's two releases of the Syracuse show, Tokyo and a few others. I expect them to be taken down soon.
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quote:Sources tell Pitchfork that Prince’s music will be available on Apple Music and Amazon Music very soon, ending a nearly two-year absence of the Purple One’s back catalog from all streaming services besides Tidal. In addition, this morning, advertisements featuring the Spotify logo bathed in purple appeared in the Union Square subway station in Manhattan, as Billboard points out. This seems to hint that Prince’s music will soon return to Spotify as well, adding fuel to recent rumors that the Purple One's back catalog would be widely available on streaming services in time for the Grammys, which take place Sunday, February 12. (Prince's music has been exclusively available to stream on Tidal since July 2015.) http://pitchfork.com/news/71224-purple-ads-hint-at-princes-return-to-spotify/ Nice
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Excellent news. Hopefully once that's done we'll get some news on the Purple Rain reissue. After waiting this long, if I don't get a full-length Computer Blue I'm going to explode.
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I'm torn on this because, on one hand, Prince on Spotify. On the other hand, it's definitely something he wouldn't have wanted while he was alive.
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Creature posted:Excellent news. They had announced reissues on vinyl of all his Warner stuff up to a bit past Graffiti Bridge, and even came out with all of it up until Parade, but then all of the upcoming ones vanished off of Amazon pre-orders just after his death. I'd like to know what's up with that, too.
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This is adorable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBj-aBUW348 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfyv3JwrJFw (yes, that's the actual NPG YouTube account with [Tony M?] recording his tv with his phone) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSFqCn043dA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cst8K27DnlQ Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Feb 4, 2017 |
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The Revolution is going on tour. And this is kinda sad but I guess necessary to start building his legacy. quote:Warner Music holds the licensing rights to the majority of Prince’s hit songs recorded before 1996, through a deal the singer-songwriter struck with its Warner Bros label in 2014. https://webcache.googleusercontent....n&ct=clnk&gl=us
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Call Me Charlie posted:The Revolution is going on tour. I wish Prince had just made the outtakes, vault material and live shows available for purchase on his own site. Now it's just going to be the vultures profiting off this stuff.
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Universal won.quote:Universal Music Group (UMG), the world leader in music-based entertainment, today announced a multi-year agreement with the Estate of Prince Rogers Nelson and NPG Records Inc., effective immediately, that grants UMG exclusive licensing rights to the iconic artist’s Grammy-winning NPG recordings, including a library of 25 albums and his highly anticipated trove of unreleased works. http://www.universalmusic.com/the-estate-of-prince-rogers-nelson-selects-universal-music-group-to-manage-iconic-artists-recordings/ And that last sentence is surprising.
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The majority of his Warner discography is up on most of the streaming services. There's also a couple of albums on Prime Music https://smile.amazon.com/b/ref=dmm_...pf_rd_i=desktop And the Purple Rain reissue got a release date. June 9th. quote:The reissue pairs the newly remastered Purple Rain with "two incredible albums of previously unreleased Prince music and two complete concert films." The exact contents of that bonus material have not yet been announced. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/princes-purple-rain-reissue-packed-with-unreleased-music-w466431 If I had to guess, I'd guess The Makings Of Rain and Prince And The Revolution LIVE! as the concert films. No idea what the 'two incredible albums of previously unreleased Prince music' could be.
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I'm going to assume that if they're releasing alongside Purple Rain, they'll be of that era. Even better would be if they span 1999 - Around The World In A Day.
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Just bought my tickets to The Revolution when they come to DC. Did anyone go to any of the First Avenue shows to know how they are? Who do they usually get to sing in lieu of Prince?
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SgtScruffy posted:Just bought my tickets to The Revolution when they come to DC. Did anyone go to any of the First Avenue shows to know how they are? Who do they usually get to sing in lieu of Prince? Here's a tracklist from the third show with a list of who sang what https://www.instagram.com/p/BJ7UPozAyoa/ I hope Andre Cymone goes on tour with them. He's probably the closest to Prince's style outside of that one guy from Mint Condition.
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It was Wendy doing most of the vocals, but Andre Cymone did some, as well as special guests Kimbra and Maya Rudolph. It was the best concert I've ever been to.
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This was buried on prince.org but they played a full concert from June 1, 2014 during a Paisley After Dark party. https://www.instagram.com/p/BQVtGIogn-r/ Also Earl's Court 1992, Lovesexy Live, Musicology July 31, 2004, Jam of The Year January 4, 1998, 21 Nights In London September 13, 2007, Welcome 2 Australia May 18, 2012, Prince & The Revolution: Live and Sign O The Times. It's cool how they're screening goodies that are unavailable anywhere else. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 05:12 on Feb 14, 2017 |
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Somebody posted this on prince.org and, after I got over the initial bullshit reaction, I think it's possible. The tracklist is just weird enough to seem real. If it's true, it looks like the concerts are First Avenue - August 3, 1983 (aka The Makings Of Rain) and The Omni, Atlanta - January 4, 1985 (which exists in a single cam tape recording) quote:So my wife's good highschool friend works in LA for Warner Bros. Music. He knows I am a HUGE Prince fan. Late last night
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All of that sounds good, though that second disc sounds a bit lacklustre (I'll assume that the 'dance mix' of Let's Go Crazy is just the same 12" version that's already on Spotify etc).
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DrVenkman posted:All of that sounds good, though that second disc sounds a bit lacklustre (I'll assume that the 'dance mix' of Let's Go Crazy is just the same 12" version that's already on Spotify etc). Disc 2 is basically previously released b-sides until it gets to Jungle Love. I assume the rest are the original/unreleased versions with Prince on vocals. - edit i found the omni 85 show if anybody wants to give it a watch ahead of time http://www.downvids.net/prince-1985-01-04-the-omni-atlanta-ga-full-show-793079.html Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Mar 7, 2017 |
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Got tickets to see The Revolution in July. I'm really looking forward to that.
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man nurse posted:Got tickets to see The Revolution in July. I'm really looking forward to that. Who does vocals?
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BiggerBoat posted:Who does vocals? Wendy posted:Who's going to be singing? http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-revolutions-wendy-melvoin-on-princes-death-new-tour-w470525
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That's the smartest approach they could have taken.
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I've answered that question like three times in here I hate you guys.
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New boots on the way!quote:2 Purple Rain Tour concerts 1985 - Uniondale NY The samples sound perfect but I remember the same thing with Worcester 1985 and that release was all sorts of hosed up. Fingers crossed this one is amazing.
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Please tell me y'all have heard "Bob George" from the Black Album that Prince thought Satan put in his brain during an eight day ecstasy binge.
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NPG's also going on tour and they might be the better lineup. Really hope one of the two can make it to Florida. quote:The crowd's reception to NPG during the October show triggered the decision to reunite. Members of the band last played on Prince’s last album, 2015’s HitnRun: Phase Two. “It was quite an undertaking doing the tribute in October, the politics of it,” says Morris Hayes, NPG’s musical director, who first met Prince in the late ‘80s and played with him from 1992 to 2012. “I had three people to please: the promoter, the family, and most of all, the fans. The resounding response I got on social media was they were so happy, but there were a lot of people who couldn’t get a ticket who wanted to hear this music. Prince’s music is here to stay and people want to experience that feeling of getting together. That was the biggest motivator for me.” http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7727868/new-power-generation-reunion-2017-tour-prince-handwritten-letter There's also talk of doing a new album which is pretty exciting.
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Kirk Johnson did a really weird awkward interview the other day. I think dude knows something. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/prince-confidant-drummer-kirk-johnson-paisley-park-tour-legacy/
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BiggerBoat posted:Kirk Johnson did a really weird awkward interview the other day. I think dude knows something. He responded like a guy who told them beforehand that he wouldn't be answering questions like that. (still he absolutely has the clearest picture of what happened and how bad prince's drug problem was)
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BiggerBoat posted:Kirk Johnson did a really weird awkward interview the other day. I think dude knows something. Pretty cool that the goatse man was Prince's drummer
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Call Me Charlie posted:New boots on the way! This one's in the wild! And there's seemingly no issues like with Worcester.  - edit Goddamn, he was on point during this show. And the audio quality is perfect. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Mar 31, 2017 |
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Andre Cymone released a new album. It's all rock but the samples seem pretty good. https://andrecymone.bandcamp.com/album/1969-4
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Universal is trying to get out of their deal since Prince was a terrible businessman. lolquote:Universal and Prince’s estate in January agreed to a deal worth about $30 million for the rights, but some of the rights Universal was promised appeared to conflict with rights negotiated by Access Industries Inc.’s Warner Music Group, the late singer’s first record label, the people said. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/record-label-says-it-didnt-get-what-it-paid-for-in-deal-for-princes-music-rights-2017-04-14
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 Hey y'all. I know that my posting in this thread and the previous one was, and is, very bad. But if any of you die-hard Prince nuts enjoy trivia and can look past my terrible posting, please come join the ~~goon team~~ that has played for several years now in the insane trivia contest broadcast from Stevens Point, Wisconsin (thread). As you can see by the logo and theme, this year has quite a high chance of including questions about The Purple One, perhaps especially because the first day of the contest (April 21) falls on the one-year anniversary of his passing. The contest goes all weekend, but even if you can only pop in for a few minutes here or there all of us will appreciate it. And aside from possible Prince questions, there are also a ton of questions every year about popular music. It's a lot of fun, come join us! The questions actually start a few days before the contest, so now is a great time to get set up on IRC to join us. We will get the first questions at some time on Monday, April 17th, and these early questions consist of a pamphlet that will have around 20-30 mystery pictures in it. There is a good chance that some of these will be music related so you (yes, you!) have a good chance of getting goons some sweet, sweet points, and consequently it may be those points that put us ahead of several turbonerd teams who have been playing in this contest for decades. These nerds have entire garages and basements full of candy wrappers and ancient magazines because they think it will score them a cheap trophy in the contest, and our team loves nothing more than ruining the bragging rights of some poor geek in rural Wisconsin who has been dutifully cataloging boxes of Special K for his entire adult life. P.S. I will make one final note here about our team name. It's very stupid. The story goes that, in the first year goons played, some of them thought it would be funny to name their team something to try and gross out small-town Wisconsinites. The idea is that people would hear our team name, not know what it was, and Google it, thus being surprised by gross things on the Internet. So, they named themselves "Trivial Fursuit". Classy, right? Well, it became one of those jokes that went on for too long, and now I guess we are stuck with it. We aren't like, actually furries though, dear God no 
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