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People were confused about the last thread since it had Tidal in the title. This is a general thread for anybody that wants to talk about Prince, Prince related news, associates of Prince, albums, past live shows, tributes, bootlegs, Paisley Park, posthumous releases, legal proceedings and more. __________________ Some starting topics: - Prince died of an overdose. He wasn't murdered. - The final release in Prince's lifetime was a single of Black Sweat from the final Atlanta show. He mixed the entire show for release before his death. - The first posthumous release is the best of, 4Ever. It features the unreleased song Moonbeam Levels. Prince picked the cover when he made amends with Warner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4Ever_(Prince_album) - It's reported that Prince also delivered the remaster of Purple Rain and a new album of 'unreleased material', which he also picked the art for. Which is weird because Warner announced a deluxe edition of Purple Rain as the first release after 4Ever. Who knows what the bonus material will be. Both releases are slated for 2017. - Universal Music Publishing Group announced it had been named “the exclusive worldwide publishing administrator for Prince’s entire song catalog, released and unreleased, effective immediately.” - Tidal is saying that they have the exclusive streaming rights to Prince's catalog, a HITNRUN remix album and a new untitled album. - Tidal is trying to buy the rights to Prince's unreleased music. - Prince's estate is suing Tidal. http://www.startribune.com/prince-estate-files-lawsuit-over-streaming-rights-to-late-star-s-music/401389105/ - Paisley Park is now a museum open to tours. The first thing you'll see is Prince's urn in the atrium. There's special VIP dance parties (for which Prince's DJ put together two 3 hour mixes) and the ability to record vocals in Prince's personal studio over a small portion of one of his songs. So if you want to have Prince laugh at you from Heaven, open up that wallet. https://officialpaisleypark.com/pages/paisley-park-tours - You can also buy Paisley Park merchadise online. https://officialpaisleypark.com/collections/all Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Nov 16, 2016 |
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man nurse posted:I'm unreasonably upset that 4Ever has Sexy MF before My Name is Prince, considering the the latter segues into the former on the original album. What kinds of rear end backwards poo poo is that? 4Ever is a mess. Warner actually sent out a press release saying that The Most Beautiful Girl In The World was on it and ending on the edited live version of Nothing Compares 2 U from Hits/B-Sides is the most wet fart ending. Literally any other song would have been better. All that said, I'm still excited to hear a perfect quality copy of Moonbeam Levels. It's a great song.
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Creature posted:What's the likelihood that Moonbeam Levels will be 'album only' on iTunes? I'm up to 3 different compilations now* and really don't want another. https://twitter.com/drfunkenberry/status/793164353805713408
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Nov 17, 2016 05:52
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I found an aftershow soundboard called My Band's Tight (10.26.2002) and man it's a fun one. There's a funny moment where Prince stops the show and says 'Did they tell you no cameras? Now I got a really nice soft hotel bed waiting for me. Next person that takes a picture, the one next to them grab them and twist their neck. Take em and grab em and twist their neck like that. Just shake em up and say 'didn't he say no cameras? He got a hotel bed waiting for him. He gonna go to sleep.' We're trying to funk. Please. The lights. The lights they hurt. Please. Alright? No pictures.' before heading right back into The One. BiggerBoat posted:What the estate really needs to do is release a proper box set with bonus live DVD material that spans the dude's entire career. Prince's live performaces have never been given the proper treatment or exposure. I'd mix in some aftershow stuff too. "Prince 4Ever" makes it seems like the last good sone Prince ever wrote was "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" and it bugs me that people only ever associate him with "Purple Rain", Kiss" and "1999". Agreed. I'd love a Jimi Hendrix Stages style boxset. Like The Makings Of Rain, Lovesexy Live, [some filmed show from his O(+> period] and Montreux 2013 bundled together. Even a new best-of covering his non-Warner career would be amazing. There's so many good tracks. BiggerBoat posted:He didn't go away or stop writing good stuff. He just went sort of underground. One critic described him as "the most famous underground musician of all time" and I always found that a pretty apt description. It's even nuttier when you think that there's nearly 20 years of vault stuff from 1997-2016 that we have literally no idea about. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Nov 20, 2016 |
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Nov 20, 2016 21:46
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I don't know if this is a mistake but Amazon has Moonbeam Levels available for purchase. I thought for sure that Warner would have made it album only. $1.29 https://www.amazon.com/Moonbeam-Lev...48b6e7e081bcb65
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Nov 22, 2016 20:56
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BiggerBoat posted:Yeah...not really feeling that track. Moonbeam Levels is one of those tracks you have to let grow on you. Like The Grand Progression. BiggerBoat posted:General question: wtf is up with the Purple Paisley Head die hards who are going on and on about how Prince was murdered? I spend some time on Prince.org and there's a small but dedicated tin foil hat base of fans who absolutely think that Prince's death was "mysterious" and "there are just SO MANY unanswered questions!" It's real "Loose Change"/JFK poo poo and, for me, it's gone from hilarious to depressing to outright angering me all the way back to funny again. It's people who had a certain idea of who Prince was. If you're a person who believed he was a deeply religious man that lived clean and never complained - of course the reality of Prince being a walking contradiction that was having trouble coping with the aftermath of 30 years of brutal live performances won't compute. They're just reaching for some explanation that will allow Prince to retain hero status. (also it's ironic since prince was the type of person who talked about chemtrails and all of that same of stuff) There's a subset of prince.org people that can't even fathom the stories that he could be uncomfortable in large crowds or nervous before he went on stage. They bought into everything he presented. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Nov 27, 2016 |
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Nov 27, 2016 22:20
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BiggerBoat posted:Off topic (and slightly on): I watched "Livesexy 88" the other night for the first time in a while and honestly found it overrated. Time hasn't helped it. I like the album and saw the show but, drat, for someone who hated lip syncing and pre-recorded stuff, Livesexy was rife with it. As much as I love "AnnaStesia", you can see and hear the disconnect when he's rising and playing the keyboard. The drums and most of the music are piped in throughout and, speaking of "overblown", god drat was that concert over the loving top. From the outfits to the choreography to the "message"... Which version did you watch? There's a bootleg with the original live broadcast and the 'cross the line' section that was deleted for the home release. It's been a few years since I watched it but I don't remember any blatant overdubs. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Nov 28, 2016 |
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Nov 28, 2016 00:12
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Dead Snoopy posted:I think if the right person got into his ear and said"hey Prince, you know how you want to put out every concept and tune on YOUR timetable? Well phones have apps and you could cut out iTunes..." Prince could have done that too. There was 3rdEyeTunes. Nothing really came through with it outside of a handful of songs but his people teased the release of Montreux 2009. It's really a shame that he died because I'm sure if he saw the big deals Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock got from Netflix, he would've wanted a slice of that pie. There was also that time he personally called the guy running yourlisten (once a hotbed for prince bootlegs) and asked him to take down the files. That guy tried everything to shake Prince out of his rut and he just wouldn't have it. https://medium.com/the-coffeelicious/that-time-prince-called-23a2d8cdbe3b#.npyc01fz7 Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Nov 28, 2016 |
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Nov 28, 2016 02:34
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Vince MechMahon posted:Tickets for Celebration 2017 at Paisley Park are on sale now. They're $500 a pop. For the standard ticket. There's also a VIP package. It's not really different than Experience Hendrix touring around. If they can do a similar show as the tribute concert but spread over over four days with more time for the bands, that'd be really cool. $500 is alot but it's four days in a small venue. I wish I had the money to travel out there. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 11:12 on Nov 30, 2016 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgmPdEm5Nv8Vince MechMahon posted:This. I went to the equivalent of this thing when he was still alive in 2015, and it cost like $20 to get in and then $20 for a tour if you wanted to do it. If you went to all three days and for some reason did the tour for all three days, that would be $120. I don't see the problem. Prince was able to do Paisley Park parties because he could go on the road for a few hitnrun shows and make a giant stack of cash. Now that his estate is in charge, they need to keep the lights on. $499 for four days of partying with all of his associates plus whatever panel discussions/presentations they come up with seems like a solid deal. It seemed like people were saying good things about the 'dance on til dawn' dance parties they put on. moflika posted:Loooove me some Prince! (of course) check your pm buddy Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Dec 1, 2016 |
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Dec 1, 2016 08:26
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A bombshell dropped in Prince boot land today.  - edit Oh god, I saw a clip from it and it's perfect. No timecodes or anything. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Dec 6, 2016 |
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Dec 6, 2016 03:37
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Vince MechMahon posted:How would I go about seeing this? It's only a matter of time before one of the 500 people who buy a copy liberates it for the masses.
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Dec 6, 2016 04:55
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GQ has a great oral history on Prince. Hearing that Prince played I Hate U for Carmen Electra before flying her back to LA was stone cold. Alsoquote:Freed: Everyone tried to talk to him about a will. He would just say, like, "I'm not planning on dying." http://www.gq.com/story/prince-stories - edit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ON0nQCQF08 Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 08:04 on Dec 9, 2016 |
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Dec 9, 2016 01:53
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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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Dec 19, 2016 02:04
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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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Jan 31, 2017 03:55
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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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Feb 4, 2017 13:38
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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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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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Feb 11, 2017 00:21
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mar 31, 2017 04:40
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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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