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    Quote Originally Posted by twonabomber View Post
    I blame the estate for these reissues. The record company is just a willing and necessary accomplice.
    I've noticed his 80's catalog has been reissued on Prince's "NPG" (New Power Generation) label like Around the World, Lovesexy, Parade, Graffiti Bridge. They are going for cheap, too @$9 - $10 on CD. Not much in the way of packaging mainly lyric sheets and production credits. No b-sides, remixes or vault tracks on these. The remastering (from what I can tell) is crisper than the originals and they are not brickwalled to death so they are bearable to listen to. Around The World in a Day is not as good as I remember it.
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    I think people got turned off by Around The World In A Day because it wasn't Purple Rain. Prince even said in an interview he could have just done the Let's Go Crazy solo in a different key and put it on there but he wanted to do something different. Then you get to Parade and it's stripped down and different too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by twonabomber View Post
    I blame the estate for these reissues. The record company is just a willing and necessary accomplice.
    Free money.

    I don't think his legacy will be badly affected if if some of the tracks released aren't great given people will overlook a bit of child raping if your main catalogue is good enough...
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    I'd buy a Cloud guitar if the estate decides to do another run.

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    Quote Originally Posted by twonabomber View Post
    I'd buy a Cloud guitar if the estate decides to do another run.
    You will have to wear purple ladies clothes when you play it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kristy View Post
    I have some good news. This sexist misogynistic motherfucker is still dead

    He was an asshole. One less jerk on the face of the earth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by twonabomber View Post
    I'd buy a Cloud guitar if the estate decides to do another run.
    More like a whale penis than a cloud.


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    Prince's engineer Susan Rogers at Sunset Sound


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    Prince Will Have Major Minnesota Highway Stretch Named For Him

    The roadway runs past his former Paisley Park headquarters and winds through the Minneapolis
    suburbs of Chanhassen and Eden Prairie. It will be called the Prince Rogers Nelson Memorial
    Highway and the signs marking the road’s name will be purple.

    Full story at:
    https://deadline.com/2023/05/prince-...im-1235356969/
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    Diamonds And Pearls gets the expanded reissue treatment. Out October 27.

    https://ultimateclassicrock.com/prin...earls-box-set/

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    I used to listen to this album a lot back in the day. I would guess a lot of the 40+ new tracks are like the rap songs towards the end of the album which I used to skip.

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    Tony M and the "Game Boyz" that backed Prince up onstage were super dorky. NPG as a band, though, really good. Michael Bland played with Paul Westerberg on one of his solo tours.

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    I've bought every deluxe reissue they've done so far. SIGN, 1999 and PURPLE RAIN were all very impressive. But DIAMONDS AND PEARLS was not one of my favorite albums originally (my wife likes it a lot, though). I'll still probably get it.

    Be pretty cool to hear the live/unreleased SEXY MF, though. I actually preferred the 1992 SYMPBOL album.

    I was kinda hoping the next one was going to be based on the AROUND THE WORLD/PARADE sessions.
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    There are two books by Duane Tudahl that cover the Purple Rain sessions (first book) and then the Parade and SOTT sessions. Tudahl includes as many notes as he can and they even go into the side project sessions. Plenty of quotes and comments from the Revolution, Appollonia, Sheila E, members of the Time, etc. I guess he's working on another book.

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    Quote Originally Posted by twonabomber View Post
    There are two books by Duane Tudahl that cover the Purple Rain sessions (first book) and then the Parade and SOTT sessions. Tudahl includes as many notes as he can and they even go into the side project sessions. Plenty of quotes and comments from the Revolution, Appollonia, Sheila E, members of the Time, etc. I guess he's working on another book.
    I got the PURPLE RAIN book he did. It's pretty stunning. (Reminds me a bit of Mark Lewisohn's amazing Beatles books, like his THE COMPLETE BEATLES RECORDING SESSIONS book.)

    It would be amazing to have such a book for VH...though I bet the tape archive in 5150 is a mess. I bet half of those session tapes don't even have dates or logs.

    The Prince estate, in my humble opinion, has shown how to treat an artist's legacy. Serious fans can accept that some of the things that are in the Vault discs in the box sets aren't polished songs or necessarily WHEN DOVES CRY-caliber material. When you love an artist, you are happy to listen to the good, the bad and the ugly.

    When Prince died, the one consolation prize we got was being able to finally start hearing (and seeing) all the great stuff in his vault. I was hoping something similar would happen after Eddie died. But I forgot that we're dealing with the band that literally hates their fans.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rikk View Post
    It would be amazing to have such a book for VH...though I bet the tape archive in 5150 is a mess. I bet half of those session tapes don't even have dates or logs.
    A book about the early stuff might not be too hard to put together. Sunset Sound has supposedly kept all the work orders and some of the engineers are still around. Who knows what is in 5150 and if Landee would be willing to talk about it.

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    A book about the early stuff might not be too hard to put together. Sunset Sound has supposedly kept all the work orders and some of the engineers are still around. Who knows what is in 5150 and if Landee would be willing to talk about it.
    Yup. If you even just watch the Sunset Sound web series on YouTube, they go over dates, times and even play bits of session tapes (even with pics, when available). They used those log sheets to construct the 4-CD box set of unreleased Dave material (that we'll probably never hear).

    But 5150 is a different matter.

    Donn Landee apparently came back into the VH fold to remaster the Sammy catalog. I'm not sure if he's the one who did the 2015 remasters of the Dave catalog...but whoever did, it was actually stunning. I wasn't even going to buy them at first until I recently heard something off the FAIR WARNING 2015 remaster and it sounded amazing. Much better than the 2000 remasters.

    That said, Donn Landee last worked with Eddie in 1988 for OU812. I bet even he wouldn't be able to make heads or tails of the stacks of session tapes Eddie left in his home studio. I can't be sure, but I bet they're not logged.

    I was reading ERUPTION, a recent book of Eddie interviews I got. In one section, Eddie is interviewed in 2004 (talking about the pathetic 2004 reunion with Shammy). He says he literally gave Sammy CD mixes of the instrumental tapes of dozens and dozens of songs he'd been stockpiling. Sammy apparently went through some of those, picked three songs...and they were off.

    They COULD make a new album that way...even today. They could take a bunch of those, have Dave pick good ones...and have Dave sing over them. (Of course, Eddie mentioned that final lead guitar work was NOT done for those.)

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    I bet Prince's archive was more interesting, though.

    He would record AND finish dozens and dozens of songs every year. And he COULD. He played all the instruments and put finished vocals on most of his outtakes. They weren't just jams or instrumentals.

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    Prince is still dead, right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by twonabomber View Post
    Tony M and the "Game Boyz" that backed Prince up onstage were super dorky. NPG as a band, though, really good. Michael Bland played with Paul Westerberg on one of his solo tours.
    I met Tony M and a couple of the others in 2019. He was friendly and not a dick.

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    Hey, how you all doing this morning? Latest news on Prince is that he's still dead.

    Details are not expected to change any time soon.

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    In the shameless "let's make a buck off the dead department" it's seems Prince's corpse is finally going to be a Broadway star:

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/li...on-1235781333/

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