Prince is dead

[Seshmeister]

A mixing desk recording was made that night, i was standing nearby and saw the CD rushed away with security before the lights had even come up.

[twonabomber]

"Sesh's Aftershow" is on YouTube

I don't remember which car I left the CD in but I wrote "Sesh's Aftershow" and the date on it in black Sharpie

[twonabomber]

Another Susan Rogers interview

[twonabomber]

YouTube channel The Violet Reality has a lot of interviews with people associated with Prince and a lot of "facts you didn't know" videos about Prince albums.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWntpTu9fdjAL655NCSt7RA

[Seshmeister]

For me the key point in the interview was when she said that the key factor in whether Prince released it or not came down to the lyrics.

You have to think if anyone in the world knows what she is talking about on this it is her. For me a good lyric adds 5% maybe 10% at best so it's made me think that this archive may be better than I thought.

[twonabomber]

I may have posted this, I don't remember. This is the complete Dream Factory disc. It has become one of my favorite bootlegs.

[twonabomber]

I have most of this stuff but I'll be buying:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/prince-sign-o-the-times-reissue-1020394/

The Prince estate has announced a massive, vault-raiding reissue for 1987’s Sign O’ the Times, featuring more than 45 unreleased studio recordings.

The Super Deluxe Edition reissue — available either as a stacked eight-CD or 13-LP set on September 25th — boasts the remastered LP alongside three discs of unreleased music culled from Prince’s vault; a disc compiling the album’s single mixes, edits, and B sides; a 1987 live gig in Utrecht, the Netherlands; and a bonus concert film from Prince’s New Year’s Eve 1987 show at Paisley Park that featured a cameo by Miles Davis.

Among the highlights from the vault material — much of it was destined for Prince and the Revolution’s unreleased 1986 album Dream Factory — are the 1979 version of “I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man,” a take on “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker” with horns, “A Place in Heaven” with Prince’s vocals, and “Can I Play With U?” featuring Miles Davis.

The Super Deluxe Edition comes with a 120-page hardcover book containing Prince’s previously unseen handwritten lyrics for many of the songs from the era, unseen images from Prince’s primary photographer at the time, Jeff Katz, and liner notes by Prince’s creative peers and friends, including Dave Chappelle (in conversation with photographer Mathieu Bitton), Lenny Kravitz, and Prince’s longtime engineer Susan Rogers.

The Sign O’ the Times reissue, available for preorder now at Prince’s web store, will be released September 25th in a variety of formats, ranging from a barebones remastered two-LP version of the album on peach-colored vinyl to the massive 13-LP/one-DVD pressing. Additionally, the Prince estate has teamed with Third Man Records for a limited-edition seven-inch-vinyl box set showcasing all the singles from the album as well as a newly created single for the un-vaulted song “Witness 4 the Prosecution.”

Sign O’ the Times Super Deluxe Edition Track list

Remastered Album (CD One)

Sign O’ the Times
Play in the Sunshine
Housequake
The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
It
Starfish and Coffee
Slow Love
Hot Thing
Forever in My Life

Remastered Album (CD Two)

U Got the Look
If I Was Your Girlfriend
Strange Relationship
I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
The Cross
It’s Gonna Be a Beautiful Night
Adore

Single Mixes and Edits (CD Three)

Sign O’ The Times (seven-inch single edit)
La, La, La, He, He, Hee (seven-inch single edit)
La, La, La, He, He, Hee (Highly Explosive) (seven-inch single edit)
If I Was Your Girlfriend (seven-inch single edit)
Shockadelica (“If I Was Your Girlfriend” B side)
Shockadelica (12-inch long version)
U Got the Look (Long Look) (12-inch edit)
Housequake (seven-inch edit)
Housequake (7 Minutes MoQuake)
I Could Never Take the Place Of Your Man (fade seven-inch edit)
Hot Thing (seven-inch single edit)
Hot Thing (extended remix)
Hot Thing (dub version)

Vault, Part One (CD Four)

All tracks previously unreleased

I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man (1979 version)
Teacher, Teacher (1985 version)
All My Dreams
Can I Play With U? (featuring Miles Davis)
Wonderful Day (original version)
Strange Relationship (original version)
Visions
The Ballad of Dorothy Parker (with horns)
Witness 4 the Prosecution (version one)
Power Fantastic (live in studio)
And That Says What?
Love and Sex
A Place in Heaven (Prince vocal)
Colors
Crystal Ball (seven-inch mix)
Big Tall Wall (version one)
Nevaeh Ni Ecalp A
In a Large Room With No Light

Vault, Part Two (CD Five)

All tracks previously unreleased


Train
It Ain’t Over ‘Til the Fat Lady Sings
Eggplant (Prince vocal)
Everybody Want What They Don’t Got
Blanche
Soul Psychodelicide
The Ball
Adonis and Bathsheba
Forever in My Life (early vocal studio run-through)
Crucial (alternate lyrics)
The Cocoa Boys
When the Dawn of the Morning Comes
Witness 4 the Prosecution (version two)
It Be’s Like That Sometimes

Vault, Part Three (CD Six)

All tracks previously unreleased

Emotional Pump
Rebirth of the Flesh (with original outro)
Cosmic Day
Walkin’ in Glory
Wally
I Need a Man
Promise to Be True
Jealous Girl (version two)
There’s Something I Like About Being Your Fool
Big Tall Wall (version two)
A Place in Heaven (Lisa vocal)
Wonderful Day (12-inch mix)
Strange Relationship (1987 Shep Pettibone club mix)

Live in Utrecht (CD Seven and CD Eight)

All tracks previously unreleased

Intro/Sign O’ the Times
Play in the Sunshine
Little Red Corvette
Housequake
Girls and Boys
Slow Love
Take the “A” Train/Pacemaker/I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
Hot Thing
Four (with Sheila E. Drum solo)
If I Was Your Girlfriend
Let’s Go Crazy
When Doves Cry
Purple Rain
1999
Forever in My Life
Kiss
The Cross
It’s Gonna Be a Beautiful Night

Live at Paisley Park — December 31st, 1987 (DVD)

All tracks previously unreleased

Sign O’ the Times
Play in the Sunshine
Little Red Corvette
Erotic City
Housequake
Slow Love
Do Me, Baby
Adore
I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
What’s Your Name Jam
Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Delirious
Jack U Off
Drum Solo
Twelve
Hot Thing
If I Was Your Girlfriend
Let’s Go Crazy
When Doves Cry
Purple Rain
1999
U Got the Look
It’s Gonna Be a Beautiful Night Medley (featuring Miles Davis)

[Seshmeister]

Follow this link to audio of show - https://www.abc.net.au/radio/program...ake-5/12421040

Susan Rogers’ catalyst songs


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Susan Rogers, by her own admission, is a rare bird. A female producer and sound engineer in an industry dominated by men, her drive and commitment would land her side by side with Prince as his star soared. She came to work with him in Paisley Park as an audio technician right before he would begin Purple Rain, and she’d stay working with him and becoming his sound engineer through his commercial peak; recording Parade, Around the World in a Day, The Black Album, and Sign O the Times.

But Prince isn’t the only part of Susan Rogers’ story. In 1988 she left Minneapolis, and would go on to produce some of the biggest hits of the 90’s before taking the money from that to go back to school, and become a Professor at one of the world’s most prestigious music schools. Her name is synonymous with Prince, but the story of how Susan got there, and what she did after this legendary collaboration, is just as fascinating.

From finding her musical tribe as a kid in Orange County, to recording some of the most loved songs of all time, and diving into the neuroscience of why we connect with song, this is a brilliant conversation with a curious mind, and living legend.

James Brown - Papa's Got a Brand New Bag

Prince - Let's Go Crazy

Geggy Tah - Whoever You Are

Barenaked Ladies - One Week

Wilson Pickett - In the Midnight Hour

Duration: 58min 16sec
Broadcast: Fri 3 Jul 2020, 10:00am

[twonabomber]

Just read The Beautiful Ones. Mixed feelings about it, Prince had just started working on it before his death and it obviously feels unfinished. Copied pages of his handwritten notes and then some pic collections from certain years.

The estate got a lil' taste of money and is now in full cash grab mode. I will be buying the 1999 reissue but some of the other stuff I have no problem downloading.

Read the Morris Day book too. It's a quick read. Day "channels" Prince and it seems kind of weird.

[Nitro Express]

Charles Lindbergh is a larger historical figure than Prince. Prince has nothing to do with aviation. Of course Lindbergh is remembered for his flight across the Atlantic. Who cares if there is an airport named after him? Seems to be a trend now to rename stuff and tear old statues down.

[Nickdfresh]

I just found out that Minneapolis airport is named after that nazi supporter and general bad guy Charles Lindbergh. When is it going to be renamed Prince Airport?

According to Google there was actually a petition at the time of Prince's death to have this happen but it still hasn't.

I'm not Lindbergh's biggest fan and yeah, maybe he shouldn't have an international airport named after him. But I think the Nazi thing is a bit of overreach even give his eugenics bullshit. He actually flew combat missions as a civilian in WWII (against the Japanese) shooting down maybe two Jap fighters, more importantly he helped improve certain USAAF fighters like the P-38...

He was a flawed human being and a product of his time...

[Nitro Express]

I just found out that Minneapolis airport is named after that nazi supporter and general bad guy Charles Lindbergh. When is it going to be renamed Prince Airport?

According to Google there was actually a petition at the time of Prince's death to have this happen but it still hasn't.

Yeah. Minneapolis. Great place. It’s wind blasted and freezing in the winter and in the summer the mosquitoes eat you alive. That isn’t a great airport anyways. Very dated.

[Seshmeister]

I just found out that Minneapolis airport is named after that nazi supporter and general bad guy Charles Lindbergh. When is it going to be renamed Prince Airport?

According to Google there was actually a petition at the time of Prince's death to have this happen but it still hasn't.

[twonabomber]

Prince's Epic 'Purple Rain' Tour: An Oral History

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/princes-epic-purple-rain-tour-an-oral-history-w476429

[Kristy]

Well, the Prince & I do share one common factor: we're not limeys.