Prince is dead

[Kristy]

I said my peace on (p)Rick Beato many times. The guy is an bitter aging asshole who cast himself off as some sort of musical progeny because he knows what a mixolydian scale is or that music isn't as good as it was some fucking 40 years ago when he decided to take his career path as being a failed musician and a gawd-awful producer. When I worked in a music store that gave guitar lessons (among other musical instruments) the instructors most of which who had PhD's in classic musical theory rarely spoke in those music-ease terms to their students simply because it was boring and most just wanted to learn Nirvana or Metallica riffs and had no further desire to learn music other than the basics. No one makes music more fucking boring and tasteless than (p)Rick Beato who condescends to his audience with is stupid shit ego-tripping and how he thinks he has his finger on the pulse of "today's music" when talking with his this square up his ass. That dude is the definition of a useless cunt with his "I know more than you about you " interviews, his retarded Suckify probing, and endless pleas for subscribers so he can make more money because he sure isn't making any as being (p)Rick Beato.

As for a upcoming generation not knowing who Prince is/was who gives a fuck? When I was young I had no idea who Rodgers and Hammerstein or Cole Porter were nor did I give a fuck. (p)Rick Beato lives in a nostalgia bubble like all of you do and I love to break it to you but music was not all that better some 40 fucking years ago. The majority of it was shit. Flock of Seagulls? Motley Crue? Belinda Carlisle? Roth's solo albums? All were shit. Total shit. You know I'm right. Especially about the Roth albums. Unfuckinglistenable garbage.

YouGoob is full of old bitter fucks (like you) who post video after video of how great those endless cocksucking plagiarist limey bands were or younger failed critics who smoked weed to the Ramones and never felt the same with Royalty Taylor Swift. One old fuck whose shit video I cannot find says there's "too much violence" in music so Hendrix singing about gunning down his wife/girlfriend is a tune about fluffy kittens? You can ALL fuck off and fucking die and rot next to Prince's freshly fucked by maggots corpse for all I care. Get a fucking life.

[Terry]

So the first clip is a guy talking about Theo Van/Von and Mr. Beast...like, a podcaster pissing contest, basically? One podcaster with less views than another dumping on the other for having more views.

Lot of middle aged American white males with appreciably more free time on their hands than podcastworthy thoughts in their head.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go to IMDB and write a scathing review of Jaws 4: The Revenge.

[twonabomber]

Exactly.

I only know who Mr Beast is because one of the scam outing channels makes videos about him.

[FORD]

To be fair about it, I don't know who the fuck "Mr Beast" is. And it doesn't seem like I've missed much by not knowing.

[Kristy]

Thought I would take the time on this beautiful Sunday morning to reiterate that Prince is still dead.

Cannot wait until June when I too will start doing "horse"


What an overtly pretentious fuck Prince was.

[Kristy]

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/lifestyle/arts/princes-purple-rain-stage-production-1235781333/

[Kristy]

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.

[Seshmeister]

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.

[Kristy]

Prince is still dead, right?

[Rikk]

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.

[Rikk]

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.)

[twonabomber]

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.

[Rikk]

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.

[twonabomber]

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.

[Rikk]

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.