Prince RIP

awwww man was that demo thing taken down already?

https://www.discogs.com/Prince-Live-The-Sacrifice-Of-Victor/release/4443065

and this was the other one.

Lotta (all?) those demos were on those Perfect Unreleased Prince comps.

watched that SNL special and i dug that double guitar jam about losing your job at McDonalds. don't know what album that was on.

rainbow children and rave are def not his worst. rainbow children is actually his most inspired since lovesexy. those would be HITnRUN Phase One and Two, Plectrum Electrum, and NEWS. hard to pick really, but its def the ones from the last decade.

Art Official Age was great though

prob his best since 3121. his new co producer helped a lot. prob his most 'modern' sounding album in a long time in various ways.

Is the 'Work It' bootleg anthology the best way to hear all the unreleased stuff which is currently circulating? Found some (but nowhere near all) on Soulseek. Where can it be found?

It's not the best way because it's, what, 32 CDs long? I think you can find a lot more compact/collated compilations.

Someone on ILX years ago was kind enough to burn me CDs of at the time all his 12"s to date.

PaulTMA, I'm only interested in Prince up through Lovesexy--Work It 2.0 for those years is Nos. 1-14...I am digging it immensely

a while ago, some super-fan put together "homemade deluxe editions" of all of prince's albums through the love-symbol album, with bonus tracks -- outtakes, demos, 12" versions, remixes, etc. the sign of the times deluxe edition ran to 7 (!!) discs. there were even "homemade deluxe editions" of the vanity 6 and the family albums. they were pretty amazing, but seem to have disappeared from the web. (hmmm maybe i should upload those somehow?)

Yeah, amateurist, I cherish those "Foefur"'s editions too!

oh I'd go away up to The Gold Experience at least

that album RULES

was there ever a DVD release of his Warner Bros era videos? Once upon a time I had the VHS video comp that came w the Hits/B-Sides but that's long dead and I am especially annoyed these days that it's basically impossible to re-watch things like the Alphabet St or Little Red Corvette videos, which are burned into my brain

https://www.discogs.com/Prince-The-Hits-Collection/release/2730730

that DVD is Europe-only

Ah well.

that DVD is Europe-only

The Amazon search term you're looking for is "region-free DVD player." They are surprisingly cheap.

thx for offering to buy me a new DVD player, yr the coolest

omg
http://bigstory.ap.org/91ff5f9a086b4824bca6039f01f5fbc3

oh lord.

At least that hopefully means there's nothing to stop a flood of vault releases...

Someone's on the phone to the Hendrix estate right now: "so there's a market for purple liqueurs, you say?"

http://www.houseofhaironline.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/purplehaze.png

That's really startling to me given that he had charitable corporations going, I would think he'd have thought of that at least

Also the team of female black lawyers. Wouldn't they have suggested something?

Prince, always one to welcome suggestions

There's just no way this is good news. I hope a document turns up.

yeah this is terrible

no will /is/ startling. prince seems like he had the broad outlines of his business stuff pretty together.

also both shocking and non-shocking that the estate is valued at "only" 27 million. on the one hand, prince is one of the best-selling artists of all time, and he probably sold $27 million worth of records in any given six months between 1984 and 1994. on the other hand, i imagine the royalties were thinner in recent years, not only b/c of general decline in album sales, but also because a fair amount of his work in the 21st century was really poorly distributed. also, unlike some other stars whose sales had declined, prince kept a full staff at paisley park. that couldn't have been cheap. and if you believe the tabloids, he had an expensive prescription-drug habit.

i'm sure that like most aging superstars he made way more money touring than album sales -- his willingness to 'give away' his albums in various formats suggested as much. (in fact prince seemed to recognize or anticipate this dynamic even before the bottom fell out of the record industry).

That article says $27 in property. I don't know if they mean that literally or not, but I can imagine he has a lot more money than that.

I was assuming that was primarily real estate.

makes much more sense

There are worse states to die intestate in than Minnesota -- legally, it'll be complicated because he had a bunch of siblings, but the law is fairly clear generally.

I wouldn't expect his finances to be anything more than a mess - he obviously spent money as fast as he made it, and the royalties from his biggest stuff probably diminished over time given his relationship w WB and their shitty handling of his catalog. I'm sure he *owned* a bunch of crazy stuff (not the least of which is the rights to everything in his vault), plus real estate, who knows what else.

Also the team of female black lawyers. Wouldn't they have suggested something?

― how's life, Tuesday, April 26, 2016

too busy stopping transgressions iirc

TMZ estimates his estate is valued between 100 and 150 mil. and yeah, his opiate and speed addiction was a huge shocker to me.

http://www.instyle.com/celebrity/prince-mayte-marbella-villa-home-tour-interview-instyle

Are those reports based on anything yet besides the interview with the drug dealer guy?

Xpost

Yeah, I'm not going to believe any tmz-style shocking addiction stories

I did read one interview (maybe it was the Sheila E one?) where it was mentioned he had chronic pain issues and I'd imagine he had the same issues with the medical establishment's treatment of chronic pain that many people do, combined with his insistence on continuing to do very physically demanding stage shows.

I forgot or didn't know he had a hip replacement some time ago.

most ridiculous gossip story being that people saw him at a local walgreens store multiple times in the last few months

come on, some people just really like going to walgreens and buying stuff there! pretty sure i know some coworkers guilty of that one

maybe he was just buying some iced tea.

i often go to walgreens to buy gum and iced tea.

TMZ is not to be dismissed so quickly. They're much more reliable than the National Enquirer or any other grocery store tabloid. They have an incredible infrastructure. Great piece on TMZ in the New Yorker from February: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/22/inside-harvey-levins-tmz

Having said that, the 'Doctor D' interview appeared in the Daily Mail, so take it with a grain of salt...

xps walgreens: it wasn't a few times multiple times in the last few months, but four times in the same day. this is all post plane overdose.

sorry, didn't mean to turn this into a "credibility of tabloids" thing

and your credible tabloid said "week" not "day" so ffs

I note that the Kingdom Hall where Prince went is about five blocks away from my mother's house (we did get a lot of doorbell ringing in my neighbourhood, but never Prince himself, my mom spent about five years as a JW when she was a kid and would have relished the chance to invite him in and argue).