Yes.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Monday, 8 August 2016 19:33 (seven years ago) link
saw that 35mm print of 'sign o the times' at alamo a few weeks back, with chaki delivering opening remarks. I still have my old fuzzy VHS tape but hadn't watched that for 20 years or so
it is just beyond belief how great that film is
― Milton Parker, Monday, 8 August 2016 20:13 (seven years ago) link
I am sorry I missed that!
― Οὖτις, Monday, 8 August 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
SOTT needs a remastered theatrical re-release. Purple Rain gets all the glory but I think sartorial datedness notwithstanding the SOTT film would blow some young minds.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 9 August 2016 13:07 (seven years ago) link
Hell - they may even dig the clothes! Was Prince's coolest looking/sounding/band era as it is (IMHO).
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 9 August 2016 13:08 (seven years ago) link
Parade doing its thing here. Tracks 1-6 are light-footed magic. Thanks P.
― MatthewK, Monday, 15 August 2016 12:50 (seven years ago) link
Was listening to Parade yesterday. It is perfection.
― Yes it has pickles and chicken...but...it doesn't have mild cheese... (stevie), Monday, 15 August 2016 12:51 (seven years ago) link
thanks for coming to that, MP! I had to drive the reels back to QT the next day lol.
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 15 August 2016 16:35 (seven years ago) link
http://www.startribune.com/pills-seized-from-paisley-park-contained-illicit-fentanyl-same-drug-that-killed-prince/390816101/
Pills marked as hydrocodone that were seized from Paisley Park after Prince’s overdose death actually contained fentanyl, the powerful opioid that killed him, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation.The musician, who weighed only 112 pounds at the time of his death April 21, had so much of the drug in his system, autopsy results later showed, that it would have killed anyone, regardless of size, the source said.Prince did not possess a prescription for fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that has been described as 100 times more powerful than morphine, the source said.Despite the finding, investigators still aren’t certain how the 57-year-old megastar ingested the fentanyl. However, they are leaning toward the theory that he took the pills not knowing they contained the drug.
The musician, who weighed only 112 pounds at the time of his death April 21, had so much of the drug in his system, autopsy results later showed, that it would have killed anyone, regardless of size, the source said.
Prince did not possess a prescription for fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that has been described as 100 times more powerful than morphine, the source said.
Despite the finding, investigators still aren’t certain how the 57-year-old megastar ingested the fentanyl. However, they are leaning toward the theory that he took the pills not knowing they contained the drug.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 22 August 2016 16:46 (seven years ago) link
oof
― Οὖτις, Monday, 22 August 2016 17:00 (seven years ago) link
surely something even 10 times stronger than Morphine shouldn't be anything like legal let alone 100 times. Jesus.
― piscesx, Monday, 22 August 2016 17:09 (seven years ago) link
fuck.
― how's life, Monday, 22 August 2016 17:18 (seven years ago) link
What the hell with that last paragraph
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Monday, 22 August 2016 17:29 (seven years ago) link
Makes it seem like he was taken out.
― flappy bird, Monday, 22 August 2016 17:33 (seven years ago) link
I wouldn't necessarily say that, but it definitely changes things if true
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Monday, 22 August 2016 17:47 (seven years ago) link
a lot of prescription narcotics that are sold illegally aren't what they claim to be, and afaik cutting fentanyl and labeling it as something else isn't uncommon due to its strength
it's responsible for a lot of accidental overdoses, especially among people used to opiates
― mh, Monday, 22 August 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
yeah to me that last sentence just points to black market pills rather than, like, MURDER
― Οὖτις, Monday, 22 August 2016 18:53 (seven years ago) link
I know of at least two friends-of-friends who have died of fentanyl overdose
― mh, Monday, 22 August 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link
well this is all just a touch more fucking awful now
like, as if him dying the day before the intervention wasn't tragic enough
― beer say hi to me (stevie), Monday, 22 August 2016 19:24 (seven years ago) link
Isn't fentanyl what almost got David Berman?
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 22 August 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
I think that was approaching perfection
― Number None, Monday, 22 August 2016 19:36 (seven years ago) link
lmao fuck
― flappy bird, Monday, 22 August 2016 19:39 (seven years ago) link
alright, good one :)
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 22 August 2016 19:46 (seven years ago) link
FYI NYChttp://www.lincolncenter.org/show/burnt-sugar-arkestra-under-the-cherry-parade-in-a-day-you-sexy-mf
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 03:14 (seven years ago) link
Currently running a low grade fever but man I would like to go to that
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 13:02 (seven years ago) link
LOVE the burnt sugar arkestra
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link
make a trip! heal up!
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 21:46 (seven years ago) link
Nice piece on the upcoming Revolution tribute shows:
http://www.startribune.com/prince-amp-the-revolution-survivors-talk-about-first-avenue-grieving-concerts/391346091/
Sad detail:
Wendy & Lisa were asked to perform Prince’s “Sometimes It Snows in April” with soul man D’Angelo on “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon” a few days after the death. They declined.“I couldn’t even play my piano for a month or more,” Coleman said.
“I couldn’t even play my piano for a month or more,” Coleman said.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 September 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link
Purple Rain is $1 on Google Play Music today in case for us non-Tidal users missing Prince
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 September 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link
I wish to god I had the dough to go home for those revolution shows
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 1 September 2016 17:22 (seven years ago) link
So I've been rehearsing for a Prince tribute concert here...the bandleader is going all in w/horns, strings, dancers, studying all the old bootlegs etc. It's a lot for one show but you can't half-ass Prince, I guess. So to speak.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
Where, Jordan?
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 1 September 2016 17:28 (seven years ago) link
Madison WI
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2016 22:07 (seven years ago) link
Cool!
Matos in the NY Times today on last night's first ave Revolution show. Sweet Jesus I wish I was there.
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 3 September 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
okay, have we grieved enough yet for me to ask when the first posthumous release is coming? I know there are a zillion reasons why not but does anyone have an article about it yet? Or a learned update?
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Saturday, 3 September 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link
this count?http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22338-one-nite-alone-the-aftershow-it-aint-over/
― niels, Sunday, 4 September 2016 17:42 (seven years ago) link
So, uhhmm. . .
http://www.rrauction.com/bidtracker_detail.cfm?IN=589
The Camille album apparently exists.
― Austin, Saturday, 10 September 2016 06:03 (seven years ago) link
Wonder if all the versions on there are unique.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 September 2016 16:16 (seven years ago) link
that label makes me feel weird
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Saturday, 10 September 2016 17:15 (seven years ago) link
Idk if the version of Camille I have is the same mixes as on that 'genuine' article but it plays really well as an album
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 10 September 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
Pretty sure that's a bootleg. Camille album was never pressed up. The Black Album was but then all pressed copies were supposedly destroyed after P changed his mind about releasing it.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 10 September 2016 18:30 (seven years ago) link
nah I used to own an Italian pressing of the Black Album, it went to press over there and a number of them hit the market - I bought it in iirc either December or '87 or January '88. expensive as hell at the time
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 10 September 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link
In April 2016, an original promo copy from 1987 was sold on Discogs' marketplace for a record $15,000.00 US.
:( I sold it at some point I'm pretty sure
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 10 September 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
6 of the 8 tunes on that Camille album turned up on official Prince records anyway: "Housequake", "Strange Relationship", and "If I Was..." on SOTT, "Rockhard" on the Black Album, and "Shockadelica" and "Feel U Up" as B-sides. It would've been dope to have them on a proper Camille album though, as they're all among Prince's best tunes in this era.
― Tuomas, Monday, 12 September 2016 07:39 (seven years ago) link
There were other tunes from the late 80s that also used the Camille gimmick and would've fit that album: "Scarlet Pussy", "Partyman", etc. And the ur example of that style is of course "Erotic City". For some reason the chipmunk voice seems to have brought out the most funky side of late 80s Prince. Too bad he gave that up when he tried to form a tougher image with the New Power Generation. (Though arguably "Prettyman" from Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic is a continuation of that style, even though his voice is less chipmunky on it.)
― Tuomas, Monday, 12 September 2016 07:47 (seven years ago) link
And "Cloreen Baconskin" of course. And maybe at a stretch "Bob George".I still remember the total WTF of the first Camille track I heard on SOTT.
― MatthewK, Monday, 12 September 2016 09:06 (seven years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/princes-legacy-inside-the-messy-battle-w440966
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 22 September 2016 01:30 (seven years ago) link
I was reading about the First Avenue show, and I briefly thought, huh, I wonder what Prince thinks of this, and then I got sad.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 September 2016 01:50 (seven years ago) link
xpost It's crazy but perfect that he left no will yet left instructions on how to turn Paisley Park into a museum.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 September 2016 01:54 (seven years ago) link
For whatever reason, there have been quite a few nice leaks of unreleased tracks the past week or so. All of them in mono for some reason even though they presumably derive from stereo, but other than that in really good sound quality.
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 22 September 2016 03:10 (seven years ago) link