Prince RIP

fuck.

What the hell with that last paragraph

Makes it seem like he was taken out.

I wouldn't necessarily say that, but it definitely changes things if true

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

yeah to me that last sentence just points to black market pills rather than, like, MURDER

I know of at least two friends-of-friends who have died of fentanyl overdose

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

Isn't fentanyl what almost got David Berman?

I think that was approaching perfection

lmao fuck

alright, good one :)

FYI NYC
http://www.lincolncenter.org/show/burnt-sugar-arkestra-under-the-cherry-parade-in-a-day-you-sexy-mf

Currently running a low grade fever but man I would like to go to that

LOVE the burnt sugar arkestra

make a trip! heal up!

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.

Purple Rain is $1 on Google Play Music today in case for us non-Tidal users missing Prince

I wish to god I had the dough to go home for those revolution shows

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.

Where, Jordan?

Madison WI

Cool!

Matos in the NY Times today on last night's first ave Revolution show. Sweet Jesus I wish I was there.

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?

this count?
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22338-one-nite-alone-the-aftershow-it-aint-over/

So, uhhmm. . .

http://www.rrauction.com/bidtracker_detail.cfm?IN=589

The Camille album apparently exists.

Wonder if all the versions on there are unique.

that label makes me feel weird

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.)

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.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/princes-legacy-inside-the-messy-battle-w440966

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.

xpost It's crazy but perfect that he left no will yet left instructions on how to turn Paisley Park into a museum.

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.

man, that was a serious undertaking, but a fun night. 30 songs. haven't been able to find video of any of the funk tracks, presumably because people were dancing.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BKxMHIyA_HS

whatever happened to that Sign 'o' the Times vinyl reissue?

coming 10/21 w/ more reissues to follow in december, i believe

Yeah, the SOTT reissue has been pushed back a couple of times now. Plus, the last I checked, the others (Lovesexy through Come) now have a Feb '17 release date.

Are these reissues remastered??

One assumes so... the remasters done for HDTracks (which are I think the same ones the vinyl is using?) only made it up to parade

http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/6053/65/16x9/640.jpg
guys

prince should not be dead. with bowie, it's like ok, he was gone for a while, i really thought the next day and the museum exhibitions were actually posthumous efforts, and then blackstar comes out and i'm like alright he's back and then two days later he dies - it's all of a piece. what a brilliant way to go out. prince was just... unnecessary. this is not allowed. wtf. looking at that magnificent urn i'm just struck by the utter pointlessness of his accidental/preventable death... there's nothing poetic or sexy or cool or artistic about it... fuck

yeah I feel hit much harder by Prince tbh. I'm still not over it.

he was writing a memoir! he was still recording and performing like a madman! i fucking saw him a year ago! fuck fentanyl

Not over it either. As months and months pass ill periodically be like wait what the fuck, Prince is still dead. Why can't someone fix it.