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
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
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 September 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
whatever happened to that Sign 'o' the Times vinyl reissue?
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 18:48 (seven years ago) link
coming 10/21 w/ more reissues to follow in december, i believe
― dc, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 21:56 (seven years ago) link
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.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 22:01 (seven years ago) link
Are these reissues remastered??
― van smack, Thursday, 13 October 2016 00:17 (seven years ago) link
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
― still lists its address as the recently razed home of “Morris” the (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 13 October 2016 00:20 (seven years ago) link
http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/6053/65/16x9/640.jpgguys
― MatthewK, Thursday, 13 October 2016 05:08 (seven years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
yeah I feel hit much harder by Prince tbh. I'm still not over it.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:02 (seven years ago) link
he was writing a memoir! he was still recording and performing like a madman! i fucking saw him a year ago! fuck fentanyl
― flappy bird, Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:06 (seven years ago) link
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.
― still lists its address as the recently razed home of “Morris” the (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link
Right? Same thing has happened to me several times.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:16 (seven years ago) link
I saw Hannibal Buress last week and he told a story about seeing "the late great Prince" and it hit me then. he was like "it was the best performance I've ever seen, but this was Prince, so you know some weird shit was gonna happen.....he did 7 encores."
― flappy bird, Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:18 (seven years ago) link
so it's not just me then, fuck. i really can't even deal with it even now, so weird.
― piscesx, Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link