Prince RIP

Print the legendary hearts!

Sorry, wrong thread, I guess

this book is awesome

https://www.duanetudahl.com/optin17400317

Oh man that looks good!

Has anyone got the wax poetics special yet?

Yeah I got it, just started reading it yesterday. First chapter is a great and elaborate interview with engineer/studio owner Chris Moon, describing meeting a teenage Prince (in the context of the band Champagne recording in his studio), getting in touch with him and subsequently working/developing/teaching in the form of a collaborative project, if you will, to develop him as an artist. Can't wait to read the rest. Great photos, too.

Yeah, I read the Duane Tudahl book a couple of months ago. It's astonishing that in that single year of work he basically wrote and recorded all of Purple Rain, Ice Cream Castle, Apollonia 6, Around the World in a Day and dozens of B-sides and other material. Plus filmed the movie. And toured. An absolutely mind-blowing level of being prolific.

No criminal charges.

:(

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/what-would-prince-want-two-years-later-his-estate-is-a-mess-and-his-legacy-unclear/2018/04/18/20136908-3ce9-11e8-8d53-eba0ed2371cc_story.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpGA0azFdCs&sns=fb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=41&v=cpGA0azFdCs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=cpGA0azFdCs

try again

Yeah, that video, man. He was so amazing.

so good

This move he's doing at 0:57 is like the best thing ever.

RIP

first Michael then Prince (and then Tom Petty). Big Pharma killing more beloved artists than heroin

ugh what a great version

also i want to curl up in the fetal position & cry i miss him ;_;

This particular Paisley Park police pic:

https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/prince-paisley-8.jpg

I think those are the CDs he got when he did his record store day interview.

Alfred, your new one is great:

https://t.co/OfHVr2ArcM

Thanks! I wrote it two years ago, though. I just revived it for the anniversary.

**NEW STUFF**

http://variety.com/2018/music/news/prince-album-of-previously-unreleased-material-coming-in-september-exclusive-1202783507/

"Michael Howe, who’s been working with us on the archive, has done a tremendous job of finding some special pieces of work, and one of the pieces that he found, all of us fell in love with it and decided this was special enough for fans to hear. So we’re putting the final touches on it — it’ll come in the fall..
Just two weeks ago we were doing a tape transfer and in one of the two-inch boxes we found the original lyrics to “Kiss”! It’s amazing, the things that are starting to surface. "

:D

That’s tantalizing
It’s an ‘album’ but it’s also a ‘piece’...?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwhWboNe35Y&sns=em

digging this

A friend passed on this fantastic early live jam on Lady Cab Driver:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLtZayqjJdo

A thought I find myself returning to every time I hear the song: I'm not sure anyone else in the world could pull off the OTT shrieking at the end of 'The Beautiful Ones' and make it sound urgent and cool rather than off-putting and concerning. I try to remember this any time I start thinking what an amazing karaoke song it would be.

that whole Detroit show is pretty incredible btw

Detroit concert on the Parade tour also slays x 100

https://theseconddisc.com/2018/06/one-nite-alone-unreleased-prince-home-recordings-to-be-released-in-september/

This Piano and a Microphone set from 1983 looks pretty sweet

"Cold Coffee & Cocaine" !

"Mary Don't You Weep" is excellent! - https://open.spotify.com/album/5W6s5f9S1Fv3asQZH6lNGM?si=jBO_2gGQSTOlam5i26bDoQ

gave me feelings too early in the morning

i wonder if the piano version of purple rain sounds like the piano version he played in the movie. always wanted to hear a full version of that.

HB prince

np the 1984 birthday concert First Ave MPLS

hahaha aaaaand the whole thing has apparently already leaked (i know parts of it were already circulating - i know i've heard "cold coffee and cocaine" before)

A friend sent me this one and pointed out that it was very likely an influence of D'Angelo's "untitled", or at least it sure sounds like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yxk-aGQaF8

wow, that's a good find!

Is there a new volume of Blast From The Past brewing?

One can hope!

The "Hallway speech" version of 'Computer Blue' cropped up on shuffle play a few days ago and blew my mind all over again - only Prince could create something which is such a blatant masterpiece and have the official version be so brutally edited down. No matter how many examples I hear or see of his overwhelming talent, I still find myself being amazed by old favourites or unofficial things that are new to me. This guy was just music personified, and how it pains me to say was.

https://anildash.com/2018/11/28/every-single-video-prince-ever-made/

Every single video Prince ever made

on SJ, Katherine brought up the April Winchell MP3 collection, which I had forgotten about, but a quick read over reminded me she's still hosting (shh) Prince's Kim Basinger album:
http://www.aprilwinchell.com/images/HWD-Affair_back.jpg

Visit here and ctrl+F basinger: http://www.aprilwinchell.com/audio/

sadly, none of the bonus tracks which are what i'd really like to hear...

I can't tell if the Prince estate and the label are being super cautious or what, but come on:

A 3-disc bundle of the artist's pivotal new millennium pop party dance music, Ultimate Rave brings together CDs of 1999's Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic and its 2001 remix Rave In2 the Joy Fantastic alongside a DVD containing the full-length performance version of Prince In Concert: Rave Un2 the Year 2000, Prince's epic 1999 New Year's Eve party, originally captured for on-demand pay-per-view airing during the dawning of Y2K.

Gotta assume the good stuff (vault, expanded remasters) is somewhere in the pipes ...

The triple-disc Purple Rain one looked great on the page, a proper fan's dream package but your Steve Hoffman types were appalled at the brickwalling/'hot' mastering and other terms i don't quite understand. Can't they just do them like they're doing the Beatles ones? So frustrating.

I tell you i'm SO down for a triple-disc 1986 Parade era thing; that Detroit live show that never even came out on VHS.. he was on fire back then. I wonder if they filmed the 3 nights at Wembley?

He has so many professionally filmed shows that he never released, just for his own benefit. I used to order bootleg dvds and they're amazing, that's what I want to see released officially.

Years ago, I went alone to a midnight screening of Purple Rain. Before the movie, a friendly guy around my age came over and starting chatting:

GUY: Do you collect bootlegs?
ME: (genuinely clueless) Uh... what kind of bootlegs?
GUY: ......Prince bootlegs(!)

He gave me his card and went back to his friends, a few rows away; I think he realized he was barking up the wrong tree (or taking a dip in the wrong lake, so to speak).