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Thread started 07/25/07 2:55pm

Johnb

All Along The Watchtower / Best Of You studio version

Howard Stern played Prince's studio version of "All Along The Watchtower / Best Of You" on his show a few days before the Superball show as a teaser (of course he talked all over it!)

This is a great tune and I think it would have fitted perfectly on 'Planet Earth'. I was hoping it would be a bonus track or available as download on itunes or 3121.com. Will this track ever be released, does anyone have the scoop?

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Reply #1 posted 07/25/07 3:01pm

Sdldawn

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that'd be nice

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Reply #2 posted 07/25/07 3:21pm

Riverpoet31

That version should be on the place where 'Mr Goodnight' is now on Planet Earth IMO.

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Reply #3 posted 07/25/07 3:26pm

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It should of been added onto the PE tracks pout

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Reply #4 posted 07/25/07 3:27pm

Johnb

Riverpoet31 said:

That version should be on the place where 'Mr Goodnight' is now on Planet Earth IMO.


100 % agree, 'Mr Goodnight' is the weak link on Planet Earth and 'Watchtower / Best of you' would fit perfectly.

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Reply #5 posted 07/25/07 4:53pm

Dewrede

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Very weird that it wasn't released confused

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Reply #6 posted 07/25/07 5:06pm

babooshleeky

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luv4u said:

It should of been added onto the PE tracks pout

agree along with the song from that penguin movie biggrin

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for real tho, i like that song

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Reply #7 posted 07/25/07 5:14pm

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Johnb said:

Riverpoet31 said:

That version should be on the place where 'Mr Goodnight' is now on Planet Earth IMO.


100 % agree, 'Mr Goodnight' is the weak link on Planet Earth and 'Watchtower / Best of you' would fit perfectly.


You think so? I would say it's All The Midnights In The World. But that's a topic being discussed on another stickified thread!

I feel that the covers would best appear separately - either on a benefit album or an EP. I would hate for sales of the album to be credited to the success of a double-cover.

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Reply #8 posted 07/25/07 5:17pm

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Se7en said:

Johnb said:



100 % agree, 'Mr Goodnight' is the weak link on Planet Earth and 'Watchtower / Best of you' would fit perfectly.


You think so? I would say it's All The Midnights In The World. But that's a topic being discussed on another stickified thread!

I feel that the covers would best appear separately - either on a benefit album or an EP. I would hate for sales of the album to be credited to the success of a double-cover.

I would not know, my CD has not gotten here yet, that is the last time I pre-order instead of going out to buy it cry

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Reply #9 posted 07/25/07 5:24pm

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don't put covers on the album!

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Reply #10 posted 07/25/07 5:30pm

jstar69

Me thinks he was faced with TOO MANY copyright/licensing issues with the 2 tracks

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Reply #11 posted 07/25/07 5:32pm

babooshleeky

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ufoclub said:

don't put covers on the album!

Ya, I agree, but he did play the hell out of that song tho, better than the Foofighters IMO wink

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Reply #12 posted 07/25/07 6:08pm

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ufoclub said:

don't put covers on the album!

Thank You!

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Reply #13 posted 07/25/07 7:13pm

JLo

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I don't have satellite radio. I think that people should call Howard and request to play that song without talking over it.

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Reply #14 posted 07/25/07 7:39pm

Raze

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I think if it was going to be released (especially as a download) it would've been back right after the Superbowl. but I still hope it happens.

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Reply #15 posted 07/25/07 10:55pm

ChaosDisorder

jstar69 said:

Me thinks he was faced with TOO MANY copyright/licensing issues with the 2 tracks


I don't know about that. I think that Dave Grohl would have been cool with letting Prince release "Best Of You", and just last year, John Mayer released a cover of Hendrix' "Bold As Love" on his album Continuum, so the Hendrix family seems to be cool with stuff like that.

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Reply #16 posted 07/26/07 1:07am

Raze

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ChaosDisorder said:

jstar69 said:

Me thinks he was faced with TOO MANY copyright/licensing issues with the 2 tracks


I don't know about that. I think that Dave Grohl would have been cool with letting Prince release "Best Of You", and just last year, John Mayer released a cover of Hendrix' "Bold As Love" on his album Continuum, so the Hendrix family seems to be cool with stuff like that.




there aren't any copyright issues with doing covers, unless you're changing them a lot. as long as the appropriate parties are paid what is due to them (royalties), then you don't even have to ask permission.

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Reply #17 posted 07/26/07 9:16am

Johnb

ChaosDisorder said:

jstar69 said:

Me thinks he was faced with TOO MANY copyright/licensing issues with the 2 tracks


I don't know about that. I think that Dave Grohl would have been cool with letting Prince release "Best Of You", and just last year, John Mayer released a cover of Hendrix' "Bold As Love" on his album Continuum, so the Hendrix family seems to be cool with stuff like that.



'All along the watchtower' is a Bob Dylan original that Hendrix covered unless I am mistaken...

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Reply #18 posted 07/26/07 9:18am

Johnb

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Me thinks he was faced with TOO MANY copyright/licensing issues with the 2 tracks


Agree, that was probably the issue. Especially with the album being a free give away... certainly would have hurt Prince's 'margins'.

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Reply #19 posted 07/26/07 9:20am

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Dewrede said:

Very weird that it wasn't released confused


Is it?

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Reply #20 posted 07/26/07 9:23am

Pellwormer

maybe it will b released as a Jehovah wittness commercial...?

'All along the watchtower' ..hummm?

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Reply #21 posted 07/26/07 9:23am

HamsterHuey

It would have made me Feel Better, Feel Good, Feel Wonderful if it had been released...

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Reply #22 posted 07/26/07 10:12am

Anxiety

last month, berlin nightclub played two new studio tracks - "prince & the band" and a remix/reworking of "let's work" with a bit of "le freak" worked into it.

he's got all these great weird studio tracks he's recording and doing nothing with. i hope they're released as a compilation or at least as downloads, because i think it's some of his best recent studio work....or at least the most interesting.

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Reply #23 posted 07/26/07 11:05am

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yeah perhaps he can put a funk album 4 download available...

funk radio

feel good feel better

and best of u

the truth will b told and 4 those that fear that xposure of it ..oh well! u won't ever silence me. the innocent have voices that need 2 b heard and u will hear them
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Reply #24 posted 07/26/07 11:11am

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This may be splitting hairs, but I'm not convinced the recording Howard Stern played was a studio version - I think it was a rehearsal for the Superbowl itself, put on CD (probably CDR) for Howard Stern to play. Admittedly, One Of Us from Emancipation was also a rehearsal take, so this medley could count as a studio track in listings, but in my mind, it was a rehearsal.

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Reply #25 posted 07/26/07 11:13am

scandalousalan

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I like mr goodnight

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Reply #26 posted 07/26/07 11:14am

Anxiety

scandalousalan said:

I like mr goodnight


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Reply #27 posted 07/26/07 1:29pm

NPGman

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I like mr goodnight


I second that....Mr. Goodnight is PIMP DADDY at his best. The vocal blending on that song is classic P.

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Reply #28 posted 07/26/07 3:32pm

emilio319

I agree that the "Best Of You" version Howard Stern played is most likely not a studio version but a recording of a Super Bowl rehearsal, but I guess that's pure speculation on my part. There are rips of the SuperBowl performance of "All Along The Watchtower/Best Of You" floating around and I guess that's good enough although it would be nice to have a better sounding version available since Prince really practically made that song all his own with his incredible performance.

I know all about all the Prince outtakes floating around from the past but I see some new songs mentioned in this thread and I'm kinda amazed and bewildered at this. whofarted

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Reply #29 posted 07/26/07 8:52pm

Raze

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Anxiety said:

last month, berlin nightclub played two new studio tracks - "prince & the band" and a remix/reworking of "let's work" with a bit of "le freak" worked into it.

he's got all these great weird studio tracks he's recording and doing nothing with. i hope they're released as a compilation or at least as downloads, because i think it's some of his best recent studio work....or at least the most interesting.



i'm pretty sure "Prince & The Band" is from 2001/2002, as he was playing it during ONA aftershows and the 2002 celebration.

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