. I could not agree more. I just had this discussion with a friend. . Another thing is that there has to be tons of video material like live shows and music videos. That seems like it would be less complicated to get those type of things out vs unreleased songs. "Hey, I got the butta 4 ya muffin, honey.. I'm just 2 old 2 hold the knife!" | |
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Not dead, not in prison, still funkin'... | |
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"...if he had wanted those released, he would have released them."
While I agree with Sheila in principle, the problem is that Prince changed his mind over and over on things, including the music in the vault. We'll never know what he would have done in the future with this music.
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I´m sure many of those songs/records in the vault will be released. The question will be how and when. I could imagine Remasters with additional disc(s) containing stuff from the vault from their specific period. Prince always said he has finished albums lying around. These will be put out for sure. But before that I see (and hope for) rereleases of some PP records. Madhouse, Jill and all the stuff, that´s not been available since forever. | |
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I would hope that they would release them as Prince released his music during his life. One album a year would be a blessing to have after his ascension. It would be heartbreaking to let all of those pieces of his musical soul be left to waste away unheard in a vault. Sheila is just hurting right now but she needs to understand that Prince needed to make music and share it. His passing shouldn't silence him. Open the vault respectfully and let Prince continue to bless the world with his gift for years to come. Just my Prince Rogers Nelson
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lrn36 said: Wasn't Prince teasing about releasing stuff fromthe vault a year or two ago? He also said all of his albums were already remastered and it was up to Warner Bros to create the right conditions for release. Except if Prince did not want it. ....We have to wait for testament détails! | |
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Rolling Stone magazine specifically asked him if he wanted The Vault contents released after he was gone. Prince being Prince, didn't give a straight answer. He seemed to take issue with the word "gone". http://www.rollingstone.c...e-20160422 So, he wasn't saying "no" to The Vault tapes ever being released. He was saying "no" to the concept of being gone. And Sheila may not wish to be embarrassed by what could be lying in The Vault. She seems to downplay her involvement with Prince's more lascivious past output already. Yes, Sheila... you were singing "fuck", not "funk". I wouldn't want anybody to read my diaries from my teens and twenties. But if anybody did right now, I'd get over it. I might have freaked-out at my secrets being spilled a decade ago, in my thirties. However, at 44 years-old, I'd shrug my shoulders and deal with it. | |
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Duplicated post. [Edited 4/24/16 0:19am] | |
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yes the videos/concerts would be easy to release
But I think that group has a certain respect 4 Prince. they would be redoing music. | |
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She's not thinking straight at the moment. | |
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If he'd wanted vault material out, he had more than enough opportunity to do so the last several years. Maybe at the time some of it was put away because the record company didn't want him to release it, but after that, he just didn't want to release it. I hope he didn't leave instructions to destroy stuff, but I wouldn't be surprised if he did. And while I know that he claimed that things were prepped and ready for release, the rest might have other directives already given for what's supposed to happen.
I certainly don't see any reason to question Sheila's intelligence here. In part, she seems to be respecting Prince's implied desires about most of what's in the vaults--yes, he kept it, but he didn't originally organize it, and mostly seems to have used it as a source for things to re-record or re-use, not as a way to release archive collections (again, if he wanted to do that, he's had a market for years). And there's another possible reason for her position--some (not much, but some) of that material is partially hers. And there are circulating outtakes that aren't great with her on them, so maybe that's part of her position. As someone else said, it's not just Prince's history in those vaults, but parts of hers.
I want the material, every single scrap of it. But I know as well as I know anything that that isn't what Prince wanted. And Sheila certainly has the right to respect Prince's desires in this than she does my desires.
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She cray if she think the Estate will just allow future bootleggers to profit on mediocre sounding recordings just so the albums could stay in the vault forever smh. Even Lenny Kravitz got a tape of their recordings no one has heard. Straight Jacket Funk Affair
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His songs now belong to God, he loaned them to P. We should get access if we want. To important of a legacy for us who loved him too. We loved him too Sheila; nothing personal my lady.
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"Legal battle"? I understood that he signed a contract (he didn´t keep up to btw) that brought him the ownership of his masters, so where´s this battle coming from? And since he didn´t come up with the remasters, which are said to be part of this contract, Warner would have every right to pull back. | |
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Not dead, not in prison, still funkin'... | |
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Think people; PRINCE KEPT THOSE SONGS FOR A REASON.
He did not destroy them. Thus he must have wanted them to be released one day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
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That can not be true, I hope.
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He never released that stuff because WB owned it! | |
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That is really very, very interesting... I mean, of course he would say something sometimes and then the next minute... you know. But it seems there was something behind that statement. Hey loudmouth, shut the fuck up, right? | |
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No way. Hey loudmouth, shut the fuck up, right? | |
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A couple of people have pointed to Prince's needing to work with Warner to release material recorded during his time with them--I get that, and that might account for some of it staying in the vault. He hadn't taken the opportunity to do anything since the deal with them a couple years ago, which at least theoretically suggested he was willing to work with them, and most reports suggested that there weren't going to be new songs on the reissues, but I don't know how the deal was structured. That doesn't account for the stuff recorded since the mid-90s (people report that he continued his constant recording ways) once he could have released stuff at a higher rate than he did. My belief is that he didn't want most of it released in any form, at any time. That doesn't stop me from having as much of it as I can on my drives, but I don't think he wanted me to have it before, and I don't think he would want me to have it now just because he died. | |
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I'm really unsure of when Prince and Sheila became friends again. I mean as of 2014, this is how it was... http://prince.org/msg/7/410388 And now she's front and centre. I'm not saying they didn't reconcile their friendship. I just don't know how or when. | |
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Agreed!! Not dead, not in prison, still funkin'... | |
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she posted something about a year ago that was o her way to Minneapolis (when Prince was there) Ww believe this is when something happened | |
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OldFriends4Sale said: she posted something about a year ago that was o her way to Minneapolis (when Prince was there) Ww believe this is when something happened Ah, right. That makes it all a little less weird. | |
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They were not friends when Prince died. Sheila has said in her interview on TV 'when we were friends'. That makes it clear they were NOT on good terms recently.
That being said she, like Andre are friends with Tyka and love Prince despite how he treated them. Same think with Lil Kim loving Notorious BIG who abused her.
Wendy and Lisa never stopped loving him, although he was horrible to them, ripped them off, witheld credit, demeaned their sexuality.
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keenly said: They were not friends when Prince died. Sheila has said in her interview on TV 'when we were friends'. That makes it clear they were NOT on good terms recently. Good point. Unless she was using past tense because he's no longer with us. She really did say that she'd never work with him again, less than two years ago... http://www.latinpost.com/...omance.htm Would Sheila E. ever collaborate with Prince again? "That's not in the book," she said as the audience laughed. "No, I don't know ... wherever God puts me is where I go." Presumably, God wanted her nowhere near Paisley Park until Prince died. | |
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