A corporate sales video for Paisley Park, from around '91. Fascinating to me, in an utterly mundane way... Sorry if repost, scanned but didn't see anything.

"This corporate sales video touting the virtues of Paisley Park as a location for a wide variety of audio and video production uses probably dates from 1991. It can’t be much earlier, as it incorporates footage from Prince’s 1990 appearance at the American Music Award and features plentiful shots of Paula Abdul and MC Hammer, both of whom were topping the pop charts around that time. And it can’t be much later, because it wouldn’t be long before Prince became obsessed with his grievances with Warners.

Paisley Park was completed in the town of Chanhassen, Minnesota, in 1988. Today we think of Paisley Park as somehting almost analogous to Charles Foster Kane’s Xanadu in Citizen Kane, a thoroughly private and whimsical domain overseen by a single eccentric genius, but for those of you who think of Paisley Park in those terms, this video is startling indeed—as it comes from a time when Prince wanted to fashion the music production complex as an authentic commercial rival to Nashville and Los Angeles.

The video, which lasts seven minutes, is as bland as any other corporate video you’ve ever seen. This is a document intended not to ruffle any feathers, unmistakably designed to appeal to the dollars-and-cents mentality of music production professionals across the nation. Barry Gibb is on hand to murmur a few words about Prince’s extraordinary music production standards, and the video ends with a cheesy shout-out to one of Prince’s most enduring hits: “Paisley Park Enterprises, the model for the next century—or at least ‘1999’! It can be in your hands today!”

And a link to the video, (we'll see if this works, sorry don't know how to embed.)

https://player.vimeo.com/video/138141996

That's fantastic.

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Thank you for finding this.

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I've never seen that particular one... and my mind is blown. One of my biggest creative heroes (think about my name on here) Douglas Trumbull was directing the production of a high def IMAX project there in 1990!???!!??

I can imagine potential customers falling asleep half way through this, but it's still pretty cool. Thanks for posting.

TheDigitalGardener said:

I can imagine potential customers falling asleep half way through this, but it's still pretty cool. Thanks for posting.

Why it is a sales tool for bringing in business? No one who was looking at this was looking for a music video of MJ like proportions.

Any1 called the phone number?

laurarichardson said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

I can imagine potential customers falling asleep half way through this, but it's still pretty cool. Thanks for posting.

Why it is a sales tool for bringing in business?

Because it just is.

TheDigitalGardener said:

I liked it and at that time I could see it as a big marketing tool for use especially showing some powerhouse artists were all customers of Paisley one way or another.

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