Giovanni777 said:

...OK - does anyone else here feel like - Bro, more than 1 year after the guy's dead, it's kinda weird to see what he was like more than 30 years ago.....? We've all heard these songs till we wore our tapes out of them, back when tapes were around.....know what I'm saying?

Be cool to see tons of videos never seen b4

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It's definitely legit, and it's about damn time his videos were on YouTube!

bonatoc said:

feeluupp said:

Wonder if this is to help promote the PR DELUXE... Looks like it will already fall off most TOP 40 charts in it's second week...

This is not the music industry some of us grew up with.
I've never seen so much "greatest hits" and catalogue releases on the Billboard.
To me it means two things: music is not regarded the way it used to be, and the sales figures are pretty poor by yesterday's standards, but we all know that.

It is without a doubt a part of the box promotion: only the PR videos have been published.

The world has moved on to box sets, VOD, Netflix and PS4. Music is something I'll do if I've really got nothing else to do. I'd rather watch a good movie than listen to music for two hours. As a teen in the 80s, music was my priority. PR Deluxe is the first CD I've bought in ages, ripped it, boxed it up. Might not see the light of day again.

This is wonderful news! Thank You!!

mcmk785new said:

bonatoc said:

Man, since we're dreaming, let's have a 1080p of "Face Down"!

and a 4K of "Jughead"!

With the sound muted of course. I mean, we aren't animals.

embmmusic said:

PurpleYoda3121 said:

Giovanni777 said:

I Would Die 4 U and Baby I'm A Star are from Syracuse, not Landover, MD. Also, the YouTube channel is a mirror of the new VEVO Prince channel.

Might not be from Landover but definitely aren't from Syracuse. The performances are nothing like each other.

It's definitely from Landover, MD.

Clearly that want folks to focus on purple rain stuff to sell the deluxe set. If they weren't such greedy bastards they would put up non purple rain stuff as well. I am sure it will come in time.

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leadline said:

Clearly that want folks to focus on purple rain stuff to sell the deluxe set. If they weren't such greedy bastards they would put up non purple rain stuff as well. I am sure it will come in time.

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They are being Strategic about it...

Next um.."OFFICIAL" release...and we will see the accompanying Videos to go with it..its simple marketing really

bonatoc said:

PurpleYoda3121 said:

Also it's funny how the quality on the concert videos is better than the quality of the Syracuse DVD 🙃

I have a hard time believing a whole crew was set up just to film one song.
Is it possible that other full, professionally shot PR Tour concerts exist?

Most of the time, local news stations and other media outlets are authorized to film certain points of a show. So, that explains many of the higher quality performance videos pulled from different cities.

Astasheiks said:

bluegangsta said:

These were uploaded just minutes ago.

https://www.youtube.com/c...hk1DUdnGtw

I had a feeling yesterday something was going down 7-7-2017... jeejee haha

7/7 was the perfect day to launch his YouTube channel.

bonatoc said:

BTW, I was just looking at a YouTube video unrelated to P...and the ad that played before the video was an ad for PR deluxe...

So maybe WB's throwing a bit of money into advertising it after all...

leadline said:

Clearly that want folks to focus on purple rain stuff to sell the deluxe set. If they weren't such greedy bastards they would put up non purple rain stuff as well. I am sure it will come in time.

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Is that so bad? Don't they need to make money in order to release material from the vault? Does that make them greedy?

Asenath0607 said:

leadline said:

Clearly that want folks to focus on purple rain stuff to sell the deluxe set. If they weren't such greedy bastards they would put up non purple rain stuff as well. I am sure it will come in time.

[Edited 7/8/17 18:33pm]

Is that so bad? Don't they need to make money in order to release material from the vault? Does that make them greedy?

Yup. Damn right it does. They aren't the ones who made the music!

That's the kind of backward-thinking that left Prince's estate mired in chaos and dysfunction.

leadline said:

domainator2010 said:

Asenath0607 said:

Is that so bad? Don't they need to make money in order to release material from the vault? Does that make them greedy?

Yup. Damn right it does. They aren't the ones who made the music!

So them not putting up more videos, therefore making less money through views, makes them greedy because they didn't make the videos? None of that makes sense.

Sorry if this has been said already. I was reading an NPR article, and we can expect more videos on the official Prince YouTube channel! Blessings.

this is cool and all but only 6 videos? ones that are easy to find online too....lets get some rare ones!

laurarichardson said:

5) He was starting to sell Hit and Run peer to peer so we have no idea what would have happend with that project

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It was a massive failure and Jay-Z took pity on him and used his connections to get a proper label release (also in order to remain in his good books and keep getting exclusives to Tidal).

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and we have no idea how his health and dealings with WB effected the promotion of his last projects. He was sitting on 40 mill in real estate and their was money in NPG LLC so his business were not hurting for cash.

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Adele made $250 million IN ONE YEAR.

This is VERY big news!! They even mentioned it on my local news station!!

rogifan said:

leadline said:

Clearly that want folks to focus on purple rain stuff to sell the deluxe set. If they weren't such greedy bastards they would put up non purple rain stuff as well. I am sure it will come in time.

[Edited 7/8/17 18:33pm]

Well Prince allowed next to nothing on YouTube. Does that make him the greediest Of all?

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No, not greedy. Prince just wanted himself and other artists to get paid for their work and publishing their music, etc.

cloveringold85 said:

rogifan said:

leadline said: Well Prince allowed next to nothing on YouTube. Does that make him the greediest Of all?

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No, not greedy. Prince just wanted himself and other artists to get paid for their work and publishing their music, etc.

I cant understand why EVERYONE cant GET THAT about him !!!!!!!!!!!!!

About time. Let's get those young folk hooked on everything purple, is what I say.

I'm loving this. I just hope the decision makers see the views already garnered in just a few days (with any revenue or sales boosts the PR Deluxe they bring) and get motivated to upload more content.