if he still had the original tracks for all instruments on each song it would not be much work at all since he could basically just "remaster" his entire catalogue and just replace for instance the bassline in a song or the guitar licks etc for it to constitute a new master.

It hardly took a few days to complete the 'new masters'. The work was done over about a 2-3 year period.

IstenSzek said:

If anyone is familiar with, for example, Frank Zappa's "Hot Rats" CD version and the original LP version then you get a basic idea of what Prince did with most of his "New Masters"...
And if anyone heared the "new master" version of "Kiss" (Extended version) then you know it's not all that bad (but I have a feeling he did that one long before he thought up of the idea to re-record his music to fuck with WB...)

BorisFishpaw said:

No, in 1993 he was already "re-recording" some of his hits (of course not literally re-recording the songs because for some songs he just lifted older/different takes of his basic tracks...)

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Always remember this, when he says something, think the exact opposite. You will rest easier.

2freaky4church1 said:

EXACTLY!!!
Man i hope Boris has nutsacks the size of beachballs cos there's a lot of gullible people on here wantin' to suck his dick...
Just cos Prince said he had rerecorded his entire back catalog doesn't make it so. Wakey, wakey... When was this? Ahh, 6, 7 years ago?... And where is it all now??.... Hmmm, well that was fucking pointless waste of time then wasn't it??....
And so a supposed remake of soft and wet is somehow proof.... oh lord... Ah-ha.... okay... I guess I'll never find out what that cool-aid taste like, cos i ain't drinkin' the shit, but I'm guessing it smells a lot like (No doubt you believed everything you saw in United 93 as well...) PLEASE!!

If 1999 the new masters is anything to go by, then it's not rerecording, it's pure fucking genocide, fullstop!
But you could be right, ahhh, mmmm, yeah, maybe he's busy rerecording Rainbow Children now, that's why he's completely ignoring 3121 (until he rerecords it in 2009)

Funny, you would think with Purple Rain being his biggest era ever, if he has rerecorded the album, maybe he should have released it in 2004 for a twentieth anniversary, and actually made some money off of that 2 years of supposed rerecording (that you have the sheep believing in)... But no... hmmmm...

So let's sum this up: he rerecorded 20 plus albums (because the inside man Boris said he did) (and apparently Prince said it too, and we all know how reliable and so-not-full-of-paisley-propaganda that makes it!) and released only the wildly successful 1999 new masters, then vaulted the rest after all that bitter "i'll teach you warner bastards" hard work??
Let's call Mulder and Scully, cos i think we've got ourselves a mutha-fuckin' X-FILE!!!!

Sorry, but nah, i ain't buying a bit of it

B-U-L-L S-H-I-T-!-!

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Neversin.
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Neversin said:

what new master extended kiss? "I never saw this!"

Here is the problem with that. It took Prince 27 years to record his entire catalog in the 1st place.

a load of stuff with lots of smilies in

KrystleEyes said:

Man, I guess Prince could sit your ass down in the vault and hand you a big
stack o' New Master tapes, and you'd still be like "No way, I don't believe
you actually re-recorded this stuff. I think these tapes is all just blanks!"

The fact that Prince says he's done it, NPGMC says he's done it, Rhonda, Larry,
Morris, Kirky, Marva, Rev, The Hornheadz and others have all said they've played
on most of the tracks, and Hans Buff and Femi Jiya engineered most of the
sessions don't count for jack? Jeez, whaddya want? A personal invite from Prince
to PP so you can listen to each and every one of the tracks to know for sure?

Interesting...i was thinking about it today.

In one hand I think his classics shouldnt be touched...songs like ´When doves cry´ had an unique sound.

But on the other hand, most of his catalogue sounds dated because of those 80s synths and electronic drums. I think it would be interesting if some live band recordings surfaced after he died. Then people would see how great the songs are instead of thinking ´argh, it´s 80s music´.

KoolEaze said:

Prince confirmed that he'd finished the lot in 1999/2000 (I can't remember
exactly when). If you're aware of Soft and Wet being re-recorded I'm surprised
you didn't know this, as it was the final song to be re-recorded (ironic,
since it was the first single). It was announced online that Prince had just
finished recording Soft and Wet, and that it was the last 'new master' to be
committed to tape, and the project to re-record every track from every WB album
was now complete. They had a big (private) wrap party at Paisley Park to
celebrate the completion of the project. They also mentioned that Larry had to
leave the room when Prince re-recorded some of the more 'explicit' old
material (I think they were talking about some of the Dirty Mind album 'new
masters' there... 'Head' and 'Sister' spring to mind).

Prince soon abandoned the idea of releasing 'new-master' versions of every
album as originally intended. But there were a few occasions where it looked
like a 'best of' collection of some of the 'new masters' might see the light
of day.

Go Boris! Go Boris! Go Boris! Go Boris.....

Any idea if the '95 version of Starfish And Coffee was later used as part of this New Master project, or if he then re-recorded it again?

For me, the biggest turn-off in hearing these is the band of the time. I've thought for many years that the '96-'99 songs themselves aren't too bad, but the Kirky J-sound is just weak. Rather than re-recording the WB catalogue in '98-'99, I wish he had re-recorded the NPG Records catalogue in '01-03 with the ONA band. Then we would have re-discovered some real hidden gems.

If you want to know what the 'New Masters' would've sounded like, just listen
to the 'Purple Medley'.

My gut instinct tells me to go with Boris.

He's earnt his good reputation.

If you want to know what the 'New Masters' would've sounded like, just listen
to the 'Purple Medley'.

BorisFishpaw said:

I love the Purple Medley as a punk ass prince attitude "hooked on prince", but not as a replacement for the originals!