And was the NPGMC the main money maker for Paisley Park?

loveletter said:

.....as the one who built it from the ground up N the 1st place Prince has allways been the 'money maker' 4 Paisley Park....even if that was all needed 2 encourage other people 2 utilize the facility...he is the reason any & every one would B there at all....its been gathering dust a while now....but....

.....it ain't over~yet Y.....have U 'heard' something love?

B

Well did he? eye guess we'll never know or will we?

Well he better wipe off the dust and use it before it's distroyed in ww3

Kind of a strange question to ask, isn't it? Why would Prince hand over PP to anyone? Is this some 'JWs have to hand over their money and property to the organisation' type of assumption?

Okay, he's not been hanging out there as much as he used to, preferring schmoozing with the celebs in LA recently, but it would seem he pops back now and then, that last demo on the npgmc stated he recorded it at PP the week before.

I don't think Paisley Park has ever been a big money earner for Prince, probably the opposite, although it is a studio for hire and other acts have recorded there, I've never got the impression it is ever booked solid. The big money earner for Prince has surely been the royalties he gets from all his albums and his tours - relative to that, I expect the npgmc is a solid money earner but not in the same numbers.

is he still a practicing Witness??

Mazerati said:

thats just all kinds of wrong u should b ashamed of urself

Mazerati said:

metalorange said:

....yeah metalorange, it never seemed 2 B managed N a manner that EVER utilitzed its full potential....its been years since was there but pretty sure the 'place' he had 4 himself contained N the complex is where he still goes 2 chill sometime=perhaps N a 'peculiar manner' he doesn't literally have a 'home' or a place that generates the feelings he gets @ Paisley...chatted with a friend from universal about it recently (who made a remark about the place: gathering dust)wondered aloud if P would do anything with it B4 it fell N2 great disrepair....truly hold out senseless hope 4 a lot of things....

B

theoriginalQueenB said:

The trouble with Paisley Park is that it is in the middle of the country. The movers and shakers and main studios of the music biz reside on the west coast in LA and on the east coast in NY, so there were never going to be a massive amount of acts wanting to record in an essentially out-of-the-way place.

metalorange said:

Actually, the fact that Minnesota's out of the way for most bands is exactly the draw. No distractions. Part of the reason Nirvana recorded their last album here.

Mazerati said:

WTH??

squirrelgrease said:

Yeah, bands coming down after fame and success and the hedonistic lifestyle often choose out-of-the-way-no-temptations places to record music. Less so new up-and-commers.

metalorange said:

....yeah its far out there N the boonies~not a lot of places 2 stay that R nearby...naturally Prince was the reason considered recording there but the studio's were exceptional!!!! studio A U could set up an entire orchestra & have seperate booths 4 percussion & vocal with a seperate cove 4 piano....my hope was 4 time N studio B ~ alas...it was not 2 B...then

....it offered a nice kitchen & 'reclining' areas also....don't know if he still utilizes it but there was a costume/wardrobe spot on the 2nd floor with a mannequin of Prince, bolts of cloth & such 4 tailoring his clothes...what saw was an exceptional space that could have held a number of businesses & interests that might have been a phenomenal adjunct 2 all the things Prince professes 2 B N support of....

.... am what am & continue 2 carry the banner of better possibilities N regard 2 the little man ~ Bcuz somewhere obscured deep withN ~ he's got it N him 2 do genuine & wonderous things with his gifts....2 touch lives N a profoundly more positive way....oh well...time allways tells


B