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Bootlegs taint my Prince appreciation Revelations 2.1. Heard it? Many of these demo versions I dig better than the finished product. This is a bit of proof that Prince makes music primarily for himself. If not, why would all of this dope shit not be available for purchase. You know--and he knows that fans would eagerly eagerly eagerly drop hella$$$$ on good versions of this stuff. "New Power slide...." |
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I think Prince looks at his studio work in a way we couldn't comprehend. I think he records a demo and thinks, "welp, that's the rough sketch, time to do the 'real' version" and leaves the demo in the dust. That's what makes projects like "Crystal Ball" and "The Vault" especially fascinating to me...you can tell by the final choices on CB that the selection process wasn't exactly simple for him, and I'm sure it's not easy for him to unleash those "rough drafts" on the masses when to him, those recordings are more or less disposable to him. I don't think he values the spontaneity of his demos the way his fans do, and that's kind of a shame, because most of them are so great. | |
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I wouldn't say he doesn't value the rough demos (Dirty Mind), I suspect he releases many of those with just a few modifications... guitar, fury... and then sometimes gets complaints on their underdevelopment compared to later live/studio versions...
I think that when you are the one making up lots of stuff, you get a very different perspective on what is fresh and what indicates evolution and effort to yourself and the public. SOTT got some flack for sometimes sounding like sketches and demos from a few people I know and critics when it came out. My art book: http://www.lulu.com/spotl...ecomicskid
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whats great to us wouldn't always translate into commercial success..I think we all should know by now..Prince likes his $$$..so although Many of those demo's are incredible maybe the actual master recordings were not suitable for commercial release... | |
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it also confuses us when we know there r quality tracks in the vault that have yet 2 c the light of day, when songs like all the midnights in the world get released instead. :confused:
why god is alive hasn't been released, or the voice inside 2 this day makes no sense. man, he has such an amazing body of music that it's sad to see him constrict it down to the basics. he's too talented for the lineup he's doing. estelle 81 | |
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