I know we're talking unprobable things here, but we all know that 1984/86 era spawned great music in the Prince Factory. Mostly due to Wendy & Lisa and also the expanded Revolution and while great music was released, other great music was forced not to see the light of day.

So, which projects would U like to see officially released from back then?

THE FLESH (1985/86): live album including extended sessions by Prince and the expanded Revolution

DREAM FACTORY (1986/87): ultimate Prince & The Revolution album, with the last configuration known.

ROADHOUSE GARDEN (1999): the reunion album by Prince & The Revolution, including 2 cd's with unreleased music from 1985/86 era and brand new (?) songs by Prince & The Revolution.

all of them.

living at the other end of the world- and before the net, i never had the pleasure of hearing any outtakes/unreleased stuff.

i love store bought music- i hate downloads but if this stuff became available only thru Lotusflow3r.com, id fork over the $77us joining fee. it would go part of the way for making up 4 the "t-shirts 4 founding members only"

i love the revolution period of P's career. wendy and lisa rock

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I've got them and like them just the way they are. but maybe for the newbies.

yeah, all of them would kick serious ass, but probably the flesh, the most, cuz it was a pre-cursor to madhouse and u gotta shake something is the shit . dream factory is already out there for the most part , so roadhouse garden would also be too kewl . never gonna happen though, like you said

The rebels.

leafar said:

Love that too.

Sophianestesia said:

where did you get this info? as far as i can tell the only thing prince
intended to release was "roadhouse garden" as a single disc of outtakes
combined to form a 'new' album of old material.

wendy and lisa were contacted to help finish some of the tracks and/or
tinker with them a bit iirc. the project died a rather quick death and
after a while prince's response to the question of why the album hadn't
been released was that wendy and lisa were "non responsive individuals".

there was never any talk of a revolution reunion, certainly not from
prince's camp.

I think I have pretty much all of it.

IstenSzek said:

NEVER heard that being what Roadhouse Garden was going to be. It was a total Revolution album of an old album, to be updated and tweaked by W&L.



The album died because Prince asked W&L to work on the album and finish it. As a courtesy when you ask someone to come out and work on something, you pay for their hotel and food while there. Prince refused ANY sort of compensation for the girls, at all, whether it was a hotel, covering expenses like meals, or anything else. W&L ain't suckers, and they aren't going to work for free (who would?) That's why Prince dissed them as being "non responsive" and told Kurt Loder to "ask Wendy and Lisa"; a statement he also put on the L40A site back in the day.

Sophianestesia said:

hey, exactly what songs where on the Flesh live album. The only one I know if U gotta shake something. Thanks

I think Roadhouse Garden will see the light of day sometime before he retires.

Of the 3, I'd say Roadhouse Garden is the #1 "want" in my book.

I just want a disk of true Revolution outtakes, like the real "Computer Blue". "Wednesday" from Purple Rain. The other version of "Strange Relationship", plus stuff like "All My Dreams", "Others Here With Us", "Big Tall Wall", "A Place In Heaven", "In A Large Room With No Light", "Old Friends 4 Sale" (not that sanitized version on The Vault), etc etc etc.

Well, for starters, a lot of the info here is incorrect...

1. "The Flesh" wasn't a live album, it was an instrumental jazz-fusion album and
a kind of pre-cursor to Madhouse. The album was assembled on 22nd January
1986, and the intended tracklisting is well known... Side 1: Junk Music.
Side 2: Up From Below / Y'all Want Some More / A Couple of Miles.

2. "Dream Factory" was shelved before it was finished. In fact the last version
assembled before this happened had already started to move away from the
original intention of the album, which was for it to be very much a 'band' album.
So it's not a very good indicator of what the album would have looked like had
it been released.

3. "Roadhouse Garden" was never mentioned as being a 2CD set as far as I'm
aware. Prince always just referred to it as 'an album', which, if anything, implies
that it was going to be a single album. IstenSzek's and ernestsewell's responses
have pretty much covered what actually happened with this project.

All of them!
His best moments!

Roadhouse Garden would have had: Go, Splash, Our Destiny and the title track at least.

BorisFishpaw said:

That's right.

'Roadhouse Garden'

Then some sort of compilation set featuring songs from 'Flesh' and 'Dream Factory' and other sessions.

That's right, I put down things in the wrong way, but Mr. Fishpaw fixed it.

This is only a suggestion...I always thought it would be cool to do another "Purple Rain," video...where the band and fans were gathered around cars at the drive in...all wearing "Yellow."

The Screen would be playing the end of "Purple Rain," and then everyone could sing without music...at the end of the video it could Rain....Purple.

rudeboynpg said:

I knew all of that, by the way.

Genesia said:

U mean U do have all The Flesh trax? That's impossible, they never leaked. Only U Gotta Shake Something did leak.

Tame said:

As he has no dependants what happens to the Vault? I guess like Hendrix's estate it will be family managed? Unless the Vault (like the cake) is a lie.

eaglebear4839 said:

I'd rather it didn't tbh. If it was a last, final, end of sale resort for getting these tracks in perfect quality, then fine, but a single CD of tinkered-with tracks isn't my idea of the perfect way to get this stuff.

I know realistically not EVERYTHING can be released, but Prince's back catalogue deserves the proper treatment of remasters, with bonus tracks, b-sides, extended versions, alt. versions and relevant out-takes, with proper liner notes. AND on top of that at least one box set of 4/5 CDs crammed full of out-takes and unreleased alt. versions. It still probably wouldn't equal what's already out there, so I don't think that's too much to ask.

Tame said:

wtf??

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Must have been crazy, but I recently discovered the song Roadhouse Garden....why this wasn't released is beyond me, but it's a damn good song!