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Anyone remember this "Emale" from NPGMC? It's circa July, 2003. Fess up... who sent their CDs/records/movies/bootlegs to Vermilion, Ohio upon getting this? High NPGMC, We need ur help. The NPG is looking 4 anything with a WB logo that was UNOFFICIALLY released during Prince's tenure at that label. This includes all of the following: "Back 2 Back" releases: German CD-singles - Little Red Corvette/1999 - 7599-21184-2 (1989) Erotic City/I Would Die 4 U - 7599-21185-2 (1989) Let's Go Crazy/Take Me With U - 7599-21186-2 (1989) When Doves Cry/Purple Rain - 7599-21187-2 (1989) Kiss/Girls And Boys/Under The Cherry Moon - 7599-21188-2 (1989) "Back 2 Back" releases: US 7" singles - I Wanna Be Your Lover/Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad - GWB 0392 (1987) 1999/Little Red Corvette - GWB 0468 (1987) Delirious/Let's Pretend We're Married - GWB 0476 (1987) When Doves Cry/Let's Go Crazy - GWB 0516 (1987) I Would Die 4 U/Take Me With U - GWB 0517 (1987) Purple Rain/Raspberry Beret - GWB 0528 (1987) Pop Life/America - GWB 0529 (1987) Sign O' The Times/U Got The Look - 7-21938 (1989) Alphabet Street/I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man - 7-10039 (1989) Batdance/Partyman - 7-21859 (1990) Diamonds & Pearls/Insatiable - 7-15990 (1993) Cream/Gett Off- 7-15991 (1993) "Back 2 Back" releases: German 7" singles - Anotherloverholenyohead/I Wanna Be Your Lover - 928521-7 (1986) Girls And Boys/Under The Cherry Moon with She's Always In My Hair/17 Days - 928585-7 (1986) "2-On-1" releases US cassettes Controversy/Dirty Mind - 4F-23953 (1982) Controversy/Dirty Mind - 4-23953 (1982) [slightly different O-card] "BackTrax" releases: US cassette singles - 1999/Little Red Corvette - 4-00468 (1989) Alphabet St./I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man - 4-21858 (1990) 1999/Little Red Corvette - 4-00468 (1993) [blue O-card] Diamonds & Pearls/Insatiable - 4-15990 (1993) Cream/Gett Off - 4-15991 (1993) "BackTrax" releases: US CD singles - 1999/Little Red Corvette - 2-468 (1992) Diamonds & Pearls/Insatiable - 2-15990 (1993) Cream/Gett Off - 2-15991 (1993) "ep" Remix Samplers: Japanese CDs - Scandalous Sex Suite - WPCP-3199 (1989) [9 tracks] New Power Generation - WPCP-4200 (1991) [9 tracks] Gett Off - WPCP-4630 (1991) [12 tracks] My Name Is Prince - WPCP-5149 (1989) [8 tracks] CD box set: German CDs - Around The World In A Day / Parade / Controversy - 7599-25944-2 (1992) "Royal Box" release: UK CD-singles - When Doves Cry, 1999, Let's Go Crazy, Kiss, I Would Die 4 U - IMC506002 (1999) [Also includes a 1999 calendar, a golden guitar-shaped badge, a limited edition certificate on 'Purple Rain' sheet music & a framed full color photo of Prince. Comes in a gold & purple velvet box with a golden TAFKAP symbol print on the cover. 4" x 8" x 10" in size.] "Double Feature" releases: UK home videos - Purple Rain/Graffiti Bridge - PES 12544 (1992) If u have copies of anything in the list above or anything with a wb logo on it that is not on this list that falls in2 this category, please send 2: The Ways of the Pharaoh PO BOX 169 Vermilion, OH 44089-0169 In addition 2 the list above, we r gathering 2gether all Prince bootlegs. Send them 2 the same address. All member info will kept confidential. Ur help is greatly appreciated. Love4oneanther, The NPG Music Club If prince.org were to be made idiot proof, someone would just invent a better idiot. | |
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I've heard about this and wanted to start a thread on my own, after I had seen you mentioning it on the other one.
Crazy this is! Does anyone know what happened to all them "bootlegs"? Were they simply destroyed? Was anyone so stupid to send them some of that stuff? Does it only look like that or did he really want us to give him what we had paid for, for nothing but a "thank you" in an email? You gotta love that bitch  | |
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Totally remember this! I'm firmly planted in denial |
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I remember receiving this 
I did not respond 
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moderatorluv4u said: I remember receiving this
I did not respond I did the same thing. I said to myself, hell, you got paid for what I bought, why would I send it back to you? **--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••-
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Remember it well, this is up there with the Madonna dream  | |
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Dave1992 said: I've heard about this and wanted to start a thread on my own, after I had seen you mentioning it on the other one.
Crazy this is! Does anyone know what happened to all them "bootlegs"? Were they simply destroyed? Was anyone so stupid to send them some of that stuff? Does it only look like that or did he really want us to give him what we had paid for, for nothing but a "thank you" in an email? You gotta love that bitch I don't think there was a follow-up email from NPGMC regarding Prince's intentions regarding the stuff collected. I remember a couple of folks said they sent their items in and received a t-shirt or something. If prince.org were to be made idiot proof, someone would just invent a better idiot. | |
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Maybe this was the start of Prince's "audit". That's a long m'fukkin' time to stretch out an audit. If prince.org were to be made idiot proof, someone would just invent a better idiot. | |
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NouveauDance said: Remember it well, this is up there with the Madonna dream
I don't remember the Madonna dream. What's that about? If prince.org were to be made idiot proof, someone would just invent a better idiot. | |
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squirrelgrease said: NouveauDance said: Remember it well, this is up there with the Madonna dream
I don't remember the Madonna dream. What's that about? Open letter to Madonna on the old L4OA site: January 10, 1999:
Open Letter 2 Madonna from The Artist: Madonna: artist 2 artist, eye am sure u understand the connection eye feel 2 my music. U more than any1 at Time Warner knows the patience and care with which we give birth 2 creation... and u maybe moreso than any1 knows how much a new artist longs 2 find a place amongst "the chosen few" 2 flaunt those creations (and at the same time put food on one's table). Music lawyers, managers and execs make deals best suited 4 their futures as well as urs in most cases... OWNERSHIP OF MASTER RECORDINGS IS ALMOST NEVER AN ISSUE! (let's remember, it was 1978!) Eye dreamt of u and eye at the Grammy Awards and felt a need 2 write this letter 2 u. In my dream, eye approached u and asked u if u remembered me, and u said "sure"... u were on ur way up 2 receive 1 of numerous awards u will no doubt receive that night, and eye asked u 2 help me with my fight 2 retain ownership of my legacy and u said, "eye don't own ur masters, Time Warner does... if it was my company, u could have them." "But eye say 2 u, dear sister, it IS ur company as long as u remain in their graces... 4 all Artists, Madonna, make a stand 4 what is RIGHT... surely they will listen 2 u!" In the dream u seemed 2 feel me and yet u were a bit non-committal... so as u approached the podium, eye followed u, and as we stood side by side, eye said, "b glad this a commercial break!" and eye walked offstage and looked 4 Wyclef. Interpretaions aside, artist 2 artist, "U Can Help Us... and eye know u will becuz u REMEMBER ME." REMEMBER ME  | |
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NouveauDance said:[quote] squirrelgrease said: Open letter to Madonna on the old L4OA site: January 10, 1999:
Open Letter 2 Madonna from The Artist: Madonna: artist 2 artist, eye am sure u understand the connection eye feel 2 my music. U more than any1 at Time Warner knows the patience and care with which we give birth 2 creation... and u maybe moreso than any1 knows how much a new artist longs 2 find a place amongst "the chosen few" 2 flaunt those creations (and at the same time put food on one's table). Music lawyers, managers and execs make deals best suited 4 their futures as well as urs in most cases... OWNERSHIP OF MASTER RECORDINGS IS ALMOST NEVER AN ISSUE! (let's remember, it was 1978!) Eye dreamt of u and eye at the Grammy Awards and felt a need 2 write this letter 2 u. In my dream, eye approached u and asked u if u remembered me, and u said "sure"... u were on ur way up 2 receive 1 of numerous awards u will no doubt receive that night, and eye asked u 2 help me with my fight 2 retain ownership of my legacy and u said, "eye don't own ur masters, Time Warner does... if it was my company, u could have them." "But eye say 2 u, dear sister, it IS ur company as long as u remain in their graces... 4 all Artists, Madonna, make a stand 4 what is RIGHT... surely they will listen 2 u!" In the dream u seemed 2 feel me and yet u were a bit non-committal... so as u approached the podium, eye followed u, and as we stood side by side, eye said, "b glad this a commercial break!" and eye walked offstage and looked 4 Wyclef. Interpretaions aside, artist 2 artist, "U Can Help Us... and eye know u will becuz u REMEMBER ME." REMEMBER ME 
Thanks for jogging my memory. I had forgotten all about that. Maybe P was drunk-blogging that night. If prince.org were to be made idiot proof, someone would just invent a better idiot. | |
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NouveauDance said:[quote] squirrelgrease said: Open letter to Madonna on the old L4OA site: January 10, 1999:
Open Letter 2 Madonna from The Artist: Madonna: artist 2 artist, eye am sure u understand the connection eye feel 2 my music. U more than any1 at Time Warner knows the patience and care with which we give birth 2 creation... and u maybe moreso than any1 knows how much a new artist longs 2 find a place amongst "the chosen few" 2 flaunt those creations (and at the same time put food on one's table). Music lawyers, managers and execs make deals best suited 4 their futures as well as urs in most cases... OWNERSHIP OF MASTER RECORDINGS IS ALMOST NEVER AN ISSUE! (let's remember, it was 1978!) Eye dreamt of u and eye at the Grammy Awards and felt a need 2 write this letter 2 u. In my dream, eye approached u and asked u if u remembered me, and u said "sure"... u were on ur way up 2 receive 1 of numerous awards u will no doubt receive that night, and eye asked u 2 help me with my fight 2 retain ownership of my legacy and u said, "eye don't own ur masters, Time Warner does... if it was my company, u could have them." "But eye say 2 u, dear sister, it IS ur company as long as u remain in their graces... 4 all Artists, Madonna, make a stand 4 what is RIGHT... surely they will listen 2 u!" In the dream u seemed 2 feel me and yet u were a bit non-committal... so as u approached the podium, eye followed u, and as we stood side by side, eye said, "b glad this a commercial break!" and eye walked offstage and looked 4 Wyclef. Interpretaions aside, artist 2 artist, "U Can Help Us... and eye know u will becuz u REMEMBER ME." REMEMBER ME 
u seemed 2 feel me and yet u were a bit non-committal
You think? You were fuckin up her Grammy moment. | |
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The open letter to Madonna receive a bit of press for a hot minute.
so, so ,so, sooooo embarrassing | |
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The letter to Madonna was Princes equivalent of sending a drunken text message | |
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squirrelgrease said: Fess up... who sent their CDs/records/movies/bootlegs to Vermilion, Ohio upon getting this?
After much disussion on the NPGMC boards about what the motives were and a couple of dangling carrots from the PP mods (about how this might lead to Prince regaining and then remastering his master recordings) I have to admit I did send my Gett Off Remix EP (the 12 track thing) - I took a CD-R copy of it first but figured I did not particularly need the original CD. Sent a little note with it trying to encourage the recipiect to let the fans know what this was all about. I didn't get a t-shirt, we never got updated on what the progress was of all this either. I did have bootlegs at the time that I had no intention of sending, and since then I have managed to obtain some of those German Back to Back CD singles with the extended remixes on, which I would not get rid of for love or money. Just somewhere in the middle,
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KeithyT said: squirrelgrease said: Fess up... who sent their CDs/records/movies/bootlegs to Vermilion, Ohio upon getting this?
After much disussion on the NPGMC boards about what the motives were and a couple of dangling carrots from the PP mods (about how this might lead to Prince regaining and then remastering his master recordings) I have to admit I did send my Gett Off Remix EP (the 12 track thing) - I took a CD-R copy of it first but figured I did not particularly need the original CD. Sent a little note with it trying to encourage the recipiect to let the fans know what this was all about. I didn't get a t-shirt, we never got updated on what the progress was of all this either. I did have bootlegs at the time that I had no intention of sending, and since then I have managed to obtain some of those German Back to Back CD singles with the extended remixes on, which I would not get rid of for love or money. So you're the one!  They never sent anything to you at all? No note, no nothing? That's not cool. I was an NPGMC member, but rarely went on to their forums, so I didn't catch any of the discourse between the PPs and members.If prince.org were to be made idiot proof, someone would just invent a better idiot. | |
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squirrelgrease said: So you're the one!
 You're not telling me that of all the Prince nutters on here the only person to send something in was little ole level headed me.
(he says, typing while wearing zebra stripe briefs and applying eyeliner) [Edited 8/19/09 3:11am] Just somewhere in the middle,
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KeithyT said: squirrelgrease said: So you're the one!
You're not telling me that of all the Prince nutters on here the only person to send something in was little ole level headed me.
(he says, typing while wearing zebra stripe briefs and applying eyeliner)
[Edited 8/19/09 3:11am] If it makes you feel any better, Zelaira sent her promo copy of Jughead and some fouled up panties to Ohio. They sent the Jughead CD back.If prince.org were to be made idiot proof, someone would just invent a better idiot. | |
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So no one else sent in their CDs and records? If prince.org were to be made idiot proof, someone would just invent a better idiot. | |
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