I remember reading some time ago that Prince was planning on releasing "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" as a single, however this was a latin mix. I think Boris mentioned this, not a 100% sure...

^ was released as a single in europe (edit)

Man, only 870 views. The previous version of the list had 5000 peeps at Housequake.

Man, only 870 views. The previous version of the list had 5000 peeps at Housequake.

Man, only 870 views. The previous version of the list had 5000 peeps at Housequake.

Anyway, didn't Prince say back in 1976 in his high school newspaper that he and his band (Champagne?) were going to release an album that summer?

Seems to be an Org phenomenon... Over 4,500 people have viewed the 'Why does this generation of girls not find Prince sexy?' thread, so go figure!

If this were a book, the sales would be out of this world

rudeboy4711 said:

Dawrede said:

I've never heard of this before. Tell me more. When? Tracklist?

Nosferatu said:

Maybe it is mostly women who come to the org?

Maybe this delving into the music is mostly a guy thing and Housequake was a boys' club?

wasn't The Second Coming album/movie based on the March 7th 1982 show in Boston but focusing more on the Dirty Mind/Controversy material?

In this thread: http://prince.org/msg/7/312081,

rudeboy4711 said:

I don't know.

scififilmnerd said:

I remember reading on that Uptown article in HQ about The Second Coming, that Prince hired Chuck Statler to film that particular concert and parts from other shows. Also, if you listen to the soundboard recording from the March 7th show, it goes from "When You Were Mine" to "Head" skipping "IWBYL" implying that they wanted to focus more on the newer material. It's possible that this was the inteded "configuration" for the movie/album.
[Edited 9/29/09 16:33pm]

9 December 1981: Houston, The Summit

The Houston concert at the 16,000-seat Summit was fantastic,
with a lot of audience interaction throughout. Since the
early shows of the tour, Prince had replaced “Sexuality” with
“Uptown” as the opening song of the set, while “Jack U Off”
was played as an encore instead of early in the set. The Houston
concert included a rare performance of “Private Joy” as an
encore. The fast, breezy tune worked very well and should have
been played more often.

Prince closed “Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?” unusually
as he played a portion of “Jingle Bells” during the guitar
finale. “Are there any ladies in the house?” Prince asked before
launching into “I Wanna Be Your Lover.” “Will you help me
sing this song? I said, will you help me sing this song? Alright,
put your hands together, c’mon.”

“Head” was definitely one of the highpoints of the set,
featuring a lot of guitar improvisations by Prince. “Dirty Mind”
was very long and had a lot of audience participation. Prince
got them to repeat the “Oh, alright” chant over and over. As
usual, “Do Me, Baby” excited the audience as Prince began his
“striptease,” “Well, you’re leaving me no choice. What’re you
looking at? Are you just gonna sit there and watch? Alright...
Don’t you wanna close your eyes? Please baby, close your eyes.
How far do you want me to go? All the way?!”

After playing “Let’s Work,” the first encore, Prince said,
“Well? Thank you, good night! Don’t you’all want to go home?
Good, neither do we.” Next was “Private Joy,” which ended
somewhat chaotically as Prince abruptly stopped the song in
the middle of a guitar solo by Dez Dickerson, “Hold it! Hold
it! Alright, stop the music! That song ain’t fast enough. We
gotta play some fast, we gotta rock this joint, right? You want
something fast?” He signalled to Bobby Z. to start the drum
beat to “Jack U Off,” before saying, “If you know the words,
sing along. I know you’re nasty, c’mon, 1-2-3-4...”

The Houston concert was filmed for a planned documentary,
tentatively called The Second Coming. Several concerts on
the tour were filmed by rock video pioneer Chuck Statler, who
had worked with Devo and Elvis Costello. His Minneapolisbased
Location Services filmed Prince in concert and off-stage,
but unfortunately the resulting documentary was never released.

In this thread: http://prince.org/msg/7/312081, sandwiched between The Hookers project and Home Studio recordings, this is mentioned:

Unnamed project, home studio, 1981
See U Dead
Heart Attack
Kiss Me Quick
Strange Way Of Saying I Love You (2:09)
Gym Class

I thought these were supposed to be more recordings from The Hookers/Vanity 6... but an unnamed project? Thats interesting...
Also, wasn't The Second Coming album/movie based on the March 7th 1982 show in Boston but focusing more on the Dirty Mind/Controversy material?

Man, I find Prince's pre-Purple Rain recording era the most interesting, too bad not much is known about this era as much as we know about the 86-89 and 92-95 eras. C'mon Prince throw us a freakin' bone!
[Edited 9/29/09 9:25am]

I cannot believe a multiple live album was offered to WB and they turned it down - damn them. Id love to hear that.

There are so many of these album configurations id love to hear - particularly Heart, the acoustic album. I wonder if this eventually became The Truth?

rudeboy4711 said:

I'm gonna publish an update of that list any day now.

The 1993-1996 entries will be thoroughly revised based on my discoveries during my work on the Ultimate threads.

So stay tuned for that.

Was there ever a early configuration of Purple Rain prior 2 the November 7, 1983 version that may have contain Let's Go Crazy, Electric Intercourse, Computer Blues,Wednesday, and G-Spot?

scififilmnerd said:

I think he must be getting his wires crossed. I Could Never Take The Place Of
Your Man was released as a single in Europe, just like it was in the US. But
the Shep Pettibone 'latin' mix wasn't included, and has never been officially
released.

There was quitea lot of remixes and extended versions made for several songs
off Sign O' The Times. The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker, Strange Relationship,
Adore and The Cross were all being considered for single releases.

sms130 said:

That is doubtful, considering that Per Nielsen talked with a lot of people for his D.M.S.R. book and none of them mentioned such a thing.