Prince sings and has references in a few of his songs, we don't live forever. So who do you think Prince would leave his Estate to??? Parents deceased. No wife, no kids, and from past stories not to fond up his sister and step brother / step sisters. I guess charity is a option or some of his closest friends, prince.org members. hee hee Most Rich Folks take care of business in other words they don't wait until they are old to have a will or trust and leave their stuff for the State to take.

I just hope his unreleased music ends up in the hands of someone with half a brain.

Maybe, he has a neice or nephew that he's close to. Or possibly a godchild.

Who knows.

TheDigitalGardener said:

I just hope his unreleased music ends up in the hands of someone with half a brain.

Yeah, I was kinda worried about this myself. I was thinking he might do with Sheila E.? Since she's his longest (I'm guessing most-trusted as well) friend. I hope everything he owns won't get sold like cattle all over the world. His purple butt better have a will or something or directions on what to do with his stuff! I don't even like thinking about his death...

TheDigitalGardener said:

I just hope his unreleased music ends up in the hands of someone with half a brain.

Yep.

ecstasy said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

I just hope his unreleased music ends up in the hands of someone with half a brain.

Yeah, I was kinda worried about this myself. I was thinking he might do with Sheila E.? Since she's his longest (I'm guessing most-trusted as well) friend. I hope everything he owns won't get sold like cattle all over the world. His purple butt better have a will or something or directions on what to do with his stuff! I don't even like thinking about his death...

"I hope everything he owns won't get sold like cattle all over the world."

knowing prince he will probably have everything unreleased destroyed and everything

released go out of print. signing off and signing out.

let's hope he has a decent plan in place tho so there won't be a circus and half assed,

nonsensical released left right and center.

That 1st sentence is cold but u do have a point.

And I'm not just talking music...how about Paisley Park, etc. etc.?

IstenSzek said:

knowing prince he will probably have everything unreleased destroyed and everything

released go out of print. signing off and signing out.

let's hope he has a decent plan in place tho so there won't be a circus and half assed,

nonsensical released left right and center.

Those 1st 2 sentences almost sound like a song.... A Hit!

IstenSzek said:

knowing prince he will probably have everything unreleased destroyed and everything

released go out of print. signing off and signing out.

let's hope he has a decent plan in place tho so there won't be a circus and half assed,

nonsensical released left right and center.

oh god. stop talkig like he's in his 80's or something

Astasheiks said:

Prince sings and has references in a few of his songs, we don't live forever. So who do you think Prince would leave his Estate to??? Parents deceased. No wife, no kids, and from past stories not to fond up his sister and step brother / step sisters. I guess charity is a option or some of his closest friends, prince.org members. hee hee Most Rich Folks take care of business in other words they don't wait until they are old to have a will or trust and leave their stuff for the State to take.

This is a great question: I'm sure Larry Graham's in the will somewhere, I bet the rest goes to charity, music in schools or something

Astasheiks said:

IstenSzek said:

knowing prince he will probably have everything unreleased destroyed and everything

released go out of print. signing off and signing out.

let's hope he has a decent plan in place tho so there won't be a circus and half assed,

nonsensical released left right and center.

Those 1st 2 sentences almost sound like a song.... A Hit!

what? "signing off and signing out"

prince, if you need someone to handle your estate, give me

a call. as you can see from my posting rate on here, i don't

really have a life worth mentioning, so i can be on call night

and day.

i'll make your coffee and shine your shoes and all. i'll even

arrange your early 90s swimsuits by color and wave a cattle

prod at divinity if she comes within a 2 mile radius of paisley

park. pretty please prince...

i promise i won't copy any of the vault content onto usb

We have no idea what Prince has in place to deal with his music/studio etc, but it will be great if at least some of it is released in some way.

Jimi Hendrix's family are doing a great job (imo) with the recent releases. The high quality albums and the very nice recent box set are good examples of what can be done if the music is looked after properly and dealt with sympathetically.

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IstenSzek said:

Astasheiks said:

Those 1st 2 sentences almost sound like a song.... A Hit!

what? "signing off and signing out"

prince, if you need someone to handle your estate, give me

a call. as you can see from my posting rate on here, i don't

really have a life worth mentioning, so i can be on call night

and day.

i'll make your coffee and shine your shoes and all. i'll even

arrange your early 90s swimsuits by color and wave a cattle

prod at divinity if she comes within a 2 mile radius of paisley

park. pretty please prince...

i promise i won't copy any of the vault content onto usb

Haha! lol, just gave it away

ecstasy said:

IstenSzek said:

what? "signing off and signing out"

prince, if you need someone to handle your estate, give me

a call. as you can see from my posting rate on here, i don't

really have a life worth mentioning, so i can be on call night

and day.

i'll make your coffee and shine your shoes and all. i'll even

arrange your early 90s swimsuits by color and wave a cattle

prod at divinity if she comes within a 2 mile radius of paisley

park. pretty please prince...

i promise i won't copy any of the vault content onto usb

Haha! lol, just gave it away

it would be almost humanly impossible to sift through his material and not make a copy

for private use.

imagine being in his vault, or having access to his unreleased material with him telling

you to sift through it, arrange it and catalogue it all.

it would make my head explode with extacy

which would be a shame since it would probably be the best job in the world e.v.e.r.

IstenSzek said:

ecstasy said:

Haha! lol, just gave it away

it would be almost humanly impossible to sift through his material and not make a copy

for private use.

imagine being in his vault, or having access to his unreleased material with him telling

you to sift through it, arrange it and catalogue it all.

it would make my head explode with extacy

which would be a shame since it would probably be the best job in the world e.v.e.r.

I would collapse, nice reference there too . But u or whoever would have to be extremely delicate and careful with the material when converting/copying/ripping/modern-technologizing, lol

Don't let it get caught in the VCR when converting those pre-Purple Rain shows to DVD, hehe.

let some idiot get hold of these things without careful preservation precautions. That would be the end of the purple world...

Francis7 said:

Astasheiks said:

Prince sings and has references in a few of his songs, we don't live forever. So who do you think Prince would leave his Estate to??? Parents deceased. No wife, no kids, and from past stories not to fond up his sister and step brother / step sisters. I guess charity is a option or some of his closest friends, prince.org members. hee hee Most Rich Folks take care of business in other words they don't wait until they are old to have a will or trust and leave their stuff for the State to take.

This is a great question: I'm sure Larry Graham's in the will somewhere, I bet the rest goes to charity, music in schools or something

Heck, Larry Graham is older than him...

TheDigitalGardener said:

We have no idea what Prince has in place to deal with his music/studio etc, but it will be great if at least some of it is released in some way.

Jimi Hendrix's family are doing a great job (imo) with the recent releases. The high quality albums and the very nice recent box set are good examples of what can be done if the music is looked after properly and dealt with sympathetically.

[Edited 1/21/11 17:52pm]

Recent Releases, Wow

IstenSzek said:

Astasheiks said:

Those 1st 2 sentences almost sound like a song.... A Hit!

what? "signing off and signing out"

prince, if you need someone to handle your estate, give me

a call. as you can see from my posting rate on here, i don't

really have a life worth mentioning, so i can be on call night

and day.

i'll make your coffee and shine your shoes and all. i'll even

arrange your early 90s swimsuits by color and wave a cattle

prod at divinity if she comes within a 2 mile radius of paisley

park. pretty please prince...

i promise i won't copy any of the vault content onto usb

Yep.

IstenSzek said:

ecstasy said:

Haha! lol, just gave it away

it would be almost humanly impossible to sift through his material and not make a copy

for private use.

imagine being in his vault, or having access to his unreleased material with him telling

you to sift through it, arrange it and catalogue it all.

it would make my head explode with extacy

which would be a shame since it would probably be the best job in the world e.v.e.r.

Didn't he mention or somebody guess how many unrelease songs could be in "The Vault"???

Astasheiks said:

IstenSzek said:

it would be almost humanly impossible to sift through his material and not make a copy

for private use.

imagine being in his vault, or having access to his unreleased material with him telling

you to sift through it, arrange it and catalogue it all.

it would make my head explode with extacy

which would be a shame since it would probably be the best job in the world e.v.e.r.

Didn't he mention or somebody guess how many unrelease songs could be in "The Vault"???

By this time, definitely thousands. The man shits out songs and countless grooves

I heard that!

Really interesting thread. We all check out eventually and most of us have just some stuff that's precious to a few people, but hopefully he'll take care that his body of work is handled in a way he is pleased with.

I'd hope that in 50 years they're not selling Prince tours of an "Erotic City" with assless pants as the 2 door entrance or worse yet, that he'd be forgotten because of destroyed materials or family in-fighting.

Makes me think of how in 50-100 years, his legacy will play out and wondering whose legacies have been handled well (someone said Hendrix's) and whose could have been handled better.

To Sir and Prez those are Tyka's kids right?

This question has been brought up a zillion times

The only person who has the answer to that question is the purple yoda himself.

Astasheiks said:

Prince sings and has references in a few of his songs, we don't live forever. So who do you think Prince would leave his Estate to??? Parents deceased. No wife, no kids, and from past stories not to fond up his sister and step brother / step sisters. I guess charity is a option or some of his closest friends, prince.org members. hee hee Most Rich Folks take care of business in other words they don't wait until they are old to have a will or trust and leave their stuff for the State to take.

probably the church or charity is the most realistic option. and he may well put clauses to prevent at least some unreleased stuff from coming out

but then again, knowing prince he may have nothing planned and ignored calls to plan for this, so it ends up being split amongst remaining relatives who will probably fight over the legacy and fuck it up

now if he left it to me, that would be the best option and i could trawl the vaults and release all the good stuff

I hope Prince makes some babies with his GF, he is still young and full of energy.

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[Edited 1/22/11 11:02am]

on 60 minutes, they did a story about a firm in Indianapolis that deals with the estates likenesses/images of dead celebrities/figureheads. It was pretty interesting.