That thread is for 16 and under! Nonsense!

TheDigitalGardener said:

MarquessMarq said:

True Prince. The stuff that is too good to be officially released. Unfortunately, the many gems and unparalleled masterpieces within, will probably never grace our ears...at least not any time soon.

Oh come on now.

You sound like Prince.

RodeoSchro said:

OnlyNDaUsa said:

...his career?

I bet every musician in the world would love to be in Prince's shoes right now. Dude hasn't released an album in the USA in two years and hasn't had a new song played on the radio since 2005 or so, and yet can sell out large arenas for days in a row with little promotion or lead time.

If that's a dead career, then we should all have such dead careers!

it was kind of a double meaning.

1) the one you took

2) literary as in his body of work (most of his masters, the physical tapes (or at least 1st gen copies or the MTMs), are said to be in the vault)

jpnyc said:

RodeoSchro said:

Tapes.

There was a great thread a couple years back, started by a fellow that had been an engineer at Paisley Park in the 90's. He said the vault was full of songs recorded to tape - some finished, most not.

His concern was that the tape would break down over the years, and he dearly hoped the music had been transferred to other storage devices, but he didn't know if it had been or not.

The Beatles and the Doors master tapes are still playable so I doubt anything in Prince's vault is in trouble.

Anyway, whatever is in the vault is in there for a reason. I'm sure a great deal of it is leftover albums and videos from Prince's crazy spend-sprees in the first half of the 1990s before everyone in Minneapolis stopped working with Prince on a “bill-me-later” basis.

I wonder if some of the stuff that wasn't being taken care of--if indeed that was the case--was music recorded by "associated artists."

There may be an ironic benefit to Prince holding on to his tapes for so long. His music has been spared the loudness wars that have led to increasingly compressed remasters over the years by other superstar acts. Some audiophiles think that the original releases of Stevie Wonder's CDs sound better than the recent remasters, for example. If we do eventually get deluxe editions or remasters, they could sound better than what we would have gotten ten years ago, because compression is no longer as popular. If the tapes haven't deteriorated, that is.