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Reply #180 posted 11/26/11 9:37am

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BartVanHemelen said:

TheFreakerFantastic said:

BartVanHemelen said:

That footage the BBC got from Prince back in the day because they'd traveled to PP for an interview and he'd changed his mind. So instead they got that footage form the vault.

It was true about Prince doing more albums than they could release....remember Come, TGE, Chaos and Emancipation...? That's the whole reason Gold experience was barred from release for 1 whole year....(quite why they got him to release Come instead of Gold experience (Gold was pretty much done by that time) is a mystery to me)

That whole thing is well-documented, and nothing like you said here. All WB demanded was that Prince woudl *do some effort* for the money they were supposed to be paying him. That was part of the $100 million deal: that he would start *promoting* his own records.

Prince bitched about WB being slow to release stuff -- and what happened then? He signed with Arista and sat on Rave for six months.

And where are all those records Prince was going to release once he was free?

I'm pretty sure they'd have to re-get permission for the concert footage after all those years elapsing...

Depends on the contracts they signed back then. Considering the Omnibus documentary has been on TV repeatedly in recent years, chances are Prince simply signed some bad agreement back then.

still its quite refreshing, it kind of implies Prince is giving out old footage without censoring and co-operating with the docu in that way.....

I doubt that.

As much as you like Alan Leeds, you have to consider that Prince was also highlighting the raw deal musicians get with record companies.

The same deal he was giving his proteges. Plus: there are lenty of smart musicians who were getting excellent deals long before Prince. But they weren't greedy and didn't sign $100 million record contracts against the advice of friends and employees.

Addmitedly he was biting the hand that feeds him, but his actions did highlight the unfairness of the industry....where an artist only gets about 10% of the actual earnings, that is surely wrong,

Nobody forced him to sign a bad contract.

Still, you could argue that he should have read the contract and realised this earlier, but you know how these creative types are...! Plus the alleged $100 million contract was certainly a persuader...

Everybody told him to not sign it. But he was greedy.

Alan Leeds is 100% correct: no artist has ever gotten this much freedom from his record company.

I agree with a lot of what you normally say but reading your posts there's 2 questions that spring to mind:

1) you seem so angry and bitter towards Prince as if he's done you wrong personally, what's that about?

2) if he's so bad and done nothing good for so many years why do you still follow his career and visit Prince fan sites?

I'm not taking the piss I just can't understand why you'd still be interested in someone who you appear to hate

jonylawson	Bart frankly gives me the willies.... displays all the hallmarks of an obsessive whose unadultarated fam worship is slowly turning to hatred very disturbing young man this
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lipstick	It was an enjoyable hour of tv. jill jones was interviewed and if it had'nt have said jill jones - singer / prince's former girlfriend on the screen, I would'nt have known it was her! She is unrecognisable from her heyday, she does'nt even sound the same when she speaks.
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IDRAG4MJ	enjoyed the janet..so i know i will enjoy this
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jonylawson	*SOMEBODY PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE* POST A LINK. i know its awfully rude of me but i care not a jot what people thought of it-id like to watch it! NO SOLICITING FOR BOOTLEGS / PIRATE COPIES - LINKS to OFFICIAL BBC streams, if available, can be posted. Some streams do not operate in some geographical regions langebleu - moderator**
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jonylawson	Removed suggested location of pirate download langebleu - moderator
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PopLevi	Do not post links to pirated material langebleu - moderator
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Exetergirl	Friday evening on BBC Four are usually about high quality music so it's good to see Prince getting some recognition. I liked the tone of this documentary - not too gushy, nor too tabloid. They gave Prince his rightful place in rock history.
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jonylawson	muirdo said: jonylawson said: Bart frankly gives me the willies.... displays all the hallmarks of an obsessive whose unadultarated fam worship is slowly turning to hatred very disturbing young man this totally agree If someone ever came into my local acting the way that this dick does,he'd be dragged outside and leathered. hahah aye mate..mine too!!
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jonylawson	bit rubbish really that documentary
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