Probably roll over it with his motorbike, just like Wendy and Lisa's tape.

jstar69 said:

robertgeorge said:

He's planning to take it with him, What we haven't been told is that the Vault is actually his Tomb where he will be laid to rest and take his musical treasure with him into the afterlife a Giant boulder will be pushed infront of the opening to prevent anyone from ever getting inside getting their hands on it, its said that he'll have a curse cast upon that will rain down slow and painful deaths and anyone who enters.

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fnksoul said:

kae510 said:

It's very likely that WB prevented Prince to release anything from the vault after 2001, at a time when he was interested in doing it. I think we won't know exactly what happens, if anything, before Prince is free from his new obligations towards WB (he owns the masters but can't use them outside of WB, so he's basically still tied to them).

databank said:

It's very likely that WB prevented Prince to release anything from the vault after 2001, at a time when he was interested in doing it. I think we won't know exactly what happens, if anything, before Prince is free from his new obligations towards WB (he owns the masters but can't use them outside of WB, so he's basically still tied to them).

Yeah if these were recorded at WB expense at the time then they would have still fallen under their property so he wouldnt have been able to do much with them all these years. But I'd imagine there is still plenty since Warners which there is no explanation who he hasnt done antyhing with them.

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Time is a great healer. I'd imagine a lot of those vault tracks remind him of some emotional outpouring, some good and some bad that he just wanted to forget.

I think he's starting to get to a point in his life where he can look back without the emotion and release the tracks so I'm hopeful one day I'll get the original Empty Room and Old Friends For Sale etc.

fnksoul said:

databank said:

It's very likely that WB prevented Prince to release anything from the vault after 2001, at a time when he was interested in doing it. I think we won't know exactly what happens, if anything, before Prince is free from his new obligations towards WB (he owns the masters but can't use them outside of WB, so he's basically still tied to them).

Yeah if these were recorded at WB expense at the time then they would have still fallen under their property so he wouldnt have been able to do much with them all these years. But I'd imagine there is still plenty since Warners which there is no explanation who he hasnt done antyhing with them.

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I don't think the timing has ever been right for releasing "a collection of outtakes from the Newpower Soul era" or "10 unreleased tracks from the 3121 sessions", both fans and critics would have reacted with a huge WTF saying "this is not what we want, we want material from the classic years!". I think reasonably, post WB outtakes can only be released alternatively with WB years outtakes. Look at what happened as early as 1998 with Crystal Ball: everyone moaned that the 30 tracks were 10 80's tracks and 20 mid-90's tracks. Prince could have released a 2 CD set of Gold/Come outtakesbut only if he'd released a 3 CD set of 80's outtakes right before that would the fans have said "yeah cool".

NouveauDance said:

Here's a plan - If everyone stopped going to see him in concert he couldn't make a living from live shows, and would have to... release remasters and vault stuff?

Fuck, I'm a genius.

Furthermore...

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Yes, P uses vault tracks every now and then.

But only when the track is not too 'dirty'.

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This means that certain vault tracks will not see the light of day during his lifetime and will be inherited by Larry or whoever is alloed to manage his estate.

Eye agree!!!!

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If you want to get into the vault, all you need is the "password."

databank said:

I don't think the timing has ever been right for releasing "a collection of outtakes from the Newpower Soul era" or "10 unreleased tracks from the 3121 sessions", both fans and critics would have reacted with a huge WTF saying "this is not what we want, we want material from the classic years!". I think reasonably, post WB outtakes can only be released alternatively with WB years outtakes. Look at what happened as early as 1998 with Crystal Ball: everyone moaned that the 30 tracks were 10 80's tracks and 20 mid-90's tracks. Prince could have released a 2 CD set of Gold/Come outtakesbut only if he'd released a 3 CD set of 80's outtakes right before that would the fans have said "yeah cool".

Well, judging by the best material from the 3121 era, which appears to include not only 3121 but also much of Lotusflow3r, I for one would like to hear more if there is unheard stuff of similar quality eg Colonised Mind and 3121 (the track).

And as we know, Prince can be a contrary bird and who knows, maybe he held back the best stuff from the NPS era (remember, the original version of Beautiful Strange was done in '98, then there's great released stuff like Come On, The War and Wasted Kisses that show every day wasn't just another 'Push It Up' type session .

Personally, I sense we've already heard most of the best stuff from the 'classic era' (say '82-'87) on official and unofficial releases; there might be another album or two's worth of good/ great unheard studio stuff from the 80s, but I suspect there's unknown material from 1990 onwards that may not be quite as mind-blowing as say, the original '85 Empty Room, but really deserves to be heard by us rabid fans, whatever the artist himself may think.

I for one would love to hear any cool outtakes from The Rainbow Children/ Xenophobia/ NEWS era as much as anything else, as P and the band were on fire back then .

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kewlschool said:

NorthC said:

kewlschool said:

If you want to get into the vault, all you need is the "password."

What???

I think he totally has a plan for it, after he's no longer on this earth. I think he is smart enough to know that the vultures would swoop so I think he knows what he's going to do with it.

There is at least one classic album sat in there. In my opinion he could put together an album of material from 1985-86 never released that would at least equal Sign O The Times.

Romeoblu said:

There is at least one classic album sat in there. In my opinion he could put together an album of material from 1985-86 never released that would at least equal Sign O The Times.

It seems that the CB/Camille/DF trilogy has become the Godwin pont of the org.

fnksoul said:

He's planning to take it with him, What we haven't been told is that the Vault is actually his Tomb where he will be laid to rest and take his musical treasure with him into the afterlife a Giant boulder will be pushed infront of the opening to prevent anyone from ever getting inside getting their hands on it, its said that he'll have a curse cast upon that will rain down slow and painful deaths and anyone who enters.

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KingSausage said:

NorthC said:

What???

The password is what.

What's the password?

I've lost hope that any significant collection from the Vault will ever be released.

His stance of not looking back and his now vs then religious beliefs gives me the opinion that Prince is ashamed of much of what his past music had to say. Compare Controversy lyrics with The Gold Standard's. It's like he forgets that it's as much about the journey as it is the goal. imo

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We buy every official release but he's allowing the bootlegger's to kick his...

a good way to 're-purpose' vault tracks would be to do a triple album box set from different eras - one from the 80s (Roadhouse Garden)/90's (The Dawn)/00s (Madrid 2 Chicago) for instance.

basically package 'lesser' stuff with more sort after material.

maybe when he finds some one he can trust to help him..

luvsexy4all said:

maybe when he finds some one he can trust to help him..

Surely you don't mean a shrink.

KingSausage said:

NorthC said:

What???

The password is what.

Exactly.