alandail said:

BartVanHemelen said:

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Neither of those events are recent and none of them are due to things he's done post-1980s.

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Know what is recent? Him not finding a distributor for his latest masterpieces. Him selling a couple thousand copies of a shite album.

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I guarantee you: Prince is making a fraction of what he would be making if he had followed the advice of plenty of his fans. Bowie's fortune is estimated at $100 million, I guarantee you Prince is nowhere near that and to a large degree that's due to his idiotic business decisions.

Prince's fortune is estimated at $300 million.

And counting...........

Wondering now. Since he's releasing all these individual songs from the gig...and he already stated they would be available to stream next week...can we deduce that the entire gig may be what's released to stream next week? One can only hope, right?

ThirdStrike said:

His singing is amazing but he continues to fuddle around on piano. Play the fucking thing.

2freaky4church1 said:

His singing is amazing but he continues to fuddle around on piano. Play the fucking thing.

' singing on this new tour is PHENOMENAL! It's actually showcasing his unaffected,flawless vocal range more than his eclectic piano chords. Since it's no other instruments drowning it out.

It's really NOTHING he can't do.

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BartVanHemelen said:

laurarichardson said:

BartVanHemelen said:

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If my aunt had doors she'd be a closet.

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Remind me: how many did AOA sell? And who didn't promote said album after bitching about it for weeks?

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He just sold out a 20k arena with crazy high prices just playing the piano. Who cares about how many people are looking at a video or listening without paying for anything. YouTube views are not a measure of popularity having people actually pull money out of their pockets is a better measure.

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Oh please, those are cheap techniques: create scarcity, feed the "event" culture,...

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Let's see him release an album, properly promote it, tour it (and actually tour it, i.e. playing the songs from that album). But he doesn't do that, now does he? Why not? Oh lemme see, because he can't find a sucker who'll fund such an enterprise because he's burned so many bridges before?

On the other hand, you've been acting like Prince is on the verge of oblivion for nearly 20 years, and here he is, still getting rave reviews and filling venues while you rant on.

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

alandail said:

Prince's fortune is estimated at $300 million.

And counting...........

And WHEN was most of that made?

bluegangsta said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

And counting...........

And WHEN was most of that made?

According to the website around $143.9 million was made in the years 2004 and 2006 through touring.http://www.therichest.co...rnings1996

jayspud said:

bluegangsta said:

And WHEN was most of that made?

According to the website around $143.9 million was made in the years 2004 and 2006 through touring.http://www.therichest.co...rnings1996

Well the Musicology tour was the highest grossing tour by ANY artist that year 2004. Making almost 90 million!! No wonder Kirky J has never left his side @ Paisley Park! Because can afford to keep him there as Paisley Park site manager,Drummer,Bodyguard,producer,Band member etc.Don't hate! Which gives him the luxury of doing only HitnRun spot dates the rest of his life of his choosing. .

Wow! made 5 MILLION from just the Coachella performance alone!!!

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KCOOLMUZIQ said:

jayspud said:

According to the website around $143.9 million was made in the years 2004 and 2006 through touring.http://www.therichest.co...rnings1996

Well the Musicology tour was the highest grossing tour by ANY artist that year 2004. Making almost 90 million!! No wonder Kirky J has never left his side @ Paisley Park! Which gives him the luxury of doing only HitnRun spot dates the rest of his life of his choosing. Don't hate..

Wow! made 5 MILLION from just the Coachella performance alone!!!

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Wow, that´s not a very nice thing to say about Kirk Johnson.

So are you trying to say Kirk is there because Prince is rich? And Kirk is basically a hanger-on, a male gold digger?

You usually never badmouth people from Prince´s camp, so I wonder what made you say this about him?

I for one am always happy to see certain people, such as Kirk Johnson, being there for Prince for such a long time, and in so many different functions. The same goes for people like Morris Hayes and other former band members and associates. And they´re usually nothing but friendly when fans speak with them or ask them something.

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KoolEaze said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Well the Musicology tour was the highest grossing tour by ANY artist that year 2004. Making almost 90 million!! No wonder Kirky J has never left his side @ Paisley Park! Which gives him the luxury of doing only HitnRun spot dates the rest of his life of his choosing. Don't hate..

Wow! made 5 MILLION from just the Coachella performance alone!!!

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Wow, that´s not a very nice thing to say about Kirk Johnson.

So are you trying to say Kirk is there because Prince is rich? And Kirk is basically a hanger-on, a male gold digger?

You usually never badmouth people from Prince´s camp, so I wonder what made you say this about him?

I for one am always happy to see certain people, such as Kirk Johnson, being there for Prince for such a long time, and in so many different functions. The same goes for people like Morris Hayes and other former band members and associates. And they´re usually nothing but friendly when fans speak with them or ask them something.

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Eye wasn't bad mouthing Kirk! What I meant is can keep Kirk in employment for decades. Because he can afford to! I would NEVER bad mouth Kirk or anyone still employed by .

Don't twist that into a negative. Because I'm a positive person.

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Great rendition!

Happy to pay a penny for it!

Prost!

P.S. why isn't the "Little Red Corvette/Dirty Mind" D/L a stinky?

nayroo2002 said:

OK then.

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

KoolEaze said:

Wow, that´s not a very nice thing to say about Kirk Johnson.

So are you trying to say Kirk is there because Prince is rich? And Kirk is basically a hanger-on, a male gold digger?

You usually never badmouth people from Prince´s camp, so I wonder what made you say this about him?

I for one am always happy to see certain people, such as Kirk Johnson, being there for Prince for such a long time, and in so many different functions. The same goes for people like Morris Hayes and other former band members and associates. And they´re usually nothing but friendly when fans speak with them or ask them something.

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Eye wasn't bad mouthing Kirk! What I meant is can keep Kirk in employment for decades. Because he can afford to! I would NEVER bad mouth Kirk or anyone still employed by .

Don't twist that into a negative. Because I'm a positive person.

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KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Oh please! Why would I even try to bad mouth Kirk? What would be the point of it? Eye'm happy has someone that has his back.

Nice to have the recording...guess it always means that little bit more when you have a 'momento' of the show u attended. Like anyone who can listen to audio of a show they were at...u relive the excitement of the moment all over again. Hearing the Tidal recording...I see Prince in the Opera House as vivid as the night he performed it. He's shared Love Thy Will Be Done, LRC/DM & now Joy...could be leading to an offical full show release?

batman89 said:

Nice to have the recording...guess it always means that little bit more when you have a 'momento' of the show u attended. Like anyone who can listen to audio of a show they were at...u relive the excitement of the moment all over again. Hearing the Tidal recording...I see Prince in the Opera House as vivid as the night he performed it. He's shared Love Thy Will Be Done, LRC/DM & now Joy...could be leading to an offical full show release?

When did he share Love Thy Will Be Done? Can't see it on Tidal.

It's really kinda pointless given that the bootlegs are that much worse quality than this.

RaspBerryGirlFriend said:

BobGeorge909 said:

RaspBerryGirlFriend said:

When did he share Love Thy Will Be Done? Can't see it on Tidal.

I wasn't thru Tidal...in was on Instagram or YouTube or summin....lemme go check princetagram...

Yes it was on Youtube, and only a 30 second snippet. I think Nik West originally shared it

bluegangsta said:

laurarichardson said:

bluegangsta said:

It's really kinda pointless given that the bootlegs are that much worse quality than this.

--/ Nothing is wrong with the sound. The boots I heard sound like someone recorded the show with the phone in their pocket. I wish people would just be honest and admit they really have no interest in paying for legit releases.

I paid for both of these (admittedly MP3 but I've never been able to tell the difference between lossy and lossless so I don't care too much) and yet I definitely think the sound quality of Joy In Repetition could have been better, yeah it sounded better than a bootleg but that's pretty much a given, and for an official soundboard release it could have been better. To be fair Dirty Mind/LRC did seem improved.

Anyway hope that Prince will give us a full concert to download (which I would gladly pay) instead of just these isolated tracks.

alandail said:

why is it always so difficult to get Prince music. I actually have a Tidal account butg cant' stream the song. So I go to buy it and instead of using my credit card info on file, I apparently have to put it all in again.

And unlike every other site in the world, Tidal has a message that they can't make the download work with Safari and have to instead email me a link that I have to use with another browser?

It's way too much trouble to just buy one song. I'll just wait a few days and see if it shows up in iTunes.

Not Sure whats going on with everyone that is having all these problems. I streamed the the songs last night, liked them so I bought the mp3 versions. I have had a Tidal subscription since it started, tried the free trial for a month and never looked back. It has been a fine service so far, and Prince coming on board just turned out to be gravy for me. I notice that most of the people making negative comments are people who do not actually use the service (in fact, most brag about the fact that they never will/would). I just don't get the negativity around it (some people just hate streaming as a concept? Hate Jay-Z? Hate paying for music?).

Not sure but I'm fairly positive I've heard this song before.

laurarichardson said:

bluegangsta said:

It's really kinda pointless given that the bootlegs are that much worse quality than this.

--/ Nothing is wrong with the sound. The boots I heard sound like someone recorded the show with the phone in their pocket. I wish people would just be honest and admit they really have no interest in paying for legit releases.

I didn't say anything was wrong with the sound. And your lack of good sources doesn't discredit my statement.

jayspud said:

BartVanHemelen said:

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Neither of those events are recent and none of them are due to things he's done post-1980s.

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Know what is recent? Him not finding a distributor for his latest masterpieces. Him selling a couple thousand copies of a shite album.

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I guarantee you: Prince is making a fraction of what he would be making if he had followed the advice of plenty of his fans. Bowie's fortune is estimated at $100 million, I guarantee you Prince is nowhere near that and to a large degree that's due to his idiotic business decisions.

Where to begin. Please take a seat, this may change everything for you and relieve a great deal of the concern you appear to be having for Prince's financial situation. Prince is a Multi-Millionaire. A Multi-Millionaire.

The very fact that he could have made more money but is choosing to something else is actually a compliment. Prince has had very little true financial concerns since he was about 20. I genuinely don't know what you think is going to happen. Prince on welfare? Prince Homeless? I love how you take the Bowie estimated figure but ignore Prince's estimated figure which is $300Million http://www.therichest.com...net-worth/

This may come as a shock to you but Prince is in charge of his own business. He could have decided in 1993 not to release another song. Prince has high levels of control over his business, does what he loves is wealthy and celebrated. One Private party could pull in millions. It's all fine. Really.

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Oh look, there's that bullshit website again.

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Meanwhile the fact is that in the mid-1990s the Star Tribune had a multi-article special about Prince being in financial trouble. Which wasn't the first time, we know for instance that he was also in trouble in 1989. Oh, and since then we've had numerous articles about Prince not paying his bills or his taxes.

BartVanHemelen said:

jayspud said:

Where to begin. Please take a seat, this may change everything for you and relieve a great deal of the concern you appear to be having for Prince's financial situation. Prince is a Multi-Millionaire. A Multi-Millionaire.

The very fact that he could have made more money but is choosing to something else is actually a compliment. Prince has had very little true financial concerns since he was about 20. I genuinely don't know what you think is going to happen. Prince on welfare? Prince Homeless? I love how you take the Bowie estimated figure but ignore Prince's estimated figure which is $300Million http://www.therichest.com...net-worth/

This may come as a shock to you but Prince is in charge of his own business. He could have decided in 1993 not to release another song. Prince has high levels of control over his business, does what he loves is wealthy and celebrated. One Private party could pull in millions. It's all fine. Really.

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Oh look, there's that bullshit website again.

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Meanwhile the fact is that in the mid-1990s the Star Tribune had a multi-article special about Prince being in financial trouble. Which wasn't the first time, we know for instance that he was also in trouble in 1989. Oh, and since then we've had numerous articles about Prince not paying his bills or his taxes.

I feel like I am having a Camille moment here.

" Forbes magazine estimated that his various holdings earned $20 million in pretax profit in 1989. "

http://www.nytimes.com/19...etown.html

Paying bills late and taxes also are often a standard practice for a lot of Companies. I have worked for big companies who only pay when they are chased, it does not mean the fundamentals are in any difficultly. I genuinely don't understand how else it can be phrased - Prince is successful. Artistically. Financially. Creatively. He..just..is.