Susan Rogers on MPR:

MPR: What do you think will happen to all that stuff (in The Vault)?

Susan Rogers: I don't know, but I would hope that someone who - his attorney, maybe, who was in charge of his affairs - will go through and assign that material to other musicians; musicians he worked with, to finish up and release. I would hope that the material from the 80s would get put in the hands of Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman and Bobby Z., the musicians who were part of the original Revolution so we could finish that stuff up the way he liked it, and put it out there.

Yes. Please.

x1000 Would love to see this come full circle with them.

I want whomever or whatever his wishes were.

It wouldn't be the worst idea...

Revolution81 said:

Nope. Just give it to me in whatever state Prince left it in.

Eric was actually in the studio with prince most of the time cause Prince couldn't play horns. So from what I gathered in the MSNBC interview. Alan was constantly around, while Wendy, Lisa or Susan was I don't know doing that weird thing like sleep, or eat.

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JudasLChrist said:

Susan Rogers on MPR:

MPR: What do you think will happen to all that stuff (in The Vault)?

Susan Rogers: I don't know, but I would hope that someone who - his attorney, maybe, who was in charge of his affairs - will go through and assign that material to other musicians; musicians he worked with, to finish up and release. I would hope that the material from the 80s would get put in the hands of Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman and Bobby Z., the musicians who were part of the original Revolution so we could finish that stuff up the way he liked it, and put it out there.

my vote is for Susan Rogers to be involved. She was there, she knows the work.

And I think she has the right idea involving the prominent musisians of the time.

I feel that W+L would treat the material with great care & love.

I liked when George Martin produced the Beatles Anthology releases in the mid-90's. Who better than the guy who recorded the material?

lazycrockett said:

Eric was actually in the studio with prince most of the time cause Prince couldn't play horns. So from what I gathered in the MSNBC interview. Alan was constantly around, while Wendy, Lisa or Susan was I don't doing that weird thing like sleep, or eat.

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Wendy and Lisa co wrote DOZENS of songs that could be included on bonus discs.

chewymusic said:

JudasLChrist said:

Susan Rogers on MPR:

my vote is for Susan Rogers to be involved. She was there, she knows the work.

And I think she has the right idea involving the prominent musisians of the time.

I feel that W+L would treat the material with great care & love.

I liked when George Martin produced the Beatles Anthology releases in the mid-90's. Who better than the guy who recorded the material?

Indeed.

keenly said:

lazycrockett said:

Eric was actually in the studio with prince most of the time cause Prince couldn't play horns. So from what I gathered in the MSNBC interview. Alan was constantly around, while Wendy, Lisa or Susan was I don't doing that weird thing like sleep, or eat.

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Wendy and Lisa co wrote DOZENS of songs that could be included on bonus discs.

I'm just pointing out that Eric was probably there when Prince was being his one man band while creating music. So Eric may have important input on what prince was going for with rough cuts, non mixed songs etc. Im not saying That Wendy, Lisa or Susan should NOT be involved.

From 1978-80 Dez, Andre, Fink, and Bobby should finish songs

From 1981-83 Dez, Mark, Fink Bobby and Lisa

From 1984-86 Wendy, Lisa, Fink, Mark, Eric, and Bobby

From 1987-89 Sheila, Levi, Fink,Eric, and Miko

From 1990-94 Levi. Miko, Michael B.

From 1995-present Various musician from the purple camp

chewymusic said:

my vote is for Susan Rogers to be involved. She was there, she knows the work.

And I think she has the right idea involving the prominent musisians of the time.

I feel that W+L would treat the material with great care & love.

I liked when George Martin produced the Beatles Anthology releases in the mid-90's. Who better than the guy who recorded the material?

Susan Rogers, Questlove, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Wendy and Lisa. That's my shortlist of folks who should be on the board of directors for The Vault.

funksterr said:

joyinrepetition said:

From 1978-80 Dez, Andre, Fink, and Bobby should finish songs

From 1981-83 Dez, Mark, Fink Bobby and Lisa

From 1984-86 Wendy, Lisa, Fink, Mark, Eric, and Bobby

From 1987-89 Sheila, Levi, Fink,Eric, and Miko

From 1990-94 Levi. Miko, Michael B.

From 1995-present Various musician from the purple camp

Like this.

derrick31 said:

Susan Rogers has the right idea and she should definitely be involved too. I have no idea what the hell Sheila is talking about, but I wish she would go back to Oakland and cease talking. [Edited 4/24/16 12:30pm]

Shelia is in a state of grief. Also she's Shelia E. one of the worlds greatest drummers. Let's not be disrespectful.

lazycrockett said:

NorthC said:

funksterr said:

Nope. Just give it to me in whatever state Prince left it in.

Yes, that's the best thing.

Yep, gets my vote too.

funksterr said:

V10LETBLUES said:

funksterr said:

Nope. Just give it to me in whatever state Prince left it in.

Yep I have to agree

Here's the thing. Multi-tracks have to be selected mixed, sequenced and mastered. If things don't get finished, then all there is to give is fragile, degrading 2-inch, multi-track tapes. there's a lot of work to be done.

paulludvig said:

All of these folks are to self-serving. If they get their hands on the material they will make it look like they wrote everything. They have been able to shape the way we think about Prince's career way to much. Have you read Eric Leeds' 'tribute' to Prince. He only talks about himself and his closest friends from that time. Not one word of praise for Prince as a musician.

paulludvig said:

All of these folks are to self-serving. If they get their hands on the material they will make it look like they wrote everything. They have been able to shape the way we think about Prince's career way to much. Have you read Eric Leeds' 'tribute' to Prince. He only talks about himself and his closest friends from that time. Not one word of praise for Prince as a musician.

Can you post? I've not seen it. I've always read between the lines that Eric Leeds was not a fan of Prince personally, but this is surprising.

limoncello said:

paulludvig said:

All of these folks are to self-serving. If they get their hands on the material they will make it look like they wrote everything. They have been able to shape the way we think about Prince's career way to much. Have you read Eric Leeds' 'tribute' to Prince. He only talks about himself and his closest friends from that time. Not one word of praise for Prince as a musician.

Can you post? I've not seen it. I've always read between the lines that Eric Leeds was not a fan of Prince personally, but this is surprising.

Eric had problems getting paid by Prince, and I believe they fought about it. That's what you are probably reading. Also, Prince's forays into Jazz territory were proably not up to Eric's standard. Eric is much more of a heavy hitter in that area than Prince was, but I always understood that Eric respected Prince as a musician.

JudasLChrist said:

limoncello said:

Can you post? I've not seen it. I've always read between the lines that Eric Leeds was not a fan of Prince personally, but this is surprising.

Eric had problems getting paid by Prince, and I believe they fought about it. That's what you are probably reading. Also, Prince's forays into Jazz territory were proably not up to Eric's standard. Eric is much more of a heavy hitter in that area than Prince was, but I always understood that Eric respected Prince as a musician.

I've read many of Eric's interviews in which he said he wasn't a fan of Prince's music. There seemed to be no love lost there, but I'd be surprised if he didn't say anything kind in the aftermath of Prince's death so I'm curious to read this statement.