One has to wonder who is left behind to take care of the great mans estate and legacy.

Let's hope they have the good sense to finally give his fans what they have always wanted in regards to his back catalog availability and to start trickling out his vault recordings.

Let's hope it is managed with respect and love.

Does anyone know or want to speculate on who he would have left it all to?

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I'm very worried he has no in place. i hope someone in the know can be in charge of it. his music can keep coming out FOREVER........... i vote for alan leeds. that would be awesome.

It seems a little soon to think of such things as we are all still in such pain. But I respect the question as I'm sure we will all wonder this in time.

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If I could have one wish - if not too selfish at this time - that would be I hope we get to hear the proposed new live album that was just announced on social media.

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If this was Prince's last wish then it should happen as a special tribute to such a special man who has touch all of our lives.

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Even though it's a small thing, somebody is doing something, because some of the tracks that were deleted from Tidal earlier are back up now (Free Urself, IECGYA, the 2 live piano tracks).

Better call it ' his legacy '

thousands songs, albums, video's and concerts and

a trillion memories 2 all ... paisley park & the vault

I dont want to see someone else making decisions on his work. Whoever ends up in charge will be cashing in. And when cashing in, the moves will be based on money. I dont want to see the market flpoded withnon descript unfinished stuff thrown together from the vault, endless and pointless greatest hits repackages and box sets, and - the worst - a release where they get other artists and producers to work them over so they can call it the new Prince project. We have seen all of these things happen with Michael Jackson, Jimi Hendrix and even Rick James.

Prince blessed us will enough. There is so much already out there that he did the way he wanted it. A a fan who bought the first album when it was released in the 70s, have remained devoted and I ahve everything in my collection. I built it across these 4 decades because I knew this day would come and I wanted to make sure I never had to live without Prince. The sad thing is that legends nevver get to remain who they were in death. We make them something else over time - distorted and altered to fit other purposes and agendas.

darkroman said:

If I could have one wish - if not too selfish at this time - that would be I hope we get to hear the proposed new live album that was just announced on social media.

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If this was Prince's last wish then it should happen as a special tribute to such a special man who has touch all of our lives.

As little interest as I have had in that project, I have to agree.

Won't Tyka be in control? I hope so.

If i'm honest i can't see his current team of advisors having much of a clue. Tyka, as family, will think of his legacy above any personal ego / power moves.

I wondered too but feels too soon

FUNKYNESS said:

I dont want to see someone else making decisions on his work. Whoever ends up in charge will be cashing in. And when cashing in, the moves will be based on money. I dont want to see the market flpoded withnon descript unfinished stuff thrown together from the vault, endless and pointless greatest hits repackages and box sets, and - the worst - a release where they get other artists and producers to work them over so they can call it the new Prince project. We have seen all of these things happen with Michael Jackson, Jimi Hendrix and even Rick James.

Prince blessed us will enough. There is so much already out there that he did the way he wanted it. A a fan who bought the first album when it was released in the 70s, have remained devoted and I ahve everything in my collection. I built it across these 4 decades because I knew this day would come and I wanted to make sure I never had to live without Prince. The sad thing is that legends nevver get to remain who they were in death. We make them something else over time - distorted and altered to fit other purposes and agendas.

^^^this

NME01 said:

Won't Tyka be in control? I hope so.

If i'm honest i can't see his current team of advisors having much of a clue. Tyka, as family, will think of his legacy above any personal ego / power moves.

Judging from her past actions (e.g., the "Inside Edition" fiasco from the 1980s, among others), that is one of the more worrisome prospects, given her checkered past (see http://prince.org/msg/7/152307?pr and http://www.iloveoldschool...xplains/).

She may be family, but it's foolish not to recognize that family have their own motivations.

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njemelbourne said:

One has to wonder who is left behind to take care of the great mans estate and legacy.

Let's hope they have the good sense to finally give his fans what they have always wanted in regards to his back catalog availability and to start trickling out his vault recordings.

Let's hope it is managed with respect and love.

Does anyone know or want to speculate on who he would have left it all to?

[Edited 4/22/16 1:51am]

One never knows, but it would be hard to imagine that his attorneys did not set up his estate many years ago, and would have reviewed it more recently, once he obtained ownership of his master recordings.

Imagine if the church got it? oh no.

More than likely Tyka would get it. Hope not Warners. Is his brother still alive?

It would of course be nice if music we've never heard (studio recordings and his private copies of concert soundboards) are sold in some manner, but at this point, I really just hope that his estate, whoever runs it, lets go of the effort to stop the free distribution of material already in circulation. Prince's legacy as a GOAT doesn't require unreleased material to come out, it just requires the existing music circulating to come out of the shadows the way it has for other artists.

The first thing his estate should do is to tell Kaye Scholer to stand down. It's time to stop fighting the fans.

Prince really did seem to be concerned with his musical legacy by such things as "The Dawn" and the infamous vault. Hopefully he will have left a last will and testament making clear his wishes and making financial provision for preservation, storage and transfer.

FUNKYNESS said:

I dont want to see someone else making decisions on his work. Whoever ends up in charge will be cashing in. And when cashing in, the moves will be based on money. I dont want to see the market flpoded withnon descript unfinished stuff thrown together from the vault, endless and pointless greatest hits repackages and box sets, and - the worst - a release where they get other artists and producers to work them over so they can call it the new Prince project. We have seen all of these things happen with Michael Jackson, Jimi Hendrix and even Rick James.

Prince blessed us will enough. There is so much already out there that he did the way he wanted it. A a fan who bought the first album when it was released in the 70s, have remained devoted and I ahve everything in my collection. I built it across these 4 decades because I knew this day would come and I wanted to make sure I never had to live without Prince. The sad thing is that legends nevver get to remain who they were in death. We make them something else over time - distorted and altered to fit other purposes and agendas.

Good post.

The current situation was always likely to arise, as, by recent years, it looked unlikely he would ever remarry or have any further children; (I also wonder how many true friends he had, but that's another matter ) so it's to be hoped that P and his legal team had made proper preparations 'in the event of' ...

Hopefully Paisley was/ is being properly secured, to prevent any recordings or indeed personal items being brought out by unauthorised parties, though exactly who is now in control (if anyone) of his property and affairs at this stage is unclear and very probably will be decided in court in due course.

Agreed, just look at the musical and legal hell Hendrix's unfinished/ unreleased recordings went through for 30 years. That makes the controversies re. MJ's unreleased work look like a walk in the park.

One presumes Tyka would be the obvious 'inheritor' of the estate or at least his wealth, though how close was he to his family in recent years? What's in his will?

To speculate, could the unreleased catalogue end up being sold or licensed to Warners??

It's very likely that he would be horrified at the thought of other people tinkering with or, even worse, adding further instrumentation to his unfinished tracks after his demise. Though I guess this is likely to happen sooner or later on any posthumous albums, if only to make them sound 'more modern' or 'commercial'.

I sincerely hope P didn't have it written into his will that his unreleased work never be released in any form, or even worse, destroyed. My guess is, on balance, he wouldn't do that to his fans and he left the question unresolved.

Mind you, from the outside looking in, like many people, facing one's own mortality wasn't a subject he liked to deal with, so who knows? And at his relatively young age in modern terms, I guess he wasn't planning on going anywhere anytime soon ...

As some other orgers have said, it is all so very sad and doesn't really matter at the moment . We have just unexpectedly lost our best musical friend, so now is the time to mourn and reflect. Let the future look after itself, life has a nasty habit of moving on ...

And remember, though the man has left this world, the music and the myth will live forever .

OF course there are the rumors that Prince's order upon his passing is to have everything in the vault destroyed. This would suck, but, would it really be surprising if this were true? It would give him the ultimate final control of his music.

I do notice the usual banned videos are available. I'd guess the vault would be out in a few years.

leadline said:

OF course there are the rumors that Prince's order upon his passing is to have everything in the vault destroyed. This would suck, but, would it really be surprising if this were true? It would give him the ultimate final control of his music.

Let's pray that it's just a rumor.

I don't know any details of his plans, but I used to work for the company that handled his investments and estate planning. Based on what I know about how we serviced the entire spectrum of a wealthy person's interests, I am very sure that Prince had a solid plan in place. What that plan is, I have no idea. But I very highly doubt that he was unprepared when he left us.

Makes you wonder if there was a run on the vault at Paisley when he passed, like when MJ died and his hard drives went missing. Stranger things have happened.

The Rolling Stone interview excerpt gives me hope that it won't all be destroyed.

RodeoSchro said:

I don't know any details of his plans, but I used to work for the company that handled his investments and estate planning. Based on what I know about how we serviced the entire spectrum of a wealthy person's interests, I am very sure that Prince had a solid plan in place. What that plan is, I have no idea. But I very highly doubt that he was unprepared when he left us.

Yes, I agree. It's more than likely that he had his affairs in order.

Hope in good hands.

darkroman said:

It seems a little soon to think of such things as we are all still in such pain. But I respect the question as I'm sure we will all wonder this in time.

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If I could have one wish - if not too selfish at this time - that would be I hope we get to hear the proposed new live album that was just announced on social media.

.

If this was Prince's last wish then it should happen as a special tribute to such a special man who has touch all of our lives.

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I agree that it's too soon, though we are all wondering, but there is no way to know before a statement is issued. This immense catalogue of unreleased music is something we all wish to hear eventually, even if for me it'll never replace the music yet to come it's still a magnificent legacy, one that will be treated with the respect it deserves I hope. I just wish Prince had been the man to compile the outtakes album, it's not just the same if he's not.

I had the same thought regarding the Atlanta live album. Prince probably would have changed his mind as always but now, releasing those 2 shows seems more essential than anything else. It was, indeed, his last wish.

Logic would say it's Kirk Johnson.

If that's true, i hope he seeks out Alan Leeds and ?love for support and conultation.