I am shocked that they just found a secret room full of videos last week. Prince is known to have had secret rooms and storage places at Paisley Park and is known to have buried timecapsules. There are devices that could have been used to scan the entire building to find these types of things. To think that they just discovered priceless videos is shocking to me and makes me wonder whether they have properly searched and inventoried Paisley Park before opening it to the public.

Good questions.

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As big as that place is...they'll be discovering things a year from now...

I just read an article about Paisley Park on Facebook (I believe shared by Housequake) and Londell stated that everything still needs to be fully inventoried and catalogued.

Would be nice to see some never-before-released videos of songs we already know and love.

I think they're in the process.

And I seriously doubt they're letting the public into any spaces that haven't been fully cleared.

One of my points is really about securing these priceless items. All kinds of construction workers, etc. have now been all through Paisley Park preparing for the opening of the museum. A complete inventory should have been done way before anyone else was allowed in there and all items should have been secured. To find a treasure trove of priceless videos last week really really worries me about the process.

donnyenglish said:

Where, exactly, do you think people will be going on these tours?

Construction workers have been all through Paisley Park? Where are you getting that? (Links, please.) You act as if there are all kinds of unsupervised randos wandering through there. I seriously doubt that's the case.

Genesia said:

rogifan said:

Genesia said:

Where, exactly, do you think people will be going on these tours?

Construction workers have been all through Paisley Park? Where are you getting that? (Links, please.) You act as if there are all kinds of unsupervised randos wandering through there. I seriously doubt that's the case.

Good god people need to lay off the incompetency stuff. There are professionals involved in this. People here make it sound like they're a bunch of hicks who don't have a clue what they're doing just letting random people walk around Paisley Park doing whatever they want.

These professionals didn't find a room full of priceless concert videos until last week. Many months after Bremer supposedly inventoried and secured Paisley Park. Like I said, there is equipment that can be used to make sure that they located any and all storage places and/or valuable items.

donnyenglish said:

One of my points is really about securing these priceless items. All kinds of construction workers, etc. have now been all through Paisley Park preparing for the opening of the museum. A complete inventory should have been done way before anyone else was allowed in there and all items should have been secured. To find a treasure trove of priceless videos last week really really worries me about the process.

I agree

donnyenglish said:

rogifan said:

Genesia said: Good god people need to lay off the incompetency stuff. There are professionals involved in this. People here make it sound like they're a bunch of hicks who don't have a clue what they're doing just letting random people walk around Paisley Park doing whatever they want.

These professionals didn't find a room full of priceless concert videos until last week. Many months after Bremer supposedly inventoried and secured Paisley Park. Like I said, there is equipment that can be used to make sure that they located any and all storage places and/or valuable items.

Who said they had inventoried everything? I don't it was Bremer. Again - sources, please.

Genesia said:

I think they're in the process.

And I seriously doubt they're letting the public into any spaces that haven't been fully cleared.

That's what I'm saying. Let's have some common sense about this. They're not letting people just wander about the building without a guide or roped off areas. Isn't the regular tour about 12 rooms, and the VIP tour adds a few more to the list? I can almost guarantee the vault won't be one of those places, unless it's totally cleared out first.

10,000 sq ft and there has to be some rooms that no one that even attended the Celebrations knew about or saw a door to. The basement to PP was almost the same dimension as the main floor. There were definitely other rooms and areas where stuff was stored. These findings probably won't be the last.

Somewhere there's a blueprint of the main floor and basement of Paisley Park but I can't find it. I remember Sheila talking about the basement and just how big it was.

donnyenglish said:

These professionals didn't find a room full of priceless concert videos until last week. Many months after Bremer supposedly inventoried and secured Paisley Park.

Where did you read that?

Anyone whose interested should listen to Dr Funkenberrys latest podcast which has an interview with Dave Hampton a former audio engineer at Paisley Park. The interview is quite revealing as Dave talks about the "secret room" which he helped to build and according to him was not a secret. He also talks about the restorations and renovations he and his team made to the studios and the studio equipment when he joined Prince's camp and also spills a little tea about the people overseeing Prince's legacy, the inventory of the vault and the opening of PP.

I have never heard of him before and don't know the full extent of his working relationship with Prince but he seems to have Prince's best interests at heart and raised quite a few relevant points in the discussion. It's worth a listen.

donnyenglish said:

Starrdust505 said:

laurarichardson said:

Starrdust505 said:

Anyone whose interested should listen to Dr Funkenberrys latest podcast which has an interview with Dave Hampton a former audio engineer at Paisley Park. The interview is quite revealing as Dave talks about the "secret room" which he helped to build and according to him was not a secret. He also talks about the restorations and renovations he and his team made to the studios and the studio equipment when he joined Prince's camp and also spills a little tea about the people overseeing Prince's legacy, the inventory of the vault and the opening of PP.

I have never heard of him before and don't know the full extent of his working relationship with Prince but he seems to have Prince's best interests at heart and raised quite a few relevant points in the discussion. It's worth a listen.

-/Can you provide the link to the podcast.

http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-dr-funk-podcast/e/46494131?autoplay=true

Genesia said:

donnyenglish said:

These professionals didn't find a room full of priceless concert videos until last week. Many months after Bremer supposedly inventoried and secured Paisley Park. Like I said, there is equipment that can be used to make sure that they located any and all storage places and/or valuable items.

Who said they had inventoried everything? I don't it was Bremer. Again - sources, please.

So, the alternative is that they have not inventoried everything after 5 months which is even more egregious. It is one thing to not inventory every song, video, etc., but it is quite another not to identify potential assets and secure them, i.e., boxes, files, hard drives, tapes, etc. A bunch of videos were identified for the first time just last week. They didn't say that they already had them and discovered what was on them, because that would be understandable given the volume of music/videos that he must have at Paisley. But, not to have identified them until just last week makes me very very uneasy about the way Prince's Paisley Park has been preserved.

Starrdust505 said:

laurarichardson said:

Starrdust505 said: -/Can you provide the link to the podcast.

http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-dr-funk-podcast/e/46494131?autoplay=true

Thanks for the link.

donnyenglish said:

Genesia said:

Who said they had inventoried everything? I don't it was Bremer. Again - sources, please.

So, the alternative is that they have not inventoried everything after 5 months which is even more egregious. It is one thing to not inventory every song, video, etc., but it is quite another not to identify potential assets and secure them, i.e., boxes, files, hard drives, tapes, etc. A bunch of videos were identified for the first time just last week. They didn't say that they already had them and discovered what was on them, because that would be understandable given the volume of music/videos that he must have at Paisley. But, not to have identified them until just last week makes me very very uneasy about the way Prince's Paisley Park has been preserved.

Again - how.do.you.know.they.have.or.haven't.done?!

Done with you and your mindless speculation and trying to whip people into a lather. You know nothing about what's going on there (nor do any of us). You just want to run your mouth and make yourself more important than you are.

TrivialPursuit said:

Genesia said:

I think they're in the process.

And I seriously doubt they're letting the public into any spaces that haven't been fully cleared.

That's what I'm saying. Let's have some common sense about this. They're not letting people just wander about the building without a guide or roped off areas. Isn't the regular tour about 12 rooms, and the VIP tour adds a few more to the list? I can almost guarantee the vault won't be one of those places, unless it's totally cleared out first.

10,000 sq ft and there has to be some rooms that no one that even attended the Celebrations knew about or saw a door to. The basement to PP was almost the same dimension as the main floor. There were definitely other rooms and areas where stuff was stored. These findings probably won't be the last.

Somewhere there's a blueprint of the main floor and basement of Paisley Park but I can't find it. I remember Sheila talking about the basement and just how big it was.

Yes, I read that the basement where the vault is will not be part of the tour and neither will the elevator he passed away in (which is appropriate out of respect). Did I read that in the Rolling Stone article yesterday? I think it was Rolling Stone. I def read it.

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Genesia said:

hollygolightly said:

What if the will is on video? He may have done that

People have said that it wouldn't be legally binding in Minnesota even if he had.

donnyenglish said:

Genesia said:

Again - how.do.you.know.they.have.or.haven't.done?!

Done with you and your mindless speculation and trying to whip people into a lather. You know nothing about what's going on there (nor do any of us). You just want to run your mouth and make yourself more important than you are.

I know they found a bunch of videos five months after his death that they had no clue existed.

No, you don't know that. You know that five months after his death, a magazine wrote an article with a statement from an anonymous source that, in going through Paisley Park, they found a room containing material they didn't know existed. The article didn't say when the stuff was found - you just made that shit up.

Won't quote a source, misquote a source - that's your MO.

TheEnglishGent said:

hollygolightly said:

What if the will is on video? He may have done that

People have said that it wouldn't be legally binding in Minnesota even if he had.

Something like this could be used as a measure of what he wanted to happen after his passing.

But, I did find this:

I think its highly likely that Prince would have a private video collection, which might not have been available to engineers.

Just watch the insatiable video. I'm sure Prince made many videos with his female 'ahem' friends. Maybe Sheila didn't want the vault touched because they could be some very embarrasing video in there.

Everybody has secrets, and I bet Prince had plenty.

hollygolightly said:

What if the will is on video? He may have done that

I always thought he may have recorded it in song - so it may very well appear when they're going through the vault

jstar69 said:

hollygolightly said:

What if the will is on video? He may have done that

I always thought he may have recorded it in song - so it may very well appear when they're going through the vault

'Will Go Crazy"?

If U can't find it,

In the house I lived in,

Take a Look around ya,

At least U got tapes.

U can call my ex lady,

Or U can find my pills,

Lawyer picks up the phone,

Dropped it on the floor,

Arrh, Arrh, where's the will?

Are we gonna let that elevator

Take us down,

No pro bono!

Will go Crazy,

Will go nuts,

Look in the bottom of the dove cage,

B'fore they put it in a truck, Go Go!