mushmackalenta said:

It really looks like the Purple Rain reissue has yet again been delayed or cancelled. It was scheduled for early 2017 but there has been no word on it since the inital annoucement. It doesn't show on any release schedules either. It would be nice to get some kind if official statement on the status if this release.

Early 2017 has barely started. Patience.

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laurarichardson said:

IstenSzek said:

early 2017 doesn't mean the first week of january

i figured we'd be hearing something mid february and possibly a release in or around april.

your thread title is very misleading though since there is no official cancellation at all yet.

However it was suppose to be January.

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You're making shit up again.

What is this, today's opportunity to be mean to other org members for no good reason? I can't believe how many people actually seem to take pleasure in trashing others posting here

Y'all ought to be ashamed of yourselves for your piss-poor behavior and seeming inability to be civil to others here. So many keyboard warriors waiting to strike

And here comes the resident scold.

Genesia said:

And here comes the resident scold.

Here's the thing Genesia: I have a problem with people treating others badly for no reason. This type of behavior is why prince.org is spoken of so badly elsewhere, as well as posters here who have said they don't post because people are mean and hateful. I don't like it and I don't have a problem calling it out. I didn't name names because it's pretty clear who those people are and they consistently do this. Sorry if you don't like my honesty but I'm not taking it back

Dibblekins said:

My guess is that it'll be released to coincide with the first anniversary of his death. That would make the most sense from a marketing point of view: WB aren't stupid...

yeah,I would expect this set to be released in April

NowhereMan said:

Yeah, let's be honest... without Prince here, no one's gonna be changing their mind on what will and wont happen. Which is surprisingly quite depressing to think about.

Even though its nice to have that reliability factor, it never feels right without him here.

I worry that new releases will be done by the industry model of every couple of years or so. THAT'S depressing...

laurarichardson said:

However it was suppose to be January. If it was going to be out it would be on the release schudule for this month. It is not and I will not be surprised if we never see it. WB was never really interested in this project they just wanted to put out another greatest hits that no one was interested in buying in the first place. Same stupid company still doing stupid things and now they can't blame Prince anymore.

That's totally untrue, though. No one ever said January 2017. "early" doesn't equate to the first month. Hell, think in terms of school semesters or fiscal quarters and find the "first part of the year" months. Frankly I wouldn't be surprised if they waited until the summer to almost perfectly coincide with the original release months of the single, album, and movie.

It's also untrue that WB wasn't interested. No one ever said that. Prince put it together as part of the AOA/PE distribution deal, and the masters being returned, etc etc. (Discussed until we're all blue in the face.) Yet oddly, WB didn't put out a greatest hits in the past couple of years, they put out his two new albums, and agreed to put out the PR remaster.

Mumio said:

What is this, today's opportunity to be mean to other org members for no good reason? I can't believe how many people actually seem to take pleasure in trashing others posting here

Y'all ought to be ashamed of yourselves for your piss-poor behavior and seeming inability to be civil to others here. So many keyboard warriors waiting to strike

Pot, kettle, black?

Now the thread title has been appropriately punctuated to form a question rather than a statement I'd be inclined to agree, but that's not how it was first posted.

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Genesia said:

DarkKnight1 said:

I feel stupid for having read this BS thread.

I feel that way around here all the time for the last eight months.

Amen.

leecaldon said:

laurarichardson said:

NouveauDance said: --They said early Janaury No one said anything about 2017.

Please post a link where it was said early January.

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I've Googled several ways, and can find *nothing* that says "January 2017" for the Deluxe Purple Rain.

"Early 2017" means anything before the year is half over (ie, before July 1st).

NouveauDance said:

Mumio said:

What is this, today's opportunity to be mean to other org members for no good reason? I can't believe how many people actually seem to take pleasure in trashing others posting here

Y'all ought to be ashamed of yourselves for your piss-poor behavior and seeming inability to be civil to others here. So many keyboard warriors waiting to strike

Pot, kettle, black?

Now the thread title has been appropriately punctuated to form a question rather than a statement I'd be inclined to agree, but that's not how it was first posted.

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Thanks for the clarification since I did not realize that.

However, I do stand by what I said about the behavior here. Calling people out for poor behavior towards others doesn't qualify as behaving badly, no matter how much some want to try to twist things around. And you know as well as I do that this isn't the only org thread this type of thing has happened on.

TrivialPursuit said:

laurarichardson said:

However it was suppose to be January. If it was going to be out it would be on the release schudule for this month. It is not and I will not be surprised if we never see it. WB was never really interested in this project they just wanted to put out another greatest hits that no one was interested in buying in the first place. Same stupid company still doing stupid things and now they can't blame Prince anymore.

That's totally untrue, though. No one ever said January 2017. "early" doesn't equate to the first month. Hell, think in terms of school semesters or fiscal quarters and find the "first part of the year" months. Frankly I wouldn't be surprised if they waited until the summer to almost perfectly coincide with the original release months of the single, album, and movie.

It's also untrue that WB wasn't interested. No one ever said that. Prince put it together as part of the AOA/PE distribution deal, and the masters being returned, etc etc. (Discussed until we're all blue in the face.) Yet oddly, WB didn't put out a greatest hits in the past couple of years, they put out his two new albums, and agreed to put out the PR remaster.

And how can anyone forget P's Twitter response to fans asking about the PR remaster? In so many words, he stated that he would not green light it's release until WB paid proper "licensing fees". To my knowledge, this was one of P's last statements regarding the remaster.

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blacknote said:

And how can anyone forget P's Twitter response to fans asking about the PR remaster? In so many words, he stated that he would not green light it's release until WB paid proper "licensing fees". To my knowledge, this was one of P's last statements regarding the remaster.

Correct. Prince owned his music, so if and when WB puts anything out, they're not licensing it from Prince and paying him to do so (like Dell licensing Windows from Microsoft). They didn't want to pay him what he thought was fair. That's why we heard about it, then it stalled and died. But now, it's back on - just not for January release.

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The third post in this thread (by RODSERLING) mentions the cancellation:

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http://prince.org/msg/7/436939

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He is usually pretty right on the money, isn't he? (Not being sarcastic; serious question)

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PacManPlus said:

Genesia said:

DarkKnight1 said:

I feel stupid for having read this BS thread.

I feel that way around here all the time for the last eight months.

Eight months? I've felt that way since Housequake shut down and I had no toehr place to go but here.

steakfinger said:

Oh for God's sake, relax.

Threads like this and the 'Nothing has leaked since Prince died' threads should be locked and deleted. The forum is an absolute cesspool of either mis-information or stupidity.

bluegangsta said:

Threads like this and the 'Nothing has leaked since Prince died' threads should be locked and deleted. The forum is an absolute cesspool of either mis-information or stupidity.

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laurarichardson said:

bluegangsta said:

Threads like this and the 'Nothing has leaked since Prince died' threads should be locked and deleted. The forum is an absolute cesspool of either mis-information or stupidity.

Then go somewhere else. It is not for you to tell me people what to read or think.

TrivialPursuit said:

laurarichardson said:

However it was suppose to be January. If it was going to be out it would be on the release schudule for this month. It is not and I will not be surprised if we never see it. WB was never really interested in this project they just wanted to put out another greatest hits that no one was interested in buying in the first place. Same stupid company still doing stupid things and now they can't blame Prince anymore.

That's totally untrue, though. No one ever said January 2017. "early" doesn't equate to the first month. Hell, think in terms of school semesters or fiscal quarters and find the "first part of the year" months. Frankly I wouldn't be surprised if they waited until the summer to almost perfectly coincide with the original release months of the single, album, and movie.

It's also untrue that WB wasn't interested. No one ever said that. Prince put it together as part of the AOA/PE distribution deal, and the masters being returned, etc etc. (Discussed until we're all blue in the face.) Yet oddly, WB didn't put out a greatest hits in the past couple of years, they put out his two new albums, and agreed to put out the PR remaster.

If they were interested in the PR remaster it should have come out first instead of the Greatest Hits which by the way did poorly sales wise and would have done poorly if Prince was alive. You simply do not need multiple greatest hits packages.

I guess you also forgot Prince's own tweets about the disagreement over the licensing fee for the remaster. If WB really wanted to put out the remaster they would not have been a disagreement.

WB only put out AOA and did nothing to promote it. They had no involvement in the Hit n Run. At this time we do not have a PR remaster and the best time to put it out was this past Christmas season. I also know that someone in the media or on this board said it would be out in January not that could have been bullshit but that January date was out in the fan community. Screwing around and putting if off is a hugh mistake and putting out on his death anniversitiy would just be fucking tacky.

Of course it has been cancelled.

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Originally due to 2014, according to some insider in the french Schkopi forum at the time, WB wanted it to be a huge release with a lot of promotion à la DIAMONDS AND PEARLS. They wanted Prince to do a new Purple Rain Tour (and at the time, Prince was seeing in the attendance of one of the SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE show).

But as we all know it, Prince never delivered to them the infamous "unheard material" or even if he did, it was deemed not enough worthy. Prince said himself in september 2014 that the new release will be just "the same album".

Without Prince's full involvement and promotion in the release, WB couldn't release it anyway.

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Now that Prince is dead, you'd think that if WB had unreleased tracks given by Prince, they would have already released it. They want this re-edition badly since 2004.

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It was announced last october that PR deluxe will be released in early 2017, then in the first quarter. FunkU magazine said that every quarter of the year, there will be a new re-release, debuting with Purple rain.

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Since nothing has transpired from the project yet (tracklist, packaging, promotion plan), we can assume this has been scrapped for copyright reasons with the estate.

Farfunknugin said:

Seriously worried? LOL

Most likely they'll time it with the Grammy's so they can promote it to a huge audience & maybe tie it to a Prince tribute that's surely to happen.

Grammy is next month, you need a two month pre-order on amazon.

RODSERLING said:

Of course it has been cancelled.

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Originally due to 2014, according to some insider in the french Schkopi forum at the time, WB wanted it to be a huge release with a lot of promotion à la DIAMONDS AND PEARLS. They wanted Prince to do a new Purple Rain Tour (and at the time, Prince was seeing in the attendance of one of the SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE show).

But as we all know it, Prince never delivered to them the infamous "unheard material" or even if he did, it was deemed not enough worthy. Prince said himself in september 2014 that the new release will be just "the same album".

Without Prince's full involvement and promotion in the release, WB couldn't release it anyway.

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Now that Prince is dead, you'd think that if WB had unreleased tracks given by Prince, they would have already released it. They want this re-edition badly since 2004.

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It was announced last october that PR deluxe will be released in early 2017, then in the first quarter. FunkU magazine said that every quarter of the year, there will be a new re-release, debuting with Purple rain.

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Since nothing has transpired from the project yet (tracklist, packaging, promotion plan), we can assume this has been scrapped for copyright reasons with the estate.

Thank you if WB had anything they would have put it out already and I mean anything from PR.

Right now they own nothing and if no deal on this project was sorted out when P was alive they are going to have to deal with the estate. We are not going to see anything any time soon.

The only reason we got the Prince Forever package is that Prince and WB agreeded on that one.

The deal was in place before he passed.

We already have seen artwork for Black is the new Black and we know from Andrian Prince had plans for this project. I do not think he gave one rat's ass about the PR remaster. He was moving on with his Piano and Mic show which was really his greatest hits show.

I really hope the family continues to operate separate from the industry maybe using a label for marketing and distrubution only. I do not think WB will spend the money promoting vault material.

laurarichardson said:

WB only put out AOA and did nothing to promote it.

That's not true. AOA is the first album Prince never promoted, beside the 1 min CLOUDS performance.

He never even bothered to shoot a video for FUNKNROLL.

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WB had to make their own lyrics video on youtube, because Prince never gave to them any promotional material, not even photos. They did what they could with what they had, especially knowing they had to release 2 albums the same day. You can't promote an album without the artist's full involvement, so certainly not two.

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Of course now, we know that P was in a poor health and mental condition at the time. He had other things to do than promoting.

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BartVanHemelen said:

laurarichardson said:

However it was suppose to be January.

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You're making shit up again.

I know what I read and they last time I looked January is in the first quarter. If P and WB had not come to an agreement on this project before he passed we are not going to get it.

Now go find out how U. S probate law functions before you come back here with your made up shit or nothing because whoever has been running their mouth and feeding you info for years can get you the 911 anymore.