rdhull said:

What was the 1999 going to have?

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Not enough.

(look at PR 'deluxe')

udo said:

rdhull said:

What was the 1999 going to have?

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Not enough.

(look at PR 'deluxe')

Wrong >A lot of things....WB&The Prince Estate can investigating now the Full Vault in L.A !!

love2thenines2003 said:

udo said:

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Not enough.

(look at PR 'deluxe')

Wrong >A lot of things....WB&The Prince Estate can investigating now the Full Vault in L.A !!

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'A lot of things' result into this piano & a microphone 1983' thingie.

Can't they at least present us some completely unheard stuff or at least a different version of a known song?

udo said:

Silvertongue7 said:

udo said:

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'A lot of things' result into this piano & a microphone 1983' thingie.

Can't they at least present us some completely unheard stuff or at least a different version of a known song?

It is absolutely mind blowing that out of a vault with hundreds of unreleased songs and live recordings they’ve gone for this... it would have been perfect as a fifth disc in Purple Rain, but as a solo release... can’t wait for it to be out and forgotten, see what they can come up with next...

URe right....i would have prefered by far a 1999 DEluxe Edition

IstenSzek said:

i keep forgetting about this release my excitement level for is it about 14%.

if it wasn't for this thread i'd have forgotten all about it by now

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They announce a new album in April for release in September, then take a months and a half to release the details, and then it's still three months before it's released? And all that for a 30 minute shoddily recorded "rehearsal"?

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In an era where new albums get released out of nowhere?

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This should have been a surprise teaser for an upcoming deluxe set. Instead it is the "major" Prince release for the holidays, and we'll likely get nothing new from Warners until next year.

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Ridiculous.

The real sad and ridiculous truth is that until HitnRun3 comes out next year (if it comes out at all), the best posthumous Prince release will still be 'Deliverance'.
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Of course it was absolutely illegal and Boxhill's claims were outrageous; he even had the nerve to add tracks to Prince's original recording, and it was really only 2 songs, but still: we got 2 new songs in high quality. Warners and the Estate, on the other hand, continue to give us cassette-sourced material with poor sound quality.
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BartVanHemelen said:

IstenSzek said:

i keep forgetting about this release my excitement level for is it about 14%.

if it wasn't for this thread i'd have forgotten all about it by now

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They announce a new album in April for release in September, then take a months and a half to release the details, and then it's still three months before it's released? And all that for a 30 minute shoddily recorded "rehearsal"?

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In an era where new albums get released out of nowhere?

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This should have been a surprise teaser for an upcoming deluxe set. Instead it is the "major" Prince release for the holidays, and we'll likely get nothing new from Warners until next year.

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Ridiculous.

i'm surprised that, eventhought the industry has changed so much and the top level people have
been replaced a dozen times or so since the mid 90s, the one thing that seems to remain exactly
the same at WB is that they will release 1 album a year or per 18 months and stick to announcing
and releasing it pretty much the way they did back then. it's insanity in this day and age. oh well.

SchlomoThaHomo said:

has anyone heard any "excitement" from non-fans?? anyone else showing interest to buy this ???

luvsexy4all said:

has anyone heard any "excitement" from non-fans?? anyone else showing interest to buy this ???

my mom usually picks up on every little detail about prince in the media,
be it on tv, the radio or in magazines and newspapers.

she'll always tell me 'the latest news' which i've already read about on the
org. so things like a new release is something she will usually cut out of a
newspaper or magazine for me. (she's not a big fan herself)

haven't heard a peep out of her about this new release though. neither did
the few friends i know that still read music magazines tell me anything in
regards to this release.

so i don't think it's shown up in many places yet.

it'll probably make a little splash and end op grabbing a few columns when
it's released though. but it'll be forgotten about just as fast.

So, to confirm. The "mind blowing" new WB Vault release is this piano rehearsal?

[Edited 6/27/18 6:10am]

goosepumble said:

So, to confirm. The "mind blowing" new WB Vault release is this piano rehearsal?

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Whatever they describe as `mindblowing` is their opinion only, not a fact until we agree.

Same company did not even know in what shape the PR remaster would be released when Rolling Stone wrote about that upcoming release. So they lied.

Same company did not produce any strategy in recent years w.r.t. releasing Prince other than the one release per year thing.

So please do not hold your breath for WB's releases.

luvsexy4all said:

has anyone heard any "excitement" from non-fans?? anyone else showing interest to buy this ???

Why would there be when fans aren't bothered about it?

goosepumble said:

So, to confirm. The "mind blowing" new WB Vault release is this piano rehearsal?

[Edited 6/27/18 6:10am]

i hope they have people who professionally clean the vaults at iron mountain
because there are going to be some dead and decomposing bodies in there
when they start listening to the 85-86-87 tapes.

i mean, if THIS rehearsal blew their minds and all

BartVanHemelen said:

jdcxc said:

You now complain about the handling of this release. Is it WB’s fault? The Estate? Or is it Prince’s fault?

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It is pervasive incompetence.

jdcxc said:

You blamed Prince for the entire WB dispute. You were an apologist for big music business and the practices of music labels.

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No I wasn't. I merely pointed out that Warners treated Prince the same or far better as just about any other artist. And that Prince applied similar treatment to Margie Cox and others.

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You now complain about the handling of this release. Is it WB’s fault? The Estate? Or is it Prince’s fault?

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Plenty of blame to go around. Prince first and foremost, for failing to curate his back catalogue properly. Warners deserves some of the blame for failing to properly prepare for the likes of PR Deluxe -- but then again what sane company would invest in the proper digitisation of the 1984 live video when chances of it getting released were slim? (And yes, that's even after the May 2014 deal, because I wouldn't be surprised that they figured out pretty fast that the expanded edition of Purple Rain wasn't going to come soon, despite it being part of that deal.)

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For this particular release Warners deserves scorn. What they announced in June doesn't gel with what they promised in April, and the whole release is frankly underwhelming.

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It's too bad all involved parties aren't more open about what's really happening, and instead hype up this release.

If it's not broke! Why change the name!

Coincidently I received a link to some 1984-2-7 piano (with no mic?) rehearsals.

Those might be betterfor us to be released in place of the 1983 stuff?

MIRvmn said:

I'm a bit worried that it will continue like this with future releases, only one album every year. There's approximately 50-60 unreleased finished albums in the vaults and I doubt many of them will ever see the light of day during my lifetime but why the estate and Warner didn't pick one of these instead of this mediocre rehearsal is beyond me. [Edited 7/10/18 2:33am]

Because that seamingly know nothing Spotify guy who oversees things at The Estate thought it was 'special' enough for us to hear and it made him weep.

MIRvmn said:

I'm a bit worried that it will continue like this with future releases, only one album every year. There's approximately 50-60 unreleased finished albums in the vaults and I doubt many of them will ever see the light of day during my lifetime but why the estate and Warner didn't pick one of these instead of this mediocre rehearsal is beyond me. [Edited 7/10/18 2:33am]

50/60 unreleased albums....humm....where are the prooves ?

JorisE73 said:

is it possible things arent labeled as efficiently as we would like ?? they simply cant find that easily the 50-60 albums

love2thenines2003 said:

love2thenines2003 said:

MIRvmn said:

I'm a bit worried that it will continue like this with future releases, only one album every year. . [Edited 7/10/18 2:33am]

Be glad if we even get that.