What's to stop the selling of the vault's multi-track tapes to producers / artists / record labels for them to homoginise for future music releases?

No one has heard everything that's in the vault, have they?

And those who have contributed toward the vault (e.g. Revolution, Susan Rogers, etc), that might be able to identify material, won't be around forever.

Sorry for the negativity. Had a dream the other night that spurred this question.

P.S.

Can I post a Prince song if I sequenced it? For playing along to, I mean. No singing, just drums, bass and synths / keys.

Thanx.

use the search box.

look at the stickies.

In short, USE THE SITE'S FEATURES FIRST before posting.

A member for 10 years and this is your first post?

Wow. The only reason I joined was to post...why else would you do it?

Oh, and no. The so-called "vault materials" are not safe from being sold, tinkered with, remixed, used by others as the basis for their own work--if the people who own the rights choose to do any of those things, they have the freedom to do them. And yep, the people involved in the recordings will die--so will we. And we're not going to hear everything in the vault.

But I've honestly not listened to everything on this hard drive sitting in front of me (I can't even see the end of that road from where I'm standing), so while I hope the vault materials come out in a relatively "untouched" way--if it doesn't happen, it's not worth losing sleep over.

TrivialPursuit said:

use the search box.

look at the stickies.

In short, USE THE SITE'S FEATURES FIRST before posting.

[Play nice snip - luv4u]

EddieC said:

A member for 10 years and this is your first post?

Wow. The only reason I joined was to post...why else would you do it?

Oh, and no. The so-called "vault materials" are not safe from being sold, tinkered with, remixed, used by others as the basis for their own work--if the people who own the rights choose to do any of those things, they have the freedom to do them. And yep, the people involved in the recordings will die--so will we. And we're not going to hear everything in the vault.

But I've honestly not listened to everything on this hard drive sitting in front of me (I can't even see the end of that road from where I'm standing), so while I hope the vault materials come out in a relatively "untouched" way--if it doesn't happen, it's not worth losing sleep over.

galaxyhigh said:

What's to stop the selling of the vault's multi-track tapes to producers / artists / record labels for them to homoginise for future music releases?

No one has heard everything that's in the vault, have they?

And those who have contributed toward the vault (e.g. Revolution, Susan Rogers, etc), that might be able to identify material, won't be around forever.

Sorry for the negativity. Had a dream the other night that spurred this question.

P.S.

Can I post a Prince song if I sequenced it? For playing along to, I mean. No singing, just drums, bass and synths / keys.

Thanx.

See http://prince.org/msg/7/450018

Right now the vault is friggin useless! Songs / Videos etc being cleaned up & organised for up to 3 years thus far yet land-locked in complex legal fuckery for ever.

Thanx for the replies. I was thinking that something like that sampler CD set might end up getting released. Or multi-track tapes getting stripped down and sold off.

They way this world works; it wouldn't surprise me.

@EddieC

I think I was gonna post once and it might have already been answered / someone beat me to it or I got scared off by seeing feedback. It's hard crowd to please on here.

@luv4u

Thanx, I'll have a read through.

@PURPLEIZED3121

Corporations knackering everything, like they always do. If only we had co-operation rather than corporation.

The contents of the vault are safer now than at Paisely Park.

steakfinger said:

The contents of the vault are safer now than at Paisely Park.

Exactly.
They are under rigid security, being cleaned up and preserved. At some point, the original containers (empty) can be returned to Paisley.

Whatever material that is inside the vauly. Someone will protect all the contebts in it.

42Kristen said:

steakfinger said:

The contents of the vault are safer now than at Paisely Park.

TheEquilizer said:

steakfinger said:

The contents of the vault are safer now than at Paisely Park.

I agree. They are safer

They are inside a mountain right? I would think inside a mountain is probably safer than inside paisley park, I mean the inside of a mountain could withstand armageddon right? Perhaps Prince's music will be the ONLY thing left after we destroy ourselves......waiting patiently for humanity ro rebuld itself and eventually find this goldmine of music thousands of years later.

galaxyhigh said:

What's to stop the selling of the vault's multi-track tapes to producers / artists / record labels for them to homoginise for future music releases?

No one has heard everything that's in the vault, have they?

And those who have contributed toward the vault (e.g. Revolution, Susan Rogers, etc), that might be able to identify material, won't be around forever.

Sorry for the negativity. Had a dream the other night that spurred this question.

P.S.

Can I post a Prince song if I sequenced it? For playing along to, I mean. No singing, just drums, bass and synths / keys.

Thanx.

Too late, some of the WB songs are already out in stems form. I bought Let's Go Crazy multitracks a few years ago. I saw the newer files with my own eyes. Money talks
Somebody will try to monetize them at some point. It happened with the MJ vault stuff already.

dongato said:

galaxyhigh said:

What's to stop the selling of the vault's multi-track tapes to producers / artists / record labels for them to homoginise for future music releases?

No one has heard everything that's in the vault, have they?

And those who have contributed toward the vault (e.g. Revolution, Susan Rogers, etc), that might be able to identify material, won't be around forever.

Sorry for the negativity. Had a dream the other night that spurred this question.

P.S.

Can I post a Prince song if I sequenced it? For playing along to, I mean. No singing, just drums, bass and synths / keys.

Thanx.

Too late, some of the WB songs are already out in stems form. I bought Let's Go Crazy multitracks a few years ago. I saw the newer files with my own eyes. Money talks
Somebody will try to monetize them at some point. It happened with the MJ vault stuff already.

Kares said:

dongato said:

Too late, some of the WB songs are already out in stems form. I bought Let's Go Crazy multitracks a few years ago. I saw the newer files with my own eyes. Money talks
Somebody will try to monetize them at some point. It happened with the MJ vault stuff already.

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Dude, you have no idea what you're talking about. Illegally acquiring COPIES of the multitracks (or any other recordings) does not give you any rights to use, reproduce and distribute them, so even if you do have some copies you have nothing.
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I have copies of multitracks for tons of legendary recordings too but obviously I can't use them for anything.
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And owning an actual reel of tape does NOT mean that you own the rights to the actual recordings on that tape either.
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So stop trying to sell your pirated copies and go away.
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[Flame snip - luv4u]
I'm a professional, I'm not selling or pirating anything!
I simply mentioned that I have seen some of the WB era Prince multitracks/stems in some places, and I own a copy of the original Let's go Crazy multitracks. They are not available anywhere online, but be my guest and search until you turn blue. I originally posted asking who actually owns the rights to the WB era Prince masters?
I started seriously collecting as a hobby in 2002 back when the majority were in early SD format. I helped transfer a number of labels archives to digital in studio via Pro Tools. I have stacks of tapes of some pretty famous 80's and 90's artists that were literally tossed in a dumpster behind a local studio when it closed in 2005. I know my shit. I also have a rare multi session Prince did with George Clinton labeled "Paradigm". Dat dumps and masters are sold all the time on Ebay btw. I bought a bunch of Elvis multitracks in a lot. Hate to tell you dude, but it doesn't matter if it's Prince or Michael Jackson if someone wants something it can be gotten, and that includes studio multitracks. I either buy them, or trade for them. It's a hobby I enjoy and I'm going to continue to do it with or without your approval.

[Edited 4/21/19 21:47pm]

dongato said:

Kares said:

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Dude, you have no idea what you're talking about. Illegally acquiring COPIES of the multitracks (or any other recordings) does not give you any rights to use, reproduce and distribute them, so even if you do have some copies you have nothing.
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I have copies of multitracks for tons of legendary recordings too but obviously I can't use them for anything.
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And owning an actual reel of tape does NOT mean that you own the rights to the actual recordings on that tape either.
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So stop trying to sell your pirated copies and go away.
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[Flame snip - luv4u]
I'm a professional, I'm not selling or pirating anything!
I simply mentioned that I have seen some of the WB era Prince multitracks/stems in some places, and I own a copy of the original Let's go Crazy multitracks. They are not available anywhere online, but be my guest and search until you turn blue. I originally posted asking who actually owns the rights to the WB era Prince masters?
I started seriously collecting as a hobby in 2002 back when the majority were in early SD format. I helped transfer a number of labels archives to digital in studio via Pro Tools. I have stacks of tapes of some pretty famous 80's and 90's artists that were literally tossed in a dumpster behind a local studio when it closed in 2005. I know my shit. I also have a rare multi session Prince did with George Clinton labeled "Paradigm". Dat dumps and masters are sold all the time on Ebay btw. I bought a bunch of Elvis multitracks in a lot. Hate to tell you dude, but it doesn't matter if it's Prince or Michael Jackson if someone wants something it can be gotten, and that includes studio multitracks. I either buy them, or trade for them. It's a hobby I enjoy and I'm going to continue to do it with or without your approval.

[Edited 4/21/19 21:47pm]

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Stems are not the same as the original multitracks.
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Prince's masters and multitracks (including the WB-era stuff) are now owned by the Prince Estate, but of course it shouldn't take long to find that out, especially for a professional.
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I said I have a ton of multitracks and stems too for legendary songs, but I can't use them for anything, just as you can't use whatever you have for anything either.

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The last time a fool tried to claim he (co-)owned some Prince recordings, he ended up with a court verdict saying he'll have to pay almost 4 million dollars. But good luck with "your" 'Let's Go Crazy' copy.

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You were/are trying to sell stuff you don't have the rights to, hence your topic got deleted yesterday. BTW: there' nothing rare about 'Paradigm' and while you also claimed to have the Sample Series, what you most probably have is the same small set of stolen samples that were taken from one of Prince's keyboards and have been floating around online for many years.

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coldcoffeeandcocacola said:

It’s all been taken to allegedly the safest music storage there is. Think it’s called iron mountain or something. But no, I don’t believe it’s safe because it’s no longer under princes control and that was really the safest it ever could be. Under the watchful eye of its creator. He was probably somewhat haphazard with it but it was his in his house. I too often think of all the stuff that could happen to it. Left to rot, stolen, lost, damaged, catalogued incorrectly etc etc. Truck or plane carrying it crashes... you name it I’ve thought of it all! Volcano explosion.... but it’s cos I care and we all care and you do from your post. I imagined when he passed it would all be uploaded daily on to a kind of npg music club of our time. Not tinkered with just raw as it was and then if it is then cleaned up that is done and released too, but labelled as such. But no we haven’t had any of this and perhaps the damage has been done. Most musicians think they can improve something but in this case we only want to hear the creator. I wish it had all been handled differently. An upload a day would have been manageable and to us all, kept us happy. I don’t feel it’s safe myself but what do I know.

Un2TheJoyFantastic said:

They are inside a mountain right? I would think inside a mountain is probably safer than inside paisley park, I mean the inside of a mountain could withstand armageddon right?

The organisation contracted to handle the safe storage, cataloguing and preservation of the music is called Iron Mountain

https://www.ironmountain.com

Safer from us... I will be dead before any of that material sees the light of day.. #fact