Curious to know which way you all would lean on this.

Scenario 1: You can travel back in time to any and every Prince concert, record it in 4k, keep it all in the present for your vieweing pleasure. Each concert can only be attended one time.

Scenario 2: You can travel to an alternate Earth in a different dimenension. It is very similar to this Earth, aside from the fact that the McRib was a permanent offering on tne McDonalds menu, and, Prince did not pass away in 2016. The year you would be able to travel to on this alternate Earth is 2059, which is the year Prince passed away at the funky old age of 101. You are able to visit a white room that has no windows, 1 chair, and a monitor on the table. On this monitor is every Prince song, live performance, associated artist music, and videos that he created from 2016-2059. It is over 1000 songs. You are able to return to this room any time you want, and able to listen to each song one time.

What do you do?

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I wouldn't video anything in 4k.

Any recording should be done on film.

The McRib is available at all times? SIGN ME UP!!!

1, but why i would record anything if i can go back? There are more concerts than i'd even would want to see.

We invented a time machine but still using shitty 4k? Why not record in quantum holographic interactive video. Pffft.

andrewm7 said:

before he died I was always a fan of what Prince was doing next, I wanted to see him as an older artist. Bruce Springsteen summed it up well when he spoke of a growing songwriting wisdom, creative intelligence. I saw a lot of that emerging still in Prince’s later years. He still had places to go and things to do. So for that reason I would opt for option 2,even if that meant never seeing Prince play again.

well said, that pretty much sums up why I would choose 2 as well.

I'd go with scenario 2, but the McRib thing doesn't matter to me at all, because I never thought that it was all that great, just another fast food sandwich to me.

Number 2

Absolutely go with #1! Like all of us, the older Prince would get the harder it would be for him to perform on stage. His voice would certainly be gone around the age of 75 or so. I would definately love to see him in every concert live and unaltered and be able to relive the memories when I'm old and can't do the things I could do when I was young.

Well I never saw him live, so I'd say number one. The 'white room with no windows' doesn't sound like the most appealing of places to discover his work, anyway...

leadline said:

onlyforaminute said:

Hmmm ... I gotta go with 2. I just KNOW he had a lot of great music left in him and it would have been cool to see him grow old.

The McRib is a culinary masterpiece! (except the pickle, I'll never understand the pickle)

No. 1, as long as I can skip that gawd awful 2000 Hit and Run Tour. No. 2 sounds too sterile, too museum-ey.

Option one only gives live shows, option two gives studio tracks, which is where Prince's strength was. (yes, he was the greatest live, but he was better in the studio. Deal with it. )

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However, option two makes it so Prince had to be different from how he was. No telling what that would do to his output.

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So... I'll take option three and listen to all recorded Prince studio tracks as is.

leadline said:

Curious to know which way you all would lean on this.

Scenario 1: You can travel back in time to any and every Prince concert, record it in 4k, keep it all in the present for your vieweing pleasure. Each concert can only be attended one time.

Scenario 2: You can travel to an alternate Earth in a different dimenension. It is very similar to this Earth, aside from the fact that the McRib was a permanent offering on tne McDonalds menu, and, Prince did not pass away in 2016. The year you would be able to travel to on this alternate Earth is 2059, which is the year Prince passed away at the funky old age of 101. You are able to visit a white room that has no windows, 1 chair, and a monitor on the table. On this monitor is every Prince song, live performance, associated artist music, and videos that he created from 2016-2059. It is over 1000 songs. You are able to return to this room any time you want, and able to listen to each song one time.

What do you do?

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Scenario 1, but I love the McRib.