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Hi fabriziovenerandi.
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We can only speculate, but I'm guessing it wasn't a priority at the time.
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The decision to attempt a Roadhouse Garden album in the first place was likely to capitalise on the '1999' buzz at the time. It would have been an ideal time to release some Revolution era music while that catching song was being played on radio and fresh in everyone's heads. It's such a shame it never came to fruition.
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Prince did have a hand in Purple Rain deluxe prior to his passing. How much involvement he had as far as the vault track selection is concerned is up for debate. For a guy who had decided to no longer use profanity, I'd be surprised if he'd offered up 'We Can Fuck' for release.
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Having said that, maybe Prince had decided for himself the Purple Rain deluxe was a suitable vehicle for Our Destiny / Roadhouse Garden.
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It's highly likely that all the Revolution era albums will be amongst the first to get the Super Deluxe treatment, so it's only a matter of time before all the songs that were likely to appear on that album are released in some form or fashion.
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There's a rather nice bootleg on the Purple Gold Archive label named 'Roadhouse Garden, Unreleased Album: Collectors Edition' that has been assembled using the rumoured tracks. It's obviously a fan make and a lot of liberties were taken as far a track selection goes, but it's a nice taste of the album that could have been.

A whole lot of stuff not released yet. I doubt they haven't decided not to.

They need to get the momentum going...

For the estate - mostly for Warners, there is no point in releasing the 'unreleased albums' at this point. That will come later.

Don't forget, Warners only have until 2021 with the rights to Prince's catalogue (minus the soundtracks, the rights to which they will retain)... after that nearly all of Prince's albums transfer over to Sony.

So Warners have 2 years to release all they want in terms of those albums and any associated unreleased tracks... so that's what they will focus on first. Hence 1999 Deluxe.

There's no point in releasing Roadhouse Garden (the album) now, when that moment could be used to sell a Parade Deluxe (for example) before Warners' rights to it expire.

From what I understand, Warners have the catalogue until 2021, and can release unreleased music... Sony have part of the catalogue now (hence the later album reissues this year) and will have the rest of them in 2021, and - I THINK - can only release previously released material (hence no bonus tracks on these recent reissues)...

So if Warners didn't release say, Sign O' The Times Deluxe before 2021, all we could then get would be a straight Sign 'O The Times reissue from Sony, with no bonus tracks...

I don't think anybody would want that.

However, once Prince's released catalogue transfers over to Sony in 2021, it's my understanding that Warners can then still release previously unreleased (I'm guessing standalone) material. THAT will be the time to release the Roadhouse Gardens, etc.... when they can release little else.

So I wouldn't expect anything but deluxe editions of the classics for the next two years from Warners, and the filling in of the out of print later titles onto the market from Sony.

The Roadhouse Garden album is #1 on my wishlist.

Why? We already have all the songs and the project was never completed.

I wouldn't complain if it got a release. It'd be cool like Camille or Dream Factory but it's not essential.

Also songs being included on other releases doesn't "kill" another project. A number of tracks from 4Ever/Purple Rain Deluxe also ended up on 1999 Deluxe in different forms or improved sound quality.

Thank you for the answers. So, for example, Purple Rain Deluxe sold more than Originals?

I dont understand either; i was even thinking this would be posth. issue nr 1! The missing Revolution album is about as holy as the grail comes.

TheFman said:

jaypotton said:

TheFman said:

I dont understand either; i was even thinking this would be posth. issue nr 1! The missing Revolution album is about as holy as the grail comes.

Except Roadhouse Garden wasn't a "missing Revolution album". It was a compilation of vault tracks Prince recorded with the Revolution between 84-86 that he toyed with putting out in 1999. Those vault tracks actually fit better with the super deluxe approach 1999 is getting to show the evolution towards a final released album and songs that were contemporary to those that came out officially for that album. So, for example, a super deluxe for SOTT could (I wish) look like this: Dream Factory -> Camille -> Crystal Ball -> SOTT Just my opinion obviously!

Sure i can be wrong, it's a long time already, but i though from W&L that they said it was an album of the their time, not later (around 1999) but it was disbanded for the obvious reason.

The premise of this thread is incorrect.

They haven't decided to not release it. If that were true then by that logic they would have also decided to not release about a million other things in the vault.

Roadhouse Garden hasn't been considered for release (yet) because nobody outside of the fandom knows what on earth it is, and there's tons of things that make a stronger business case to release first.

Also, tracks appearing on one release isn't indicative of anything. Moonbeam Levels came out on the 4Ever set, and it's also going to be on 1999 Deluxe.

Militant said:

Prince himself stated that there are Prince and The Revolution , The Time and Vanity 6 unreleased ALBUMS in the vault. What more does the estate need to know?

jfenster said:

Strive said:

jfenster said:

Prince himself stated that there are Prince and The Revolution , The Time and Vanity 6 unreleased ALBUMS in the vault. What more does the estate need to know?

Prince was the king of illusion. There's a ton of stuff in the vault. Hundreds of songs, a lion's share of his live output, who knows how many different versions or takes of songs. Outside of known abandoned albums, there's not release ready albums ready to fly. No real truth to the idea that he knowingly left his best material on the shelf. Remember, he's the guy that claimed to re-record his entire catalog...only for an engineer to clarify decades later that they only re-recorded 3 songs before moving onto something else. That said, the same engineer said that there isn't only the known Electric version of Welcome 2 The Dawn but a number of different versions from Prince taking multiple runs at it.

"theres not release ready albums readt to fly"....................so wrong!!

jfenster said:

Strive said:

jfenster said:

"theres not release ready albums readt to fly"....................so wrong!!

You left out the "that aren't known abandoned albums" part which is pretty important but please inform me what golden era Revolution, Time and Vanity 6 albums Prince completed but chose not to release? Is there any proof to his claim that he kept the best material for himself/the vault? Because there wasn't any sight of them in the police photos of the Paisley Vault.

have u heard the intrview where he mentions this?? he mentions something about what it would be like to hear a SLY and the family stone album from back then ..NOW...