Do we know to what extent Prince recorded/kept recordings of his tour rehearsals and jam sessions in the Vault? I've been revisiting the Triple Threat performances lately, and I find myself completely blown away at how The Time just utterly transformed the Vanity 6 setlist and took those songs to the next level, particularly "Make Up," "Wet Dream" and, of course, "Nasty Girl." Sound (and video) quality is unfortunately pretty low on a lot of these videos, and I would love it if better audio from the rehearsal sessions were to one day be released, similar to that haunting extended "Noon Rendezvous" leak. Anyone know if this is a possibility??

PurpleMusic7689 said:

If they'll use rehearsal materials they will never ever release a full rehearsal nor anywhere near a complete release of all rehearsals for a tour.

So please do not hodl your breath.

They are clueless.

every super deluxe should have a rehearsal, live set and after show included .. sott rehearsals are a must .. lotsa great after shows .. if they had any sense they would put out a 20cd set like pink floyd did and just load it .. or have a download site with every single soundboard available for ten bucks per show

The story is he recorded every show, and every practice/jam session.

The Vault isn't big enough for that to be 100% true, unless there's additional storage or were more tapes elsewhere that we don't know about.

They already dropped the ball and didn't include the PR ones we know exist, and they repurposed some of the video footage. What would have been cool was offering it as an additional digtal download with the box sets, or just release them on the youtube channel. I still find it strange that the bulk of what's coming out of the Vault is previously circulated material.

lavendardrummachine said:

coldasice said:

lavendardrummachine said:

The story is he recorded every show, and every practice/jam session.

The Vault isn't big enough for that to be 100% true, unless there's additional storage or were more tapes elsewhere that we don't know about.

They already dropped the ball and didn't include the PR ones we know exist, and they repurposed some of the video footage. What would have been cool was offering it as an additional digtal download with the box sets, or just release them on the youtube channel. I still find it strange that the bulk of what's coming out of the Vault is previously circulated material.

On VHS

What about VHS? That it's only circulating on VHS? It may have been shot on VHS to begin with.

I don't think anyone's fantasy of the Vault material opening up to fans was "Now I get to upgrade all my VHS copies of material I already own!". Plus better upgrade copies of things like the benefit show were already slipping out before he passed.

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The most recent Sign Of The Times rehearsal leak is proof that Prince rehearsals were absolutely brilliant. This SOTT rehearsal is SO GOOD - Prince fully committed and the band trying to win his favour throughout. Also the sound is incredible. Prince rehearsals are an absolute must as they show the true professional musician and give you an intimate glimpse of how he works and prepares his amazing songs for stage.

I say:

Buy the rehearsal bootlegs, download them, whatever you like.

The Estate will not sell you the complete things, not all of the things and not on time.

LoveGalore said:

lavendardrummachine said:

The story is he recorded every show, and every practice/jam session.

The Vault isn't big enough for that to be 100% true, unless there's additional storage or were more tapes elsewhere that we don't know about.

There was more than one vault.

We know this because they sent 10,000 cassette tapes to Iron Mountain and there was exactly 0 cassettes in the police photos of Paisley.

Strive said:

Strive said:

There was more than one vault.

We know this because they sent 10,000 cassette tapes to Iron Mountain and there was exactly 0 cassettes in the police photos of Paisley.

Possible, yeah.

I don't think the police photos were that thorough inside the Vault, and we don't know if cassettes were transfered to cd's at some point, or on to a hard drive, or what was on those cassettes (remember he had Paisley Park wired for sound). The moving boxes look like an unfinished project, with new boxes, not like he's been dumping them in since the 90's. But they also don't look like someone preserving important tapes. The older looking tapes look like they're outside the Vault.

But we never heard talk of consolidating the collection, or of Iron Mountain sorting through other storage. Wouldn't shock me if one of Prince's homes had a crap load of stuff that shouldn't have been there.