TrivialPursuit said:

BartVanHemelen said:

TrivialPursuit said:

RODSERLING said:

Half the tracks of 1999 deluxe were demos of previously released tracks.

That's simply untrue.

excep it is true. 12 new songs 11 diffident versions of released songs and 1 cover song....

12 new and 12 that have been released by someone...

IstenSzek said:

WhisperingDandelions said:

Here here.

I'll never understand the configuration junkies who pine for official releases of stuff we already have 85% of the original tracks already officially released. 3 discs Crystal Ball 2 discs Dream Factory. c'mon.

absolutely, 100% "NO" on those configurations. we can make them ourselves if they just
include the missing tracks on the outtakes discs. it would be a waste of space with all of
those tracks in the vault that could be included instead of already released material.

Agree. I've made my own configurations years ago. No need to put out the original Crystal Ball.

muleFunk said:

Romeoblu said:

That Crucial bootleg was a great album. I too would recreate it if all the tracks were available in excellent quality. My fear is Cosmic Day will be left off due to it's musical similarities to George Harrison's What is Life.

Crucial was one of the best bootlegs ever.

Crucial was my very first Bootleg on CD, purchased back at the local record store back in Spring of 1991. I was a junior in High School and only had enough $$ to buy one CD ($29.99 was the going rate).

It was between Crucial and Crystal Ball (NOT the version to be released from NPG in 1998 OR the original configuration from 1987, but, a bootleg with similiar tracks/era of the Crucial CD).

I felt I chose wisely, not to dismiss Crstal Ball offerings at the time...

ADKAVON said:

muleFunk said:

ADKAVON said:

Crucial was my very first Bootleg on CD, purchased back at the local record store back in Spring of 1991. I was a junior in High School and only had enough $$ to buy one CD ($29.99 was the going rate).

It was between Crucial and Crystal Ball (NOT the version to be released from NPG in 1998 OR the original configuration from 1987, but, a bootleg with similiar tracks/era of the Crucial CD).

I felt I chose wisely, not to dismiss Crstal Ball offerings at the time...

I bought mine in the late Fall 1990 . I remember it well because my wife and I started dating that week and I purchased it from a Prince fan the night Graffiti Bridge premiered.

Let me guess: after seeing GB that fan was so embarrassed and disappointed (s)he wanted to sell all his/her Prince records immediately?

funkaholic1972 said:

ADKAVON said:

muleFunk said:

Romeoblu said: Crucial was one of the best bootlegs ever.

Crucial was my very first Bootleg on CD, purchased back at the local record store back in Spring of 1991. I was a junior in High School and only had enough $$ to buy one CD ($29.99 was the going rate).

It was between Crucial and Crystal Ball (NOT the version to be released from NPG in 1998 OR the original configuration from 1987, but, a bootleg with similiar tracks/era of the Crucial CD).

I felt I chose wisely, not to dismiss Crstal Ball offerings at the time...

I have such great memories of that bootleg. I was very young when I bought it and there was no internet back then, so I used to ponder on where this music had come from and try to understand why Prince hadn't officially released such great tracks.

Factor1 said:

TrivialPursuit said:

LINK or it's not true. Period.

Stop with the incessant requests for links. Go find it yourself if you need one so bad. Also, not having a link doesn’t make something not true. Stop it. Damn, it’s just an album discussion. It’s not that serious.

When anyone posts about something and does not provide a link then it's considered a rumour or something not true. Like it states on the banner at the top of the forum:

Is already confirmed? is it on spotify already?

I really like the idea of saving re-configurations of Dream Factory, Camille and Crystal Ball for future releases - I think these are very much in the spirit of Record Store Day - and with the original artwork would be so cool.

But I'm really wondering whether the outtakes will include the edits/segues between tracks that run together - or include unedited versions (or both). On Crystal Ball, Rebirth of The Flesh sequed directly into Play In The Sunshine, The Ball into Joy In Repetition, etc. I'd love to have the unedited versions of all outtakes - especially Joy In Repetition with that slow haunting intro. But without the edits/segues we can't re-create the other projects as they were configured (unless you use bootlegs and sound editing software to fill the gaps). It's not a no-brainer to re-create these albums just by assembling a playlist as people have suggested.

Hopefully some of these questions will be answered in just a few days time!

glamlife2 said:

VaultCurator said:

This will be fun to hear these outtakes in supurb quality. C'mon sticky!

[Spambot - - luv4u]

WhisperingDandelions said:

JorisE73 said:

No normal person cares about a Super Deluxe Edition of a 30+ year old album. Record Store Day would be a perfect place to release these fan-only half-finished albums.

jaawwnn said:

steakfinger said:

JorisE73 said:

Camille
Dream Factory
Crystal Ball
(and the numerous planned and shelved live album releases) could be great Record Store Day releases, i think most of these releases have completed or conceptual artwork they could use.
Or, because these sessions overlap and the tracks were reused for these albums, even a boxset with Camille, Dream Factory and Crystal Ball with a massive booklet with all artwork and notes from The Revolution, engibeers and whoever was around these recordings.

They could even do a Record Store Day release for 3 years:

Year 1: Dream Factory LP
Year 2: Camille LP
Year 3: Crystal Ball LP

and then a year later a CD boxset as I said above.

I don;t get why they don't use Record Store Day to release Live albums like alot of artists do.

Because almost no normal person cares about Record Store Day.

No "normal" person cares for these albums period.
But these could be perfect fan releases on RSD, you know, like most releases on that day.

Streaming or RSD are the only two avenues for releasing stuff like Dream Factory while also hoping to generate some interest and/or revenue from people outside the hardcore fanbase.

KingSausage said:

jaawwnn said:

No normal person cares about a Super Deluxe Edition of a 30+ year old album. Record Store Day would be a perfect place to release these fan-only half-finished albums.

Sadly, no “normal person” cares about any physical media these days. I agree RSD would be a great outlet for those other releases.

I am sorry neither of you walked in a record store during the past 10 years. There are plenty of boxsets being released. Maybe, you are not one of those guys who purchase music and you spend too much time downloading?

"Wrecka stow". That's where you go when you want to buy music.

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Exciting as it is.... I can't help but wonder if this is a missed opportunity in some ways. Like, Record Store Day would be the ideal opportunity to release Dream Factory, Black Album, Camille or something like that, with a bunch of extras in there too. Burying a bunch of unreleased music on what looks like just a remaster / reissue release is a bit of a shame.

Bertrand said:

KingSausage said:

jaawwnn said: Sadly, no “normal person” cares about any physical media these days. I agree RSD would be a great outlet for those other releases.

I am sorry neither of you walked in a record store during the past 10 years. There are plenty of boxsets being released. Maybe, you are not one of those guys who purchase music and you spend too much time downloading?

"Wrecka stow". That's where you go when you want to buy music.

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I guess I'll happily consider myself not a "normal person"... I love my vinyl and CD collection! And there is enough other people buying them for record stores to have the revival they've had in the last 10 years. (Long may it last!)

I'll happily buy the SOTT super deluxe and RSD releases of Dream Factory, Camille and Crystal Ball if the estate decide to do them! (And these were not half finished albums - each of the three had final mastering and were ready to release - before they were pulled.)

glamlife2 said:

Bertrand said:

I am sorry neither of you walked in a record store during the past 10 years. There are plenty of boxsets being released. Maybe, you are not one of those guys who purchase music and you spend too much time downloading?

"Wrecka stow". That's where you go when you want to buy music.

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[Edited 6/4/20 9:50am]

I guess I'll happily consider myself not a "normal person"... I love my vinyl and CD collection! And there is enough other people buying them for record stores to have the revival they've had in the last 10 years. (Long may it last!)

I'll happily buy the SOTT super deluxe and RSD releases of Dream Factory, Camille and Crystal Ball if the estate decide to do them! (And these were not half finished albums - each of the three had final mastering and were ready to release - before they were pulled.)

No one who has an account on this website is a normal person. I was being talked to by a royal sausage earlier.

To my knowledge no final mastered version of Dream Factory was ever completed? We know Camille got test pressings and Princevault has info about the Crystal Ball album being mastered so that must be final also.

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jaawwnn said:

glamlife2 said:

I guess I'll happily consider myself not a "normal person"... I love my vinyl and CD collection! And there is enough other people buying them for record stores to have the revival they've had in the last 10 years. (Long may it last!)

I'll happily buy the SOTT super deluxe and RSD releases of Dream Factory, Camille and Crystal Ball if the estate decide to do them! (And these were not half finished albums - each of the three had final mastering and were ready to release - before they were pulled.)

No one who has an account on this website is a normal person. I was being talked to by a royal sausage earlier.

To my knowledge no final mastered version of Dream Factory was ever completed? We know Camille got test pressings and Princevault has info about the Crystal Ball album being mastered so that must be final also.

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now ain't that the truth

Not normal person but me, is here to be found on the prince.org.

Bertrand said:

Has anyone thought about the possibility WB can't use the "Crystal Ball" tracks released by Legacy? That would suck hard but....