How do we petition the Estate to release soundchecks and studio rehearsal??

Because what I'm hearing, everyone needs to hear!!

Have a million bucks? The vault is for sale to the highest bidder

Strive said:

OperatingThetan said:

Strive said:

Have a million bucks? The vault is for sale to the highest bidder

Well, if we were more unified as fans, we could potentially crowd fund something

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Oh please. You lot vastly overestimate the number of fans and vastly underestimate the kind of amounts you'd need to get the estate to listen to you. One million dollars would require a thousand fans to pony up a thousand dollars each. Now go look at the view figures of the threads on this forum or look at the membership number of Facebook groups and then realise than only a fraction of those tiny numbers would be willing to invest anything and then even a fraction of that fraction would be willing to invest a thousand dollars. The Estate releases a $150 box set and a whole bunch of people lost their mind at the mere mention of that price.

One million dollar won't be enough to digitize/document everything that's in the vault, believe me. Those archiving projects are really, really expensive.

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BartVanHemelen said:

OperatingThetan said:

Strive said: Well, if we were more unified as fans, we could potentially crowd fund something

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Oh please. You lot vastly overestimate the number of fans and vastly underestimate the kind of amounts you'd need to get the estate to listen to you. One million dollars would require a thousand fans to pony up a thousand dollars each. Now go look at the view figures of the threads on this forum or look at the membership number of Facebook groups and then realise than only a fraction of those tiny numbers would be willing to invest anything and then even a fraction of that fraction would be willing to invest a thousand dollars. The Estate releases a $150 box set and a whole bunch of people lost their mind at the mere mention of that price.

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That's the other part of the equation. But to digitize, document, and store everything in a professional and sustainable manner, you will need at least 15-20 million dollars. Easily.

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So, based on 1'000 hardcore fans, we're talking about $15'000-$20'000 per fan here. That's about 100 SOTT SDE box sets per fan.

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BartVanHemelen said:

OperatingThetan said:

BartVanHemelen said:

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Oh please. You lot vastly overestimate the number of fans and vastly underestimate the kind of amounts you'd need to get the estate to listen to you. One million dollars would require a thousand fans to pony up a thousand dollars each. Now go look at the view figures of the threads on this forum or look at the membership number of Facebook groups and then realise than only a fraction of those tiny numbers would be willing to invest anything and then even a fraction of that fraction would be willing to invest a thousand dollars. The Estate releases a $150 box set and a whole bunch of people lost their mind at the mere mention of that price.

I appreciate your points and even partially agree, but it only really takes a few wealthy investors to make a project at least feasible or worth discussing.

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If those existed, they'd have acted long ago. In reality Prince's businesses were virtually non-existing bu his death, and the initial deal the estate struck with Universal was for a paltry amount, and that deal was cancelled soon after.

"Chocolate" SHOULD HAVE BEEN on the "Ice Cream Castle" Album!! And "Chili Sauce" would have fared better as a Single B-Side!!!

woogiebear said:

"Chocolate" SHOULD HAVE BEEN on the "Ice Cream Castle" Album!! And "Chili Sauce" would have fared better as a Single B-Side!!!

Yes, the title would have worked well with Ice Cream...

It was intended. This is an example of a bad decision by Prince. Firing Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, coming up to a very important career move of his life, Purple Rain.

If he did not do that(he still denied it in 1990) then I think ICC would have had Chocolate and some strong songs.

I still would love an instrumental version of Chili Sauce, the music is actually captivating.

OldFriends4Sale said:

woogiebear said:

"Chocolate" SHOULD HAVE BEEN on the "Ice Cream Castle" Album!! And "Chili Sauce" would have fared better as a Single B-Side!!!

Yes, the title would have worked well with Ice Cream...

It was intended. This is an example of a bad decision by Prince. Firing Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, coming up to a very important career move of his life, Purple Rain.

If he did not do that(he still denied it in 1990) then I think ICC would have had Chocolate and some strong songs.

I still would love an instrumental version of Chili Sauce, the music is actually captivating.

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That song is fan-tas-tic !

I looooove ''Chilly Sauce'' and for me it fits in nicely on the album.

Instead, they could've added ''Chocolate'' as the last track on that album.

There was enough space for that.

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Vannormal said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Yes, the title would have worked well with Ice Cream...

It was intended. This is an example of a bad decision by Prince. Firing Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, coming up to a very important career move of his life, Purple Rain.

If he did not do that(he still denied it in 1990) then I think ICC would have had Chocolate and some strong songs.

I still would love an instrumental version of Chili Sauce, the music is actually captivating.

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That song is fan-tas-tic !

I looooove ''Chilly Sauce'' and for me it fits in nicely on the album.

Instead, they could've added ''Chocolate'' as the last track on that album.

There was enough space for that.

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Yes I agree, This is one were the ladies voice make it sexier. Wendy Lisa and Jill "you'll find the more psychodelic rock version of the Time" - Prince
I want to know what other outtakes...

OldFriends4Sale said: