Way to make a big deal about nothing. Countless people had used that symbol in designs for Prince, there was no danger of it going missing. Converting a file off an old floppy takes some work but acting like a bitmap file is obsolete and requires data recovery is a little much.

'The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1993 floppy disk'

Every Princefan who has the Interactive CDrom has these files on there.

lavendardrummachine said:

Way to make a big deal about nothing. Countless people had used that symbol in designs for Prince, there was no danger of it going missing. Converting a file off an old floppy takes some work but acting like a bitmap file is obsolete and requires data recovery is a little much.

Last week there were some great posts and info on this article and the lineage regarding these files from WB and Paisley Park posted somewhere else, inlcuding the official letters from Graphix Zone, WB and Paisley Park on how to get these files and request them on floppy/CDrom back then.

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Never was a great fan of the symbol in general, but it is so unmistakenly connected with Prince, period.

Loved the article. Thank you!

And at the end of the article there is an interesting Susan Rogers video again.

Check that from 20:00 onwards...

She's talking about his human side, braveness, his generosity...

I didn't read the whole article so it may have been in there but the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame had a floppy disc with the Symbol on it in a Prince display there.

djdaffy1227 said:

I didn't read the whole article so it may have been in there but the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame had a floppy disc with the Symbol on it in a Prince display there.

Yeah, that;s the disk you could request from WB back in the 90's when you needed it, or it could be the one from Paisley Park that wasn't on a yellow disk but on some standard homemade 3.5" disk.

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totheteeth said:

https://cdm.link/2021/11/...oppy-disk/

Rolling eyes. Ask Sam Jennings and the others how many of these floppy disks exists. That one guy always pops up to publicize hmself.

Good God, people. How can something as pervasive as that symbol be "salvaged"? Where has it been for all these years? Right. In. Front. Of. Our. Faces.

Just in case there is someone not sure about what this thread is about.

They are writing about the one on the upper right.

i like the one on the left, myself.

There are other official variations, also, if you care to look.

O ( + >

Vannormal said:

Hamad said:

Vannormal said:

Never was a great fan of the symbol in general, but it is so unmistakenly connected with Prince, period.

Really? I thought it was a gorgeous artifact of his history, and such a rock & roll thing to do, most rock stars have their distinct symbols/fonts associated with them, he came up with his own that brings to mind different themes that connected with him (androgyny, Ankh, Gemini etc).

I like the early version of it. I first saw it in one of the letters in the artwork of the "1999" cover, then I started seeing it on some of the sleeves of the 45s and 12 Inchs during the "Purple Rain" era such as the back cover of "Erotic City" and I really love the way it was placed in front of Prince on the "Take Me With U" sleeve of the 45. I had no idea of what it meant at the time though. To me, it looked like a boat anchor. Also, I remember seeing the hat that Jill Jones was wearing in the "1999" video and Prince was also wearing it in the "Automatic" video. Those hats were popular in the early 1980s and we used to call them "captain hats". So I was seeing captain hats and what I thought were boat anchors and I thought he was putting himself in the position of being the "captain of this futuristic ship" type theme since his music was very futuristic sounding during that era.

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I was not happy when he started incorporating horns into his music so when I saw the version of the symbol with the horn in it, I said.... "Well hell. I guess this means this bitch is never going to go back to being the "Old Prince" that we knew for the futuristic synths".

vainandy said:

Hamad said:

Vannormal said: Really? I thought it was a gorgeous artifact of his history, and such a rock & roll thing to do, most rock stars have their distinct symbols/fonts associated with them, he came up with his own that brings to mind different themes that connected with him (androgyny, Ankh, Gemini etc).

I like the early version of it. I first saw it in one of the letters in the artwork of the "1999" cover, then I started seeing it on some of the sleeves of the 45s and 12 Inchs during the "Purple Rain" era such as the back cover of "Erotic City" and I really love the way it was placed in front of Prince on the "Take Me With U" sleeve of the 45. I had no idea of what it meant at the time though. To me, it looked like a boat anchor. Also, I remember seeing the hat that Jill Jones was wearing in the "1999" video and Prince was also wearing it in the "Automatic" video. Those hats were popular in the early 1980s and we used to call them "captain hats". So I was seeing captain hats and what I thought were boat anchors and I thought he was putting himself in the position of being the "captain of this futuristic ship" type theme since his music was very futuristic sounding during that era.

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I was not happy when he started incorporating horns into his music so when I saw the version of the symbol with the horn in it, I said.... "Well hell. I guess this means this bitch is never going to go back to being the "Old Prince" that we knew for the futuristic synths".

Wanted to give the same reply.

(funny story about the anchor, never saw that )

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I understood what it meant though, and that's what I loved about it; the harmonious fusion of the male and the female. Even androgynous.

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Anyways, the symbol as we now it, is now so common and unmistaenly accepted, even by me.

Only I don't buy stuff with the symbol on it. I prefer his full real name.

I never liked that symbol album, where it originates from i believe, and felt a bit abandoned by Prince in his music at the time.

Then a couple of years later, he had it printed on everything, like his house with Mayte in Spain, on the plates, glasses, everywhere... which was overkill to me.

The guitar on the contrary i found a great idea, since the playing with his left hand/arm symbolises the 'cross' of the symbol, it's the moving female part over the 'arrow', at least that's how i see it.

And getting older I accepted it for it's originality.

It is a well balanced design in total tbh. And that's my field of iterest and work.

Vannormal said: