laytonian said:

johnpiex said:

It's on YouTube as well.

Official Prince YouTube says "Video Not Available".
Was it....and then cancelled? Or is there to be some great unveiling?

It comes available as it turns to midnight in your time zone or country, so it always lands on the right day no matter where you are. It came around here in New York at midnight.

I will say the sound is better. Different. It's not so clangy and tinny, there is bass to it. It's interesting to hear the echo on his voice different, too. That stuck out. I mean, you can only do so much with it, but if Bernie Grundman had tracks available to him - and why wouldn't he - then it sorta shows.

I even noticed a little guitar lick from Wendy around the 5:34 point that we would've never heard before.

Most of y'all gonna shit on it, but whatever. It's a vast improvement over the original and what any fan could do with a VHS-sourced audio.

Sorry don't dig it. What's the point for this (didn't listen to yet though) knowing that we had already the remastedred version by Bernie Grundman?

By the way, I much prefer the previous artwork: this one is awful!

Remastering is the music industry's emperors new clothes. Someone remasters some songs and we rave about it even though it's not much different and it could be the same person mastered previous versions that we are now saying are no good.

I should get into this remastering business.

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johnpiex said:

laytonian said:

Official Prince YouTube says "Video Not Available".
Was it....and then cancelled? Or is there to be some great unveiling?

It plays for me.

works for me too. right now.

MIRvmn1 said:

Even P&M 1983 was more exciting than this. I'm very disappointed.

is this now going to count as a major release and an excuse for them to say 'we only have room for 1 big release each year' and so release nothing else this year?

remember, recordstore day is The Gold Experience reissue on vinyl so this and that combined is what, 2 major releases

as if the people who are interested in the good stuff don't have enough attention span to buy and enjoy 2 SDE releases a year. come on for fcksake just put out
D&P and PARADE this year so we can at least move forward a bit.

TrivialPursuit said:

I will say the sound is better. Different. It's not so clangy and tinny, there is bass to it. It's interesting to hear the echo on his voice different, too. That stuck out. I mean, you can only do so much with it, but if Bernie Grundman had tracks available to him - and why wouldn't he - then it sorta shows.

I even noticed a little guitar lick from Wendy around the 5:34 point that we would've never heard before.

Most of y'all gonna shit on it, but whatever. It's a vast improvement over the original and what any fan could do with a VHS-sourced audio.

Yes I hear parts I never heard before too. It almost sounds like it was also remixed. I think this LGC is also an edit. I seem to remember it having the same arrangement as the 12' remix.

TrivialPursuit said:

MusicFan20Ten said:

RockItPoole, a Prince shop here in the UK, has just posted some limited pre-orders on their site. Limited to 100 copies currently, but gives a release date of June 3rd this year. Here's a link for you: https://www.princeshop.on...ution-live

Thanks! Fair prices, crazy shipping costs...

jraw said:

Milty2 said:

TrivialPursuit said:

I will say the sound is better. Different. It's not so clangy and tinny, there is bass to it. It's interesting to hear the echo on his voice different, too. That stuck out. I mean, you can only do so much with it, but if Bernie Grundman had tracks available to him - and why wouldn't he - then it sorta shows.

I even noticed a little guitar lick from Wendy around the 5:34 point that we would've never heard before.

Most of y'all gonna shit on it, but whatever. It's a vast improvement over the original and what any fan could do with a VHS-sourced audio.

Yes I hear parts I never heard before too. It almost sounds like it was also remixed. I think this LGC is also an edit. I seem to remember it having the same arrangement as the 12' remix.

OK, i hear that bit at 5:34 which tells me the release is worth a little of my time...at least, purchase of a digital download. It makes me wonder why this showed up for purchase a year ago on hdtracks.com...i bought it and it sucked.

SoulAlive said:

What a disappointment

Was it really? One random site said they had news, was anyone really expecting anything significant? Everyone needs to stop getting hyped up for rumours and just wait for official news from the estate.

Don't hold your breath though, they don't seem to be in a rush to get more music out for us.

Still making the same mistakes as 19 years ago ...

MusicFan20Ten said:

jraw said:

Thanks! Fair prices, crazy shipping costs...

You're welcome!! Crazy shipping costs are understandable if you're outside the UK. Hopefully other places and the official Prince store will have official announcements and orders soon, but as RockItPoole have copies up, I would say other places will sooner rather than later. Or that's what I hope at least

Yup, it's available now for 27 euros on Amazon.de (the 2cd/1blu-ray package).

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And it's available (3 configurations) on Prince.com now too.

Will say one thing, the amount of first rate material they have released is so tremendous that I think they can fairly go w/o anything this year. Of course, i don't want that...as we are all just getting older and a future box set of obscure material will be have interest for a few more years...maybe 10-15. A Jill Jones or Madhouse remaster is probably top of many wishlists right now but that interest keeps dropping, every year.

The truth is, I was getting very into the 1999 Super Deluxe when the SOTT Super Deluxe came out. I always felt i needed to return to some vault tracks off of the former as I'd been stuck on some like International Lover, How Come U Don't, Rearrange and Purple Music. Then SOTT came out and I was totally BLOWN AWAY and stopped exploring the 1999 SDE.

As for SOTT SDE, I think there is so much there that I could spend more time exploring and totally absorbing it all. I know I have barely listeneed to the live album....which could use more bottom end ...

https://www.legacyrecordi...ne-3-2022/

The only hope is that, since this a Sony legacy release, we may still get a Warners release

nice to see Prince's only album, Purple Rain, getting some attention.

Have you SEEN the amount of absolute tat they're cross selling with it? I despair sometimes.

from Prince.com:

"For the first time, this powerful performance has been entirely enhanced and reconstructed: the original video source was rescanned, restored and color-corrected; and the original multitrack audio master reels have been remixed and remastered onto Blu-ray video with selectable stereo, 5.1 surround and Dolby Atmos sound. Prince’s late-career and Grammy-nominated recording engineer, Chris James, remixed the recently discovered source audio, which had remained archived in Prince’s legendary Paisley Park vault for over three decades."

chewymusic said:

from Prince.com:

"For the first time, this powerful performance has been entirely enhanced and reconstructed: the original video source was rescanned, restored and color-corrected; and the original multitrack audio master reels have been remixed and remastered onto Blu-ray video with selectable stereo, 5.1 surround and Dolby Atmos sound. Prince’s late-career and Grammy-nominated recording engineer, Chris James, remixed the recently discovered source audio, which had remained archived in Prince’s legendary Paisley Park vault for over three decades."

was any work done on the video???

JoeyCococo said:

chewymusic said:

from Prince.com:

"For the first time, this powerful performance has been entirely enhanced and reconstructed: the original video source was rescanned, restored and color-corrected; and the original multitrack audio master reels have been remixed and remastered onto Blu-ray video with selectable stereo, 5.1 surround and Dolby Atmos sound. Prince’s late-career and Grammy-nominated recording engineer, Chris James, remixed the recently discovered source audio, which had remained archived in Prince’s legendary Paisley Park vault for over three decades."

was any work done on the video???

They pushed the original source as far it could go. Check for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svqYueRzAh0

I'll wait for the Amazon listing in the UK, then order. They have the vinyl up already. At least it's something, but still itching for new music.

On the subject of the vinyl, will anyone seriously listen to this live show on the vinyl? Won't the 5 side changes break up the experience somwhat?

Edit

Just listening to Let's Go Crazy from it on Apple Music, definitely sounds better than what I had before.

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