The journey from Prince to

A prequel to the Prince Vs. Warner Brothers – The Fans Lost blog covering the 1993-1996 era of Prince changing his name to , the title of his 1992 album. In these preceding chapters, the album and all of Prince’s side-projects with other artists like Carmen Electra, The New Power Generation, George Clinton, Mavis Staples, MPLS and Rosie Gaines from 1991-1993 as well as Prince’s songs for the I’ll Do Anything movie are examined with the stories behind his music, his girlfriends and his dealings with his record company that led to the infamous feud – it’s all here!

I doubt Prince was ever as prolific and busy as in this era. I hope you'll have fun reading and exploring the blog because it's littered with photos and links to all the YouTube videos from the album era.

And of course, all kinds of comments, criticisms and corrections are welcome - both good and bad.

Here's the link:

https://thejourneyfrompri...gspot.com/

[Edited 12/30/22 12:04pm]

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Cheers Scifi, I've always appreciated your articles. Got this bookmarked.

@SciFi,

Thanks for sharing this. I always find your articles very informative and entertaining. Your passion and interest in the subject matter really comes across.

Hi Scififilmnerd.

I just wanted to say a huge ‘thank you’ for all the fantastic work you do. I’m looking forward to reading through this properly as soon as I get a chance.

Have you considered collecting all you articles and chapters together and using them to publish a book? If not, I think you should seriously consider it.

mb71 said:

Cheers Scifi, I've always appreciated your articles. Got this bookmarked.

same here. love(d) your previous articles and got this one bookmarked to enjoy soon.

thanks for all the work you put into these!

Thanks for doing this. I can't wait to dive in!

Hey, SF!

Thanks for posting

The biased opinions should't be included, though.

Just a friendly unbiased opinion

Just a friendly unbiased opinion

There's no choices or decisions or opinions in life that aren't biased.

[Edited 1/6/23 2:00am]

Known Prince songs from the album era that remain unreleased include Gett Off’s Cousin, Boom Box, Letter 4 Miles, Do U Wanna Rock?, Rave Church Style, Check It Out, Baby Doll, the album segues, the original Prince versions of Allegiance, However Much U Want, Johnny, With This Tear, Shhh and Sunday Afternoon, as well as several unreleased remixes of album songs. That should suffice for a Deluxe Edition bonus CD of Vault tracks.

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Thanks a lot for the great work U did again, Scifi!

There are two minor errors I noticed in chapter two:

Backing vox on Power from above are by Mavis Staples + Jevetty Steele (to my ears and accordding to princevault )

The first time you mentioned Monie Love you spelled her Money Love

I really appreciate your work!

kindofblue said:

Thanks a lot for the great work U did again, Scifi!

There are two minor errors I noticed in chapter two:

Backing vox on Power from above are by Mavis Staples + Jevetty Steele (to my ears and accordding to princevault )

The first time you mentioned Monie Love you spelled her Money Love

I really appreciate your work!

Thank you for the kind words and your corrections. It's very appreciated.

kindofblue said:

There are two minor errors I noticed in chapter two:

Backing vox on Power from above are by Mavis Staples + Jevetty Steele (to my ears and accordding to princevault )

Backing vocals on "Power From Above" is not Mavis and Steele. Backing vocals are done by (Prince), Carmen and Patti LaBelle.

Princevault and your ears are wrong for once.

Chastity said:

LoveGalore said:

And yet they've addressed your theory; It was long believed that Patti LaBelle sang on that track. Karen "K-Dean" Cover, one of the co-writers, has confirmed that Labelle was not involved in Power From Above. The background vocals are sung by Mavis Staples, Jevetta Steele and Prince.

Oh well. I asked Carmen directly so I don't think it's a "theory".

However, there's a small chance you could be right in case Prince changed the backing vocals later and never told Carmen.

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LoveGalore said:

Chastity said:

Backing vocals on "Power From Above" is not Mavis and Steele. Backing vocals are done by (Prince), Carmen and Patti LaBelle.

Princevault and your ears are wrong for once.

And yet they've addressed your theory; It was long believed that Patti LaBelle sang on that track. Karen "K-Dean" Cover, one of the co-writers, has confirmed that Labelle was not involved in Power From Above. The background vocals are sung by Mavis Staples, Jevetta Steele and Prince.

I believe it, but sometimes Princevault IS wrong - like, they say the 1992 configurations of Rosie Gaines: Concrete Jungle are from 1993, yet they're obviously from 1992 and it says right there on iTunes: "(c) 1992." Maybe it's a typo on Princevault.

Apropos Princevault being wrong... Their entry for the Come EP here http://www.princevault.co...e:_Come_EP isn't quite correct. The track list they list is for a cassette containg "Misc. Come Mixes." Read everything about it - complete with picture thanks to Mace2theO - in the updated "'s Come singles" section in Chapter One about the Come album on the Prince Vs. WB - The Fans Lost blog right here: https://princevswarners.b...never.html with thanks to Neversin for the actual Come EP info.

Also new on the Prince Vs. WB-blog: Quotes from Michael Bland and Ricky Peterson from recent Truth In Rhythm interviews. Check the comments to Chapter four: All that glitters ain't Gold and Chapter five: Slave to the System for details.

And there's new quotes from Hans-Martin Buff from a recent Funkatopia interview in the Emancipation chapter. See the comments to that for details.

And there's newly added pictures on there, too.

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scififilmnerd said:

Mr.Z brought an early configuration ogf Gold Nigga listed on Princevault to my attention, so now the NPG chapter on the Journey From Prince to blog has been updated to bring you the most accurate information possible. Link here: https://thejourneyfrompri...n-npg.html

[Edited 1/20/23 10:47am]