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lots of interesting info in the memo pages that are up for auction.

like the plans for live albums for various cities of the same tour,
and those b-sides for the sexy mf single, including an unknown
track called "you ain't shit, mf"

nice title

Two great items:

1. An original 1987 'Black Album'

2. An original Rusan "Cloud"

Some of those memos and such are fun to see, for me. The questions, and he just writes "yes," "yes," then "fine" at the bottom. ha Not sure what that strikes me as funny.

On one where WB INTL had "Sexy MF" and "Black MF In the House" lined up, he said, "Please, no!"

Interesting to note that Prince was asked if Carmen Electra would open the Australian and Japanese 192 tour shows in addition to UK and the Netherlands - and the answer was simply "U.K. Holland".

This was the first Prince Concert I saw - It was instead opened by Djaambi (A local Koorie Rock Band) instead (Note misspelled on Prince Vault).

I have the original 1987 Longbox CD release of the Black Album. I believe only like 10 escaped into the public. Mine is cut at the bottom to get the CD out. Otherwise in pristine condition. I paid $10.000 15 years ago. Yeah yeah I also paid too much for the vinyl release. Crazy times back then

Chastity said:

I have the original 1987 Longbox CD release of the Black Album. I believe only like 10 escaped into the public. Mine is cut at the bottom to get the CD out. Otherwise in pristine condition. I paid $10.000 15 years ago. Yeah yeah I also paid too much for the vinyl release. Crazy times back then

can i have some money to buy a car

lustmealways said:

Chastity said:

I have the original 1987 Longbox CD release of the Black Album. I believe only like 10 escaped into the public. Mine is cut at the bottom to get the CD out. Otherwise in pristine condition. I paid $10.000 15 years ago. Yeah yeah I also paid too much for the vinyl release. Crazy times back then

can i have some money to buy a car

You can pay me $30k for the Longbox. Then resell it to some crazy fan and get a car.

lustmealways said:

Chastity said:

I have the original 1987 Longbox CD release of the Black Album. I believe only like 10 escaped into the public. Mine is cut at the bottom to get the CD out. Otherwise in pristine condition. I paid $10.000 15 years ago. Yeah yeah I also paid too much for the vinyl release. Crazy times back then

can i have some money to buy a car

I really don't think I appreciate your attitude. You have absolutely NO clue what I have in my collection which I've been building since 1978. And it really doesn't matter if you know. But show some respect. I met Prince many times and sometimes he gave me special gifts. I released the set of 30 Years Of Unreleased Funk (For Free). If you want to pay me for that now then please do. Otherwise back off.

Chastity said:

I have the original 1987 Longbox CD release of the Black Album. I believe only like 10 escaped into the public. Mine is cut at the bottom to get the CD out. Otherwise in pristine condition. I paid $10.000 15 years ago. Yeah yeah I also paid too much for the vinyl release. Crazy times back then

Can U share pics please? Thanks.

In my collection, I would say that an orginal pic from Jeff Katz (Parade era) is my most expensive item.

nayroo2002 said:

Two great items:

1. An original 1987 'Black Album'

2. An original Rusan "Cloud"

Just in case anyone was confused, the guitar is one of the recently made modern replica instruments made by Dave Rusan, who of course also made the originals. Obviously, anyone can order one of these brand new to be made, with a waiting list ofc, and this particular one is in a weird colour (tennis ball green) so I really think the auction estimate of sale price is a bit over the top.

MsNia said:

nayroo2002 said:

2. An original Rusan "Cloud"

Just in case anyone was confused, the guitar is one of the recently made modern replica instruments made by Dave Rusan, who of course also made the originals. Obviously, anyone can order one of these brand new to be made, with a waiting list ofc, and this particular one is in a weird colour (tennis ball green) so I really think the auction estimate of sale price is a bit over the top.

You see how that word "Cloud" is highlighted?

That's a direct link to the exact guitar in question.

It's still a great item and it's definately not confusing

nayroo2002 said:

MsNia said:

Just in case anyone was confused, the guitar is one of the recently made modern replica instruments made by Dave Rusan, who of course also made the originals. Obviously, anyone can order one of these brand new to be made, with a waiting list ofc, and this particular one is in a weird colour (tennis ball green) so I really think the auction estimate of sale price is a bit over the top.

You see how that word "Cloud" is highlighted?

That's a direct link to the exact guitar in question.

It's still a great item and it's definately not confusing

My point is that you can buy a new guitar exactly like this from Dave, only brand new and with a less... unorthodox colour finish, for 8k usd which is substantially below the estimate on the auction site. So someone is confused there. Maybe it's the word "original" muddying the waters a little bit. Not everyone on here is a guitar player, some may confuse the adjective with the brandname.

[Edited 6/8/23 3:37am]

TrivialPursuit said:

Some of those memos and such are fun to see, for me. The questions, and he just writes "yes," "yes," then "fine" at the bottom. ha Not sure what that strikes me as funny.

On one where WB INTL had "Sexy MF" and "Black MF In the House" lined up, he said, "Please, no!"

The most interesting part of this is an unknown track called You Ain't Shit, MF listed on a proposed 12" release

MsNia said:

nayroo2002 said:

You see how that word "Cloud" is highlighted?

That's a direct link to the exact guitar in question.

It's still a great item and it's definately not confusing

My point is that you can buy a new guitar exactly like this, only brand new and with a less... unorthodox colour finish, for 8k usd which is substantially below the estimate on the auction site. So someone is confused there. Maybe it's the word "original" muddying the waters a little bit. Not everyone on here is a guitar player, some may confuse the adjective with the brandname.

[Edited 6/6/23 14:14pm]

Dave Rusan built the original, so this is not a korean (no offense to cheap knockoff asian attempts) knockoff.

nayroo2002 said:

MsNia said:

My point is that you can buy a new guitar exactly like this, only brand new and with a less... unorthodox colour finish, for 8k usd which is substantially below the estimate on the auction site. So someone is confused there. Maybe it's the word "original" muddying the waters a little bit. Not everyone on here is a guitar player, some may confuse the adjective with the brandname.

[Edited 6/6/23 14:14pm]

Dave Rusan built the original, so this is not a korean (no offense to cheap knockoff asian attempts) knockoff.

Of course, no one claimed otherwise. Maybe you misunderstood?

It's a lovely guitar. The luthier responsible will happily make you a similar one in whatever colour you like for substantially less than the estimate on this auction plus buyer premium, is my point.

[Edited 6/8/23 3:46am]