Let's Go Crazy (Demo) - Slower BPM, almost punk feel w a relaxed vocal that brought to mind Adam Ant, Billy Idol, even Johnny Rotten? First chorus diff lyrix "Am I gonna let the elevator.....?"

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"Fat Jazz" - 1977 jazz jam with Prince, Andre and Bobby Z - very cool instrumental jam

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However Much U Want (Piano Demo) - super boogie woogie early rock and roll Little Richard vibes with a piano jam part at the end - so cool!

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"First Time I Saw U" - Prince and John L Nelson, super fast drum machine beat with John L playing piano and Prince vibing falsetto!

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"FRICTION" - Charles Spicer said they found a whole Jamie Starr album in the vault from 85 and this was a jam with Linn and Oberheim, total Minneapolis Sound vibes, vocal cadence sounded like Head somewhat

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"All The Kings Horses" (Strings Version) - the non string version was played last year and went down so well that when they found this version with Clare Fischer arrangements Charles decided to bring it back!

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"Calabama" - it was mentioned that this was the title track to an album Prince was working on pre Musicology but it sounded like an alternate take on "Prince and The Band" with some of the same lyrics

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"No Changes" - recorded 87, sounded like a mashup between Lovesexy title track and Electric Chair! Aggressively funky

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"And God Created Woman" (piano demo) with a part of "3 Chains O Gold" at the end.... Absolutely beautiful

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"Purple Rain" (original piano demo) - the earliest version of the song we've ever heard. Prince working out to a degree on just piano.... Clear that he hadn't figured out the arrangement properly but was amazing to hear

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as we walked into Paisley there was a previously unheard clip playing of a blues jam, which Charles mentioned had come from a 25 minute runtime jam recently found in the vault, but no more info on when it was from

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source: https://x.com/CaseyRain/s...4180334675

Aaaaaaaaaaah

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In other words, a bunch of interesting stuff that 99.99% of fans won't get to hear, because everyone unwilling or unable to pay $1300 + travel expenses can go fuck themselves. Thanks Londell!

this is just crazy at this point. what's the point, really? or, what's the plan?

bozojones said:

In other words, a bunch of interesting stuff that 99.99% of fans won't get to hear, because everyone unwilling or unable to pay $1300 + travel expenses can go fuck themselves. Thanks Londell!

thing is, i'd gladly pay $ 150,- for a box of like 50 unreleased tracks. seems like they have enough of m.

i need that version of LGC

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Charles Spicer said they found a whole Jamie Starr album in the vault from 85

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fffffffuck

ShellyMcG said:

I might be remembering it wrong but wasn't there a lot more songs played last year? Unless these aren't the only songs from this year? Either way, hopefully they actually release a few of them for the rest of us to hear. Or maybe they could put out a compilation of last year's tracks.

They won't.

"Calabama" - it was mentioned that this was the title track to an album Prince was working on pre Musicology but it sounded like an alternate take on "Prince and The Band" with some of the same lyrics

cowabunga, calabama! another album we didn't know about. wonder how far along it came before
he went with Musicology and if there's an overlap in tracks.

this shit is interesting.

and that's not even mentioning the Jamie Starr album. I mean that is just

This is all interesting, but if we never get to hear it, it might as well not even exist. Just release some music please estate. I have money, please take it!

ShellyMcG said:

I might be remembering it wrong but wasn't there a lot more songs played last year?

https://prince.org/msg/7/...?&pg=1

11 songs in 2023, if I count correctly. So pretty much the same.

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EnglishGent2 said:

LILpoundCAKE said:

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

If i paid a couple grand to attend idk if id like to know supposedly exclusive songs played for me were being released inna few weeks. I guess thats how they want to make ppl pull out their wallets.

Fans shouldn't have to pay a couple grand just to hear some unreleased songs once. The estate should be releasing this shit to the public so everyone has a chance to buy & listen.

Anyway, I'm curious about this supposed Jamie Starr album. I've only ever heard of him using the Jamie Starr moniker for producing purposes, never as an artist pseudonym. Kinda makes me wonder if it's a real shelved project or if Spicer is just spouting off incorrect information.

eye hate u, spicemillon

purplethunder3121 said:

olb99 said:

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

MIRvmn1 said:

LILpoundCAKE said:

"Calabama" - it was mentioned that this was the title track to an album Prince was working on pre Musicology but it sounded like an alternate take on "Prince and The Band" with some of the same lyrics

cowabunga, calabama! another album we didn't know about. wonder how far along it came before
he went with Musicology and if there's an overlap in tracks.

this shit is interesting.

and that's not even mentioning the Jamie Starr album. I mean that is just

There's probably lot's of unknown unreleased albums in the vault. But the estate thinks merchandise is what we want instead of unreleased music

i would even spend money on a simple pamphlet about an unreleased album, including recording
dates for sessions, personell, (alternate) tracklists. so that is even without the actual music, I'd be
ok with spending some money on those kind of details before I would ever buy a purple bandana
or a 23 positions bed sheet set.

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

If i paid a couple grand to attend idk if id like to know supposedly exclusive songs played for me were being released inna few weeks. I guess thats how they want to make ppl pull out their wallets.

that's the spirit

Landonfunkmonkey said:

Landonfunkmonkey said:

I think it could be more frustrating to hear it once and then not be able to hear it again rather than never getting to hear it.

This is exactly what I thought last year, and I feel the same way this year.