If Primary Wave made overtures to Tyka and bought that remaining 2%, would that give them a controlling interest?

I agree that this is the Prince Estate trying to save face for failing to release the PR SDE this year, which is the ball drop of the century imo. They know what we were expecting, and they know they failed to deliver, for whatever reason. It seems they think the problems will be ironed out by 2025. However, if it doesn't come next year, they should fire themselves.

RODSERLING said:

Seriously, since Londell MakeMillions is running The Estate, he publicly said they would not be doing SDE anymore. Because it's too much time and money for so little revenues. They just released D&P because 1) It was already done 2) So basically the R&D costs were about zero Now that they saw that was such a niche the costly way they are selling that material, they won't be doing it anymore, even if we know Love Symbol SDE is already done. Now, all they wish to exploit from Purple Rain is the 1983 live at 1st avenue. Why? Because it has already been completed and remastered by the previous estate. MakeMillions will run the Prince estate the same way those bastards of MJ estate are running their business. Unreleased material doesn't worth a penny, but musicals, licensing music, biopic, etc. Are where the big money is. And they all don't care about the artist.

When did he say this?

SDE's are a stupid and narrow minded format for releases. That being said, if the only alternative is NOTHING because they're too lazy to put thought into it, then yeah keep the SDE's coming. Just ridiculous.

johnpiex said:

Just take a look at any Prince or Paisley Park social media post, and note all of the comments of casual fans gushing over gaudy merchandise or shoe displays at the museum. Those are the folks that Londell is catering to - people who are easily impressed and willing to throw down money for low quality bullshit.

The estate is never going to bother putting out vault releases again as long as Londell and Charles are in charge. I sincerely believe that.

RODSERLING said:

MIRvmn1 said:

SIrSighALot said:

RODSERLING said:

Seriously, since Londell MakeMillions is running The Estate, he publicly said they would not be doing SDE anymore. Because it's too much time and money for so little revenues. link to his public statement? or has it been suddenly deleted..

If I recall correctly it was Sharon Nelson who once said that SDEs cost to much to produce but that was two years ago.

The same who said that the Vault needed to be bring back to Paisley Park because the archiving work cost too much.....seriously....heirs or Mc Millan is a curse for Prince Estate!

fredmagnus said:

fredmagnus said:

Sharon, Londell, Charles are all to be thrown in the same garbage can.

^that's fucked up, what you did.

Morris don't like it, and i don't like it, either.

This Estate is giving less to the fans than the OJ estate is to the Goldman family

strawberryletter23 said:

RODSERLING said:

erik319 said:

I told u guys this Estate was trash from day 1.

There are NO surrpises here.

When an underdeserving group gets their hands on money,

everything goes 2 shit.

These people have zero interest in preserving anything related 2 Prince.

When he was alive, he didn't deal with any of them.

What does that tell u?

[Edited 8/9/24 2:38am]

Maybe we'll get a 40th Anniversary ATWIAD SDE to make up for the epic PR SDE fail, but I'm not holding my breath

If they're going to continue to celebrate PR into 2025, might that be an indication that a PR Super Deluxe could come later? Total speculation, and I'm not sure how linked the two things are.

I haven't received one yet, but my friends forward me this from PP yesterday.

This only works for people who live in MN. Others need to buy flights, hotel, rideshare/rental...in order to use the code. SMH

I guessss they are trying? We don't need PR 2.0 though!

Hello Purple Fam!

We understand that you were dissatisfied with the duration of your tour at Celebration 2024. Rest assured that this will be rectified during Celebration 2025. In the meantime, we would like to extend a gratis Paisley Experience tour to all 2024 VIP ticket holders. Come back and see the evolution of The Purple Rain Experience through the end of the year!

We sincerely thank you for you patronage, and we hope to see you soon!

To redeem your free tour:

Use promo Code (I have removed code) when booking a Paisley Experience tour via our website.

erik319 said:

Just stop buying fucking bedsheets and totebags & paying extortionate amounts to go to Celebrations. It's that simple. If they only make money out of his music, they'll release more music.

Now now, I think "Come" bedsheets could be interesting.

CRM said:

erik319 said:

Just stop buying fucking bedsheets and totebags & paying extortionate amounts to go to Celebrations. It's that simple. If they only make money out of his music, they'll release more music.

Now now, I think "Come" bedsheets could be interesting.

Jesus what a disaster

[Edited 11/8/24 15:33pm]

Just saw this. WTF?! Prince isn't/wasn't a one-hit wonder, why are they dragging the PR anniversary out to cover another year?

Gooddoctor23 said:

These people have zero interest in preserving anything related 2 Prince.

When he was alive, he didn't deal with any of them.

Londell was definitely involved with Prince during his lifetime.