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Where any of you all ever a member on Prince's NPG Music Club website? Just curious who was on there back in the day and still come here and post | |
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I was.
I remember the day it opened. My computer couldn't handle it. It made the monitor flicker so much it was unusable. There was some good stuff but ultimately it failed to live up.to my hopes for it [Edited 2/11/25 19:39pm] | |
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I’d assume most here were members! 😃 | |
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Member from day 1 till it folded. | |
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I was a member. I didn't have many expectations for it so I guess that's why I don't feel let down. I got access to some songs I wouldn't have otherwise heard (at the time), it was my first exposure to artists like Ani Difranco and I got some sweet seats for a couple of shows. No complaints here. | |
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Lotusflower was a weird site... "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0 | |
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Yes. Enjoyed it until Prince jacked me on Lotus Flower. Paid $77 for something he sold for $12 at target. Graycap23 was ME! | |
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Yes. It was exciting and at the same time, we complained all the time, as usual. [Edited 2/12/25 7:30am] | |
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I was. I remember waiting for hours for its music to finally download. | |
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. Friends don't let friends clap on 1 and 3.
The Paisley Park Vault spreadsheet: https://goo.gl/zzWHrU | |
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Yeah, I was, after a few teething problems, what it ended up offering in terms of exclusive products, the NPGAHDIO formats (surely, a precursor to Podcasts) and access to tickets (i'm UK based) made for a fabulous fan/customer relationship engagement proposition - that many brands to this day would love to be able to offer. | |
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I was. I loved it. The best part was early/easy access to the best seats at concerts. When I saw the Musicology tour I was in the first row for every show. It was well worth the membership.... "New Power slide...." | |
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Yes! Unfortunately, napster was still legal, so Prince made all his music files "DRM". If you somehow lost your downloads from NPGMC after napster lost it's legal rights, Of course one can get all the files now, but back then it was frustrating! There were a handful of songs from that era that had an original version, but later were changed for the 'Chocolate Invasion' compilation. "Whatever skin we're in
we all need 2 b friends" | |
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I was in the first edition (mp3 files) and second one (cds). | |
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Yes | |
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Yeah I'd assume most of us were. It was a bit of a bumpy launch, they're written a custom client app (maybe built in Quicktime or something very Apple-centric?) rather than a web client so it was all a bit messy to start with, stability issues, download issues. It was pretty awesome though, very ahead of its time, and the thing I felt was most promising was the NPG Ahdio shows, I really wish they'd kept that going but it became clear over time that Prince himself wouldn't always be available to get involved etc so it felt like it sort of fizzled out. | |
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I was and I absolutely LOVED the first year, it was so exciting Then of course from the second year onwards not much happened anymore, which was a pity, but those first 12 months were fabulous as far as I was concerned. I wish he'd kept that formula going. A COMPREHENSIVE PRINCE DISCOGRAPHY (work in progress ^^): https://sites.google.com/...scography/ | |
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THAT was crazy. To this day I still have no idea what he was thinking. The website was gorgeous, it was so exciting on the day it opened. Then... vitually nothing for the rest of the year. He could effortlessly have dropped some new material every month. It was like purposedly trying to antagonize his most loyal fanbase. Weird. A COMPREHENSIVE PRINCE DISCOGRAPHY (work in progress ^^): https://sites.google.com/...scography/ | |
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I have nothing to add to the conversation, just wanted to say your signature gave me a good chuckle! +e | |
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This could be nostalgia talking but I wonder if a better way to distribute Prince's vault material could be more akin to the NPGMC subscription model.
Bring back NPGMC | |
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Yes! > It was wonderful, with the access to top-notch concert seating and soundcheck access, the variety of "rooms" to wander around and play in, nice merchandise access--rare and vintage--at reasonable prices, and the guaranteed music features sent to your home were brilliant! I loved the Ahdio Shows, but those and whatever downloads came from them were excruciating to try and download over a CREEPING telephone modem and mostly didn't happen for me. That was a tech limitation of the day for a lot of people. I could stream a lot for a novelty listen, though. I was able to download the Xenophobia collection it its entirety and also copy it onto CD--all of that still works for me! Dumb luck, I guess--or maybe just simple-tech perseverance. > There was SO much potential for music distribution here, community networking, you name it! I was so shocked when it all came to a halt after the copyright to "NPG" was discovered to have been secured by a different media agent. > I'm happy that another of his contemporaries, Sananda Maitreya fka TTD, was able to adopt his own version of an online presence in the early 2000s and really run with such an online presence in his own style. All love, baby! ![]() | |
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Yes, the concert seat early options were pretty great. (Insert something clever here) | |
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Getting into the soundchecks was awesome. Really, although there were some technical hiccoughs, NPGMC was pretty great, I'd forgotten just how good. | |
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Yep. Time keeps on slipping into the future...
This moment is all there is... | |
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Nostalgia's all that's left in Princeland... "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0 | |
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YES! where is my shirt? and I bought tickets to a Musicology show and I found out I could not go and they did not issue refunds! So I tried to sell and got emails from...someone...saying they were cancled and I would not get a refund...After a few emails they gave up and I got them and YES I sold them for about the my cost. "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" | |
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. Friends don't let friends clap on 1 and 3.
The Paisley Park Vault spreadsheet: https://goo.gl/zzWHrU | |
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I got 2 ONA Live and 3 ONA. I didn't realize they'd be worth money someday back in 2002, so I resold one ONA Live to a local record store immediately (prabably for peanuts), and gave away my 2 extra ONAs to a friend and a girlfriend... Silly me A COMPREHENSIVE PRINCE DISCOGRAPHY (work in progress ^^): https://sites.google.com/...scography/ | |
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Yesss I loved the NPGMC!
Especially during the ONA tour with the soundcheck access, effin amazing! This was really special.
Also NPGAhdio was fun with new music and related artists.
The Estate should really bring the NPGMC back. | |
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