databank said:

At least a few medias are reproting the fans' frustrations... at long last!

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Isn't it beyond sad that this 10th anniversary is overshadowed by this nonsense? And fans predicted this when Londell came to be in charge! Great job they're doing with Prince's legacy.

Some short interview clips with Londell in this video: https://www.youtube.com/w...z9T7ql-8SE

themanfromneptune said:

bizzie said:

ElGorillos said:

«McMillan, who has become the face and de facto spokesman for all things Prince these days, acknowledged, “there is a role that we can play better in communicating and embracing fan input.”»

And yet, he still does not get it... <facepalm>

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The video linked above says how the Q&A started with Lonnie talking at the people present for a long time at the start, and listing their accomplishments (I hope someone challenged him to list all 50 he was boasting about on Twitter). And the rest of it seems to have been him whining how hard is job is while accidentally revealing that the estate is incompetent.

Exactly!

He's counting releases from the previous Estate management as his own accomplishments.

He also did this at last years Vault panel and during some recent interviews.

And the irony: asking for fan input and then putting an NDA on it?
That is the opposite of transparency.

SoulAlive said:

themanfromneptune said:

"There are plans for a deluxe edition 40^th anniversary release of the celebrated Prince & the Revolution cult favorite Parade soundtrack from the 1986 film Under The Cherry Moon, set for next year"

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Uh, next year?

Yeah,apparently it takes them YEARS to compile a bunch of songs that have already been recorded decades ago,lol

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Ah but you see, it has to be presented at the perfect moment.

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These clowns didn't have a release ready for when the vault was free, and seemingly best we can get this year is a bunch of singles that will get compiled into an album (buy the same shit twice, kids!), so max a dozen unreleased tracks. And perhaps some deluxe releases (i.e. no new music).

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But they're too busy with their "real jobs", and managing the estate (a job they chose to do, against the wishes of fans who knew these clowns would bungle it) is just too much effort. But I bet they can manage to cash their paycheck each month.

As infuriating as it is to have to deal with these idiots, it's kind of nice that our mutual contempt for Spicer and McMillan is like the ONE thing that has ever united the Org.

(Which says a lot about their total ineptitude.)

bizzie said:

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These clowns didn't have a release ready for when the vault was free, and seemingly best we can get this year is a bunch of singles that will get compiled into an album (buy the same shit twice, kids!), so max a dozen unreleased tracks.

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TBH I wouldn't spit on the only decent project that might actually see the light of day. I'd rather have a series of Vaults than some expensive SDE where I only care about the vault songs.

themanfromneptune said:

happyshopper said:

andrewcherry said:

happyshopper said:

They don’t have an archivist at the moment. They fired 2 and haven’t employed another. They have lists of tracks to include probably, from Duane and Michael, but someone’s got to find it all and get it all remastered. Good luck! 😫

speaking of duane - does anyone know what’s happened to him? his book was almost finished a while ago

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No it wasn't. It takes a long time to write such books, and especially since the years he is now writing about have less documented studio work (no studio records from PP,...). First book was published in 2017, second in 2021, so he isn't taking that much longer.

andrewcherry said:

happyshopper said:

They don’t have an archivist at the moment. They fired 2 and haven’t employed another. They have lists of tracks to include probably, from Duane and Michael, but someone’s got to find it all and get it all remastered. Good luck! 😫

speaking of duane - does anyone know what’s happened to him? his book was almost finished a while ago but i haven’t seen any updates in a very long time. i wondered if his estate dismissal complicated the publication process in some way.

My understanding is that he's still at it. Be patient

bizzie said:

bizzie said:

FrankieCoco1 said:

dustoff said:

andrewcherry said:

i haven’t seen any updates in his facebook group

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The FB group is kinda dead because nothing is happening (as in: there aren't relevant articles in magazines etc.). Doesn't help that the few times something is happening then nobody seems to be around to approve a post.

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It is ridiculous how the estate is failing to "keep Prince alive". Just release an unreleased track each month, even if it's a random thing and not part of an upcoming release and have a story to go with it. Now it has been months since Prince was last featured in magazines like Mojo or Uncut, except as a reference point in a review or as a mention by another artist.

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CEO's and business leads get too many chances.......ie golden parachutes.

Both those 2 clowns running things you just are out of time fuckers..... move on

You have proved you are terrible.

Now it's due to video.....

Ok so release the audio which is a 10 yr campaign at the least...... when video is ready then release it

Try this self help message you 2 goons.......

Progress not perfection..

Enough already

At this point I don't really care anymore. I come on here from time to time to see if there is any news, and there usually isn't. At this point, I just enjoy all of his music and shows I already have and leave it at that. They seriously couldn't f his legacy up more than they already have.

Lately I've been recommended (by YouTube) shorts that are excerpts from the One Song podcast, in which they strip apart songs from the multitracks and tell stories, often with some of the musicians also commenting, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/s...cpPh2ztjYU .

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The estate should do that with legendary tracks and haven people who were involved in the recording comment on them, or even band members who might not be on the track but were around and can provide insight. Just give us snippets of isolated vocals or drums etc., and perhaps even unused bits from the multitrack.

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Instead they do nothing.

I fully agree.

Just read about the upcoming Blu-ray Audio release of Tina Turner's Private Dancer. https://superdeluxeeditio...e-blu-ray/ . It has SEVEN different audio streams. TWENTY-FIVE stereo bonus tracks. And SEVEN promo videos.

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Now compare to the Purple Rain Blu-ray audio which only has the Dolby Atmos mix and a HiRes encode of the original mix.

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Why can't we have nice things like that? Why is it always minimum effort? Why am I supposed to believe that this would be too expensive to do?