This is Crazy
what is this Ways of the Pharaoh cult anyways?

High NPGMC,

We need ur help. The NPG is looking 4 anything with a WB logo that was UNOFFICIALLY released during Prince's tenure at that label. This includes all of the following:

"Back 2 Back" releases:
German CD-singles -
Little Red Corvette/1999 - 7599-21184-2 (1989)
Erotic City/I Would Die 4 U - 7599-21185-2 (1989)
Let's Go Crazy/Take Me With U - 7599-21186-2 (1989)
When Doves Cry/Purple Rain - 7599-21187-2 (1989)
Kiss/Girls And Boys/Under The Cherry Moon - 7599-21188-2 (1989)

"Back 2 Back" releases:
US 7" singles -
I Wanna Be Your Lover/Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad - GWB 0392 (1987) 1999/Little Red Corvette - GWB 0468 (1987) Delirious/Let's Pretend We're Married - GWB 0476 (1987) When Doves Cry/Let's Go Crazy - GWB 0516 (1987) I Would Die 4 U/Take Me With U - GWB 0517 (1987) Purple Rain/Raspberry Beret - GWB 0528 (1987) Pop Life/America - GWB 0529 (1987) Sign O' The Times/U Got The Look - 7-21938 (1989) Alphabet Street/I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man - 7-10039 (1989) Batdance/Partyman - 7-21859 (1990) Diamonds & Pearls/Insatiable - 7-15990 (1993) Cream/Gett Off- 7-15991 (1993)

"Back 2 Back" releases:
German 7" singles -
Anotherloverholenyohead/I Wanna Be Your Lover - 928521-7 (1986) Girls And Boys/Under The Cherry Moon with She's Always In My Hair/17 Days - 928585-7 (1986)

"2-On-1" releases
US cassettes
Controversy/Dirty Mind - 4F-23953 (1982)
Controversy/Dirty Mind - 4-23953 (1982) [slightly different O-card]

"BackTrax" releases:
US cassette singles -
1999/Little Red Corvette - 4-00468 (1989)
Alphabet St./I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man - 4-21858 (1990) 1999/Little Red Corvette - 4-00468 (1993) [blue O-card] Diamonds & Pearls/Insatiable - 4-15990 (1993) Cream/Gett Off - 4-15991 (1993)

"BackTrax" releases:
US CD singles -
1999/Little Red Corvette - 2-468 (1992)
Diamonds & Pearls/Insatiable - 2-15990 (1993)
Cream/Gett Off - 2-15991 (1993)

"ep" Remix Samplers:
Japanese CDs -
Scandalous Sex Suite - WPCP-3199 (1989) [9 tracks]
New Power Generation - WPCP-4200 (1991) [9 tracks]
Gett Off - WPCP-4630 (1991) [12 tracks]
My Name Is Prince - WPCP-5149 (1989) [8 tracks]

CD box set:
German CDs -
Around The World In A Day / Parade / Controversy - 7599-25944-2 (1992)

"Royal Box" release:
UK CD-singles -
When Doves Cry, 1999, Let's Go Crazy, Kiss, I Would Die 4 U - IMC506002 (1999) [Also includes a 1999 calendar, a golden guitar-shaped badge, a limited edition certificate on 'Purple Rain' sheet music & a framed full color photo of Prince. Comes in a gold & purple velvet box with a golden TAFKAP symbol print on the cover. 4" x 8" x 10" in size.]

"Double Feature" releases:
UK home videos -
Purple Rain/Graffiti Bridge - PES 12544 (1992)

If u have copies of anything in the list above or anything with a wb logo on it that is not on this list that falls in2 this category, please send 2:

The Ways of the Pharaoh
PO BOX 169
Vermilion, OH
44089-0169

In addition 2 the list above, we r gathering 2gether all Prince bootlegs. Send them 2 the same address.

All member info will kept confidential. Ur help is greatly appreciated.

Love4oneanther,
The NPG Music Club


[This message was edited Wed Jul 23 14:48:20 PDT 2003 by CapedCrusader]

I just got this email a second ago. At the bottom they're asking members to send their Prince bootlegs to them...yeah, right

Huh?

It's there's to release.

LadyCabDriver said:

I wonder if this is legit...

he doesn't refer to himself as TAFKAP

a master hack perhaps?
Dont do it!

and why Ohio?

It's definitely a legitimate Club email.

PP9 began a thread on the U Tell Us forum over at NPGMC and posted the same text as the email.

either way, those folks can kiss my chocolate iowan ass, ain't nobody sendin 'em jack-dookie...

It's mad. I do have some WB-branded 12" singles from Germany that don't seem to be mentioned in any of the official lists... but how likely is that I will post these off to NPGMC? Er, not very. Post off my bootlegs too? I don't think so. I honestly thought this post was a joke before I went to NPGMC and saw it with my own eyes...

I mean, if they were just looking for information, I am happy to give them that... but no more.

they may be trying to build a legal case regarding the defense of a WB claim or something.

perhaps they were served with discovery requests asking for all bootlegs pertaining to the WB years and they wouldn't know or have copies of these 'unofficial releases' themselves since the releases were bootlegs.

they may actually need help with this, guys

I've just posted my thoughts on this in the NPGMC forum in theblueangel's thread 'Mail in our bootlegs to the club? WTF?'

I will never understand Prince and his club's logic.

XxAxX said:

maybe...but i doubt it.

XxAxX said:

Puh-leaze!
what type of case demands all the actual evidence back
Who could the case be against? WB? from my slight understanding of the industry they have the rights to the music. call them what u will, but Prince signed a deal. WB music is not bootlegged music! Slave or not it's legit.

as for bootlegs...what will having the actual music help? he's simply trying desperately to see how many faithful fams he has a stonghold over. Who could he be filing this case against?

I'll gladly send him Cd-rs if he pays for my cost

i'll even make fancy artwork. I think he'd like that



mmm... Iowan Ass

CRACK KILLS.

CapedCrusader said:

what the hell is going on, y'all? this is a trip! i understand going up against the record company but to get the fans involved is just about a trip!
i think we need a better explanation.
has anyone written back to NPGMC?

yes, it must be the most astonishing undertaking of the NPGMC during all the three years (let's leave out the whole issue of delivering the goods, it's another story). I read the email and I thought "yeah right".

What came to my mind first was - they want us to deliver on our costs things that we bought and, in case of the official WB stuff, belong to us (as I assume the rights to the recordings have been transferred upon purchase legitly). And they don't even give a reason for that.

Just an order: pick up the things, pack them, post them on your costs and you don't even need to know why. Do they really think we are that blind when it comes to Prince?

Sounds like a test. But even taking on a silliest test usually has its reason known to both sides.

Since I don't know the cause I will skip this test, alright?

btw, the email starts with "Help the Cause"...what is this message included in the NEWS flash thing?

He Cause to Become?

Coincidence or Fate?

just read this email.

HA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HA!!!


yeah, right. It's in the mail.

SynthiaRose said:

ditto.

WTF is going on?

I'm gonna write to them, give them the list of what I have, along with standard eBay prices and P&P costs to MPLS. I'll make a fortune!

ian said:

I think I'll join you

i just replied to the email and i asked them for an explanation. let's see if they even bother to reply.

who wants to bet that the Vermont address belongs to the Warner Brothers CEO?

I agree with Prince in principle but not in practice.

I would be better served releasing his own personal recordings of concerts and selling them via NPGMC than to reclaim 1000's of bootlegs.

It is a shame that he did not have the foresight to do so with the original NPGMC.

OK its official, Prince has totally gone off the deepend of the the purple pool. Someone out there in org-land has to live in Vermilion Ohio. Your mission is to go and spy on that P.O. Box and see who picks up the stuff and where they go with it. My guess is that its Tony M.

Hey Prince, I got bootlegs up the ass. But I only trade. What you got for me? Send me your list Squig.

squirrelgrease said:

squirrelgrease said:

squirrelgrease, be careful! i heard he wuz on that bad traders list...

CapedCrusader said:

Well, not that I think that there is or isn't a lawsuit in the works, but if WB "unofficially" released his music without giving him his cut of the sales, then yeah he'd have one heck of a lawsuit.