I just copied & pasted this from Housequake.com.Props to henno for first posting this .Apologies if this has been posted already:



UPTOWN presents THE VAULT
– The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince

THE VAULT combines the approaches of UPTOWN's two acclaimed books, TURN IT UP 2.0 and DAYS OF WILD, to create a phenomenally detailed document of Prince's work. Exploring every facet of Prince's life and career in depth and detail, THE VAULT is the most fully comprehensive and authoritative guide to Prince's music ever assembled.

THE VAULT is A5-sized (148 x 210 mms), 700 pages (!), with a full-colour cover. It weighs nearly 900 grams. The book is split into seven main chapters, each devoted to a different aspect of Prince's musical world.

DAYS OF WILD: THE CHRONOLOGY is a detailed chronology of the day-to-day life of Prince, from 1958 to 2003. His record releases, recording sessions, concerts, aftershow performances, TV appearances, and countless other minor and major events are recorded, creating a virtual diary of Prince's 25-year career. The previous chronologies (from Per Nilsen's book A Documentary and the UPTOWN book DAYS OF WILD) have been thoroughly revised and improved upon with countless additional details.

JOINTS 4 DAYS: THE RECORDINGS documents Prince's recordings in meticulous detail. An A-Z index of released and unreleased songs lists over 1,000 original Prince compositions, while a "sessionography" dissects all known Prince recording sessions since 1976. Nearly 500 songs are assessed in a survey of Prince's unreleased music, revealing the universe of Prince that goes beyond the officially released music and pointing the way to numerous unreleased gems in the Prince canon. The chapter includes a complete catalogue of songs released on his albums, non-album songs, Internet-only songs, songs written for and released by other artists, and guest appearances on songs written and released by other artists. Also archived are a number of radio shows produced with Prince's involvement, including all the editions of the NPG Music Club "Ahdio Shows."

A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT: THE APPEARANCES deals with Prince's appearances before the public. His tours, one-off concerts, guest appearances with other artists, TV and radio appearances, and press conferences are described.

PICTURE THIS: THE FILMS AND VIDEOS examines Prince's motion pictures, TV films and promo clips. The chapter includes a listing of officially released home videos (VHS and Betamax), LaserDiscs, DVDs, and CD-ROMs. Unreleased film/video projects are also discussed.

IN A WORD OR 2: THE INTERVIEWS looks at the interviews Prince has given, documenting interviews published in the printed media and on the Internet, as well as interviews broadcast on TV and radio.

OPEN BOOK: THE PUBLICATIONS focuses on Prince in print, describing and assessing his officially sanctioned publications (books and magazines) and tour programmes, as well as the countless books published without his involvement.

PURPLE MUSIC: THE CIRCULATING RECORDINGS is an exhaustive catalogue of recordings that circulate amongst a vast international network of fans and collectors: unreleased songs, audio and video recordings of concerts and rehearsals, TV and radio appearances, unaired TV footage and video clips, and unreleased footage from film/video projects. Bootleg records are not included, however, since UPTOWN entered into an agreement with Prince's organisation in 1999 to avoid the documentation of these types of illegal records.

Painstakingly researched, THE VAULT is truly indispensable for all serious Prince collectors and for anyone with more than a passing interest in one of popular music's most gifted, prolific, and influential artists. THE VAULT's wealth of information, detail, insight, and thorough knowledge of Prince's work add new dimensions to the artist. Every detail of his amazing career is here: every song released and unreleased, every concert played, every aftershow performed, every TV and radio appearance made, and every collectible recording in existence. In short, THE VAULT is the ultimate encyclopaedia to the music of Prince.

And it's only $50 to the Benelux and France!

Basically it's an updated version of the Turn it Up 2.0 and Days of Wild books put out by Uptown:

http://www.uptown.se/2002...ault.shtml
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I'm going to get this ASAP!

Always good to be up to date on these things. Turn it up 2 was my bible for a while.

700 pages It's like a freakin bible!

yum.




















...bring on march 2004!!!

everyone gonna say this is great ,


well fuck that, i just ordered their last two books a few weeks back then they announce this bloody thing now !!!

FUCK !!


OFF !

It's a long wait, but I already pre-ordered.

Love me some Uptown books!

PhilG said:

Why not call it the Funk Bible!

Issue 1 will sell big time. But from then on, it will die a death.

Buy each year for a few pages of update? Not going to happen.

FunkyStrange said:

right?

Looks like Uptown is doing their own version of "The Chocolate Invasion" recycling past stories and past magazine issues and past books, because they have run out of things to write.

I can't wait!!!

Romance1600 said:

Same with me!

Obviously I got it right waiting a looong time and hesitate to order the previous editions. Ah well, this is going to be some FAT parcel...

Wolf

looks like a must have.

900 hundred grams of pure joy!

seanski said:

Trust me, it was considered.

Along with serveral other possible titles but the whole team agreed that "The Vault" was by far the best (and didn't offend like "The Funk Bible" could

Can't wait!

NuPwrSoul said:

I appreciate the point however this is not just a re-hash but inlcudes updates of TIU & DOW plus additional material.

We certainly haven't run out of things to write, just merely changed the publishing format due to the way that Prince news is dissementated these days (i.e. the internet).

Gav

bloody hell

I will probably buy the bloody thing anyway ...

I hope Record Time gets this.

Sounds great...I'll definitely buy it next March. It will be a great reference for years and years 2 come.

TRON said:

"Record Time" ??

Wow,that book looks amazing! 700 pages?! You can ALWAYS count on the Uptown folks to give you the most detailed and thorough Prince books,filled with all the info you will EVER need about Prince's music.If it wasn't for Uptown,most of us wouldn't know anything about Prince's unreleased recordings.Much props to those guys!!

When is this due out again? I read yesterday in March or April but can't find it now.

Nevermind I just saw the title of the thread.

Gav said:

Will you let us buy just the updates, so we don't have to pay for what we already have?

TRON said:

Record Time eh? Where do you live Tron? I'm just outside of Ferndale...

I'm truly excited about this. I don't collect a lot of things other than albums and the occasional magazine, so this will be a great addition.

NuPwrSoul said:

there will be a revised "The Vault" each year, not sure if they'll be just an update publication however with the number of changes and supplemental info produced for each edition this would probably not be cost effective.

Gav said:

Ok, I understand, but when will you start shipping this book to those who ordered it?

seanski said:

Nevermind!