I only know U Gotta Shake Someting - it's my favourite Prince's unreleased jam after Wasn't My Faith? ( if only it was officially released) so was The Flesh a real band? ( P, Levi, Sheila & Eric ?)

Boriiis!

The whole kaboodle was relayed in an issue of Uptown, then later in Turn It Up and Days Of Wild, and presumably in The Vault.

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I guess

The Flesh was a precursor to Madhouse. Like Madhouse, it
was a jazz/funk instrumental group. The band consisted of
Prince, Eric Leeds, Sheila E. and Levi Seacer Jr.
One of the three sessions they recorded also featured Lisa,
Wendy and Jonathan Melvoin as well, and it was out of this
session that Prince compiled an album on the 22nd Jan 1996.
Here's the tracklisting...

side 1:
Junk Music

side 2:
Up From Below
Y'all Want Some More?
A Couple Of Miles

Prince also planned to release U Gotta Shake Something as
a one off 12" single, even though it was not included on
the album (it's not known what track he planned to put on
the b-side)

Here's a list of the tracks they recorded in the 3 sessions.
Session 1: Paisley Jam (Dec 28 1985)
Slaughterhouse
U Just Can't Stop
Run Amok
Mobile
Madrid
Breathless
High Calonic
12 Keys

Session 2: Paisley Jam 2 (Dec 30 1985)
U Gotta Shake Something
Voodoo Who
Finest Whiskey

Session 3: Everybody's Jam (Jan 5 1986)
(with Wendy, Lisa & Jonathan)
Groove In C Minor
Slow Groove In G Major
Groove In G Flat Minor
Junk Music
Up From Below
Y'all Want Some More?

The track 'A Couple Of Miles' was an instrumental that
Prince recorded solo on Dec 26 1985. Eric Leeds then added
Saxophone to it 4 days later. A snippet of the track 'Junk
Music' can be heard in the movie 'Under The Cherry Moon'
during the sequence where Christopher Tracy and Mary Sharon
Race each other.
[This message was edited Thu Jan 22 17:14:13 PST 2004 by BorisFishpaw]

I hope that one day I have all these tracks in my possession to listen to over and over.That would be something.

This is the kind of stuff it would be so easy for NPGMC to post as downloads, and that would make the fans very happy.

Wasn't My Faith.

???

He sings "Was it my..." doesn't he?
Is that song original?

rockwilder said:

Wanna know how The Flesh sound like? )
Probably try to imagine something like "Xpectation" mixed with "NEWS" and some "SOUNDCHECKS" added to it and a bit of "Madhouse" melodies inbetween... BUT probably less perfect, and far better than thelatest instrumental releases i guess.
I'm also dying to have these tracks. They seem far more intersting to me than anything else Prince put out after mid 90s.
The thing with Prince's previous instrumental tracks is this : he wasn't after so much musician-quality-perfectionism, and therefor the sound which he created with those older musicians was much more warmer and coloured with little unfinished tickels here and there. Ever since he created that 'New Power Generation' band/idea, he always tried to create music which competed with the skills of his technically very good musicians, cause he wanted so bad to have these best quality musicians around him. Well they actually made him sound perfectly rehearsed, but less warm, and way too perfect. Even live, i loved it when he was surrounded with those very prolific musician like during the Revolution era, who dare to stand up against him, and tell him what they thought - which made Prince doubt himself in the best way possible (i think). This is something i barely cannot imagine of any other new musicians ever since he started to recruit new ones for any NPG configuration he played with afterwards.

Those recordings alone are worth a fortune for hearing Prince AND his revolution musicians develloping himself/themselves into new processes and musical styles, like Jazzfunk à la early PaisleyPark sounds. (etc..)
Those previous greater musicians took part in the creation process much more than any other later added NPG memeber.
And i know that Kirk and Sonny and Michael meant a lot to him, but they didn't add much more funk to our Prince, or to his output.
I even don't like the unreleased Madhouse material he recorded with those guys. It sounds way too clean and too perfect. I loved it when there was some 'fun' to be heard in the process of creating those older sessions.. Therefor alone i would like to hear every note he recorded with the Revolution, every soundcheck, every fart!
:cod:

DOROTHYPARK said:

I agree about the creative alchemy. But I like the recent live lineup though (as seen on Aladdin), which I think has a good mixture of power and sensitivity. It's the first one to do justice to the Revolution-era tracks, IMO. It's good to have Eric Leeds back. His style is so different from Maceo's... I think Prince needs both!

thanks Boris & everyone

I want all of it. :covet:

BorisFishpaw said:

Boris, was Slaughterhouse the song and or album culled from these sessions, the same as advertised to be part of Chocolate Invasion?

I like the released Madhouse stuff and the latest version of his band,as well.They do different things.I like both.I agree with you,Dot,that the unreleased Madhouse stuff and the stuff done by Kirky J all sounds plastic.Of course,there are songs here and there that are cool,despite the wack drum sounds and too-thick '90's keyboard "bass" sounds,but ...I like the warmer sounds,also.