SoulAlive said:

I'd love to simply go through Motown's vaults and just raid that muthafucka dry

Hell, you know Stevie's vault got some serious gems....but he won't let us hear them

Of all my favorite artists, I'd like to go into the vaults of
Stevie
Michael
The Brothers Johnson
Marvin
Minnie Riperton
Leroy Burgess
The Style Council

Motown does a little better releasing stuff in the past years but they still sit on ALOT. Yeah I'd love to go through their vault and then some. Not just hear the songs itself, rather I'd wanna have the master tapes, so you can hear every instrument and vocal track separately.

NMuzakNSoul said:

Did you see that clip of that American Masters episode on Marvin?


THEY HAD MARVIN'S VOCALS ON PRO TOOLS! I was in awe



http://www.hypebot.com/hy...vault.html

I gotta get a job at either Universal or Sony

bboy87 said:

Haven't seen this thanks man checking now!

I know that dude Harry he actually said on the Motown board in '03 the Stevie/J5/MJ album is up to Stevie as far as he knows.

Man... wish I could work there also.

Hell yeah at the James Jamerson Bass can't go wrong with Levi's vocal there. That's the stuff I could listen to for hours if I had the master tapes.

NMuzakNSoul said:

You're referring to Harry Weinger I used to post on the Motown boards too.We were always asking him about these unreleased projects.

SoulAlive said:

Yep that's him.

NMuzakNSoul said:

I'd be posting new shit on the org every week

bboy87 said:

I know right? lol. I wouldn't even go on my lunch break I'd just be sitting down checing tapes, vocals, instruments...

Now that's a job you WANNA work overtime for.

NMuzakNSoul said:

sneakin' shit out of the building under your jacket

Bringing piles of blank CDs to work

When I heard a snippet of the original 1974 version of Stevie's "Cryin' Through The Night" it made me mad he's holding on to this stuff


and Michael? The minute I heard Got The Hots, I was floored. Thinking "This bastard's been holding THIS back?!"

A little part of me died inside when it faded out

There's some stuff I'd love to hear. The classical stuff he was writing back in '79, You Not Me (some of the lyrics were later used in This Had To Be), The Price of Fame, In The Life of Chico, the solo version of Why, the 1983 version of Dirty Diana....alot of stuff
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bboy87 said:

That's exactly what I would do.

Yeah at "Cryin Through The Night" and he does that a lot, The 70s live instrumentation kicks the cold synth sound of the "Characters" version's ass... A lot of his songs just sit there for years even a beauty of a song like "Overjoyed" he kept for at least seven years before putting it on record. That's all kinds of wrong.

As for Michael, yep same story. Stevie and Mike got that crazyness in common, sitting on their stuff. I had that same feeling when I heard "Monkey Business" years ago and that's a demo too. Funky. That's some lower register Mike vocals right there. I felt like calling all the brothers for a pillow fight 5 against 1.

NMuzakNSoul said:

Aww man, I went truly off when I heard Monkey Business

Like in 2004 or 2005, someone sent me a CD that had

Serious Effect
Monkey Business
Keep The Faith (demo)
For All Time
In The Closet (demo)
Dangerous (demo)
If You Don't Love Me

then Work That Body and She Got It leaked....

Some stuff from Bad may leak soon too

I'm trying to get my hands on some stuff that's registered at the US Library of Congress. On their site, they say they send copies to people who request and pay for them

so if I can get something...






Somebody on MJJC may be able to get the 1987 performance of Bad of Michael and Stevie singing it as a duet

bboy87 said:

I have all those songs, Mike has some gems laying around, "She Got It" that's some Prince esque funky stuff right there. I also love the Bassline in the "In The Closet" demo too during the chorus.

Some more stuff from Bad may leak huh... I remember when the "Bad Session Tapes" were on E-Bay, I just didn't have the money to buy it.

I'll around. though the upcoming time.

Sounds good about the Libary of Congress good luck with that man.

Seriously about Stevie and Mike? It's the same show where they sang "Just Good Friends" right in Sydney? Stevie stayed for "Bad" on stage. Didn't know they performed it together though! I know Stevie dug the production and song "Bad" a lot, although the second half of his own song "Ordinary Pain" from "Songs In The Key Of Life" sounds a lot like it. Check it out and see.
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bboy87 said:

Why do they still holding the freakin record , what the hell, release it

bboy87 said:

So how about it, SoulAlive. Wanna kidnap Stevie?

angel345 said:

let's do it

SoulAlive said:

seeingvoices12 said:

Probably they are waiting for one of them to die before they release it.

whatsgoingon said:

U may be right.

whatsgoingon said:

I wouldn't be surprised.

Although Stevie wants everything unreleased destroyed if he passes, the question is if that will happen...

NMuzakNSoul said:

For some odd reason I don't think it would be burned, unless Stevie's children have a say in that...

Timmy84 said:

Why on Earth would anyone want 2 destroy art?

Graycap23 said:

Maybe he changed his mind by now, there's so much unreleased material that can be shared. Anyway, I hope Stevie stays with us for a long long time.

NMuzakNSoul said:

Some collectors have some stuff but they've only shared snippets

They also need to remaster Stevie's albums too, especially Characters

NMuzakNSoul said:

His entire shit needs to be remastered WITH unreleased material, that's probably the reason for the hold-up.

Graycap23 said:

Perhaps because he doesn't think they're good enough. Some artists are perfectionists and anything that ain't perfect is trash. If this is true, he'd NOT be the 1st one to destroy stuff he thinks is not up to snuff.

NMuzakNSoul said:

Actually that was at the Brisbane show during the Bad tour. Only time it was played in the set.

Anybody down with breaking into Stevie's crib and jackin' him master tapes?

LittleBLUECorvette said:

I am!