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Thread started 07/16/20 10:38am

kitbradley

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Questlove Shares Rufus & Chaka Demos & Unreleased Song

The unreleased song comes in around 02:15:00. The "Ask Rufus" demos start around 02:45:00. Boy, did ABC tone down Chaka's vocals on the final album version of "Hollywood". eek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iehw--tUFo0

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Reply #1 posted 07/16/20 12:25pm

SoulAlive

eek this is great!

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Reply #2 posted 07/16/20 2:21pm

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I'm pissed because Quest was talking thru too much of the music. But, those unreleased Ask Rufus sessions, I'd sell my soul for them! music love
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Reply #3 posted 07/16/20 4:17pm

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cool music

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https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #4 posted 07/21/20 12:21pm

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Love this...listening to this now. The Clare Fischer strings on Magic In Your Eyes demo version is sublime.

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Reply #5 posted 07/21/20 3:37pm

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?Love I use to couldn't stand. But he won me over during this quarantine with his HIGHLY impressive live Prince(r.i.p.) tributes.

"That mountain top situation is not really what it's all cracked up 2 B when eye was doing the Purple Rain tour eye had a lot of people who eye knew eye'll never c again @ the concerts.just screamin n places they thought they was suppose 2 scream."prince
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Reply #6 posted 07/21/20 3:58pm

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In a seperate broadcast, Quest shared video of a couple of missing in action Soul Train performance. Rufus and Chaka's 1977 appearance and the elusive 1973 appearance, featuring the original line-up, when most of the Rufus members were white.
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Reply #7 posted 07/22/20 8:03am

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I would buy ANY Rufus and Chaka unreleased material! It's a damn shame this stuff is not easily accessible.

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Reply #8 posted 07/23/20 5:37am

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Either she burnt her bridges with the industry or doesn’t give a damn at all, otherwise it doesn’t make sense why her Rufus & solo eras are left out of the reissuing treatments. No remasters, nothing. And I certainly don’t want her to drop dead for these stuff to emerge officially, I want her to get the fruit of all that amazing hard work while she’s alive & strong.
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Reply #9 posted 07/23/20 2:06pm

SoulAlive

For years,I have wondered why they don't do anything special with the Rufus and Chaka Kahn catalog.Those 70s albums are incredible! I'd love some fresh remasters with bonus outtakes,demos....the whole nine yards.

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Reply #10 posted 07/23/20 2:06pm

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Hamad said:

Either she burnt her bridges with the industry or doesn’t give a damn at all, otherwise it doesn’t make sense why her Rufus & solo eras are left out of the reissuing treatments. No remasters, nothing. And I certainly don’t want her to drop dead for these stuff to emerge officially, I want her to get the fruit of all that amazing hard work while she’s alive & strong.

I agree

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Reply #11 posted 07/23/20 2:14pm

SoulAlive

BalladofPeterParker said:

I would buy ANY Rufus and Chaka unreleased material! It's a damn shame this stuff is not easily accessible.

yeah I agree.I hope the record company sees this thred biggrin

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Reply #12 posted 07/24/20 1:23pm

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Chaka says she has gained ownership of her masters. If this is the case, the ball is in her court.
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Reply #13 posted 07/24/20 6:38pm

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lool said:

Chaka says she has gained ownership of her masters. If this is the case, the ball is in her court.

When did she say that? I read just last year where she was still battling Warner Brothers for all of her vault material. She has never said a word about any Rufus vault material recorded at MCA/ABC and neither have I heard people close to her mention it. I figured some existed but she never mentioned that was something she was pursuing.

I imagine the Rufus material would be a bit more difficult because the entire band, and different variations of it, would be involved as far a owning the masters. Who gets what? At Warner Brothers, other than the "Stompin At the Savvoy" and "Echoes of An Era" albums, she was the sole artist. Personally, I don't understand why Universal or Warner Brothers would continue to hold her masters and vault material hostage since neither seems to be interested in profiting from any of it. The best Warner could muster was a proper reissue of "What Cha Gonna Do For Me" featuring the B-sides from the singles, something we were begging them to do for 25 years. And Universal has done ZERO! Well, I guess we can count remastering the Rufus & Chaka CDs for the Japan market and recycling them for reissue a couple of times as doing something, I suppose. confused


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Reply #14 posted 07/24/20 9:39pm

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lool said:

Chaka says she has gained ownership of her masters. If this is the case, the ball is in her court.

When did she say that?

[Edited 7/24/20 18:55pm]

On episode #247 of RuPaul's podcast "What's The Tee?" @ approximately the 20-minute mark the conversation begins to turn to the subject of her catalog.

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Reply #15 posted 07/24/20 9:55pm

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Time has show again and again how the powers that be are more interested in controlling people. And frankly, some of these people in power would rather destroy an artist's work than to see the artist profit from it. If there was indeed a fire at Universal Music's storage facility...that destroyed thousands of master tapes, I think it's entirely plausible that it was no accident.

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lool said:

Time has show again and again how the powers that be are more interested in controlling people. And frankly, some of these people in power would rather destroy an artist's work than to see the artist profit from it. If there was indeed a fire at Universal Music's storage facility...that destroyed thousands of master tapes, I think it's entirely plausible that it was no accident.



Oh I believe that too, and you definitely posed an interesting reminder. It is very much a true possibility that they would rather be the recipients of those profits than her or any artist for that matter. Two fires in that vault? In what seems to be a rigid security controlled environment? That’s no accident.

My thing is, why would you be sitting on those masters and do Dancing with the stars? She could very well let her catalog pay her through life without bothering to show her face to the media again. But then again, I’m ignorant about the ways of the industry and I’m pretty sure she already thought of that too.

*sigh!* I’m just being a selfish Chaka-mad fan lol
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Reply #17 posted 07/25/20 6:59am

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Chaka(whom is my favorite female singer under Teena Marie and I've seen perform live @ Award shows and with Prince{r.i.p} ) several times) has never really had her business together in order because of her other "issues". I recently met someone that lives on her property.

"That mountain top situation is not really what it's all cracked up 2 B when eye was doing the Purple Rain tour eye had a lot of people who eye knew eye'll never c again @ the concerts.just screamin n places they thought they was suppose 2 scream."prince
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lool said:



kitbradley said:




lool said:


Chaka says she has gained ownership of her masters. If this is the case, the ball is in her court.

When did she say that?


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On episode #247 of RuPaul's podcast "What's The Tee?" @ approximately the 20-minute mark the conversation begins to turn to the subject of her catalog.



Hmph! I would like to see that. If she is indeed finally in possession of her WB masters and vault material, I would be curious to know why she isnt profiting from it instead of charging fans $1000 to have a 5 minute coversation with her via some kind of social media platform. confuse
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Reply #19 posted 07/26/20 2:31pm

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https://m.soundcloud.com/rupaul/episode-247-chaka-kahn-whoopi-goldberg

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lool said:

https://m.soundcloud.com/rupaul/episode-247-chaka-kahn-whoopi-goldberg


Wow! Thanks for the link. Great interview. Now I can start harrassing her about releasing "Dare You To Love Me" in its entirety. biggrin
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Reply #21 posted 07/28/20 12:54am

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Now I can start harrassing her about releasing "Dare You To Love Me" in its entirety. biggrin

lol

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Reply #22 posted 07/28/20 3:18pm

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Wow, that song sounded really good.

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Reply #23 posted 08/04/20 8:21pm

SoulAlive

speaking of Chaka,she has a new live album and DVD,called ‘Homecoming’.Did anyone get a copy yet?
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Reply #24 posted 08/05/20 10:54am

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SoulAlive said:

speaking of Chaka,she has a new live album and DVD,called ‘Homecoming’.Did anyone get a copy yet?

Unfortunately, I ordered the DVD directly from PBS last year when the show aired in December not realizing it would be released on DVD at a fraction of what I paid. lol But, yes, she put on an excellent show! With Chaka, you never know what you are going to get. But, she was on point that night! And she looked stunning!

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Reply #25 posted 08/05/20 1:51pm

SoulAlive

The CD and the DVD are sold separately,which kinda ticks me off biggrin For something like this,I'd like it to be sold in one set.....a CD/DVD combo.

HomecomingHomecoming

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Reply #26 posted 08/05/20 7:18pm

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lool said:

Chaka says she has gained ownership of her masters. If this is the case, the ball is in her court.

eek beg

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