All of those Rhino reissues were excellent pressings and great dynamics, I’d recommend people looking for his “purple patch” (I know) get these before potentially more expensive reissues come along.
A very 1960s Americanism. Interesting subject if one is interested in languages but I am glad it never caught on elsewhere. It is very ugly slang.
One of the fan group's i used to be in (I'm no longer on social media) did the artwork for Phase 1 and 2. He had been commissioned to produce artwork for future HitnRun releases in the same style. Of course that also came to an abrupt end. Pity really as Phase 2 was pretty cool
Did he say how many he was commissioned for? I was only aware that Prince had plans for a third HitnRun (which I don't believe he had any firm tracks for), but it's certainly possible he planned more. My understanding is that he had several things lined up after his Piano tour ended.
Martin Homent. He recently did a tshirt for a friend. I've asked her to ask him. www.martinhoment.com
Sony Legacy - urgh - not hopeful of decent vinyl editions then. Their imprint has been pretty crappy in Europe, the only decent ones where the ones they just repressed from the Music on Vinyl editions (with the MOV stampers). They should give them to MOV to cut. Bet they won't though. In an ideal world they should let Kevin Gray finish his work.
I hope to god they compile them by era and in a sensible way though, nothing worse than having a New Power Generation track next to an outtake from Controversy.
17 Days is...okay. I can’t believe the estate is going to make people pay for Prince just noodling around on the piano for 38 minutes or whatever.
Nobody is making anybody pay. You, the consumer, have a choice. And plenty of options to decide whether they want to pay for "noodling" or not. Plenty of people paid for a third generation cassette copy transferred to bootleg CD with bad noise reduction. Why wouldn't the estate release it from the original source?
You are correct. I should have phrased that better. I find it shocking that the estate/WB is charging as much as they are for 38 minutes of noodling. Albeit noodling at the highest order.
Not on this deal. Probably still lies with Warners. Sony deal was for anything on NPG records I'm guessing, as The Gold Experience was on the NPG label but still on Warners, but seems to be a part of the Sony deal now. What is annoying is that until his death Warners where reissuing vinyl cuts up to Sign O the Times , mostly by Kevin Gray or Bernie Grundman. After he died the announcements stopped, but albums like Lovesexy and Graffiti Bridge where appearing on release schedules. No doubt those new cuts and gathering dust somewhere. Warners should be at least allowed to finish their vinyl reissue programme, as they where pretty decent.
I personally think live releases from the 90's-2000's could rehabilitate a lot of the material on some of his studio albums from that period, and anything from the Dirty Mind-Controversy-1999 era could be amazing. I'm more interested in this than studio outtakes from the 90's that weren't good enough to make multiple triple-disc albums. I'll always give new studio outtakes a solid listen, but I'm not holding my breath on that many of them being mind-blowing.
I have been an avid Prince fan from the early 80s ... I'm passing on this barrel-scrape. Give us the top-shelf Prince for once, this second-best stuff has been the case even when Prince was among us.
Mojo interviewed The Revolution a few months ago. One of the boxouts had the Estate's reasoning behind this release.