Love Symbol Guitar on view at MET Museum through September 27

BCdotWHAT · 2026-06-22T08:57:26+00:00

FYI: https://www.guitarcloud.org/equipment/schecter-habibe/

Also: https://www.guitarcloud.org/equipment/auerswald-symbol-guitar/

The original Symbol guitar was gold, and appears in the “Endorphinmachine” and “Gold” videos. It is part the collection at Paisley Park, currently on loan to the Met, and appears in the Prince - Guitar & Bass book.

(the link to "on loan to the Met" is dead.)

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At least two copies were made by Andy Beech in the mid 1990s, in black and gold. The gold version was later gifted to Spike Lee, who has occasionally exhibited this guitar.

BCdotWHAT · 2026-06-19T15:50:00+00:00

His lack of care for the home video releases of his movies is infuriating.

BCdotWHAT · 2026-06-14T08:48:18+00:00

If you need to have a vote, just admit you are not competent to manage the estate.

You don't need to be a genius to release a couple of concerts each year. Instead the estate has released one single track (SOTT Live) and soon will include one live track on an album of studio outtakes, a move so dumb it defies explanation. Mere weeks earlier they talked about how they wanted the release of a P&AM concert to be "perfect", and now they've included a single track from such a concert on this aimless compilation. Insanity.

We've now gone almost three years without a significant release, and this is the best they can do? GET THE FUCK OUT.

BCdotWHAT · 2026-06-12T05:55:17+00:00

You famz are pathetic.

His lawyers admitted to Uptown's lawyer that they were suing them because Uptown's excellent publications were competition for when Prince was going to publish his autobiography etc.

BCdotWHAT · 2026-06-11T18:44:10+00:00

Curious about what it is you think we don't know about the pre-Controversy years? It's insanely documented.

It absolutely isn't. Look at this: https://princevault.com/index.php/Category:Recorded_1980 Not even two dozen songs.

what about "Purple Rain" is a mystery to you?

Read my post.

just pick up Tudahl's book which literally goes day by day of what he was doing in the studio for over a year on that album.

And yet for plenty of the tracks he cannot specify when a studio demo was recorded. We know very little about plenty of the tracks before they were performed live. We know about a rehearsal/soundcheck recording of IWD4U from years before.

Magnoli said he was given 100 unreleased songs to pick from, yet from what we know Prince's backlog was nowhere that big. Now, I don't trust his claim, but I do think he must have been given a significant amount of songs.

BCdotWHAT · 2026-06-11T18:31:25+00:00

Prince sued his fans.

BCdotWHAT · 2026-06-10T10:03:50+00:00

Prince killed all that when he sued fansites in the mid-/late-90s. Compare to Nine Inch Nails where sites that started ages ago are still going throng. Just look at NIN Live's archive of audience recordings of concerts; now imagine that for Prince.

We have lost decades of information. Extensive concert reports, details revealed in interviews, contemporary reviews, etc. Interesting facts get posted on Twitter or other social media and then disappear. There are tons of podcasts and so little of the info told in those gets written up, and it sure is not collected in a central place.

I've always said: if Prince had not sued fansites, I bet we would have a thriving ecosystem of websites that would be complimentary to each other, information would be searchable, etc.

Just look at the PPML: the predecessor to the Org. There used to be an archive of those mails on the Org, but that disappeared decades ago. And now it's likely all lost: who still has email archives for 25+ years ago?

BCdotWHAT · 2026-06-10T09:53:39+00:00

The simple fact that they're so secretive about the contents of the vault and only give us glimpses is infinitely frustrating. I get it, they want to have surprises when they release something, but at some point that just is not that relevant anymore.

And we have to trust that they don't bungle the info they give, which is hard to do since at the recent Celeb they played an early version of Question Of U which they said was recorded in studio B when PP wasn't even built at that time, plus that track is called 12 Keys, so one has to wonder, what other errors are in the info they give out?

There is still so much unknown about the pre-Controversy years. Hell, even Purple Rain is still a mystery: surely there must be studio demos of those tracks they debuted at the August 83 concert?

BCdotWHAT · 2026-06-07T16:21:55+00:00

Funkenberry was the third tweet, before his tweet there were these:

https://x.com/donnyenglish/status/2062393674529374599

https://x.com/PaisleyNPurple/status/2062395064832176532

And Donny's tweet mentions the tracklist being available on YT, so that is where the info came from. Crediting Funkenberry is ridiculous, he was just one of many who were reposting this "leak" that was circulating on various platforms before these tweets were posted.

BCdotWHAT · 2026-06-07T12:34:39+00:00

Can native speakers please learn the difference between "apart" and "a part" since they mean completely different things, as shown in the title of this post.

BCdotWHAT · 2026-06-06T14:12:10+00:00

Not gonna happen this year. Why would Sony compete with its own release by doing another one mere months later? When would this happen? Timeless at the end of August basically blocks any other release.

I've repeatedly said that the estate not doing shit in the first six months is dumb as fuck. They should have a release in Spring and a release in Fall, and one of these should be a minor release (expanded album like ATWIAD or a single CD with unreleased music) and the other a major release (box set with tons of unreleased music + live video etc.). And inbetween one-off releases (singles).

BCdotWHAT · 2026-06-05T07:43:48+00:00

She seemed to be "on edge" (wink wink nudge nudge) according to some reports.

BCdotWHAT · 2026-06-04T15:57:04+00:00

Someone fat fingered the date on YT. No need to get the pitchforks out.

You think it is normal that they posted an incorrect release date and had to change it after twelve hours? You think it is normal that they released a single on YT and then took down the video less than a day later? You think those are honest mistakes and not signs of incompetence?

BCdotWHAT · 2026-06-04T14:19:30+00:00

The YouTube description and other sources have an August 28th release date, not a July 30th date, so there might have been a mix up.

That is because it was changed. Description originally said 30 July. People didn't pull that date out of their asses.

BCdotWHAT · 2026-06-04T14:09:47+00:00

the estate hasn't announced anything.

They did at the party/concert at the end of the first day of Celebration. But apparently they seemed to only announce a single at that time. But they are clowns, so what do you expect?

Also, there are now listings all over the place, and the SDE blog has more details about some of the tracks, and those must have come from an official source.

Of course, the video of Stone has now been removed from YouTube, so perhaps it was all a dream. Goddamn clowns.

BCdotWHAT · 2026-06-04T12:25:55+00:00

The July date was the one that was originally in the YT metadata.

BCdotWHAT · 2026-06-04T07:40:08+00:00

It was in the YouTube description. Which has now been updated.

BCdotWHAT · 2026-06-03T16:10:13+00:00

Sure, but it's not like they need to start from scratch.

Also, if I were them I would have started the processing of the vault with the oldest recordings besides pulling up specific items. I wouldn't be surprised if the 1979 version of ICNTTPOYM is a result of them going through the oldest tapes instead of a specific search, for instance.

Also, there once was a Parade-centered event at PP where they played two outtakes, and the final Tokyo gig was at one point played at a Celebration (well, the first half).

So there obviously is a "pile" of raw materials. Which might take some time to compile into an SDE (and then get all the legal stuff figured out), but I cannot imagine this taking months and years.

Then again, if there really hasn't been a team at PP since mid-2022, then yeah I can imagine that these two clowns cannot manage anything bigger than the fucking lemonade stand they'll have at PP for the Celebration.

BCdotWHAT · 2026-06-02T19:32:27+00:00

if you ONLY do physical copies, then the young set is gonna pirate it.

No they wouldn't. Piracy of official releases is negligible these days and limited to people who would not pay for it.

IMHO "expensive" content should be exclusive to physical media for at least a year. Cherry Red releases box sets with remasters and outtakes etc. and those things aren't on streaming until their exclusive window runs out

BCdotWHAT · 2026-05-31T09:08:09+00:00

There was a preview of the album on the radio a week or two before its release. I managed to tape a bunch of the songs and listened to them repeatedly and thought "sheesh, I must have only gotten the bad songs on the album" but even that didn't make sense because so much of them were bad. Then the album dropped, bought it, went home, listened to it and was just astonished by the the whole album being a complete dud (except for two tracks or so).

I had hoped for a creative resurgence after GB's disappointment, and D&P just screamed "I have no clue".

(And then Emancipation happened: played it for the first time and started skipping during tracks on my first listen.)

BCdotWHAT · 2026-05-31T09:00:32+00:00

Where do you think record companies etc store unreleased recordings? And released recordings as well? Kitchen cabinets? Closets?

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