tvham
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Prince: The Black Album - Extremely Rare Sealed Example | RR Auction
Sold for $32,103 | Incredibly rare original 1987 U.S. first pressing of The Black Album (Warner Bros. 1-25677) factory sealed in its original shrinkwrap,
Sexy M.F.'ers...The Prince Fan Thread
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Tortured Diaper Baby Dept
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Damn! Lots of bids too. I've got the 1994 release on both CD and vinyl and did not pay close to that!Prince: The Black Album - Extremely Rare Sealed Example | RR Auction
Sold for $32,103 | Incredibly rare original 1987 U.S. first pressing of The Black Album (Warner Bros. 1-25677) factory sealed in its original shrinkwrap,www.rrauction.com
Cool little story in the description though.
tvham
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yeah, crazy that they were just sitting in some dude's closet!
LordKel
Active Member
Im sorry, but this album is 10 times better than diamonds and pearls.
Tortured Diaper Baby Dept
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How's the vinyl sound? I've got the CD from 2022 and am on the fence of whether it's worth picking up.
LordKel
Active Member
Well, it sounds great to me. But I can never tell. I will say that the cover is slightly blurry, like they just blew up the CD cover thumbnail. Still, this was only $23. I wish more vinyl was at that price.
TrainFan73
Frothy
Just threw my copy on, it sounds great. Package is bare bones. Meters are showing good dynamics, quiet soundstage. On headphones and no noise issues so far
. Does have a slight edge warp but clamping seems to be handling on side one. Will report back if I encounter issues on side 2.Agree with @LordKel that the package leaves a little to be desired. Not sure I agree with his subjective statement.
TrainFan73
Frothy
I think from a musical standpoint it is more interesting and accomplished, but Diamonds and Pearls while not in my top ten of his, does beat it on pure style and just straight out jams. It’s a little Apple and orangish though.
Sonicpharmacist
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OMG you’re going to LOVE it!! You can’t take pictures inside, they make you put your phone in a sealed bag before the tour starts.Soooo…I have to go to Minneapolis next month for work and I’m FINALLY going to be making my first pilgrimage to Paisley Park!
I’m so sow sew excited. I’ll obviously be posting pics here
Which tour are you doing?
TrainFan73
Frothy
Ok so it’s been a few days now since I got back from Minneapolis so it’s time to share a couple of pics I took at Paisley Park!!!
It was an incredibly emotional experience for me as it’s been a bucket list item for me for a long loooong time. Probably my oldest bucket list item now that I think about it. I may have cried a bit at the beginning of the tour when they showed a short movie about Prince’s life, his legacy, and his influence on music. I was a happy mess!!!
As was said by others in this thread previously, they don’t let you take pictures in 90% of the areas on the tour. The areas they do allow pics are awesome, however.
This was taken in one of four professional recording studios located within the estate. And was the one Prince used most often. Prince’s personal ping pong table is also in this studio and I got to play a round or two on it. Twas dope
This area was in Prince’s live concert hall in his house. It had tons of memorabilia and he used it a lot for concerts and events.
The concert hall even had a few of his personal vehicles inside it.
This was the nightclub Prince had inside his house. Where he would host his famed ‘after hours’ concerts and/or just show Finding Nemo at 3 in the morning. Lol I hung out here for about an hour just talking to security, watching the Prince videos they were playing, and eating cheesecake.
Aaaaaand this is me in front of Paisley Park. It was absolutely a dream come true for me and I may even being going back again this year to see a concert there! Neat
It was an incredibly emotional experience for me as it’s been a bucket list item for me for a long loooong time. Probably my oldest bucket list item now that I think about it. I may have cried a bit at the beginning of the tour when they showed a short movie about Prince’s life, his legacy, and his influence on music. I was a happy mess!!!
As was said by others in this thread previously, they don’t let you take pictures in 90% of the areas on the tour. The areas they do allow pics are awesome, however.
This was taken in one of four professional recording studios located within the estate. And was the one Prince used most often. Prince’s personal ping pong table is also in this studio and I got to play a round or two on it. Twas dope
This area was in Prince’s live concert hall in his house. It had tons of memorabilia and he used it a lot for concerts and events.
The concert hall even had a few of his personal vehicles inside it.
This was the nightclub Prince had inside his house. Where he would host his famed ‘after hours’ concerts and/or just show Finding Nemo at 3 in the morning. Lol I hung out here for about an hour just talking to security, watching the Prince videos they were playing, and eating cheesecake.
Aaaaaand this is me in front of Paisley Park. It was absolutely a dream come true for me and I may even being going back again this year to see a concert there! Neat
Sonicpharmacist
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It’s well WELL worth it, IMO. Especially if, like me, there’s an emotional component for you. Joy awe and sadness sums up my feelings fairly succinctly as well.
My partner, who is only a casual Prince fan, was even moved by the while tour. She designs and makes her own costumes for performances so she was particularly smitten with the clothing design aspects of Prince’s life. She spent a good deal of time going over Prince’s handwritten shoe and clothing designs and the finished products that were generally displayed beside them. It was cool to see from her perspective.
There were a couple other super fans on the tour with me. We ended up spending a good amount of time talking about unreleased albums, soundboard recordings, and what we thought the most anticipated tracks yet to be released were. It does seem, from the security team members I talked to anyway, that the Estate will be releasing a very good amount of non-commercially released tracks/albums in the coming years. One dude had worked there for the past 10 years. It was a cool convo.