Duff McKagan On The New Prince 1999 Box Set: “It Is Stunning”
Duff McKagan: I’ve got an advance copy of the Prince 1999 box-set. It is stunning.
“I didn’t want to do a double album, but I just kept writing… I always compare songwriting to a girl walking in the door. You don’t know what she’s going to look like, but all of a sudden she’s there.” Prince, November 1982
The Super Deluxe Edition brings fans all the audio material that Prince officially released in and around 1982, as well as 23 previously unissued studio tracks recorded between November 1981 and January 1983, and a complete live audio performance of the 1999 tour recorded at the late show (the second of two that day) in Detroit, MI on November 30, 1982.
In addition, both CD and vinyl sets also boast a brand-new DVD containing another complete, previously unreleased concert from the 1999 tour, recorded in multi-cam live at the Houston Summit on December 29, 1982.
The Super Deluxe Edition set also features Prince’s previously unseen handwritten lyrics for several songs from the era, including the hit “Little Red Corvette,” plus images of the analog tape reels from the vault and rare photography from Prince’s early ‘80s photographer, Allen Beaulieu. The Super Deluxe Edition is completed with brand-new liner notes by longtime Rolling Stone critic David Fricke, revered Guns N’ Roses bassist and author Duff McKagan, Minneapolis historian and radio host Andrea Swensson, and Prince scholar Duane Tudahl.
Fricke notes, “A landmark collection of vision, craft, and urgency – an unprecedented immersion in the frenetic momentum and private working world of Prince in 1981 and 1982, en route to the profound breakthrough of his fifth studio album, 1999.”
1999 Remastered Super Deluxe Edition (10 LP + DVD)
The Super Deluxe Remastered LP album will be shipped for the release date of November 29th. The album is press on 180G black vinyl.
Tracklisting:
LP 1 Side A
1999 (2019 Remaster)
Little Red Corvette (2019 Remaster)
Delirious (2019 Remaster)
LP 1 Side B
Let’s Pretend We’re Married (2019 Remaster)
D.M.S.R. (2019 Remaster)
LP 2 Side A
Automatic (2019 Remaster)
Something In The Water (Does Not Compute) [2019 Remaster]
Free (2019 Remaster)
LP 2 Side B
Lady Cab Driver (2019 Remaster)
All The Critics Love U In New York (2019 Remaster)
International Lover (2019 Remaster)
LP 3 Side A
1999 (7″ Stereo Edit) [2019 Remaster]
1999 (7″ Mono Promo-Only Edit) [2019 Remaster]
Free (Promo Only Edit) [2019 Remaster]
How Come You Don’t Call Me Anymore (2019 Remaster)
Little Red Corvette (7″ Edit) [2019 Remaster]
LP 3 Side B
All The Critics Love U In New York (7″ Edit) [2019 Remaster]
Lady Cab Driver (7″ Edit) [2019 Remaster]
Little Red Corvette (Dance Remix Promo Only Edit) [2019 Remaster]
Little Red Corvette (Special Dance Mix) [2019 Remaster]
LP 4 Side A
Delirious (7″ Edit) [2019 Remaster]
Horny Toad (2019 Remaster)
Automatic (7″ Edit) [2019 Remaster]
Automatic (Video Version) [2019 Remaster]
Let’s Pretend We’re Married (7″ Edit) [2019 Remaster]
LP 4 Side B
Let’s Pretend We’re Married (7″ Mono Promo Only Edit) [2019 Remaster]
Irresistible Bitch (2019 Remaster)
Let’s Pretend We’re Married (Video Version) [2019 Remaster]
D.M.S.R. (Edit) [2019 Remaster]
LP 5 Side A
Feel U Up
Irresistible Bitch
Money Don’t Grow On Trees
Vagina
LP 5 Side B
Rearrange
Bold Generation
Colleen
LP 6 Side A
International Lover (Take 1) [Live In Studio]
Turn It Up
You’re All I Want
LP 6 Side B
Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)
If It’ll Make U Happy
How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore? (Take 2)
LP 7 Side A
Possessed (1982 Version)
Delirious (Full Length)
LP 7 Side B
Purple Music
Yah, You Know
Moonbeam Levels (2019 Remaster)
LP 8 Side A
No Call U
Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got
Do Yourself A Favor
LP 8 Side B
Don’t Let Him Fool Ya
Teacher, Teacher
Lady Cab Driver / I Wanna Be Your Lover / Little Red Corvette (Tour Demo)
LP 9 Side A
Controversy (Live at Masonic Hall, Detroit, MI, 11/30/1982 – Late Show)
Let’s Work (Live at Masonic Hall, Detroit, MI, 11/30/1982 – Late Show)
Little Red Corvette (Live at Masonic Hall, Detroit, MI, 11/30/1982 – Late Show)
Do Me, Baby (Live at Masonic Hall, Detroit, MI, 11/30/1982 – Late Show)
LP 9 Side B
Head (Live at Masonic Hall, Detroit, MI, 11/30/1982 – Late Show)
Uptown (Live at Masonic Hall, Detroit, MI, 11/30/1982 – Late Show)
Lisa’s Keyboard Interlude (Live at Masonic Hall, Detroit, MI, 11/30/1982 Late Show)
How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore? (Live at Masonic Hall, Detroit, MI, 11/30/1982 – Late Show)
LP 10 Side A
Automatic (Live at Masonic Hall, Detroit, MI, 11/30/1982 – Late Show)
International Lover (Live at Masonic Hall, Detroit, MI, 11/30/1982 – Late Show)
1999 (Live at Masonic Hall, Detroit, MI, 11/30/1982 – Late Show)
LP 10 Side B
D.M.S.R. (Live at Masonic Hall, Detroit, MI, 11/30/1982 – Late Show)
DVD: Live In Houston – December 29, 1982
Controversy (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 12/29/1982)
Let’s Work (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 12/29/1982)
Do Me, Baby (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 12/29/1982)
D.M.S.R. (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 12/29/1982)
Keyboard Interlude (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 12/29/1982)
Piano Improvisation (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 12/29/1982)
How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore? (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 12/29/1982)
Lady Cab Driver (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 12/29/1982)
Automatic (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 12/29/1982)
International Lover (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 12/29/1982)
1999 (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 12/29/1982)
Head (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 12/29/1982)
As Prince pulled away from the spotlight, his creative drive began whirring faster than ever.
Episode 2 of Prince: The Story of 1999 tells the story of Prince hard at work in the studio in the winter of 1981-1982.
Listen to the podcast now. https://t.co/yztoq5jdmK pic.twitter.com/9nUicrebEt
— Prince (@prince) November 26, 2019
