Vice: Is there anything, just a taste, that you’d be able to share?
Mobeen Azhar: Pretty much if Prince is awake, he’s either on a stage, or he’s doing a soundcheck, or he’s recording. His engineer, Susan Rogers, told me that during the four-year period from ’83 to ’87 he would deal with business calls for maybe an hour and after that he would record. It was really common for them to work on a song from scratch and by the end of a session have it completely mixed and finished. He would quite often come in having written lyrics, lay down the bass track, lay down the drum track, lay down the synth lines. Lay down the vocals, and by the time he leaves the studio, it’s finished. …[Engineer] Hans Martin Buff told me that they had a guest in, and she said to Prince, on I think it was Thanksgiving or a particular holiday, “Why are you working on a holiday?” And Prince just laughed and said, “This might be work for Hans. It’s not work for me.”
Vice: Do you suppose the vault will ever be opened and released to the public?
Mobeen Azhar: I’ll sum it up like this: Sonny T, his bass player and one of his childhood friends, said to me, Prince isn’t necessarily thinking in terms of years or decades—he’s thinking in terms of centuries. …I think the issue isn’t when will it open, but instead, will we be around long enough to actually hear everything.
—Vice Editor James Yeh speaking with journalist and Prince fanatic Mobeen Azhar, about his new BBC radio documentary, Hunting for Prince’s Vault.
from Longreads Blog » Longreads Blog http://blog.longreads.com/2015/06/30/hunting-for-princes-secret-vault-of-unreleased-music/
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