Difference between revisions of "Y Should Eye Do That When Eye Can Do This?"

NPG Music Club download
- no official artwork created

• 13 June 2000, Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis, Minnesota (lyrical clips during speech)
• 15 July 2000 (a.m.), Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA (first full performance)

• none

• 2000

Y Should Eye Do That When Eye Can Do This? (later known as Y Should Do That When Can Do This?) was initially heard as a 1:32 excerpt streaming on NPGOnlineLtd.com on 1 June 2000, along with excerpts of Splash and Cybersingle. In June 2001, it was released as part of the NPG Music Club Edition # 5 as an mp3 download (credited to Prince, despite having been recorded and initially heard while Prince used the name ). In 2004, it was included (as Y Should Do That When Can Do This?) as the third track on the compilation album The Slaughterhouse.

Initial recording dates are unknown, but the track was believed to have been recorded during sessions for Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic, corroborated by The Hornheadz, who recorded horns for the track on 17 May 1999 (during the same session as horn overdubs for Hot Wit U, Man'O'War, I Ain't Gonna Run and R U Ready?).

• Prince - all vocals and instruments, except where noted
• Michael B. Nelson - trombone
• Dave Jensen - trumpet
• Kathy Jensen - baritone saxophone
• Steve Strand - trumpet
• Kenni Holmen - saxophone

• NPG Music Club Edition # 5 download
• The Slaughterhouse album

• The version released on The Slaughterhouse differs slightly with the version released through NPG Music Club Edition # 5; there’s a slight horn overdub to obscure use of the N-word.

• The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)