| Basic tracking took place on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/November_19|19 November 2004]], during a three-and-a-half hour session with [[Michael B.]] on drums and [[Sonny T.]] on bass at [[Paisley Park Studios]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota that also yielded [[3121]], [[From The Lotus...]], [[...Back 2 The Lotus]], [[Colonized Mind]], [[Love Like Jazz]], [[Planet Earth]], [[Guitar]], a song titled [[Shameless]] as well as others tracks.<!-- A tape photographed in [[Prince]]’s vault at [[Paisley Park Studios]] lists '''Wall Of Berlin''' as [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/November_19|19 November 2004]], which alludes this is the exact date for all of the songs in this sessions.--> In an August 2006 [http://www.moderndrummer.com/site/2006/08/michael-bland-2/#.VD7L3IvF_HI interview], [[Michael B.]] said they recorded eleven or twelve tracks in three and a half hours that night. On a different occasion he later indicated that this was the last recording session they did with [[Prince]] for a while after that.<br> | | Basic tracking took place on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/November_19|19 November 2004]], during a three-and-a-half hour session with [[Michael B.]] on drums and [[Sonny T.]] on bass at [[Paisley Park Studios]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota that also yielded [[3121]], [[From The Lotus...]], [[...Back 2 The Lotus]], [[Colonized Mind]], [[Love Like Jazz]], [[Planet Earth]], [[Guitar]], a song titled [[Shameless]] as well as others tracks.<!-- A tape photographed in [[Prince]]’s vault at [[Paisley Park Studios]] lists '''Wall Of Berlin''' as [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/November_19|19 November 2004]], which alludes this is the exact date for all of the songs in this sessions.--> In an August 2006 [http://www.moderndrummer.com/site/2006/08/michael-bland-2/#.VD7L3IvF_HI interview], [[Michael B.]] said they recorded eleven or twelve tracks that night. On a different occasion he later indicated that this was the last recording session they did with [[Prince]] for a while after that.<br> |
| The phrase used in the title, "wall of Berlin", was also used in the track [[3121]], also recorded with [[Michael B.]] and [[Sonny T.]] during the same set of sessions. The track was premiered on Los Angeles radio station [http://www.indie1031.com/ Indie 103] on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/December_18|18 December 2008]], along with [[Crimson And Clover]], [[Colonized Mind]] and [[4ever]]. The party noises heard at the end of the track are, in fact, the beginning of the album’s following track, [[$]], for which recording details are listed in its respective song entry. | | The phrase used in the title, "wall of Berlin", was also used in the track [[3121]], also recorded with [[Michael B.]] and [[Sonny T.]] during the same set of sessions. The track was premiered on Los Angeles radio station [http://www.indie1031.com/ Indie 103] on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/December_18|18 December 2008]], along with [[Crimson And Clover]], [[Colonized Mind]] and [[4ever]]. The party noises heard at the end of the track are, in fact, the beginning of the album’s following track, [[$]], for which recording details are listed in its respective song entry. |
