Difference between revisions of "The Max"

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{{song-2| |song name = The Max |single image =
from the album |performer = Prince and the New Power Generation |first released = 13 October 1992 - album |album(s) = |writer(s) = Prince (credited to Prince and the New Power Generation) |producer(s) = Prince (credited to Prince and the New Power Generation) |previous song = The Max |next song = [[Maybe] |introduction = The Max is the fifth track on Prince’s 14th album , the second album to be credited to Prince and the New Power Generation.

While specific recording dates are not known, basic tracking took place in late 1991, at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota. The studio version of the song was premiered at a New’s Year’s Eve party at Glam Slam in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on 31 December 1991, but further work was done on the track, and a rap added by Tony M., in early 1992. It was included as the seventh track (fifth song) on March 1992, and late-Summer, 1992, configurations of the album, until many of the album’s segues were removed for release.

Interestingly, the track uses a lead line from the 1988 track Rave Unto The Joy Fantastic, which was unreleased at the time, but later released in 1999. While it may appear that Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic (as it was named upon release) borrowed the lead line from The Max, therefore, it was in fact the other way around.

The Max is lyrically and musically entirely different from the unreleased 1988 track The Max, sharing only a name (see The Max for details of that track). |recording info = |- align="left" |style="border-top:1px dotted #ccc;"|Late 1991 |style="border-top:1px dotted #ccc;"|Paisley Park Studios,
Chanhassen, MN, USA |style="border-top:1px dotted #ccc;"|Tracking |- align="left" |style="border-top:1px dotted #ccc;"|Early 1992 |style="border-top:1px dotted #ccc;"|Paisley Park Studios,
Chanhassen, MN, USA |style="border-top:1px dotted #ccc;"|Additional recording and rap overdub by Tony M. |- align="left" |style="border-top:1px dotted #ccc;"|12 October 1992 |style="border-top:1px dotted #ccc;"|Larrabee Sound Studios,
North Hollywood, CA, USA |style="border-top:1px dotted #ccc;"|Remix by Keith "K.C." Cohen |recording personnel =

• Prince - all vocals and instruments, except where noted
• Tony M. - rap
• Mayte - spoken dialogue
• D.J. Graves - scratching
• Atlanta Bliss - Trumpet (uncredited and sampled from an unknown recording)

|released versions =

Title	Length	Released	Version	Additional info
The Max	4:30		Studio
The Max	5:09	NPG Ahdio # 4 mp3 (not available as a separate track)	Live	25 March 1993, Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY, USA

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|unreleased versions = |- |style="color:#AB3E00" |Unreleased Versions

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|first live appearance = 18 February 1993: Glam Slam, Minneapolis, Minnesota

• 14 April 2016 (Show 2): Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA, USA

|performed regularly on =Act I |performed occasionally in = 1993, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 (solo piano) |trivia = The Max is lyrically and musically entirely different from the unreleased 1988 track The Max, sharing only a name (see The Max for details of that track).

• In the discography section of Thedawn.com website, Atlanta Bliss was credited for a horn part in this song (but not in the album booklet). He is audible during the beginning of the second verse but since Bliss has left Prince’s camp months before the recording of The Max, this may be sampled from an earlier unknown or unidentified studio or live recording.

|see also = album

• The Max video

|references = The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004) |categories = }}