It is once awesome performance

It was excellent, but I felt at the time and still do, that Prince was a bit of a ham and made it about him and not about George Harirson. Although doing a great, memorable solo was a nice tribute as well, I guess.

Can't remember what article I read it in but apparently Prince didn't even hear the song before getting a copy to learn and only did it because he wanted to impress Tom Petty.

berlinas2k said:

https://medium.com/@danie....hgqoebm4s This is a really good read and made me appreciate the performance even more when I looked at it from this perspective. I also read that Petty, Lynne and Winwood didn't want him up there to begin with. If that's really true it makes that solo all the sweeter.

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If it's true they didn't want him up there then it kinda explains his performance.

FunkiestOne said:

It was excellent, but I felt at the time and still do, that Prince was a bit of a ham and made it about him and not about George Harirson. Although doing a great, memorable solo was a nice tribute as well, I guess.

It was his night too, why not?

It's one of my all time favorite performances by Prince and he looks smoking hot in it and sounds absolutely amazing. His facial expressions just make it that much more fantastic. The article by Daniel Ralston is so well written and I love the clips he includes. I've watched that music video probably about 20 times at least and will probably watch it another 50 times, it's just that good! Oh and I still don't know what happens to the guitar after he throws it into the air - it sort of magically disappears as he walks away.

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